Good afternoon friends, family, foes, and everything between! Welcome back to another exciting entry in Portents, your favourite destination for all things futurey!
Feels like it’s been bloody ages, innit? Well that’s because it HAS been ages! Too bloody long, you ask me. Before Easter break and all that, reckon. So long ago I don’t even remember what my last reading was about but assume I was dead on and everything went just fine because of it, yeah?
Right, enough about the past. Here at portents we only concern ourselves with the neverending pitch-black sea that is the future!
Tonight, I’ve got something real special for you. So special it’s downright plain and mundane! That’s right, we’re going back to tarot for the first time in ages. Don’t even think I’ve given you lot a reading all year, now I think about it. See, my cards and me weren’t getting on so well but reckon we’ve cleaned all that out and everything’s working like it should.
I hope.
Anyway, tonight I’m sitting under the eaves of a large oak tree while the cold spring moonlight trickles its way through the branches. The air is still and the night is quiet. Just me and the faintest hint of a cool cool breeze running through my hair.
I take several deep breaths then reach for the aged deck of tarot cards in front of me, shuffling quietly, Shuffling until that sixth sense tingling away in some dark recess of my mind tells me to stop. When my heart knows for certain it’s the right time.
And there it is. I look down at the stack of tarot cards in my hand and know without thinking that the top three are what I seek. Guidance. Wisdom. Some small glimpse into things to be.
I peel off the top three cards and place them face down in front of me, taking a long deep breath in the quiet spring air before flipping the first, representing something in the past…
6 of wands, upright
Wicked, the 6 of wands is a victory or success card. Possibly some big accomplishment we’ve achieved in the past that we should be reflecting on in the now? Maybe a ‘go read a history book’ sort of warning that we should go back and learn from the past?
Perhaps the second card, representing something from the here and now, will inform us a bit more. I turn the card and…
10 of wands, upright
Huh, another wand but this one’s loads different. The 10 of wands is all about our responsibilities or burdens we carry. Seems that right this moment we’ve got something heavy on our shoulders but what?
I move my hand to the last card, representing our future, and take a long deep breath before flipping it…
Strength, reversed
The strength card typically represents the courage and bravery of the lion but reversed it’s pointing toward some weaknesses or vulnerabilities, be they physical, mental, or otherwise. Understand that this is a ‘future’ card in this spread but it doesn’t necessarily resemble our outcome. It may be more of a warning or some guidance how we can achieve the best outcome. In this case, I’m leaning toward warning but let’s put all this together, yeah?
First off, we see ourselves in the past being real happy and successful. We’d fought hard and it paid off, leaving us with a nice big fat victory and rewards, be they metaphorical or literal. But, as the middle card tells us, despite our successes we’re finding ourselves struggling now. Perhaps those successes were a double edged sword and now we’re forced to carry the weight of our own accomplishments? Perhaps the successes we’re meant to reflect on were those of our parents’ or grandparents’ generations or perhaps even older and we’re simply meant to learn from them to help ease the burden we’re carrying now. Regardless, the third card warns us to be mindful of our weaknesses and vulnerabilities. A warning against letting our burdens grow into a nice big target-shaped weakness for our enemies to exploit. And those successes in the past may have made us feel invincible but if we let that get to our heads it’ll be our undoing. Set your ego aside and be aware, accepting, and mindful of your weaknesses so you know where to hold your shield when it’s time for battle.
Woah, this was wicked. Glad I’m finally back in with my tarot cards and finally getting something good out of it, yeah? For ages it was nothing but nonsense but this is… wicked!
That’s all mates. Later!
-Riven Redwhisper
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