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Scarletpeaches
27-08-2003, 08:37
Have just been reading the 'sexiest card' thread and I wondered if anyone can relate themselves to a particular card, or which card they would LIKE to be? Or am I just weird? Was thinking I'm a bit too close to the Queen of Swords in the Mythic deck for comfort. Read into that what you will although I've probably just given too much away! Perhaps I should try to be more like the Queen of Pentacles...'Nuff said. I'll shut up now.
Thats fun. Once, not so long ago, i was looking at the Queen of Wands in a relaxed way, trying to meditate. And I asked: "How can i be more like you?" Then an answer popped into my mind: "You cant be like me. You can be like yourself". Ok, stupid story, it has come back to mind when reading your post. Guess i wanted to be the queen of wands at that time.
I cant relate only to one card. Depending on the moment, I feel im more like this or the other. And in the same way, i need to be more like this or that depending on the circumstances. Give me a Knigth of pentacles now...
I am most like the Hermit, though I am not always happy being him. Sometimes I would prefer to be more outgoing and gregarious, but I have to accept that I am most comfortable when I am delving into myself or something that interests my brain alone.
Warmest,
Elle
I would almost want to be the fool, because of all the people the fools of the world are whom we learn the most of, and if I were a fool others could learn in some way from me.
But other than that I am myself, like my sig says.
Himself,
Teranar
I'm at a hermit time of my life. I haven't always been The Hermit but at the moment I am and have been for about 3 or 4 years. I'm happy being a hermit for now.
Love and light
Crystalmynx xx
Chronata
28-08-2003, 15:20
I always wanted to be the Star...in most decks. She is just so serene, so graceful, and so aware.
For a while, I was the High Priestess in the Mythic....but I finally let go of a lot of the underworld connections!
Now, I think I'm the Magician. Maybe the one in the Buckland Romani fits me best!
I'm sure eventually, I will grow into something else!
I would love to be able to say I'm most like the Empress or High Priestess, but in fact I have been a Hermit all my life. Now if I can just accumulate a fraction of the wisdom I associate with this card....
I've also associated myself with the Queen of Cups from the Thoth deck.
My card is supposedly the Emperor - dour, strong, a bit dull... but I must say, like the people above, that I'm feeling quite Hermit-y these last months.
I identify most strongly with The High Priestess. The RSW version came to me in a vision, & that is when I "switched" to Tarot nigh exclusively. I also relate to the Ancient Egyptian High Priestess & its Queen of Wands. If ye go by the usual associations, none of those cards apply, but Queen of Cups would be appropriate.
divinerguy
28-08-2003, 20:34
Right now, I'm Death.
Me and my family have experienced changes in our lives, including the deaths of three family members within a year. The changes are natural, painful, and we have grown closer to one another as a result.
That must be quite painful-all those losses so close together.
I identify very strongly with the RW 9 of pentacles woman. I am single, self supporting with a child, and am moderately successful I guess. I have all that I need,and what I don't I can go out and provide for myself, and many people think I am strong and courageus. However, I am lonely at times...
I also identify with the Queen of Cups,both her motherly, sensitive side and her shadow: emotionalism, pms moodiness.
WolfSpirit
30-08-2003, 08:02
I am most comfortable with the "earthy" cards. Although many people see me as a book-person and spiritual, I think I also have a practical and nature-loving side.
So I would say queen of pentacles, but also page of pentacles as this card shows up a lot in my readings and it means to me starting new studies, learning things.
And now that I have the Thoth deck I identify even more with the queen of pentacles as she has a capricorn with her (I am capricorn) I don't have those cool horns on my head though ;)
I also see characteristics of the other suits in myself but when the pentacles courts show up in a spread I feel more comfortable, as if I don't have to try to do or be anything, as I already am that
(when the courts refer to myself, that is)
isthmus nekoi
30-08-2003, 13:58
Hm. I would *like* to be more like Temperance. And the Queen of pentacles. Right now, I'd think of myself as the Hanged Man reversed.
Artemis Sans
30-08-2003, 14:00
Hmm... I've always been a Heirophant/Star combination, I guess. They are my two favorite athromorphic cards... But lately, I've had an unbearably strong connection to The Tower. I don't know why. Maybe I have desperate need for change in my life, no matter how violent. Sorry, just thinking out loud.
