Saturday night, I gave my first Tarot reading. I've never read anyone but myself, and I felt sort of weird doing it for someone else. Still, he'd asked me for a reading, and even though I had to consult the book a number of times, I felt pretty confident in my interpretation.
As a rule, you don't ask to know their question. At first, the cards seemed so scattered; pentacles and wands interloped, finance muddled with romance and wisdom — I had to stare at the spread until I could see a flow, how each card might relate to the other. I took what I knew about him (truthfully, not much) and looked for similarities in the cards.
Eventually a motif appeared, one about balance and change as well as finding maturity. The reading ended on the Three of Cups, a prosperous card of joy and celebration.
Two cards captured my attention due to their prominent position in the spread.
The Lovers -- A card of, well, lovers. Some decks have the card being depicted by an Adam and Eve, lilies and apples surrounding them to depict desire and temptation. It's a card of new beginnings, sexual attraction, and stimulation. Love is a force that makes you choose and decide for reasons you often can't understand; it makes you surrender control to a higher power. And that is what this card is all about. Finding something or someone who is so much a part of yourself, so perfectly attuned to you and you to them, that you cannot, dare not resist. In interpretation, the card indicates that the querent has come across, or will come across a person, career, challenge or thing that they will fall in love with. They will know instinctively that they must have this, even if it means diverging from their chosen path. No matter the difficulties, without it they will never be complete.
The High Priestess - She is the female version of the magician. She is often depicted with a scroll, and the scroll that she grasps contains all the secrets of life, because knowledge is hers. She is the lady guide, watchful and protecting. She brings balance and luck, wisdom and grace. But she is also secretive and mysterious. The High Priestess offers secret knowledge, like the moon on a dark night, so that the querent can find their path. She sits between the pillars of dark and light, existance and negation, wax and wane. All secret knowledge is hers.
Something flashed inside of me when I read these cards, quick and clear, of memory and instinct. Cool dewy grass, night sky, and the infinity symbol being traced across my skin.
I couldn't help but smile.
As a rule, you don't ask to know their question. At first, the cards seemed so scattered; pentacles and wands interloped, finance muddled with romance and wisdom — I had to stare at the spread until I could see a flow, how each card might relate to the other. I took what I knew about him (truthfully, not much) and looked for similarities in the cards.
Eventually a motif appeared, one about balance and change as well as finding maturity. The reading ended on the Three of Cups, a prosperous card of joy and celebration.
Two cards captured my attention due to their prominent position in the spread.
The Lovers -- A card of, well, lovers. Some decks have the card being depicted by an Adam and Eve, lilies and apples surrounding them to depict desire and temptation. It's a card of new beginnings, sexual attraction, and stimulation. Love is a force that makes you choose and decide for reasons you often can't understand; it makes you surrender control to a higher power. And that is what this card is all about. Finding something or someone who is so much a part of yourself, so perfectly attuned to you and you to them, that you cannot, dare not resist. In interpretation, the card indicates that the querent has come across, or will come across a person, career, challenge or thing that they will fall in love with. They will know instinctively that they must have this, even if it means diverging from their chosen path. No matter the difficulties, without it they will never be complete.
The High Priestess - She is the female version of the magician. She is often depicted with a scroll, and the scroll that she grasps contains all the secrets of life, because knowledge is hers. She is the lady guide, watchful and protecting. She brings balance and luck, wisdom and grace. But she is also secretive and mysterious. The High Priestess offers secret knowledge, like the moon on a dark night, so that the querent can find their path. She sits between the pillars of dark and light, existance and negation, wax and wane. All secret knowledge is hers.
Something flashed inside of me when I read these cards, quick and clear, of memory and instinct. Cool dewy grass, night sky, and the infinity symbol being traced across my skin.
I couldn't help but smile.
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