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Querent: Rachel Rogers Divination Request: General

Significator (Which is either you or the situation you requested to be divined): Reverse IV of Cups

First Card (This covers the significator. This is the general environment at the time, the influence with which you are actuated all through): Reverse The Hermit

Second Card (These are your obstacles. If it is favorable, then it is something that is good in and of itself and will not be productive in the good of the situation.) VIII of Pentacles

Third Card (This crowns you. This is the best you can arrive at or what you hope for.) Justice - Major Arcana

Fourth Card (This is beneath you. It is your own, what you have to work with, what you can use.) The Chariot - Major Arcana

Fifth Card (The immediate present or just past.) Reverse Knight of Cups

Sixth Card (This is before you. It is the current that is coming and will operate in this matter.) Reverse Page of Swords

The cards now have been laid to identify your current situation, past, and future. It is in the form of a cross, a symbol of the transformation you are about to go through. The next four cards are more general revelations about you, the world, your hopes, and what will come.

First Card (Signifies you, and your relation to the matter) Ace of Wands

Second Card (Your house, your environment in the affair, the people and events around you) VI of Pentacles

Third Card (Signifies your hopes and fears) Reverse of III of Swords

Fourth Card (Represents what will come) Reverse Page of Swords

Putting it all together:

The significator is the reverse four of cups. The card depicts a youth considering three cups and a fourth cup is delivered to him on a cloud of wind. It means a sudden opportunity has sprung up you hadn’t known of before. In its reverse position it means something new, novelty or a new relationship rather than its typical meaning of indecision.

The first card over it is the reverse Major Arcana The Hermit. This is the filter of which the significator is seen through. He typically means a going away or lighting the way for others. In his reverse position it means stagnation and red tape, as if someone you have to follow is being rather stodgy and archaic. Could be using this to distract from some other behavior.

The second card is the eight of pentacles. In this position it is your obstacle. In it a master artisan is hammering out the pentacles, it is a card of work. Also fulfillment and goodness of that work, work that suits you.

The third card crowns you, it is the best you can achieve and hope for. It is the Major Arcana Justice. This card means all that true justice implies, your wrongs righted and recognition of it from a large organized body.

The fourth card is below you. It is what you have to work with in this novel situation. The Chariot is another Major Arcana, it is battle and success from the battle. The sense of elation of riding into combat and emerging victorious, this card signifies the tension this new situation is creating.

The fifth card is your present or immediate past. It is the reverse Knight of Cups. The knight card is the action card of a particular suit; the cups in action. Cups typically represent bounty. However, in his reverse position he represents something else; heartbreak. Overemotion. Mood swings and introversion is what is going on right now; or immediately past before this novel situation arose.

The sixth card is your future. It is the Page of Pentacles in his reverse form. The immediate future foretells that if your are practical and use your gifts you’ll gain the trust of others and be prosperous. If you are flighty and try to cover up feelings, or don’t use them well then that potential for prosperity could be lost.

The cards now form a cross, an ancient symbol of crossroads and transformation that you are about to go through. To the right are four cards forming a staff. The order of the cards is from the bottom to the top and is more general about your life and this situation.

The first card signifies you and your attitude towards the situation. It is the Ace of Wands in its upright position. The wands is a suit of growth, notice the stick has leaves all over it. The Ace is always the perfect embodiment of the suit. You’re looking at this as something you can really learn from. It’s pretty exciting. You feel it’ll be instrumental to you.

The second card is your general environment. It is the six of pentacles. This card has two opposite meanings. You can see the wealthy man holding scales and feeding the poor. This card signifies the balance of wealth; where the rich man has recognized his good fortune and now gives it to the needy. You could either be the rich man right now, and spreading your fortune out - or you could be the needy, always needing a handout.

The third card is your hopes and fears. It is the reverse three of swords. In this card are three swords piercing a heart. Rain pours in the background. In its normal position it specifically regards heartbreak, but upside down its a muddled version of that. Confusion and distraction; you don’t really know what you want.

The fourth card is your future. It is the reverse page of swords. Immaturity leading to catastrophe; negative aspects of authority and spying, something unforeseen that you won’t be prepared for.

Summary: You’re in a novel situation that is exciting and yet taxing at the same time, seems to be a lot of stodgy rules in place. This new thing could either be a new love or new work that you’ve found that you like doing. The obstacle is something that you’re pretty good at and that you like doing. The novelty and what you’re good at may not be getting along together. For some reason there is a past wrong that needs to be righted, whether in a past place of employment or love the cards do not say. You have a state of tension and readiness about you; you’ve been through this before and have come out triumphant. Right now or just passing has been a period of instability, mood swings and emotions. In front of you is a cautious sign to figure out these emotions and put them to use in order to prosper. You feel like this is a good opportunity for you; worth the annoyance of following archaic rules or old fashioned ideas. You’re either in a place of great wealth or are begging for help; no middle ground here. You really fear being lost about this; about not being able to make a decision. Your future is unforeseen, and you’ll be unprepared.

