#tarot study

[herchaosbasement]

Definitely an ace, or court card of wands. The colors, the staff, and the look of confidence and determination remind me of the suit of fire.

Note the water mark for artist credit.

[archersarrow-tarot]

📚 Tarot Journaling 📖

What can I use to make my tarot journal?

Anything!! It’s YOUR journal. You can use a notebook - of any size, type, etc; a scrapbook, a binder…get as creative as you want.

✨What should I record in my tarot journal?

Once again, it’s your journal! Anything and everything that you feel belongs inside it! But - here’s some ideas:

Previous readings

Daily Tarot Card Drawings (cards drawn, thoughts, your interpretation(s), etc)

Tarot spreads you’ve made

Questions to include for future readings

Ideas and inspirations for tarot spreads

Track recurring cards

Keywords, phrases, correspondences, & interpretations of cards

Card combinations

Tarot tips & tricks as you learn them

Your feelings while drawing certain cards, certain spreads, etc.

Symbolism

Why should I have a tarot journal?

Self-reflection

Journaling can help deepen your connection with the cards

Tracks your progress with learning, as well as you as a reader in general

Prompts you to explore parts of yourself

Helps you gain a more mindful approach to life

Records your journey with tarot

Can make it easier to interact with the cards

[saganssorcery]

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Okay, in all seriousness I'm gonna address this.

I am strongly against all forms of gate keeping. This myth is only designed to keep Tarot a closed practice and it only serves to stop the masses from using a valuable spiritual tool for themselves so they are forced to keep coming back to a practitioner for help. This being said I am a Tarot reader and I still go to other Tarot readers from time to time. I feel this is important to do cause sometimes they can see things I might otherwise overlook.

If you want a Tarot deck buy one, there is nothing stopping you except your own belief system. It will not change your practice or give you wrong results if you go out of your way to meet your own spiritual needs. Spiritual tools are for everyone, if you have been initiated by another person, or created your own terms of initiation, it's all valid.

I have tarot decks that have been given to me and those which I have bought on my own volition, both serve to give me accurate results, one isn't more powerful than the other. The only thing a given tarot deck has which one you bought yourself doesn't have is the sentimentality and attachment to the person who gave it you. That's it.

[readings-in-the-dark]

16.10.23 (monday)

reading for myself for once? with my own guide for help? lol it's been a while but it's quite therapeutic to sort my thoughts with the help of my cards instead of helping someone else sort through theirs.

deck used: Modern Witch Tarot by Lisa Sterle

[nonbeas]

Ignore me trying to learn tarot

Summary of the suits

Cups: water, heart (emotions) and gut (intuition)

Wands: fire, the soul, the spirit, action and willpower.

Swords: air, the mind, intellect, communication, logic.

Coins: earth, the physical body, material objects, possessions, money, career.

Some overlap: Cups and Swords - both can involve intuition. Thinking brain intuition vs heart intuition - logical intuition vs gut feelings. Same with wands - spiritual intuition.

Swords and wands - ambition. Swords is intellectual ambition, think in a Slytherin way. Wands is actionable ambition - the type of ambition that motivates you.

0s - something that doesn't exist yet.

The Fool - someone in stasis who knows nothing of the journey.

Positive: optimism, energy for the journey ahead, excitement.

Negative: foolishness, rashness, foolish and naive.

Ace or 1s represent the beginning of something.

The Magician - Someone who can create something new.

Positive: manifestation, beginnings, willpower, ambition, skill, ability.

Negative: cunning, a trickster, deceptive, an illusion.

Ace of cups: a beginning of emotions - new love, new feelings, new emotions. A new relationship, a new hobby, a new friendship?

in reverse: the lack of emotions - feeling unloved, apathetic, emotionally stunted, depression, gloominess, emotional loss.

Ace of wands: a beginning of action or spirit - new plans, new ambition, new passion, new energy.

in reverse: the lack of passion or energy, hesitancy or blocks.

Ace of swords: a beginning of intellect, a new idea, clarity or focus of the mind.

in reverse: a lack of vision- confusion, hostility, frustration and fighting.

Ace of coins: a beginning of the material, a new opportunity or new abundance, a new career or a new physical gift.

in reverse: a lack of abundance, missed opportunities, deficiency.

Twos - Dualities and/or partnership. Balance or conflict. There's two people here, are they in line with each other or at odds?

Two of cups: partnership of emotions - mutual respect, partnership, sharing of emotions.

in reverse - duality of emotions - separation, division, bad communication, rejection.

Two of wands - partnership of energy - planning, first steps of action, making decisions and taking new risks.

in reverse - duality of energy - bad planning, not taking action, fear of risk.

Two of swords - partnership of intellect - stuck between choices, stalemate or hiding information.

in reverse - duality of intellect - anxiety, stress, too much information.

I am the most confused about swords. normally the regular vs inverse are opposites of each other, like positives and negatives. but instead, I'm getting what I perceive to be negatives on both sides, not opposites of each other.

thinking about this: the normal state of two people with high intellect is that they're not going to agree. It's a conversation/debate but it's in a stalemate because both sides are presenting well. in the reverse, it's too much, and it's not just a stalemate, it's anxiety. It's the idea that there's no right or wrong decision because of moral ambiguity, not because one simply cannot decide. There's nothing hidden in the reverse, only truth. So ideally it's a positive - no hidden meanings, no deception, but it causes a negative. Like Chidi in the good place. Chidi is the reverse two of swords. The regular two of swords is like healthy rivalry?

Two of coins - partnership in material - balance of resources, a financial partnership? Flexibility.

reverse - duality of the material - messiness, chaos, overextending.

[n3xii]

The Ace of swords -  overanalyzing tarot pt 1

the the suit of swords in tarot entails the exploration of the mind; the different ways we engage with ideas, concepts, principals and the different ways we go about communicating thoughts to other people. naturally we should begin with the ace of swords.

One of my fav books on tarot which actually happens to be a guidebook to its corresponding tarot deck, Tarot Apokalypsis, written by Erik C. Dunne and Kim Huggens, had this to say about the ace of swords:

‘‘What must come before word, what must come before thought? What must become before memory? what cannot be seen, yet must come before seeing? I am speech, but i am silent I am spoken of yet I am ineffable. I am the most basic principal necessary for the step from nothing, to choas to something.’‘

The ace of swords is the abstract coming in the form of a thought, its takes the messy, fragmented parts of an idea and gives it the structure to be formed into an idea. Results from a 2020 study showed that people may have 6,000 thoughts per day, yet not all of those thoughts are given meaning. Not all of them get the chance to develop into something, but the ones that do form the basis of a belief.

The ace of swords represents the thoughts we give power to over others. the crown the ace of swords is often paired with throughout different decks is supposed to signify victory, but in this context it represents the status we give thoughts as opposed to the 6,000 other thoughts that pass through our mind a day. 

Divinatory meaning- upright and reversed

reflect on the thoughts you give power to every day. what ideas and thoughts do you give meaning, and how does the meaning you attach to these thoughts impact you. how do your fleeting thoughts form the basis of a belief? this card appears when you’re starting to understand something for the first time, when you’re building the foundational knowledge to understand a larger concept or idea.

in reversed, it gives me the impression of failing to understand the thoughts that pass you by or lacking the foundational knowledge of a concept or skill. it denotes that you’re needing to get back to basics of something and ensuring understanding of it before continuing. 

The ace of swords as a unifying principal

tarot of apokalpysis attaches the ace of swords to the idea of cosmology and how we individually understand how the world came to be. it says;

‘’this assumption of cosmic order is necessary for further assumptions to be made, and its upon this foundation that we build everything else. This refers not only to religion or myth, science to too must build its own cosmology, (or more appropriately, a paradigm) within which is may refer to the laws it has set and decide upon the questions it wants to answer ’’

The ace of swords being connected to this idea of a cosmology or paradigm gives it a more sophisticated interpretation, allowing us to understand the cards that follow the ace of swords. For example, if the ace of swords is a paradigm that sets the basis for understanding a larger topic, then the two of swords is differentiating between ideas and comparing different paradigms to one another. allowing them to compete for accuracy. 

