I got an anonymous ask last week about Thor and Sif’s marriage, also pointing out the following:
“Loki’s wife literally symbolizes fidelity, isn’t it terribly ironic that his wife Sigyn is more faithful than Thor’s wife Sif?“
This might be a half-joke, but I think it still shows us a few interesting things about the Eddas and how we read them.
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Audience Expectations
When you’re watching your stereotypical daytime TV soap series, you can easily recognise some familiar character archetypes.
In family dynasty shows (such as Emmerdale, the Bold and the Beautiful, Dallas, Selfridge, Los Serrano etc.) there’s usually some sort of Romeo & Juliet-pair from two bickering families, there’s an old matriarch, there’s the black sheep/bad boy type, the rebel teen, the serial-divorcer… They’re caricatures, but they all tell something about the expectations and outliers of real-life society.
We can think of the Eddic stories as early medieval soap operas. That’s not a perfect shorthand for the role of mythical stories, but still a possible viewpoint for this problem. That sheds light on why there are some very clear and defined personality traits for the gods and goddesses, even when divine powers and godly domains aren’t always so clear-cut.
Like so. And if we look at the character traits and recurring themes of Sif and Sigyn, for example, we can easily see how they make up a few stereotypes of early medieval Nordic women’s roles.
» Character traits
Sif I’d call the “vain bride” and that’s also my tag for her on my blog. This isn’t so much about her as a goddess but as a character to fill a role a story might need. If I wanted to tell you a story about great treasures, I might need a reason for their commissioning. Perhaps a story about an upset wife and a distant husband who tries to placate and please her with goldsmiths’ masterpieces, for example.
She isn’t as loud and proud as Freyja is, nor as lordly and
martial as Skadi. She isn’t as compliant and girly young wife as Idun is, nor a wise and self-assured mother like Frigg. Here, instead of just “random women”, we have a lot of female roles that represent different types of women in the larger societies that produced these stories.
» Comparing Sif & Sigyn
Sif has a will to turn situations around for her
own gain and a wish to be seen and held in high esteem. She values her
hair like gold, tries to bargain with Loki about her secrets, invites
other “whore-men” (…Loki?) over for a visit when Thor leaves her
alone… Thor also sleeps around. Not in Asgard, no, but particularly
with giant ladies he meets on his travels.
The fact that his infidelity is not an issue while Sif’s is tells of a double standard in the intended audience of the Eddas, and perhaps also in the modern audience if we fail to notice the imbalance.
Sigyn on the other hand features in so few stories that she has little to no role in most of them. Her names stands for victory and good fortune - does she represent her own victories, a man’s victory in finding such a wife, or something entirely else? Is she some sort of older, disappeared womanhood-deity? Difficult to say, just by reading. I think she might be best suited for the role of the “devoted wife”, a quiet medieval dream girl who loves and is loved, and comes to her husband’s aid in a time of need.
Or perhaps Sigyn could be a very opposite type - a distant lady. The wife of a good farmstead with more interest in running her home and wealth in proper order than keeping track of her flighty husband. Instead of a love story, we would suddenly be looking at a tragedy, where the heroine’s downfall is her pride and carelessness in choosing such a bad man.
» Explaining the Goddesses
So why do we have a common theme in Eddic literature about Sif being undevoted to her husband Thor? Why is Sigyn seen as the goddess of fidelity?
Watsonian/Asgardian explanation: Thor is always away from home and Sif is lonely, bored and likes praise and attention. Thor has other mistresses elsewhere and so Sif sees no reason to act the part of a meek dream wife. Sigyn on the other hand is somehow very much in love with Loki, for reasons we can only guess at. He’s at least going to be a husband you don’t get bored with!
Doylean/literature explanation: To tell a story about infidelity and unhappy marriages we need characters to fit those roles. To make light of real and often hurtful problems (unhappy households, sleeping around, leaving romantic partners behind) we need characters who would do those things and who can showcase the difficult human issue in a distant godly land instead. (For example the adultery in Sif and Loki’s exchange in Lokasenna, or the mention of Sif in Harbard’s Song when Thor has left for his own adventures once again.)
