Tarot Readings for You for January 21, 2015 Wednesday©
GUIDANCE Remember when all women were (made sure they were) true believers in their man’s authority, and in the authorities everywhere. That was being a Lady. If you were a Lady, you could marry a Leading Man and live happily ever after. You two had a contract stronger than any written one that he would pay the bills and keep all bad things away, and she would believe in him and make him powerful. The world worked like that for a long time. There was a lot more to it, of course, than that. Like she would not work, and she would not complain about his indiscretions. Well, why are we visiting them? I don’t know, but here they are, along with some other intriguing questions and observations. I suspect this message is talking to someone specific, because this is not our usual thing.
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Queen of Cups – King of Swords – Page of Cups
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GROUP TAROT CARDS READING
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Headings [So you can choose which belongs to you]
Tarot Readings: What’s HE doing with HER?, What’s SHE doing with HIM? (Queen of Cups and King of Swords)
Tarot Readings: Am I That Kind of Man? (King of Swords and Page of Cups)
Tarot Readings: What She Thinks and Wonders (Queen of Cups and Page of Cups)
Tarot Readings: What Do You Think? (Queen of Cups and Page of Cups)
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Tarot Readings: What’s HE doing with HER?, What’s SHE doing with HIM? (Queen of Cups and King of Swords)
What’s that nice girl doing with that John Wayne guy?
What’s John Wayne doing with a simple gal like her?
Can I be John Wayne and get me a sweet gal like her?
Her idea of a man is like John Wayne, and where is he?
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Tarot Readings: Am I That Kind of Man? (King of Swords and Page of Cups)
Should I be the man she sees me as?
Am I man enough for a woman with a mind of her own?
I’m a goofball and she thinks I’m the leading man.
He isn’t so sure he wants to be the pillar of strength she sees him as.
He wonders how he can get that naive gal.
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Tarot Readings: What She Thinks and Wonders (Queen of Cups and Page of Cups)
She loves him for his strength and for his humor.
She is asking herself questions about that militant fellow.
She sees herself as the dumb blond and him as the strong man.
She figures the people in power are dumb-asses.
I am paying attention to him to see whether he is a grownup.
How can she believe he has that kind of power?
She keeps track of dumb things about VIP men.
She loves and understands her manly man, even when he is silly.
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Tarot Readings: What Do You Think? (Queen of Cups and Page of Cups)
Do you really believe the authorities?
Think up, and puzzle out, a way you can be an authority on something.
Can a real feminine woman be in power?
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Queen of Cups – King of Swords – Page of Cups
LEARN TAROT BY OBSERVING
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………………….……………………Note that we have three ‘court cards,’ three people cards. A spread like that is awkward to read. This one is pretty straightforward, though.
King of Swords is the manly man, the disciplined authoritative man, the grown up man, the policeman or other such man’s-man occupation. I call him John Wayne, and observe this is who most (American) men want to be … when they grow up.
Queen of Cups is the sweet-kind-loyal perfect wife and girl friend, the dumb blond, the woman who understands and loves her man, etc. Sally Struthers in All in the Family, for example. (She has other meanings – later.)
Page of Cups is perfect as the other card in this spread family. He says ‘Duh’ and he means the silly side of things. He asks the question.
…………………………..Queen of Cups is that sweet gal who loves her man, understands her man, stands by her man. She is always thinking, but may be thinking about … something she thinks about. That do-dad she is staring at, for instance. She has faith, she believes, and her world is small and … we hope … cozy.
………………………….. King of Swords is that rigid sort of fellow who has to have some force, some power to himself, even if he is king of the pool hall, you know? He is the man every American man wants to be, the John Wayne. Men who act like this, other men consider leaders, or at lest the leader of the pack. He needs other people in order to be powerful, so he is all about that image, and you find other men around him. He usually plays it to the hilt, and we all salute.
..………………………. Page of Cups is the silly side of things, the question a court jester might ask. He stands for humor sometimes, as he does today. Today he is questioning the image and the roles these two people are entwined in. This card has applications along the lines of an action or an opinion, or an image, being weird, unaccounted for, or dumb. (In the first Self position of Celtic Cross, it alerts the reader that ‘This is weird, but it’s correct.’) It can mean inappropriately dressed because this fellow is wearing women’s clothes. It can represent being gay for that reason (either gender).
……….…………. Queen of Cups and King of Swords Queen of Cups and King of Swords are the stereotype of the manly strong man and his sweet-kind-loyal naive woman who understands and still admires him. The old-fashioned married team. He is being the strong manly man she sees him as, and underneath it all, her genius is to know that and predispose him to be that way for her. Remember, Queen of Cups is ‘to know and admire your guy.’ So you have: She thinks I’m the leading man; I be the man she sees me as; he wants to be the pillar of strength she sees him as.
However, sometimes Queen of Cups, whose key word is ‘think and dream’ also appears as a woman with a mind of her own, so when you see that next to the strong man, you get ‘man enough for a woman with a mind of her own.’ That’s where we get: She’s paying attention to see whether he is a grownup; she loves him for his strength; she is checking him out re his being militant. x..
……….………… Queen of Cups and Page of Cups Queen of Cups and Page of Cups are thinking and wondering (Queen of Cups is thinking; Page of Cups is wondering). Queen of Cups is the stereotype sweet-kind-loyal type of gal, probably naive, and she believes in conventional ways. Page of Cups means silly, humor, and puts your reading into question form. So we have: What’s she doing? What’s that nice girl doing? What’s (he) doing with a simple gal like her? Can I get a sweet gal like her? Where’s my man? (Queen of Cups as a card bring up ‘the man’ because that is her obsession.
