Four Card Spreads, Our Daily Spread
HOW TO USE THE MATERIAL WE HAVE FOR YOU HERE. Read the sentences, and pick out the ones that seem to apply to you, to the people around you. They are a Tarot analysis of your day’s circumstances. As the day (or several days) unfolds, you may find the information is relevant. The question is: “Tell the visitors here something useful and meaningful to them.” Often, your adopting the attitude you feel in the blog works for your day!
Without a question to focus the answer, four cards can mean even contradictory things. Without a question also the pronouns in a group reading are less specific, more flexible, especially in some of these Rider Waite Tarot spreads. Especially when a pronoun is in parentheses, feel free to substitute.
The Advice section sums up a general meaning of all the sentences.
King of Pentacles
Fool – Temperance – Eight of Wands
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A summary of what Tarot is saying today:
Both Temperance and Eight of Wands are about conversation, communication. Temperance also brings ‘intimate’ and ‘close’ to that; and Eight of Wands brings ‘quickly’ and ‘many’ and ‘more and more’ to the party. The top card is the sexy, charismatic, manipulative studly dude who is influential and powerful. (Now, the fella who always wins at pool is powerful and influential in that pool hall.)
Introducing those three Rider Waite Tarot cards is the Fool, who today is lighthearted, casual, doesn’t know or ‘who knows?’ or ‘has no idea’; who isn’t present; who is young; who assumes. He ‘acts as if’ and also means ‘as if.’
Advice is to be egalitarian with powerful influential men, to be casual and have lighthearted conversation with ‘your betters’ as if you were familiar and equal. We speak also of how quickly a manipulative fellow can get on familiar terms with you, before you know it, through conversation. We go on to point out it’s that way in business too: The mogul has everybody on his side, talking to him without thinking about it.
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Word-for-word Tarot conversation with you:
Business Perspective:
The powerful man isn’t present to be talked one-on-one with.
Talk with the powers-that-be as if they were your equals.
Assume the man in charge communicates about these things.
A number of conversations with the banker who ignores you.
The politician has no idea how many people are on his side.
Rich fellow can assume we are all on his side.
He brokers a lot of deals he knows nothing about.
Talks authoritatively about things he knows nothing about.
Doesn’t know all the parties to the transactions he controls.
The banker you deal with doesn’t know any of these things.
Assume he is a VIP because of all the transactions involved.
Many conversations with, but not in the presence of, the Great Man.
This mover and shaker has I don’t know how many partners.
The self-important fellow is a lot of talk, but I don’t know about any deals.
He and his partner are more and more powerful
He is influential, he knows who knows how many people closely.
Dealing with more and more influential men, who knows how many?
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Romantic Perspective:
Acts as if he is a Studmuffin – is intimate with many people.
Lots of lighthearted intimate conversation with a studly man.
Have no idea how many partners the charismatic man has.
Quickly, before you know it, you are on intimate terms with the sexy guy.
Before the VIP knows it, he is talking intimately with the filly.
As if she has a lot in common with the rich sexy dude.
She is talking with the mogul as if she knew him well.
Casual intimacies with all the horny dudes.
Does not even talk a lot with the dudes she is intimate with.
Meanings and Illustrations:
Fool is lighthearted, casual, doesn’t know or ‘who knows?’ or ‘has no idea’; who isn’t present; who is young; who assumes. He ‘acts as if’ and also means ‘as if.’ His illustration is a fellow with a tiny bit of luggage on a mid-afternoon journey, about to take his doggie off a cliff with himself, he is such an optimist. I have known people like this, haven’t you?
Temperance is about intimate contact, transactions, communication, close association. Illustration is on the vague side for the meanings we are using there today. Illustration is about a ‘one hand washes the other’ concept of pouring water from one hand to the other. This is a bastard Rider Waite Tarot card We could do without it. In the Middle Ages, it was added to make the Tarot deck more acceptable. It meant to dilute wine with water to keep from having the wine make one feel good. Yes, those sorts of folks existed back then too!
Eight of Wands is a the Rider Waite Tarot citizen that brings phrases such as ‘quickly’ and ‘many’ and ‘more and more’ to the party. Illustration shows sticks flying in the wind one after the other quickly.
King of Pentacles is a sexy, charismatic, manipulative studly dude who is influential and powerful, who is the VIP. This is the powerful man, the powers that be, the man in charge, the banker, politician, the rich fellow, the broker, the broker or the one in control. He is the mover and shaker, the Great Man, the Studmuffin. He is pictured Italianesque.
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Four Card Spreads, Our Daily Spread, Tarot Verbatim
A guy feels threatened by a one-on-one conversation
Eight of Wands
Temperance, Page of Swords, King of Cups
Romantic and Social Perspective:
The more intimate this relationship gets, the more affection he feels, the more nervous he is.