Divination: The Fifth card of the cross and the Fourth card of the staff pair together. They are both reverse pages of their respective suits. The page is the youth of the suit, and in their reverse position they represent the immaturity of their suit. They’re both saying that your future will suffer if you do not take a more mature view towards this situation. There is conflict here between what you like to do, what you’re good at, and this new opportunity. You’re undertaking this new thing because you’ll grow from it, but perhaps the conflict is bothering you more than it should. I’d take a minute to address your underlying fear of knowing what you really want out of life so that you can know how to maneuver through these tricky times ahead. It won’t be like a battle like it was before where you can see who’s on who’s side. Much foggier, and you don’t like that much.

(By the way, this situation could have already played itself out. I took this pic many months ago, July 4th and hadn’t had time to read it since. I’ll read you another once everyone else has had a go-through.)

Querent: Mike Morrow Divination: Career and Finances

Significator (Which is either you or the situation you requested to be divined): Reverse IV of Cups

First Card (This covers the significator. This is the general environment at the time, the influence with which you are actuated all through): Reverse The Hermit

Second Card (These are your obstacles. If it is favorable, then it is something that is good in and of itself and will not be productive in the good of the situation.) VIII of Swords

Third Card (This crowns you. This is the best you can arrive at or what you hope for.) Reverse Ace of Wands

Fourth Card (This is beneath you. It is your own, what you have to work with, what you can use.) Reverse IV of Wands

Fifth Card (The immediate present or just past.) Ace of Pentacles

Sixth Card (This is before you. It is the current that is coming and will operate in this matter.) Reverse VIII of Pentacles

The cards now have been laid to identify your current situation, past, and future. It is in the form of a cross, a symbol of the transformation you are about to go through. The next four cards are more general revelations about you, the world, your hopes, and what will come.

First Card (Signifies you, and your relation to the matter) Reverse Queen of Cups

Second Card (Your house, your environment in the affair, the people and events around you) Reverse The Tower

Third Card (Signifies your hopes and fears) Knight of Pentacles

Fourth Card (Represents what will come) IX of Swords

First off, a word about reverse positions. They don’t mean the exact opposite what the card means. Sometimes it does, if the card is inclined that way. Other times it can mean the same thing as the card except more watered down, or more strongly, or have an all together different meaning.

The Significator here is the reverse IV of Cups, which is you or the situation you’re in. A young man sits beneath a tree contemplating three cups when a wind blows with a fourth option. In its normal position the card represents anxiety, but in its reverse position it just means something new has come up, almost a novelty. In your career or finances, this could mean that you’ve learned of a new job opportunity or could be considering a different vocation that has suddenly appeared.

The first card is the lens through which we see the significator. It is the reverse The Hermit, Major Arcana. In his normal position he represents solitude and thought. However in the reverse he means concealment, disguise, policy, fear, unreasoned caution. Perhaps this is the environment you’re in right now at work. It correlates with the environment card in the staff (the tower). So your workplace is probably cracking down, or people are losing their jobs. Lots of new policies that restrict what you normally like to do simply out of fear than out of reason.

The second card is the conflict here. It is the VIII of swords. The image is a woman bound with the eight swords stuck in the ground around her. She’s blindfolded as well. It means bad news, violent chagrin, crisis, censure, power in trammels, conflict, clumny, or sickness. Again, where you work, there’s a power struggle going on. Or since you asked about finances, this could refer to that as well.

The third card is above you. It represents the best you can hope for or arrive at should you continue your current course of actions. It is the reverse ace of wands. An ace trumps in this deck, this card will play into the rest of the spread. In its reverse position it means fall, decadence, ruin, perdition, to perish and clouded joy. We’ll have to look at the rest of the cards to determine if staying where you are is good or if moving along is better.

The fourth card is beneath you, it’s what you have to work with and the foundation of this situation. Its the reverse IV of wands. A very happy card in either position, it means prosperity, increase, felicity, beauty and embellishment. It seems like out of the good times a bad situation was created, people were not conservative and now everyone is suffering.

The fifth card is your immediate present or just past, it is the ace of pentacles. This card again is an ace card and plays on the other cards. It means contentment, felicity, ecstasy, also speedy intelligence and gold. Your job has been really good for you so far, and you’re not doing so bad financially because of it either. You genuinely like performing your job, it’s the culture around you that isn’t as good.

The sixth card is the future and has a hand in the obstacle; it is the VIII of Pentacles. This card specifically refers to vocation so it has special meaning for you in your query. In its normal position it means a fulfilled career. However, in its reverse it means voided ambition, vanity, cupidity, exaction and usury.

These cards are in the form of a cross, the ancient symbol of transformation. The next four cards from bottom to top are the wand, and are more general about you and this situation.

