Tarot Readings for You for May 10, 2017 Wednesday© 

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My question is: How does my mother really feel since I found my father and we have reunited together?

 

Three of Cups – Queen of Pentacles – Five of Cups

She valued the camaraderie of what you and she have in common – is sad.

Five of Cups

 

She has lost – Five of Cups

 

 

 

Queen of Pentacles

 

something she prizes: – Queen of Pentacles

 

 

 

Three of Cups

her ‘just-us-girls’ relationship with you. – Three of Cups *

*[being on the same page, sharing life, birds of a feather – that sort of thing]

 

 

 

 

Two of Swords – Devil – Nine of Pentacles

1. He wasn’t nasty to you, so this is you serving your own interest.

2. She doesn’t hate you – you are an independent person.

1.

Two of Swords

 

He wasn’t – Two of Swords

 

 

 

Devil

 

nasty to you – Devil

 

 

 

Nine of Pentacles

 

so you are serving your own interest. – Nine of Pentacles

 

 

 

2.

Two of Swords

 

She doesn’t – Two of Swords

 

 

 

Devil

 

hate you – Devil

 

 

 

Nine of Pentacles

 

you are an independent person. – Nine of Pentacles

 

 

 

 

Hierophant – Four of Cups – Three of Pentacles

1. It’s not the proper relationship.

2. It’s not right for this relationship to be a triangle.

1.

Four of Cups

 

It’s not – Four of Cups

 

 

 

Hierophant

the proper – Hierophant

 

 

 

 

Three of Pentacles

 

relationship. – Three of Pentacles

 

 

 

2.

Four of Cups

 

It’s not – Four of Cups

 

 

 

Hierophant

 

right – Hierophant

 

 

 

Three of Pentacles

 

for this relationship to be a threesome. – Three of Pentacles

 

 

 

Five of Swords – King of Cups – Four of Swords

1. That bastard was never sweet to me.

2. He isn’t taking advantage of you; he’s being his good-guy self.

1.

Five of Swords

 

That bastard – Five of Swords

 

 

Four of Swords

 

was never – Four of Swords

 

 

 

King of Cups

 

sweet to me. – King of Cups

 

 

 

2.

Four of Swords

 

He isn’t – Four of Swords

 

 

 

Five of Swords

 

taking advantage of you – Five of Swords

 

 

King of Cups

 

he’s being a gentleman. – King of Cups

 

 

 

 

Queen of Cups – Temperance – Nine of Swords

She remembers him as the nightmare relationship.

Queen of Cups

 

She remembers him – Queen of Cups

 

 

Nine of Swords

 

as the nightmare – Nine of Swords

 

 

Temperance

 

relationship. – Temperance

 
 
 
 

 

 

 

Six of Pentacles – Seven of Wands – Six of Cups

It’s not fair – she feels intruded upon – for him to pay you such sweet attention.

 

She is indignant. He is violating her, intruding on her – Seven of Wands

 

 

 

paying good attention to you – Six of Pentacles

 

 

Six of Cups

 

– such sweet attention to her child! – Six of Cups

 

 

 

Your mother feels like her husband’s got another woman – very similar indignation. However, she can relate to the relationship you are enjoying because she remembers those sweet days. Five of Cups describes the melancholy sense of loss. And note how many negative cards are used that express ‘No, no, it’s not’ … along with cards that describe him being good to you.

Also, the pair of cards that mean three people engaged in something together (a triangle) appear in this reading: Three of Pentacles and Three of Cups.

 

  

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Our Daily Spread, July 17, 2011 Sunday

Advice is about the lovely dysfunctional clan we all seem to be members of, making the point that you can be in the family (or any group) as a member but not be of the family. You can disregard their expectations and plans for you, just be thinking about something else and ‘doing your own thing,’ not theirs. You did not sign on for the feud, you have no part in each fella’s petty agenda. (You are better than they.)

