Test Reading: Last Paycheck

Testing for accuracy. Test Running a spread. Also shows the thought process behind my readings. Shows how the Tarot can be applied as a tool to the simplest of situations and questions. This is why I only charge 5US$ sometimes, depending upon the simplicity of the question.

Thoughts and Interpretations from readers welcome!!!

The Question is “Is my (missing) paycheck forthcoming soon (in the mail, etc.) and I just don’t know it?”

I didn’t think to clarify as I was shuffling that “is it forthcoming without my having to call HR first?” So I may have to do this again.

I did a Three Card Spread:

1. Truth of the Situation
2. What I Need to Know
3. Answer

I pulled the cards that are shown below:

1. King of Wands
2. Queen of Pentacles
3. Nine of Cups

So, of course, the first thing I looked at was the Nine of Cups as the Answer card, and it’s a great card for a Yes/No question, most usually means a resounding “YES!” So I”m happy with that. I take that to mean my MIA paycheck is on the way and I’m just not aware of it yet.

So maybe check is in mail, or maybe I have to go up and get it, who knows. I’m double checking on that now.

The Nine of Cups is a smug, happy guy; he’s gotten what he wants. That bodes well for me in this case.

The next card I look at is the first one, the Truth of the Situation, the King of Wands.

The first things that pop into my mind are that Kings are about Authority, and Wands are about Passionate Feelings. This King is angled away from the viewer with his left arm presenting. The left arm is controlled by the right brain. (Which is how I deal with Left and Right sides symbolism in my readings.) The Right Brain deals with intuition, spirituality, Creativity, the Arts, etc. This King is sitting and just thinking about things, or about something.

He’s not about action yet. He’s not using his Fire actively or externally yet; he is more contemplating what he should do for the moment. I’d say that’s accurate to what I am doing right now. I didn’t see my pay deposited Friday; I waited til today (Monday) to see if maybe it was in the mailbox before taking any action, and now I am contacting employer to see if maybe I was supposed to go pick up and I just didn’t know it.

It’s worth noting that he holds his Wand in his Right Hand, denoting the Left Brain and Logic/Reason. When he does take action, it will be logic ruled. This also is accurate for me.

Sometimes the Truth card will tell you Truths you are not aware of. So far, this one is only telling me where I am on my part, which I already know, but which validates that I shuffled effectively and that the rest of this spread is most likely accurate as well. Which is always nice to know.

This King has a lot of power but also a lot of self control, as all the Kings do. This tells me that I am handling this situation in the right manner and that I”m right to evaluate before taking action.

Finally, this King if facing away from the Nine of Cups. He’s not focused yet on making his desires manifest. He’s more waiting and seeing if the situation will rectify itself before wasting time and energy trying to force the issue. Again, this is accurate for my frame of mind and response.

And finally we have the Queen of Pentacles in the What I Need to Know position.

The first thing that comes to mind with her is that she also, is facing away from the Nine of Cups. Does this mean I”m too overly focused on my material security? More than I need to be, perhaps? This Queen has a very fertile kingdom but she doesn’t realize the Nine of Cups is right there next to her, it seems like. She’s angled towards the King of Wands, who is contemplating what action to take. The rabbit, a symbol of fertility, is also not just pointed away from the Nine of Cups, but actively running away from him.

Which does reinforce for me, the feeling that this may be advice to not worry and that worry is needless. No one in this card is acknowledging the Nine of Cups at all. They’re not seeing that it will be resolved very satisfactorily. They’re very comfortable and in no danger of poverty in this card. This Queen is also looking down at the huge pentacle she holds in her lap, which to me also could be a symbol of focusing too exclusively on material security. She’s not even looking at the rabbit, much less at the Nine of Cups. She’s not looking at anything around her. Just the pentacle in her lap. The over-sized pentacle in her lap.

So as far as I can tell, What I Need to Know most likely means “Stop worrying.”

And again, a look at their comparative positions to one another:

This spread is made of three different elements, which means it’s fairly well balanced. The only element lacking is the Swords, which means I may be focusing too much with my emotions, my passionate feelings, and my material concern than with any kind of overtly logical thought. Though I picked up on “logic” when I was looking at the King of Wands, so that makes me not too concerned about that.

The summary would be that waiting is fine, nothing is in any peril, and it will work out in the end. Which tells me to go ahead and wait til I hear back from my employer regarding my inquiry about it. If I don’t hear back from them, say, by Friday, I will go ahead and call HR. In which case, it will certainly be the Nine of Cups in the end, because I KNOW HR will resolve this if the individual store does not.

