Four Card Spreads, Guidance, Tarot Readings for You
Guidance You can do it. Plan ahead in order to prevent your own dark side from influencing you. Look ahead to keep yourself away from bad situations out there. Expect the unexpected threats, both internal and external ones, to your sanity and your safety, because you can handle them; you are strong enough to overcome whatever ….
Strength
Six of Wands – Two of Wands – Devil
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Tarot Readings: Overcoming Vices, Problems and People (Strength)
“I am evil wicked mean and nasty, I will outfox them and have them eating from my hand.”
When you have a very serious situation you are on your own to deal with, it will bring out your devious side.
Overcoming this kind of sickness is going to be very inconvenient.
When you’ve got a grip on your own darkside, you get their darkside to behave.
When you have a grip on your own vices, you are a stabilizing influence to others who have vices.
I will overcome my secret vice.
An addiction has got the best of me, and I am going to get the best of it.
This respectable guy has a secret porn addiction she keeps him from indulging.
Act as if it isn’t a problem at all: This is a permanent fix.
Tarot Readings: It’s Festering, But We’re Fixing It (Six of Wands + Strength)
Some things are festering beneath the surface, but I am going to have that taken care of.
There is a good solid future here in spite of all the problems: We have things under control when it doesn’t look like we do.
Politics is always a dirty game you have to stay on top of.
I am going to look bad as I handle my bad side.
Tarot Readings: Asserting Yourself (Strength)
She handles the nastiest customers profitably, she has a sneaky side of her own.
You are going to get your enemies to support your cause.
We have enough funding and influence to stifle opposition.
She isn’t letting (him) be (his) nasty self; (he) will have to be a hypocrit.
She is not going to let (him) even pretend to be bad.
My plan to overcome my bad temper is to use it against itself.
A bad life has got the best of me, and I have a plan to straighten this out.
Being in charge of preventing people from making money illegally, you can get away with it yourself.
Tarot Readings: Preventing It Before It’s a Problem (Strength + Devil)
A serious ailment lies undetected for a long time before it gets treated.
Going to nip this condition in the bud before symptoms appear.
There are some financial problems we must prevent before they can manifest.
I can handle any terrible thing by having a strategy, a plan.
A really slick person can keep a bank from destroying him/her.
Six of Wands and Devil … not good. You could say it’s the dark side getting the best of us.
Six of Wands is the undetected enemy within, the traitor or Fifth Columnist, being under the influence of a harmful agent of any sort, but it also can be outfoxing, having a strategy, and the mere appearance of (anything) … as in pretending to be something it’s not. Sneaky side. The pretend friend. Self-delusional following of a cause.
Devil can be just about any awful thing, any dark side, any bad habit or harmful practice or agent. ‘Toxic.’ It’s the bad spectrum of hate, it’s the illness that is serious. With support, it could also even speak of demons or black arts. It quite often is simply ‘problem’ or ‘bad situation’ or being nasty, ill-tempered or inclined to lowlife or violent activity.
So you quickly look around to see what kind of company these two are set in. Whew, good news! Strength is here, along with the stability meanings of Two of Wands.
Strength is having such a strong presence that trouble avoids you, you nip opposition in the bud. An ounce of prevention. The concept applies to everything: Muggers avoid people who can handle a fight; bad spirits avoid spiritual adepts; you don’t challenge the stronger candidate – and so on. Strength can handle it. Strength overcomes both internal and external threats. Strength is overcoming, especially overcoming some bad situation, some dark side, some personal difficulty or addiction.
Where the Devil appears, it’s a relief to see Strength … always.
Two of Wands is about the future; a long time or permanent or long term (anything); permanent or stable or stability; financial or banking; a plan; the outlook. It is about having influence and power so that you can plan ahead for your own profit.
Devil can be just about any awful thing, any dark side, any bad habit or harmful practice or agent of destruction. ‘Toxic.’ It’s the bad spectrum of hate, it’s the illness that is serious. With other malefic cards, it could also speak of demons or black arts. It quite often is simply ‘problem’ or ‘bad situation’ or being nasty, ill-tempered or inclined to lowlife or violent activity.
You can do it. Plan ahead in order to prevent your own dark side from influencing you. Look ahead to keep yourself away from bad situations out there. Expect the unexpected threats, both internal and external ones, to your sanity and your safety, because you can handle them; you are strong enough to overcome whatever ….