Ten of Pentacles

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==================================================================== World Queen of Cups, World, Nine of Swords DAILY MESSAGE TAROT ANALYSIS Tell the visitors here something useful and meaningful to them. Family Perspective She isn’t at all upset by family infighting. She knows how his family gets him into their psychodramas, but she doesn’t worry about any of it. Other people have problems and worries. She doesn’t think in those terms. She knows how not to let other people’s agendas get to her. Think your own thoughts, and don’t get distracted by other people’s. She worries about the family but doesn’t let it get to her. She is aware how upset his family is that she is independent. Don’t get involved, Mind your own business Perspective Be a sweet lady who minds her own business: Know nothing about their woes. Figure out how to keep your space free of misfits, and you won’t have anything to worry about. Don’t get involved in politics; it will keep you up nights. Knowing these people (neighbors?) will keep her up nights if she gets to know them, she doesn’t know them. She has figured them out, so she isn’t part of the quarrels that upset them so. She isn’t about to worry about what her man does with his low class friends/family. Sweet Little Troublemaker Perspective She is not a member of their low-class circle. She knows how that gets on their nerves. A sweet lady who can get everyone upset and fighting, and not be a part of it herself. She knows how to get on your very last nerve and have other people fighting with you, and not be involved herself at all. She knows her man has nothing in common with that riffraff he hangs out with. ==================================================================== Now, Part Two,

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========================================================= MEANINGS AND ILLUSTRATIONS: OBSERVATION OF THE SPREAD Well, we have family troubles, Ten of Pentacles; worries, Nine of Swords; a lady who understands, Queen of Cups; and a lady who keeps other people out of her business, World. Nine of Swords and Ten of Pentacles have aggravation in common. MEANINGS AND ILLUSTRATIONS: INDIVIDUAL RIDER WAITE TAROT CARDS Queen of Cups is the loyal wife, the sweet lady, she thinks of or about her man, she understands or has figured out her man. A blond with a dreamy look on her face fondles this funky-looking object d’art. Water surrounds her throne and cherubs are all over it. World is in a class of her own, nothing gets to her, nothing interferes with her and she doesn’t mingle, doesn’t stoop to be connected or involved: She has it made in all the planes. Traditionally a hermaphrodite – the idea being that when you are an advanced being, you no longer have gender – she is pictured nude, dancing with a wand in each hand, looking away. Nine of Swords is upset, up nights worrying, stressed out, crying. A person sits upright in bed, holding his or her head. Ten of Pentacles is family problems, problems with relatives or with coworkers, friends, or the boys at the bar – any group. It’s a bunch of querulous feuding people of any kind – the dope gang, the loud low class neighbors … Illustration shows a family that doesn’t get along. Grandpa has some edict, and the couple are having to come to terms with something. Even the kid gets in on the act. Remind you of something?

Our Daily Spread for Mar. 24, 2011

Today’s question is:  What projects should I be focusing on in my life now?

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Fear and worry drain you: Know the truth by thinking very factually and soberly

Five of Pentacles
Queen of Cups, Hermit, Nine of Swords

You can be so miserable you miss your supporter(s) when your thinking is worrying.
You worry about doing without.  Think calmly and analytically regarding this.
Fear and worry drain you:  Know the truth by thinking very factually and soberly.
It is when you are depleted that you can’t sleep.  Your mind is going at night.

It is a fact that worrying about poor times is what is on (her )mind.
You get so upset and lonely:  You know he is looking for you, coming to you (at night).
When your thoughts make you anxious, go help someone who is in real need.
She knows she has help but still worries about poor times.

Queen of Cups is her thinking (often about her man) and Hermit is factual calm observation – that type of thinking.  Then we have the Nine of Cups being upset, not able to sleep, worrying and having bad dreams, followed by ‘dark night of the soul,’ the Five of Pentacles which means to be so depleted you don’t even see help – to be doing without and miserable, possibly feeling sorry for yourself.  Except for Queen of Cups, all these cards are night scenes.  The first three cards all have something to do with thinking about things.  Hermit means giving help and Five of Pentacles is being in need of help.

The project is to be aware of how you worry about doing without, how anxious that makes you, how it keeps you up nights, and to think logically, calmly about this – to observe what the truth is factually and calm down.

Meanings and Illustrations:

Queen of Cups: She is thinking.  Today it’s not about her man, but about herself.  She is shown dreamily staring at some ugly antique.

Hermit: This is truth, facts, rational observation, coming to a person, helping a person.  Pictured is the monks that go out at night looking for travelers in distress – and of course the Five of Pentacles is some travelers on the street in distress.

Nine of Swords: We know him/her, don’t we?  Up nights being anxious and not sleeping, worrying in the dark.  That is the illustration

Five of Pentacles: ‘Bums on the street.’  Destitute.  Drained, exhausted, so numb they don’t see the church refuge there, and keep going.  Poor times, indeed.  Depicts our fears, yes?

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Get out from under the restrictions these screwed-up people foist on you: Bitch at them!

