Our Daily Spread for Feb. 23, 2011
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!