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Email Reading
The category of life is:: Financial
My question is:: Will we get back on top of everything have had a rough year people ripping us off and had to walk away from a lot of owed money which has really set us back feel like we are about to lose everything
That’s just a yes-or-no question, and the answer is a clear ‘yes.’ The question isn’t that useful to you, though, so I have tailored and amended it to: Beginning now and up to a year from now, how well will I get out of this financial stall, and give me an idea how to do it.
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Three of Wands – Hermit – Knight of Pentacles
You focus on this one priority, and with a little help, you do see that money coming in.
You focus, first and foremost, on this one thing, – Knight of Pentacles
and with the assistance of a knowledgeable person who volunteers help – Hermit
you will see – (Both Hermit and Knight of Pentacles)
that income steadily flowing. – Three of Wands
[Three of Wands-Hermit says ‘financial counselor’ because Three of Wands is finances and Hermit is an adviser. They also say financial advice.]
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Seven of Cups – Queen of Swords – Knight of Wands
Progress is accelerated because of all the bizarre things that got you to this state of deficit and lack.
You make fast progress – Knight of Wands
due to all the crazy off-the-wall things – Seven of Cups
that got you where you are: deprived and in need. – Queen of Swords
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Temperance – Two of Swords – Two of Wands
Financial security will be yours because you ABSOLUTELY DO NOT have a partner in the deal(s).
Financial security will be yours – Two of Wands
because you absolutely do not – Two of Swords
have a partner to deal with. – Temperance
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Star
Six of Swords
Nine of Pentacles
Queen of Wands x 
High Priestess
Four of Cups
Three of Wands
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Self
Future
Situation (cover)
Behind x Ahead
Problem (cross)
Foundation
STAR as Self Card: Good news to you!
NINE OF PENTACLES as Situation Card: You are established on your own; you are doing well without anyone.
FOUR OF CUPS as Problem card: You don’t have to put up with another thing!
QUEEN OF WANDS as the Behind Card in what I call the Extended Present: Your house is in order, and you are in control of your personal and business affairs.
HIGH PRIESTESS as the Ahead Card of what I call the Extended Present: You are knowledgeable and you are established all by yourself, living in peace. (You are a data bank of knowledge now?)
THREE OF WANDS as Foundation Card: Here’s that income and other good things continuing to come in.
SIX OF SWORDS as Future Card: The bad times are over and you are headed to much better times.
[Note that you appear as three women-cards who are each independent, in control of their circumstances, and knowledgeable, all side-by-side touching one another: Queen of Wands, Nine of Pentacles, High Priestess. You also appear thrilled: Star, another woman-card.
The two other cards indicate ‘no more bad things’: Four of Cups and Six of Pentacles.]
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Tarot Verbatim
GUIDANCE Wrecks change us. Wrecks change the people around us. Wrecks – ours and theirs – are turning points … are changes of direction … in the biography of our lives. These are the things we remember the dates of, and count down to. Pain etches landmarks on everyone’s life. Pain focuses us on what’s really going on. I am stronger than what lays me low. If I hadn’t crashed, I would not be where I am now, or who I am now.
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GROUP TAROT CARDS READING is the actual word-for-word messages from the pictures of the three cards you see – to everyone. These readings are about you and the people around you. They are about today and the days around it. So, go ahead and pick the sentences you feel are yours and decide whether to encourage or reject them for yourself. All the words of each Tarot card reading you see here are a phrase-by-phrase translation of the scene pictured on those cards: no filler, no psychic impressions, no spirit guide. Word-for-word Tarot Verbatim™.
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Ten of Swords – Hermit – Knight of Pentacles
GROUP TAROT CARDS READING
“Tell the visitors here something useful and meaningful to them.”
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Headings [So you can choose which belongs to you]
Tarot Readings: Focus is on Healing (Hermit and Knight of Pentacles)
Tarot Readings: Fully Realizing the Truth (Hermit and Knight of Pentacles)
Tarot Readings: Pain of Being Elderly (Ten of Swords and Hermit)
Tarot Readings: Focus on Failures (Ten of Swords and Knight of Pentacles)
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Tarot Readings: Focus is on Healing (Hermit and Knight of Pentacles)
A doctor focuses on pain.
Healing the hurt is most important.
You focus on healing when you are devastated.
Pain gets your attention, and you seek treatment.
Bringing the one most important truth to hurting people.
Focus on where you hurt to understand what’s important.
Obsessively sorry for myself: I see that.