So we’ll see how accurate this pans out to be as the situation unfolds.

And if anyone else has any thoughts to offer, please do!

February 25, 2019 1

Biddy Card of the Week: 10 of Cups

Taken from https://www.biddytarot.com/tarot-card-meanings/minor-arcana/suit-of-cups/ten-of-cups/.

When the Ten of Cups pops up in a Tarot reading, you have a sense of wholeness, completion, and alignment in your relationships with others. You are experiencing an idyllic state of peace, harmony and love where your dreams and wishes have come true. Take a moment to step back and appreciate everything you accomplished. You created a life of connection and bliss by following your heart and trusting your intuition.

The Ten of Cups encourages you to follow your heart and trust your intuition to lead you to the opportunities aligned with your Highest Good. Your feelings and emotions will guide you. When something feels fantastic, do more of it; and when something doesn’t feel right, do less of it. Allow your inner guidance to lead the way. Seek out opportunities that fulfil you and align with your personal values instead of following the path that others expect you to take.

February 13, 2019 0

The Aces

Every morning I sit on my sofa with my coffee and am blessed enough to be able to watch the sunrise out the front door. Sitting there, I realized that Ace energy is present every single morning with every single sunrise.

Not quite my view, but you get the idea. Could correlate with the Ace of Wands.

And I realized also, in a more visceral manner than the intellectual manner I had previously understood Ace energy, I realized it is also present in each new birth.

“My hair! I”m not ready!” My first thought was Ace of Cups, but Ace of Pentacles is very apt as well. The emotional aspect, as well as the birth waters, but Pentacles because humans are so tied to the earth, and every creation of a new human is a new earthly creation.

In each empty page before a writer begins to write:

As well as every empty canvas before an artist begins to paint:

February 7, 2019 1

Horses in the Tarot (Rider Waite)

Inspired by the Knight of Wands exploration, I went through the entire Rider Waite deck and pulled out the cards featuring horses that are in addition to the four Knights.

I found three. Interestingly, all the horses have riders and all the pairs are traveling in the same direction, to the right (and future?). Two are Major Arcana, one is Minor. The Minor Arcana card was of the Wands suit. ALL the horses are WHITE. There is an object in the shape of an orb and in similar placement in all three cards: the sun in the Sun card, the laurel wreath in the Six of Wands, and … what is apparently the White Rose of the House of York, in the Death card.

Also interesting, is the fact that these three could easily symbolize the three major phases of our biological life span: Childhood, Adulthood, and Older Age.

Lined up numerically, they would be:

Since the originators of the Tarot cards didn’t do anything by accident, this is interesting to explore as well. The numbers are 6, 13, and 19. If looked at still as the three major phases of biological lifespans, the Sun would be in the Older Age and Endings placement. If we think about it, our infancy and childhood really is the beginning of our biological decay – our spirits are eternal but the bodies we incarnate into are not, and they begin dying the minute the leave the womb.

I suppose Death could be feasible in the Adulthood placement too, as it is possible it is meant to remind us that our entire lives are illusions of life, and that as adults, we are in full blown Death phase? Could be.

And the Six of Wands in the Childhood placement. When a child is born, it is generally celebrated and heralded with joy and adulation. That is true. So even though the figure in this card is an adult, the adulation he receives could be said to be reminiscent of the birth of a new baby. So I guess that could make sense.

Horses generally symbolize Freedom, so freedom is a theme that will be found somewhere, somehow in each of these cards, as well as in the cards of the Knights:

Www.pure-spirit.com says that “Although the horse was present in many different cultures, they represent the same concepts of freedom and power. In some cultures, white horses stand for the balance of wisdom and power. In others, like Christianity, the white horse is a symbol of death. The horse is a universal symbol of freedom without restraint, because riding a horse made people feel they could free themselves from their own bindings. Also linked with riding horses, they are symbols of travel, movement, and desire.”

All seven of these cards do indeed do mark a transition from one sate of being into another. The Six of Wands takes a person from obscurity to acclaim. Death, from one plane of existence to another; the Sun, from darkness to light. And the Knights are all about movement and change within their respective elements and suits.

And finally, its interesting that there are seven of these cards. Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom, by Rachel Pollack separates the Major Arcana into sets of seven with each set representing a phase of enlightenment while on earth.

Could this set of seven cards as a whole also be representative of something important in the experience of a soul?