And here Sigyn comes into the picture in direct relation to Loki - Loki would be tortured, but he would also need to act out his part in Ragnarök. To keep a tortured man alive we need help from a kind soul, and if there are sons (of which Loki has a lot) then surely they have a mother too. The tragedy is in Sigyn’s innocence regarding her husband’s crimes, and the horror in her inability to keep her sons safe because of his deeds. The tragedy of Narfi and Vali is that they are not mentioned as monstrous in any way, but are made to suffer and become monsters and fetters, only for what Loki did. We just don’t know enough about Sigyn to place her into other stories, so this tragedy is her only act.
UPG reconstructionist explanation: Sif, as a representation of fields and crops, is of course the wife of Thor, the thunder and rain that both brings to life and destroys the rye and barleycorn. Because of Thor’s quick temper and the abundance of other fertile men around her (= other weathers and soils and farmers) Sif can have fun with them just as easily. Bad weather also brings bad crops, so Thor is himself at fault, at least in part, for his worse times with his wife.
If Loki is all about chaos and treachery, and has a devoted wife, said wife must then stand for stability and fidelity to balance him out, right. To stand by a close person’s side in horrible situations demands endurance of character and a strong sense of duty. So that must be what Sigyn is about.
These are obviously not the only ways to read the stories of these two goddesses, but I thought they might explain the picture a little!
Loki is mischievous. Loki breaks the rules. Loki is complicated.
Sigyn is simple.
Sigyn is kind. That is all. And yet not.
If Loki is the outcast crouching under the bridge with a sleepingbag and a waggon full of scraps, Sigyn is the one who opens a new inclusive shelter in town. If Loki is the protester marching in the streets and getting himself arrested, Sigyn is the one who bails him out. Loki's spirit is in the guy who gets in trouble at school for punching bigoted classmates in the face, Sigyn's spirit is in the friend who turns up at the principals office to defend him.
Loki rebels, Sigyn defends. Loki suffers, Sigyn protects. Loki organises a secret after school club to take down capitalism? Sigyn is the one who bakes them cookies.
Loki is a trickster, a rebel, and an outsider. Loki lives on the edge of society, all societies. He breaks the rules he thinks needs to be broken, he refuses to be boxed in, he bends the rules he thinks are wrong. Loki is one with the outcasts. Loki is one with those up-turning their lives, changing the world, refusing to bend to societies norms.
Sigyn is the only who protects the rebels, the outcasts, and the ostracised. So many times I see Loki described as their protector, but he is not. Loki marches with them in the streets, he screams for justice and a place to be diffrent in peace just as loudly.
But when you've come home from a march, exhilarated and exhausted, don't you need someone who'll sit and listen to everything you saw and did, and order some takeout? That is Sigyn. When you log of the internet, crying, after arguing with some bigot online, don't you want someone to rant to, to cry to, someone to hold you and comfort you? That's Sigyn. When you are desperate and alone, cast out, you need someone to take you in, to accept your differences and love the non-conforming parts of you? That is Sigyn.
Loki may be on the front lines of cultural change, rebellion. He may be the one supping with outcasts, but Sigyn is the one who cooks the meal.
Sigyn's compassion is the cogs that keeps the machine of rebellion working. If Sigyn had not stayed with Loki in that cave, and held that bowl over his head to catch the poison, would Loki have ever made it to Ragnarök? Was it not for Sigyn's compassion, would Loki and his children have ended/changed the world?
I don't think so.
Sigyn is fighting alongside Loki and the rebels, but she fights with different means. Calm, caring means. Soft means. Patient means. Compassionate means.
Sigyn is the comfort we come home to when exhausted after fighting the world.
Scientists invented fabric that makes
electricity from motion and sunlight.
To create the fabric, researchers at
Georgia Tech wove together solar
cell fibers with materials that generate
power from movement. It could be
used in “tents, curtains, or wearable
garments,” meaning we’d virtually
never be without power. Source
Y'all are fucking idiots. Clean energy will NEVER be enough to replace the energy we have now. We’d have to tear down DOZENS of forests just to fit enough windmills and solar panels to get even a QUARTER (probably less, tbh) of the energy we can produce now.
Yeah, sure, when they’ve already calculated that a few square miles of panels in the empty ass Arizona desert could power the whole nation. But ok, fracking and the diminishing petroleum supply is worlds better.
Nevermind that windmills are often most efficient off the coast. There they take up no land, impact no trees, don’t pollute the water, and are conveniently located where winds are often strongest anyway.
And solar panels can literally be built into roofs of buildings and in empty areas like deserts. The sun strikes the Earth with the same amount of energy in an hour that our civilization uses in a year.
But yeah, it would be impossible for us to ever have enough energy from clean sources.
Durr hurr technology is bad and I would rather light shit on fire than have clean energy
The fact that anyone can believe a limited amount of dinosaur oil is more plentiful and efficient than moving air or fucking sunlight is proof that entire populations can be completely brainwashed.
The best place to install solar? Parking lots! Here’s the Community Mercantile in LFK:
Not only can it supply almost all the power needed for stores that build these, it also reduces ambient heating from the roasting pavement and keeps cars covered from the elements.
The only reason we still use fossil fuels is that rich people are selfish.
squibble-squib
My uncle, Greg Nielson is one of the people who made fucking SOLAR PANELS into the size of GLITTER. I think I remember him saying they could go in paint, meaning you can paint CARS and BUILDINGS with them. Do you understand how much energy we could get some only a few square feet alone?
Oh... oh. Don’t just toss him in the dumpster, set it on fire.
hundondestiny
this isn't a men thing lol this rlly is a rich thing and if you've ever had financially stable friends, they be the first ones to demand you pay them back for a stick of gum or the gas to drop u off on the way home from school like... rich ppl stay rich bc they hoard, more often than not, and thats why the more absurd your wealth, the less ethical we can assume you are. this is incredibly fucked up in a relationship and she'd be justified in murdering him (or forcing him to buy the violin back for as expensive as necessary... w/e) but like. this is why wealthy ppl don't have rights.
Please note that this is a very basic overview of the index in my Book of Shadows. For each bullet point is at least one page of information in my BoS.
I am only about halfway through recording information into my BoS; so as time goes on and as I learn more about the craft / my path this order may change. Also, if you feel I have missed anything please let me know !
For more posts straight out of my grimoire search the tag #queenofbohemebos 🌻
Please note that if you are using a hard bound notebook or journal, adding in additional pages will bulk up your book, like so: (these are the exact same journals, btw)
- Envelopes. Let’s say you’re doing a section on Tarot in your Grimoire, and you want to include a few Tarot spreads, but you don’t want to waste two or three pages. Glue an envelope onto one of your pages to make a “pocket” where you can store little cards or papers with the tarot spreads written on them.
- Pockets. Similar to the envelope idea. If you have a page, or section for example, on herbal teas, you can make a pocket out of a piece of paper to keep your current favorite tea recipes in.
- Dividers, Cover Pages and Ribbons. If you’re like me and you like to have “sections” in your grimoire, you can easily make dividers by gluing a sheet of paper in your book (to make it heavier to make the sections stand out more). You can go further by turning your divider into a cover page for that section. And if you don’t like the idea doing that, you can always glue a ribbon, or a string, to the spine of your book to act as a bookmark.
- Double pages. I always had a problem with “wasting” pages in my grimoire. For example, my page on consecrating and charging. These two concepts are very similar to me, and I didn’t want two page stating the same thing. So, what I did was write out all my information on charging on a separate sheet of paper, then glued the top of that page into my grimoire. This way I could flip up the page on charging (as if it were on a clipboard) and have my page on consecrating underneath.
