Tarot Verbatim
Today is Wednesday – Email reading day. Here’s a gal who wants to know what on earth to do next with her life. I broke her inquiry down to get a meaningful email answer.
The Tarot Email Training will start any time now; techs are testing it. September 1 is the first installment. To those of you who are waiting patiently or anxiously: It’s coming, stay tuned.
Emily
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How I should spend my time in the next year is a better way to put it. I could travel the world, I could go back to school, I could go back home and get another job. Or something I’m not yet seeing or thinking of.
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(Emily’s Comment: Going to school and traveling the world can be combined. Prestigious universities overseas (Oxford University; L’ecole Polytechnique, and others) have classes in English that result in degrees, and they are far far far cheaper and far more respected internationally than U S universities are now. Bonus is that getting a job overseas is a LOT easier if you are not a United States school graduate. Tuition is a mere $5,000 at some of these schools. Stansberry Research (financial newsletters) is where I learned about this.)
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You have four parts to your question here. Let’s measure by how pleased you are two years after you do each of these three things you name, and then ask the ‘what else?’ question.
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How pleased with the outcome will I be after two years if
I travel the world?
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Two of Pentacles – Tower – Knight of Pentacles
You keep getting disrupted from what you intend.
You keep getting – Two of Pentacles
disrupted (nasty surprises?) \– Tower
from what your goal or intention is. – Knight of Pentacles
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Seven of Cups – Eight of Swords – Four of Wands
In all kinds of ways, you are limited by ‘what you are a member of.’
In all kinds of ways, – Seven of Cups
you are hindered or limited – Eight of Swords
by being one of those people (a member of something)*. – Four of Wands
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*If you are on a tour with other people, this could refer to that. Or it could refer to you being whoever and whatever you are on the surface.
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How pleased with the outcome will I be after two years if
I go back to school?
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Hermit – Queen of Wands – Wheel of Fortune
The best outcome is learning what puts you in control of your life (in home and business).
The best outcome – Wheel of Fortune
is learning what – Hermit
puts you in control of life, both home and business. – Queen of Wands*
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Queen of Wands is the competent manager of whatever she is involved in. Hermit is wisdom and seeking to know. Wheel of Fortune is making it happen.
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Knight of Wands – Devil – Two of Pentacles
Fast progress despite occasional obstacles.
Fast progress – Knight of Wands
despite – Devil
occasional – Two of Pentacles
obstacles. – Devil
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Judgment – Queen of Pentacles – Seven of Cups
Here’s you possessing all kinds of new levels of abilities and talents.
Here’s you possessing abilities and talents – Queen of Pentacles
all kinds of them – Seven of Cups
at new levels for a new life. – Judgment
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Strength – Ace of Swords – Three of Wands
A continuing good future (and income), as a supreme solution to whatever would hinder you.
A continuing good future (and income) – Three of Wands
as a supreme – Ace of Swords
solution to whatever would be your obstacles. – Strength
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How pleased with the outcome will I be after two years if
I go back home and get another job?
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Seven of Cups – Queen of Swords – Three of Pentacles
Off all the choices, this is the deal that pleases you least.
Of all the choices, – Seven of Cups
this is the deal – Three of Pentacles
that doesn’t satisfy you. – Queen of Swords
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Four of Cups – Ten of Swords – Four of Wands
Home isn’t a total disaster.
Home – Four of Wands
isn’t – Four of Cups
a total disaster. – Ten of Swords
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Hierophant – King of Wands – Devil
The usual situation in which an edgy disagreeable man is the problem.
The usual situation in which – Hierophant
an edgy man (Archie Bunker or a husband) – King of Wands
is the problem. – Devil
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Ten of Pentacles – Two of Wands – Hanged Man
These people don’t get along with one another: You know that for sure.
These are dysfunctional people: – Ten of Pentacles
You feel that intensely, and you know that – Hanged Man
for sure. – Two of Wands
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Or something I’m not yet seeing or thinking of?
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Hanged Man – Five of Swords – Two of Wands
You will have – Two of Wands
bright ideas – Hanged Man
through your challenges. – Five of Swords
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Lovers – Ten of Pentacles – Seven of Cups
You connect with all kinds and types of messed-up people.
You connect with – Lovers
all kinds and types of – Seven of Cups
dysfunctional people. – Ten of Pentacles
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Ten of Swords – Eight of Wands – Four of Cups
There is nothing wrong about any of these things.
There is nothing – Four of Cups
wrong – Ten of Swords
about any of these. – Eight of Wands *
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*In other words, all these spreads are saying ‘All roads lead to Rome’ for you. No matter which you choose, you will be dealing with the same obstacles, and you will make good use of the obstacles to overcome the challenges and succeed (be a winner).
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Empress – Nine of Pentacles – Three of Wands
You are going to be in a comfortable place you are master of.
You are going to be – Three of Wands
in a comfortable place – Empress
you are master of (a niche of expertise). – Nine of Pentacles
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Four Card Spreads, Guidance, Tarot Verbatim
Guidance Today is about putting the finishing touches on an achievement, about getting an A+, about getting over something once and for all, about graduating and getting on with life. Today we congratulate ourselves. When you have perfected overcoming, people avoid challenging you, much less dominating or intimidating you. It works. You can be a girl; you can be an infant: You don’t have to look scary, just be able to handle yourself in any situation, and be aware of that.
Instructions:
Are YOU here for the first time? Come in! People love this place! Our site is divided into four sections: Guidance, Tarot Readings, Learn Tarot by Observation, and Learn Tarot by Pictures.
If you just want your daily look ahead, Guidance and Tarot Readings are all you need. ‘Guidance’ is a summary of what the cards are generally advising visitors to be aware of that day. ‘Tarot Readings’ is the actual word for word messages the cards are conveying. Tarot can come up with a wide variety of sentences (sometimes even completely contradictory sentences!) in a group reading as there is no specific question being asked. So, go ahead and pick the sentences you feel are yours and decide whether to encourage or reject them for yourself.
Want even more insight and information about a specific situation in your life? Call me, Emily, at 1-800-993-6912 and talk to me personally and have yourself a live, in detail, Tarot Reading like no other you may ever have had before. Your call will support 500 acres of wildlife in an animal sanctuary where I live and call home.
Also, don’t be shy about talking to the Community of Users in the comment section below. You’ll find this as the very last thing on this site. Trust me when I say we would *love* to hear from you!
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Six of Swords
Strength – Ace of Pentacles – Ace of Swords
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GROUP ANALYTICAL TAROT CARDS READING
Tell the visitors here something useful and meaningful to them.
Headings [So you can choose which belongs to you]
Tarot Readings: Overcome Successfully (Strength + Ace of Pentacles)
Tarot Readings: Money as a Motivator (Strength + Ace of Pentacles)
Tarot Readings: Threat, Insubordination, intimidation, Domination (Ace of Swords)
Miscellaneous Tarot Reading
Tarot Readings: Overcome Successfully (Strength + Ace of Pentacles)
After you succeed at overcoming this challenge, you go on from there.
And now that I’ve demonstrated the skill to handle it, I have to go out and make money with it.
Mastering the subject with an A+ gets you underway.
I did it! I got over it! I’m on my way out of here!
It’s one thing to be skilled enough to handle it, and entirely another to conquer and perfect it.
The very best victory is to get a grip on your own dark side, and go on quietly from there.
As time goes by, you will be making things perfect by the way you handle them.
I am leaving as the winner, the one who straightened things out.
We won, we beat them, we got the prize money, and it’s over.
Got to get on down the road to the next problem to solve.
She handles this aggression perfectly; it’s no threat to her.
Tarot Readings: Money as a Motivator (Strength + Ace of Pentacles)
Hard times are over, there’s enough money to keep things under control, and that’s an achievement.
We have to go out and demonstrate making money with this.
We won, we beat them, we got the prize money, and it’s over.
I avoid overtly threatening them; I motivate them with rewards instead.
Tarot Readings: Threat, Insubordination, intimidation, Domination (Ace of Swords)
This person is no threat to her anymore; she handled the situation just right.
She can handle any insubordination so well that they avoid her.
When you have self-control and are on your path, people avoid trying to dominate or intimidate you.
She handles this aggression perfectly; it’s no threat to her.
Miscellaneous Tarot Reading
If she is going to be a success and handle herself like that, she’s going to have to leave here.
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Six of Swords
Strength – Ace of Pentacles – Ace of Swords
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LEARN TAROT BY OBSERVING
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Well! She who overcomes (Strength) is appearing with total victory (Ace of Swords), optimum success (Ace of Pentacles) and putting whatever the bad things are behind (Six of Swords). You can go now. We’re done. There’s three cards of victory or winning, and one that says ‘no more trouble.’
When you have perfected overcoming, people avoid challenging you, much less dominating or intimidating you. It works. You can be a girl; you can be an infant: You don’t have to look scary, just be able to handle yourself in any situation, and be aware of that.
