As one of my goals for the coming year is to work more with the Tarot and become more familiar with interpretations, I decided to once again do a reading for the year.
The card I drew for January was the 7 of Swords, which in the couple of books I have seems to represent opposition, especially opposition through sneakiness. This pretty well intrigued me, mostly because even though I’m fairly intuitive, I have trouble reading social cues. My shrink years ago said I had aspects of autism in my personality. So, I decided to do a simple Past Present Future spread for January.
Guess what came up as the first card. No, go ahead….guess….
Yep, that’s right….7 of Swords. I was still at a bit of a loss on this one, so I went out to the internet and looked up various interpretations for this card. The first link that came up when I googled it was this page from learntarot.com. The first set of interpretations surrounding running away was me to a T. It probably sums up my emotional past better than anything I’ve ever seen. I’ve always been an avoider, a procrastinator, someone who runs away rather than face a confrontation, all the while worrying desperately about that confrontation. I’ll take the easy way out until I can screw up the courage to actually deal with the situation. And, of course, as soon as I confront whatever it is, I find it wasn’t nearly the issue I had blown it up to be in my mind. I’m actually much more capable than I usually believe myself to be.
So, Seven of Swords makes perfect sense if I appy the card to my own past, rather than just the past of a particular situation. One of the things I love about the tarot is it can really lead you down paths in your mind that you don’t usually take on your own. It’s a great meditative and self-analytical tool.
So…the second card, representing the Present, was the Empress, reversed. She represents the birth of a new project, or in reverse, could represent the lack of proper application of self to a project. I actually have several things I’m looking at and working on at the moment. Mark and I would like to become foster parents to throwaway teens at some point, once his immigration is complete. I’m also trying to become more active with my blog here and possible start a couple of side blogs on topics I care about. I’m trying to be more consistent with my work with the tarot and learn to interpret more fluently. And, of course, I have always been one to not apply myself completely to projects…to start and not finish. So perhaps this card is a warning? I need to pay attention to those things that are important to me. No slacking if I want to be successful!
The future card was the Ace of Hearts (Cups in other decks). This is another one that feels fairly ambiguous to me. Many of the interpretations I’ve read talk about love and relationships, and that is one area for which I don’t feel a need at the moment. Others, though, talk of the spiritual aspects of the card. A heightening of intuition, a coming spiritual epiphany. *shrugs* We’ll have to wait and see what the future brings, I suppose. And that’s the one thing I hate about the tarot. I want to know right now, darn it! I’m not a patient person *laughs*.
Anyone want to add to the interpretations, I’d love to hear what you have to say.
