Four Card Spreads, Guidance, Tarot Verbatim
Mainly, today is about getting out from under something, getting free, having reasons to be happy, being on your way or fast progress … an uninhibited and unimpeded pursuit of better times. We are upbeat, we are energetic, we are on our way, movin’ on out.
Eight of Wands
Knight of Wands – Sun – Six of Swords
4 TAROT READINGS: REASONS TO BE HAPPY (SUN AND EIGHT OF WANDS)
I have many reasons to be happy today, I got out of something I don’t like, and am getting into something I pursue.
I have many (reasons) – Eight of Wands
to be happy today – Sun
I got out of something I don’t like – Six of Swords
getting into something I pursue – Knight of Wands
Throwing (my)self with great energy into several endeavors at once, as things get underway.
Throwing myself into – Sun
with great energy – Knight of Wands
several (endeavors) at once – Eight of Wands
things get underway – Six of Swords (and Knight of Wands, too, to a lesser extent)
Making such fast progress in each and every (subject), I will be graduating before I was supposed to.
Making such fast progress – Knight of Wands
in each and every (subject) – Eight of Wands
I will be graduating – Six of Swords
before I was supposed to – Sun
Enjoys getting out of the house and running around from one place to another.
Enjoys – Sun
getting out of the house – Sun
running around – Knight of Wands
going from one place to another – Six of Swords
A lot of fun things, some that I have done already and others I am running into.
A lot of – Eight of Wands
fun – Sun
things – Eight of Wands
some … and others – Eight of Wands
I have done already – Six of Swords
I am running into – Knight of Wands
Freedom is going through one thing after another and putting them aside.
Freedom – Sun
going through – Knight of Wands
one thing after another – Eight of Wands
putting them aside (behind) – Six of Swords
Happy talk that we got out of there and are on our way now.
Happy – Sun
talk – Eight of Wands
we got out of there – Six of Swords
and are on (our) way now – Knight of Wands
‘Pursuit of happiness’ includes avoiding unhappy things.
Pursuit – Knight of Wands
happiness – Sun
includes all the (other) things – Eight of Wands
avoiding unhappy -Six of Swords
things – Eight of Wands (as a pluralizer)
There’s talk of ‘Let’s put the past behind and pursue happiness.’
There’s talk – Eight of Wands
Let’s – Eight of Wands
put the past behind – Six of Swords (and Knight of Wands)
pursue – Knight of Wands
happiness – Sun
TAROT READINGS: PUTTING BEHIND WHAT HOLDS (YOU) BACK (SUN AND SIX OF SWORDS)
Putting all the cargo of the past behind in a hurry and getting out from under its restrictions.
Putting the cargo behind – Six of Swords
all – Eight of Wands
in a hurry – Knight of Wands
getting out from under its restrictions – Sun
With every ounce of energy I’ve got, I am on my way being free of all the things that held me back.
With every ounce of energy I’ve got, I am on my way – Knight of Wands
being free of things that held me back – Sun and Six of Swords (each, separately)
being free – Sun
leaving what held me back – Six of Swords
All kinds of reasons to be happy since I am on my way out of this miserable town/place.
All kinds of (reasons) – Eight of Wands
to be happy – Sun
on my way out of town – Knight of Wands
getting out of a miserable place – Six of Swords
Happy to leave the house, to put all the stifling things there behind and be on my way.
Happy – Sun
to leave the house – Sun
to get away from things that stifle – Sun
to leave, to be on my way – Knight of Wands
to put ‘there’ behind – Knight of Wands, Sun, Six of Swords (Yes, each means this!)
all the things – Eight of Wands
Everybody’s moving out of town to get ahead, to get out of a dead end and enjoy life.
Everybody – Eight of Wands
moving out of town – Knight of Wands (and Six of Swords)
to get out of a dead end – Six of Swords (and, to a lesser extent, Sun)
enjoy life – Sun
TAROT READINGS: WAYS TO LEAVE (EIGHT OF WANDS and SIX OF SWORDS, ETC.)
As impulsive and uninhibited as I am, I avoid headlong rushes into some things.
impulsive – Sun
uninhibited – Sun
avoid – Six of Swords
headlong rushes into – Knight of Wands
some things – Eight of Wands
Some things you get slowly out of, and some things you get out of fast.
Some things – Eight of Wands
get slowly out of – Six of Swords
you get out of – Sun
fast – Knight of Wands
‘You’re not fun anymore,’ he says on the way out.
‘You’re not __ anymore,’ – Six of Swords
fun – Sunday
says – Eight of Wands
on the way out – Six of Swords
He talks of leaving as he avoids leaving.
Talks of – Eight of Wands
leaving – Knight of Wands (or Sun or Six of Swords)
avoids – Six of Swords
leaving – Sun (or Knight of Wands)
MISCELLANEOUS TAROT READINGS
Speeding used to be a lot of fun.