The first card, which represents your attitude towards this is the Queen of Cups. She’s the feminine representation of the cups suit of plenty and goodness. In her reverse position she represents distinguish without honor, vice and depravity. You don’t like what’s going on. You feel like your workplace is achieving its goals but through legal but dishonest means.

The second card is your environment. Correlating with your obstacle, it’s The Tower. The Tower is just about the worst card one can draw, it represents a high fall and public disgrace, even death. However in its reverse position this meaning is watered down. Your work is unstable and asking for a calamity.

The third card are your hopes and fears. It’s the knight of pentacles. This card shows a man contemplating the pentacle, he’s all dressed up but isn’t going anywhere. He rides a slow, enduring, heavy horse, to which his own aspect corresponds. He means utility, serviceableness, interest, responsibility, rectitude. It means you aren’t interested in going anywhere else. You’ll weather this storm, and hope stability will return.

The future is this fourth card is the future. In this card someone sits up in grief, with the nightmare of the nine swords hanging over him like a nightmare. This card means regret and comes from an internal pain. Something that you wish you had or hadn’t done is haunting. It can also take a lighter note of just worry, like waking up in the middle of the night thinking ‘Did I leave the garage door open?’

Summary: You’ve been presented with a new opportunity, but it doesn’t look that good. You’re having to deal with fear and restrictions in your workplace and it doesn’t look like it’s going to get any better. Why it is this way is due to frivolity and appearance of good times made for bad planning when a crisis struck. You like and are good at your job. It provides for you very well. However, something about the job is unsatisfactory. It seems you like what you do but don’t like where you’re doing it. It looks good and fine to others on the outside, but you know they aren’t doing things as they should. Things are kind of crazy and being dependable, you’re wondering if some calamity is going to strike that will topple the whole thing over.

Divination: There’s no doubt about it; there is something new that has come along that you’re considering. One thing is that this reading could either be the situation you’re in OR it could be what will happen if you decide to take the new opportunity. Probably your job market is one of the ones being affected in this economy. The niche the business where you work at is being affected as well, they’re trying to cut losses and it’s almost crazy and irrational what is going on. People are being laid off; policies are being put into place that are affecting your job. You want to stay with them regardless, you like this job and like what you do. But you’re also worried about getting your pay cut or getting laid off. You’re not sure if moving on this new opportunity would be bad in this kind of unstable economy. If I were you and I got this reading I would pass. All the cards pointing to the future say regret, worry, fall and disgrace, none of them are saying that this new thing to come along will do you any good. It’s in your nature to be dependable and thoughtful. Think on it more.

Querent: Atsirhc Request: General Pretty please.

Significator: Reverse Knight of Pentacles

First Card: Reverse 0 Major Arcana, The Fool

Second Card: IV of Swords

Third Card: V of Pentacles

Fourth Card: VII of Swords

Fifth Card: The Hanged Man

Sixth Card: The High Priestess

First Card: Reverse The Empress

Second Card: IX of Cups

Third Card: Queen of Pentacles

Fourth Card: Reverse Page of Cups

The significator card is you or the general situation you’re in. It is the Reverse Knight of Pentacles. The knight is a court card, a human personification of the suit of pentacles. Pentacles is an earthy, dependable sort of suit. However in this card you can see him just standing there, staring at the pentacle when he should be out fighting a war. So while he’s dependable to do his job, he represents sloth and inaction. In his reverse position, he represents inertia, idleness, repose, stagnation, placidity, discouragement, carelessness.

The first card is the lens through which we can evaluate the significator, it’s the reverse version of The Fool. He’s not a bad card. The Major Arcana can be thought of as steps through ones life, one starts at 0 with The Fool which means innocence and belief in the wonder and merriment of the world, and being just born is neither negative nor positive, just zero. In his reverse position however it is again confirmation of the first card, negligence, absence, carelessness, apathy, nullity, vanity. This means that either the situation you’re in right now is carefree or you’re in a very carefree stage in your life. I’ll know after I look at the cards in the staff more closely.

The Second Card is the obstacle placed over this, it’s the four of swords. It can look disheartening because it shows a knight over a tomb, but the card actually represents a good thing, which is rest, respite, and inward thinking to attain wisdom; a sabbatical.

The Third Card is what crowns you, it’s the best you can arrive at or hope for. It’s the V of Pentacles. A man and a woman are clothed against the cold and trudge through the bitter cold. This card can have two meanings, both of which are exclusive of each other. It either means that you will arrive at financial hardship, or that you hope for some kind of relationship where you can be with someone at all odds, like the couple in this card.

The Fourth Card is what you have to work with, it’s the VII of Swords. It shows a man quickly carrying away five swords but looking back at the other two, his plan is not going so well. Likewise this card represents design, attempt, wish, hope, confidence but quarrells, a plan that may fail, annoyance. Whatever you have right now you’re trying to do the right thing but it’s not working.