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Tarot Readings: Fully Realizing the Truth (Hermit and Knight of Pentacles)
I am stronger than whatever would lay me low: I know this.
Suffering is what makes us wise, that’s for sure.
I feel so awful when I fully realize the truth.
One thing is certain: Screw-ups wise you up.
A wise person knows getting hurt is a sure thing.
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Tarot Readings: Pain of Being Elderly (Ten of Swords and Hermit)
When you’re old, pain is a sure thing.
His near-death experience focuses the old man on his path.
An old man is stronger than what lays him low.
An old person’s powers of concentration are compromised.
First priority is elderly victims.
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Tarot Readings: Focus on Failures (Ten of Swords and Knight of Pentacles)
Realistically, I have failed in my ambition.
Focus first on your friend’s heartache, to help him up.
Analyze a failure; draw one most important conclusion.
Mr. Macho Man comes to say he is sorry.
Failing to be chaste is a big deal to him.
I focus attention on it, but fail to understand it all.
He soberly sees how being egotistical ruined things for him.
I fail to understand the most important thing about pain.
(They) fail to focus on the important thing: Look into that.
Looking at where I have failed, and focusing my ambition there.
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Now, Part Two,
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*Then you read HERE ARE PHRASES FOR ALL THREE 2-CARD COMBINATIONS – resonates with your subconscious awareness!
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*Then you go to Now we show where each of the phrases in each of the sentences comes from: for phrases individual cards make in the day’s sentences. This applies the knowledge.
*Then you read LEARN TAROT BY OBSERVING. A picture of each card is there, with what it says today as it gets along with its companion cards.
*Then you read HERE ARE PHRASES FOR ALL THREE 2-CARD COMBINATIONS – resonates with your subconscious awareness! for language created by each pair of Rider Waite Tarot cards, in Tarot Verbatim™. Now you are done, if you chose to do it all.
Did you come for combined meanings of other cards than these?
*Then you can put names of any two cards into Google, and get their combined meanings.
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Ten of Swords – Hermit – Knight of Pentacles
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LEARN TAROT BY OBSERVING
……….………. Two of our Rider Waite Tarot cards are about focusing on something, looking at it, and being devoted to it. Hermit and Knight of Pentacles are two very different types of people. Hermit is the elderly humble servant of God, the service monk, whose focus is finding his people, bringing truth to them, and helping them. Knight of Pentacles is the very physical strongman, Mr. Macho Man, and his focus involves his self interest, and may even be obsessive. The other card makes the distinction and the difference between these two, Hermit and Knight of Pentacles, incidental: Ten of Swords is the devastating loss, the humiliation. The gist of our message today is that hitting bottom focuses us. Whoever we are.
…………………….Ten of Swords gets our attention because it lays us low. When we are overdue for a correction on our course, sure enough, ‘something’ happens. Ten of Swords represents that devastating correctional ‘something.’ In the same way that a person the spotlight is on, in our lives, is not necessarily a dominant personality, some Tarot cards just take over the spread without being major contributors to the story-line. Ten of Swords is such a card. Usually there’s drama around it.
Expect a feeling of disappointment to be the hallmark of Ten of Swords. Although it can be devastating, be ruin, be a near-death experience or a death, among today’s meanings are these lesser ones: pain, suffering, hurting, being sorry and sorry for oneself, feeling awful, ‘lay me low,’ screw-ups, powers are compromised, victim, and, mainly failure. Loss and failure are at the top of the rung in the dictionary of Ten of Swords.
…………………….Hermit represents the search, looking for and finding – investigating. It can be about the spiritual path, since a monk is in its illustration, and it is a religious – so in the same way Justice can be a lawyer and King of Swords can be enforcement (police), Hermit can be a professional religious person. It can be about a physical search, usually outdoors on roads. Another focus of Hermit is helping: He is looking for travelers to offer them a place to stay and a meal. Hermit also represents wisdom, maturity, advice (counselor, wise friend’s), and medical treatment as a healer or doctor. He is wearing what signified a doctor in his day. Hermit also means a person who come to, or who approaches, the other person: ‘He calls you. Hermit is the type of older person who has invested his time on earth wisely: maturity. Maturity is a dirty word these days.
……………………Knight of Pentacles is very physical in its intense focus; is about determination and ambition; is a strong man in his prime; represents that pig-headed stubbornness we recognize belongs disproportionately to the male gender (not just the human mammals, of course). So Knight of Pentacles represents drive. Stereotype is the stocky broad-chested muscular-armed oil field roustabout or diesel mechanic – the fellow with the assertive voice who is very outgoing and can be pugilistic,macho, or even a punk. But you like him. Usually. ‘Muscle.’ (That doesn’t mean he can’t be a hard-driving snarky lawyer or stockbroker.)
