October 21, 2009
- Advice from the tarot -
Did a tarot reading recently, asking for some advice, and I wanted to record/share the result here as a reminder to myself in the months/years to come.
The Twisting Path spread provides insight into the path ahead of you and the choices you must make. This is the spread for situations where more than one pitfall may lie ahead. The images of the Minchiate Tarot are drawn from a rare surviving 18th century deck of 97 cards – 19 more than the traditional Tarot. It is considered by many to be the single most powerful divination tool on the web, providing deep insight, rich in ancient symbolism, to any question you may pose.
The card at the lower left, represents the first decision along your path. Four of Wands (Completion): A chance to rest and rejoice, having successfully resolved a matter of great import. The initial success of a business venture or creative project. The blossoming of a friendship or romantic relationship. Conclusions drawn based on hard won experience. Spiritual, material, or emotional rewards for diligent effort. May suggest marriage, childbirth, or a victory celebration.
The card to the far left represents the first false path that may lead you astray. Libra: Refinement and sophistication, abundant in urbane charm. A gift for diplomacy and social interaction. A romantic, filled with idealism and love of peace. The ability to understand both sides of an argument.
The card in the middle represents the second decision along your path. Page of Coins: The essence of earth, such as a mountain: The surprising appearance of new prosperity and opportunities for advance in the physical world. One who delights in the pleasures of the body, material things, and nature. The embrace of hard work, realistic goals, and scholarly perseverance as a means to create solid achievement. Dependability, trust, and a studious nature. May portend a new job or promotion.
The card at the lower right represents the second false path that may lead you astray. Earth: The established order and pattern by which the world is defined. The substance of all things, stable and resolute, resting firmly on the foundations of reality. The basis of all transactions, and hence of all value. The medium of sensual experience.
The card at the top represents one possible mask of your true destination. Four of Swords (Truce), when reversed: Restlessness and mental disharmony. Deserting a struggle in progress. A temporary retreat from stress that turns into a permanent rout. A lack of vigilance that could lead to disaster.
Decided to look up the reversal of the 4 of swords for further info, and found this:
Seek advise from your higher self – pull back into solitude and consider the details of your situation calmly. Put your thoughts in order and determine your priorities – suspend action on all issues but “one”, ask your unconscious to work on this one issue and then sleep on it. Centering and meditation practices can help you create the objectivity required to see all sides of an issue and from this experience something useful and powerful will emerge. You will soon be back into action again – there will be good opportunities ahead. Always take the time to think things out carefully before you commit yourself to anything.
Those of you out there who read the tarot can make what you will of it. For everyone else, we will have to wait over the next several months and see how this turns out…
No hay tarot barato ni tarot caro todo depende de las verdades que te diga el vidente, prefieres perder el tiempo en el tarot barato y acumular minutos baratos que se hacen caros o una consulta rápida, concisa, clara y efectiva de pocos minutos caros que termina siendo baratos ¿ tú decides?
Comment by tarot amor — June 14, 2011 @ 3:29 am
When I’d arrived in the Big City, I had mentioned to N. that I wanted to get a palm reading. She said that maybe she could take me someplace before I left. Now, though, I found myself walking into the classic street-hypnosis racket, a store front with a red-neon palm in the window and a chain-smoking gypsy woman in the front: a spider waiting for the next bug. By the time it was over, I’d put down sixty bucks for what began as a “$5 reading,” and given her my phone number overseas; and I’d begun to get sold on the notion that this woman, with the vampiric last-name of “Vlado,” needed to procure some special “gold” candles from a church in Canada in order to remove a dark cloud hovering around me. By the way, she said, the person I was worrying about would “be a fine”. “Ms. Vlado” certainly knew how to work the “confusion technique.”
I left the con-shop and headed back to the squat. I waited out front for awhile because I didn’t have keys and neither did most of the people living there, so you had to wait to catch somebody on hir way out in order to get in. I perched on a fire hydrant and watched people go by as the sky grew darker. Someone tapped me on the shoulder. I was beginning to learn that when N. wanted to be found, she’d find you.
“Here, ” N. said and held her hand out to me. In it, there was a small, black paperback on palmistry.
“So you won’t have to go relying on someone else to do it for you,” she said.
Comment by Ian — June 14, 2011 @ 1:06 pm