GUIDANCE         Your honest self-interest is consistent with the good of all. Most people anyway … the normal ones? … have a little buzzer in their gut that tells them where the border of greed lies. Most of us can rely on the buzzer, and promote our own happiness, and the happiness of our circle of people, while also floating the boat of general welfare of the community.

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People love this place! Our site is divided into three sections: Guidance; Group Tarot Cards Readings; Learn Tarot by Observing and Learn Tarot by Pictures.

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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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Knight of Pentacles – Ten of Cups – Hierophant

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: The Family Man (Knight of Pentacles and Ten of Cups)

Tarot Readings: In Your Right Mind (Knight of Pentacles and Hierophant)

Tarot Readings: In That Good Neighborhood (Ten of Cups and Hierophant)

Tarot Readings: Holy Matrimony (Ten of Cups and Hierophant)

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Tarot Readings: The Family Man (Knight of Pentacles and Ten of Cups)

His purpose is to be happy in the real physical world.

He is a rough and decent guy, one of the common people.

He is one of those religious people.

He makes a good life for his family.

He sees to it that everyone is okay.

He is all about family life and family values.

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Tarot Readings: In Your Right Mind (Knight of Pentacles and Hierophant)

Everybody is right in his own mind.

Mindful of the rules we all have in common.

Everybody is okay, is acceptable: He is sure of that.

He fits in with everybody else, and that is his intention.

When you are okay without yourself, you are okay with everybody.

You make it your business to have a good reputation with everybody.

It’s in everybody’s best interest to behave themselves.

He believes what everybody believes – the consensus – is right.

The good of all is consistent with your honest self-interest.

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Tarot Readings: In That Good Neighborhood (Ten of Cups and Hierophant)

He has to get a decent house for himself first.

Having a home in a middle-class neighborhood is important to him.

You are the one who is entitled to live well.

His ambition is to live in that good neighborhood [rich community] with the brand name.

Look into the title of that house.

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Tarot Readings: Holy Matrimony (Ten of Cups and Hierophant)

A happy marriage comes first.

Holy matrimony to a man with muscles.

In this church, you get only one marriage.

Settle down with that earthy dude and have his kids.

He is interested in marrying a decent woman.

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Now, Part Two,

Did you come here to ACCESS YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS? –

*Then you read HERE ARE PHRASES FOR ALL THREE 2-CARD COMBINATIONS – resonates with your subconscious awareness! – and you’re done.

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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 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. Comments are at the very bottom.

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*Then you can put names of any two cards into Google, and get their combined meanings. You can also write in one card followed by ‘Tarot Verbatim,’ and get paragraphs of meanings for it.

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Knight of Pentacles – Ten of Cups – Hierophant

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LEARN TAROT BY OBSERVING

                LEARN TAROT BY PICTURES..

….. …….…… …..           In Knight of Pentacles, you have ambition, focus, and self-interest – the fellow with one thing on his mind who concentrates on that pentacle.

In Ten of Cups, you have the good of all, everybody being happy, community, family, and ‘the good people.’ The illustration makes that obvious.

In Hierophant, you have what’s right, proper, acceptable, decent and of good reputation.

Contrast here is the distinction between the self-interest of Knight of Pentacles versus everybody in the community doing well and being happy, in Ten of Cups.

Theme (cards that mean the same thing) here is good reputation, what is acceptable, and good people. Ten of Cups is the good people of the community; Hierophant is what is acceptable, moral, normal and approved.

So our focus balances and reconciles self-interest with the interest of others.

Knight of Pentacles and Hierophant express a focus on physical, ordinary, real-world, established means to an end. These two Rider Waite Tarot cards also describe a plain man who is ambitious in the real physical ordinary world.

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Knight of Pentacles           Knight of Pentacles is the yeoman, the common man who is strong of body and focused … opinionated … of mind. Got one thing on his mind, got muscles. Is determined and has energy. The main meaning of Knight of Pentacles is this focus on the physical aspect, which includes ambition and even obsession. Knight of Pentacles also reflects priority, the most important (whatever).

You find him coming up for a stubborn man; a Type A driven-by-ambition man; a greedy bastard; a thuggy punk; a strong believer in something. This card also translates ‘focus’ and ‘concentrate on’ or ‘concentrate’ in any of its forms. Notice how easily ‘guy with one thing on his mind’ comes up with Knight of Pentacles, because that is what he is.

Note that he, and the horse he rode in on, are dark, short, sturdy-looking beings. Knight of Pentacles represents that phenotype often enough to remember this. Think Danny DeVito. Knight of Pentacles tends to be a commoner-type man – no pretensions, no particular polish, and not necessarily groomed. You know.

Ten of Cups           Ten of Cups says ‘happily ever after’ and is one of two positive marriage cards. It is ‘married with children’ too. Ten of Cups you can privately label ‘The Moral Majority.’ That’s impolite, I know. But on point.