Six of Wands is the undetected enemy within, the traitor or Fifth Columnist, being under the influence of a harmful agent of any sort, but it also can be outfoxing, having a strategy, and the mere appearance of (anything) … as in pretending to be something it’s not. Sneaky side. The pretend friend. A disease without symptoms (yet). Self-delusional following of a cause. It illustrates the betrayal of King Richard III, in a battle, to a lifetime of Arab captivity, orchestrated by the next-in-succession to the thone of England.
Two of Wands A bankster surveys his real estate kingdom, planning to make more profit from it. He stands on the finished roof of his castle, elaborately dressed, holding the world in his hands. Two of Wands is about the future; a long time or permanent or long term (anything); permanent or stable or stability; financial or banking; a plan; the outlook. It is about having influence and power so that you can plan ahead for your own profit. Often, it simply contributes the future tense to another card’s verb.
Strength is about handling and overcoming both internal and external challenges, be they enemies, opposition, personal issues, habits and addictions … anything at all. A spiritually strong person repels spiritual opposition; a physically adept person repels muggers, and so forth. The phrase Strength commonly contributes is ‘can handle,’ aptly illustrated by a woman who has shut the mouth of the lion, and made him pur. She is dressed in a white robe with garlands, and has the ‘eternity symbol’ for a halo.
Devil can be just about any awful thing, any dark side, any bad habit or harmful practice or agent of destruction. ‘Toxic.’ It’s the bad spectrum of hate, it’s the illness that is serious. With support, it could also speak of demons or black arts. It quite often is simply ‘problem’ or ‘bad situation’ or being nasty, ill-tempered or inclined to lowlife or violent activity. The picture speaks for itself: the hideous-looking horned goatlike creature with the bad signs.
Four Card Spreads, Our Daily Spread, Tarot Verbatim
What is her problem and what does that have to do with me?
Six of Wands
Devil, Queen of Swords, Seven of Pentacles
So, are you a strong enough woman to be nasty to these people who are expecting you to serve them?
She is a strong woman who asks hard questions of the whole self-righteous lot of them.
So, is she nasty enough to deal with all those mooching phonies?
How does this old lady make them for her do what she needs done?
She is so strong (evil, wicked, mean and nasty!), how could you go against her program?
She figures she isn’t getting something she deserves, she will get it out of someone hatefully.
Her demands are unmet, and there’s an obstacle, so who is she going to get to serve her cause?
She could be victimized or taken advantage of by someone who hates her.
She is a hateful bitch, you never know what her agenda is.
So, how badly was the victim double-crossed?
She has a campaign going about a big problem and she pressures people asking them to join.
What is this hateful old bat up to now? or ‘The bitch from hell’: what does she want of you now?
She is one of those complaining disabled people who expects to be waited on, it seems.
What is she doing about her problem as she demands others get on the bandwagon?
What is her problem and what does that have to do with me?
Why is the problem she complains of the fault of evil people who deceived her?
Somehow she thinks these are bad guys who double-crossed her and she is mad.
Does she really blame other people for the difficulties she whines about?
Does she really think they victimized her and are the bad guys?
What have you done for me lately, you owe me, you are my problem: that type of old lady.
I almost didn’t type these two up. (I think the next spread is similar.) But I figured someone out there must be dealing with this, since it came up twice.
The Six of Wands is a general ‘conspiracy’ card: Someone has an agenda, is deceiving or using or double-crossing friends. It is also about a campaign.
This is easy to connect to the Devil, who is just about any problem or bad guy or difficulty or obstacle.
Then we have the woman who complains, whines, is a victim and/or a bitch – or she can be a strong woman, the Queen of Swords. Both these cards can be about a really bad attitude. And Devil with Queen of Swords also describes a bitching handicapped or ill person or invalid – that type.
Lastly the Seven of Pentacles puts a question to this story.
Advice here would be a heads-up that you could be encountering this ‘I’m a victim and you are expected to serve me’ attitude. America is full of wound-flaunting individuals, isn’t it? So BOLO for this (Be On The Lookout, a police term).