Intimate conversation makes the man who loves you nervous.
Exciting mutual conversations with a gentleman.
It is exciting to have a close relationship with a man who talks about his feelings.
He is so emotional, he gets mad with people who are close to him about any number of things.
He (the counselor) talks calmly and quietly one-on-one with agitated people.
Angry words to his counselor about his intimate partner.
It’s a thrill to have an intimate conversation with your honey.
Whoever this emotional man talks with is subjected to a barrage of paranoia.
Labile (emotionally unstable) man is angry that his close friend is talking about these things.
He vents his hostile emotions on all of the people who interact with him.
Relationship with a good man who is exciting in every way.
Exciting intimate things for a man in love to say.
Business and Other Perspectives:
Exciting ways to deal with government.
So many others are doing these government transactions that we are nervous.
Angry or excited talk about the bureaucrat’s dealings.
He is negotiating with an agency about a list of grievances.
Letters back and forth between him and the agency get him riled up.
They talk about politics and get angry with one another.
Any number of threats to the security of the government from its contractors.
Guarding against all kinds of threats coming to the politician from people he deals with.
The bureaucrat’s intimate partner threatens to tell all.
A lot of exciting conversations with an unexcited man.
This seems to be more in the vein of government contracts that we had a while back; it is about negotiating with a political entity. It also seems to be Chapter Two in the guy who was nervous about calling his ladylove: Now he is talking, but in some agitated or nervous way.
Two cards mean communication, Temperance and the Eight of Wands. In between, we have an emotional man and a hyper, endangered feeling – respectively the King of Cups and the Page of Swords. ‘A guy feels threatened by a one-on-one conversation.’
I am used to doing answers to real questions, and never cease to be amazed at what conflicting things the same spread can say! Geez! You don’t have to take my word for it, though: You can piece these together if you are that motivated. You could be absorbing Tarot Verbatim subliminally if you read these often. My thinking processes were expanded by learning Tarot verbatim, and yours can be too.
Advice today in this spread is that an emotional conversation with a man is upon you which could be exciting or upsetting to you. It will happen, we think; there’s nothing in our spread about its not happening. Suggestion is that it is a good thing, or will lead to a good thing.
Meanings and Illustrations:
Temperance: This is about dealing one-on-one directly, closely, mutually, intimately with a partner or close friend in a relationship. It talks about back-and-forth communication and interacting as in negotiations, as in contractors. It can mean the people or person (you) deal with, as well as the dealing with. Illustration shows the back and forth flow of water from one cup to the other.
Page of Swords: We use part of his repertoire here: nervous, exciting, mad with people, agitated people, angry, thrill paranoia and the venting of hostility. Illustration shows a very paranoid fellow, sword held aloft, looking all around as if some Bad People were about to be upon him, when there’s open country for miles, and … no one to be seen.
King of Cups: He is the emotional man, both in a good and in a not-so-good way. He can be the emotionally labile (unstable) fellow who vents his emotions. He can be the man who loves and feels affection, the gentleman who is warm and fuzzy in his emotionality, the calm and quiet counselor type, the good man who is in love. He can also be the drunk, a government or agency or bureaucrat. The illustration shows a kind of vice presidential fellow, the lackluster drinking man with that blank look of unbridled self-confidence on his face.
Eight of Wands: Here the wands fly en masse in the wind. More and more of them, more and more often, any number of things, all of the things. Messages, conversation, who talks about, words, and things to say. These are the kinds of phrases we found today for this common card.
Decide not to leave under pressure.
Six of Swords
Seven of Wands, Four of Cups, Chariot
He chooses to pull out and not stand and fight.
He chooses to not leave but to stand and fight.
Not about to cave in to the pressure and leave.
He isn’t about to leave, he struggles to be the one in control here.
He is so mad that they won’t let him drive off in the car.
He refuses to take responsibility, he is militant about avoiding it.
You aim to get him out of here and not have to listen to him mouthing off.
Decide to leave when the dude raises hell about how ‘you won’t let him.’
He is a pushy pest, and you have decided not to put up with him any more.
Avoiding confrontations, refusing to be decisive.
Is getting out of the teenage caveman stage but still doesn’t take charge of his life.
Just avoid the hellraisers, they are not your responsibility.
You can choose to leave and not have to listen to tirades.
The people he can’t push around and control, he avoids.
You can’t make him choose to be a responsible grownup, so avoid him.
Make him leave when you choose to not put up with him.
He is forced to accept responsibility; he cannot avoid it any longer.
Refuse to be badgered, decide you are going to distance yourself from it/him.
Get in the car and leave, don’t listen to him holler.
Decide not to leave under pressure.
He decides he is not going to leave under pressure, “You can’t push me out. I will choose.”
