Relating cards to emotions, specifically aggravation

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 26 Dec 2004, and now archived in the Forum Library.

Rhiannon	26 Dec 2004
Hey all, I recently started trying to define my emotions with tarot cards, or vice versa. I was trying to pick which card I would associate with aggravation, but I couldn't think of one. The closest I could come was the 4 of Cups, but that's mostly a "disappointment" type of card. Does anyone have any thoughts on which card would be associated with the emotion of annoyance/aggravation? How about other emotions you can't seem to place with cards? Any thing you can't quite figure out? Thanks! R :)

bladeraven	26 Dec 2004
Frustration is a good emotion PMSing..LOL It would be nice to just have a tarot card with a sledgehammer breaking computers, smashing, etc...I think that would sum up a lot of feelings there...LOL

Grizabella	26 Dec 2004
What about 7 Wands? One person having to fend off six others looks aggravating to me.

bladeraven	26 Dec 2004
That would work..but doesn't cover PMSing...ooo....I know what about having to talk to someone who won't get off the phone or who calls all the time...LOL

Grizabella	26 Dec 2004
Well, but when you're PMSing you do feel like bashing people, though, don't you? Those wands the one person is batting at may be put up in self-defense.

jmd	26 Dec 2004
...daring to trepidantly tread within this thread... I've often wondered whether the 'P' stood for 'pre-', 'post-', or ... 'permanent'. Would 'annoyance/aggravation', rather than 'aggravated annoyance', perhaps also refer to 'aggressive and annoyed'? If such is the case, perhaps the aggressive may be likened to a reversed sword card (the level reflected by the number of swords), and the annoyance by a reversed cup card (again the level reflected by the number of cups). In a specific reading, I would more likely go by how those cards manifest adjacent some other cards which arise.

Thirteen	26 Dec 2004
I have to agree that aggravation of any sort sounds like a "wand" emotion to me. 7/Wands is more defensive, more like being ganged up on. You want to do something, and a bunch of people are telling you "no," or somehow preventing you. It's you against them! Not quite the same as feeling as if you have to fight for your own space and idenity, as if you're bumping into people who all want their space and idenity--or they're bumping into you, on all sides. This is you against them, but they are not united against you. They're just pushing their own ajendas each in their own way...much to your aggravation. 5/Wands, I think, is what you're looking for. The feeling that people with their wands (egos) are to all sides of you, and you have to keep battering around your own staff, trying to assert yourself, trying to get them off the phone, off your doorstep, out of your house, out of your space. That same aggravation of being stuck on the freeway penned among all those other cars, and you have to be aggressive if you're going to get anywhere. Yep. 5/Wands. Pretty frustrating. Of course, if it's pms, it could also very easily be the Queen/Wands (reversed?)--to stand for what you are personally like at that moment. Usually, Q/W wants people to pay attention to her, but I think in this case, she's in no mood for attention, and her fiery personality is all aggravation. If you run cold and icy scary--and moody when pms-ing, that's the High Priestess (reversed as it were).

bladeraven	26 Dec 2004
Woohoo! Thank you Thirteen for helping us find the perfect cards for PMSing...ehhehehe...have to keep those in mind...

HudsonGray	27 Dec 2004
Yeah, I was thinking of the 10 of Swords but that seems more like the aftermath of a PMS attack.

Nina*	27 Dec 2004
[quote jmd: i've often wondered whether the 'p' stood for 'pre-', 'post-', or ... 'permanent'.] I loved this :D Hmm... I don't know how to quote the right way... sorry :confused:

Thirteen	27 Dec 2004
Ninamagic wrote: Hmm... I don't know how to quote the right way... sorry :confused: Either click on the "quote" button down at the bottom the box (instead of "reply") or do thus: [q-u-o-t-e] without those hyphens I added there (in order for you to see it) and [/q-u-o-t-e] on the other end. What's between will "quote."

Nina*	27 Dec 2004
Quote: Either click on the "quote" button down at the bottom the box (instead of "reply") or do thus: [q-u-o-t-e] without those hyphens I added there (in order for you to see it) and [/q-u-o-t-e] on the other end. What's between will "quote Thirteen :D .............. Thank you

Nina*	27 Dec 2004
Okay... just ONE more question.... how do you get the part 'originally postet by.....' with? stupid question... sorry....

Thirteen	27 Dec 2004
Ninamagic wrote: Okay... just ONE more question.... how do you get the part 'originally postet by.....' with? [q-u-o-t-e=Ninamagic] quoted material [/q-u-o-t-e] Not a stupid question at all.

Nina*	27 Dec 2004
Thirteen wrote: q-u-o-t-e=Ninamagic] quoted material [/q-u-o-t-e] Not a stupid question at all. IT WORKS Love you :D

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