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Card#1: Ace of Swords (Basis of your situation)
This is a very powerful card that represents a great force of strength and inner power, showing you have the ability to overcome setbacks and adversity. This is a card of victory and triumph through one's own actions.
Card#2: The Magician (Desires)
The Magician is there to inform you that you have all the ability, through dedication and concentration of will, to handle a task and bring it to a successful conclusion, just as you desire. It also indicates a time for action and initiative in any new ventures.
Card#3: High Priestess (Helpful Factors)
This is a very interesting card, so this one will be a bit longer. The high priestess shows her ability to access higher knowledge is esoteric matters. Her face is masked, representing mystery and secrets. This could indicate that there is more depth to some matter than you have seen so far. She is fully engaged with the crescent moon and glittering stars in the cosmos behind her. Appearing to be in a trace-like state, she pays no heed to our presence or opinions, secure within her own knowledge of universal matters. She floats above the water, representing the subconscious and the psyche. This indicates that you are able to rise above your emotions, not letting them hold you back. Your strengths are your imagination, desire for knowledge, creativity, and perhaps an interest in the deeper, more complex aspects of life. Trust your instincts and keep exploring your potential.
Card#4: Four of Wands (Opposing Factors)
This card represents family, harmony, and balance. Read oppositely, it could indicate that your quest for knowledge and meaning may hold you back from achieving some of the simpler aspects of life.
Card#5: Six of Pentacles (Outcome)
This card shows success and being in a position to share with others. You will have plenty of material gains and rewards for your efforts. So maybe your quest for self-actualization will lead you to make some amazing scientific discovery that will make you rich, haha. But no, seriously though, in this card, we see a well-dressed merchant holding the scales of balance in his hands. Therefore, you must not only pursue learning and knowledge, but also people to share that knowledge and the rewards of your successes with. Appreciate both of these things, for it will create balance and happiness.
Card#1: Ace of Swords (Basis of your situation)
This is a very powerful card that represents a great force of strength and inner power, showing you have the ability to overcome setbacks and adversity. This is a card of victory and triumph through one's own actions.
Card#2: The Magician (Desires)
The Magician is there to inform you that you have all the ability, through dedication and concentration of will, to handle a task and bring it to a successful conclusion, just as you desire. It also indicates a time for action and initiative in any new ventures.
Card#3: High Priestess (Helpful Factors)
This is a very interesting card, so this one will be a bit longer. The high priestess shows her ability to access higher knowledge is esoteric matters. Her face is masked, representing mystery and secrets. This could indicate that there is more depth to some matter than you have seen so far. She is fully engaged with the crescent moon and glittering stars in the cosmos behind her. Appearing to be in a trace-like state, she pays no heed to our presence or opinions, secure within her own knowledge of universal matters. She floats above the water, representing the subconscious and the psyche. This indicates that you are able to rise above your emotions, not letting them hold you back. Your strengths are your imagination, desire for knowledge, creativity, and perhaps an interest in the deeper, more complex aspects of life. Trust your instincts and keep exploring your potential.
Card#4: Four of Wands (Opposing Factors)
This card represents family, harmony, and balance. Read oppositely, it could indicate that your quest for knowledge and meaning may hold you back from achieving some of the simpler aspects of life.
Card#5: Six of Pentacles (Outcome)
This card shows success and being in a position to share with others. You will have plenty of material gains and rewards for your efforts. So maybe your quest for self-actualization will lead you to make some amazing scientific discovery that will make you rich, haha. But no, seriously though, in this card, we see a well-dressed merchant holding the scales of balance in his hands. Therefore, you must not only pursue learning and knowledge, but also people to share that knowledge and the rewards of your successes with. Appreciate both of these things, for it will create balance and happiness.
@Harmony
Card#1: Temperance (Basis of your situation)
Same as Witty's reading here. You are learning to achieve emotional balance and moderation, as well as practicing patience to find satisfactory solutions.
Card#2: Page of Cups (Desires)
You desire to be kind, gentle, thoughtful, creative, and artistic. You can at times be sensitive to criticism or the harsh realities of life. You are well-liked, but may have some difficulties socially due to your sensitive nature and others' thoughtlessness. As a desire card, this could represent your desire to attain all of your ideal character traits, and perhaps drop unwanted ones. If your sensitivity holds you back at times, you desire to be more assertive, tolerant, and emotionally stable. However, remember that everyone has their flaws and imperfections that are "uniquely them". It's okay, at times, to be sensitive to things. And it's also okay, at times, to tell whomever doesn't like it to fuck off. 😉
Card#3: Nine of Cups (Helpful Factors)
This is a very promising card that indicates emotional and material fulfillment, abundance, and the achievement of an important desire that brings you a sense of overall fulfillment. So one of your helpful factors is hope. There is an abundance of hope (which you must also acquire within yourself) in you accomplishing your desired goals. Also, achieving both emotional and material fulfillment are needed to help you reach those goals.