These are an interesting group. We begin with the ‘I’m mad as hell and not going to take it anymore” which is also the mouthy pushy will-not-shut-up teenybopper type, the Seven of Wands. Next is refusing, Four of Cups. Next is taking responsibility, deciding, choosing, the Chariot. And then to leave or not do/be anymore. These four concepts can be arranged like the pictures in the Thematic Apperception Test into very different scenarios.
Advice overall is not to put up with a mouthy obnoxious or pushy person. The person is probably male but does not have to be although all the individuals featured on the four cards are male. You can decide to leave and not associate with someone who is obstructive to you. You don’t have to fight with or listen to an idiot. Advice is also not to give the car keys to such a person … maybe drunk?
Meanings and Illustrations:
Seven of Wands: We all know him/her, don’t we. The mouthy adolescent of any age. This card also stands for being outnumbered and standing up for yourself as well. That last meaning does not come out that much here. The illustration is a man defending his property from neighbors who have decided to intrude in the middle of the night. (That used to happen to me all the time when my husband died here in cowboy country.)
Four of Cups: Uh-Unh. No. NO THANKS! Don’t bother me with that. I ain’t gonna put up with this. Resisting temptation, or resisting anything. Love the illustration. The boy crosses his arms as a disembodied arm offers yet another cup of something, and looks down. The other cups are stacked in front of him. His legs are crossed too.
Chariot: The main meaning here is not used. What we are using is to choose, to decide, to be decisive, to be a responsible person/take responsibility, to be in charge or take charge. The illustration is about using all factors – both for and against – to accomplish your goal/purpose. It’s tacking against the wind in a ship. It’s what grownups do instead of whining or mouthing off.
Six of Swords: Oh, just leave. Put it behind. Not anymore. Withdraw. Get over it. Vote with your feet. We aren’t using the ‘Tomorrow is a better day’ spectrum in this spread. Illustration is two tired people being spirited away from a bad scene by a helper in a small boat.
Decide not to leave under pressure.
Our Daily Spread, Tarot Verbatim
It seems the lady is getting closer in the relationship
Eight of Wands Temperance, High Priestess, Seven of Pentacles
Hmmm, she thinks maybe she is staying in this relationship for several reasons. An intimate conversation speculating about spiritual things. How many relationships can a quiet girl have? It seems she is getting closer but she is quiet. It seems the lady is getting closer. How many transactions has she done? Speculate about all these secret deals/transactions. Why talk about what his dealings with her are? She is quiet as he asks questions about her dealings. Dealing with her, you wonder how many secrets she knows. Can spiritual healing be that fast? Should you talk about angels or keep it secret? Spiritual conversation with an angel … or what? Wondering about many spiritual encounters. A spiritual quest to have direct conversations.
Sooo, what do these mean to you? Such a variety in today’s messages. Generally, there is some communications going on that are about transactions, secrets, spiritual things, and/or relationships. The Temperance-High Priestess combination is what suggests the spiritual-angelic topic. The ‘intimacy’ theme is from the Temperance Rider-Waite Tarot card. ‘Intimate conversation’ is what you get from Temperance + Eight of Wands. When you ponder the meanings and illustrations below, if you have the time and inclination, you can derive some more sentences. Remember, for the sentence to ‘count,’ it has to include all four Rider Waite Tarot cards, but you don’t have to use all four in “solitaire” that is, doing it yourself.
Meanings and Illustrations:
Today’s is kind of miscellaneous, isn’t it? The first card – Temperance – means close, intimate, intimate relationship, relationship, dealing with a person one-on-one, dealing directly, transaction, deals. It also relates to things angelic, and to healing. I used all or most of these meanings in our sentences. Just look at the illustration on this Rider Waite Tarot card. It shows an angel. It has a symbol of healing on its chest. Pouring the water back and forth means a back and forth flow, hence intimacy, and dealing and intimacy.
The second card is the High Priestess. She knows all. She has the Book in her hands. She is quiet, has secret lore. Being passive suggests being a lady in the old-fashioned sense. This card reflects the Kaballah: See the ‘B’ and the ‘J’ on the pillars – loosely justice and mercy. Long story – later. The third card, Seven of Pentacles is pretty straightforward. It is one of the ‘duh’ cards. To question or wonder, maybe, speculative or speculating, ‘why?’, wonder, ‘or what,’ or any questioning, plaintive expression. It can be a quest once in a while. The illustration shows a fellow wondering whether he planted both male and female cucumber plants – whether he will get cucumbers. The last card – the Eight of Wands – is messages, conversation(s), a list of anything, a plural on a surrounding Tarot card, many, increasing or increasingly. It also means fast, one after another. Its illustration shows one stick after another flying in the wind. You could picture lines, as in printed messages, so it expresses ‘texting’ as well.
