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#MonthofSpreads Day Sixteen: Job Interview Spread

1. What should Kareem be conscious of going in to this interview?
XX – Judgment
Karma, consequences of actions good and bad, renewal

2. What does Kareem need to know about what this job will actually be like?
XVI – The Tower (Reversed)
Desiring but fearing change, a period of hardship with reward at the end, risk versus reward

3. What is the potential long-term prospect for Kareem if this interview is successful?
III – The Empress
Blessings, finiancial security, unexpected gifts, good fortune and security

Thoughts
This job has a real chance of being a very positive career move for Kareem that should set him up for long-term security, but it will require a lot of hard work which is going to be a tough slog for some time. Also, if his resume and references aren’t in order, he won’t even get a call back. He should make sure he represents himself honestly, and that if it’s possible to omit employers that won’t remember him favourably from his resume without leaving obvious holes, he should do so, or risk losing his opportunity altogether.

#MonthofSpreads Day Fifteen: Help and Hinder

How can I find moments in the chaos to centre myself?

Hinder
Two of Cups
Love, friendship, commitment

Help
Knight of Wands
Energy, self-confidence, slow and steady progress, exploration

Thoughts
What is usually a positive thing – family – is really hindering my ability to focus and centre myself right now. What helps is that I have the genuine drive and confidence that I can use the tools I have to focus and centre – a thing I really need to do to cope with my family for the next few weeks!

#MonthofSpreads Day Six: The Reader’s Journey

1. What are my strengths as a reader/diviner?
Knight of Swords (Reversed)
Attention problems, uncontrolled energy and lack of focus, impulsivity, unrealised goals, burn-out, exhaustion

2. What makes my reading style unique and special?
King of Wands
Long-term goals, vision, living with purpose and intent, enthusiasm and positivity

3. What other skills/knowledge can I develop to help become a better reader/diviner?
XIII – Death (Reversed)
Stagnation, latent potential, a quiet time to regroup and set goals

4. How can I grow futher in my divination journey?
XII – The Hanged Man (Reversed)
Moving from a time of inertia into activity, suspension as a catalyst for change, positive movement

5. How can I become more confident in my divinatory skills?
VII – The Chariot
Balance, control, confidence, self-care, success through assertiveness and self-knowledge.

Thoughts
What seems like my burden – the negative aspects of my anxiety, ADHD, autism, and executive dysfunction – is actually my strength as a reader. My reading style is made unique because of my neurotype and because of my drive and commitment to learn and make tarot a positive tool in my life. I’ve been stagnated for a long time, and that is what it is, but taking the time to learn to use tarot to help me in my life is something I can do in this time. I can grow further by using this momentum to set up a routine, a pattern I can rely on. Though setting up a routine is really hard for me, I can do it. The ability to balance and control my life enough is – though undeveloped – already within me. Establishing and maintaining it will give me the confidence to achieve what I have previously thought was impossible.

#MonthofSpreads Day One: Past Present Future

My personal card (or signifier) since I was a teenage has been The Star. However, with my new deck for my adult self, I feel more connected to the Daughter of Swords. So I decided to do two readings for this day.

Celtic Dragon Tarot
Signifier: XVII – The Star
Spirituality, hope, listening to inner and universal messgaes

Past: IX – The Hermit (Reversed)
Focus on personal reflection and spiritual self, make time for self, not just day-to-day tasks

Present: XIV – Temperance
Self-control and inner guidance help you through difficulties. Travel provides a new perspective on an old problem.

Future: Three of Swords (Reversed)
Recovery from a difficult period, acceptance of past trauma, understanding of the time needed to heal

Wild Unknown Tarot
Signifier: Daughter of Swords
Insight, knowledge, hypervigilance, anxiety, inability to accept imperfection

Past: Two of Pentacles
Inevitable change that may be frightening but positive

Present: XI – Strength
Courage needed can be found within

Future: Son of Cups
You may be reacting based on impulse or emotion rather than reality. Step back and take stock before acting.

Neither of these decks have reversals as part of their books, but I like trying to read the reversals anyway using internet resources.

All in all, I need to be less impulsive and more in touch with my inner self. I have been hurt, but I am healing. Change happens, but I have a choice how I react to it. I have the courage to weather it.

iamshadow21:

After a few weeks of getting readings about how rotten the last couple of years had been, now I keep getting cards telling me that good things are coming, that I need to chill out and focus on my health, and that all the fear I have is just my anxiety telling me the sky is (still) falling.

tarotprose replied to your photo post: With your consent, sending you good vibes. ♥

Thank you! I’m such a newbie. I started this thinking I’d be maybe the only person using tarot to help organise my thoughts to help my mental health, or maybe the only person who’s an athiest using tarot, or the only queer person using tarot (given it’s traditionally got rigid gender roles/interpretations) and I’m really not. It’s making me feel a lot less alone, knowing there’s a bunch of people out there who are using cards to do something other than telling fortunes. Your good vibes are very much appreciated. 🙂

fan-of-encouragement replied to your photo post: *hugs you*

Thank you! *hugs back*

After a few weeks of getting readings about how rotten the last couple of years had been, now I keep getting cards telling me that good things are coming, that I need to chill out and focus on my health, and that all the fear I have is just my anxiety telling me the sky is (still) falling.

So, replacing my teenage deck feels like coming home.

I just love watercolour art – I grew up reading the Alan Lee illustrated Lord of the Rings – and I also love decks that aren’t as focussed on people, because as a queer person, most decks I saw as a young person were incredibly heteronormative. I didn’t get that vibe from the Celtic Dragon Tarot. The fantasy art, the grounded earthiness of the pictures, felt a lot more like something that spoke to me than the traditional Rider/Waite/Smith decks or Angel cards that were pretty much all I could find otherwise in my town’s New Age shops in the ‘90s.

The minor arcana are just as lovely as the major, and the four suits have subtle elemental imagery woven in – wands/air, swords/fire, cups/water, and pentacles/earth. It feels like a really calming deck to me, and I have to admit that I like that the light colours will balance out against the two other decks, both of which are fairly dark.

I’m just so happy to have my deck back.

New decks! YAAAS

So, I ordered some decks.

The Celtic Dragon Tarot was my first deck. I was a teenager. I’ve forgotten whether it was a gift or I bought it myself. But I loved it, and it was one of the many things I lost that I thought was stored safely at my mother’s house. (It wasn’t.) So, I decided I needed to replace it. It’s anchored to a very specific time of my life.

The Wild Unknown Tarot spoke to my self as I am now. I clicked with it immediately. I knew I’d work well with it, even with it coming from the other side of the world, just having seen pictures.

And then there was the tiny deck I impulse-bought from eBay for like, $3. 🙂

So far, just the tiny deck and the Celtic Dragon Tarot have arrived. So here are some pics! (I hit Tumblr’s image limit trying to post the detailed deck pics, so I’m going to post those separately.)

Excite

So two of the three decks I ordered arrived this morning! The Celtic Dragon Tarot (replacement for the first deck I had when I was a teenager that got destroyed) and a super cheap tiny deck from China bought on eBay called Destiny Tarot/Secret of Destiny Tarot. They’re both lovely, and I’ve taken a bunch of pictures that I’ll post later. So happy! Now I’m just waiting on the one that is brand new to me and speaks to my adult soul, The Wild Unknown Tarot.