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Backwards Tarot Prompts

A quick exercise where the situation comes first, and then we choose a card to represent it.
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Inspired by this post on Llewellyn's blog by Susan Chang, here's a quick exercise where the situation comes first, and then we choose a card to represent it.

For the prompt, you can use the one the person before you used or add your own, whichever you prefer. One option is to use a prompt generator like this one.

Then choose the card that best represents that prompt in whatever tarot deck you're considering. You can explain why you chose that card, or you can just quickly tell us the card and deck.


(It's not about picking a "correct" card. Decks vary, and as the post linked above says, one person might choose The Chariot (their car) for "running errands" while another might choose the Knight of Wands (on a mission))

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prompt from generator: "walking a group of dogs"

5 of wands - RWS
tangled leashes! :O
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prompt from generator: "hold your tongue"
"discretion is the better part of valor"
6 of Wands - RWS


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prompt from generator: "going bowling"

5 of Cups - RWS
lol the best I can manage is to bowl a spare
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prompt from generator: "flying a kite"

6 of Swords - Roots of Asia
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prompt from generator: "painting your nails"

7 of Cups - RWS
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prompt from generator: "gathering eggs from a hen house"

8 of Disks - Tabula Mundi
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prompt from generator: "body surfing at the beach"

The Chariot - Tabula Mundi Tarot
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prompt from generator: "walking with crutches"

8 of Swords - Thoth
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prompt from generator: "scuba diving"

The Hanged Man - Asherah Tarot
(Mem=water)
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prompt from generator: "rearranging furniture"

2 of Disks - Thoth
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prompt from Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here:

"Remember when you were young..."

XIX Tarot of the Druids

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"You shone like The Sun."
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Prompt from the first post I saw on Facebook: "You should dance with the skeletons in your closet"—Sparking Her Own Flame, Pierre Alex Jeanty

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XIII, Medieval Scapini Tarot
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prompt song lyrics from Led Zeppelin/Heartbreaker:

"I'll just keep on rolling along,
With the grace of the Lord above"

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The High Priestess - Meta-Barons tarot
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prompt song lyrics from the movie, Midsommar:

"The Sun aint gonna shine anymore,
The Moon aint gonna rise in the sky..."
- Frankie Valli

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prompt taken from a yesterday news story:
Sacré bleu: French flag changes colour –
but no one notices

Kim Willsher of The Guardian


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