MandMaud
Using the WhyWhyWhyWhy Spread (http://tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=251136), which admittedly is still very rough-hewn, I was trying to understand the 10 of Swords that came up in an earlier reading as (a part of) the stage before success in an ongoing project of mine.
The idea of the spread is that each successive card illuminates the previous one. It begins with the card in question and ends with the solution. This was with the Wild Unknown Tarot (no reversals).
Why this?
By "Why?" I mean...
- why must I experience this?
- did I cause it?
- or what/who is its cause?
- has it a purpose?
- what does it bring that I need?
- what do I need to learn from it?
- what's it all about?
Card 1 (this): Ten of Swords
Card 6 (the answer): Six of Wands
The 10S in this deck is a pretty harsh image, all the swords into and through a dying bull. An ending, of the painful kind - despair. Loss of vision (the ability to see the bright side, to see a way forward, so see anything beyond self and the dark place I'm in).
The 6W shows a blue butterfly rising above a tangle of branches, and speaks to me of triumph after strife and struggle. Emerging into a phase of gentle, sunshiny living. Transformed after (perhaps by) hard times. And the wands aren't only the fight, but for me also the great ideas that I followed which got me into the fray in the first place. In this deck you don't get so much of the public celebration, no cheering crowds, though the appearance of the butterfly is certainly visible to the world - and celebrated by the world; there's no sense of being surrounded and supported by like-minded people.
I'm not having much luck thinking how the 6W could be the Why of the 10S, except that maybe the pain and despair is a necessary step between where I am now and reaching that point of "stepping out" and being able to relax for a bit. But I did this reason to find out why it's a necessary step, if it is! Or maybe "What's this 10S about?" gives "It's about rising above the struggle." But I still don't see how that makes sense, the sentence doesn't mean anything to me. Help, please.
The idea of the spread is that each successive card illuminates the previous one. It begins with the card in question and ends with the solution. This was with the Wild Unknown Tarot (no reversals).
Why this?
By "Why?" I mean...
- why must I experience this?
- did I cause it?
- or what/who is its cause?
- has it a purpose?
- what does it bring that I need?
- what do I need to learn from it?
- what's it all about?
Card 1 (this): Ten of Swords
Card 6 (the answer): Six of Wands
The 10S in this deck is a pretty harsh image, all the swords into and through a dying bull. An ending, of the painful kind - despair. Loss of vision (the ability to see the bright side, to see a way forward, so see anything beyond self and the dark place I'm in).
The 6W shows a blue butterfly rising above a tangle of branches, and speaks to me of triumph after strife and struggle. Emerging into a phase of gentle, sunshiny living. Transformed after (perhaps by) hard times. And the wands aren't only the fight, but for me also the great ideas that I followed which got me into the fray in the first place. In this deck you don't get so much of the public celebration, no cheering crowds, though the appearance of the butterfly is certainly visible to the world - and celebrated by the world; there's no sense of being surrounded and supported by like-minded people.
I'm not having much luck thinking how the 6W could be the Why of the 10S, except that maybe the pain and despair is a necessary step between where I am now and reaching that point of "stepping out" and being able to relax for a bit. But I did this reason to find out why it's a necessary step, if it is!
Or maybe "What's this 10S about?" gives "It's about rising above the struggle." But I still don't see how that makes sense, the sentence doesn't mean anything to me. Help, please. 