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Knight of Swords traditional meanings

Knight of Pentacles traditional meanings

Knight of Cups traditional meanings

Knight of Wands traditional meanings

The Sun traditional meanings

Death traditional meanings

Six of Wands traditional meanings

December 23, 2018 4

The Ten of Cups: My Take

6/18/18 Notes from Sacred Circle 10 of Cups:

Appreciate what is being given.
Tipping point of some kind.
Shoot for the ideal.
Harvest is right here. But there is still information to be benefited from if willing to travel the distance to get to it.
Also harvest yet to be picked.
FRUIT: Fruit are symbolic of fertility and ideas and plans coming to fruition (Biddy Tarot Symbolism pdf).
LEAVES: Leaves symbolize growth and vitality (Biddy Tarot Symbolism pdf).
RAINBOW: The rainbow is a sign of Universal protection, happiness and ideal states
of being (Biddy Tarot Symbolism pdf).
In a garden. What is garden symbolism?
GARDENS:
Gardens offer the ability to enjoy the beauty of nature in peace and
comfort. Gardens are also safe and relatively private, providing space for
retreat, relaxation and contemplation.
Gardens represent the fact that people have the power not only to
control nature, but also to improve it through nurturing and caring
for the earth. Think of a beautifully landscaped garden that is both
aesthetically pleasing and a sustainable food source.
Gardens are also living metaphors of perfection. They represent
cultivation and growth, all leading towards a natural paradise of
perfection. (Biddy Tarot Symbolism pdf)

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(In an effort to maximize my time and energy in the Biddy Tarot Certification Course, I’ve decided to start journaling (which is blogging for me) about the weekly cards from which I pull inspiration and guidance towards my monthly goals. This is not authoritative information, just my personal notes.)

This week’s card is the Ten of Cups.

When I pulled this card a month ago, when I was doing my lookahead to the weeks in the month of May, I was using my usual deck, the Sacred Circle Tarot, by Anna Franklin and Paul Mason.

I had written in my notes, “Work is done. Crop is to be enjoyed.”

Numerical symbolism
End of a cycle and simultaneous renewal. In the realms of numerology, 10 also reduces down to 1 (1+0=1). And so, can also symbolize all the things that the number “1” does. (Biddy Tarot Numerology Chart) Anthony Louis phrases 10 as being “a transition point from one cycle to another . . . a number of completion and final ending. (Tarot Plain and Simple,)”

Astrological symbolism ..which planet rules the card…
Golden dawn says mars/pisces (To me, Mars is a Fire planet, so I don’t get that, but I don’t much like Golden Dawn anyway?)
Water : cancer, scorpio, pisces
Hindu decans – pisces scorpio (no clue what that (decans) is)
(Tarot Plain and Simple, by Anthony Louis)

Elements symbolism
water

Season and direction correspondence
Astrologically, The suit of Cups corresponds with the direction of North and the season of Summer.

The pagan traditions that I am familiar with cite Water (the cups) as corresponding with the direction West and so the season of Autumn.

I’m sure there are other traditions and cultures with other correspondences, but Autumn and West is what I work with. I can’t even wrap my head around North and Summer but – astrology is an ancient science so I’m sure they are more correct than we are? Either way – everyone chooses what makes sense to them and that’s what you work with.

6/18/18 Note: Water and the Cups and the West being correlated with Summer makes more sense to me now, with Swords ruling Autumn, Wands ruling Spring, and Pentacles ruling Winter, but I still personally work with Swords /Spring, Wands/Summer, Cups/Fall, and Pentacles/Winter, as I was taught that the directions follow East/Spring, South/Summer, West/Autumn, and North/Winter.

Major Arcana card
The Wheel of Fortune, or as my deck names it, simply The Wheel.

The AnnaFranklin.webplus.net interprets their Ten of Cups as:

Key word: reward

The ten cups of this card are full with the various good things of the harvest, the culmination of all the efforts of the farming year. They represent achievements of various kinds. The fruits depicted all have various symbolic meanings and energies, and play their part in our harvest celebrations.

Divinatory Meanings:

You are now reaping the rewards of all your efforts. It is a time of great happiness within the family and you will experience the joy of true friendships. This situation has firm foundations and will be long lasting.

Reverse Meanings:

Your well ordered environment will be disrupted in an extreme fashion, perhaps by the birth of a child or by a troublesome teenager. This card heralds family quarrels and the loss of friendships.

Some Key Words:
Peace, joy, happiness, contentment, love, family life, a good reputation, honor, virtue, harmony, a happy hearth.

I am now working with the Radiant Rider-Waite deck –

in that deck, the card looks like this: