Have you considered the 10 of Swords?

[tarotprose]

My Self-Care Tarot Routine

Have you ever felt stuck in a cycle of knowing you need to take some time out to do some self-care but are unsure of where to start? I’ve been there. Because of this, I wanted a way that I could do something on my low energy days that I knew would absolutely make me feel better. By utilizing the Major Arcana of any of my Tarot decks, I created for myself a small guide of self-care with the help of Tarot. I encourage you to use mine or create your very own self-care guide to help you. 

Step One: Separate the major arcana out from your Tarot deck.

Step Two: Shuffle as you normally would.

Step Three: Pull one to three cards. If any of the cards are reversed, I turn them upright.

Step Four: Look up your cards with the guide and do what it suggests.

The Fool Stretch out your body.

The Magician Take a Lavender and Vanilla bubble bath or a nice long shower.

The High Priestess Eat some yummy pizza.

The Empress Do a Rose face mask or wash.

The Emperor Paint your nails.

The Hierophant Meditate with your Tarot cards.

The Lovers Sing aloud to your favorite songs.

The Chariot Bake some cookies.

Strength Make a pillow fort.

The Hermit Brew some tea.

Wheel of Fortune Make a list of wishes for the future.

Justice Write yourself a love letter about how awesome you are.

The Hanged Man Take cute and funny selfies.

Death Binge watch some new television shows on Netflix or Hulu.

Temperance Burn incense or a nice smelling candle.

The Devil Treat yourself to something nice

The Tower Color, scribble or doodle some art.

The Star Cuddle stuffed animal or pet.

The Moon Create a feel better playlist on Spotify

The Sun Go eat ice cream

Judgment Call or message a friend for support.

The World Take a long nap.

Post Notes: Please do not remove the captions. Title: My Self-Care Tarot Routine Copyright: © Ivan Ambrose 2017 Disclaimer: This is my own personal self-care regimen. I am not a medical professional, nor claim to be, nor do I suggest this post to be used in replace of medical treatment. This is just what helps me and I wanted to share it with others. As with all of my posts and content, this post in no way, shape, or form is intended to tell you how you must go about this topic. The intention of this post is to share my experiences. This isn’t the only way, the absolute right way or the way that you “should” approach this topic. I encourage you to use what you find useful and tweak or dismiss what you do not find useful. I am sure there are various other people in the world who choose to do things differently regarding this topic and that is perfectly okay. I can only speak from personal experience and what has worked for me for countless years. I encourage you to do your own research, to do what you are comfortable with and to tailor any advice provided henceforth to your specific needs and individual situation. Safe Space Tags: Depression, Anxiety, Chronic Illness, Mental Illness, Long Post Navigation: Table Of Contents | FAQ | Contact   

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[10swords]

The Numinous Tarot is kickstarting now!

I've been waiting for almost a year for this deck to go to crowdfunding and the time has finally come! If you too have been excited about this deck, or if this is the first time that you've heard of it, then please go check it out!! As a nonbinary individual myself I'm stupidly excited to see such a genderqueer friendly deck going live, and I've already backed it. This is just a shameless plug to hopefully get others to back it, because I want this deck to come to life so badly!

The kickstarter can be found here: [x]. Please go support it!

[10swords]

Just confirming that I did my Tarot Mentor spread for the day. I won’t be posting this one cause, heck.

[deathandtarot-blog]

Special Tarot Spread Technique Workshop

Raven and I are back from hiatus with a fun little workshop on June 26th, starting at 6pm EST.

Ever struggle to create a tarot spread? We’ve broached this topic before, but we have a fun, new, super simple technique to share with you. Sign up below to get a reminder, or mark your calendar and join us here on the 26th!

xoxoxoxox Alie

[alethiomancer]

Tooooooooniiiiiight!!!

[10swords]

First day of my mentor readings. I did these this morning but then I had errands, so only just got around to posting. I have a large number of thoughts about these as well, but since they relate to something rather private in my life right now, I won’t be commenting further. That’s what my journal is for...

[starsinmyeyesandyours]

First tarot deck! Got it in a little shop while in Hungary, the salesman said it was a good deck for beginners and it comes with a little book the size of the cards which was great because my suitcase was already pretty full and I needed something I could bring back on the airplane. You can’t see it on the pictures but the sides are covered in gold and it’s really pretty and shiny.

Btw it’s the Dreamer’s journal (Az élmodó naplója in hungarian) by Barbara Moore.

[aliceliveson]

My mom knows my aesthetic so she brought me another one of the Tarot- themed wines~ So far I’ve had the Lovers and more this one, but I’ve also seen the Fool in stores~

Verdict: tastes just like you’d imagine the Star would taste as a wine~~ Bright, sweet, and inspiring~

[aliceliveson]

#omigosh WHERE did this come from#I need need to try it now#tarot themed wine!! right up my ally! - @10swords

She said she got this one from the Super Target near her house? And I’ve been able to find at least The Lovers at the Fred Meyer where I live, so it sounds like they should be fairly easy to find. I think they run about $12 per bottle in my state, so nothing real fancy~

[10swords]

Thank you! I was able to find the brand in a big liquor store’s catalogue that’s about an hour from where I live, so if all the local stores fail me I can always go there.

[10swords]

Off to bed finally. I’ll be sleeping with the New Century next to my pillow, in preparation for my first mentor reading tomorrow morning.