Card#4: Queen of Swords (Opposing Factors)
The queen of swords is independent, forthright, and at times unemotional. So perhaps you, at times, attempt to cover up your sensitive nature (due to others' critique or possibly your own inability to deal with the resulting emotional turmoil) by abandoning it altogether (or pretending to). The queen of swords does have a good reasoning mind and excellent perception, which means she has mastered the ability to put emotion aside and concentrate on logic and facts. This is a good thing. But as your first card implies, learning to achieve moderation is even better. The queen has plenty of inner strength due to past suffering, and she is happy anywhere that challenges her keen intellect and analytic nature. However, she can at times be overly critical, intolerant, and does not often give second chances. She is not someone to pick an argument with. To sum things up, you may at times hold back your true nature to avoid getting criticized or hurt, seeing as you've already been hurt in the past many a time. And when you do so, you may express yourself completely oppositely than you would really have liked to IF the possibility of getting hurt wasn't an issue. There is both good and bad here. Abandoning your emotions does lead you to think more clearly. But it can also deprive you of contentment, love, and true inner peace.
Card#5: Death (Outcome)
Again, I must reiterate, this is NOT --I repeat, NOT-- to be taken literally. Of course, obviously, we all die someday. But that day isn't coming anytime soon for you. You've still got plenty of life to live. As in Witty's reading (again, for that matter. You guys got two of the same cards), this symbolizes the end of something old and the beginning of something new. There is a skull behind a shield that has a white stallion on it, the white stallion symbolizing purity. Thus, the answer to your question is that you can certainly achieve self-actualization by creating balance, moderation, tolerance, and inner peace within yourself, as indicated by previous cards.
Card#1: Temperance (Basis of your situation)
Same as Witty's reading here. You are learning to achieve emotional balance and moderation, as well as practicing patience to find satisfactory solutions.
Card#2: Page of Cups (Desires)
You desire to be kind, gentle, thoughtful, creative, and artistic. You can at times be sensitive to criticism or the harsh realities of life. You are well-liked, but may have some difficulties socially due to your sensitive nature and others' thoughtlessness. As a desire card, this could represent your desire to attain all of your ideal character traits, and perhaps drop unwanted ones. If your sensitivity holds you back at times, you desire to be more assertive, tolerant, and emotionally stable. However, remember that everyone has their flaws and imperfections that are "uniquely them". It's okay, at times, to be sensitive to things. And it's also okay, at times, to tell whomever doesn't like it to fuck off. 😉
Card#3: Nine of Cups (Helpful Factors)
This is a very promising card that indicates emotional and material fulfillment, abundance, and the achievement of an important desire that brings you a sense of overall fulfillment. So one of your helpful factors is hope. There is an abundance of hope (which you must also acquire within yourself) in you accomplishing your desired goals. Also, achieving both emotional and material fulfillment are needed to help you reach those goals.
Card#4: Queen of Swords (Opposing Factors)
The queen of swords is independent, forthright, and at times unemotional. So perhaps you, at times, attempt to cover up your sensitive nature (due to others' critique or possibly your own inability to deal with the resulting emotional turmoil) by abandoning it altogether (or pretending to). The queen of swords does have a good reasoning mind and excellent perception, which means she has mastered the ability to put emotion aside and concentrate on logic and facts. This is a good thing. But as your first card implies, learning to achieve moderation is even better. The queen has plenty of inner strength due to past suffering, and she is happy anywhere that challenges her keen intellect and analytic nature. However, she can at times be overly critical, intolerant, and does not often give second chances. She is not someone to pick an argument with. To sum things up, you may at times hold back your true nature to avoid getting criticized or hurt, seeing as you've already been hurt in the past many a time. And when you do so, you may express yourself completely oppositely than you would really have liked to IF the possibility of getting hurt wasn't an issue. There is both good and bad here. Abandoning your emotions does lead you to think more clearly. But it can also deprive you of contentment, love, and true inner peace.
Card#5: Death (Outcome)
Again, I must reiterate, this is NOT --I repeat, NOT-- to be taken literally. Of course, obviously, we all die someday. But that day isn't coming anytime soon for you. You've still got plenty of life to live. As in Witty's reading (again, for that matter. You guys got two of the same cards), this symbolizes the end of something old and the beginning of something new. There is a skull behind a shield that has a white stallion on it, the white stallion symbolizing purity. Thus, the answer to your question is that you can certainly achieve self-actualization by creating balance, moderation, tolerance, and inner peace within yourself, as indicated by previous cards.
My (admittedly limited and probably false) understanding of the idea is that each card represents a generalised idea with multiple meanings, they are then shuffled and drawn at random, allowing the universe or whatever to speak through them, then the cards together can be interpreted in context to answer questions, essentially asking the universe questions and interpreting the answers hidden in chaos.
I think.
I think.
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