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Tarot School 9 years, 4 months agoI am falling in love with the Tarot in a way I never thought I would. Thanks to this group I’m just at a really good place with it right now and that is making me really happy. You all are awesome!

I was really inspired this morning by Dani’s article about Pride. I really liked her journaling questions and decided to use them to do my…[Read more]
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This is awesome – I love that your used Dani’s pride prompts. What a good idea!
Also, my reaction to the Knight of Cups once was “don’t be that guy!” Lol.
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Thanks!!!
I know right?! But the Knight of Cups is supposed to be what I’m proud of. I am actually kinda like that, but I’m definitely not proud of it.-
Way to invent a new spread off that article! I’m gonna try this one out later tonight.
Re: “I am falling in love with the Tarot in a way I never thought I would.” – It’s addictive, isn’t it? For me, dabbling in tarot was a gateway, and the cards have totally gotten under my skin since then. Now I find I think about them all the time – I’m…[Read more]-
Yay! I totally agree!
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This page has some great positives (and negatives! to balance) about the Knight of Cups. Maybe it’ll have something helpful?
Knight of Cups @ LearnTarot-
That was really helpful! A lot of that is me. That website also says that two Knights in a reading can be two conflicting sides of the self or enhanced aspects of the Knights in general.
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That website also has some great stuff about the 4 of Pentacles! Trying to control a situation too much, not letting go, resisting change…yep.
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hey im Ty. im 16 and from Manchester, NH. im queer as heckie and very lame. femme, radical feminist, forest nymph. i write and draw i guess. im anxious and sleepy and sad. but im very nice and cute most of the time. idk idk idk.
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Hi! I’m Rissa. I’m 18 and I’m starting college in the fall. I’m majoring in Chemical Engineering. I have two dogs that I love like crazy. I like to read and I journal. I’m definitely a morning person and enjoy morning bike rides. I like the outdoors despite having allergies. I like meeting new people even though I am not the best at it and usually…[Read more]
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Tarot School 9 years, 4 months agoIt’s been one week, and I was so excited and inspired by everyone’s posts on the Ace of Swords last week!
So this week I’d love to hear everyone’s take on the Two of Swords:

(Pictured: Herbal Tarot; Wildwood Tarot; and Rider-Waite-Smith)
This card’s always been intriguing but initially difficult to understand for me. Some meanings I’ve read…[Read more]
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Hmmm, I’ve never seen this card interpreted as a healthy balance, but rather as an unhealthy one, the kind of false balance or stasis that results when you refuse to make a choice. Maybe the artwork is more neutral in some specific decks? If so that’s a decision on the part of the artist to tweak the traditional meaning (which is of course totally…[Read more]
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Left to right: Tarot of the Magical Forest, Dreaming Way
Yay! I was excited to see your (now weekly) post.
I really love the image in the Wildwood Tarot! That has a lot you can read into.
A brief interpretation from Greer’s 21 Ways with the Dreaming Way:
(Stating the obvious may seem silly but I was surprised at what it can bring out,…[Read more]-
I just wanted to add that that is obviously my own story and that I don’t think that that interpretation applies to everyone.
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I think that this person needs to put down the swords (or arrows) in order to take that blindfold off.
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It’s interesting that the Dreaming Way character is the only one not balancing her swords. At the same time, this card makes it a lot easier to see her indecisiveness. I agree that she seems very vulnerable, and I like your story behind it a lot.
The book for the Wildwood tarot also makes the point that the bow underneath her foot is broken…[Read more]
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I agree with you about the indecisive quality in the Dreaming Way, and I find the previous bad decision making element in the Wildwood very interesting! That led her to the position she is in now. I just looked this card up in my Pollack book and I’m left with a feeling that this card can go a couple of ways. Pollack writes that this card…[Read more]
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I love hearing everyone’s insights on this card! I’ve always had trouble interpreting this one beyond just needing to re-examine your decision making. Also love the ties to justice/injustice in the Wildwood card – what a gorgeous image!
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This is totally it. There’s so much duality in this card/ in the two swords that it still feels impossible to pin it down to one meaning.
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Oh man, when I first drew this card, I felt immediately connected to it. I was pretty sad to learn that it had such negative connotations, but there’s still part of me that really identifies with it. There is a certain power in this card (in my eyes)- when I first saw the Rider-Waite version I expected it would be a card about inner strength and…[Read more]
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Also, what do you guys think about the moon making an appearance in this card? In the Rider-Waite version, it almost seems like the moon is hanging out during the day.
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I just stumbled onto something that is relevant to the moon symbology. An interpretation of the Steampunk two of swords on TABI Tarot’s blog.
The author says that this is about being led more by intuition rather than vision and clarity. Ok, now I’m done! :D
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Corinna, I really liked your additions!
I wondered about that moon too. Perhaps this is a nod to the Empress who is quiet and wise and the intuition (the Moon card itself).
This tarot website says that moons in cards deal with cycles, reflection, emerging from one phase to another. Here’s a neat image from that website of all the moons on…[Read more]-
I like that idea a lot. Let’s do it during the next full moon?!
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Great idea. That’s July 12th I think. I’ll add it to my iCal, otherwise I’ll never remember.
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I just wanted to toss Anna K’s 2 of Swords into the ring – it looks so different!

