This off the reply from a post I made a couple months ago at Go! Smell The Flowers --
There's this application on Facebook called "Pieces of Flair" -- little buttons with pictures and statements that are thought provoking or just evocative period -- one of them says, "The cards say you're screwed!"
I Love That.
Nine times outta ten, the cards do say that. Why? Because they're merciless. Equal opportunity merciless and without compassion. They call it like they see it -- and it's a very zen sort of experience. I lay out the past, because we know the past is -- well, THE PAST. What follows is the Present. The now. And then a "Possible Future." It's a POSSIBLE future, because if we don't like what we're seeing, we can change it. Why even ask if you're certain things are moving along swimmingly? We go to Astrologers and Clairvoyants to get clues to what is going to happen NEXT. If you're talking to someone who is not manipulated by greed and who works through light and that weird thing called HOPE, you're going to be given the opportunity to translate all this information to it's highest possible power, and find a way through the current mess you call your life.
Here's where it gets complicated, here ... have a diagram allowing you to see what I see when I read. This is a system I've worked out over 20 years -- and it's MY layout. I cannot guarantee that it will work for you, although I don't know why it wouldn't. I've used several different traditional layouts including the tried and true Celtic Cross, which didn't work so well for me in years passed, and so my "spiritual guides" presented me with this spread.
You see that there are typically 13 cards -- when I did the spread TWO main oracles were chosen, which is rare. It happens.
I use an oracle deck that is NOT a tarot deck. There are several choose from, I am partial to a design by Lynn Andrews and the Mystic Avalon. You can use whatever oracle you like, including crystals (which I do use, from time to time) or anything that appeals to you -- from sea shells to bottle caps.
For the sake of brevity, I'm not going to go in to a dissertation about oracle usage in general, I'm presuming that if you're reading this, you have a clue. If you're clueless, I'll be happy to instruct you on a personal level for a small donation of $50 an hour.
Yes. I'm serious.
Moving along now ...
I choose the main oracle first. Even though it is number 13, it is the "giant factor" in the entire reading and I choose it BEFORE the querent begins to ask me anything. It allows me to find the energy and the source of the entire reading, and often, I only need it to give me specific answers. When I say "I" choose it, that's not entirely true. I'm just the hand picking up whatever the querents spirit guides want the querent to truly focus on. I rely on this particular oracle throughout the reading, especially if the situation is becoming muddy, foggy or just plain confusing. I refer to it at the beginning, and I wrap up the reading with it at the end too.
Past, Present and Future are self explanatory as are "what's in the head, et al."
A, B, C, D, are as follows:
A = the person asking the questions.
B = usually the event or person the querent is asking about.
C = close environmental aspects. The home. The workplace. The school. Etc.
D = outside factors not associated but pertinent to the situation.
Think of it as a spiral. You're in the center. Just outside of you are the people or issues most present and significant; followed by the energy of the environment and people or situations involved -- and then everything else.
Now let's look at the spread given in the original post.
Two oracle cards appeared. "Burden" and "The King".
I immediately ascertained that the woman on the other end of the line was in a relationship with someone other than her husband. I have to go with my intuition. My "sixth sense." You may have read it as "father is being a do- bag and not helping out." If that was the case, then go with it. This is not a crash course on How To Be A Side Kick.
As I laid out the cards, the images and what each of them relates to are translated to MY inner guide, and I begin to form a bigger picture.
Again, for the sake of brevity and presumption you are aware of what the tarot is, and what each of the symbols means, I will not spend additional time on the revelation. I will give a brief outline.
The woman simply said that she was having difficulty communicating with her husband. I already knew this because SHE was at the center of HIS thought process, as was revealed by the Queen of Swords in his heart. I just said, "You're having an affair honey, of course it's difficult to communicate, he's hearing you (it wasn't reversed) but you're not really saying what you want to say because you want to keep your happy home (as is revealed by the four of rods in her center)." She was quiet for a moment and she said, "What do I do?"
This is often the case. "What do I do?"
And this is where I become Spiritual Life Coach and Advisor. It is absolutely necessary for me to set aside all personal judgement and move each person I speak to towards a place of clarity and healing. Period.