The Fifth card is what’s going on right now or what just passed, it is the Hanged Man. Also a card that looks frightening, it is a good card of introspectiveness. The Hanged Man can not do anything, he has his hands tied behind his back and his foot tied up. But he is not upset; there is a glow around his face and he is almost serene. He represents wisdom, circumspection, discernment, trials, sacrifice, intuition, divination, prophecy. Right now you’re thinking about your life and the way it’s going.

The Sixth Card is what lies before you and plays in this situation, it’s The High Preistess. She is the personification of the mysteriousness of the supernatural, the deeper and higher meanings of being. She is calm and quiet, requiring you to feel her presence rather than see it. For you she represents tenacity, wisdom, science.

These cards are in the symbol of the cross, an ancient sign of the transformation you are about to go through. These next four cards are more general about you, this situation and your environment, they form a staff from bottom to top.

The First card is you and how you feel about this whole situation. It is the reverse major arcana, The Empress. She is a motherly kind of symbol, and her reverse position means, light, truth, the unravelling of involved matters, public rejoicings. You are learning from this period of introspection and it is helping.

The Second card is your environment. It’s the IX of Cups. The goodly personage is feasting to his heart’s content, and abundant refreshment of wine is on the arched counter behind him. It means concord, contentment, victory, success, advantage. The world satisfies you right now in one way or another.

The Third Card are your hopes and fears, it is the Queen of Pentacles. Another court card of the pentacles suit, but from a more female point of view. Her face suggests a great soul, she has the serious cast of intelligence. She contemplates her symbol and sees the many worlds within. She means opulence, generosity, magnificence, security and liberty. You want what she embodies.

The Fourth Card is your future. It is the Reverse Page of Cups. A court cart, the page is the child’s version of its suit of cups, a suit known for having qualities of water. This page is studying a fish rising out of the water to look at him. In its reverse position, the card signifies taste, inclination, attachment, seduction, deception, artifice.

Summary: Things aren’t really going anywhere right now. It’s kind of boring and you’re just kind of putting up with it. It’s giving you time to think about it, and so you are really thinking about your life and where it’s going. You’re in for some material trouble as the plans you’re making to get out of this rut aren’t though all the way through. Still, you’re thinking hard and soon the right wisdom will come to you. You feel like while you aren’t going anywhere this is still a good and enlightening period for you. The world is good to you right now, in fact you’re kind of successful but something is not right. You want to be moving. You desire to use your intellect to grant you fame and success, and the world is moving too slowly. However, continue to be wary in the future or you will be deceived in your desire to move forward.

Divination: Your current idea to get you out of this rut is not going to work out well. Continue to delve deeper in yourself and you’ll come up with the right answer. Don’t get to attached to fame and fortune, it will mislead you into financial misery. Rather, enjoy the period you are in right now and don’t make any hasty decisions. While you think you’ve been enlightened in what you should do with your life, it isn’t the right thing now. Think again and be absolutely sure before you move on it, or you will be tricked into ruin.

Querent: Frageelay(twit) Divination: My sucky financial situation

Significator (Which is either you or the situation you requested to be divined): King of Cups

First Card (This covers the significator. This is the general environment at the time, the influence with which you are actuated all through): King of Pentacles

Second Card (These are your obstacles. If it is favorable, then it is something that is good in and of itself and will not be productive in the good of the situation.) Reverse VIII of Swords

Third Card (This crowns you. This is the best you can arrive at or what you hope for.) Reverse Major Arcana XVIII, The Moon

Fourth Card (This is beneath you. It is your own, what you have to work with, what you can use.) Reverse Major Arcana XI, Justice

Fifth Card (The immediate present or just past.) VI of Wands

Sixth Card (This is before you. It is the current that is coming and will operate in this matter.) XV Major Arcana, The Devil.

The cards now have been laid to identify your current situation, past, and future. It is in the form of a cross, a symbol of the transformation you are about to go through. The next four cards are more general revelations about you, the world, your hopes, and what will come. (From bottom to top)

First Card (Signifies you, and your relation to the matter) Reverse Knight of Cups

Second Card (Your house, your environment in the affair, the people and events around you) Reverse IX Major Arcana, The Hermit

Third Card (Signifies your hopes and fears) Reverse VI of Cups

Fourth Card (Represents what will come) Queen of Wands

The significator card embodies either this matter or you in the matter. It is the king of cups. He’s holding a short sceptre in his left hand and a great cup in his right; his throne is set upon the sea; on one side a ship is riding and on the other a dolphin is leaping. The implicit is that the sign of the cup naturally refers to water, which appears in all the cups cards. He is the personification of this suit being a court card. It means fair man, man of business, law or divinity, responsible, obliged to you, equity, art, science, those who profess science, law and art, creative intelligence. For your query I’d say that you earn your money through using your intellect rather than your hands, and spend it typically as a family should.