All the marriage cards expand to any size and any type of group. The positive ones expand to positive or neutral group [and that’s in the definition of whoever’s doing the Tarot spread]. Ten of Cups and Four of Wands are the positive ones. So they mean couple, family, extended family (clan), community, city, state, nation, international; and they mean organization, company, corporation, party – any bunch of people who have something in common that isn’t nefarious (menacing).

Ten of Cups means happy and happiness. It can even appear as what makes a given person happy. A nearby card may identify what ‘what makes (me) happy.’

Ten of Cups also means ‘we’ and ‘us,’ ‘they’ and ‘them’ and words like together, unity, everybody, ‘all the (fill in the blank),’ and ‘people’ or ‘people who,’ and a nearby card gives you what the group Tarot is talking about is.

Note that Ten of Cups – along with Ace of Pentacles – show the good people having money, being prosperous. People used to say ‘of good family’ and ‘marry well’ meaning being well off goes along with being good. (Al Capone and John Gotti were firm believers in this principle.)

Hierophant           Hierophant Here’s the pope doing a ceremony with some clerics. That’s their routine, what they are supposed to do. That’s official. That’s normal. There’s a brand associated with what they are doing. There’s a name; a label; an official designation; a recognized organization, the church. That’s how Hierophant comes to mean official, name, and ‘paper thing’ – title, certificate, etc. (For example, Hierophant means ‘the paper thing’ regarding marriage, and Hierophant and Ten of Cups translate ‘holy matrimony.’) We have the appearance of righteousness, morality, decency, what you’re supposed to (believe), the surface aspect. So Hierophant refers to image as well as reputation. (Note ‘supposed to’ in what you just read.)

Hierophant translates ‘church’ and ‘religion.’

Hierophant means supposed to, should, ought, the right thing, conform, the public face, the label, legitimate, belongs, customary, consensus, conventional, prescribed and accepted, normal limits, middle ground (as in ‘middle class’), and anything that fits that mold. Hierophant is ‘fitting in.’ You could say Hierophant is the mold. Hierophant often translates ‘usual.’ Hierophant also frequently means ordinary and mundane and ‘in the real world,’ meaning physical reality.

Hierophant belongs to the ‘entitled’ theme in Tarot, too. It means ‘benefit without harm,’ and ‘benefits.’

Now, Hierophant can bring up words like decent, harmless, honest, right and can even say ‘means well,’ as in ‘no bad intention.’ BUT the deeper meaning of Hierophant – which you can miss – is the distinction between the surface and the reality. The difference between proper and decent. The distinction between what the professionals believe and the version that’s fit to print, that’s suitable to the average Joe. The pope and the priests don’t have the same version of religion as they hand down to the public. (Just read any theological treatise designed for the professionals.) The deeper meaning of Hierophant refers to that invisible treaty that human individuals have with one another – and that companies, parties, corporations and clans have with the public – that Our Nose is Clean, that We Are Good. It’s just ‘not good form,’ not polite, to openly consider someone scum, no matter how well he or she qualifies for the designation, no matter how scandalous a circumstance is.

Humans have this understanding (in their mammal genes) to act as if others were okay, acceptable, and worthy of respect. (These days that has morphed into political correctness.) Note that Hierophant is about the official image, the official story, the official doings – the rituals and the reputation and what is supposed to be … the assumption that all is well and there’s no cesspool beneath our feet or in our hearts and souls.

So Hierophant also represents the assumption that all is well … that ‘It can’t happen here’ – what we call normalcy bias. You could say Hierophant is pedantic. You could say Hierophant is the deliberately closed mind, the ‘Don’t confuse me with the facts’ intention and attitude. Animals have no such problem; they accept reality readily without any assumptions other than their racial or species instincts. They don’t have to assume they are Teacher’s Pet and nothing bad can happen to them. But of course we humans are smarter and better than they, right?

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“What’s good for General Motors is good for America,” once upon a time was a slogan that company proudly bandied about. Really. Our self-interest, the company is saying, is good for you people. In today’s article, we compare and contrast self-interest and the good of all; we make a distinction between what is moral and acceptable, and what is actually decent. We look at that invisible understanding people have about other people – and companies or organizations have with the public – that ‘We are the good guys; we are okay.’ We agree to honor one another’s pretensions; and that’s called ‘face.’

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NOW WE SHOW WHERE EACH PHRASE IN EACH SENTENCE COMES FROM

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Tarot Readings: The Family Man (Knight of Pentacles and Ten of Cups)

His purpose KNIGHT OF PENTACLES is to be happy TEN OF CUPS in the real physical world HIEROPHANT.

He is a rough KNIGHT OF PENTACLES and decent HIEROPHANT guy, one of the common people TEN OF CUPS.

He is one of KNIGHT OF PENTACLES those religious HIEROPHANT people TEN OF CUPS.

He makes KNIGHT OF PENTACLES a good HIEROPHANT life for his family TEN OF CUPS.

He sees to it that KNIGHT OF PENTACLES everyone TEN OF CUPS is okay HIEROPHANT.

