Tarot Readings for You for April 25, 2013 Thursday(c)
Our underlying theme today is about thought and control, and we combine these two concepts in different ways. Here are some of them: Directing both our instinctual and our deliberate thoughts; realizing whether to be in control of a situation or to let it be; coming under another’s strong influence; exerting our own strong influence; and then we touch on the influence of religion.
Strength
Six of Swords – Hierophant – Hanged Man
Tarot Readings: Handle and Overcome (Strength)
Realizing it’s normal to overcome gradually.
As I get farther and farther away from orthodoxy, here, I realize this is me handling things for myself.
You got the right idea, now go out and set them straight … diplomatically.
Hey, I am getting things under control, heading them toward my idea of the way they ought to be.
Her inspiration is to make him be decent or be gone.
When you are handling a big problem, your mind isn’t on the routine ones.
I don’t think I’m normal anymore, but I can handle that.
Wow, I am seeing myself handle difficulties I used to duck out on.
You’re headed in the right direction when you feel you can handle anything.
I feel it’s not a threat to me anymore, I straightened (it) out.
Tarot Readings: Thoughts Under Control (Hanged Man and Strength)
Am actively avoiding my assumptions, they interfere with my insight.
Avoiding what I ought to think – it interferes with my thinking.
I get away from being too influenced by either my instinct or my programming.
She makes herself think along lines of what’s accepted, and not let her mind wander off.
It takes a while to think up a valid solution to the interference.
I get an idea on the way out that I should have controlled myself.
Tarot Readings: How Controlling (Strength)
Has radar for what he is used to: a woman who will get him to do things her way as time goes by.
Her influence gets us going in the direction she approves of, and it’s our own idea.
Have an inkling I’m not respectable around here anymore since I asserted myself.
I get it, how controlling she is, and how I ought to be leaving.
Usually, I get an urge to leave when someone’s being bossy.
Tarot Readings: Give Up or Avoid Taking Control (Six of Swords and Strength)
Dawns on me that I think I should avoid taking control, here.
I should just give up even thinking of making this nuisance behave.
I can see I should withdraw if I don’t want to be interfered with.
I see the safe way out is to just let someone else handle it.
Tarot Readings: Religion and Control (Hierophant and Strength)
Religious inspiration that you will eventually get control of the adversary.
As I head off in an entirely different direction, I realize religion straightened me out.
An interest in self-control makes me avoid religious thoughts.
Miscellaneous Tarot Readings A person who is getting over it feels stronger until finally they are normal.
Is coming under intense pressure to conform.
She is entitled to be the winner, and you can see it going that way.
My perspective on her problem is she should not handle it the usual way.
In Strength, we have overcoming and setting something that intrudes, invades or interferes straight, and we have being adept spiritually. Strength’s influence straightens situations or problems out, and makes people behave.
In Hanged Man, we have ‘higher consciousness,’ enlightenment, seeing a new perspective.
In Hierophant, we have mundane consciousness, behaving, the usual routines of the physical realm. It means ‘should,’ it means ‘entitled,’ it means orthodoxy, and it means ‘religious.’
So Hierophant and Strength are about right behavior, and Hanged Man and Strength are about higher consciousness.
Our odd man out is Six of Swords, and, yes, he is heading out, avoiding, getting gone, ducking out, and headed in a direction (usually away). (He can tell he doesn’t belong in this Tarot crowd.)
Six of Swords has put it behind and isn’t (whatever) anymore.
Our underlying theme today is about thought and control, and we combine these two concepts in different ways. Here are some of them: Directing both our instinctual and our deliberate thoughts; realizing whether to be in control of a situation or to let it be; coming under another’s strong influence; exerting our own strong influence; and then we touch on the influence of religion.
Six of Swords Huddled on a gray day in an open boat, a mother and child withdraw from here ‘with just the clothes on their back’ and go to another life that has to be better because of how awful this one is. Six of Swords is a depressing and also a hopeful Rider Waite Tarot card. It is about putting the past behind and going forward. It is when you are heading out, avoiding, getting gone, ducking out, and headed in a direction (usually away). Often, Six of Swords is about ‘anymore,’ about not being (whatever) anymore. It is usually a withdrawing, a gradual change, a fading out or fading away from something you have no use for … anymore.
Hierophant That’s the pope in the red robe, doing a ceremonial routine. We think of popes as being ‘proper’ personified, so this Rider Waite Tarot card means things like should, ought to, entitled, conform, normal, what one is used to, the usual or usually, straighten out or be straight, safe, behave, decent, respectable, right, approved or accepted, valid, official, programmed, and assumptions. It also refers to religion, religious, and churches or other religious buildings.
Hanged Man In Hanged Man, we have ‘higher consciousness,’ enlightenment, seeing a new perspective. Somewhere in our brain that we are not privy to, we work out these realizations. Suddenly and brightly a headline boinks us over the head, we see stars, and we ‘get it.’ Deja vu, visions, muse visitations, flashes, insights, new perspectives, psychic awarenesses, spiritual experiences: These disorient our waking state and we feel upside-down with our hair on fire like this illustration.
Strength Strength is overcoming: See her pet the monster who is purring through clenched teeth. Strength is quashing bad behavior, exerting an influence, taking control or taking charge, making a solution and nipping opposition in the bud.
As I get farther and farther away (6 of Swords) from orthodoxy, here,(Hierophant), I realize (Hanged Man) this is me handling things for myself (Strength).
Has radar (Hanged Man) for what he is used to (Hierophant): a woman who will get him to do things her way (Strength) as time goes by (6 of Swords).