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Tarot School 9 years, 5 months agoHey guys! I just did my first ever reading with a “card a day” spread. I drew the ten of swords, and now I’m stressed out because I don’t know how to interpret it! The only thing I could think of was that I can create melodrama in my own life, but I was curious about how others interpret this card.
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This is a difficult card for me also. Swords relate to air, the internal processes of thought or emotion but tend to be a bit more negative than cups with also deal with the same things. Tens represent an excess of the suit–the suit gone too far. So this could be as simple as you’re thinking about ______ too much. I think this card can also…[Read more]
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And because I want to practice Ali’s magical HTML geekery here’s some quotes from Biddy Tarot on the 10 of Swords that are reassuringly more positive.
The Ten of Swords also indicates a difficult experience of endings, loss, pain or release. However, the saving grace is that you have a new awareness and a positive sense of relief that the…
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Those interpretations made a lot of sense for me! I’m about to take the GRE, and I’m extremely nervous about it, so in relation to the ten of swords, I’m interpreting that I need to worry less about studying and the outcome. Thanks Elisabeth!
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Great! Good luck! I think the difficulty will be over soon and will evolve into something new also seems quite fitting!
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Good luck with your GREs! Tens can mark a turning point between the end of an old cycle and the beginning of a new one. Sometimes the ten of swords is an indicator that you’ve already faced the worst of a situation, and the silver lining is that you can begin to heal and move on. A good thing to keep in mind is that the swords can often indicate…[Read more]
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Those interpretations make sense, as well. Thank you!
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Tarot School 9 years, 5 months agoI am so stoked that this group exists! What do you folks think with regards to the whole right side up versus upside down thing… Do you read with cards reversed? Generally I have not gone in that direction because with my old deck I found that my reversed cards would stay that way for basically forever and it didn’t seem to have any randomness…[Read more]
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Oh, whoops… Just saw way down thread that people are already talking about this… Wish we could organize this a little better so that it’s easier to see what has been posted about without so much scrolling on my little phone.
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Yeah, it’s too bad there isn’t more ability to sort through old threads.
I don’t think this got mentioned in the older thread, but if you do want to read reversed cards, it helps to add reversing as an intentional step when you shuffle (like, at some point when you have the deck split, flip one half of it 180 degrees). This will keep things…[Read more]
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I end up getting reversals because I have little hands and am always dropping cards when I shuffle. I decided to not be careful about putting them back in the deck right side up. So …that’s my method of getting reversals…bad shuffling.
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That’s a good idea – to actively embrace the reversed cards, rather than thinking ‘agh no’ every time one turns up.
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Hi Lianne, I don’t do reversals (yet!) so I’ve been very careful about shuffling them. Some ways I’ve seen people do who work with reversals is that they place the cards in a heap in front and they just swish them around and then when they feel it’s done they just scoop them all together.
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That’s my favourite method of shuffling :D But I don’t do it very often..
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I guess my problem has been that once a card is upside down, it stays upside down for a long time and it always felt like I was trying to mix them up on purpose which felt unnatural. The pile and random swooshing method might be the solution to that, though!
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Hi Lianne, tarot for me personally is a way of bringing hope and optimism into my life and my friends’ lives, and so I was hesitant initially to work with inverted cards. But from the very first reading I did, I realized that an upside-down card doesn’t necessarily have to give it an opposite or negative meaning, as I had at first thought. For me,…[Read more]
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I like this interpretation of the reversal! I always got too caught up in the binary-ness of using reversed cards and I felt it took away from some of the subtleties of my readings. Your method seems like it actually ads more subtlety!
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I really like reading with reversed cards, but I think it depends on the deck your using, and it’s not always necessary ! There’s a really good introduction to it here: http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/card-meanings/reversed/introduction.shtml
Basically it says that reversed cards don’t always have to have the opposite meaning of the card drawn. It…[Read more]
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