Today is about putting the finishing touches on an achievement, about getting an A+, about getting over something once and for all, about graduating and getting on with life.
Today we congratulate ourselves.
LEARN TAROT BY PICTURES
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Strength Enough social insight, people skills, spiritual stature, sheer nerve, and you finesse situations that would otherwise be a challenge. You make opponents accept you. You have the magic touch, they say. You get cooperation because no one wants to fight with someone who is a born winner. The illustration shows a woman with the eternity sign (repeating numbers in math) as a halo, who is wearing a white dress with flower garlands. She is holding the mouth of a wannabe attacking lion shut with her bare hands, and he is purring in spit of his real feelings. The lion whisperer, she is.
Ace of Pentacles is when you get it just right. You’re on the right track. You have money. You win. You succeed. Things are going your way. You are right on, and you are right. The illustration stands for the ‘straight and narrow’ of Christian culture, and for ‘the right-hand path’ in occult culture, and probably for ‘the middle way’ in Buddhist culture. The hand with the gold star of reward is held over the golden path that begins with lilies and ends with a victory trellis.
Ace of Swords The victor is crowned with laurel leaves. Here we have a crown crowed with laurel leaves with the upraised sword of victory upholding it, a very redundant way of saying ‘victory,’ and ‘the winner.’ Of course when there’s a total victory on one side, something or someone on the other side experiences a total defeat. (Always remember the action the cards express goes both ways, and the situation the cards depict embraces all the sides, parts and people involved in the illustration.)
Six of Swords is about getting out, getting over, avoiding and surviving, putting the past situation behind and going on to a better one … better because the past is so devastating. Today we use the ‘avoiding’ and the ‘leaving there’ more than anything else – because there’s no bad scene in our story today. The illustration shows a mother and child being paddled away as refugees, by a presumed friend.
EXPLANATIONS:
Each and every ‘Tarot Reading’ sentence you see is a literal interpretation of the four Rider Waite Tarot cards drawn and pictured for today. (The literal interpretation is from the illustration on each card.) These sentences are put together by only combining the phrases of what each cards says. In other words, there are NO “filler” phrases added just to make full sentences, and no psychic ability or spirit guide is ever involved.
*Without a question* in a group reading to focus the answer, the four Tarot cards can mean quite contradictory things, especially when the Spread has a card that means ‘no,’ ‘never’ or ‘not.’ These negative modifiers can apply to any one of the other cards.
*Without a question* in a group reading, the pronouns (you, him, her, me, us, them, they, etc.) are more flexible. Whenever you see a pronoun in parentheses, please *feel very free* to substitute another pronoun than the one used. I try to drop pronouns when possible, which, if you’ve noticed, can make for awkward phrasing.
Now in an ‘real’ individual reading, the questioner asks a specific question and thereby supplies at least half the information! In an individual situation, the parties are identified and sometimes a time frame is too. Here, in a group reading we cannot do that and so we get a variety of sentences.
Horoscopes are group readings, too. Astrology is based on someone else’s birth data, though, so a ‘solar’ group horoscope never really solidly applies to you! (Astrologers know this!)
Tarot, on the other hand, is perfectly capable of flexibly addressing any group, including all of the visitors that come to this site. It can also address people you might not even know personally, such as all the people at your job who have a say in whether or not you get a raise.
We have been wondering here lately whether the Tarot Verbatim(TM) sentences are more accurate for regular visitors than they are for people who visit this site only once in awhile or for a short time. Would you help us with a comment please, if you have not been a regular visitor? Just let us know if the sentences are relevant to you. So far, people say they do apply.
Return to this site often and you can put all this together and intuitively see yourself how Tarot Verbatim(TM) works. Regular visitors actually learn to read Rider Waite Tarot cards with very little effort.
Illustrations from the Rider-Waite Tarot Deck®, known also as the Rider Tarot and the Waite Tarot, reproduced by permission of U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Stamford, CT 06902 USA. Copyright ©1971 by U.S. Games Systems, Inc. Further reproduction prohibited. The Rider-Waite Tarot Deck® is a registered trademark of U.S. Games Systems, Inc.