Sun
Ten of Pentacles, Two of Cups, Queen of Swords

Get away from the people who put their troubles on you, put you in a foul mood.
Get  out from under the restrictions these screwed-up people foist on you:  Bitch at them!
Free yourself from the oppressive values of a (family?) culture that sacrifices you to benefit others.
Have some fun with the in-laws (or the ex) that suck(s) your blood .
Just quit holding people up to your standards who are dysfunctional mooches/bloodsuckers.
You feel so good when you leave such a dysfunctional home life with that bloodsucking bitch.
She is to be stern with the brat who is a drain on the whole family.
This demanding wench converted his money to her own use, and he is out of that sick nasty house.

The first two cards here, in Rider Waite Tarot, refer to social scheming, to one-ups-manship and being in the grip of controlling folks, the oppressive undertones of hostile atmospheres between or among people who are associated with one another.  Ten of Pentacles and Two of Cups are NOT where you want to be!  The next card can be either the woman who is suffering from the grief described, or is the cause of it (or both).  But that last card means to be free of, to get out of and out from under.  (But it can also be the brat who causes the grief.  So there is some variation on the theme, but the theme is quite strongly stated here.

The project is to get away from troublesome and troublemaking people who ‘get to you’ and make you irritable.  Being the victim of family bloodsuckers is VERY clearly stated … but so is the escape!  So you can leave this phase of your life behind; it is over.  All over but the shouting?

Meanings and Illustrations:

Ten of Pentacles is any kind of dysfunctional, screwed-up, quarrelsome, scheming backstabbing politicking people, be it family, workplace, friends, or the AA group.  It can be The Mob or any gang or mob, even a government or agency.  A family quarrel is the picture.

Two of Cups: This is how the dysfunctional backstabbing quarrelsome family began:  with a bloodsucking user for a lover.  Other decks (and other readers of the Rider Waite deck) consider this a romance card, but they disregard that caduceus.  This is, say, marrying for money, or using someone for sex or social climbing.

Queen of Swords can be either the woman who is suffering from the dysfunctional family or group, or who is part of the problem.  It is also advice to be the bitch.  She sits there with that weapon in her right hand and her left hand inviting someone to ‘Come on down.’  Could be PMS.

Sun: Leaving home.  Out of there.  Free of it.  But also the brat.  Illustration shows the kid who snuck out of the house to play bareback, naked, on a horse with a wicked gleam in its eye.

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He is looking for a partner who is a VIP to cooperate with as two strong men together

King of Swords
Knight of Pentacles, Temperance, Ace of Cups

Have your close relationship be with a responsible man who really loves you and only you.
This man is looking only for true love, for an intimate partner who is as grownup as he is.
He is a strong man; he is determined that his partner is going to be an equal who is cooperative.
He is looking for a partner who is a VIP to cooperate with as two strong men together.
Focus on cooperating closely with the boss.

Center cards, Temperance and Ace of Cups, refer to being close, cooperating and/or loving; and the outer cards are both strong men.  Mr. Knight of Pentacles is the ‘muscle,’ the younger ambitious focused dude, and Mr. Knight of Swords is the strongman, the responsible grownup, the leader.

The project is to associate yourself – and we refer here to both love and business – with a stable strong man, a non-neurotic male, in order to get ahead and have no clash or conflict in your story.  Now, this refers to both men and women as well as refers to both love and other life arenas.  It is talking about eliminating the bad stuff from your life by hanging out with stable males.

Meanings and Illustrations:

Knight of Pentacles: He is focused today.  All the cards around him bring out the best in him today, so we won’t mention his ‘bad side.’  The illustration shows a man focused on that one thing he holds in front of his face.

Temperance: Close associates, intimate association, equal partners.  Temperance also has a healing influence to it, that is echoed by the adjacent next card, the Ace of Cups.  Shown is an angel pouring liquid from one cup to another over water.  This is one of the Middle Ages cards that some purists feel has no real place in the Tarot.

Ace of Cups: Cooperation, love – and also a secondary meaning of healing or health.  Depicted is the idea that the Holy Spirit indwelling in a person creates an atmosphere that clears all bad influences away.  The dove and the wafer are symbols of the Holy Spirit, and the five flows of liquid refer to the five senses.

King of Swords: This is the strong man or strongman, the grownup responsible man of character, the military disciplined man.  Illustrated is a tall German-looking fellow, very erect, holding the weapon as if it were part of himself, very relaxed yet also alert.

