tarot_quest
We are all here on this forum to gain more insight about Tarot (the cards themselves, the mechanisms regulating this art and plenty of other things!).
Since I started Tarot, I was fascinated to understand if the future can be accurately predicted. There are a lot of threads concerning this question already, but I felt like adding my grain of salt today. I have been asking a lot of different questions about the future during my Tarot journey, for the purpose of practicing, ''testing'' and validating my comprehension of the cards once the event happened. I would then looked retrospectively if the cards made sens or not concerning how the situation unfolded.
The question behind this was ''Are we really the master of our life'' and ''Are outcomes changeable''? I would like to share what I found yesterday when asking this question to Tarot cards.
The first question was: Are there some events in our lives that are part of a ''destiny''?
I got the World.
This card makes a lot of sens to me. I think that we start ''cycles'' when we learn something, whatever it can be. At some point, a cycle has to finish its course and a new one has to begin. For example, if someone has been in a relationship for 10 years with someone and someday, it ends up to a breakup/divorce, I feel that somehow, this event was part of the ''destiny'' of both people involved. They learn what they had to while they were together, and things came to a full circle. In their specific case, these 2 people were not compatible anymore to start a next cycle together. To sum up, this card (World) gave me an ''Aha!'' moment about the question of destiny. I would like to add a personal example. I have been very close to one of my aunt when I was a teenager. However, the relationship became incompatible at some point. One night, I had dream and my aunt was clearly telling me that ''I was not part of her destiny''. I did protest in this dream, but the message was so strong that I understood when I woke up that nothing I would do could change the nature of our future interaction together. Things came to a full circle and our lives drifted apart. Now, I understand that this was for the best.
The second question was: Are there some events from our future that are ''changeable''?
I got the Tower.
I understood this is a BIG YES. So many small events are changeable. At some point, I was doubting that we could really change a lot of things. So this was another ''Aha!'' moment. I would say that inside the ''cycles'' that we are experiencing, a lot of things can be changed. We re-define who we are almost every day, by taking small decisions. As an example, I did a reading for a 16 years old girl. She gets a new boyfriend every month or so. She had her ''longest'' and most serious relationship not long ago, and she asked me if they would still be together during the current academic year. Mind you, I got a card saying that they might stick together (4 of pentacles), maybe by fear of loosing each others. The other cards in the reading pointed that they could have stayed together, but they just broke up. So I would like to come up with the ''wave'' analogy here (an idea that was already brought up in this forum and elsewhere). Even if this relationship was ''more serious'' than others for her, nothing long term came out because she took the decision to breakup. We could argue that she is only 16. However, some people that I know got together when they were this age and are still together after 15 or 50 years! So in her case, I think that this relationship was a ''small wave'' in the stream of her life, probably because she is exploring her options right now.
I know that these questions are not simple, but I feel that we have both a ''fixed'' and ''changeable'' future. This continual mix could create what we explore in our Tarot readings. This is just how I see it of course
Feel free to share your thoughts as well.
Since I started Tarot, I was fascinated to understand if the future can be accurately predicted. There are a lot of threads concerning this question already, but I felt like adding my grain of salt today. I have been asking a lot of different questions about the future during my Tarot journey, for the purpose of practicing, ''testing'' and validating my comprehension of the cards once the event happened. I would then looked retrospectively if the cards made sens or not concerning how the situation unfolded.
The question behind this was ''Are we really the master of our life'' and ''Are outcomes changeable''? I would like to share what I found yesterday when asking this question to Tarot cards.
The first question was: Are there some events in our lives that are part of a ''destiny''?
I got the World.
This card makes a lot of sens to me. I think that we start ''cycles'' when we learn something, whatever it can be. At some point, a cycle has to finish its course and a new one has to begin. For example, if someone has been in a relationship for 10 years with someone and someday, it ends up to a breakup/divorce, I feel that somehow, this event was part of the ''destiny'' of both people involved. They learn what they had to while they were together, and things came to a full circle. In their specific case, these 2 people were not compatible anymore to start a next cycle together. To sum up, this card (World) gave me an ''Aha!'' moment about the question of destiny. I would like to add a personal example. I have been very close to one of my aunt when I was a teenager. However, the relationship became incompatible at some point. One night, I had dream and my aunt was clearly telling me that ''I was not part of her destiny''. I did protest in this dream, but the message was so strong that I understood when I woke up that nothing I would do could change the nature of our future interaction together. Things came to a full circle and our lives drifted apart. Now, I understand that this was for the best.
The second question was: Are there some events from our future that are ''changeable''?
I got the Tower.
I understood this is a BIG YES. So many small events are changeable. At some point, I was doubting that we could really change a lot of things. So this was another ''Aha!'' moment. I would say that inside the ''cycles'' that we are experiencing, a lot of things can be changed. We re-define who we are almost every day, by taking small decisions. As an example, I did a reading for a 16 years old girl. She gets a new boyfriend every month or so. She had her ''longest'' and most serious relationship not long ago, and she asked me if they would still be together during the current academic year. Mind you, I got a card saying that they might stick together (4 of pentacles), maybe by fear of loosing each others. The other cards in the reading pointed that they could have stayed together, but they just broke up. So I would like to come up with the ''wave'' analogy here (an idea that was already brought up in this forum and elsewhere). Even if this relationship was ''more serious'' than others for her, nothing long term came out because she took the decision to breakup. We could argue that she is only 16. However, some people that I know got together when they were this age and are still together after 15 or 50 years! So in her case, I think that this relationship was a ''small wave'' in the stream of her life, probably because she is exploring her options right now.
I know that these questions are not simple, but I feel that we have both a ''fixed'' and ''changeable'' future. This continual mix could create what we explore in our Tarot readings. This is just how I see it of course
Feel free to share your thoughts as well.
