Sophie
Some of you might have similar experiences.
You know the procedure. You are going through a stressful time, perhaps in the middle of the night. You are worried about finances, or your Dad's health, or your immortal soul. You reach for a deck and start reading and every card is worse than the last. Nothing but 10s of Swords, 3s of Swords, 5s of Cups and Pentacles, Towers, Deaths, Devils.
It's horrible. You draw again and it gets worse. In the middle of it, you might get Temperance, but it's not what you want to see. You get a 10 of Cups or a Sun and you don't believe it.
Finally you calm yourself down - perhaps it's the magical effect of Temperance - and put the cards by. In the morning, or a few hours later, you see things differently. You settle into a more measured reading, which makes sense, re-empowers you.
But what of those cards, those dreadful, dread-inspiring cards? Are they just to be dismissed as the reflections of a fevered mind? After all, shit does happen, and 5 of Pents sometimes does mean 5 of Pents, and not the fear of 5 of Pents. And thinking that, the vicious circle can happen all over again. Unless we learn to look at the 5 of Pentacles and those other "difficult" cards in a different way, perhaps, and through the filter of Temperance.
But oh, Temperance! What a hard card to assimilate when cards and readings accumulate in circles around us!
You know the procedure. You are going through a stressful time, perhaps in the middle of the night. You are worried about finances, or your Dad's health, or your immortal soul. You reach for a deck and start reading and every card is worse than the last. Nothing but 10s of Swords, 3s of Swords, 5s of Cups and Pentacles, Towers, Deaths, Devils.
It's horrible. You draw again and it gets worse. In the middle of it, you might get Temperance, but it's not what you want to see. You get a 10 of Cups or a Sun and you don't believe it.
Finally you calm yourself down - perhaps it's the magical effect of Temperance - and put the cards by. In the morning, or a few hours later, you see things differently. You settle into a more measured reading, which makes sense, re-empowers you.
But what of those cards, those dreadful, dread-inspiring cards? Are they just to be dismissed as the reflections of a fevered mind? After all, shit does happen, and 5 of Pents sometimes does mean 5 of Pents, and not the fear of 5 of Pents. And thinking that, the vicious circle can happen all over again. Unless we learn to look at the 5 of Pentacles and those other "difficult" cards in a different way, perhaps, and through the filter of Temperance.
But oh, Temperance! What a hard card to assimilate when cards and readings accumulate in circles around us!
Whenever I'm drawing cards and I think, "Oh, I hope I won't get the Death card", I get it every time!