Four Card Spreads, Our Daily Spread
Advice is about winning or asserting yourself when things are hopeless, getting over it, getting out of it, making a detour–anything but letting it get to you and crying about it all night, losing sleep. The cards present an illustration of taking things in hand right there in the center of the spread, surrounded by panic, quitting, and being trapped. Whenever you are fighting, nothing is hopeless. Remember this! 
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*Go to Daily Message Tarot Analysis below. At least one of those sentences has something to say to you. Pick those out. They are about you and the people around you. They are about today and the days around it. (It is a group message like a horoscope, except Tarot isn’t based on someone else’s birth data, so it can be specific, accurate, detailed and direct. Our experiment here is “How much more accurate is it?”)
The Question for weekdays is: “Tell the visitors here something useful and meaningful to them.”
The Question for weekends is stated right on top on those days. Comment or call if you have a suggestion for a question.
(Some days are ‘keep an eye open for’ and some days are ‘green light, go fast.’)
*Go to Advice to apply what those sentences say (in the best way) for you. (Advice is everyone’s favorite part.) Did you come here for your predictions? – You are done now – See you tomorrow.
Without a question to focus the answer, four cards can mean contradictory things especially when the Spread has a card that negates other cards. Without a question also the pronouns in a group reading are more flexible, especially in some of these Rider Waite Tarot spreads. When a pronoun is in parentheses, feel very free to substitute. The question in a ‘real’ individual reading supplies at least half the information!
==================================================================== Eight of Swords Nine of Swords, Ace of Wands, Eight of Cups DAILY MESSAGE TAROT ANALYSIS Tell the visitors here something useful and meaningful to them. Personal Victory Perspective I beat that helpless, stifled feeling and am no longer fearful. Used to be paralyzed by fear: Conquered that! (You) are getting out of the big things that hold (you) back and worry (you). Isn’t afraid anymore, has done something about the limitations, about being tied up. Doesn’t worry anymore about not being able to have sex. Don’t get nervous and give up; you rule! When he can’t dominate you, he will be scared and leave. ‘What you have to do’ Perspective You can’t be upset about it, you just have to quit! Fix waking up at night and you won’t feel helpless. Worry/Fear is the main thing that holds you back: get out of it. When you are stuck, you have to not be overwhelmed. You are leaving a hopeless situation behind, a major achievement, and here you are crying over it. You gotta get out of this stifling upsetting situation. Gotta get outa this box, it’s getting to me. Can’t cry about it, have to get over it. Have/Has to get over grieving the death. Conquered being helpless, quit all the regrets. When you are stuck, you have to not be overwhelmed. ‘Can’t’ Perspective Don’t cry if you can’t win. You did it, it’s over, you can’t cry over it. Can’t sleep, have to get up in the middle of the night. The one thing you can’t do is leave the grief behind. He/She grieves that he/she can’t have sex anymore. Death Perspective Isn’t/Aren’t going to die, the main thing that has (you) upset. You have to die but don’t worry about it right now. What has you so sleepless will be over for sure when you die. ====================================================================
Now, Part Two,
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========================================================= Meanings and Illustrations: Observation of the Spread Whoa! In the middle we have to assert, to win, ‘must’ or ‘have to,’ dominate and, of course, sex: That Ace of Wands entity. To his left is crying, worrying, being up nights, being nervous. To his right is quitting, walking off, leaving in the middle. Above him is ‘can’t’ and being stifled or limited or boxed in, which is the actual death card. So … yeah, it looks like we gotta overcome something, or that we have overcome something. The sentences’ headings are meanings of the Ace of Wands, who is the chief here: Take him out of this spread, and we just cry about it, quit and die. Meanings and Illustrations: Individual Rider Waite Tarot Cards Nine of Swords is so stressed, is up nights worrying or crying, is nervous. Oh, wah. You let it get to ya, didn’ ya? His picture is a person sitting up in bed, hands to head in the boo-hoo or headache position. Nine swords are on the wall. Scared too, huh? Ace of Wands asserts itself, wins, it HAS to, it dominates, it is sexual energy from the male standpoint. Nothing complex here. And its design is a penis-looking branch that is sprouting, held aloft in the right hand – a rather dinty hand for the subject, energized. Eight of Cups quits, walks off, defaults, drops out, is run off the road, changes course in midstream. The pilgrim (That’s what the person is supposed to be.) changes course because the road forces it, in our illustration. Eight of Swords is about being unable, boxed in, limited, trapped, helpless, tied up, having no choice. Vividly illustrated by a blindfolded lady tied up in a swamp surrounded by swords, the home way up on top of the mountain with no path to it. This is the actual death card.
Four Card Spreads, Our Daily Spread, Tarot Verbatim
Eight of Cups Knight of Swords, Queen of Cups, Nine of Swords
There are next to no business or romantic themes, so I have not labeled these.