He is all about KNIGHT OF PENTACLES family life TEN OF CUPS and family values HIEROPHANT.

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Tarot Readings: In Your Right Mind (Knight of Pentacles and Hierophant)

Everybody TEN OF CUPS is right HIEROPHANT in his own mind KNIGHT OF PENTACLES.

Mindful KNIGHT OF PENTACLES of the rules HIEROPHANT we all have in common TEN OF CUPS.

Everybody TEN OF CUPS is okay, is acceptable HIEROPHANT: He is sure of that KNIGHT OF PENTACLES.

He fits in HIEROPHANT with everybody else TEN OF CUPS, and that is his intention KNIGHT OF PENTACLES.

When you are okay HIEROPHANT with yourself KNIGHT OF PENTACLES, you are okay with everybody TEN OF CUPS.

You make it your business KNIGHT OF PENTACLES to have a good reputation HIEROPHANT with everybody TEN OF CUPS.

It’s in everybody’s TEN OF CUPS best interest KNIGHT OF PENTACLES to behave themselves HIEROPHANT.

He believes KNIGHT OF PENTACLES what everybody believes TEN OF CUPS – the consensus TEN OF CUPS – is right HIEROPHANT.

The good of all TEN OF CUPS is consistent with HIEROPHANT your honest HIEROPHANT self-interest KNIGHT OF PENTACLES.

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Tarot Readings: In That Good Neighborhood (Ten of Cups and Hierophant)

He has to get a decent HIEROPHANT house TEN OF CUPS for himself first KNIGHT OF PENTACLES.

Having a home TEN OF CUPS in a middle-class HIEROPHANT neighborhood TEN OF CUPS is important to him KNIGHT OF PENTACLES.

You are the one who KNIGHT OF PENTACLES is entitled HIEROPHANT to live well TEN OF CUPS.

His ambition KNIGHT OF PENTACLES is to live in that good neighborhood [rich community] TEN OF CUPS with the brand name HIEROPHANT.

Look into KNIGHT OF PENTACLES the title HIEROPHANT of that house TEN OF CUPS.

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Tarot Readings: Holy Matrimony (Ten of Cups and Hierophant)

Holy matrimony TEN OF CUPS to a man with muscles KNIGHT OF PENTACLES.

In this church, you get only one KNIGHT OF PENTACLES marriage TEN OF CUPS.

Settle down with that earthy dude KNIGHT OF PENTACLES and have his kids TEN OF CUPS.

He is interested in KNIGHT OF PENTACLES marrying TEN OF CUPS a decent woman.

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HERE ARE PHRASES FOR ALL THREE 2-CARD COMBINATIONS

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Six of Swords – Justice – Hang

………………….. Knight of Pentacles and Ten of Cups His purpose is to be happy. He is a rough guy, one of the common people. He is one of those people. He makes a good life for his family. He sees to it that everyone …. He is all about family life. Everybody is _ in his own mind. Mindful … we all have in common. Everybody is okay, is acceptable. He … with everybody else, and that is his intention. … with yourself, you are okay with everybody. You make it your business to _ with everybody. It’s in everybody’s best interest …. He believes what everybody believes – the consensus – …. The good of all … your honest self-interest. He has to get a house for himself first. Having a home is important to him. You are the one who … live well. His ambition is to live in that good neighborhood or rich community. Look into … of that house. _ matrimony to a man with muscles. You get only one marriage. … with that earthy dude, and have his kids. He is interested in marrying …. x

… ………….. ..… Knight of Pentacles and Hierophant His purpose in the real physical world. He is a rough and decent guy. He is one of those religious _. He makes a good …. He sees to it that _ is okay. He is all about family values. Right in his own mind. Mindful of the rules. _ is okay, is acceptable: He is sure of that. He fits in, and that is his intention. When you are okay with yourself …. You make it your business to have a good reputation. It’s in _ best interest to behave. He believes _ is right. … is consistent with your honest self-interest. He has to … for himself first. A middle-class neighborhood is important to him. You are the one who is entitled …. His ambition is to … with the brand name. Look into the title. Holy _ to a many with muscles. In this church, you get only one _. Settle down with that earthy dude. He is interested in _ a decent _. x

……… … ….…… .. Ten of Cups and Hierophant To be happy in the real physical world. A decent _, one of the common people. Those religious people. A good life for the family. Everyone is okay.** Family life and family values.** Everybody is right.** The rules we all have in common. Everybody is okay, is acceptable. Fits in with everybody else. You are okay with everybody.*** Have a good reputation with everybody. It’s in everybody’s _ to behave themselves. What everybody believes – the consensus – is right. The good of all is consistent with your honest …. A decent house.*** Having a home in a middle-class neighborhood. Entitled to live well.*** Live in that good neighborhood [rich community] with the brand name. The title of that house. Holy matrimony. In this church, you get … marriage. Settle down and have kids. Marrying a decent (woman). x

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