Okay, Starfish, you asked for it!!!!
To start off with, I haven't read much of anyone else's experience with this spread. I just wanted to see if I should curb my interpretations for length, and after i post I will read all!
This was a fascinating spread for me! i'm giddy about it. I have had the fortune of meeting with a psychic and a channeler, neither one knowing the other, but confirming certain things.
So I went into this reading knowing the following:
I had a past life in the early 1700's where my husband died a long time before I did and I ended up caught in a dustbowl storm and starved to death in my little house that was sort of a mound-house or earth-house. The psychic told me this and said I was about 47. The channeller said I had a strange relationship with a "spirit". She says to me, "you know you can't be with a spirit in this life, right? you cant' have a relationship like that. this guy has been following you around all your life, and you two don't want to let go of each other." These readings occurred 2 years or so apart from each other.
I've always known this guy was around, i just didn't know i knew. i was writing sad, romantic poetry of lost loves at the age of 10! This loss has been huge, and whenever we watch movies where one person dies, i'm a basket case for hours! The day before I did this spread I saw "city of angels". I knew it was time to deal with this past life love, because that movie tore my guts out.
ooops! time for the reading! (ancestral path tarot)
Childhood: Ace of Cups: Love & pleasure.
Cards: Hanged Man. Emperor. Hierophant. Moon. Judgment.
Ha ha ha. I thought for sure I'd get illness, cause i was a little sicky. But an empath, so it was probably a lot of psychic sickies.
Yeah, whoever else said they didn't have such a great childhood, i'm with you. But i realized that i DID have much pleasure as a kid. Mostly connected to the earth, art and spirituality. I loved just being; smelling rain, grass, talking to trees and birds. I was full of life and love.
the hanged man makes sense: though I loved being alive and experiencing,my home life was miserable. ENter the emperor. My dad turned my love for life upside down. He took my pleasure and made it a whole different road to walk down. He was strict, controlling, the guy in "this boy's life".
I was the hanged man. I had to come up with a variety of ideas and schemes just to make it out alive.
I found true pleasure in learning and spirituality. The hierophant represents my happy heart whenever i connected to the spirit realm. I had tons of spiritual dreams as a kid, and saw spirits, ghosts and got psychic info. though i didn't know what was happening at the time.
Moon; my childhood left me with a lot of scars and wounds, but also a delight in life, nature, people and elders. I respected the old ways even as a kid.
Oooops...sorry if this is too much for everyone, but the Judgment card represents my suicide attempt.(age 13) I think when I tried to kill myself, i was trying to set myself free. Trying to free the REAL me out of my body. The person that I am now is what I was trying to be then, trusting my intuition, not restricted to a confining religion. I wanted to free her and feel alive again.