…………….……….. Hermit and Knight of Pentacles Today, with Hermit (who is seeking and understanding and investigating) at his side (and having his back to him), Mr. Knight of Pentacles is mostly about focus and priority. ‘First things first’ is Knight of Pentacles’ slogan. Hermit and Knight of Pentacles both ‘see that.’ Observing, watching, and being focused on something belong to both of these fellows. Together they can say ‘One thing is true,’ because Hermit is the truth as well as the seeker of it. ‘Fully realize (Knight of Pentacles) the truth (Hermit)’ is also here.
…………….………. Ten of Swords and Hermit Ten of Swords and Hermit can be a doctor focusing on pain or treating an injury. Ten of Swords and Hermit also describes understanding the downside, and even investigating a murder, because Hermit is an investigator.
…………….………… Ten of Swords and Knight of Pentacles _Ten of Swords and Knight of Pentacles are about focusing on pain, as well as about the kind of focus suffering contributes to life.
Just as physical pain alerts me to make a change to prevent some damage, psychic pain alerts me to something being awry in my situation or in my doings. I get a queasy feeling about something, and, from past experience, know to at least consider withdrawing from whatever it is. Something smells really good; it’s good to eat … or associate with. Listening to the barometer in my gut has served as a compass that is accurate most of the time. It’s easier to forgive myself if nothing bad happens when I thought it would, than when I charge ahead in spite of the flashing red light in the back of my mind … and crash.
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HERE ARE PHRASES FOR ALL THREE 2-CARD COMBINATIONS
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…………….………. Ten of Swords and Hermit A doctor … pain. Healing the hurt. Healing when you are devastated. Pain, and you seek treatment. Bringing truth to hurting people. … where you hurt, to understand …. Sorry for myself: I see that. … whatever would lay me low: I know this. Suffering is what makes us wise. I feel so awful when the truth …. Screw-ups wise you up. A wise person knows getting hurt is …. PAIN OF BEING ELDERLY When you’re old, pain …. His near-death experience … the old man on his path. An old man is … what lays him low. An old person’s powers are compromised. Elderly victims.*** Realistically, I have failed. Your friend’s heartache, to help him up. Analyze a failure. … comes to say he is sorry. Failing to be chaste. Fail to understand it all. He soberly sees how _ ruined things for him. I fail to understand about pain. (They) fail to …: Look into that. Looking at where I have failed. x
…………….………… Ten of Swords and Knight of Pentacles _ focuses on pain. The hurt is most important. You focus on _ when you are devastated. Pain gets your attention. … most important _ to hurting people. Focus on where you hurt … what’s important. Obsessively sorry for myself. I am stronger than whatever would lay me low. Suffering is …, that’s for sure. I feel so awful when I fully realize _. One thing is certain: Screw-ups. Getting hurt is a sure thing. His near-death experience focuses him …. Stronger than what lays him low. Powers of concentration are compromised. First priority is victims.*** FOCUS ON FAILURES I have failed in my ambition. Focus first on heartache. A failure: Draw one most important conclusion. Mr. Macho Man is sorry.*** Failing is a big deal to him. I focus attention on _ but fail to …. Being egotistical ruined things for him. I fail to _ the most important thing about pain. (They) fail to focus on the most important thing. … where I have failed, and focusing my ambition there. x
…………….……….. Hermit and Knight of Pentacles FOCUS IS ON HEALING A doctor focuses on _. Healing _ is most important. You focus on healing. _ gets your attention and you seek treatment. Bringing the one most important _ to people. Focus on _ to understand what’s important. Obsessively _: I see that. I am stronger than …: I know this. _ is what makes us wise, that’s for sure. I fully realize the truth. One thing is certain: _ wise you up. A wise person knows _ is a sure thing. When you’re old, _ is a sure thing. … focuses the old man on his path. An old man is stronger than …. An old person’s powers of concentration …. First priority is elderly.*** Realistically, I have … my ambition. Focus first on your friend’s _, to help him up. Analyze _; draw one most important conclusion. Mr. Macho Man comes to …. To be chaste is a big deal to him. I focus attention on it to understand it all. He soberly sees how being egotistical …. I understand the most important thing about _. Focus on the important thing: Look into that. Where I have failed: focusing my attention there. x
Now we show where each of the phrases in each of the sentences comes from:
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TAROT READINGS: FOCUS IS ON HEALING (HERMIT AND KNIGHT OF PENTACLES)
A doctor HERMIT focuses on KNIGHT OF PENTACLES pain TEN OF SWORDS.