This is her description of the card: “The two of swords depicts the unpleasant doubts that creep over us if we have lost the connection with our center, our intuition. With intellect alone we can’t make decisions that satisfy, that feel right, even if they are…[Read more]
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Whoa. So different from all of the other cards! It’s interesting though that this one is still about being disconnected from our intuition. And I feel like I can see some self-doubt in this as well as in the other cards.
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the two of swords has always been a card that comes up for me often and that functions as a warning for me — to me, especially with the rider-waite deck, it’s always represented closing oneself off in an unhealthy way, kneejerk reactions of self-protectiveness that don’t actually serve. i find myself really noticing how her swords are held in a d…[Read more]
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That is a really interesting interpretation. I makes a lot of sense!
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Thanks Rachel, that was really helpful!
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Tarot School 9 years, 4 months agoSo, I was doing a little daily reading for myself, and guess what card I pulled on this here Friday the 13th? THE MOON! In honour of the full honey moon tonight, I thought we could discuss the card a little bit. It made sense in a literal way,in my reading, but not as much in its interpretation. Generally I see it as a card of both dark and light,…[Read more]
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I love this card. I’m a Cancer in, like, all the planets (by which I mean four of them), so I’m very governed by the moon, and happily so. I therefore have many romantic feelings about this card. Here are some of them: If you want to understand The Moon, comma, the tarot card, put down your deck, go outside, look up at the moon, and observe your…[Read more]
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woowww, thank you for the amazing insight! I think I know what the Moon was trying to tell me now. What a powerful card.
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I feel very much what Hazel Blue wrote about the tug! When I look at this card I feel the tug of that most inner part of you that is the real, total, genuine you that pulls you toward what is real for you in life, or what you need or desire to be fulfilled. It’s like a calling to fulfill yourself. Like dogs who howl at the moon. Does anyone…[Read more]
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I agree with everything everyone’s already posted, but i think the card has another facet as well. The moon represents the unconscious (which many of you touched upon, talking about how it may represent feelings instead of reality), and thereby it also represents other worlds (i.e., the dream world, worlds/realities created by alcohol,…[Read more]
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That’s very interesting. I think the two canine’s are important and maybe represent two aspects of the self, the tamed and the untamed. Also, I feel that those pillars in the distance are important. I think they are about a path, and we can see a winding path leading through them from the unconscious to the horizon. I think the winding path…[Read more]
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Yes – definitely – the dog is the ‘domesticated’ version of ourselves, and the wolf is our wild side. I kind of consider the pillars to be the gates to the ‘other realm,’ that we need the wolf and dog to guide us through.
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Interesting and mysterious! Do you have any other thoughts about the ‘other realm’? Perhaps I’m dense but I’m not sure what that means.
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I guess my idea of ‘other realms’ is any mind state that differs from what is generally accepted as ‘reality.’ I don’t know if that makes sense, but I think I also mean any place that the mind can travel to. So, like I said above, dreams, drug induced hallucinations, etc.
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Good point, Alison! I never thought of the dog and wolf in the card that way.
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Hey I’m Camila. I’m 19 and I live in Miami, Florida. I go to UM, currently studying to get my BA in English. I am a writer and musician. I perform both spoken word and am in a band….. so you could say I crave the spotlight just a tad. Nonetheless I enjoy good conversation with a small group of people most of all. Well either that or reading a…[Read more]
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