Category: Card of the Day

Today’s card is the 10 of Pentacles, Upright.

Pentacles is the suit of material wealth, hard work, and Earth, and 10 is the final number in the numbered pip cards. In numerology terms there are nine numbers (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9), and every other number can be added together to make up those numbers. The 10 in a Tarot suit feels kind of like excess to some. That’s not to say they think it should be removed.

The 9 is the ending of single-digit numbers, so the 10 is a little too much of any suit. In Pentacles, the 10 is a very happy-looking card and the progress made through the suit is completed, but there may be complacency and too much of a good thing. In all fairness, though, the people look happy, and loving, and comfortable in their lifestyle. For me, I like the 10 of Pentacles because I don’t think I would mind having the ability to relax and not think about money.

Peace and balance,

Erin

Today’s card is the Ace of Cups, Reversed

I admit it, this card presented a stumbling block for me. In the past I have used Reversed cards, but in researching the cards (and other readers) further I noticed not everyone reads them. So, the question is whether or not I’m going to read them from now on. I think I will continue to because I feel it gives a different layer to a reading. On to the card at hand…

The Ace of Cups, Upright, is a card I like, but Reversed gives me some pause. The Aces are cards of beginnings and Cups is the Water suit. Water is the suit of emotions, so I think of the start of relationship or a new project that is close to the initiator’s heart. Reversed, however, water (emotion) is flowing out of the cup and spilling everywhere, making a huge mess; all the potential and hopes are going to waste, and it makes me sad.

Peace and balance,

Erin

I have this app on my phone that picks a Tarot card each day. Personally, I think it’s great! My biggest issue when drawing a card each day is shuffling and then, after drawing the card, putting them all back in order. I’m the furthest thing from a neat person, but I like my Tarot cards in order. This app is perfect for me because I don’t have to worry about either shuffling or reordering the cards!

Today’s card is VI “The Lovers”, Upright

I used to like this card a lot because I’m a romantic. I want characters in books to end up together, I want marriages to last, and I believe in true love. I have learned through researching the cards that this card is not all the good tidings for love it appears—in older decks, there are two women and one man. I’m not opposed to polygamy, but I am a one-man woman and I want a one-woman man. I also think that if someone feels they have a difficult decision to make between me and someone else, the person with the choice should just choose the other person. If you say you’re in love with me be in love with me, and only me. You have to remember this card’s astrological affiliation with Gemini, the sign of duality.

Because it is affiliated with Gemini, its element is Air. Air is not an element of emotions, and love is an emotion. I know this card is supposed to herald new relationships, it just strikes me that if it were really a card of love or passion (or even emotion) its element would be Fire or Water. The romantic in me wants this to be a love card, but I can’t help wondering how it feels to be the woman not chosen.

I also think about woman chosen. She’s chosen for her virtue (I know virtue trumps vice), but who’s perfect? She’ll be held to a standard, put on a pedestal if you will, that she can’t possibly live up to, and then what will the person who chose her do? He’ll wonder for the rest of their lives if he picked the right one. Don’t even get me started on being the one who chooses.

Now, I used male and female pronouns, but I don’t want to exclude others on the gender spectrum. I only used them because that’s what’s on the card. I don’t even think it’s solely a choice between people. It can be a choice between one option and any other option. Make wise choices, but know it’s a mental process (Air) rather than emotional.

Peace and balance,

Erin