tarot for sad people – knitting in the dark

iamshadow21:

#MonthofSpreads Day Five – The Money Maker

The Shakespeare Oracle

I didn’t know what deck to use for this spread, and then I remembered The Shakespeare Oracle (actually a Rider Waite style deck, not an oracle at all) had coins as one of the suits, so. I don’t use this deck much because the cards are absolutely massive and incredibly difficult to shuffle.

1. Where do my financial problems reside?
Lord of Sceptres: Richard Plantagenet
Rushing into things, disregarding consequences, impulsiveness linked to excitement, inability so sit still and just be

2. How can I solve this issue?
Two of Coins (Reversed)
Skilled competent execution of tasks that be tiresome but necessary, fluctuating levels of energy, tolerance of indecisiveness or superficiality in others

3. Where should my focus be to start making money?
Five of Chalices (Reversed)
A spark of hope that should be cared for, healing rifts, letting go of the past, new friends or old friends returned

Thoughts
My impulsive behaviour without self-checking results in thoughtless overspending that has an impact on my finances. I can change this pattern of behaviour, but only with long, sometimes unpleasant work. I should focus on dealing with issues in my past and current life to make letting go of this harmful compulsion possible.

tarotprose replied to your photo post

I really like how the five of chalices was a spark of hope in this reading. That interpretation was so unique and I really admire your honesty. Thanks for sharing. 😀

Hey, thanks!
The ‘spark of hope’ reading was thanks to the LWB that comes with this deck. It’s really not one I’ve used more than once or twice – I inherited it, rather than bought it myself, and I’m not more than passingly familiar with Shakespeare, so I use the book a LOT. For the Five of Chalices for the upright reading the book talked a lot about giving up on hopeless situations and moving on, but for the reversal, it talked about there being hope and it was worth persisting. The challenging bit of this read was actually the Lord of Staves, because I struggled to identify if it was related to Wands or Swords, because the description was a bit ambiguous and nowhere could I find a straight up guide to which suits matched which Rider-Waite suit. (It’s Wands, btw.)

And yeah, the reason I took up tarot was as a substitute for therapy, which is a) expensive and b) has been pretty much useless for me since I was about sixteen and came to the conclusion that talking therapy wasn’t benefiting me any more. It wasn’t that I didn’t try therapy for the twenty years that followed – I absolutely did – it’s that it didn’t help me. This is helping me get some clarity that professionals seemed unwilling to help me find. So it’s brutal, and it’s messy, but it’s brilliant, and one of the best things about documenting some of this openly is that I’ve found other people who use tarot for pretty much the same reason I do, which is quite a comfort to know. When I stumbled across Tarot for Sad People, it meant so, so much to me, you have no idea. 🙂

alethiomancer:

I get sad. There are other more clinical and specific names for how sad I get, but ultimately, I feel sad. Tarot is such an important part of my life that just like a best friend, I turn to it when I am sad.

This is the story of how I reach for tarot in my sadness. My hope is that it will illustrate the usefulness of tarot as a tool. Not just a tool, a friend.

I am offering Tarot for Sad People in my Etsy shop for $3. Despite the low price, I’m also giving it away for free. Right here.

Tarot for Sad People

I value the work I do – and writing something while sad is definitely work – and I want to make sure that everyone who might need this gets to see it. So please download this PDF. And if you’re able and feeling it, then you can buy it as well on Etsy, maybe even give it as a gift.

Much love,
xoxoxoxox
Alie

Tarot for Sad People