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Elisabeth posted an update in the group
Tarot School 9 years, 3 months agoHere’s some summer solstice spreads:
Bodhran’s Summer Solstice Spread
Rowan Tarot Summer Solstice Spread
Summer Solstice Sunrise SpreadI did Rowan’s spread

I was hoping for something really cheerful and optimistic. What I got was the bitter truth. Shoot!
1. Sunrise – something beginning or coming into my life.
4 of Cups
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Tarot School 9 years, 3 months agoI have a question for people who read with reversals! I think there’s a lot we could talk about with reversals in general that would be super interesting, but the other day I was stumped with a particular reading — I got a reversed card (Queen of Pentacles, if it helps) in a position in the spread that indicated something receding, or a quality t…[Read more]
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It might be helpful to know what the other cards were in the reading. I think card reversals can mean many different things and can really depend on the individual reading. It would be interesting to have a thread here about reversals.
My initial thought is that it might mean that the energy present in the reversed Queen is something like lack…[Read more]-
thank you Elisabeth! the idea of “needing to turn the card right side up” is brilliant and feels like it makes a lot of sense. the other thought i’ve been mulling over for this reading is that the reversed Queen of Cups might be a reference to unhealthy or toxic modes of nurturing, like codependence or smothering, which would make sense in the…[Read more]
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Wow, Rachel! Everything about this reading screams relationship and change.
I get the sense from the Two of Wands that you may be feeling trapped in the relationship. (You don’t have to respond to this, I’m just musing and practicing.) And wonder if the reversed Six of Swords refers to a moving on that you know is happening/going to happen but…[Read more]
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This is so interesting, and different than what I originally interpreted! Thank you for your insight, Elisabeth! I had read the 2 of Wands as pointing to concerns (either mine, my partner’s, or both) about being able to maintain individuality and our own individual agency within a relationship, which makes sense as that’s something I’ve…[Read more]
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I hope I didn’t confuse the issue. You seem to already have had a really good grasp of the reading. I realized as I read your reply that there are many different positions for the Celtic Cross too. I wonder if it is possible to read a CC reading properly from every different perspective. Thanks for providing the source of your info, btw. I…[Read more]
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I really like Elisabeth’s idea about learning to stop trying to turn the card right-way-up, letting go of this idea of being a ‘perfect woman’ and a nurturer… I also see this card as passing out of your life right now, and thus a sense of confusion around the
Personally, though, I really feel that reversed cards add a layer of smog to a…[Read more]
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I’d love to hear the answers to this, too. I have one deck that includes some really basic meanings for reversals (The Vision Tarot–I found it while moving!) and another that doesn’t use reversals according to the creator of the deck. I find the one with reversals hard to read for similar reasons, and the meanings often seem completely…[Read more]
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this is something i’ve found it helpful to refer to in the past on reversals — thinking of the traditional meaning of the card being blocked or delayed or out of proportion makes sense to me, especially because it doesn’t necessarily change the upright meaning of the card, just put that meaning in a different perspective. I’m reading through P…[Read more]
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I did a large reading last night that was pretty confusing with the reversals until I gave up on the “traditional” meanings that were included with the deck, and just started going with an approach that starts from the “normal” reading and looks at the reversal in a more negative light. I like the article you linked because I was mostly just…[Read more]
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Tarot School 9 years, 3 months agoSo this is a long shot, but are any of you lovely queermos selling a Collective Tarot deck? I know, I know. Why the heck would you want to part with it? But I want to get my grubby little mitts on it somehow and would probably pay a worrying amount of money for it.
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Elisabeth posted an update in the group
Tarot School 9 years, 3 months agoMary Greer’s blog is amazing! She has articles on Tarot and psychology, Jung, and really intelligent and unusual spreads.
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Tarot School 9 years, 4 months agoAnyone know of a good spread (or want to create one?!) for when you are standing at a cross-roads in life, with multiple paths you could choose to pursue?
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What a coincidence! I was just thinking of this the other day. I kept thinking about the two of rods in Potter’s deck.
I was thinking it could take the form of a y, with the end of the y representing where you’re currently at and then two lines veering off of that representing two choices, or different paths. That only gives you two paths though. -
Decision making spreads, forking path (I guess that’s what I was thinking of), and crossed paths.
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This is really simplistic, but I like to draw a card for each option I’m considering. If it’s a crossroads between two paths, I’ll draw I card for Path A, a card for Path B, and a card for Off the Path – “Something Else I Haven’t Thought of Yet?” I’ll lay these out horizontally, and if it’s necessary or interesting to do so, I’ll continue by…[Read more]
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Elisabeth posted an update in the group
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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Alison posted an update in the group
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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Thank you for sharing these!