[Tarot] Five of Coins
Aug. 4th, 2008 03:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeSome of you may remember that thing where I said I would have inventory for the next few weeks. I haven't even gotten to inventory today. It's been shipping from 10 straight through till now with about 30 minutes break for lunch. OI. I'm going to sit here and contemplate my navel for a bit.
Russian Tarot
Two beggar women (or two beggar men with long hair and dresses or pants that look like dresses, I'm not picky) contemplate five coins. One sitting against an old stump contemplates three coins off to her left, one standing with a walking stick and an old dead tree to her left contemplates four coins in front of her.This is kind of how I feel right now.
Crow's Magick Tarot
A cat (oooh) surrounded by the scratchings it makes, one assumes. Sitting on something. Maybe a ledge, one paw up on a higher ledge, looking over its right shoulder. Three coins above, two below.
Spiral Tarot
Two people barefoot with cloaks, one child and one adult (or one small person and one adult) in a house, their backs to the reader. In the window, two people look very happy together while someone in a similar blue cloak to the adult watches; the impression I get is two people outside who have fallen on hard times outside of a house in which people enjoy high times. Two coins on the floor behind the cloaked people, three inset into the designs at the top arch of the window. Is this a theme?
Keywords Concern, Complexity, Destitution, Loss, Failure, Error, Mistress or Lover (an expensive one, one guesses), Poverty (material and spiritual), Low Self-Worth; Reversal of bad trend, New Interest, Overcoming Ruin, Disharmony in Marriage.
And this rather reminds me ofour lord Jesus the economy right now. Downturn, slump. The implication, since it's not the fire and brimstone of the Tower, is that its' a temporary slump. One would imagine. The Spiral Tarot little fakebook that comes with the deck, you all know those, yes? Says that "This feeling of deprivation is only temporary." Well, yes, but that doesn't make it any more comfortable.
I do find it interesting that all three of these cards have two coins below and three above. The Celtic Cross spread traditionaly, in the cross part, lists the card below as things that are in the recent past or things that have just been, and the card above as things that are goals or in the immediate future. Which puts the two coins in two cases as being behind and the three coins as being before. Except in the Russian. There's a bad Yakov Smirnov joke here I'm not making.
Anyway, this card does seem fairly self-explanatory. The pictures are pretty clear, except for the Crow's Magick one, which as per usual makes no sense whatsoever. Having looked ahead at my projected income and projected bills for the next month I kind of know how these people feel. Still, the upshot of all of this is that it is only temporary, so it's not a card to make or break a reading. Just a statement that times are hard now, and the thing to do is be careful, accept the hardship, be mindful of it, and look to brighter times ahead.
Russian Tarot
Two beggar women (or two beggar men with long hair and dresses or pants that look like dresses, I'm not picky) contemplate five coins. One sitting against an old stump contemplates three coins off to her left, one standing with a walking stick and an old dead tree to her left contemplates four coins in front of her.
Crow's Magick Tarot
A cat (oooh) surrounded by the scratchings it makes, one assumes. Sitting on something. Maybe a ledge, one paw up on a higher ledge, looking over its right shoulder. Three coins above, two below.
Spiral Tarot
Two people barefoot with cloaks, one child and one adult (or one small person and one adult) in a house, their backs to the reader. In the window, two people look very happy together while someone in a similar blue cloak to the adult watches; the impression I get is two people outside who have fallen on hard times outside of a house in which people enjoy high times. Two coins on the floor behind the cloaked people, three inset into the designs at the top arch of the window. Is this a theme?
Keywords Concern, Complexity, Destitution, Loss, Failure, Error, Mistress or Lover (an expensive one, one guesses), Poverty (material and spiritual), Low Self-Worth; Reversal of bad trend, New Interest, Overcoming Ruin, Disharmony in Marriage.
And this rather reminds me of
I do find it interesting that all three of these cards have two coins below and three above. The Celtic Cross spread traditionaly, in the cross part, lists the card below as things that are in the recent past or things that have just been, and the card above as things that are goals or in the immediate future. Which puts the two coins in two cases as being behind and the three coins as being before. Except in the Russian. There's a bad Yakov Smirnov joke here I'm not making.
Anyway, this card does seem fairly self-explanatory. The pictures are pretty clear, except for the Crow's Magick one, which as per usual makes no sense whatsoever. Having looked ahead at my projected income and projected bills for the next month I kind of know how these people feel. Still, the upshot of all of this is that it is only temporary, so it's not a card to make or break a reading. Just a statement that times are hard now, and the thing to do is be careful, accept the hardship, be mindful of it, and look to brighter times ahead.