Experienced tarot readers: Can you help interpret this general reading Celtic Cross?
based on http://www.learntarot.com/ccross.htm
1 world reverse
2 loverse reverse
3 strength reverse
4 knight of pentacles
5 queen of wands
6 fool
7 hermit reverse
8 page of wands in reverse
9 seven of cups reverse
10 ace of wands reverse
card 2 is the two of cups reverse, not the lovers reverse.
It is a general reading. The question was: what the rest of 2010 has for me?
Suggestion by jjt
no one wil be able to answer this as we do not know the exact question that was asked when you drew these cards. but i do see alot of internal struggles. but not sure who this is directed at since i don’t know the question
Suggestion by Alder
When a lot of cards are reversed, things can feel very unmanifested, up in the air, a storm about to break (and a fair number of major arcana cards, too!). Particularly starting with the World, which is completion and success, the end of a cycle, reversed it would mean things not finished, but still in process. Incomplete resolution, loose ends. The 2 of Cups says that the obstacle, that is keeping things from getting resolved, is in love relationships, a relationship that won’t either progress to deep commitment or end and set its participants free. The overarching atmosphere is the inability to harmonize with a deeper level of self, true passion, true love, the ability to tame the wild nature of the heart–Strength reversed. This is grounded in the dark young man, the Knight of Coins, who is the Farmer Knight. He is the stable, well grounded (but possibly too materialistic and pragmatic) man who plows the field. He understands things in straight lines, but he is the pattern maker and breaker.
You do the 5th card as “this is before the Querant” and the 6th as “this is behind him/her”? If I’m remembering the order of that spread right, then you are moving toward the Queen of Wands, the party queen, the Good Queen, the generous hostess who opens her home and her heart, who brings people together in good fellowship. You are moving out of the state of the Fool, the new beginning of being willing to be a noob, to try new things and enter new worlds even if you make a fool of yourself there.
The Hermit reversed suggests a fear of the hard path that leads to real enlightenment, a lack of commitment to growth if growing means pain and loss. The Page of Wands is someone in your family or your circle of close friends, who wants to give you advice. This person has lots of good ideas and advice for you, knows just where you should go and what you should do. This person is happy to run your life! Well, you don’t have to accept this person’s interpretation of the situation. His/her ideas don’t have to be your reality. Given that the card is reversed, it’s probably best if you keep your boundaries and don’t let other people put their own dreams on you.
The 7 of Cups is about fantasy, unrealized dreams and plans. When you reverse the card, you turn those seven cups full of dreams upside down and let them pour out. What had always been an idle daydream lands in your lap manifested, or runs off into the ground and is soaked up, disappears. Given the rest of this reading, probably the latter. You don’t want to give up your dreams, but if it’s a dream you’ve been carrying a long time without making it real, maybe it’s time to let go of it and wake up! Step away from the Mirror of Erised.
The final outcome is the Ace of Wands, the Eureka! card, the moment when the imaginative spark sets fire to your mind and spirit and you blaze with creativity. But it’s also reversed. It’s like writer’s block, your creative potential isn’t coming into full fruition. This whole reading, from the first card to the last, reminds me of that scene in “Matrix” where Neo asks the Oracle if he is the One, and she says, “You’ve got potential, kid. But it looks like your waiting for something. Maybe your next lifetime.”
I always tell people to phrase their questions using “I” and not “me.” “Me” is passive, the object of the sentence: What will happen to me? I’m just a leaf in the river’s current. I don’t know where I’m going. I don’t claim the power for myself. Instead ask, “How can I change my situation? What are the keys I can use to fully manifest my ideas, my art, my creativity? How can I change the energy of love relationships that have gotten into a half-alive rut? Ask questions like that, where you are the subject, the actor of the sentence instead of the object, and you will figure out how to turn that Ace of Wands right side up. And when you do, the World will be your oyster!
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