Healing HERMIT the hurt TEN OF SWORDS is most important KNIGHT OF PENTACLES.
You focus on KNIGHT OF PENTACLES healing HERMIT when you are devastated TEN OF SWORDS.
Pain TEN OF SWORDS gets your attention KNIGHT OF PENTACLES, and you seek HERMIT treatment HERMIT.
Bringing HERMIT the one most important KNIGHT OF PENTACLES truth HERMIT to hurting TEN OF SWORDS people.
Focus on KNIGHT OF PENTACLES where you hurt TEN OF SWORDS to understand HERMIT what’s important KNIGHT OF PENTACLES.
Obsessively KNIGHT OF PENTACLES sorry for myself TEN OF SWORDS: I see that HERMIT.
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TAROT READINGS: FULLY REALIZING THE TRUTH (HERMIT AND KNIGHT OF PENTACLES)
I am stronger than KNIGHT OF PENTACLES whatever would lay me low TEN OF SWORDS: I know this HERMIT.
Suffering TEN OF SWORDS is what makes us wise HERMIT, that’s for sure KNIGHT OF PENTACLES.
I feel so awful TEN OF SWORDS when I fully realize KNIGHT OF PENTACLES the truth HERMIT.
One thing is certain KNIGHT OF PENTACLES: Screw-ups TEN OF SWORDS wise you up HERMIT.
A wise person knows HERMIT getting hurt TEN OF SWORDS is a sure thing KNIGHT OF PENTACLES.
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TAROT READINGS: PAIN OF BEING ELDERLY (TEN OF SWORDS AND HERMIT)
When you’re old HERMIT, pain TEN OF SWORDS is a sure thing KNIGHT OF PENTACLES.
His near-death experience TEN OF SWORDS focuses KNIGHT OF PENTACLES the old man HERMIT on his path HERMIT.
An old man HERMIT is stronger than KNIGHT OF PENTACLES what lays him low TEN OF SWORDS.
An old person’s HERMIT powers of concentration KNIGHT OF PENTACLES are compromised TEN OF SWORDS.
First priority is KNIGHT OF PENTACLES elderly HERMIT victims TEN OF SWORDS.
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TAROT READINGS: FOCUS ON FAILURES (TEN OF SWORDS AND KNIGHT OF PENTACLES)
Realistically HERMIT, I have failed TEN OF SWORDS in my ambition KNIGHT OF PENTACLES.
Focus first on KNIGHT OF PENTACLES your friend’s HERMIT heartache TEN OF SWORDS, to help him up HERMIT.
Analyze HERMIT a failure TEN OF SWORDS; draw one most important conclusion KNIGHT OF PENTACLES.
Mr. Macho Man KNIGHT OF PENTACLES comes to HERMIT say he is sorry TEN OF SWORDS.
Failing TEN OF SWORDS to be chaste HERMIT is a big deal to him KNIGHT OF PENTACLES.
I focus attention on it KNIGHT OF PENTACLES, but fail TEN OF SWORDS to understand it all HERMIT.
He soberly sees how HERMIT being egotistical KNIGHT OF PENTACLES ruined things for TEN OF SWORDS him KNIGHT OF PENTACLES.
I fail to TEN OF SWORDS understand HERMIT the most important thing about KNIGHT OF PENTACLES pain TEN OF SWORDS.
(They) fail to TEN OF SWORDS focus on the important thing KNIGHT OF PENTACLES: Look into that HERMIT.
Looking at HERMIT where I have failed TEN OF SWORDS, and focusing my ambition there KNIGHT OF PENTACLES.
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LEARN TAROT BY PICTURES
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Ten of Swords……….Ten of Swords is a very bad day. There are some only-mildly-awful effects to Ten of Swords, some mere disappointments. What you see is: stabbed in the back, done in, the bleeding victim. Ten of Swords often translates ‘failure’ and ‘loss.’ It can be feeling humiliated, feeling very sorry or devastated, or just feeling down. It is sometimes self-pity or a martyred act (in which case, look for cards about acting a role, and/or identify cards).
BUT. Put it in the company of other heavy cards in a question about peril or danger – cards like Seven of Swords, Five of Wands, Six of Wands, Tower and Devil, to name a few – and you’ve got yourself a murder or serious injury or assault. You seldom see a convergence of really-bad cards and nothing but them. I got 14 of them when I knew my house was going to be set on fire, and my attempts to prevent it were ineffectual. Tarot validated an extreme disaster. If there are no modifying cards that negate (cancel out) or soften the bad news, watch out.
