Since it is April 1st, I decided to do a general Tarot reading for the month of April re the state of the world. I probably shouldn’t have. What a depressing reading.
I do a 7 card reading. 6 in a straight line plus one focus card. Some readers use more cards. Some fewer. Some lay them out in specific patterns. I met one lady who just laid cards down until she got an answer, and might go through half the deck. I knew another girl who would just pick one card for a daily reading. Doesn’t matter. It’s all a question of what you read into them. They are cards. They don’t really mean a damned thing by themselves.
9 of Cups, traditional Rider- Waite Deck
Anyway, there were quite a few good cards. The 9 of cups, the 10 of staffs (wands, sticks, whatever – they signify potential, talent, skill), the chariot, the ace of cups, and the7 of coins in the focus position, but they were all upside down. Fortunately, the most negative card of the reading, the 9 of swords, which indicates grief, loss, mourning, regret, all that bad stuff, was also upside down.
The 9 of cups is a good time Charlie, in my deck it pictures a roly poly man eating a big dinner off the top of a keg, with a goblet in one hand and a half empty, corked bottle by his feet. Good times. The 10 of staffs means there are lots of different options, if it’s a personal reading I always tell the person they’ve got lots of different talents, therefore lots of good career choices. The 7 of coins pictures a man sitting under a tree, calmly smoking a pipe with an empty basket by his side and 7 big, gold coins on the tree, because, despite everything your parents told you, money does grow on trees. Ask any apple farmer.
But, like I said, they were all upside down. So, these economic hard times will, eventually, come to an end, but it won’t be this month.
The chariot indicates great potential and power if you can get the black horse and the white horse pulling together, but that’s going to be hard to do. They are still set on their opposite courses. The ace of cups also indicates a relationship of opposites, with more romantic connotations. Again, upside down. Not nearly enough love in the world right now.
In fact, the only card out of 7 that was rightside up (giving it disproportionate importance) was the 8 of swords. Now, in my deck that is a seriously grim looking card, but I really don’t interpret it that negatively. It pictures a castle on a hill in the background and a gamut of swords which a person is walking through. Her (I’ve always seen it as her, but now that I look close, it could be a skinny, young boy and that could be a robe and not a dress – doesn’t matter) eyes are blindfolded and her hands are bound. I told you it was grim looking. But her feet are free and she is walking. The message of the 8 of swords is “keep walking.” You may not see where you are going, you may feel there’s nothing you can do, but keep going.
Better days are ahead. Maybe not this month, though.
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