She changes her mind, it wasn’t so awful after all. She is a changed woman, isn’t the sweet nervous lady anymore. She decides to leave her troubling situation in a flash. His worries are over, he meets the woman who understands him and turns his life around. She grieves the man who is gone, and the change that makes in her life. Suddenly he is gone from her life and she is very upset thinking about that. She grieves the unexpected change in her life. Her thinking changed; she isn’t sorry anymore. She changes her mind about him and is the hell outa that aggravatin’ place. She quits dreaming of her prince and gets back to what is troubling her. When her troubles are over, she is a changed woman. Her thinking changes with the exit of the man who upset her. Now that her insomnia is over, she can get on with a different direction in her life. He switches back and forth about leaving her, which gets on her nerves big time. She just quit worrying about it and is on to something else entirely. Mental anguish to her, his comings and goings. She decides not to be upset anymore and changes instantly. She changes her mind and decides not to be upset anymore. No more is she crying all night because her man dashed off. Her sleep being disrupted is a drastic change in her thinking. Well, obviously, the key card is the lady in the middle, the nice girl/good woman, the Queen of Cups who is thinking, and thinking about her man; and obviously someone left and there’s a huge change in her life, what with two cards that mean those things (Knight of Swords and Eight of Cups); and obviously, this is a source of aggravation, trouble and grief (Nine of Swords). However with two cards that mean change, some of the meanings are that she is getting over the grief quickly or that whatever or whoever leaves comes back. These are things an experienced Rider Waite Tarot reader immediately perceives just looking at this simple spread. Advice here is that changing your thinking is changing your life, and/or changing who you are. (By the way, this is a generality that would apply to men equally as women.) Advice is to ‘get over yourself’ and get on with it; to get over your grief and get on with it.
Meanings and Illustrations:
Knight of Swords: To reverse direction – to leave in a hurry and to come in a hurry – is what he is all about, along with just being in a hurry. Speeding, running away, that kind of thing. The illustration skillfully depicts the hurry: Even the clouds are moving fast. Queen of Cups: She is a softie, a dreamer, a romantic and usually simple soul who dreams of and thinks of her man. Water – a symbol of being emotional – surrounds her throne as she contemplates. Nine of Swords: Up nights crying, grief and insomnia, worry and aggravation. The illustration shows someone sitting up in bed, hands holding the head. Eight of Cups: The end of one direction, the beginning of another (similar to the Knight of Swords); to suddenly exit, to drop out. Disrupt. To drop out of ‘life’ and go on a quest. The illustration shows a forced change of direction in the traveler’s path: There is water and the banks of it are 90 degrees.
Puzzling about how the spiritual plane dominates practical (physical plane) affairs
Page of Cups High Priestess, Ace of Swords, Queen of Wands
So, which lady shall it be for him: The bookworm or the one who is actively engaged? She is a stay-at-home wife: Is that an achievement? Why was the bookkeeper made the manager? Why is the quiet woman so bossy now that she is his wife? Two women made a fool of him, didn’t they? How did his wife win without doing anything? She is totally into solitude; it would be ridiculous to be a wife. What kind of wife is she – an absolute lady. How can a woman who runs a household, runs a business, be so very contemplative? It’s one way or the other: to be single or to be a married woman. Her challenge as a wife is whether to be the passive lady. Can he make her his wife, when she is so ladylike? He feels silly. This quiet woman is the total boss of the household affairs. Puzzling about how the spiritual plane dominates practical physical plane affairs. How did she get to be the expert who knows all about running a household? He feels silly challenging mama in her house: She stays there. Why does she have to stay home? Who would have thought such a practical woman would be a spiritual master? He wonders how his wife dominates him when she is so quiet and ladylike. How did he get such a tyrant for a little woman? How can he make this woman be quiet? Once again, the story is obviously about a woman or two. The women contrast, in that the High Priestess is (1) passive, a ‘lady,’ which means staying quietly in the back seat, (2) knows all or is an expert in something probably scholarly and (3) is at home on the spiritual plane, is a spiritual adept. And, in contrast, the Queen of Wands is a hands-on day-to-day manager of mundane activities. Between the two females is the Ace of Swords, which means force, totally one way or the other, a challenge or achievement. Above the two females is the Page of Cups, who means ‘silly,’ ‘Why?’ or any other question form. The advice here contrasts mental activity with mundane activities of managing an enterprise (house or business) and asks whether one can excel at both. It contrasts a woman who is a scholar of some sort (and is her own person, single) with being a wife running a household, and again asks ‘How can it be?’ It also expresses a guy’s wonderment that the little lady he married now runs his affairs (a dude’s primal fear). The spread sort of suggests the contrast between a stay-at-home wife and a working wife, but not quite. “Why must she choose between being a wife and being her own master?” in other words.
Meanings and Illustrations:
High Priestess: The High Priestess has several layers of meanings, but the common one is about being a lady, a quiet woman, about knowing and being passive rather than doing and being active. (She is the opposite of the Magician, who is active without thinking.) With the focus on ‘knowing,’ she is also an expert or master, a scholar. This Rider Waite Tarot card also refers to the spiritual and/or mental plane, so it also means ‘spiritual master,’ which is what the High Priestess is in witchcraft. The illustration of this Rider Waite Tarot card is less obvious than most. The book in her lap, ‘Tora,’ suggests the scholarly theme. The initials, B and J, on the pillars refer to the Kaballah, hence to spirituality or being a spiritual master. The equal-armed cross is also about planes. Lots of other symbols as well, but this is enough. Ace of Swords: Win, challenge, achievement, all one way, to force, must, gotta, the hard way, dominate. The illustration shows the crown of victory atop a sword in hand. Queen of Wands: She is the one who runs the enterprise, be it house or business. ‘She runs a tight ship’ describes her. Very physical, very competent. Very physical-plane as contrasted to the High Priestess, who can be ethereal or ‘out there.’ Page of Cups: Huh? This is one of the ‘duh’ cards. It means ‘silly’ or ‘ridiculous.’ It means an idiot or confused/confusion. He is dressed funny and carries a fish in a cup.
She is a changed woman, isn’t the sweet nervous lady anymore. She decides to leave her troubling situation in a flash. His worries are over, he meets the woman who understands him and turns his life around. She grieves the man who is gone, and the change that makes in her life.