The entire contents of this website are Copyright © 2012. All rights reserved. This site may not be copied in whole or in part except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review without the express written permission of the publisher. All violators will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
NOTICE – Anyone found copying Tarot Verbatim’s (TM) website or using Tarot Verbatim’s (TM) trademarked/copyrighted text and/or images without Tarot Verbatim’s (TM) express written consent by Emily Sandstrom will be reported to their billing company, their hosting company, and any other related companies or necessary parties for account closure. Tarot Verbatim (TM) will also follow with a copyright infringement lawsuit in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
Our Daily Spread
Guidance It’s best for you if you are both assertive and agreeable. You have to accept it, for your best chance to overcome it. Sometimes your best opportunity lies in helping someone else to accomplish his or her project. It’s your miracle to help another person overcome a vice. Promoting the product and dealing with objections to it are both required for its wildest success.
Are YOU here for the first time? Come in! People love this place!
Guidance and the Tarot Readings are for you if you just want your daily look ahead. “Guidance” is the summary, followed by your word for word Tarot Readings from the four Rider Waite Tarot cards you see pictured here. Pick the sentences that you feel are yours and decide whether to encourage or reject them. Sentences contradict one another because negative cards, in this group reading with no question, can attach to any of the other three cards.
Want more? – keep going to Learn Tarot by Observation, and Learn Tarot by Pictures.
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Wheel of Fortune
Strength – Knight of Cups – Ace of Swords
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GROUP ANALYTICAL TAROT CARDS READING
Tell the visitors here something useful and meaningful to them.
Tarot Readings: Getting the business done (Strength + Ace of Swords)
It’s wonderful the way you can defeat force with diplomacy.
Promoting the product and dealing with objections to it are both required for its wildest success.
Being both friendly and a strong opponent is the way to make your fortune.
When the odds are against what you are doing, get a facilitator to help.
She got him to volunteer, and it is the best thing that ever happened to him.
Accepting her solutions as absolutely wonderful.
His lucky day, no two ways about it, was when she took him under her wing.
She convinces them what has to happen, and they agree.
Make it happen whether by force or by diplomacy – the easy way or the hard way.
Your best opportunity lies in helping someone else to accomplish his or her project.
you get the best result by being both agreeable and assertive.
You have to accept it, for your best chance to overcome it.
Tarot Readings: When the Inevitable Happens (Ace of Swords + Wheel of Fortune)
Have to accept what happens, and handle it.
Accept it, coincidence rules, deal with it. Coincidence determines what happens to us, and we have to accept that.
When the inevitable happens, we deal with it as gracefully as we can.
The Laws of Random Distribution are absolute: Accept them and work within them, to accomplish your purpose.
Tarot Readings: Helping Others’ Success (Knight of Cups + Wheel of Fortune)
Killing with kindness is the sure way to make [whatever you are concerned with] happen.
A wonderful sweet guy happens along to help her slay her dragon.
Boyfriend gives her a chance to overcome her vice.
His best chance is to help her fix the problem.
She definitely won at gambling with his help.
Tarot Readings: Assertive Woman (Strength)
She is putting such pressure on the easygoing guy because it is his make-it-or-break-it opportunity.
His destiny forces him to be agreeable to assertive women.
He is in love with a bossy woman, but, fortunately for him he is aggressive.
He gets along with strong women really well; that has been his ace in the hole.
She overwhelms polite guys, so an aggressive one is her fate.
She is rough if you are cooperative with her, but if you are rough with her, it’s a happening thing.
She gets the boy to behave by threat and by reward.
You’re so lucky this bad-ass woman is civilizing your combative boyfriend.
Wheel of Fortune
Strength – Knight of Cups – Ace of Swords
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LEARN TAROT BY OBSERVING
Strength and Ace of Swords win over opposition. Ace of Swords is a decisive victory in which the opponent is defeated – it’s all or nothing, the win is definitive, decisive and declared. Like an election, when coming in second is losing publicly.
Strength is finessing an opponent in such a way he is converted or has to agree with you. She is making the lion who came against her her pet. He is purring in agreement and doesn’t like it a bit. That is a diplomatic victory.
Strength and Knight of Cups are diplomatic. Strength shows the kind of victory in which the opponent is still there and working with you, and Knight of Cups shows the diplomatic approach – the friendliness, the openness, the initiative-taking.
Strength = Knight of Cups + Ace of Swords, victory through diplomacy.
Wheel of Fortune is the victory of which the other Rider Waite Tarot cards speak. It means an optimum result, a wonderful event, a happening, fortune and luck and gambling.
So our story is that you get the best result by being both agreeable and assertive. Also that coincidence determines what happens to us, and we have to accept that.
