learn how to read the playing cards (cartomancy)

Three Card Spread this week.

Past: Ace of clubs: Aces mean new beginnings, and can also indicate loneliness (one is a lonely number). Clubs are… wow, I need to work on this more often (cheats) is a fire element and has to do with goals. So this could refer to the start of my new job, and maybe the start of a new relationship with SC? Though, I tend to have more work goals than relationship goals, so I lean towards starting work.

reference says that iots having energy and enthusiasm to accomplish goals, riskhy but worthwhile adventures new beginnings. For me I think this is the new job that I was leaning towards.

Present: Five of Hearts: Fives can be too much stability and a boxed in feeling. And hearts has to do with home and relationships. It’s a water suit. Perhaps I feel a bit trapped living at home.

ref says ‘You feel a deep sense of regret and disappointment usually regarding a relationship. A time of separation from something or someone you really wanted in your life. Grief and sorrow and the need to release the past. Recklessnes may have led to losing this valuable object.’

Yeah, I don’t think so, not a good fit. the only thing that really could be related is i’m that not spending very much time with my family even though i’m living with them. and the fact that i want to move out (not conflciting emotions at all, no /sarcasm)

Future: Eight of Diamonds: diamonds have to do with finances and the work world. Eights also have to do with career and money issues, usually material gain. This makes sense, I’ve got the stable job started and its on a good path. Which means that I’m buying material things and making money.

refernce says some kind of advancement at work. actually, i should get a raise if i can just get that dumb incomplete taken care of.

I guess this works, not as involved of a reading as last week, but still something.

I’m going to try to do a weekly reading every weekend. Practice, practice, practice, right?

I’ll edit this entry with tonight’s reading in a little bit.

Tonight’s Reading:

Card One: Current Situation: King of Clubs. As a person, this card represents a man in charge or in a position of leadership and responsibility. This may also suggest a man who is connected to your goals and ambitions. This person is usually mature, strong-willed, assertive and has good leadership skills. As a situation, this card relates to examining your leadership or management potential and ability and reflects business or career concerns.

Well, also, face cards can also be people. So this might just be representing SC. I’ve been the Queen of SPades before (I hope I’m moving on more and not still there). He’s pretty outgoing and stuff, though maybe not the most mature, which is kind of somethng I like. Or maybe it takes maturity to relax enough to be silly. “A man who is connected to your goals and ambitions” seems to indicate good stuff.

Card Two: Past Situation:Ace of Spades: You are experiencing a new and challenging phase where you must overcome obstacles using great inner strength and determination. This is a time of elimination where things that you no longer need may be leaving your life. A time of clarity and enlightenment if you are willing to open your eyes and see things clearly. Being truthful and honest. Making a necessary but painful decision.

Well, yeah I definitely went through that with KMS (asshole), and then a couple other people got cut out too… well maybe not cut out, but definitely parred down on my life for awhile, and had some major emotioanly challenges. Glad to see that this is showing up in the past, I feel like I’m moving past that. Aces are also new beginnings, which the break with KS definitely was, and it was letting go of a relationship that was hurtful to me. I cleared house emotionally when he showed his true colors.

Card Three: Past Attitudes: Two of Clubs: You have been vacillating and are considering a matter either indecisively or indifferently. On the one hand, you have a desire to take action but on the other hand you are unsure of the future. A period of waiting and reflecting over past accomplishments. Feeling walled in by past accomplishments but afraid to venture out into unknown territory. A need to make a choice between acting and waiting. The sense that life is passing you by.

A past attitude huh? I think that’s right. I’ve been trying to move on and not let life pass me by. I’ve been there in that indecisive zone. Now I’ve got a real job, I’m seeing someone. I’m happier, I’ve bought a car. I’m trying to be more enthusiastic about things and really grab life by the horns and just stop worrying about shit. this seems to fit.

Card Four:Hopes and Goals:Three of Clubs: THREE represents growth, creativity and expansion. Threes signal a time where self-expression and self-promotion are likely and there is a possibility of recognition and expression through the written or spoken word. Three represents groups and shared interests so it also reflects increased social activity. You are reaching a milestone in your development. You have the sense of expansion in some area of life and may be leaving a secure position for unknown territory. Embarking on a journey. Envisioning your possibilities and future. Exploring and traveling, at least through books if not actual travel. Thanks to your previous efforts, you have attained a supportive foundation and your goal is becoming visible.

Well, this is what I want, I don’t know if in relation to SC, but in general. I want to keep being creative and growing, making my life what I want it to be. Which is why I asked the question I did. I like that he’s so social, it’s helpful for a hermit like me to be with someone who’s so outgoing. I want my future to be full of travel (I’m thinking I should see a career counselor to help me look into career paths that will help me achieve that goal. I want to be a “citizen of the world” or a jetsetter. So this is pretty accurate. I’ve been thinking about these aspects of the future a lot and how to get there. If this helps tell me where the situation is taking me, it seems to be saying SC is good for me right now. Even if he doesn’t share the same goals of travel, for a time at least.

Card Five:The Pinnacle: Ace of Hearts:You are in love or feel very passionately about a subject or person. You are able to consummate a relationship or passion, express your feelings, or be emotionally fulfilled. You feel a sense of joy, thankfulness, comfort and deep happiness. The start of a new romance. Feeling altruistic and helpful.

Well, that’s good. Basically this is the best that can happen if I keep on this track. And shit, this sounds like an awesome card. And makes me want to stay with hhim and keep going the way I’m going.