The First card is the lens through which the significator is seen through; it is the King of Pentacles. Again a court card, but of his suit the pentacles. While cups represent the element of water, pentacles represent the earth. The figure calls for no special description, the face is dark suggesting courage but lethargic in tendency. The bull’s head should be noted as a recurrent symbol on his throne. The sign of this suit is represented throughout as engraved or blazoned with the pentagram, typifying the correspondence of the four elements in human nature and that by which they may be governed. He means valour, realizing intelligence, business and normal intellectual aptitude, sometimes mathematical gifts and attainments of this kind success in these paths. These cards together on the subject of money almost say the same thing: you earn your money through intellect, perhaps one through a more artistic creative form and one through a more academic or scientific form. Both are pretty good and make a decent living from it. So, your situation is normal and balanced.

The second card is your obstacle, the reverse VIII of swords. It shows a woman bound and blindfolded, with the swords around her. She represents sickness, but in her reverse position even more so; disquiet, difficulty, accident, treachery, what is unforeseen, fatality. The problem you’re facing is not of your own accord. You didn’t know this financial hardship was coming. You didn’t bring it upon yourself by being careless, but here it is and you have to deal with it.

The third card crowns you, it is the best you can arrive at, your ideal in the matter, what you want to make your own but it is not your own at the present. It is the reverse The Moon. In it you can see dogs howling at a moon between two watch towers. It represents the feeling you have in the dead of night and everything is lit by moonlight. It is a wonderous world full of possibility and dreams made real, fantastic even. At the same time it causes you anxiety because like in a lucid dream, you are sure that it can not be real. A world in which anything can happen shouldn’t exist, and yet the moon shows longing for it. In its reverse position it more represents the feeling of fright, instability, inconstancy, silence, lesser degrees of deception and error. What you want is the world where you can do anything you desire but are afraid of it at the same time.

The fourth card is beneath you, it is what you have to work with. It is the reverse form of justice. In its upright position it means as the word says, equity, rightness but in its reverse position it represents all the err of human ways in their attempts to execute justice. Red tape, bias, excessive severity to follow the letter of the law rather than its intent. In a financial situation this represents the system at large you have to work with, the government and banks and all their shortcomings in doing what they’re supposed to be doing to help you.

The fifth card is behind you, it’s your present or immediate past. It is the VI of wands. A laurelled horseman bears staff adorned with laurel crown; footmen with staves are at his side. The card has been so designed that it can cover several significations; on the surface it is a victor triumphing, but it is also great news, such as might be carried in state by the King’s courier; it is expectation crowned with its own desire, the crown of hope. Financially this means that you are really trying to get your finances in order and are taking all the right steps and at a major level. You’re really hoping these tactics will work.

The Sixth card is what lies immediately ahead of you and plays in the obstacle, it is The Devil. He represents ravage, violence, vehemence, extraordinary efforts, force, fatality. That which is predestined but not for this reason evil. In finances he represents the inevitable downturn of this economy and the effects that it will have on you. Not only do you have your own specific financial woes that you couldn’t have predicted, but now you have to figure out a way to conquer it despite the financial system around you violently falling apart.

These cards are in the form of the cross, an ancient symbol of transformation. They represent your immediate situation. The next four cards are more general of you, this situation. The are in the form of a staff and are from the bottom to the top.

First card is you and how you feel about the matter. It is the reverse knight of cups. He is fanciful and impractical. In his reverse position he represents fraud, trickery and deceit. You’ve been lied to about what would happen should you find yourself in this situation.

The second card is your environment locally or at large. It is the reverse The Hermit. He represents concealment, disguise, policy, fear. This again points to the crumbling financial situation around you. However, he is also a figure of introspection. While the aftereffects of the economy’s collapse is still going out in shockwaves, the industry is reviewing it policies. But still, it is not acting fast enough to help.

The third card is your hopes and fears. It is the reverse. VI of cups. Normally this card is a card that represents childlike wonder. However in its reverse position it represents the future and renewal. You are hoping for a better and brighter future, one like what you used you have where you didn’t have to worry about money all the time.

The fourth card is the queen of wands. This is your future over the long term. She is the female personification of the wands suit, energetic peppy and bright, full of creativity. The future agrees favorably with your hopes.

Summary: You earn your money by using your intellect and are typical in your spending. An unforeseen accident or health problem is challenging you. The best you can arrive at is a place that’s almost like a fairy tale but you’re telling yourself that possibly can’t happen. All you have to work with is beacracy of the insituitions that promised to help you, but they aren’t as helpful as you’d like. Right now you’re taking grand plans to fix your financial situation, but the future is not going to give you a break in the short term. You feel like you’ve been lied to - if you got in this situation you should have been helped but it hasn’t worked. The environment (finance industry) is depressing and isn’t going to get better soon, it’s too busy thinking about itself. You hope for a time where you didn’t have to worry so much about money, and your future says that through your creative talents you will have this.