LEARN TAROT BY PICTURES
 Strength Strength is finessing an opponent in such a way he is converted or has to agree with you. She is making the lion who came against her her pet. He is purring in agreement and doesn’t like it a bit. That is a diplomatic victory. |
 Knight of Cups shows the diplomatic approach – the friendliness, the openness, the initiative-taking. This is the person everyone likes, the winning personality, the fellow with the helpful suggestions and the help. He is the go-between, the one who introduces people socially, and the warm fuzzy boyfriend. He wears Mercury’s wings on his helmet and extends the cup of friendship in his illustration. |
 Ace of Swords Force is sometimes the only way, when it’s a win-or-lose situation, pass or fail. Then you gotta do what you gotta do. Enforcement is making others do. When the battle is over, victory is sweet. Ace of Swords is the proof, the last word, the point being made forcefully: no ifs ands or buts. The sword upraised and crowned, the laurel strands, make Ace of Swords’ meaning clear. |
 Wheel of Fortune The Laws of Random Distribution create and prevent events. They influence me, and there’s no other way than to accept it. Would you rather be lucky than brilliant? Life’s a gamble. The concept is illustrated by a roulette wheel with God’s Hebrew name in the center, and all sorts of mythical out-there critters who are reading or writing in books surrounding the wheel, at the margins in the clouds. |
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Did you come here just for your predictions? – If so, you are done when you finish reading the sentences of Group Analytical Tarot Cards Reading.
Each Tarot sentence is a literal-interpretation reading of the scenes pictured on the four cards you see. Only what each of the cards says – phrase by phrase – no fillers – no psychic ability used. The readings are about you and the people around you. They are about today and the days around it. Tarot, all by itself, talks to you. This is a demonstration of that .
Tarot will address any group flexibly, as it does here of ‘all the visitors.’ (It can address ‘all the people at work who have a say in my raise,’ for instance, without you knowing who or where those people are.)
Horoscopes are group readings too.
Astrology has to be based on someone else’s birth data, though, so it does not solidly apply to you just because of where the sun was when you were born. (Astrologers know this.)
Emily wants to know whether these sentences are more accurate for regular visitors than for people who have come only a few times. Would you help with a comment, if that is who you are? Please?
Without a question to focus the answer, four cards can mean contradictory things, especially when the Spread has a card that means ‘no, never or not.’ That negative modifier can apply to any one of the cards.
Without a question also the pronouns (you, him, her, me, us, them, they, etc.) 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. Notice how, as much as possible, we drop pronouns, which makes for some awkward phrasing.
The question in a ‘real’ individual reading supplies at least half the information! In a ‘real’ reading, the parties are identified (including the gender of the questioner!), and so is the time frame if there is one. In this group reading, we cannot do that, so we have variety.
Do you want to know a little, or a lot, about how this Tarot Verbatim ™ thing works? If so,
*Go to Learn Tarot by Observing. This tells the thinking regarding the combined four pictures in the Daily Spread – the pictures above here. It explains how these four cards get together in your mind to make the message.
*Go to Learn Tarot by the Pictures. This is the meaning of each separate card. This is how that illustration makes that card’s meanings in this Spread.
You can put all this together and intuitively see yourself how Tarot Verbatim ™ works. Regular visitors actually learn to read Tarot without trying. The Tarot Talks tab has some examples for students.
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Four Card Spreads, Our Daily Spread, Tarot Verbatim
Winning makes you happy, but overcoming gets you going
Knight of Wands Three of Cups, Strength, Ace of Swords
To make yourself happy, you have to handle this in a hurry. He has won, he is well on his way to celebrating with the woman who handled some of his obstacles. He went all out for her to be the winner, but she handled things herself. Winning makes you happy, but overcoming gets you going. A forceful hands-on approach to getting problems out of the way quickly wins the day. Put everything you’ve got into overcoming in this pivotal struggle, and you will be so happy. The joy of engaging and defeating the opposition gets your blood moving. She exerts a forceful influence that gets those girls going, and everyone is happy. She is on her way to celebrating victorious living, having overcome even her own resistance. Challenging this woman gets her fighting spirit up: She wins and he leaves the field to her. The girls pool their resources, meet their challenges, and are on their way to the good life. Strong women who stick together win fast. She gets women to go all out in pursuit of prosperity. At first glance, the girls win and the guy flees: It’s a battle. But there’s a lot more going on when you look a little. There’s overcoming a challenge, and getting going or getting one’s blood moving. And the guy can be pursuing victory, not fleeing someone else’s. The girls celebrate, though, that’s for sure. So we have several scenarios, which I unwound in due course. Smack in the middle is the Strength card, which in Rider Waite Tarot is having the character to overcome without a battle, to have such an influence about you that the monster doesn’t want to eat you. It means spiritual overcoming, and the figure who has the lion purring is without question female. Next to her is the Ace of Swords which means victory by force, winning, and challenging. And on the other side of her is the celebrating … girls celebrating a good life, that lovely Three of Cups. On top is the Knight of Wands, putting all his energy into the pursuit … or the flight, depending. These are the pieces that make the messages above. A victory is the direct and main subject of both he Three of Cups and the Ace of Swords. The Strength card is also about overcoming, which is a victory. Women or a woman winning is in the Three of Cups and the Strength card. The idea of going all out for something is in the Ace of Swords and the Knight of Wands. Advice is some battles are won before any blood is on the floor. Advice is to lunge into high gear and grab your win from the opposing factors directly. Exert your influence expertly, surgically, and forcefully but deftly. A sure win is under your hand.