So what all these spreads have in common is the importance of associating with people who bring out the calm focused you – to avoid aggravating social scenes and people, and to seek out the opposite, to seek out calm grownups.

Our Daily Spread for Feb. 25, 2011

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.

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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.

Our Daily Spread for Feb. 17, 2011

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She knows he is scared to marry her, but he will do it

Magician Queen of Cups, Nine of Swords, Ten of Cups

Romance and Marriage Perspective: He is going to marry a woman who believes in him and live happily ever after: He is upset over this. She knows he is scared to marry her, but he will do it. He is afraid she knows he is going to marry her. His wife’s family is upset about what he is doing. She is up nights crying about what he does to the family. The family is afraid of what the wife is thinking of doing. He is afraid his wife and family have figured out what he is doing. Everyone is happy he did what he was afraid to do:  She had faith in him. She knows how making everyone in the family happy gets on his nerves. He puts himself through hell to make a good life for the wife. She is afraid of what he is doing with his family members. She has him figured out:  He is afraid of what his family will do. They are such a happy couple, she know it makes him nervous to pull that off.

Diverse stories here arise (as usual) from the ‘spoiler’ card, in this case the Nine of Swords.  Take it out, and you have a man who is going to marry the woman who loves and admires him, or is married to her.  That card is one of the fear/nightmare ones.  Sooo, you have to choose the scenario that fits your story:  most likely, the guy who is going to marry but is afraid to.  In-laws could be involved as ‘family’ here.  Warning:  Trying to think of all these could make you cross-eyed!

Meanings and Illustrations:

Queen of Cups: This is the nice girl, the good wife, the woman who understands him and believes in him and has faith in him.  The woman who has figured him out, or who ‘knows all about him’ as well.  She is the dreamy (romantic) type, you can tell, as she contemplates that antiquey vessel she so carefully balances on her right hand in the Rider Waite version of Tarot.  All the water means she is emotional.  And, of course, she is blond.  ‘Vanilla.’  Here, she is the good wife, since the Ten of Cups, the happy and well-adjusted family, shares billing with her.

Nine of Swords: Nightmare, scared/scary, up nights crying, grief, afraid/fear, upset, gets on one’s nerves/makes one nervous, going through hell, and so on.  Illustration is one of the most obvious:  To sit up in bed, holding one’s head, in the middle of the night, crying.  The figure could be male or female. Ten of Cups: Another obvious card.  What else could it mean but things like happily ever after, good family, community of good people, good marriage, good life, happy couple, etc., with that illustration of the rainbow over the home, the children dancing and the embracing couple’s arms outstretched, in front of their massively endowed home? Magician: The man who does, the male takes initiative, he makes it happen, he brings it about, he does/did/is doing, he brings it about, he is the one who does it:  This is all about taking action, and the wife card is a passive one.  Saying she, the sweet gal, is ‘doing’ in this spread is a bit of a stretch, but not impossible.

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May as well not compete with the clan

Fool Ten of Pentacles, Five of Wands, Four of Cups

The people around you are all fighting one another, don’t you be combative:  Ignore them. Don’t have anything to do with the backstabbing competitive people around you:  You don’t know them! May as well not compete with the clan. You don’t want to get involved with the in-laws, you aren’t related. Ignore the low-class neighbors when they fight as if you don’t hear them. It’s not exactly a mob war, but don’t ask. Not all the factions are fighting- or are even present. Well, yesterday there were so many possibilities for messages that I had to quit.  Today there are so few I have to quit.  First we have the dysfunctional bunch of people, then a big fight or competition (or involvement), followed by ‘refuse’ and ‘not even there’ or ‘forget about it.’ This is advice, as we had a short while ago, to not get involved in other people’s miasma, their quarrels and fights – to be above the fray.

Meanings and Illustrations:

Ten of Pentacles: Dysfunctional (screwed-up) bunch of folks could be any group.  Pictured on the Rider Waite version of this Tarot card is a family disagreement, a power struggle. Five of Wands: Illustration shows a bunch of guys energetically sparring with boards, whether in a game or in a fight.  And that is what is referred to here. Four of Cups: Hunh-huh, no way, no part of it, refuse each time!  This Rider Waite illustration shows a person refusing each time the hand from the clouds offers him a drink. Fool: Don’t even think!  Not present.  Have no connection, be entirely free like running away from home with your little dog.

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