Pondering my recent tarot reading
Nov. 2nd, 2014 10:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alee_grrlSo the lovely ariestess did a free one-card draw event for Samhain. It's been a while since I did a reading or had a reading done, so I figured why not. I also had enough to tip for once, which was happy making. In the end I was able to get a four-card reading. Now I'm pondering the results of that reading. Because inevitably when you ask for a general message from the universe you get one you were not expecting.
Your card :: 4 of Spades [reversed]
4 of Spades signals missed opportunities, but a reversed position indicates jealousy. The jealousy could come from within or from an external source. You need to take a look at what's happening in your life right now and how your relationships are in connection to the current situation. Is there jealousy? Is it something that can be corrected without a lot of negativity? That's what you need to do then.
Tip It! card #1: 6 of Spades
This is an excellent time to remember your contingency plans. If you don't make contingency plans, this would be the perfect time to start. Circumstances will cause some upcoming plans or expectations to fall short of your desired outcome. This does not mean that all is for naught. It just means that you need to always have a backup plan in case something happens.
Tip It! card #2: 18 - Encampment
Riding the same thread of the last card is the encouragement that things will be all right. Even if your plans don't turn out as you wished, with your contingency plans in place, you'll get a different result that may actually be better than the one you were hoping for. The opportunities are there if you look for them.
Level 1 card: King of Spades [reversed]
Remember what I said above about the plans not quite hitting the results you wanted? It looks like that could be partly due to someone injecting malice into the works, so to speak. Someone doesn't want you to succeed, and apparently will try anything they can to make sure you don't. This is an excellent time to check on your relationships and see if you can figure out who it is and why they don't want you to succeed.
So my first thought on the seeing the first card was am I jealous of anyone right now. Jealousy is not something I deal with often and so is not an emotion that I am used to dealing with. But I couldn't think of anyone I was jealous of at all. Then I got the remainder of my cards which seem to indicate that the jealousy I need to watch out for is external rather than internal. Which is equally troubling. I have no idea who would be jealous of me and the thought of someone feeling malicious enough to want to cause my plans to go off track is very troubling. I also do not feel like I have a lot of plans at the moment, so I'm not sure how they could be sent off track.
My relationships with my heart family are all still amazing and positive, which is good because that is a lot of my contingency plans right there. :) My relationship with my brother seems to be fairly solid and on a good track. My mother is still a wild-card, but I do not see anyway she could upset my plans in life at this point. She could do her damnedest to tank my strengthening relationships with my brother, sister-in-law, and niece. But that is the only thing she has power to effect in my life.
It may have to do with work. While my relationships with my direct supervisor and the team I will be working with are pretty good, there is my former supervisor who does not like me one bit (the feeling is rather mutual). At this point there is not enough information to really now. So I will do my best not to worry unnecessarily about anything, which means working on the brain weasels and the leave it command. Really, brain, now is not the time to obsess about anything. Just keep an open mind, go with the flow of things, and keep your contingency plans up to date. Since that's pretty much how I always try to live my life, it's not really anything out of the norm.
My general philosophy on tarot is that it is less a tool of prediction and more a tool of reflection. It is a great way to understand what is going on in the universe at the moment of the reading and how that might impact your immediate future. What I find interesting in this is that it shows me that I am much more open to seeing the negativity and bad aspects in my own personality and behavior than I am to acknowledging outside forces being negative towards me. In other words I tend to think it's all my own fault and that I can fix everything. It's always been hard for me to acknowledge that I cannot control what other people think and feel. As my father loved to tell me: you can't please everyone, and you can't make everyone like you. Some people are just assholes. That can be a hard thing to believe when you want to see the best in everyone.
ariestess did a free one-card draw event for Samhain. It's been a while since I did a reading or had a reading done, so I figured why not. I also had enough to tip for once, which was happy making. In the end I was able to get a four-card reading. Now I'm pondering the results of that reading. Because inevitably when you ask for a general message from the universe you get one you were not expecting. Your card :: 4 of Spades [reversed]
4 of Spades signals missed opportunities, but a reversed position indicates jealousy. The jealousy could come from within or from an external source. You need to take a look at what's happening in your life right now and how your relationships are in connection to the current situation. Is there jealousy? Is it something that can be corrected without a lot of negativity? That's what you need to do then.
Tip It! card #1: 6 of Spades
This is an excellent time to remember your contingency plans. If you don't make contingency plans, this would be the perfect time to start. Circumstances will cause some upcoming plans or expectations to fall short of your desired outcome. This does not mean that all is for naught. It just means that you need to always have a backup plan in case something happens.
Tip It! card #2: 18 - Encampment
Riding the same thread of the last card is the encouragement that things will be all right. Even if your plans don't turn out as you wished, with your contingency plans in place, you'll get a different result that may actually be better than the one you were hoping for. The opportunities are there if you look for them.
Level 1 card: King of Spades [reversed]
Remember what I said above about the plans not quite hitting the results you wanted? It looks like that could be partly due to someone injecting malice into the works, so to speak. Someone doesn't want you to succeed, and apparently will try anything they can to make sure you don't. This is an excellent time to check on your relationships and see if you can figure out who it is and why they don't want you to succeed.
So my first thought on the seeing the first card was am I jealous of anyone right now. Jealousy is not something I deal with often and so is not an emotion that I am used to dealing with. But I couldn't think of anyone I was jealous of at all. Then I got the remainder of my cards which seem to indicate that the jealousy I need to watch out for is external rather than internal. Which is equally troubling. I have no idea who would be jealous of me and the thought of someone feeling malicious enough to want to cause my plans to go off track is very troubling. I also do not feel like I have a lot of plans at the moment, so I'm not sure how they could be sent off track.
My relationships with my heart family are all still amazing and positive, which is good because that is a lot of my contingency plans right there. :) My relationship with my brother seems to be fairly solid and on a good track. My mother is still a wild-card, but I do not see anyway she could upset my plans in life at this point. She could do her damnedest to tank my strengthening relationships with my brother, sister-in-law, and niece. But that is the only thing she has power to effect in my life.
It may have to do with work. While my relationships with my direct supervisor and the team I will be working with are pretty good, there is my former supervisor who does not like me one bit (the feeling is rather mutual). At this point there is not enough information to really now. So I will do my best not to worry unnecessarily about anything, which means working on the brain weasels and the leave it command. Really, brain, now is not the time to obsess about anything. Just keep an open mind, go with the flow of things, and keep your contingency plans up to date. Since that's pretty much how I always try to live my life, it's not really anything out of the norm.
My general philosophy on tarot is that it is less a tool of prediction and more a tool of reflection. It is a great way to understand what is going on in the universe at the moment of the reading and how that might impact your immediate future. What I find interesting in this is that it shows me that I am much more open to seeing the negativity and bad aspects in my own personality and behavior than I am to acknowledging outside forces being negative towards me. In other words I tend to think it's all my own fault and that I can fix everything. It's always been hard for me to acknowledge that I cannot control what other people think and feel. As my father loved to tell me: you can't please everyone, and you can't make everyone like you. Some people are just assholes. That can be a hard thing to believe when you want to see the best in everyone.
