This spread is for @ranskuld
Always the homie, always welcome to the Tarot, thanks for waiting a week.
Your spread this fateful day is the 7 card Pentagram spread! This is a 7 card spread in the shape of a Pentagram with two crossed cards in the center.
The Pentagram here symbolizes the material world and all that matter there in. Five points and 5 is the number halfway between 1 and 10 and if that isn’t human, feeling between things...
Human beings are Pentagrams and like I say, if you don’t believe me just stand up, spread legs out, and hold your arms horizontally. Bamn, you’re a motherfucking Pentagram. The crossed cards in the center are the internal and external influences. For this experiment we will be using the human Pentagram analogy to explain.
The peak of your spread, the head of your Pentagram person is where we start. Here we have the thinking piece and what you’re trying to navigate this (sinking) ship with. Here is VII The Chariot, Cheth, Cancer.
I like to think of the Chariot as an armored train. The Four elements are the engine pulling the otherwise stagnate charioteer of Cancer down the predetermined path. While they pull him toward his goal he stays in his armored shell focusing on his moving center.
Stay on your path, you might not be driving the train but it’ll get you going where you need to be. Focus on your soft inside bits like the crab does, you can only fit so much in your current state.
Your right hand which you build or tear down with holds the 7 of Disks (the fear of) Failure (or fear of success)
This is wondering if the effort you’re putting into a material project will reap equal or greater rewards. The structure and order of Saturn is being bogged down by the earthly concerns of Taurus. Don’t let your financial and other material decisions be made from a panic or fear of what all the potential outcomes might be.
Just do what you can and let things happen how they will and deal with outcomes when they actually happen.
*Manly Hall: if a man’s mortgage depends on the seedlings, he will see fruit before it is there.*
Your left hand which you also create or destroy holds (do not drop it) XXI The Universe, Saturn, Tau.
The Universe is the totality of what we can sense and know. The dance of the Woman with the cosmic serpent and the Eye destroying while everything constantly recreates. We see the Universe only from our position in it. You may send out your satellites to explore unknown areas but you can only process what they might mean from your place. The more we try to take into our restrictive minds and spirits, the more we know about the whole and ourselves and our place in the Universe.
Step back and look at the connections and totality of everything you know and experience. It’s quite a view.
Your right foot take you toward the Queen of Disks, the watery part of Earth or how you feel about what is going on in your material world of normal life stuff.
This Queen is above the landscape observing the river create life in the desert. The Queen of Disks is meditative and calm. She sees creation and is a part of it without getting her hands dirty.
This card shows what you feel about what is happening in your everyday “real world” life. The ideal here is to get out of the messy bullshit of “normal” stuff, get higher beyond mundanity, and look back down with new and more complete perspective.
Get above your situation so you can see more of the landscape.
And left foot guides you toward the 5 of Wands, Strife.
Like all the 5s, this is a microcosmic or human number. It’s also the halfway point between two things. This is the drag when you see how far you’ve come and see that you have the exact same grueling distance to go. Your feet will start to drag. The natural friction of motion becomes very apparent here and it is more annoying and nagging than anything else.
You might be stuck between a rock and a shitty place with what you’re doing, but just truck on, it’s not so bad once you get passed where you are and get moving at full speed again.
At the heart of the matter is IX The Hermit, Yod, Virgo.
Don’t think about this card as being anti-social, (s)he is internally focused. The Hermit with the lamp lit by a small sun represents following the light of Tiphareth (the Sephiroth of the heart, the center and the Sun) to the realms below, in mythological terms, hell. It’s not really hell, the under/inner world can be a scary place but once you’ve been there long enough with your heart well lit and inflamed with Love the 3-headed hell hound protecting the depths becomes your buddy.The deeper you allow yourself to go the more fertile possibility (Virgo) you find. You must however do something to the fertility you find or it is just dark soil, dirt.
Go within yourself to find the answers you seek. If you want to find the best person you’ve ever met, go meet yourself, look for your potential.
And on the surface we have the 10 of Wands, Oppression.
This is the peak of action, hella stuff going down and it’s goddamn back breaking. This is trying to herd kittens. The actions that you’re taking in your life or thing things you’re doing are becoming overwhelming. The structure and order of Saturn is trying to pin down the fiery moving arrow of Sagittarius. There is a lot on your plate and the plate is heavy.
So, shit is hard and frustrating and well, oppressive, but 10s are the peak, the end! Prepare for the come down.
To summarize, stop fucking stressing, get your head on the path and take care of yourself. Stop thinking the world is going to end because your shit hasn’t come to fruition yet. You, are totally fine, whole world (Universe) in your hands fine. You just gotta take that destructive impulse and point it at the shit that is in your way, back up far enough and nothing is in your way.
You gotta get above the bullshit long enough to really see that the path that got you here was hard and wrought with nonsense, but it is your path. And hey, when the going gets tough, the tough go to Hel. Go there and make friends, steal something and give it to yourself as a gift for summiting this mountain of garbage.
It’s not easy but it’s worth every second.