The big bang theory is an example of a paradigm, it allows us to understand how the world came to be. The creation story told in genesis, the norse myth and saga of creation, these are all ways in which people form their basis of understanding of the world and our purpose in it. 

The ace of swords could be the assumptions we have that allow other assumptions to be made on top of that, forming a foundation for an opinion or paradigm. It’s the pre-requisite understanding of a concept, for example, to understand algebra you would have to understand multiplication, division, adding etc. To understand chemistry you have to understand an atom, its qualities and the various forms matter takes. 

Ace of swords paired with other cards

The ace of swords is a hypothesis in early stages, not yet tested or verified. if the ace of swords becomes paired with the ten of swords, its a hypothesis thats been prematurely dismissed or falsified before it had the chance to grow. 

if paired with the 7 of swords, its a person selectively taking what they feel is true about an idea or paradigm, and leaving what contradicts their ideas, instead of adopting and integrating the whole idea to fit the truth. for example, Christians using the bible only when it fits their worldview, not when it contradicts it. 

when paired with the tower, its an idea that disrupts an existing structure or assumption. Think Kepler revolutionizing how we understand the planets orbit around the sun, developing the three laws of planetary motion. 

Astrology of the ace of swords

the ace of swords refers to gemini, libra and aquarius. All three signs interact with the development and communication of ideas in interesting ways. All three signs are constantly thinking, analyzing, comparing ideas, and creating new ones. Aquarius is innovative and wants to disrupt models of how we think, gemini allows space for several ideas to exist at once, and libra wants to be able to choose between ideas without hurting anyones feelings. 

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[sceptic-witch]

Starting my time off with my first bit of tarot study! This week I've been thinking Queen of Cups and what this card means to me, with some help from my Alleyman's Tarot.

This journal companion to Yoshi Yoshitani's Tarot of the Divine is just lovely. I was a bit scared to start writing in it at first but pretty happy with how this very simple page turned out ☺️

[irrevasazim]

🔮 Daily Practice with the Mind, Body & Spirit Spread ✨

Like a muscle one's intuition only develops with exercise, but the idea of reading for others may frighten a budding reader. The Mind, Body & Spirit spread is a great tool to both examine yourself and to brush up on your knowledge of the tarot for both novices and adepts alike.

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[mystictoadie]

Mugwort is such a staple in my practice, subconsciously even. One of my favourite incense is Mugwort. My grandma used to tell me that Mugwort tea is great for tummy troubles, so I've been keeping that around ever since. It's growing everywhere in the backyard. What a great herb altogether. I love learning about its dreaming-related properties.

Deck: Herbcrafter's Tarot

[spiritsnstuff]

Learning tarot... looking at the sets, the 10's ~ included is my personal connection with each card. What about you? What's YOUR personal connection with each card; this would be an excellent way to start a tarot journal.

[herchaosbasement]

A message from the forest:

Knight of Wands

Passionate, creative energy. This is what the knight of wands has to offer to those whose path he crosses. The knight of wands is reliable and supportive, and can represent an ally in the work environment or other passion projects.

[archersarrow-tarot]

🪙 Cleansing & Recharging

🌙Moonlight

During a full moon, place your cards outside or in a window where the moon light shines on it overnight.

Sunlight☀️

Leave deck in direct sunlight for a few hours. Be cautious of sun bleaching.

🧂Salt Burial

Bury Your cards in salt overnight

Knocking✊

Knock or tap on the back of the car dick three times on a table

🔀Shuffling

Shuffle cards with nothing particular on youri mind.

Sorting✨

Re-order your deck in numerical order & by suit.

👁Visualization & Meditation

Visualize a white light surrounding and cleansing your deck with meditation.

Crystals💎

Surround your cards with cleansing crystals

💨Smoke

Pass the deck over the smoke of incense, herbs, or a white or black candle.

[saganssorcery]

hey sagan! i wanted to ask, will SC and I reconnect soon?

Hello! You have drawn the Eight of Cups and the Knight of Swords. Unfortunately it looks as if there has been some level of conflict and they are moving away from this connection. I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news but I don't see them reconnecting any time soon.

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