- Extended pages. Similar to the one above. In my Crystal section of my Grimoire, I decided to write out a chart that let me search for crystals by intention. So I drew my chart on a long sheet of paper, then folded it over (side to side) so that it fit comfortably in my book, then I just glued one side down into the book.
- Brochures. In my Elements section, I had a ton of information I wanted to write down, but I didn’t want each element to have more than two pages. So I used a piece of computer paper and folded it into a brochure (or into thirds) and glued it into the book so that the flaps would open and give me double the space to write.
- Clear Tape. There are many times where i finished a page in my grimoire only to find out there was a section that I left out. A simply way to fix this was with clear tape. I would write my forgotten bit of into on a separate piece of paper and then use clear tape to tape one side of the paper to my page. This allows me to flip the paper back and forth without covering up anything that I had written.
The tarot, first known as trionfi and later as tarocchi or tarock is a pack of playing cards, used from the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play games such as Italian tarocchini, French tarot and Austrian Königrufen, many of which are still played today. In the late 18th century, some tarot decks began to be used for divination via tarot card reading and cartomancy leading to custom decks developed for such occult purposes.
The word Tarot and German Tarock derive from the Italian Tarocchi, the origin of which is uncertain but taroch was used as a synonym for foolishness in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
Playing cards first entered Europe in the late 14th century, most likely from Mamluk, Egypt, with suits of Batons or Polo sticks which are commonly known as Wands by those practicing occult or divinatory tarot, Coins which are commonly known as disks, or pentacles in occult or divinatory tarot, Swords, and Cups. These suits were very similar to modern tarot divination decks and are still used in traditional Italian, Spanish and Portuguese playing card decks.
The first documented tarot packs were recorded between 1440 and 1450 in Milan, Ferrara, Florence and Bologna when additional trump cards with allegorical illustrations were added to the common four-suit pack. These new decks were called carte da trionfi, triumph cards, and the additional cards known simply as trionfi, which became “trumps” in English. The earliest documentation of trionfi is found in a written statement in the court records of Florence, in 1440, regarding the transfer of two decks to Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta.
The original purpose of tarot cards was to play games. A very cursory explanation of rules for a tarot-like deck is given in a manuscript by Martiano da Tortona before 1425. Vague descriptions of game play or game terminology follow for the next two centuries until the earliest known complete description of rules for a French variant in 1637.
The 18th century saw tarot’s greatest revival, during which it became one of the most popular card games in Europe, played everywhere except Ireland and Britain, the Iberian peninsula, and the Ottoman Balkans. French tarot experienced a revival beginning in the 1970s and France has the strongest tarot gaming community.
Italian-suited tarot decks
These were the oldest form of tarot deck to be made, being first devised in the 15th century in northern Italy. The so-called occult tarot decks are based on decks of this type. Three decks of this category are still used to play certain games:
The Tarocco Piemontese consists of the four suits of swords, batons, cups and coins, each headed by a king, queen, cavalier and jack, followed by the pip cards for a total of 78 cards. Trump 20 outranks 21 in most games and the Fool is numbered 0 despite not being a trump.
The Swiss 1JJ Tarot is similar, but replaces the Pope with Jupiter, the Popess with Juno, and the Angel with the Judgement. The trumps rank in numerical order and the Tower is known as the House of God. The cards are not reversible like the Tarocco Piemontese.
The Tarocco Bolognese omits numeral cards two to five in plain suits, leaving it with 62 cards, and has somewhat different trumps, not all of which are numbered and four of which are equal in rank. It has a different graphical design than the two above as it was not derived from the Tarot of Marseilles.