Smiles!
-Artemis
but i just got a cat people deck, and i threw a spread where the magician turned up as my position. and all i could think was WOW if only, the magician in this deck is androgynous in that the face is covered by tatoos the eyes are glowing orbs and the clothes are these long draperies that according to the LWB hide more than they reveal. and the magician is levatating all these objects of power. it is a very cool card and i would like to be that cool
but i think i am more like the fool in tarot of mermaids ;)
tabbycat
30-08-2003, 17:19
I'd like to be the Magician or the High Priestess, but really I'm the Page of Pentacles from the Cat People deck - a woman sitting in her favourite armchair with a book across her lap and cats dotted all around her. Sadly, at the moment, I'm under a cloud like the Five of Pents from the CP deck, as I lost one of my fur-babies last month and I'm not really over it yet.
Jilly
PS - Hey, catti, gald you like your new deck! I got Tarot for Cats last week - majors only, but a very witty and amusing deck.
Dark_angel
05-09-2003, 14:00
I feel most strongly attached to Temperance in the Vampire Tarot, I'm not sure why; it's a card that often comes up in my own readings, but only in that deck! Strange!
xxx
krysia322
23-09-2003, 18:40
When I first read up on the Queen of Wands in the Quest tarot, you could have knocked me over with a feather. That is me. My husband is always telling me that once I get an idea/ambition/desire (whatever) in my head, everyone who might be in my way had best look out, because if they don't get out of the way, I'll mow right over them (brings to mind those cement smoothers). Not in a malicious way, but because once I get going creatively, it's hard for me to stop while I'm in "drive" (or perhaps "driven" is more appropriate) mode.
So to me, that particular Queen of Wands = Aries with Scorpio Rising and Scorpio Moon in the Fifth House. LOL! (Usually a woman.)
The card I would most like to emulate is The Empress. Mowing *nouns* over is hard work. ;) It'd be nice to be able to mellow out some, stop and smell the roses, and nuture the creativity into growth for a change.
(Being pregnant wouldn't hurt either. ;) LOL... But that's another thread. :D)
Tallarico
23-09-2003, 19:01
I am the Hermit, I wisH I was the Star. I need to get out more.
WolfyJames
23-09-2003, 19:43
I think the card that is more like me is the Knight of Swords : intellectual, immature, critiqual, brusque, cold and sometimes insensitive, I tend to disperse myself just like him, I also talk a lot and be quite hurtful with my words, I tend also to believe that I'm right and I can be tyrannic sometimes.
Red Emma
23-09-2003, 20:02
When I read this to my husband and 25-year-old granddaughter who lives with us, they suggested "multiple personality."
That would be the Queen of Swords and the Queen of Rods fighting for control of the Chariot. They threw out the Queen of Pentacles just before the last curve in the road.
Red Emma: That is priceless :D
What happened to the Queen of Cups or was she not present?
punchinella
24-09-2003, 00:17
Gee WolfyJames, you sound a lot like . . . ummmn . . . er . . . (me) . . .
On the other hand, I would LIKE to be Strength from Universal de Angelis--a paragon of gentleness & tranquility . . .
P.
i like to think that the tarot represents the many facets of the human condition. as such, i like to think that each card is a facet of who i am - it's just a matter of what the degree of each card is integrated, or a significant part of, me.
there are times i feel like the moon, when i'm connected to the mysteries of the universe, or the hermit, when i rein myself in, and turn my focus inward, or the sun, when i'm feeling rather "sunny", or the 5 of pentacles, when i'm feeling sorry for myself, and all the suffering i've gone through - or think myself as had gone through. or the nine of cups, after i stuff myself during a meal. these are all parts of who i am.
in essence, i see myself as the whole deck, with each card just one side of who i am. it's a matter of which cards are dominant in my personality, and what the blend is.
Queen of Wands is what I am most of the time, sometimes Magician, sometimes Hermit and sometimes (*catlin grins menacingly at you, showing pointed teeth and swishing a forked tail*): DEVIL
Red Emma
24-09-2003, 15:07
Originally posted by MeeWah
Red Emma: What happened to the Queen of Cups or was she not present?