Divination: Your plans in the short term are going to seem like they aren’t working because this problem isn’t going to go away. However, continue to earn your living with your creative intellect, it will pay off. You will be tested sorely and it will hurt, but over the long term you will be back at a time where money wasn’t an issue and you have what you want. It’s going to be hard, but you’ll make it.

Querent: Timestolen, Divination Request: Love Devine

Significator (Which is either you or the situation you requested to be divined): The High Priestess, II Major Arcana

First Card (This covers the significator. This is the general environment at the time, the influence with which you are actuated all through): Temperance, XIV Major Arcana

Second Card (These are your obstacles. If it is favorable, then it is something that is good in and of itself and will not be productive in the good of the situation.) VII of Cups

Third Card (This crowns you. This is the best you can arrive at or what you hope for.) Reverse II of Wands.

Fourth Card (This is beneath you. It is your own, what you have to work with, what you can use.) The Lovers VI Major Arcana

Fifth Card (The immediate present or just past.) Strength, VIII Major Arcana

Sixth Card (This is before you. It is the current that is coming and will operate in this matter.) The Hanged Man, XII Major Arcana

The cards now have been laid to identify your current situation, past, and future. It is in the form of a cross, a symbol of the transformation you are about to go through. The next four cards are more general revelations about you, the world, your hopes, and what will come. (From bottom to top)

First Card (Signifies you, and your relation to the matter) VI of Pentacles

Second Card (Your house, your environment in the affair, the people and events around you) Knight of Wands

Third Card (Signifies your hopes and fears) Reverse III of Wands

Fourth Card (Represents what will come) V of Swords

The significator card is the High Priestess. She represents the mystery of the feminine, the visualization of the ancient phrase ‘be still, and know that I am god’. She is the access point to the unconscious and represents the deeper aspects of one self.

The First Card is the lens through which the High Priestness is viewed. It is with tempereance, another major arcana card. Temperance represents dicipline, taking exactly as you need and only as you need it, again order. These cards together show that you are a very reserved and deep person when it comes to love, secretive and yet accommodating to those you pair up with.

The Second Card is the obstacle, and it is the VII of Cups. This card shows someone looking at many different options presented to him, fame, fortune, real estate but also frightening things, with the most glorified choice a person draped in a cloth. This card represents a barrage of information and confusion, you’re not sure what to pick here. Apparently, the only option isn’t discernable and other options are attractive but not quite right.

The Third card is above you, it crowns you. It symbolizes what you hope for or the best you can arrive at. It is the reverse II of wands. The II of wands in its normal position represents fulfillment of one thing but perhaps not another. While you have the whole world in your hands, something is missing. In its reverse position it means surprise, wonder, enchantment, emotion, trouble and fear. You hope that somehow, it will all magically work out, and that your true love is like a fairy tale, yet you doubt it will happen that way because well, it isn’t very practical and implausible.

The Fourth Card is what you have to work with to resolve your conflict at hand. It is the VI Major Arcana, The Lovers. It represents passion and success. Again, pointing to you being a very loving person and successful in most of your endeavors.

The Fifth card is behind you, it is the immediate present or recent past. It is the VIII Major Arcana, Strength. It represents power, energy, action, courage, magnanimity. This means you have just done or are doing something that takes a lot of power to do and at a high level.

The Sixth card is before you, it is your future. It is XII Major Arcana, The Hanged Man. Don’t freak, it doesn’t mean death. If you look closely at the card, you can see the man has a circle of light around his head. He is being hung by his foot and is actually serene and at peace. It represents wisdom, circumspection, discernment, trials, sacrifice, intuition, divination, prophecy. In this card you can expect your future to bring you to a point where you realize the only control you have is over yourself. You will have to look inward to see how you want to move.

These are the cards that are in the form of a cross and represent the transformation you are about to go through. The next cards are from bottom to top in a staff position. These cards are more general about your life and this situation.

The First card is the VI of Pentacles. It represents you and how you feel about this situation. In it a man is holding the scales of justice and feeding beggars. It means presents, gifts, gratification, attention and vigilance. In this position I’d say this card means that you are very giving in loving relationships. You feel inclined to be this way because you feel that you have been given so much and have much to give.

The Second card is your environment, either in your immediate area or the world. It is the Knight of Wands, a court card, it is a personification of the energetic Wands suit. He’s on a journey with a short wand, and he has his armor on but is not on a war-like errand. His card means departure, absence, flight, emigration, change of residence, friendly. This means that the environment you’re in is not the same as it always has been, or that you are moving from one type of relationship to the next. Perhaps you find you are preferring partners of a different type than you typically have been attracted to. Something in your environment is changing.

The Third card signifies your hopes and fears. It is the reverse III of Wands. It is a calm, stately figure, turned back looking over a cliff’s edge at ship’s passing over the sea. Three staves are planted on the ground and he leans slightly on one. In his reverse position he symbolizes the end of troubles, suspension or cessation of adversity, toil and disappointment. You’ve had enough; you’re ready to settle down and just be comfortable.

