I do my card every day - it's easy. The deck is next to my computer, the cards are on my tarot calendar board, leaning on the ledge. All I have to do is take a picture, send it to my laptop, upload it, resize it and post it here. Since I'm so very busy again, everything after putting the card on the ledge is simply difficult.... time-wise.
I'll add the pictures and interpretations later, but these were my cards:
Wednesday, October 17: The Star
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The Star on a communicative, forward-looking Wednesday - that was very fitting for the day itself when communication went smoothly and I had some success in my work - which is communicating knowledge. The card itself is an intriguing take on the Star - according to the lwb, it's Persephone here who sows with one hand and harvests with the other... now I have a lot of question marks here on the text in the lwb. I don't see the connection to Aquarius, and I don't see Persephone connected to harvest, and I don't see both together. And if you want to see Persephone with flowers - they're certainly not in vases but on the meadows, or as wreaths on the heads of her friends, the nymphs.
The lwb mentions the fish hook as esoteric emblem - okay, the fish hook is the name of the letter צ tsaddi associated with the Star, but you can also call that letter tsaddik, and then you have the tsaddik, the Righteous one, and tseddek, righteousness or justice, and that's the Hebrew name of the planet Jupiter...
that leads too far off... I should write somewhere a bit about the Hebrew letters, but not here...
The Sirius-Atlantis-Dagon paragraph doesn't convince me either.
If it's Aquarius, then why is the star Sirius? Sirius is the Hound star, the Big Dog, so where's the dog iconography? This card, beautiful as it is, feels a bit light-weight and at the same time, too down-to-earth. The way I see the Star, there is nothing earthly about it. It's all Air, Air, Air - but fixed Air, a tricky concept, because how can Air be fixed? Look at Thoth and Tabula Mundi to see how fixed Air can look. Oh, and for those interested in the iconography of the Star card,
here is a link to Robert O'Neill's article.
Returning to the cards - how interesting the two cards work together. Mercury really seems to lead the Star.
Thursday, October 18: Seven of Cups
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Thursday, Jupiter's day, the day of power and influence... Venus in Scorpio, tired and disillusioned, disappointed... I have let myself down, and indeed I feel at the same time the elation of success (like the happily harvesting Star) and the disappointment of stunting my own progress (the shadowy lady in the 7Cups). It's not even that I feel one day like this and one day like that. I feel both feelings at the same time, all the time. I'm proud of what I'm doing and I feel that I have wasted my opportunities of doing something better. I'm busy all the time but at the foundation level, I'm simply too lazy.
And if I look at the two cards for Wednesday and Thursday, I can see how I look to the people I talk to (students): a successful and eloquent professional. And to those above me in the hierarchy: an ultimately disappointing worker who starts well but can't keep it up. And turns her back to those in power.
Friday, October 19: Four of Swords
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Friday, dear Venus' day, and nothing of this card strikes home at all. My love life is happy, there is no struggle or conflict, no hidden tension, no need to rest or take a break, and there is no armour between us. I really don't know what to do with this card right now... can't think of anything that connects to it.
Overall, though, this was a very good week, and it's a very beautiful, evocative deck.
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