The ten of rods above her shows that she's been carrying this burden for awhile. She considered divorce, but changed her mind, and her husband didn't know (Justice overturned) but he discerned something was up because it's in his head. The guy she's having the affair with (The King of Pentacles) is someone her husband knows and works with (the four of pentacles reversed in the present and in the position of local environment) and is close to the family (the wheel of fortune reversed in the last position).
The page of cups shown in the final spot reversed is an emotional girl who is petty and cruel to the querent and also knows about the affair, but she won't do anything about it even though she claims she will. How do I know this? Because it's followed by the four of rods which tells me that the "home" will be happy. Evidently the emotional girl was a secretary in the office her husband works in.
Here's where it becomes interesting and difficult to explain to the casual observer. I've been studying tarot for over 30 years. I've been gazing at the symbols for ever, it seems -- and many of these cards have become personal indicators to me of certain issues. The four of Pentacles has almost always come up (for me) in matters that involve lawyers, attorney, legal issues. For you, it could be about doing the laundry. I dunno.
So I said to the querent, "it looks like your husband is an attorney and he and your lover are partners."
I could have been way off. Seriously. Sometimes I am. If I hit, I hit. All the way.
If I don't, then I don't. All. The. Way.
As it turns out, I was so straight on, this woman hung up on me.
She called back about ten minutes later.
She apologized.
I told her not to worry. She was sincerely upset and began to think many odd things. She realized that she wasn't being watched or followed or recorded or ...
But anyway, that doesn't matter. It's also why I took a shot of the particular reading because it was so right on that it excited even ME!
It will be a reminder to me of how I can be accurate when I'm low on Cosmic Mojo.
Because the future is wide open and open to many possibilities, we can turn around a potentially sad situation and make it better.
I like to refer to myself as a "spiritual GPS." If you're traveling down the road at 60mph and you don't know the road ends, you drive off a cliff.
However, if you have a GPS in your car that tells you to slam on the brakes and stop because the road ends, then by God, you slam on the brakes.
I told her that it would probably be a good idea to slam on the brakes.
Why? Not because "having an affair" is the moral and ethical equivalent of going to hell, but because the oracles said so.
I mean, who am I to presume that this affair is going to end in heartache and misery? Maybe they were meant to be together? HUH?
As it turns out, they are not meant to be together.
I know this because she really does love her husband, and he really does love her. He's a good guy (the King in the first Oracle.) He's not cruel or wicked -- and even if he was, it doesn't mean she should carry on with his partner. She had been considering telling her husband, but wasn't sure if she should. I knew that the ONLY reason she was considering it was because of the stupid secretary using emotional black mail. I explained that the oracles showed that the business would remain intact (The Ace of Pentacles at her foundation and the three of swords under the partner, reflecting continued success in business and choosing power over disappointment) -- that the new information (8 of rods under her husband) would be met with relief and they would begin to renew their relationship (also the three of swords under the partner, reflecting emotional pain in a threesome) but over all - - -
Drum Roll Puhleez
- - - the relationship with partner guy wasn't all it was cracked up to be and she should probably end it before it became even more complicated (Knight of Cups Reversed.)
Ultimately, the choice is hers. She can tell me to stick it in my ear and rush off into the sunset with Mr. Partner Dude, and live out her life.
She called me a week later.
She told her husband about the affair. He sort of knew (uh huh) and he wasn't surprised, although he was very hurt. His partner left the business, taking a leave of absence, but an old friend of the husband had been calling and was interested in knowing if he was willing to form a firm. Evidently, this had been happening all along -- the discussions -- and the husband wasn't sure if he wanted to form a partnership with the old friend because of the complications w.r.t. his current business partner. The secretary (the paralegal in the office) was also aware of this development and was afraid she would be replaced or dismissed if the partnership was formed which is why she didn't go to the womans husband and tell him anything.
Synchronicity baby, synchronicity.
And I know, that someone out there *cough* Uncle Cyril *cough* is going to say, "So if you're that good, how come you didn't see the new business offer, huh? You hack."
I can gently explain that it wasn't a "career & finance" spread (which is a different set of cards) and that this was a "relationship" spread.
I can please some of the people some of the time, never all of them all of the time.
The End.
