ONE WORD/THREE CARDS: December 12-16, 2022

Five of Wands

and

Four of Swords (reversed)

Below: Ten of Wands

 

All from Neo Tarot

 

by Jerico Mandybur and artist Daiana Ruiz

One Word/Three Cards

Here's a new occasional feature called One Word/Three Cards. This simply means a three-card random draw in response to a single word prompt for the week or weekend.

For the week of December 12-16, 2022, we'll start off with the word CONFRONTATION.

Appropriately, then, the first card is Five of Wands from Jerico Mandybur and Daiana Ruiz's Neo Tarot, a flash of dynamic, possibly disruptive energy brought together from a variety of sources in what could be seen as a confrontation, indeed. Some form of change is being whipped up, but change for what and to what effect?

 

The figures in this image aren't fighting, necessarily, but their wands of intent and energy are raised and angled in quite different directions.

Next up: a reversed Four of Swords. So, in this confrontation and upheaval, something or someone might have taken a hit and will need time to rest and recover. The reversal can suggest any of the following:

• internal damage
• internalized non-physical damage (e.g., emotional/psychological)
• low-level or slight damage (reversals sometimes indicating a lesser degree of a card's energy and effect)
• future damage
• unexpected damage
• undetected damage

 

You'll have to sort out which of these possible interpretations works best for you in the moment, and that comes with some practice.

 

In this Neo Tarot deck, my Four of Swords card itself has a slight bend (my bad) from its top edge down through the hilt of the middle sword hanging over the reclining figure. Happily, it's not serious damage, just an interesting, telling flaw.

And that's followed up by a card of resolution: Ten of Wands. The resolution here might be to gather all of the diverse energies unleashed in the original confrontation and find a way to bind them together, integrate them.

 

What do you think of this One Word/Three Cards process? Send me a note and, by the way, please feel free to suggest single words for future One Word/Three Cards posts!

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CARD OF THE WEEKEND: October 1-2, 2022

 

Ten of Wands

Neo Tarot

by Jerico Mandybur with art by Daiana Ruiz

October 1-2, 2022: Artist Daiana Ruiz's Ten of Wands image reminds us of energy (Wands) or resources being gathered up and redirected. The force is high (Ten), and the effort can be arduous, but this work must be carried forward.

For this weekend, consider how you've been using your energy--in which direction and for which purpose. It might be time to reassess and take a new approach.

Withdrawing from a habitual pattern and turning things around might take strong effort, but now is the time.

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CARD OF THE DAY: February 23, 2022

 

 Ten of Clubs

 

February 23, 2022: If we were looking at an equivalent Tarot card right now, it would be the Ten of Wands, familiar to many of you. The classic image shows a single person carrying away a heavy load of wands. Typical code words for that card would be: burden, responsibilities, loaded plate, I have absolutely no bandwidth for more, and so forth.

A regular playing card deck seemingly gives us no such storytelling visuals to help with interpretation. At the same time, it also does not tie the reader to Rider-Waite tradition aside from the correlation of Clubs with Wands.

You can check up on what other playing card readers have hit upon. Or--and this is the fun part--you can figure things out for yourself. What might be useful to you?

I think it's a great idea to have a designated Tarot card to help you see where you might be carrying heavy things--physical, psychological, emotional, you name it--that you should either quickly find a place to set down or find someone else who really, really, really ought to bear them rather than you or bear them with you. So, I might choose to hold onto that useful way of looking at Ten of Clubs.

I'm way visually-oriented with divination cards, though. I can't help but notice a few things about the pattern of the clubs on the Ten.

First, I saw the neat inner circle of six clubs--an upper semicircle facing and mirroring a lower semicircle. I thought of a group circle dance or a sacred ritual circle. Next, I noticed the four watchtower clubs on the outside of that circle. See the four points?

In Tarot, a quartet of anything bears importance, since Tarot emphasizes four magickal tools/elements--Swords/Air; Cups/Water; Wands/Fire; Pentacles/Earth. In ritual magick, the spirits of these Four Corners are called forth. Accordingly, I could think of the Ten of Clubs as symbolizing an energetic gathering, then, one that could raise some of the highest energies.

As related to Tarot's Wands and to the energy level of  the number 10 in Tarot, the Ten of Clubs can suggest a 10-alarm fire's worth of energy, a pretty big deal magick-wise.

The cards are yours! You get to say what does and does not work in your practice of divination.

Let me know what you think about when you contemplate the Ten of Clubs!

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