hello!! im a demigod (son of apollo) and i came by here a while ago, i believe, asking about a quest i did for my aunt artemis... can i ask what sort of things happened on that quest? what sort of people were with me, did i get along with them?
Storytime! I love these spreads!
You: nine of wands. Determination, accepting of risks. Your companion(s): reversed eight of cups. Dissatisfaction, instability, indecision. So basically, you were super ready to get going on this adventure while your companion was not. They went because you talked them into it, but not without complaining. But you were extremely gung ho.
The journey: nine of cups -> Death -> reversed six of cups -> High Priestess -> reversed four of wands -> four of cups.
Beginning: Started out ideal. This journey was looking super good at first.
Rising action: There was a moment where everything had to start over. The death card does not necessarily mean anyone actually died, this is a card about new beginnings. However, right in the middle of a quest that’s not a great thing. You had to start over from scratch.
Conflict: Solitude, doubts. Okay your companion might have bailed. (Fingers crossed that they didn’t die on that last card. They may have just changed their mind and headed home.) Either way, you had to finish this quest alone.
Climax: Knowledge. Since we believe from the previous reading that the quest was for some sort of information, I think this is the moment where you find it. It’s also interesting to see a major arcana card come in to represent this, since there are plenty of minor cards that also represent knowledge. But this particular bit of information came from a major source, maybe another deity? I’d say you found someone with the information you were seeking, and the information could only come from them. If not a deity, then perhaps an oracle or prophet type of figure.
Falling action: Okay so upright the four of wands means completion, but reversed it means mistaken evaluations. There was something wrong with the information, your quest isn’t quite done. You found your information, but it isn’t really in the correct form yet. My best guess is something like a mistranslation, and you need to go back and re-translate the information as your source gave it to you so that what you bring to Artemis is actually right.
Resolution: Harmony. Things turn out okay. Not to mention, the person depicted in this card is the same “character” as the one used on the eight of cups. I would like to think you reunite here with the companion that bailed on you. (Told you they weren’t dead.) The symbol of the moon is also hiding in the corner of the card. Things worked out in Artemis’s favor too.
-Mod Achaios