Italo-Portuguese-suited tarot deck
The Tarocco Siciliano is the only deck to use the so-called Portuguese suit system which uses Spanish pips but intersects them like Italian pips. Some of the trumps are different such as the lowest trump, Miseria (destitution). It omits the Two and Three of coins, and numerals one to four in clubs, swords and cups: it thus has 64 cards but the ace of coins is not used, being the bearer of the former stamp tax. The cards are quite small and not reversible.
French-suited tarot decks
The illustrations of French-suited tarot trumps depart considerably from the older Italian-suited design, abandoning the Renaissance allegorical motifs. With the exception of novelty decks, French-suited tarot cards are almost exclusively used for card games. The first generation of French-suited tarots depicted scenes of animals on the trumps and were thus called “Tiertarock” (‘Tier’ being German for 'animal’) appeared around 1740. Around 1800, a greater variety of decks were produced, mostly with genre art or veduta. Current French-suited tarot decks come in these patterns:
The Industrie und Glück (Industry and Luck) genre art tarock deck of Central Europe uses Roman numerals for the trumps. It is sold with 54 cards; the 5 to 10 of the red suits and the 1 to 6 of the black suits are removed.
The Adler-Cego animal tarot is used in the Upper Rhine valley and its neighbouring hills such as the Black Forest or the Vosges, and has 54 cards organized in the same fashion as the Industrie und Glück. Its trumps use Arabic numerals but within centred indices.
The Tarot Nouveau has 78 cards, and is commonly played in France and is somtimes used to play Cego. Its genre art trumps use Arabic numerals in corner indices.
German-suited tarot decks
German-suited decks for Bauerntarock, Württemberg Tarock and Bavarian Tarock are different. They are not true tarot packs, but a Bavarian or Württemberg pattern of the standard German-suited decks with only 36 cards; the pip cards ranging from 6 to 10, Under Knave (Unter), Over Knave (Ober), King, and Ace. These use Ace-Ten ranking, like Klaverjas, where Ace is the highest followed by 10, King, Ober, Unter, then 9 to 6. The heart suit is the default trump suit. The Bavarian deck is also used to play Schafkopf by excluding the Sixes.
Tarot Card Readings
The earliest evidence of a tarot deck used for cartomancy comes from an anonymous manuscript from around 1750 which documents rudimentary divinatory meanings for the cards of the Tarocco Bolognese. The popularization of esoteric tarot started with Antoine Court and Jean-Baptiste Alliette (Etteilla) in Paris during the 1780s, using the Tarot of Marseilles. French tarot players abandoned the Marseilles tarot in favour of the Tarot Nouveau around 1900, with the result that the Marseilles pattern is now used mostly by cartomancers.
Etteilla was the first to issue a tarot deck specifically designed for occult purposes around 1789. In keeping with the misplaced belief that such cards were derived from the Book of Thoth, Etteilla’s tarot contained themes related to ancient Egypt.
The 78-card tarot deck used by esotericists has two distinct parts:
The Major Arcana (greater secrets), or trump cards, consists of 22 cards without suits:
The Minor Arcana (lesser secrets) consists of 56 cards, divided into four suits of 14 cards each;
The Magician, The High Priestess, The Empress, The Emperor, The Hierophant, The Lovers, The Chariot, Strength, The Hermit, Wheel of Fortune, Justice, The Hanged Man, Death, Temperance, The Devil, The Tower, The Star, The Moon, The Sun, Judgement, The World, and The Fool. Cards from The Magician to The World are numbered in Roman numerals from I to XXI, while The Fool is the only unnumbered card, sometimes placed at the beginning of the deck as 0, or at the end as XXII.
Ten numbered cards and four court cards. The court cards are the King, Queen, Knight and Page/Jack, in each of the four tarot suits. The traditional Italian tarot suits are swords, batons, coins and cups; in modern occult tarot decks, however, the batons suit is often called wands, rods or staves, while the coins suit is often called pentacles or disks.