MeeWah, I've been thinking about your question over night, and can't seem to find a way to fit her (QC) into my scenario.
The thing is, I'm a cancer, and every astrology reading I ever received, and many of the tarot readings people have done for me (especially including the one you did) stress that the emotional life, especially my family relationships, is the underpinning of my life. I can only think that the QC is like the floor I walk on, it's just there and it keeps me up and going and off the cold, cold ground.
Maybe she's the road the chariot is travelling on. Or perhaps she's waiting around the next bend for the two combatants to pick her up. She will then mediate between the two and get them to work together to help me reach my goal.
Then they'd have to go back and pick up the QP so she can cook a celebratory feast for them all to enjoy together.
Or am I getting carried away?
Goddess Bless
I love the Eremit, I'm always drawn to that card when I look trough a deck... I think it mirrors my search, the way I would like to go trough life, in a sense...
anyway, I don't know if the following cards *are* me, but one thing is for sure, they keep coming to me everytime I ask about myself, or one of the cards in the spread is supposed to be related to me in anyway:
Temperance, most of all; Page of Wands; Ace of Swords
this is how I interpret it, in a rough way, and looking through the ways the cards have been presenting themselves to me:
Temperance is what I'm here to *achieve*
Page of Wands represents some traits I have to achieve, in my *personality* (as I am somewhat reserved, and pessimistic by nature, I have created a "second nature", I make myself be optimistic and look life with enthusiasm)
Ace of Swords it's the the *way* I go trough life (I can really relate to that)
any insights will be welcomed, specially about the page of wands lol
lol, well, I like to think of myself as The Sun card in the Fey tarot.
Probably wishful thinking.
Sometimes in my life 2 of swords energies were me, as in Robin Wood.
And sometimes 5 of pentacles in almost any deck though the Fey 5 of pents seems the saddest to me.
The Star energy keeps me going when things seem impossible, because I always believe in the light at the end of a tunnel, and I never think it will be a train. And sometimes it is, see comments on 5 of pents above.
But basically I am that big dumb Sun card.
fulothrop
04-12-2006, 23:37
This card seems to appear on most my readinds. I do dwel allot in waht most will considere forbiden and extreme. I dot observe allot and keep many secrets, but I also am willing to help those who are receptive. I can be easily misundertood and mislabel. Like it or not, I am stuck with her at this moment! Better learn something:)
sweet_intuition
05-12-2006, 04:27
For me, I feel I relate mostly with The Knight of Cups in the RWS.
I'm mostly the Knight of Wands, or the Knight of Swords. I tend to jump into things very quickly with *way* too much enthusiasm.
krysia322
06-12-2006, 10:01
MeeWah, I've been thinking about your question over night, and can't seem to find a way to fit her (QC) into my scenario.
The thing is, I'm a cancer, and every astrology reading I ever received, and many of the tarot readings people have done for me (especially including the one you did) stress that the emotional life, especially my family relationships, is the underpinning of my life. I can only think that the QC is like the floor I walk on, it's just there and it keeps me up and going and off the cold, cold ground.
Maybe she's the road the chariot is travelling on. Or perhaps she's waiting around the next bend for the two combatants to pick her up. She will then mediate between the two and get them to work together to help me reach my goal.
Then they'd have to go back and pick up the QP so she can cook a celebratory feast for them all to enjoy together.
Or am I getting carried away?
Goddess Bless
I don't think you were carried away at all. I think that's a fabulous analogy? Imagery? Whatever. I can totally picture it. Not only that, I can relate to it. The Queen of Wands is my OmniPresent card, as the Queen of Cups is yours.
:D
krysia322
06-12-2006, 10:04
I'm mostly the Knight of Wands, or the Knight of Swords. I tend to jump into things very quickly with *way* too much enthusiasm.