Meanings and Illustrations:
Devil: One of the most flexible and therefore most ambiguous of Rider Waite Tarot cards. The Devil means almost anything unpleasant, hateful, dirty, nasty, ill, or in the way. It can also mean attachment and ‘physical.’ Next to the Queen of Swords – a victim, an unpleasant and complaining woman (your ex!) you could have the complaining invalid, the bitch from hell, or a victim of some brutal episode.
The illustration shows people voluntarily attached to the Devil with all his occult symbols and a really nasty look on his face.
Queen of Swords: Here is the strong assertive woman a/k/a the bitch, the complaining woman, the victim, the ex. She has her hand out and a stern unpleasant look on her face in the illustration This is about her missing her dead child, signified by the child’s face on her throne, so she can be a widow as well (missing the deceased). She is not getting what she deserves or feels she deserves, she in unsatisfied, dissatisfied punitive, angry and whiny. Your ex.
Seven of Pentacles: One of the ‘duh’ cards that can also instruct you as the reader to put the answer in the form of a question. It means such things as ‘it seems,’ as well as to wonder and puzzle. Illustration is the fella in his garden wondering whether his vines will bear fruit because it’s too early to tell yet.
Six of Wands: The Six of Wands is one of the ‘conspiracy’ cards: Someone has an agenda, is deceiving or using or double-crossing friends. It is also about a campaign. People are out to get ya. The illustration is meant to illustrate a traitor in the army (of King Richard the Third) who is going to betray its victory to his own agenda.
By fair means or foul she will achieve her aim – she is on nobody’s side but her own because she feels her turf is threatened
Nine of Wands
Chariot, Seven of Swords, Nine of Pentacles
She is going to have money and a nice home of her own one way or the other: You better watch out!
Her cutthroat ambition to be independently wealthy is a potential threat to you.
By fair means or foul she will achieve her aim – she is on nobody’s side but her own because she feels her turf is threatened.
This time she stands her ground, because her defenses were violated before and she is taking charge now.
Apprehensive about the campaign to do the wealthy woman out of her independent control.
Using his sense of responsibility against him, and putting her on the defensive about her control of her own business.
Something threatening is afoot here regarding your being in complete control of your own business.
Beware! Something lurks beneath a very honorable independent position.
Intent is to double-cross the independent woman who is on guard against this.
She is apprehensive about an intended invasion of her turf/home by a sneak thief or traitor.
She is confident she will succeed in spite of all the hazards out there.
He double-crossed her and is nervous about that, since she is still in control of her kingdom.
Cutthroat competition is a threat to the businesswoman.
The intent is to outfox and steal from the landowner, but is nervous about that.
Being on guard against malicious intent is part of being a woman in business.
This is a story about the American Dream of ‘getting mine’ and of keeping it as well. Both the Chariot and the Nine of Pentacles are successful. Each is bordered by something to fear, by a danger. Just as in the first today’s spread, some chicanery, some malice, some thievery by deception is afoot, with the victim possibly being female. Each spread also reads potentially as the female being the culprit. (Remember, Tarot does not identify parties; the question identifies parties and Tarot tells the story. And we, of course, have no question to frame these answers, so we go as far afield as we can imagine.) Both of today’s spreads specify evil intent in what appears to be above board.
Advice is simply to keep an eye on the motives of anyone who is in a position to shave off a piece of your pie, be you a lady or a gentleman – because each of these spreads also has reversible genders to the tale of intrigue.
Meanings and Illustrations:
Chariot: Success, being in control and keeping in control by ambition and expertise. Deliberate intent. Ability and will operating in unison. Illustration shows a charioteer controlling steeds who each want to go in opposite directions but are going ahead because that is the direction he wants to go.
Seven of Swords: The criminal, the double-crosser, the sneak thief, the one who gets past your defenses and makes off with what you need to succeed, disarms you. To outfox, and to get away with the offense. The illustration in Rider Waite shows a spy making off with the enemy’s weapons from its camp – apparently in broad daylight.
Nine of Pentacles: She is the property owner, the independently wealthy businesswoman, the single woman who doesn’t need anybody. She is shown so clearly in the Rider Waite illustration as the lady of leisure in her vineyards with her falcon (Yeah, that’s supposed to be a falcon.) with such a ‘I’m to myself’ look on her face. In case you don’t get all those hints, the snail means she does things in her own sweet time.
Nine of Wands: They got him once and he is afraid they will come back and attack again. He is guarding his borders. Been there, haven’t you? He has a headache, his head is bandaged.