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Hermit………….Hermit is one of those broad-spectrum cards, with elements of its illustration creating meanings that have little to do with one another. You intuitively see that a person who has searched for many years has a lot of useful and practical knowledge about life – is ‘old and wise.’ The old man is out looking for people to help, and is calmly going about that task, so the ‘helping’ theme is fairly obvious. The investigation meanings, the medical meanings, the friend meanings, the journey or road-trip meanings: Those are not apparent from the picture until you know the back story.
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Knight of Pentacles…………Knight of Pentacles, he’s ‘got one thing on his mind,’ and his picture says that. He is physically sturdy and compact – and so is the horse he road in on. Knight of Pentacles is tough. Priority One is a good portion of his meanings. ‘Focus’ is his favorite term. Determination, drive, physical strength, and force are in the picture here. He aims to succeed at some specific priority.
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Guidance DRIVE SAFELY TODAY! KEEP TRACK OF ANYTHING YOU COULD LOSE, INCLUDING PETS! We are helping – or being helped – in bad times, in times of distress, despair or need. Going out on foot looking, going out on the road looking, going through a blighted neighborhood looking for out-of-control, messed up situations to help people in distress. This process refers to spiritual life too, emphatically: “When we feel an emptiness and are seeking spiritually, we chase after a lot of junk.” Sometimes it is ourselves we have to help in down times.
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If you just want your daily look ahead, Guidance and Tarot Readings are all you need. ‘Guidance’ (above) is a summary of what the cards are telling visitors to be aware of this day.
‘Group Tarot Cards Reading’ (just below this) is the actual word-for-word messages from the pictures of the four cards you see – to everyone. These readings are about you and the people around you. They are about today and the days around it. So, go ahead and pick the sentences you feel are yours and decide whether to encourage or reject them for yourself.
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Knight of Wands
Five of Pentacles – Hermit – Seven of Cups
GROUP TAROT CARDS READING
Tell the visitors here something useful and meaningful to them.
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Headings [So you can choose which belongs to you]
Tarot Readings: Running Around Looking (Hermit and Knight of Wands)
Tarot Readings: A Friend in Need (Five of Pentacles and Hermit)
Tarot Readings: Rapidly Progressing Disease (Five of Pentacles and Knight of Wands)
Tarot Readings: On the Road at Night (Hermit and Knight of Wands)
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Tarot Readings: Running Around Looking (Hermit and Knight of Wands)
Brain fog when you are tired from running around all night.
Looking at the pieces but too tired to get moving on it.
When you are older and wiser, you don’t have the energy to run around like crazy.
Being in a hurry, I lost track of things, and now I’m looking for what’s missing. [Folks, this could be data on a computer.]
When I feel an emptiness and am seeking spiritually, I chase after a lot of things.
Exhaustion from running around all over looking for a needle in a haystack.
Running around looking all over the place for what I lost.
A good look at the mess the street people passing through made.
Poor and honest folks move out of the area as it gets to be a mess.
Quickly brings clarity where a complete lack of understanding had me befuddled.
A seeker experiences Dark Night of the Soul when progress is so fast he is not in control.
Quickly gets out of the ghetto by analyzing the chaos.
Kindly rushes over to calm us down when we were up all night imagining things.
I was calm as everything fell apart and I headed pell mell to the poorhouse.
Tarot Readings: A Friend in Need (Five of Pentacles and Hermit)
Rapidly deteriorating desperate friend.
A friend in need looks you up so fast it makes your head spin.
Feeling sorry for your friend as (he) rapidly ‘loses it.’
Sees his needy friend is crazy out of control and flees from him.
The outreach program is quickly overwhelmed by desperate people.
Tarot Readings: Rapidly Progressing Disease (Five of Pentacles and Knight of Wands)
When he loses control, he runs to the doctor in a hurry.
The doctor speeds up the treatment when the illness metastasizes.
Haste makes havoc in the treatment of disease.
Old man is very confused with this rapidly progressing disease.
Tarot Readings: On the Road at Night (Hermit and Knight of Wands)
Out on the road in all kinds of places helping street people.
Lost control driving fast on the road at night.
On the road so tired, looking for the way and getting lost.
Driving drunk (or high) out on a cold winter night.
Driving through a poor neighborhood, lost.
Speeding on a cold winter night, loses control.
