I have a resistance to certain “negative” cards coming up in some readings. The devil, a lot of the swords cards, 5 of pentacles you know the drill. Especially when I get them in spreads for seemingly happy information. I’m not saying all cards need to be positive but the deeper my understanding of ...

I just ran across something that reminded me of this thread. It's in my blog (which you can see if you are a member and have achieved a certain number of posts) It was about an exhibition of Surrealist Women Artists I saw last year, just before the lockdowns started. Here is the painting that made ...

Perhaps instead of asking yet again about the situation, you can ask about yourself. Perhaps a celtic cross on why you are unable to get the situation off your mind or perhaps a five-card line asking what steps you can take to keep yourself balanced for the duration. i think the cards are getting t...

Additionally instead of thinking about a queen in terms of an ancient or outmoded role in society we can draw parallels in the modern world with someone who is married to a 'ruler' such as a CEO of a global corporation, or a first lady in the US and the type of things that might be required of them...

She may very well have been in her personal life, but she was very powerful in her political life, whether this insults your and my personal political sensibilities. As tarot readers we must set aside our feelings and read the cards. It does a disservice to our sitters if we fail to do this. The De...

They're beautiful, I agree! And they're the kind of images that you don't have to struggle to make meaning out of. They get me thinking about the King of Cups in a different way than what I'm used to. I love when cards have art that gets your intuition going immediately–the art is evocative, is wha...

Margret thatcher was a horrible and weak woman with white supremacist ideals that b is the devil tarot card archetype. She may very well have been in her personal life, but she was very powerful in her political life, whether this insults your and my personal political sensibilities. As tarot reade...

I'm glad you found it helpful. And that's a beautiful quote! The King of Cups isn't always emotionally constipated–he has shown up in some of my readings that way, but he can also symbolise healing from the same societal wounds of toxic masculinity you've talked about, I think. It also depends on t...

Additionally instead of thinking about a queen in terms of an ancient or outmoded role in society we can draw parallels in the modern world with someone who is married to a 'ruler' such as a CEO of a global corporation, or a first lady in the US and the type of things that might be required of them...

I totally see where you’re going with this but being married to someone in a position of power or Vice President is not it. Especially being married to someone in a position of power because that means your power is contingent upon your spouse and honestly compared to BEING the person in power that...

This reminds me--who is your audience, your sitter for your readings? Is it you? There needs to be buy in. What will they see or understand when they see a male King of Cups /Coins/ Swords /Wands sitting in front of them? There is quite a basic distinction there. In a perfect world this doesn't mat...

And let's not even get into Emperor and Empress archetypes! :lol: The emperor and empress cards make sense to me more than queen and king of cups. This is a really weird way of making sense of it but the empress would be a tree full of ripe mangoes and the emperor being a huge towering pine tree. I...

Additionally instead of thinking about a queen in terms of an ancient or outmoded role in society we can draw parallels in the modern world with someone who is married to a 'ruler' such as a CEO of a global corporation, or a first lady in the US and the type of things that might be required of them...

This reminds me--who is your audience, your sitter for your readings? Is it you? There needs to be buy in. What will they see or understand when they see a male King of Cups /Coins/ Swords /Wands sitting in front of them? There is quite a basic distinction there. In a perfect world this doesn't mat...

For me the Kings aren't active at all; they're about control. The King of Cups is about controlling emotions, and this can be good or bad, light or shadow, depending. Sometimes the KIng of Cups looks benevolent to me, sometimes ambivalent, sometimes emotionally constipated. The King of Pents is con...

What about the elemental association for the Queen of Cups? She is the Watery part of Water. (As opposed to the King of Cups, the Fiery part of Water) This is why I have a hard time buying into the passive nature of the Queen of Cups (or any Queen really because they are all represented by Water) S...

I'm sure this has a lot to with why men make better plumbers than women! :D I think you’re being sarcastic but in case you’re not FYI the idea that someone is inherently a better plumber due to their gender is preposterous I think John Updike was being sarcastic. I was being facetious. Fair enough,...

Of course the Rider Waite has a fascinating viewpoint from the perspective of the Queen of Cups. Pictured as she is, examining the lidded cup with such intensity she fails to see the bigger picture ... the open sea. As with the King, adrift on his floating throne, with no wheelhouse or star to guid...

“Men, they were able to conjure it up immediately, that was one of their powers, that thunderous splashing as they stood lordly above the bowl. Everything about them was more direct, their insides weren’t the maze women’s were, for the pee to find its way through.” ― John Updike, The Witches of Eas...

...Yes there is power in putting others before you but you rarely see that as a quality that stands out in male archetypes and it makes me so angry lol. @rose lalonde . But you're not going to see a Marvel movie where the earth is saved by Iron Man's draw dropping power of... patience. ;) We love d...

Dear Emperor, I think everyone can relate! Unfortunately, you can't force Fate. Maybe it's time to use tarot differently now. It sounds you're going through a Hanged Man phase. Why not take a good look at the Hanged Man, meditate about the card, write down your ideas about him, make your own versio...

I'm still of the firm opinion that lurking spiritually into another person's mind is a violation of the person's border and a potential misuse of tarot. I know that tarot's recent popularity is thanks to the illusion that it's possible. I think these Other readings are mostly wishful thinking readi...

My tarot cards have been extremely helpful in this trying time and it’s not so much the cards I wanna bitch about but the situation. The advice of the cards has been to stay open minded to all possibilities but try not to fixate on it just forget about it for now. The thing is is that i can’t get th...

Clarifiers have become very popular. I noticed that on my return to the Tarot. They're all over the place. It wasn't like that before. -LOL l!! - I sound like one of those caricatures of old people who say "things were different in my days". 🐘 A bit like now there are 5 McDonalds in my to...

Since I have started tarot and lurking forums I have noticed that 99% of the readings are about people wanting their ex-back or wanting to know about a certain someone in their lives. I am so fascinated by it. It seems all other wondering things about tarot does not exist. From a psychological poin...