Card Six: Outcome with major changes:Ten of Spades: You are starting to realize you are in an unhealthy situation and there is only a painful way through it. Hitting rock bottom and the realization that it is time to make significant changes. A very difficult time but one where unwelcome situations, bad habits, and harmful phases can finally come to an end. A painful parting or loss. Putting an end to something, abandoning ideas and convictions, and rejecting a previous way of life.

I think falling in love and keeping on the same track is good way to go. Much better than reaching this point. Yet, maybe I’m halfway here already, because this card is the realization that things aren’t right. I don’t think that this is a direction I want to go in. I think I want to stay on the same track and have an awesome passionate emotional fulfillment. I want that deep happiness the pinnacle promises me. I will pay attention to my long term goals of wanting to travel. I’ll keep looking at jobs that I can find that will allow me to work with my ideals and long term goals, but for now, the track I’m on is a good one.

Card Seven:What to do if I need to change stuff:Six of Clubs: You are experiencing victory and success and hard-won satisfaction in some endeavor. Your efforts will be rewarded and applauded. You are in a leadership role with the responsibility of motivating and inspiring others. You are transitioning from a phase of conflict to one of peace and harmony. Obstacles have been removed from your path. You have the confidence and self-esteem you need to reach your goals.

Basically, I need to work hard and have confidence and self esteem? And be willing to leave the past in the past.Be a leader. Sounds like a good way to be always, doesn’t it? Very general. I don’t know if it applies here, except that I shouldn’t doubt myself.

Card Eight: Person/People Who can helpt the most:Seven of Hearts: You are full of hopes, wishes and dreams and may be faced with many options. It may be difficult to make a choice and you may be living in a world of fantasies, unable to see reality clearly. A period of imagination and creativity. Wishful thinking and wearing rose-colored glasses. Letting yourself be deceived by what you want. Deception and illusion.

Uhh, right? So, this is supposed to represent someone in my life who can help. I need hang around with idealists? All right, I don’t see how this card works with everything. So, anyone who reads this, and knows cartomancy or tarot throw me a bone and help me to interpret this. Does just being around idealists and asking their opinions on this help? or what? this card is more or less equivalent to the seven of cups An idealist will show up in my life, huh? Well, then, I can figure out the idealist’s advic e with regards to what I want to do.

Card Nine: True Desires: Six of Diamonds: You are receiving help and assistance and/or expressing qualities of generosity, tolerance and helpfulness. Receiving gifts and unexpected tokens of appreciation. Taking care of the responsibilities of family and home. Increases in money or possessions not because of your efforts but due to good fortune or the generosity of another.

This is a good place (in the reading) to evaluate if what the querent wants is really what he/she needs. So what I say I want versus what I really do want in my life?

yeah, i don’t know about that description. but a six relates to responsibilities to others, settles debts, and represents a transition from the past to the future. Diamonds tend to do with money and (emotional or financial) security, possessions. Also, values and work.
Which makes more sense to me. I’m wanting to leave behind financial and emotional insecurity and find my way into a place that’s more stable. Not through gifts like it says above, but just by reaching a place where I can stand on my own two feet. Maybe I am trying to be generous and helpful, I always want to be. In some ways this is pretty accurate.

Card Ten: Hindrances: jack of hearts: The jacks are usually young and don’t necessarily know what they want: flighty. Hearts represent emotions, dreams, romance. So, I could have problems because either I don’t know what I want emotionally, or someone else doesn’t. I need to keep that in mind.

Card Eleven: Final Outcome: Jack of Spades, again, jacks are young and flighty. Spades are blocks, negative things, things that can hurt me, like that past relationship with KMS. Let’s see what she says: As a person, this card suggests someone who is deceitful or spiteful or in some manner operating against your best interest. This person may be connected to a bad habit you are trying to quit. This card also represents a person with a clear, sharp mind who is argumentative and ready to engage others in conflict. As a situation, this card relates to your worries and concerns and suggests you may be deceiving yourself or you may be deceived by someone else. This card advises you to take great care when dealing with others and it asks you to look carefully at your own motivations.

Wow, I need to change something. Overall this reading looked pretty good, but with this I don’t know what to make of this as a final outcome, it’s the final outcome based on everything I have to deal with now. This doesn’t seem like a good thing, but the pinnacle can also be the outcome if things keep going as they are. I need to see what will undercut me. Or, stop and see if this is not the right way to go.

OVERALL: It seems like I’m going on a pretty good path, so long as things keep going the way that they are. I’ve dealt with things poorly in the past (at least in regards to KMS), and perhaps considering that there’s something that needs to be changed. I need to keep my eyes open and understand what’s going on, but also pay attention to what the idealist around me says. And I need to be confident and keep working towards what I want. At least that’s how I take this reading. Maybe this isn’t the right path for forever, but for now it works, which is good and reassuring.

Everything in italics is quoted from Saren’s Cartomancy: here.

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I still haven’t sat down and made my binder. what a dork. i should really do that.

I think that I’m going to make a binder of cartomancy stuff.

I have a lot of stuff on my computer, but I’ve been meaning to make it so that I don’t have to look at the computer all the time. And the best way to learn it is to actually use it consistently and a reference binder (and the making of said reference binder) will probably help me to remember things more easily and means I don’t need to have a mechanical medium between me and understanding what the cards mean.

Besides I want to handwrite the stuff I put into the binder, and maybe make it a kind of journal of the readings I do as well. So that should reinforce what I’m learning about the cards, right?