A Little Sample Reading for Everyone!

Based on my own lived experience, I tend not to put much credence in astrology or Ouija (I just simply don’t believe in the mechanisms behind them), but I DO love the Tarot for two very important reasons: 

First, to me, the Tarot is a high art, not a carnival sideshow: it’s something like ballet or opera—a sophisticated, aristocratic artform emerging from European medieval culture and exploding during the Renaissance. It has a beautiful, rich, and complex history. It may be difficult to understand and appreciate. Like ballet and opera, it looks silly to those without the exposure and the education. 

Second, in psychological terms, the Tarot puts us in touch with our Jungian archetypal unconscious. If I put a series of powerful symbols in front of you that has evolved over the course of six centuries and ask how it applies to your life, you are going to come up with a meaningful answer that helps get you unstuck. It happens for me everyday. The messages of the 78 cards and their limitlessly complex inter-related narratives (informed by randomness, the source of synchronicity) can help everyone understand their lives.

Here’s a reading for today: Look at the three cards and read my interpretation and see if you can see the correspondences between the symbols in the scene depicted in the card and my reading: 

I’ve used a very expensive European deck I special-ordered from a Tarot studio in Poland. The images are intricate and adorable. I love this deck. 

We see: 

The Four of Cups (one of my favorites!)

The Three of Swords (ouch!) in Reverse

And the Two of Pentacles (haven’t we all felt this way!) in Reverse

The cards offer us a way out of heartbreak, confusion, and hurt. They ask, “is this what you want, or do you want a new perspective?” So it gives that to us. Do you want to emerge from habits that hurt you? 

If so, we need to commit to seeing the miracles and gifts that are offered to us EVERY day. No matter how bored, dissatisfied, hurt, or dejected we are, we have to remember that the universe (the great unknown!) has an additional gift for us. So often we simply aren’t turned in the right direction to see it. Look at that adorable hand springing forth an additional gift. 

If we can remember this knowledge, to know that suffering is not our natural state and that we are constantly being offered gifts to which we turn our backs, then all struggles, decisions, and difficulties become easy to handle. We won’t catch ourselves in our own nets. So many of our struggles become unnecessary. We simply need to ask, “What is really being offered here?”