February 2012
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for the past couple of weeks I’ve been clearing away a lot of things. still, every time I shuffle a cup card—ten of cups or three of cups—would pop up, followed by the strength, and the wheel of fortune. don’t worry. you will make it through. but everybody worries, even though they do always make it through. and maybe it’s one step back for every two steps forward,...
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birth cards
birth cards are the basic foundational energy that defines your life. of course we as human beings are all different; different astrological charts and all, but I feel like our birth cards are where we start. so you might have the same birth cards with someone but where it takes you would obviously be very different from where it takes someone else. if you don’t know your birth card, find it...
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the hanged man
decks: rider waite, hermetic
the hanged man is not an executed man, as commonly assumed. this is a very misunderstood card as well as the death. if you look at the card closely, the man is not hung from his neck. only his ankle is tied to the cross and he is rather free to move his limbs, despite being in a difficult position of hanging upside down. the hanged man card’s keyword is delay....
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entitled
knowing how to read cards can be cool sometimes. I discovered that young. reading for other people made me distinctive. but in the end it gave me more of a feeling of isolation, of having a barrier between myself and the person sitting across me starry-eyed, and only recently did I start to feel like I have a bridge in between me and that person instead of a wall.
recently I encountered a group...
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nine of swords
deck: robin wood, rider waite
everything might seem fine on the surface when it’s bright outside. but at night when the lights are off, all of your fears and nightmares come striking back at you. that moment is the nine of swords, simplified. worries, doubts, guilt, and anxieties keeping you up all night. they seem so much larger than life, too; no wonder fear is often called false...
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strength
deck: here, bohemian gothic, labylinth
a beauty and a beast. or the lady who tamed the lion. whatever the woman in the strength card is to be called, it’s obvious that she did not tame the beast because of her physical strength. her power comes from within. her inner strength is that of patience, compassion, extreme self-awareness, ability to manifest. her infinity within the universe....
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fatal attraction
advice versus reality.
what kind of information I give and what kind of decision a client makes based on that could be two very distinct things, I’ve learned. I’ve had women ask me about the same doomed relationship over and over again. sometimes I say straight up, “why are you still in this? it’s clear from the spread that you have nothing left in it.” but I get...
January 2012
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reincarnated, 2
if past life exists—and I do believe it does, and I do believe I recognize people I’ve met in my past lives—then how many times do we come across the people we had loved in our other lives? do we cross the street, pass by them? do we live with them already, having met them again, having found them over and over again over centuries? how many times do we come across a book we had...
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reincarnated
theme of reincarnation and the cycle of life is very prevalent in tarot cards. even starting with how 22 cards of major arcana starts off with the fool, number 0, which encounters the death card and renews itself, up to the 22nd card, the world, indicating reunion with the universe and the end of a karmic cycle. there are several cards that dominantly hint towards rebirth: death, for obvious...
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court cards - the pages
I always get more of a purely optimistic feeling from the pages. maybe it’s because that’s how young ones are. appearance of them in a reading doesn’t always mean kids when signifying a specific person or a role, though. there are many people who are ‘children at heart.’ regardless, pages are truly youthful; they are the children, the teens, the assistants....
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court cards - the knights
since knights represent the 20’s-early 30s range, I feel like they are prone to more mistakes or signify more challenging aspects than the maturer cards like kings or queens. knights are still in the stage of figuring things out. which is why the knight cards often suggest a path to growth, such as what you can work more on, and the trial-and-error process you’re going through. they...
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tarot books
I didn’t really practice with books, I just learned as I went because I’m not big on reading a large body of information, trying to cram it in my head. but I did read these two books over and over again which really helped: seventy-eight degrees of wisdom by rachel pollack & tarot for today by joanna watters. the first one is really good for general information, the technical...
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court cards - the kings
deck: rider waite
next of the court cards are the kings. they are the most mature male figures among the court cards. if you want to know more about the queens, see this post. as my last post, I used the pictures of rider waite deck again because it’s the most widely used deck, and symbol-wise they’re the most straightforward & easier to interpret than other complicated decks.
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celtic cross, simplified
though there are numerous creative spreads that can be used for tarot readings, celtic cross is by far the most commonly used spread; especially among beginners. many develop their own spread as well, but even still this is my go-to spread, as it covers all the basis for answering any question. its interpretations differ depending on which book you read or who’s using it, but the readers...
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so close, but so far
sometimes it’s indicated repeatedly in readings that success is imminent for that person, but it just doesn’t happen yet for years. it gets the best of us. you’re so close to making it, and at the same time, so close to just giving up. it’s hard to sustain something that’s dead, but you keep feeling like it’s going to work. and confusingly, cards keep telling...
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