tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30754098.post115363301111206341..comments2024-03-26T08:01:01.445-04:00Comments on 78 Notes to Self: A Tarot Journal: Tarot NastiesGinny Claytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03759784851970527096noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30754098.post-7849013994843371922009-09-17T10:52:33.637-04:002009-09-17T10:52:33.637-04:00I draw those cards constantly, and have for years....I draw those cards constantly, and have for years. My take on why I, who am not a particulary sneaky, competetive or duplicitous person would draw those cards over and over is this: <br /><br />I chose to work in a field where I am very different from a lot of the people around me. I worked in the lab field, a field which a,llows for absolutely no creatvity whatsoever. I was often at odds with the people around me on a very visceral level. <br /><br />Sometime when you are a minority, people insult you without knowing they are doing it. In their normal, day-to-day conversations, they talk about 'liberals' or 'people like them', never realizing that they are actually talking about you and don't even know it. <br /><br /> <br />Drawing those cards over and over again during the time period, the phrase that would always come to my mind was 'us against them mentality'. <br /><br />So I grew to see the cards as representing people behaving the way they are behaving out of necessity. They are driven to it because they have to sneak. This is more so in the case of the Seven, which I didn't see as being such a troublesome card. I saw it as being expedient, rather than immoral. <br /><br />The Five was a different matter. I saw him as being more immatuare or having more of an attitude problem, and as someone who often brought these things upon himself through his own behavior. <br /><br />When I saw him, I took it as a clue to ask myself what I was doing to attract negative behavior towards myself. But even then, I saw his behavior as that of someone who has been injured and is strking back....someone who just needed to grow up and let down their defenses and try a new way.<br /><br />Back to the Seven. I saw him as someone who shouldn't let down his defenses.behindblueeyeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04542922095404632503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30754098.post-86175313428004357692007-02-19T07:58:00.000-05:002007-02-19T07:58:00.000-05:00Hi Ginny! Me again! I wanted to say (because I get...Hi Ginny! Me again! I wanted to say (because I get these two cards often and I use the DruidCraft deck mostly) that I've gotten to interpret this cards differently lately (pertaining to me and my current life). To me, in the 5 of Swords, I've often felt it implied that there was a drift between people, a parting of way, probably based on misunderstanding. And that both parties stuck to their impression of the feud, even if they were wrong. Sometimes, also, I've come to see the guy picking up the swords - in most standard decks - as a mediator. He reviews what has been done, said, and can - hopefully - give an objective opinion on the situation.<BR/>As for the 7 of swords, I've always been unsettled by it, but the DruidCraft variation always frustrated me... (still does sometimes) Because it is so far from my initial look on the card and its usual symbolism, I never quite know how to look at it. For those who haven't seen that card, it's an old man writing in a book in a seemingly passionate way. I've come to interpret this as self-imposed/inflicted isolation (he hints "Hermit" to me for some reason), retreat, needing to think things through for oneself (going with the solitary association of the number 7), and crafting, plotting, planning, scheming as well... Imagine my (lack of) joy when these cards keep appearing in romantic readings for over 7 or so months now! No wonder I chose to remain single!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30754098.post-1154243744657695012006-07-30T03:15:00.000-04:002006-07-30T03:15:00.000-04:00Yay! Winkle figured out how to comment here! :D I...Yay! Winkle figured out how to comment here! :D It's true, the Robin Wood does look like he's calling out to the others, doesn't it? Well, you know...go with that if that's what's coming up for you in a reading with that card. Most of the time our initial feelings are the right ones for the reading we're doing just then. I've kicked myself in the pants so many times when I've suppressed that initial "flash" or feeling and went with something my mind thought more plausible only to find out very quickly that my first reaction had been the right one. Then when you say, "I thought that, I knew that" you totally look like you're faking. :/ So blurt out those initial impressions (if even to yourself) because 9/10 times, they are just creepy accurate.Ginny Claytonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03759784851970527096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30754098.post-1154239860262320152006-07-30T02:11:00.000-04:002006-07-30T02:11:00.000-04:00Bit late to comment on this one, but it's the one ...Bit late to comment on this one, but it's the one that caught my attention. Anyway the first time I saw the 5 of swords in the Robin Wood deck I thought the young man was calling out to the others encouraging them to come back, that all was not lost.<BR/><BR/>I was very suprised when I learned the normal meaning. <BR/><BR/>Now when it shows up in a spread I always look very carefully and see which way the card's going, the way I first saw it, or the tradition.<BR/><BR/>winkleAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30754098.post-1154078236637443692006-07-28T05:17:00.000-04:002006-07-28T05:17:00.000-04:00You'd better say asshat in your Tarot book. If I ...You'd better say asshat in your Tarot book. If I didn't find it there somewhere, I'd be pretty bummed. ;)katherinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02423414579905745934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30754098.post-1153744491487108762006-07-24T08:34:00.000-04:002006-07-24T08:34:00.000-04:00Can I say "asshat" in a tarot book?Can I say "asshat" in a tarot book?Ginny Claytonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03759784851970527096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30754098.post-1153733939768672062006-07-24T05:38:00.000-04:002006-07-24T05:38:00.000-04:00I'm thinking you need to write a tarot book. Seri...I'm thinking you need to write a tarot book. Seriously.<BR/><BR/>I'd buy it.katherinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02423414579905745934noreply@blogger.com