Deck: Black Queer Tarot

Question: How do I get myself to stick to my morning routine?

Card: Four of Coins

Resources used: Learn Tarot (website)

Hmm

The picture makes me think of Grandma’s Hands by Bill Withers. The person up top looks like they’re bound by their ponytail a little bit. The way the coin in the back is positioned it looks like with the hands like it’s a clam and the person inside is the pearl. I’m not sure what the ancient egyptian jewelry/gold decoration is. I think this card is called power in the thoth deck. It’s sun ruling the third decan of capricorn I think.

These are the best pics I could find of the thoth version online.

I thought it was cool that they both have water in the card and look illuminated in sunlight.

This card in the rws is about hoarding, holding tightly to something, clinging, not wanting to share, being tight fisted, penny pinching, being money minded, saving money, banks, safes, maybe storage like storage units, sticking to your comfort zone, etc.

I’m having trouble seeing the connection with this card other than the symbols of wealth on the card and the closed interlaced fingers. Like I don’t actually get what the pond in the forest is about. I guess it’s enclosed and has its own ecosystem? It’s like a contained microcosm of life.

Maybe it’s saying conserve your energy. Or think in terms of self sustaining systems. Though I think normally in the rws with this card it warns of stagnancy and losing what you’re clinging so hard to since you’ve removed yourself from the cycle of life. Maybe it’s saying to find a balance where you’re operating self sufficiently on your own but not cut off from revitalizing forces.

Let’s look at learn tarot.

It talks about control, blocked change, and possessiveness, and maintaining the status quo. It says sometimes you need a steady hand to provide structure and organization and to preserve and defend, and other times it stifles creativity and individual expression. It talks about how sometimes we resist change that might be better for us. It advises to ride the current instead of trying to control everything.

I’ve been letting myself do whatever and it takes me forever to get things done. I would think the change I’m resisting is being more structured with having routines. And waking up earlier. Is it saying go with the flow more or be a bit more heavy handed?

Four of Pentacles

An Andrew Lloyd Webber themed fundraiser, and you’re very glad nobody took Starlight Express too seriously

Five of Wands and Four of Pentacles

Deck: Numinous tarot

Question: What advice will help me today?

Card: 4 of tomes (4 of pentacles)

Resources used: numinous tarot guidebook

To define it, the four of pentacles is about financial conservatism, hoarding money, saving your resources, sticking to your comfort zone, stockpiling, being greedy, not sharing, conserving your energy, vaults and safes and like things where you store things securely away from the world, etc.

To preliminarily interpret, I thought I only had $4 but today I checked again and saw I had $20 so I think a pending charge must have dropped off. I think it could be saying to not spend that money and hold on to it just in case. I was tempted by the idea of getting chocolate milk but I’ll hold off until I get paid. It could also be about saving my energy. I woke up around noon thirty today and I was annoyed because I wanted to get up early. I’m still tired even after having coffee. I wanted to do ring fit too. There’s still time to do that. It might give me an energy boost to do it too. If it’s saying conserve your energy then I should rest and take it easy. This feels similar to the week I got the four of swords before my iud appointment.

Let’s look at the guidebook.

It talks about penny pinching and conserving resources but also not using the resources since they’re just locked away. It says basic life necessities are met so there are some luxuries. It says it could be a warning to loosen up and reversed it’s about having to dip into emergency reserves or sell off luxuries to make ends meet. And maybe to ask for help. Or having something stolen.

So to walk the line, maybe be wise and save for a rainy day but also know you have enough and don’t be afraid to spend your energy on things that will enrich your life.

The Red Burning Boulder 赤く燃える岩

Kami that make an Appearance on the Card 登場神：Yasogami

Upright 正位置：Destitution, Bring in a Slump, Loss of Emotional Security

Inverted 逆位置：Despair, Suffering, Discord

Story

"Yagami-hime refused the Yasokami’s proposal of marriage and said she would marry Ōnamuchi. The Yasogami were not happy that she would not be theirs, so they came up with a plan to kill Ōnamuchi.

They took him out, lying that they were going to hunt a red boar, and when he went that way, they rolled a large red-hot rock at Ōnamuchi, pinned him down, and killed him."

Hello!

I'm not sure anyone's asked me a celebrity question before, and to be honest I'm not sure that's a genre of readings I want to get into.

BUT... I do have a dear friend who lives in Poland, so I'll make an exception just this once.

These cards fell out for you...

FOUR OF PENTACLES + EIGHT OF PENTACLES

With the Four of Pentacles specifically, I'm getting the sense of holding something close. This card is often interpreted as greed or a lack of sharing, but I don't think that is the meaning here necessarily. It's more of a holding on to what is had. Being forthcoming, but also protective. There's also definitely a sense of pride with this card, as it depicts someone dressed like royalty guarding their wealth and their city.