The Fourth Card is your future. It is the V of Swords. A disdainful man looks after two retreating dejected figures. Their two swords lie on the ground. He carries the other swords on his shoulder, and a third in his hand pointed at the earth. He is the master in possession of the field. This card means dishonor, degradation, destruction, reversal, infamy, and loss. It is a card that shows self-interest. Sometimes we need to be more interested in ourselves, taking care of the self first before you can take care of others. Or it could mean that you are focusing on one aspect of yourself too harshly and are forgetting how you fit in with the rest of the world. It is also a card that is the line between a curse word and a fight that is about to happen, the tension before it happens.

Summary: In the matters of love, you are very deep and mysterious even, but light-hearted enough where others enjoy your company. You are frugal with your emotions, making out in public or saying ‘I love you’ everyday isn’t along the lines of what you like to do. Your obstacle is too many choices, confusion and disorganization in your love life. You’re not sure what’s your priority. You hope for something enchanting that suits your deeper mysterious nature, but being very practical doubt it and probably gave up on something fairy-tale like long ago. Despite this, you are a loving person and have a loving personality to overcome this. (You’re also probably very beautiful and attractive, I should mention.) You are or just have (been) performing at a high level, it is magnificent to behold. In the future you are going to be forced to let go of control. In general, your attitude towards love is very giving. Your environment is pretty hectic and moving towards something else either physically or romantically. You hope to finally just settle down, but the future says you must look out and see yourself in the grand scheme of things, or need to take time for yourself.

Divination: All the pairs in this reading clash wonderfully here. You are always completely in control, but very soon you won’t be. This could be that you finally meet someone who shows you what it’s like to let go and be yourself, or you have to let go and be yourself before you can meet someone. The obstacle card either shows everything in confusion or everything is way too orderly, and with the other cards showing your personality to be always in charge I think everything is way to orderly. (Of course, you’ll chortle and say something about the dishes not being done, but it isn’t about what is done, it is about what you have done to take care of yourself. Your attitude is always giving and giving.) Somehow, despite your - dare I say - romantic core, you’ve managed to bury it away in favor of practicality. Deeply you hope for something as exciting as everyone tells you love can be, but you doubt it. This reading tells me that you need: lighten the load of all the things you are doing, relax and look at what you really want from yourself, and think about what you are looking for. You have opportunity to do it yourself, but the cards say soon it will be forced upon you and you’ll be quite embarrassed about it.

Sniffy, I’m sorry. I could not get the video to download. Just play some pink floyd in the background and look at the links. I can’t do videos anymore; my internet connection is terrible. I’m going to link to the cards on wikipedia instead. I put the Queen of Wands as your photo because that’s who you are. :)

Querent: SniffyJenkins Subject: General Wot Larks

Significator (Which is either you or the situation you requested to be divined): IX of Wands

First Card (This covers the significator. This is the general environment at the time, the influence with which you are actuated all through): Ace of Wands

Second Card (These are your obstacles. If it is favorable, then it is something that is good in and of itself and will not be productive in the good of the situation.) Reverse IV of Cups

Third Card (This crowns you. This is the best you can arrive at or what you hope for.) Reverse II of Cups

Fourth Card (This is beneath you. It is your own, what you have to work with, what you can use.) Queen of Wands

Fifth Card (The immediate present or just past.) IX of Pentacles

Sixth Card (This is before you. It is the current that is coming and will operate in this matter.) Reverse King of Wands

The cards now have been laid to identify your current situation, past, and future. It is in the form of a cross, a symbol of the transformation you are about to go through. The next four cards are more general revelations about you, the world, your hopes, and what will come.

First Card (Signifies you, and your relation to the matter) Reverse VII of Wands

Second Card (Your house, your environment in the affair, the people and events around you) Reverse Ace of Cups

Third Card (Signifies your hopes and fears) Reverse The Hierophant, V Major Arcana

Fourth Card (Represents what will come) Reverse X of Wands.

Reading:

The significator is the reverse IX of Wands, the card of readiness in battle. There is a youth holding one staff while eight others stand behind him. In its reverse position it represents obstacles and calamity.

The First Card is the lens of which the signifigator is through. It is the Ace of Wands. The ace cards are good cards and effect the entire reading (and you have two!). They are always cards of plenty and the best that the suit can offer. This one represents creation, invention, enterprise, the powers that result in these, principle, beginning, source, birth, family, origin, money, fortune, and inheritance. These two cards together would suggest that while (either you or your general reading in this situation) calamity reigns, it is harnessed for creative and worthwhile endeavors that are beneficial.

The Second card is the obstacle, it is the reverse IV of cups. It shows a man beneath a tree contemplating three decisions, when, out of nowhere he is be offered a fourth he hasn’t considered yet. In its reverse position it means novelty, presage, new instruction, new relations. The obstacle is something you haven’t seen before, or you’re being told something you haven’t heard.