[geeseabovecloverbelow]

[tarot]

That’s the second time in a row that I’ve dropped the Justice card for a friend.*

*Perhaps I should note what I mean by “dropping” a card. My reading consists of sitting, thrice cutting a Hermetic deck, and focusing on the question and energy of the person asking. I shuffle the cards from right to left without looking, a card or many at a time, whichever way the fingers weave, until one drops. 

[aliceliveson]

My mom knows my aesthetic so she brought me another one of the Tarot- themed wines~ So far I’ve had the Lovers and more this one, but I’ve also seen the Fool in stores~

Verdict: tastes just like you’d imagine the Star would taste as a wine~~ Bright, sweet, and inspiring~

[static-chaos]

***This event is not associated with Tumblr or Yahoo.*** I’ve reached..over 1000 subscribers, and I’m FINALLY able to host this! I’ve been putting things together over a month, grabbing what I can when I can, because you guys are WORTH IT. Y’all, I can’t even believe you’re still here with me. So, what can you get?

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[10swords]

I have just found out about the #TarotMentors tag started by @rosaofswords. I’m in no way in time to join in the challenge with the anticipated June 2017 schedule, but I can certainly take the concept and run with it for ten days. Frankly, I think I might need to.

Recently, the Queen of Cups has been stalking me. This isn’t just a one-deck thing, either. The card has been popping up almost everywhere I look, and it’s happened in at least 5 of the 9 tarot decks I own, that I can think of off the top of my head. One of those tarot decks in still in what I think of as the “learning stages” where I’m bonding with it and haven’t yet read with it, so you could conceivably say that it’s been 5 of 8 decks. Either way -- it’s over 50%, which is a little too much for me. This is not only one deck. It’s a lot of them. Some of these decks have thoroughly different personalities. So, they’re all agreeing about something, and to the point of trying to say it to me in the same way, each time. That sort of thing definitely puts me on alert that they’re trying to tell me something.

I’m going to be doing this mentor thing, I think, with the Queen of Cups as my mentor card. I have already made the decision that my deck to use in this manner will be my New Century deck (2003 republished version).

New Century was my first tarot deck. We also have the most complicated relationship out of all my tarot decks. I have a number of decks who want to help me, and one who wants to fight me (ask if you’re curious). However, New Century remains the only deck who I had to help to attain its full potential (with extensive use of amethyst+moonlight therapy), and which then turned the tables on me and offered itself wholly to me, in one of the most dramatic statements I’ve ever seen a deck make through a reading. I feel like it’s only proper that I use New Century for this endeavor.

Anyway, I’ll probably be posting some tidbits of my ten days, if only to motivate myself to make sure I finish this task I’ve set for myself. We’ll see how much detail I feel like going into.

[challicetarot]

INTERPRETATIONS OF THE MARSEILLES AND RIDER-WAITE DECKS, A CASE STUDY: ARCANUM VIII

This will be an in-depth study into the Arcanum VIII, for the purposes of investigating the card itself and parsing differences between the Marseilles and Rider-Waite decks. In the Marseilles deck, this card is unnamed. The 20th Century British mystic A.E. Waite took the liberty of naming this card “Death” for his own deck, a choice which has reverberated throughout tarology and nearly every subsequent deck. 

On the left, we have the Marseilles Arcanum VIII, and on the right, the Rider-Waite Arcanum VIII. As we can see, nearly everything about the earlier Marseilles card changes in translation– we still have a field of severed bodies in either card, and a skeleton, but otherwise there is little likeness.

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[yourfriendlytarotreader]

The difference between the 9 of Cups and the 9 of Pentacles. As always this is my take on the matter and your mileage may vary!

Nines overall are about completion. So both 9C and 9P show the fruits of their labor at the final stage. For 9P that is the stack of pentacles around the woman, the fruit on the vines behind her, and her nice fancy clothes. All signs of wealth. The 9C card shows a man in nice clothes with all of his golden cups lined up behind him to show off all his has accumulated like a shrine to his wealth.

Here are some key differences. 9C is like a wish come true card. It’s not clearly indicated that his wealth was worked for; it’s just a bunch of gold sitting around. 9P’s wealth is gained through hard work and self-sufficiency. If you’ve worked or lived on/near a vineyard you know it’s a labor of love but a labor none the less. You invest yourself in that kind of prospect and it’s a large wager if and when that will pay out. 9C has a sense of cockiness to it. His face expresses that he feels exceptionally clever and has worked out how to manipulate the system to get ahead. With the 9 of pentacles you see a woman who is taking satisfaction in all she has accomplished but with the falcon in her hand, it shows that she’s still intellectually involved in her business. Her financial status gives her the freedom to take a stroll and relax but she’s still thinking ahead and making plans. The protection of her status makes her relax in this setting and you can see that in her contented expression.

[infjtarot]

Page of Swords.

Decomposition.

A person who is lively and graceful, yet also cunning and vengeful. This person has abandoned the stability of home in favor of the path through fire to illumination. There is an attitude of uncertainty and the possibility of a return to past ways. Regain the soul’s desire by completing the psychological tasks set by one’s own destiny.

Navigators Tarot of the Mystic Sea. Julia Turk.

[10swords]

This blog is probably going to turn into something more generally-witchy (I still feel weird using that word) than being about just-tarot. I’ll still probably be mostly about Tarot, obvs. Tarot was my first non-rational love. But expect some astrology and spells, too. And my own home-grown Old English brand of deity. :>