The terms “Major Arcana” and “Minor Arcana” were first used by Jean-Baptiste Pitois (also known as Paul Christian) and are never used in relation to tarot card games. Some decks exist primarily as artwork, and such art decks sometimes contain only the 22 major arcana.
The three most common decks used in esoteric tarot are the Tarot of Marseilles, the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck, and the Thoth tarot deck.
The six most common Tarot Spreads are the;
Love Spread
Here is a little you should know about the ‘love’ spread. This type of reading evaluates the relationships relevance, how strong and happy they are. Every relationship has its ups and downs and with this six-card spread you will be able to evaluate your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual connections with your partner. The ‘love’ spread has its own 6 cards which represent the following:
#1-The first card signifies what you currently feel about your relationship, your approach, and your outlook.
#2-The second card represents your partners current emotions towards you, his attitude, and expectations about your relationship.
#3- The third card is a connection card. For example; common characteristics of both of you
#4– The fourth card indicates the strength of your relationship.
#5– The fifth card shows the weaknesses in your relationship.
#6– This final card is your true love card. It interprets if the relationship is going to be successful or not.
Success Spread
Briefly about the ‘Success’ spread; it is a remarkably situational spread. It’s often used when a person is facing an obstacle or hardship. It can also be helpful if you don’t know how to face or overcome a problem as it will point you in the right direction.
#1- it helps you to find out about the true colours of the challenge in front of you. It will help you to identify what sort of skill set and resources you will need in order to not just solve but also overcome the challenge.
#2- this further clarifies on your current problems and challenges.
#3- The third card reveals the hidden factors affecting your current situation. You need to have knowledge about what these factors are to really overcome the obstacle you’re facing.
#4- The fourth card represents new plans, people, or objects that can help you grow further. By adapting yourself to these new aspects, your vision of the situation will change, leaving you with better solutions to your problems.
#5- The final card shows what requirements you need to fulfill in order to be proven successful and things you should avoid as they will lead you to failure. It will point you towards success if proven to be a positive card but in other cases it could be a negative card and will warn you about an upcoming disaster in your life.
Celtic Cross Spread
Despite its complications the ‘Celtic Cross’ Spread has stood popular for many years. This is most likely due to the fact that its importance lies in its difficulty. Each result of the Celtic Cross can be illustrated in a variety of ways depending on the direction of the of the fallen cards. Though not recommended for beginners, once anyone understands it, he or she can use this spread to find out the full depth of the situation. With enough practice it can it can be taken in use to find the answer to any problem. Celtic Cross deals with intricate situations.
#1– presents the current situation the person finds themselves in the and the reading is about the question they are facing.
#2– is placed over the first card, pointing to the left and is always read in an upright position. It shows what the basic challenge is that needs to be solved or the mental or physical object holding them back.
#3– The third spread reveals the subconscious influences. These strange influences have an extremely strong and powerful effect on one’s everyday life, especially in scenes relating to the question.
#4 – The fourth card shows what resources one has and the things they can use to face and solve the problem shown by the second card and in the process reach their ultimate goal, shown by the third card.
#5 – The fifth card shows the prologue of the scene. A negatively influenced past may have an effect that prevents their success on their current situation and they will need to let the memory go in order to stop it from negatively influencing their current situation so they can face and eventually overcome the problem at hand as shown by the second card. A positive past should be can simply be called inspiration. Even though the person may be facing a challenge in their current part of life, the problem
They are up against is natural growth of the positive past they had the benefit of experiencing and after they have overcome all their challenges, things will look even brighter than they were in the past.
#6 – The sixth card is the headlight. If the card states there is some form of negative energy on the way the five previous cards should give a good reasoning of why this is taking place and what we could do to prevent it.
#7 – The seventh card represents the person’s attitude. It illustrates your physical actions, thinking and ideals regarding the current problem. This will give you more to work with into whether the person’s attitude is conducive to a likable outcome or whether it’s time to retrack the way the person perceives the information.