A tired old man loses control on the road.
Driving by on the road looking at the shocking poverty.
It’s crazy to be so broke traveling on the road at night.
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You can put all this together and intuitively see yourself how Tarot Verbatim™ works.
This is a group reading, with no Questioner and no Question to limit what the cards say, so there’s more variety – even contradictions – and also the pronouns are more flexible. If it feels like it’s yours, and it says ‘he,’ and you’re a ‘she,’ feel free to adopt it anyway.
Knight of Wands
Five of Pentacles – Hermit – Seven of Cups
LEARN TAROT BY OBSERVING
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Hermit and Knight of Wands are on the road. Hermit is on foot looking for people to help at night. Knight of Wands is speeding on the road in the daytime, and can be fleeing or pursuing. Hermit is a patient wise old man, celibate. Knight of Wands is a young impatient man who is pursuing.
Hermit and Knight of Wands together mean things like: out looking, running around looking, an old man driving around, a friend who comes in a hurry, fleeing from a friend, honest folks move out of an area, quickly brings clarity, quickly leave when I take a good look at, rushes over to calm us down, I was calm as I headed pell mell, your friend rapidly.
Hermit and Five of Pentacles: Hermit goes out to help; Five of Pentacles is in dire need of help. Hermit is the monk and Five of Pentacles is Dark Night of the Soul, a recognized phase of spiritual life, particularly for Roman Catholic mystics. Incidentally, Hermit has a walking stick and Five of Pentacles has crutches.
Hermit and Seven of Cups are looking for what is lost … or are lost and looking. They are a confused old man, they are brain fog from being up all night, they are looking at the pieces, they are looking for the needle in the haystack, they are taking a good look at this mess, they are clarifying the confusion.
Five of Pentacles and Seven of Cups describe brain fog in different ways. Five of Pentacles is numb with despair, trudging through desperate times. Seven of Cups is shock and confusion as things go out of control. Five of Pentacles talks about poverty, poverty of the soul, lack and disability and sickness. Seven of Cups talks about insanity, delusions and hallucinations, and things falling apart. (You don’t like to see them in one another’s company.)
Five of Pentacles and Hermit and Seven of Cups are all night scenes. Sometimes that is meaningful, especially when both Hermit and Knight of Wands are on the road, and Seven of Cups means ‘going out of control.’
Seven of Cups and Knight of Wands is going out of control at high speed on the road. It is also making a mess by being in a hurry. Just as …
… Five of Pentacles and Knight of Wands is losing something by being in a hurry.
So be careful today! Avoid brain fog! Remember, Hermit is clarity of mind, is understanding. So Five of Pentacles and Hermit is a lack of understanding and clarity. And Seven of Cups means befuddled and confused! Here’s the equation, okay?
+ = These could read “Looking for the needle in the haystack.”
LEARN TAROT BY PICTURES
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Five of Pentacles shows a mother and son who are homeless and sick (Son is on crutches) in rags who are so benumbed that they are walking in a snowstorm past a cathedral where they could have food and shelter. The despair depicted reflects a phase of spiritual maturity that recurs called ‘Dark Night of the Soul,’ which is a title of one of the Western mysticism books.
A common meaning for Five of Pentacles is ‘lack of’ or ‘shortage,’ including bookkeeping matters. It means being poor, being homeless (losing the house), the ghetto, being sick, being crippled or injured, desperation and despair, and of course losing it all. Sometimes it stands for self-pity regardless of circumstances (“Poor me.”)
Hermit depicts a monk who goes out at night with a lantern to find and help travelers in distress. (In this spread, he is looking at them there by the church!) He is on the road at night. This Rider Waite Tarot card also means understanding, learning, a friend, a friend comes to (you), a friend helps, and a counselor or medical healer. It indicates that someone will come to you if that is the question. In our spread today, he is looking for something.
Seven of Cups Well, here’s the messed up, scrambled, lost things (or people or animals). Debris and detritus. Out of control. It describes the fix we are in when we bite off more than we can chew, when things go awry and we don’t know what we did to make that happen … like when we’re on the computer too long?
The illustration is based on the Pandora’s Box story or on the Sorcerer’s Apprentice story. In both of these stories, bad spirits are released from confinement and things are in disarray.
Knight of Wands is getting out in a hurry, by the illustration. His horse is disturbed,rearing, front feet up. The Knight’s clothes indicate some speed, and his expression is animated, maybe even fearful. In use, he will show up for pursuing as well as fleeing, but Knight of Swords is more obviously the pursuer.
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