Two-Card Tarot Draws

[balsamandash]

I've been sort of not doing anything for a while now, and while there's reasons for that, it's beginning to eat at me. I may try and put up a post for prompts at some point, but for now, have a Tarot post, since it's been a while. Fair warning: My responses may be slow -- I will try and get to anything posted by the end of next weekend at latest, to give you an idea how slow -- so you may not want to ask about anything super time-sensitive.

So: Comment and receive a two-card reading. Why two cards? Because honestly, interpreting based on some kind of rough spread is easier on me than interpreting one standalone card. If you really have your heart set on a single card, though, I can do one-cards too, just let me know. I can choose the deck or you can; I can do a specific option you'd like for the spread (see below) or figure out what's best myself; I can go general or you can pick a focus/question. I am happy to PM you if you'd like to receive your reading privately instead of publicly; let me know, because the default will be public. (You can also PM me if you'd rather not ask or reveal details publicly.)

All readings are free this time around, and I am not offering options for extra cards or paid readings right now. (Though if you really want to tip, you can go through my partner's paypal into our moving fund. Also, feel free to signal boost if you'd like.) Also, some background, if you're new or unaware of it: I have sixteen years of experience with the Tarot, and I've read frequently for people over the internet, both professionally and for fun, especially in the last five years or so.

Decks: Links go to website for the deck or to Aeclectic so you can see the art style if you'd like.I default towards the middle three unless the situation really seems to call for G&S or WTNV, or they're specifically requested.

• Ghost and Spirits
  
• Linestrider Tarot
  
• Omegaland
  
• Raven's Prophecy Tarot
  
• Welcome to Night Vale Tarot

Some examples of two-card spreads:

• Heart of the Situation/Challenge (The "Two-Card Cross", the first two cards of the Celtic Cross)
  
• Do/Don't
  
• Pro/Con
  
• Short Term/Long Term
  
• Keep/Let Go Of
  
• Now/Later
  
• Yesterday/Tomorrow
  
• Strength/Weaknesses
  
• Pay Attention To/Ignore
  
• Stop/Start
  
• Stop/Continue
  
• Start/Continue
  
• Help/Hinder
  
• Internal Influence/External Influence
  
• Conscious Influence/Unconscious Influence
  
• Worst Case Scenario/Best Case Scenario
  
• Outcome of Option #1/Outcome of Option #2 (for choices)
  
• What You Want/What You Need
  
• What Should You Know/What Should You Do (best for a specific situation)
  
• What to Work For/What to Leave Behind
  
• What's Causing a Block/How to Resolve It
  
• What You Know/What's Hidden From You
  
• What You Can Change/What You Can't Change
  
• What Needs to Change/What Needs to Stay the Same

Comments

[alexseanchai]

I would like a Keep/Let Go Of wrt my parents, please and thank you :) not with Night Vale or Omegaland decks but I am not sure a preference past that?

[balsamandash]

I went with Linestrider -- it's a deck that doesn't necessarily pull its punches, but also doesn't shout in your face if it doesn't have to, and I thought that was the best energy for your question. To start with, a card fell out while I was shuffling, and while I didn't get the feeling it suited for either side of this equation, I always treat that as significant. In this case, it was the Five of Cups, which signifies regret and loss, but also a need to focus on the positive and what you still have over what you've lost. It's easy to focus on the things that hurt you, or that you've lost, but that can mean ignoring things that need your focus or your nurture in order to grow. Paying attention to what's there does much more for you in the long run.

Keep: Knight of Swords. There's a few ways this could go, especially in re: parents, considering the Knights often stand in as an adolescent/young adult phase; but whatever those things are, they are heavily logic-based rather than creative- or emotion-based. Are there things that you find they actually help you with when you talk it out with them? Because if so, this might be telling you that you can still go to them for those conversations. Alternately, if there's ways of thinking of things they've helped you to form - not necessarily beliefs or opinions, but ways of breaking things down, of looking at things head-first, or even ways of putting yourself first and being heard that you've picked up - it may be saying to take the good parts of that and salvage them for yourself.
Or, a very different take on it is that it may be saying that you need to keep making yourself heard with them. Don't let them talk over you or play on your emotions to get what they want from you; use your head first, and do what you think will be best for you, not what will temporarily keep you from feeling bad. (To be honestly, this is the interpretation I lean towards based on how you discuss things, and the influence of the Five of Cups, but the other is something to consider if anything jumps to mind.)

Let Go Of: Four of Wands. This may be hard to hear, and I'm sorry if I'm stepping outside my bounds a little bit, but: the Four of Wands is about family unity, happiness, stability and comfort in the home - things that it is completely normal and natural to want to have with your parents, but that you don't get from yours. I think the message here is that, if there's any part of you that's still holding on to the hope that one day, your parents will turn around and be what you want them to be - will understand the things they don't get, and be completely supportive of the places where you differ from them - then you need to try and accept that it's unlikely it will ever happen. You don't have to cut them out entirely, but know what you can and can't get from them.

[alexseanchai]

*eyes the Four* well fuck

...I mean I think I knew that

but

anyway thank you and I will ponder

[balsamandash]

Sometimes the Tarot exists to remind you of things you know but don't want to accept, hard as it is to deal with. (I spent I-don't-remember-how-many years being told the same thing over and over that I already knew but was having issues accepting, and man did the Tarot get snarky a few times.)

*offers love*

[alexseanchai]

♥