Speeding – Knight of Wands
used to be – Six of Swords
a lot of – Eight of Wands
fun – Sun
In a rush to get as many as possible out of the way.
In a rush – Knight of Wands
to get out of the way – Six of Swords
as many as possible – Eight of Wands
to get out – Sun
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Eight of Wands
Knight of Wands – Sun – Six of Swords
Usually, when three of our four panelists mean the same thing, we don’t have many sentences, and it’s hard to phrase them. Not today.
Knight of Wands is to leave in a hurry (or to pursue).
Sun means to get out of the house, get out from under some kind of restriction. Well, it means fun and freedom and being impulsive, and a kid, too.
Six of Swords is leaving for better times ahead, and to avoid or put distance between.
The remaining Tarot citizen, Eight of Wands, is many, a list, ‘things,’ talk, and one after another.
Sun is happy, and in Six of Swords things will be better.
Both Knight of Wands and Eight of Wands are rapid, fast, quickly, in a hurry, etc.
Mainly, today is about getting out from under something, getting free, having reasons to be happy, being on your way or fast progress … an uninhibited and unimpeded pursuit of better times. We are upbeat, we are energetic, we are on our way, movin’ on out.
Knight of Wands See him run. He looks disconcerted, rattled even, as his horse rears and paws the air. He has the symbols of a ‘fiery’ nature (the reddish color and the salamander pattern). Knight of Wands is associated with ‘getting out of Dodge,’ and with pursuit, so it’s about pursuing or being pursued. He is energetic, ‘giving it all he’s got’ too.
Sun Baby boy sneaks out into the back yard to play, naked and bareback, on the surly pony. This is about being impulsive, uninhibited, free and having fun. The kind of adult who calls himself ‘The Kid.’ It can mean vacation, and often means getting out from under what stymies or restricts a person. Escape, busting free.
Six of Swords is getting out, putting something behind, getting over it, leaving, escape from a bad scene, and better times are ahead. Today, in its present company, it is upbeat. A mother and child huddle in an open boat on a gray day, with no baggage. They have help getting out of town; a fellow is paddling the boat.
Eight of Wands Limbs fly in the air, one above the other. The meanings have less connection with the illustration than usual for this Rider Waite Tarot card in TarotVerbatim(TM). It means ‘many,’ makes other cards plural, means ‘one after the other,’ as well as communication (written and spoken), sometimes means a list
Four Card Spreads, Our Daily Spread
Advice today is very simple: The worst does not happen. The disaster, whatever it is – eviction, illness, betrayal, despair – does not happen. The person in question pulls out of it beforehand, whether the pulling out is gradual or like the gunning of an engine. The feeling of narrow escape is here, though: no rejoicing is mentioned. This simple message is repeated and very clear, so someone is here who belongs to it.
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Ten of Swords
Five of Pentacles, Knight of Wands, Six of Swords
DAILY MESSAGE TAROT ANALYSIS Tell the visitors here something useful and meaningful to them.
Evading eviction, putting the disaster behind.
Getting past dark night of the soul and getting over the suffering.
In a hurry to get past the self-pity and put the hurt behind.
Got out before being desperate, avoided a total loss.
Narrowly avoided the illness, avoided being prostrate.
Depleted of energy but recovering before total exhaustion.
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Meanings and Illustrations: Observation of the Spread
This spread is a good example of how ‘bad’ cards when combined do not necessarily mean ‘bad things.’
This produces fewer sentences because paired cards say the same thing twice. That is Rider Waite/Tarot Verbatim’s way of emphasizing.
Two of our Rider Waite Tarot cards mean ‘to get out of’ or avoid or run away: Knight of Wands and Six of Swords. The Knight of Wands is get out of Dodge in a hurry. The Six of Swords is to put behind you the place … the anything. It implies the future will be better … or not as bad.
Two of our Rider Waite Tarot cards mean ‘losing it all,’ humiliation, disaster: Five of Pentacles and Ten of Swords. Both mean suffering. Five of Pentacles emphasizes being numb with misery and homeless. Ten of Swords emphasizes suffering, pain, betrayal. They are very similar cards. Seeing them together in a four-card spread … without being paired with cards that indicate escaping that fate … is traumatic.
Meanings and Illustrations: Individual Rider Waite Tarot Cards
Five of Pentacles is ‘dark night of the soul,’ a spiritual term, and ‘bums on the street,’ a literal interpretation of the illustration. The mother and son are sick and destitute, numb with despair as they pass by a warm place that would feed them (back then): a cathedral.
Knight of Wands calls to mind ‘get out of Dodge.’ It can mean to pursue or to flee, depending on the question or issue. The illustration shows fleeing, more. He is sitting back in the saddle, not poking his weapon out.