Well, Piper... I wouldn't expect anything else from a November 27th (All Hail Jimi Hendrix!) Sag! :D
My sister's the same way, and she shares Nov. 27 with you... :D
celticnoodle
06-12-2006, 10:29
seems alot of people are the Hermit---who I'd love to be. (could use some peace and quiet in my life). I was once the Fool---been there, done that, don't care to repeat it. Wouldn't mind the Magician---he's pretty cool, as is the High Priestess. Though I'm not pregnant-(been there, done that too)--the Emperess & I share alot of the same qualities. Besides the Hermit, I also like strength---though this is definately my daughter. However, I think I'd describe myself at this point in my life, as most like Temperance.
According to one reading I did, I'm a cross between the Empress and the Hermit. Entering a time of creativity and fertility (getting married and all that) and at the same time searching for answers and spending a fair amount of time alone. Sort of a contradiction. :(
cherryberry
06-12-2006, 10:45
I remember seeing the Temperance card the first time and thought what a lovely card.....well...that changed I am just 'through' my Temperance year and it was rough :P
What it means to me now is in order to reach what Temperance wants to teach you (me - during that year) I have to step out of my comfort zone. When being used to be the 'cool cat' and happy with it, but things don't go as wished, one needs to find the thing that relates strongly to you and do the opposite - aim for the complete other side...then in the end you actually reach the right blend....Thats how the year for me felt anyway. I am cool and controled to a point where I am almost removed from emotions, but I dont want it to be that way...so, message was to do whats against my nature, at least what I thought it is....and what can I say :) I am feeling happy now :) finally having the right balance :)
So, if Temperance comes up - I immediately get reminded of a challenge, whatever you foscussed on right now - which didn;t bring fruition, do the opposite THEN things will come how you want, but the way there might be rough (who likes acting againts their 'supposedly' nature)+
Now, after that long post - I feel NOW as Temperance :) Before I connected to the Queen of Sword (and I still have her a bit in me, but now also the Queen of Cups :)
anonymous_artist
13-12-2006, 04:12
definantly queen of wands and then sometimes queen of swords
According to one reading I did, I'm a cross between the Empress and the Hermit. Entering a time of creativity and fertility (getting married and all that) and at the same time searching for answers and spending a fair amount of time alone. Sort of a contradiction. :(
balance instead?
Funny this question should come up, I just worked on this exercise. I see myself as the Queen of Cups these days, more mature with my emotional self. I desire (at this time) to be like the Star - more giving of myself.
Bellaluna06
13-12-2006, 08:38
I think I identify most with the Empress because of the fertility/motherhood aspect of her. I'm a stay at home mom to 3, but I'm also planning on becoming a midwife, since pregnancy and birth are my passion. So I do feel connected in some way with the Empress.
Mordraenen
13-12-2006, 08:40
"Hermit", hands down. My friends all tell me I'm very good at being a hermit, anyway.
Other than that, the only other card I seem to relate to is "Strength", but I think that's because I seem to have a different idea about that card than most. I used to work with horses holding onto the philosophy that "You can't force a thousand-pound animal to do something it doesn't want to!" Meaning, you and the animal have to find a way to work together to acheive your combined goals.
This is how I see "Strength". A woman or man with a lion (or whatever else, but clearly an animal capable of eating her whole), not so much 'taming' it as working with it. Sometimes this is how we must handle our "inner" beasts.
Both are great cards!
Sakura Murasaki
13-12-2006, 10:16
The Empress for me. :D When I'm at my best, I feel most connected with her. Sometimes I'm also the Queen of Pentacles.
WalesWoman
14-12-2006, 00:26
Mostly likely, like Piper, Knight of Wands or Swords, Knight of Fire, for pretty much the same reasons.
Is there a Knight of Foot in Mouth? That is me.
jackdaw*
14-12-2006, 19:31
Queen of Pentacles (duh!). With a more-or-less fair balance of her upright and reversed qualities.
Though at times I have elements of the Hanged Man, Temperance, the Four of Pentacles and Queen of Swords.
Indigo Rose
14-12-2006, 20:30
The 3 cards that come up for me most in this order:
~The High Priestess~I totally connect to this one; deeply spiritual and intutive...learning to listen to the call of the Spirit. My favorite HP card is found in the Robin Wood deck...she is so free and open under the Moon. :)
~The Queen of Wands~She is my passionate and fiery Aries nature...The RWS, the Herbal, and the Gilded are great depictions of this Queen.
~The Empress~The fullness of being a woman. ;)
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