‘I’m a goofball,’ Page of Cups, ‘and she thinks I’m a leading man,’ Queen of Cups. She loves him (Queen of Cups) for his humor (Page of Cups). She understands her man (Queen of Cups) even when he is silly (Page of Cups).
Page of Cups means ‘dumb’ and Queen of Cups is very blond, so these two can say ‘dumb blond.’ x..
………..………… King of Swords and Page of Cups King of Swords and Page of Cups question a man’s manhood, wonder about a man or wonder whether this man is manly, or is a grownup, or is powerful – because all of those are meanings for King of Swords, and Page of Cups is a kind of Johnny-one-note card about wondering, questioning, and being in appropriate or humorous. They also say ‘wondering about a man’ or ‘a man wonders.’ They also say a man is being silly. Note they say ‘Where is that man?’ x..
Some of us long for the old days of the rigid roles, because those roles were honored and rewarded, and there’s nothing that’s true of anymore. Divorcing was a bone-deep disgrace. There were penalties in a man’s financial life for not being the family man (although he could fool around discretely) and there were good rewards for being the family man. Job security was one of them. Being respected without question was another. Today’s spread hearkens back to the roles in that way of life.
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HERE ARE PHRASES FOR ALL THREE 2-CARD COMBINATIONS
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……….…………. Queen of Cups and King of Swords What’s HE doing with HER? That nice girl with that John Wayne guy. John Wayne with a simple girl like that. I be John Wayne and get me a sweet gal like her. Her idea of a man is like John Wayne. I be the man she sees me as. Man enough for a woman with a mind of her own. She thinks I’m the leading man. He wants to be the pillar of strength she sees him as. How he can get that naive girl. She loves him for his strength. She is about that militant fellow. She sees herself as the blond and him as the strong man. She figures the people in power are _. I am paying attention to him, …. he is a grownup. She believes he has that kind of power. She keeps track of VIP men. She loves and understands her man. You believe the authorities. Think up a way you can be an authority on something. A real feminine woman in power. x..
……….………… Queen of Cups and Page of Cups What’s SHE doing with HIM? What’s that nice girl doing with _? What’s _ doing with a simple girl like her? Can I be … and get me a sweet gal like her? Her idea of a man is … and where is he? Should I be _ she sees me as? Am I … for a woman with a mind of her own? I’m a goofball and she thinks I’m …. He isn’t so sure … the man she sees him as. He wonders how that naive girl …. WHAT SHE THINKS AND WONDERS She loves him for his humor. She is asking herself questions about …. She sees herself as the dumb blond. She figures … are dumb-asses. I am paying attention to him to see whether …. How can she believe …? She keeps track of dumb things**. She loves and understands her man, even when he is silly. WHAT DO YOU THINK? Do you really believe __? Think up, and puzzle out a way …. Can a real feminine woman …? x..
………..…………King of Swords and Page of Cups What’s HE doing? What’s with that John Wayne guy? What’s John Wayne doing? Can I be John Wayne? A man like John Wayne: Where is he? AM I THAT KIND OF MAN? Should I be the man …? Am I man enough?*** I’m a goofball and … I’m the leading man. He isn’t so sure he wants to be the pillar of strength. He wonders how he can …. … for his strength and for his humor. Asking questions about that militant fellow. … as the dumb _, and him as the strong man. People in power are dumb-asses. To see whether he is a grown-up. How can he have that kind of power? Dumb things about VIP men. … her manly man, even when he is silly. Do you really _ the authorities? Puzzle out a way you can be an authority on something. Can a … be in power? x..
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LEARN TAROT BY PICTURES
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Queen of Cups…….. mainly is a well-meaning nice person who is loyal to her man especially, and believes all the things she thinks she is supposed to believe – definitely a product of her culture, whatever the culture is. You see her staring at a funky artifact as a flood surrounds her throne. Water indicates an emotional person or situation. The scene here is saying she pays attention to random irrelevant things instead of to what’s really going on around her. However, the key word for Queen of Cups is ‘think’ (as well as ‘dream’), so she appears as ‘a woman with a mind of her own’ or ‘the woman knows’ or ‘the woman who knows.’ She sometimes begins sentences as ‘She knows’ for this card.
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King of Swords…………. King of Swords is the strong man, the disciplined man, the military type, the leader – the type of man other men look up to and want to be. He usually has erect posture. He finds a scene that suits and bolsters his image. He tends to rule something, especially his home, but maybe there’s a sports bar or a gym where ‘everybody knows him.’ He minds his image and goes out of his way to avoid scandal even if he is some kind of crook.
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Page of Cups …………. Page of Cups is one of the ‘Duh’ cards. It makes your sentence a question very often; it means the word or verb ‘question.’ Page of Cups means weird, puzzle (like Seven of Pentacles), wonder, stupid, awkward or feeling awkward, make a fool of oneself, to not know, humor, even a comedian. Page of Cups can mean inappropriately dressed, since this fellow is wearing women’s clothes, and for that reason can represent a gay person of either gender, a cross-dresser or maybe a transsexual. Watch for this card, when it appears as the first Self card in Celtic Cross, to be a flag to the reader that, yes, this does not make sense, but, hey, that’s the way it is – it’s accurate. And when that happens, it’s usually VERY true.
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