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Creepy Tarot
Feb. 17th, 2003 10:43 amAs Remy suggested, I will post the full description of this reading. I did it just after midnight on New Years morning, asking more or less what this year was to hold. It didn't feel like it was supposed to be about my personal life, which was good, because it really wasn't pleasant.
The deck is the Tarot of the Imagination; the layout is one that Remy made for it, based on sleep patterns.
1. Ace Wands 7. 5 Cups
2. Queen Swords 4. King Swords 6. Ace Swords
3. IX Hermit 5. 8 Swords
Note: the first half of each description is the image on the card, the second half is the meaning given in the booklet.
1. Falling asleep. Blue cloudy sky, an atom bomb hovers over green grass. The shadow cast is that of a radiation symbol.
Immobility. A moment which lasts forever, for the whole of time.
2. First dream. Young royal woman, blonde, wearing blue on a purple ground, very sad-faced.
Mourning. Eyes too young to know such sadness.
3. First interlude. A large man sits in a cave in a mountain, the barest trace of a tunnel above him. There is no way he could have fit through it. He points to the rocks above and behind him, in which shapes almost like recognizable things begin to emerge, and fade again. At his feet is a small red door, as if to a furnace or the center of the earth. Overhead a small plane flies.
Even something enormous can be concealed. Just as truth and wisdom do not expose themselves to the sun, also the seeker has to be found, without giving up. Prudence, solitude, detachment from worldly goods, silence, austerity, essentialness, research, patience, secrets.
4. Second dream. A king, of Byzantine or Norman era, clothed in dark red on a purple ground. (Something is in the top left corner, very small, possibly a crouching figure?)
Command. Immobile, with a gesture he decided over life and death.
5. Second interlude. Two soldiers, one carrying the other unconscious over his shoulder, a large gun in his other hand.
The sacrifice. Over valleys and mountain passes, never wanting to stop, nevermore.
6. Third dream. An executioner in black on an orange ground, he bears a tray with a severed human head on it. A sword hangs from his waist.
Violence. When man brandishes force against man, in order to obey other men.
7. Waking. A woman in the foreground in a low-backed dark blue dress, standing on a terrace or balcony. A man climbs the stairs up to her in the background.
Abandonment. The beauty and sadness of he who is defenseless.
Other things to note:
Swords, represented in four of the seven cards here, is the suit of violence, conflict, and blame, and the darker side of the self.
Cups are the emotional suit, sentiments and affection.
Wands are daily life, everyday things, familiar things, and things that may have been around too long.
Pentacles, notable only in their absence, are the suit of the unknown, mysteries, the strange and exotic, new and different things.
Aces are the "abstract form and a synthesis of its essence."
Fives are "a change or a new development."
Eights are "the struggle to obtain what one wants and to get where one wants to be."
Suit cards are the archetypes, linked to the personality of each suit.
The queen represents the "soul, conscience, emotion, desire and understanding."
The king is "responsibility, authority, power, truth which stems from experience."
The major arcana represent a very strong influence in that area, sometimes the most important aspects of a situation.
There seems to be a rather heavy representation of being immobile, but still having control over life and death (king, and the ace of wands). Card 6 seems to imply the "just following orders" mentality. Still doesn't really say what's wrong, per se, just that we have to look harder, find the seeker of truth in the mountain, or something. That's been pretty much constant in everyone's readings.
The deck is the Tarot of the Imagination; the layout is one that Remy made for it, based on sleep patterns.
1. Ace Wands 7. 5 Cups
2. Queen Swords 4. King Swords 6. Ace Swords
3. IX Hermit 5. 8 Swords
Note: the first half of each description is the image on the card, the second half is the meaning given in the booklet.
1. Falling asleep. Blue cloudy sky, an atom bomb hovers over green grass. The shadow cast is that of a radiation symbol.
Immobility. A moment which lasts forever, for the whole of time.
2. First dream. Young royal woman, blonde, wearing blue on a purple ground, very sad-faced.
Mourning. Eyes too young to know such sadness.
3. First interlude. A large man sits in a cave in a mountain, the barest trace of a tunnel above him. There is no way he could have fit through it. He points to the rocks above and behind him, in which shapes almost like recognizable things begin to emerge, and fade again. At his feet is a small red door, as if to a furnace or the center of the earth. Overhead a small plane flies.
Even something enormous can be concealed. Just as truth and wisdom do not expose themselves to the sun, also the seeker has to be found, without giving up. Prudence, solitude, detachment from worldly goods, silence, austerity, essentialness, research, patience, secrets.
4. Second dream. A king, of Byzantine or Norman era, clothed in dark red on a purple ground. (Something is in the top left corner, very small, possibly a crouching figure?)
Command. Immobile, with a gesture he decided over life and death.
5. Second interlude. Two soldiers, one carrying the other unconscious over his shoulder, a large gun in his other hand.
The sacrifice. Over valleys and mountain passes, never wanting to stop, nevermore.
6. Third dream. An executioner in black on an orange ground, he bears a tray with a severed human head on it. A sword hangs from his waist.
Violence. When man brandishes force against man, in order to obey other men.
7. Waking. A woman in the foreground in a low-backed dark blue dress, standing on a terrace or balcony. A man climbs the stairs up to her in the background.
Abandonment. The beauty and sadness of he who is defenseless.
Other things to note:
Swords, represented in four of the seven cards here, is the suit of violence, conflict, and blame, and the darker side of the self.
Cups are the emotional suit, sentiments and affection.
Wands are daily life, everyday things, familiar things, and things that may have been around too long.
Pentacles, notable only in their absence, are the suit of the unknown, mysteries, the strange and exotic, new and different things.
Aces are the "abstract form and a synthesis of its essence."
Fives are "a change or a new development."
Eights are "the struggle to obtain what one wants and to get where one wants to be."
Suit cards are the archetypes, linked to the personality of each suit.
The queen represents the "soul, conscience, emotion, desire and understanding."
The king is "responsibility, authority, power, truth which stems from experience."
The major arcana represent a very strong influence in that area, sometimes the most important aspects of a situation.
There seems to be a rather heavy representation of being immobile, but still having control over life and death (king, and the ace of wands). Card 6 seems to imply the "just following orders" mentality. Still doesn't really say what's wrong, per se, just that we have to look harder, find the seeker of truth in the mountain, or something. That's been pretty much constant in everyone's readings.
