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acting a role
acting – Magician
a role – Six of Wands
He is role-playing.
He – Magician
is role-playing. – Six of Wands
When you do that, (they) play games.
When you do that – Magician
(they) play games. – Six of Wands
acting against (his) own interest
acting – Magician
against (his own) interest – Six of Wands
Today is about roles we and others play. It’s about appearances. Sometimes we ‘get with the program’ to be a team player and ‘I do my part as we all see it.’ We don’t think of that as playing a role, but it is: There is some artifice to our actions. ‘All the world’s a stage,’ Shakespeare wrote. There’s a spectrum to our being the actor in the mutual play, and the dark end of that spectrum is of course playing the role and fitting in, having an agenda that does not benefit the other players, or even having a scheme to take advantage or harm them.
So we have both “I did it again; I got in the groove of being a sweet affectionate boyfriend” and “Your buddy is doing the routine to get you to go along with his scheme again.”
Knight of Cups
Judgment – Magician – Six of Wands
3 Tarot Readings: The Friendly Guy (Knight of Cups)
He makes a new life for himself as the friendly guy who ‘gets with the program.’
Judgment – He makes a new life
Magician – makes for himself
Knight Cups – the friendly guy
6 Wands – who gets with the program.
He offers to be the go-between to get things started.
Knight Cups – He offers to
6 Wands – be the go-between
Magician – to get things started
Judgment – a new phase.
Nice guy will do what he said he would and pretend otherwise.
Knight Cups – Nice guy
Magician – guy (will) do what he would do
Judgment – what he said
Six Wands – and pretend otherwise.
Boyfriend tells you he will do it and act like he didn’t.
Knight Cups – Boyfriend
Judgment – tells you
Magician – he will do it and act
Six Wands – pretend he didn’t.
I did it again; I got in the groove of being a sweet affectionate boyfriend.
Magician – I did it; I got myself
Judgment – again
Six Wands – in the groove of being
Knight of Cups – a sweet affectionate boyfriend.
Once again, I make friends with someone on the wrong side of the tracks.
Judgment – Once again,
Magician – I make
Knight Cups – friends with someone
Six Wands – on the wrong side of the tracks
His acting friendly alerts me to his agenda.
Magician – His acting
Knight Cups – friendly
Judgment – alerts (me) to
Six Wands – his agenda.
Tarot Readings: Sneaky Strategy (Six of Wands)
Your buddy is doing the routine to get you to go along with his scheme again.
Knight Cups – Your buddy
Magician – is doing
6 Wands – the routine to get you to go along with his scheme
Judgment – again.
He is making himself your buddy again, ‘polishing the apple’ with you.
Magician – He is making himself
Knight Cups – your buddy,
6 Wands – polishing the apple
Judgment – again
Polite language for the sneaky way it’s being done.
Knight Cups – polite
Judgment – language
6 Wands – for the sneaky way
Magician – it’s being done.
Doing it the nice way this time, to fit in with this crowd.
Magician – Doing it
Knight Cups – the nice way
Judgment – this time
6 Wands – to fit in with the crowd.
He is only pretending to be your friend: I told you what he would do.
Six Wands – He is only pretending to
Knight Cups – be your friend:
Judgment – I told you
Magician – what he would do.
A friendly word behind the scenes gets it done.
Knight Cups – A friendly
Judgment – word
Six Wands – behind the scenes
Magician – gets it done.
Getting people to agreeably do what you tell them to is some trick!
Six Wands – Getting people to … is some trick.
Knight Cups – agreeably
Magician – do what
Judgment – you tell (them) to
Tarot Readings: Boyfriend Comes Back (Judgment and Knight of Cups)
Boyfriend comes back after he two-times you on the sneak.
Knight Cups – Boyfriend
Judgment – comes back after
Magician – he (+ action)
Six Wands – two times you on the sneak.
He comes back acting his best imitation of a boyfriend.
Judgment – he comes back
Magician – acting his
Six Wands – best imitation of being a
Knight Cups – being a Boyfriend.
He acts with good intentions and is deceived again.
Magician – He acts
Knight Cups – with good intentions
Six Wands – and is deceived
Judgment – again.
Judgment The angel who wakes the dead on Judgment Day gives rise to several unrelated meanings. Today we use only a few. Judgment’s emphasis today is coming back or doing it again, or going back to the way things used to be. Judgment too is about starting a new phase or life. It often translates ‘again.’
Magician He is doing his job of bringing an event from ‘up there’ ‘down here.’ He wears the eternity-sign as a halo, raises his magic want up, points down. Esoterically, he represents the male principle. Meanings for Magician are simple: Magician’s main meaning is ‘male who does,’ in any form and in any context. Magician also means ‘to initiate’ or start something. It means ‘act’ and refers to action.
Six of Wands There’s a scene of a victory at a battle in which the king was kidnapped into captivity so the next-in-line fellow could take over the throne, so it isn’t really the victory it seems. Six of Wands is about appearances. Its core meaning is performing a role. That can apply to doing your part as agreed, fair and square, in what’s going on with other people (being a team player), and it could mean pretending to be ‘one of them’ whilst working against them. As a person, Six of Wands is a sneaky strategist and a person who is ‘lookin’ out for number one.’ Six of Wands is that buddy you gotta keep an eye on. Six of Wands is also the narc or an informer type situation in which the betrayal could be for a greater cause. The spy is a traitor to one side, hero to the other. Sometimes Six of Wands is advice to be more selfish.
Knight of Cups is your friend, your buddy, the good guy, the boyfriend you get along with easily. The main focus of Knight of Cups is making the first friendly move, as in putting a hand out, making peace, starting a romance or friendship. He is the warm fuzzy younger man. I call him the guitar player or Sir Lancelot.
Magician and Knight of Cups both are about taking initiative, and getting something started, and both are about males. Come to think of it, Judgment also is to start a new phase or a new life. That’s three of four, you know.
Magician’s main meaning is ‘male who does,’ in any form and in any context. Magician also means ‘to initiate’ or start something. It means ‘act’ and refers to action.
Knight of Cups’ main focus is making the first friendly move, as in putting a hand out, making peace, starting a romance or friendship. He is the warm fuzzy younger man. I call him the guitar player or Sir Lancelot.
Together, Magician and Knight of Cups say that Boyfriend takes initiative, that he makes the first move affectionately.
Judgment’s emphasis today is coming back or doing it again, or going back to the way things used to be. Judgment too is about starting a new phase or life. It often translates ‘again.’
Six of Wands, there’s a spectrum to its meanings. It’s about appearances. Its core meaning is performing a role. That can apply to doing your part as agreed, fair and square, in what’s going on with other people, ; and it could mean pretending to be ‘one of them’ whilst working a betrayal of them. As a person, Six of Wands is a sneaky strategist and a person who is ‘lookin’ out for number one.’ Six of Wands is that buddy you gotta keep an eye on. Six of Wands is also the narc or informer type situation in which the betrayal could be for a greater cause. The spy is a traitor to one side, hero to the other. Sometimes Six of Wands is advice to be more selfish.
Elements of our stories today are Talk, Action, Pretense, and Being a Friend. Wonder how many novels one could write with that outline? Betraying a friend, and doing what I said I would do: Both of these are stated here. How one expresses the agenda determines whether one’s friends join in the endeavor and act upon it. Getting people to agreeably do what you tell them to is some trick ….