A Deck Being Snarky?
Michael Sternbach
Well, fwiw, I know Thoth better than any other deck, and I would read this as follows: You have reached a new, liberated level in your Tarot journey (The Fool), tentatively overcoming some previous blockade (The Hanged Man rx), but still heavily doubting if you are actually getting anywhere (Ruin).
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Oh, yes, I remember that... The Thoth can sock it to you.Ouch, that is harsh. I asked my Thoth at the beginning how we would bond and I got FailureSometimes it is like banging your head against a wall. Thoth can be quite the diva..
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Oh! thanks Micheal. That is a helpful interpretation. I can be negative and doubtful of my self.
Michael Sternbach
Ouch, that is harsh. I asked my Thoth at the beginning how we would bond and I got Failure
The Thoth is not so much a diva but sometimes a Zen master encouraging your development by holding a mirror in front of you (not to say hitting you by a stick
). It has little patience with certain questions. Here, it went: "Why worry about how we would bond? Just go ahead and find out by experience!" In other words, it reflected your own negative thoughts back at you. Which (like with smw) admittedly were reinforced as you didn't get the message right. This kind of thing happens quite often with the Thoth. How good that your Swiss Thoth reader was standing by to clear up the misunderstanding at the right moment... smw
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Girl Archer
The Thoth is not so much a diva but sometimes a Zen master encouraging your development by holding a mirror in front of you (not to say hitting you by a stick
Indeed
Wonderful explanation, thank you Michael.Earthly Bird
I think my deck gave me a blunt, harsh, scold-like answer the other day. While it's true I haven't done a reading in months, I don't think it was about that. The cards were really accurate, really down to the situation at hand. Upon looking at them, I finally got convinced I have a good hand for drawing tarot cards, because all of the other readings I've done were a little unlikely until they came to happen later. But this one a couple of days ago was unbelievably spot on, without having to wait for any confirmation.
The thing is, what the cards told me exactly what I do NOT want to hear. I just can't accept it, yet the reading is so aligned with everything that's going on in my life that my boyfriend had been telling me the same things the cards did. This has never happened in my life. Then again, I haven't done a lot of readings, to be fair.
I'm planning on changing my major to Engineering, out of a need for validation and respect from others because I can't bring myself to respect myself and demand my own space in life. Low self-esteem and whatnot. Perhaps this is the wrong reason for a decision like that? At least this is what my boyfriend's been telling me — and he's an Engineering undergraduate student.
In the Celtic Cross I did, cards came up like a reversed Queen of Coins, reversed Page of Coins, Ten of Cups (looks cute, but CC position #4), reversed Magician, upright Two of Swords, upright Eight of Cups, reversed Emperor, reversed Knight of Cups, reversed High Priestess... Basically: “Be careful not to become a selfish, spoiled, lazy, gold-oriented name-dropper! If you choose to go with this tough decision, you'll undergo a big transformation, but going this path means letting your emotions run your life and losing touch with your wise, honest self. You might be disappointed in this decision, you little brat. Don't manipulate people with a title you don't even have yet! Don't pick the easy way out of your psyche traps and scars! This is a bad investment! Also this means leaving behind your own family in order to study harder, or out of conceit. Turning your back on your recovering father and your dependent mother. How can you do this, you asshole?! No. I'm not recommending it. I say you stay the hell away from Engineering. That is my advice to you, and you do whatever you like with it.”
I was like,
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The thing is, what the cards told me exactly what I do NOT want to hear. I just can't accept it, yet the reading is so aligned with everything that's going on in my life that my boyfriend had been telling me the same things the cards did. This has never happened in my life. Then again, I haven't done a lot of readings, to be fair.
I'm planning on changing my major to Engineering, out of a need for validation and respect from others because I can't bring myself to respect myself and demand my own space in life. Low self-esteem and whatnot. Perhaps this is the wrong reason for a decision like that? At least this is what my boyfriend's been telling me — and he's an Engineering undergraduate student.
In the Celtic Cross I did, cards came up like a reversed Queen of Coins, reversed Page of Coins, Ten of Cups (looks cute, but CC position #4), reversed Magician, upright Two of Swords, upright Eight of Cups, reversed Emperor, reversed Knight of Cups, reversed High Priestess... Basically: “Be careful not to become a selfish, spoiled, lazy, gold-oriented name-dropper! If you choose to go with this tough decision, you'll undergo a big transformation, but going this path means letting your emotions run your life and losing touch with your wise, honest self. You might be disappointed in this decision, you little brat. Don't manipulate people with a title you don't even have yet! Don't pick the easy way out of your psyche traps and scars! This is a bad investment! Also this means leaving behind your own family in order to study harder, or out of conceit. Turning your back on your recovering father and your dependent mother. How can you do this, you asshole?! No. I'm not recommending it. I say you stay the hell away from Engineering. That is my advice to you, and you do whatever you like with it.”
I was like,
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@Earthly Bird
Oh man! Sounds like a pretty vehement reading. o -o I've been thinking about switching my major as well, but I haven't asked the cards yet for exactly this reason. I feel like Fantastical Creatures would tell me exactly what I don't want to hear, though maybe I need to hear it... I have been getting some really accurate readings from it recently, so maybe I'll give it a shot this evening. (Or maybe I'll wait for the Wild Unknown to get here. :'p)
May I ask what deck you were using?
Oh man! Sounds like a pretty vehement reading. o -o I've been thinking about switching my major as well, but I haven't asked the cards yet for exactly this reason. I feel like Fantastical Creatures would tell me exactly what I don't want to hear, though maybe I need to hear it... I have been getting some really accurate readings from it recently, so maybe I'll give it a shot this evening. (Or maybe I'll wait for the Wild Unknown to get here. :'p)
May I ask what deck you were using?
ficbot
This just happened to me! The first reading I ever did, I got the queen of cups, and had a very strong feeling it represented my grandmother. Well, lately I have been very preoccupied with a certain issue and I kept getting cards whose meanings were things like 'everything is under control, so be patient' or 'your hard work will soon pay off, keep the faith' etc.
Then one night, I got really impatient and did a three-card yes/no draw. Liz Dean explains it in her book, where some cards are yes cards, some cards are no, some are maybe. You draw three, and if you get three yes cards, it is a solid yes, two and it is a yes but be patient, and one or less, it is a no. So I got two yes cards and I still was't satisfied. I decided to draw one more 'clarification' card to make really, really sure.
And it was the queen of cups I guess Grandma is a little tired of how I keep on asking and asking...
Then one night, I got really impatient and did a three-card yes/no draw. Liz Dean explains it in her book, where some cards are yes cards, some cards are no, some are maybe. You draw three, and if you get three yes cards, it is a solid yes, two and it is a yes but be patient, and one or less, it is a no. So I got two yes cards and I still was't satisfied. I decided to draw one more 'clarification' card to make really, really sure.
And it was the queen of cups
I guess Grandma is a little tired of how I keep on asking and asking...