Six of Swords is putting the bad experience or the bad place behind. It says the future will be better, you will get over this. Refugees are escaping with the help of a friend with transportation.
Ten of Swords is wipeout, disaster, humiliation, betrayal and death or murder. Definitely a victim here … ten swords in his back.
Our Daily Spread, Tarot Verbatim
Knight of Wands Hierophant, Six of Swords, Nine of Pentacles
Business and Other Perspectives: Headed away from bad times and toward normality. Fast progress toward having a life of your own. Things are going to be the way they should be. She is on her way to being independent. Leaving the place of safety behind, getting out and about away from the home front. Is getting away from religion and pursuing her own lifestyle. She travels to another town and isn’t playing it safe anymore. Since he left her and she is single, she isn’t behaving herself anymore. Isn’t the average person anymore, she has it made and is in the fast lane. To get herself ahead in business, a woman puts the rules aside.
Romance Perspectives: He is pursuing an independent minded lady who is long past being the average person. She does her own thing with fast men, has put the rules behind her confidently. She doesn’t need anybody so men pursue her: Things aren’t the way they used to be. Left morality behind and has the good life as a single woman guys chase. She isn’t your average good woman anymore, she is single in the fast lane. She isn’t playing by the rules anymore, he can come to her. He is on his way in life and she has already arrived. Together, they put mundane times behind them. It was hard to get this many interpretations out of this layout. Two of the Tarot cards mean ‘to leave’ in different ways, one means average safe by-the-book things, and the remaining one means pursuit or fast progress. Not much to work with; it means what it means. Advice is that leaving the mindset you are used to behind and being independent is what gets you ahead. Ha! I will add that sentence right now! Done!
Meanings and Illustrations:
Hierophant: This is the nice normal safe moral by-the-rules churchy thing. The priests bow before the pope in his traditional outfit as they have for how many hundreds of years?
Six of Cups: Oh, let’s just get out of this stale environment and make a better life elsewhere. It has to be better, it has been so dismal. These people are refugees escaping from some bad experiences. Nine of Pentacles: Well, doesn’t she have the life? She has money, her own place, and she does whatever she wants in her own sweet time, symbolized by the snail and the falcon, in her vineyard. She has arrived, thank you very much, and doesn’t do you any favors: Mind your own business! Knight of Wands: He too is getting out of town and movin’ on up, making fast progress. See Dick run.
He gives her gifts and money, and worries that he is under her spell
Six of Wands Six of Pentacles, Six of Cups, Nine of Swords
Romantic Perspectives: He gives her gifts and money, and worries that he is under her spell. This is sweet love like the old days when the man paid and worried about keeping up appearances. He finds himself putting his own interests aside and worrying about making his woman’s life sweet, giving her things. She fears he is just pretending when he pays her such sweet romantic attention. He is afraid how he will look giving her all this loving attention. He mistrusts himself and torments himself when he does what he should in a romance. He is spending money on this gal and worries that she isn’t sincere. The sweet young thing deceived him into making her payments, and now he lives to regret this. Business and Other Perspectives: Worry that the payments on the old house are not in your best interest. Making payments when you trust is one thing, but worrisome when you mistrust. Afraid he has been tricked and lulled into putting money into this. Worries about child support being misappropriated. When someone you placed your trust is disloyal, you are hurt. Double crossed an old friend over money and feel so bad about it. Was misled and paid too much for a cute house: Up nights worrying about it. He invested in a sweet li’l gal who was conning him and is heartsick. Well, two similar cards in today’s second spread are the Six of Cups which in Rider Waite Tarot shows a little boy giving a little girl flowers and means trust, and the Six of Wands which in Rider Waite Tarot means deceive or deceit. Two other similar cards here today are the Six of Pentacles and the Six of Cups, both of which mean ‘to give.’ The uninvolved card is (of course) the spoiler card, the dreaded Nine of Swords: up nights crying, worry, nightmare and such. Advice is that when you have already agreed to pay for something that isn’t worth the money, it is too late and all you can do is regret it. This could easily be a warning to pay attention (Six of Pentacles) to the actual, as opposed to the real, value lest you be deceived … and this can apply to more than money; it can apply to giving away your trust (your heart) as well.
Meanings and Illustrations:
Six of Pentacles: He is paying them exactly what they are worth, weighing his coins carefully. A fair price. Six of Cups: He gives her this gift because he loves her, she is so sweet. This is the old fashioned love. This house is so cute I trusted (the realtor?) The atmosphere is so warm and fuzzy I trusted her. Nine of Swords: Oh, the pain! Oh, the grief. Worry, worry, worry, wah, wah wah! Up nights holding my head in regret. Six of Wands: Sneaky Pete here, out to getcha. Things are not what they seem. What is a victory, a win, now, is going to be an insidious liability. You are being had. This guy who is on your side now is out for himself, using you. Even his horse doesn’t trust him!
