witchy wanderings

sideblog for me to learn about tarot and crystals and whatnot 🌻

[that-libra-witch]

Learned two cards and decided to try a Celtic cross spread on myself ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Date: Tuesday January 2, 2018

"What information is important for me to know at this time?"

1: Present - your current situation

King of pentacles

2: influence- helpful or challenging energies

Knight of pentacles

3: past issues - the basis of the situation

Four of swords

4: immediate past - what is behind you

Eight of Wands

5: crowning thoughts - your thoughts regarding the situation

Seven of wands

6: immediate future - what is about to happen

Six of Wands

7: your fears - emotional concerns regarding the situation

Temperance

8: environmental factors - how others see you

Three of swords

9: your hopes - what you really wish for

Two of wands

10: outcome - answer to your question

Page of cups

11: readers fan - provide reader with additional clues and guidance about the reading. Can reveal past present or future influences.

Page. Of swords

12: readers fan

Page of pentacles

13: readers fan

The empress

14: readers fan

Six of cups

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Thoughts:

wands, pentacles, swords

[that-libra-witch]

Date: Tuesday January 2, 2018

Minor arcana - suit of Wands

Two of Wands

Project has become more established (wands firmly in ground)

Contemplating future plans (looking between wands and into horizon)

Sense of optimism (vegetation is lush and healthy and vibrant)

Deer mirror the two wands

Two can symbolize possibility of outside influence, perhaps in form of partnership

Future choices and decisions (fork in road)

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initial stages have progressed to get project off ground

Still need to focus on future plans and effort to succeed, but this card shows the potentiality exists

May indicate partnership; collaborations and negotiations may be significant

Positive card that shows you moving I direction of goals and ambitions

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Personal experiences:

Projects for school

Getting an internship

Seth's AIT

[that-libra-witch]

Date: Tuesday January 2, 2018

Minor arcana - Suit of Wands

Ace of Wands

Ace - new beginnings

Wands - initiators

Dynamic and driving energy force

Beginning of action and taking initiative

Being creative in enterprise

Birth of new ideas and inspirations

Seed of new life

Seeds of an idea you feel excited about

Frequently has career or business orientation

Ex. New job or start of new business venture

Great deal of creative energy indicated

High degree of energy and action

Holds force of strength, enthusiasm, and excitement

Any projects started holds good promise for future

Entirely new way of life, with anticipation and excitement such a transition would bring

If accompanied by Empress, almost always brings news of pregnancy or birth

Male active energy, associated with procreation

If new relationship indicated, it will be quite a passionate relationship

Personal/others experiences:

Becoming a military wife

Seth starting AIT

Starting witchy stuff

[that-libra-witch]

Easy Tarot Handbook - Step 5

Date: Tuesday January 2, 2018

Minor arcana

Wands = red = fire

Cups = gold = water (water is colorless and reflects container)

Swords = blue = air

Pentacles = green = earth

Major arcana

Black

As each card meaning is covered:

Place it in front of you

Leave others face down

Allow images of card to mingle with the interpretations suggested

Allow yourself to sink into picture of card

Also read description of card bc it includes the symbolism that creates the interpretation

One card does not a reading make:

Look for confirmation of your interpretations from other cards

Surrounding cards can alter or modify the meaning

About reversed cards

Reversed card represents a block to the original interpretation, rather than a completely opposite meaning

[that-libra-witch]

Easy Tarot Handbook - Steps 1 - 4

Date: Saturday December 30, 2017

Key

✖ - don't have/haven't done yet

🔮 - in process

✔ - complete

Preparation ✖

Drawstring pouch to hold cards

Cloth of around 24 inches to lay them on

Gently shuffle, card over card (on cloth)

Take large cotton handkerchief, lay cards in center, and tie corners of material together so cards are secured

Place bundle underneath pillow and sleep over it that night

Shuffle deck on regular basis until start to feel right and fall into place

Request for guidance when removing cards from container:

"I ask and give thanks to the universe for guidance, protection, and assistance."

Using a crystal: quartz ✖

Choose a cleansing method: hold under running water from natural stream or sea / soak in water w sea salt up to 24 hr, then rinse w mineral water

Then: place on window ledge to receive natural sunlight or moonlight for a full day or evening

Tarot diary 🔮 (tagged: tarot diary)

Examining each card:

Hold it, then writing down meaning as you say it out loud

If memory of events experienced by you or someone you know is triggered by one of the cards meaning, take note

Example layout for each card

Date

Card name, number and picture

Card meaning: may wish to use bullet points

Personal experiences: list any personal experiences that relate to this card's meaning

Other's experiences: list others experiences that remind you of this card

Record anything relevant from dreams + intuition (tagged: dreams)

Intuition: examples

"Flash thoughts", with a certain feeling of knowingness

"See" images, similar to daydreams

Sense things when in people's company, or from environment

Feel like knots or butterflies in your stomach, or smell things that aren't there

As events unfold go back through journal to see if messages were correct, go back and write what happened and the date