Meanings and Illustrations:
Three of Cups: These girls get together and celebrate; they have pooled their investment and made a whopping profit they share. The harvest is at their feet, and the sky is all blue. Strength: She loves her enemy, you see. She gets on the good side of the monster by having such an influence about her that he doesn’t want to mess with her, so he submits to friendly contact with someone he really would rather eat. You go, girl. Ace of Swords: Win. Victory. Challenge. Totally one way. Those are the meanings we use today anyway, the easiest ones, because there’s the hand with the sword in it that is crowned with victory. Knight of Wands: He is all in a lather getting going out of town in a hurry, or in hot pursuit of something or someone. This is exertion, giving it your all, going all out – today’s emphasis.
A sudden big unexpected win, when losing was a sure thing
Knight of Pentacles Five of Cups, Wheel of Fortune, Knight of Swords
Focus is on getting back a lost opportunity. This is your big chance: Take it and run with it, or be the loser. Something wonderful comes along while you are feeling so sad or sorry: Watch for it. A miraculous recovery from his focus on past losses. A miraculous recovery from focusing on past losses. That miracle, to change when you are down, is what you are looking for. He can see his destiny changing as he bounces back from heartsickness. This is the one opportune time to capitalize on that loss. To quit drinking, he focused on making that one thing happen. He knew the loss had to happen to fuel the getaway. Keep your eye on the ball of grand opportunity and reverse that loss. One big chance to turn things around from despondency. A sudden big unexpected win, when losing was a sure thing. One thing on his mind: To snatch victory out of the jaws of defeat. A sudden loss focuses you/him on one thing: the turnaround. This one win makes up for all his losses. Only a miracle can save the day, it’s sooo bad. When you hit bottom like this, luck can change fast. He is so down, and he is looking for that stroke of luck. That grand opportunity happens in the nick of time: just before you go under. This is pretty much all these four say – as if we asked for more! Smack in the middle is the grand Wheel-of-Fortune opportunity, the miracle, the big chance, the lucky strike, the jackpot. Next is the fast Knight-of-Swords turnaround: Yay! To the left is the dismal depressing sad past you are sorry about, the Five of Miserable Cups. Overall is the focus-on-one-thing Knight of Pentacles. Notice that today’s two spreads have the same message: victory that is coming FAST. Each spread features a dude on a horse hurrying, and each spread ends in a dude on a horse. Three knights in shining armor! Not bad for an eight-card pantheon. Advice is, once again, to seize the day, be looking for that crack of light in the dark tunnel of despair that is the first glimmer of turnaround. It’s coming fast. The Wheel of Fortune is not about finding ten bucks in the grocery store; it is about a pivotal lucky destiny. The concept of capitalizing on a loss may refer to taxes for some visitor here. This second spread is a guy’s perspective; the first one was about a girl’s.
Meanings and Illustrations:
Five of Cups: Oh, woe is me, I focus on what is spilled more than the cups that are filled. It’s a gray day, and I’m all droopy in my black robes. Wah, I’m a big loser and I’ll never get over it, I just look back enveloped in sorrow and sorry. Wheel of Fortune: Miracle. Luck. Destiny. Jackpot. It happens. Grand opportunity/opportune The big chance. Illustration has occult symbols of fate, and a roulette-wheel looking thing in the center. Knight of Swords: The last-minute turnaround strikes, this time right after the jackpot miracle. Can you think of a better place for that? He is pictured full speed ahead brandishing his weapon, eyes on the prize. Knight of Pentacles: He has one thing on his mind, he does. His eye is on the prize, too. And he is a tough guy who will reach out and grab it, not politely at all. You know what they say about thugs like him: It’s good to have him on your side.