The Third card is what crowns you. It is the reverse II of cups. It shows a youth and maiden are pledging one another, and above their cups rises the caduceus of Hermes, between the great wings there appears a lion’s head. This is an old card with curious meanings. In its reverse it means false love, folly and misunderstanding. You’ve either misunderstood others or have been misunderstood.

The Fourth Card is beneath you, it is what you have to work with. It is the Queen of Wands, a court card. The queen is the female personification of the suit. The wands are always shown in leaf, as it is a suit of life and animation. Emotionally and otherwise, the queen’s personality corresponds to the king’s (dark, ardent, lithe, animated, impassioned, noble) but is more magnetic. A dark woman, countrywoman, friendly, chaste, loving, honourable. If the card next to her is a man, she is well disposed to him, if the card next to her is a woman, then she is interested in the querent. (since the king of wands is next to her I’ll assume that her magnetic personality applies to your future, the position that the king is in. However, she is also next to the woman, who is in your past). She represents then, you, and your wonderful personality is what you have to work with.

The Fifth card of the cross is what is your immediate present or has just passed. It is the IX of Pentacles. It is a picture of a woman, with a bird upon her wrist, standing admist a great abundance of grape vines in the garden of a great house. It means prudence, safety, success, accomplishment, certitude, discernment. It means that recently you’ve done something quite well!

The Sixth card is before you, it is your immediate future. It is the reverse of the king of wands. He is much like the queen described before in the suit of wands, but he is the male personification of the suit. He uplifts a flowering wand and wears, like the other kings, what is called a cap of maintenance beneath his crown. He connects with the symbol of the lion, which is emblazoned on the back of his throne. In his reverse position he represents good, but severe, austere, yet tolerant. What will happen will be good, but perhaps not overly so. It will appear excluding but yet isn’t when examined further.

These cards are now in the ancient symbol of the cross, representing crossroads and transformation. The next four cards are in the symbol of the staff, and starting from the bottom to the top are more general about the reading and your life.

The first card of the staff is you and how you feel about it. It is the VII of wands, reverse. He’s on a cliff with a staff as his weapon, but six weapons are coming at him from below. It is usually a card of valor, being brave despite being outnumbered. However in its reverse position it represents perplexity, embarrassments, anxiety. It means that this thing you haven’t heard of before is making you anxious and a bit embarrassed.

The second card is your environment. It is the reverse of the Ace of Cups. In its upright position it represents plenty and joy. Because of its reversed, it means a house of the false heart, mutation, instability and revolution. The environment, meaning either your immediate household or the environment at large is unstable. It could also be the environment that you grew up in and now reflect on in this matter.

The third card is your hopes and fears. It is The Hierophant, V of the Major Arcana in a reverse position. In his normal position he represents servitude and inspiration. It also represents rituals and rites of passage that are universal to all stages of life, not just faith. In his reverse position this card represents society, good understanding, concord, over-kindness and weakness. While you hope for to be at peace with the world you live in, you fear being too weak to tolerate it. This corresponds with the cups cards quite well; I’ll explain later.

Finally, the fourth card is your future. It is the reverse of the X of Wands. Normally this is a card of masked burden. However, in his reverse position it is difficulty, contradictions and the conditions that create this.

Summary: You are or have had adverse situations that’s you’ve managed to put to good use and fortune, nay, even profit or be creative about it. In this reading you are going to have a choice that seems completely new to you. While you’ve always felt misunderstood, you are a bright, engaging, and overall wonderful person to be around, with a lot of pep and spirit that will help you through this. You’re enjoying a period of something major that you’ve accomplished. Your future is good even if it’s not the absolute best you could hope for, and may seem like it rejects you when it really doesn’t. You feel anxious about this new information. Your world is not truly the way it should be, people around you have been telling you one thing and doing another, causing instability. You hope for harmony with the world around you, but are afraid of being too weak to enjoy it at times. Your future is going to be full of contradictions and difficulty.

Divination: Never have I given a reading with such a strong personification of wands and cups. You have the ace, king and queen of wands and many wand cards, the rest are cup cards with the ace of cups. (only exception are two cards). Due to the position of the Queen, the wands correlate with who you naturally are, passionate, intense, energetic, competitive, direct and overt. The ace of cups in your environment reverse have given you the personality traits of the cups in some positive but some negative manners, introvert, mild, covert, indirect and also tender, mild, peace loving and restful. To be more specific to the general reading, the thing that you’ve managed to create out of a hardship is going to give you some news you weren’t expecting. It makes you anxious, but it will be good. It was quite an accomplishment for you. To get what you want, harmony with the world and to be understood, you should go ahead, even though it isn’t as good as you hoped. Somehow perhaps it will make life more difficult for a time, or contradictory. Overall, very good energy from this reading showing the Querent to be more pure in personality than others, more true to the wand nature despite the cups tempering you down a bit.