Reading Style: Classic Five-Card Spread
The following exercise was taking from my text:
Card 1: What do I bring to the relationship with this deck? (Five of Swords)
Card 2: What special qualities and learning experiences does this deck have to offer? (Page of Swords)
Card 3: How can I most productively use these cards? (Four of Swords)
Card 4: What limitations or obstacles might I face with this deck? (Eight of Cups)
Card 5: What will be my overall experience of working with this deck? (The High Priestess)
*Note: all cards pulled came upright
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1. Five of Swords: Mourning a Loss
This card is described as winning a dispute, confidence in doing what you want without judgement, learning a spiritual lesson from defeat, and can also mean rejection, hurtful humiliation, hard feelings, and poor sportsmanship. I'm interpreting this in the way that I initially will feel judgement from wanting to learn tarot, but my striving for knowledge and to learn it will help me overcome the rejection. I am a very headstrong person, and have full belief that I will learn the deck the way that I want. The phrase that stood out in my text was "spiritual lesson from defeat". I have always felt "defeated" spiritually from my own personal faith (re: being raised Christian and realizing it was just not for me). I haven't really found any sort of religion that I would like to join (Buddhism is probably the closest, but I still have some issues). However, I think using these cards and positive, personal energy is a good use of my spiritual beliefs.
2. Page of Swords: Keen Observer, Clever Spy
This card is intelligent, alert, perceptive, easily connects the dots, unexpected/astonishing news, and analytical. Reversed, it is secretive, suspicious, a hurtful communication, unwelcome news, and unforeseen difficulties. I believe this deck will help me understand myself and introduce me deeper into the world of tarot. This deck will allow me to grow as a reader and will show me the ins and outs that a good tarot reader needs to know. I think it will also teach me how to deliver the message the cards are trying to say. I want to be honest and tell the query both positive and "negative" sides of the reading. After practicing these readings the past few days, I am in agreement with the author of my text. I don't think that upright vs. reverse necessarily matters. It's important to deliver both sides of the message to get the most out of the card.
3. Four of Swords: Solitude and Retreat
I pulled this card yesterday! it represents solitude, a time of healing, and a time of retreat. It can also mean possible rejection or ostracism and withdrawal from society. I think the most productive way to use my cards is to practice as often as possible when I can most effectively concentrate and work alone. My plan right now is to study them for about a year before doing a reading for another individual. I think the card is also saying to not hide the gift of reading the cards and to share the knowledge with other people. Perhaps a year might be too long, but I know with my current 9-5 job, I felt most confident after one year. (I also recorded my progress with this via photographs and compared my work before and after.) Keeping this blog for the year will help my improve my work and confidence with the cards.
4. Eight of Cups: The Decline of Matter
This card represents a renewed interest, moving onto greener pastures, travel, seeking a greater meaning in life, or lifestyle changes. It can also mean abandoned success, walking away, chasing an illusion, or emotional withdrawal. As far as limitations I may experience, I think this represents my attention span. Much like anything in my life, I can become instantly infatuated and put months and months of work/interest into a certain hobby/TV show/book/person/etc. Then one day, I will fall out of pattern and stop. One day of not doing becomes two... then three... then four... and so on. I think the important thing I need to learn is keeping my interest going and not giving up when it gets hard or repetitive. The only way I will "get good" at tarot is by continuing to practice it.
5. The High Priestess: Guardian of Secret Wisdom
She is my favorite card right now... the High Priestess. She represents secrets, revelation of the hidden, intuitive awareness, psychic infatuation, mystery, and our inner voice. She can also mean superficial knowledge, escape from reality, ignoring intuition, and inaccurate hunches. I could not imagine a more appropriate card for this question. I think working with this deck will tune me into the face that I do have an ability to read cards to help people answer their deep questions. I feel that I have a great intuition and usually the feeling in my gut is pretty accurate. When I saw a tarot reader in Salem, she mentioned to me that Leo's have great intuition and the ability to understand people. I think the High Priestess represents my new interest and how I can help myself and others reach the awareness. She is also slightly warning to not ignore my intuition and to study very hard so I don't give inaccurate readings.
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