New Year's spread
Jan. 2nd, 2020 12:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bloodygranuaileI haven't done a proper tarot reading in what feels like forever, but I did manage to do a seven-card New Year's spread yesterday.
1. To leave behind in the old year: Ten of Pentacles, Material Abundance. I wasn't real stoked to see this card in this particular spot. The card can mean family support, which in my current financial state I feel more dependent on than usual. In short, it's a good card, so the idea of leaving it behind seems like it would signal tough times.
2. To open up to in the new year: Queen of Pentacles, Practical Manager. This is my signature card, so it's always nice to see her pop up. She represents success in business and financial matters, and advises that a practical, conservative approach brings steady progress. Possibly this means I need to buckle down and rediscover my financial discipline (which I've already been trying to do, after last year's several binges of having Amazon Prime for half the year and going to Salem a bunch), but it also indicates that doing so will pay off. So hopefully that pans out.
3. Key opportunity of the new year: King of Pentacles, Worldly Success. I'm sensing a theme here. The King represents being financially security minded, and organizing the financial aspects of one's life. So there should be an opportunity to come out ahead if I do things right.
4. Key challenge of the new year: The Moon, Deep Instinctual Forces, Self-Deception. While the other cards seemed to indicate a need to be practical, it seems this card is warning me that practicality may include being in touch with unconscious feelings and desires, which I suppose makes sense--I don't want to set myself up for failure by signing up for something that will make me miserable in the belief that I can just tough it out, since I know that I do better work when I'm not miserable. So it's important to be holistic. I suppose.
5. Hidden concern: The Empress. The Empress is much of a theme with the rest of this spread, indicating female creativity, hard work paying off, all that stuff, so I'm not quite sure what makes it a concern here.
6. Deep wisdom: The Tower. Swift, shocking, and dramatic change. This sounds uncomfortable? Perhaps I'll need to make more of a career change than I'm quite comfortable with to take advantage of any of the positive pentacles cards from earlier.
7. Key theme: Ace of Pentacles, Firm Financial Foundations. YOU DON'T SAY. The Ace is, of course, the root card of the suit of Pentacles, so it basically is saying "your theme is the suit of Pentacles." It can also represent a windfall of some sort or reward for hard work. But anyway, yeah, I think money and employment stuff is going to be a pretty big theme of the year, and I'm not sure I really needed cards to tell me that. But I suppose it's given me a few things to think about.
1. To leave behind in the old year: Ten of Pentacles, Material Abundance. I wasn't real stoked to see this card in this particular spot. The card can mean family support, which in my current financial state I feel more dependent on than usual. In short, it's a good card, so the idea of leaving it behind seems like it would signal tough times.
2. To open up to in the new year: Queen of Pentacles, Practical Manager. This is my signature card, so it's always nice to see her pop up. She represents success in business and financial matters, and advises that a practical, conservative approach brings steady progress. Possibly this means I need to buckle down and rediscover my financial discipline (which I've already been trying to do, after last year's several binges of having Amazon Prime for half the year and going to Salem a bunch), but it also indicates that doing so will pay off. So hopefully that pans out.
3. Key opportunity of the new year: King of Pentacles, Worldly Success. I'm sensing a theme here. The King represents being financially security minded, and organizing the financial aspects of one's life. So there should be an opportunity to come out ahead if I do things right.
4. Key challenge of the new year: The Moon, Deep Instinctual Forces, Self-Deception. While the other cards seemed to indicate a need to be practical, it seems this card is warning me that practicality may include being in touch with unconscious feelings and desires, which I suppose makes sense--I don't want to set myself up for failure by signing up for something that will make me miserable in the belief that I can just tough it out, since I know that I do better work when I'm not miserable. So it's important to be holistic. I suppose.
5. Hidden concern: The Empress. The Empress is much of a theme with the rest of this spread, indicating female creativity, hard work paying off, all that stuff, so I'm not quite sure what makes it a concern here.
6. Deep wisdom: The Tower. Swift, shocking, and dramatic change. This sounds uncomfortable? Perhaps I'll need to make more of a career change than I'm quite comfortable with to take advantage of any of the positive pentacles cards from earlier.
7. Key theme: Ace of Pentacles, Firm Financial Foundations. YOU DON'T SAY. The Ace is, of course, the root card of the suit of Pentacles, so it basically is saying "your theme is the suit of Pentacles." It can also represent a windfall of some sort or reward for hard work. But anyway, yeah, I think money and employment stuff is going to be a pretty big theme of the year, and I'm not sure I really needed cards to tell me that. But I suppose it's given me a few things to think about.