#8 – The eighth card is an energy card. It talks about the energy surrounding them and the energy other people and the environment is letting off and if these energies are helping in any shape or form.
#9 – The ninth card tells us about what the person’s desires and fears. This is a revelation card. It gives importance to the things a person should be aware of in their current situation and might change the way a person acts which should not be neglected by them.
#10 – This is the final outcome and emphasizes on the energies, if they are complementing or conflicting. It also tells the person about the future that will take place immediately and if it is necessary or not to face the future.
Spiritual Spread
Similar to the Success Spread, the Spiritual Guidance spread is used when faced with problems that are of a spiritual nature. These sorts of challenges are usually related to spirituality in a person.
#1 – The first card represents your main concerns. You may think you know about the problem but this spread goes more in depth with it.
#2 – The second card looks into your motivation for looking for guidance.
#3 – The third card looks into the things about your life you are insecure or worried about.
#4 – The fourth card emphasizes on the parts of your life that you are not aware of.
#5 – The fifth card is your advice card as it will guide you to the steps to face your fears. It ties in with the previous cards.
#6 –The sixth card guides us to a life with no worries so that we could move forward on our spiritual journey.
#7 – The seventh card teaches you to deal with the situation with the resources you have at hand.
#8 – Finally, the eighth card finishes the Spiritual Guidance Spread by telling us that the result of the tarot cards all depends on our reaction to it whether we focus on the positive or negative.
Career Path Spread
This spread is for times where we feel left out on our career. We work hard hoping for a promotion but to no benefit. It helps us with these kind of challenges that we face in our professional life.
#1 – The first card basically asks us if our job that we have right now is indeed our ideal job
#2 – The second card emphasizes on the actions we must take to further boost our career. A positive card means we should stay at the same position we are in right now whereas a negative one means we should make some changes.
#3 – The third card tells us about certain things about our job that we can no longer alter. The card may tell you to look for a job in the same category we are working in right now.
#4 – The fourth card refers to our skills on our job to see if they’re enough to get us a promotion or if we are behind everyone else.
#5 – The fifth card tells us about the things we can do in our career to improve and start a new one or just small things we can do in our current career to at least get noticed.
#6 – The sixth card gives us the answer to the question that if our past mistakes are influencing our career now.
#7 – The final card tells you that if the card is negative it might lead to a bad outcome as it might result in you making other bad career choices.
However, if you aren’t sure of the outcome, use the card again after a few days or weeks to see if the reading changes as your attitude changes.
Three-Card Spread
The simplest and the most useful spread, ‘The Three Card Spread’ only uses three cards. This is what makes it the most popular. This is one of the most powerful spreads and can find answers for you really quickly for almost anything, let it be overcoming a problem or an obstacle or if you are simply just feeling lost or left behind.
Linear 3 Card Tarot Spreads
As you can imagine, this layout is good at suggesting some sort of linear path, sequence of events, cause and effect, or a way of getting from point a to point b.
Past, Present, Future
You, Your Path, Your Potential
You, Relationship, Partner
Situation, Action, Outcome
Idea, Process, Aspiration
Balanced 3 Card Tarot Spreads
In this layout, each card of the spread has a common intersection. They are all equally important, like three sides of a pyramid. Without any of these, the whole structure collapses.
Mind, Body, Spirit
Physical State, Emotional State, Spiritual State
Subconscious, Conscious, Super Conscious
Option 1, Option 2, Option 3
What I think, What I feel, What I do
Foundational 3 Card Tarot Spreads
I think think one is a little harder to explain, but I like thinking of these spreads being communicators of advice in a way such that “given X and Y, the result is Z”. X and Y attempt to give you a clearer understanding of options, and Z is a summary, a crux, a way to move forward given the information that is there. In fact, even when phrasing these spreads, I like saying them in a way that follows this formula to make the point clearer. The bolded items represent the actual card positions.
Given your strengths and weaknesses, this is my advice.
Given what worked well, and what didn’t work well, this is the key lesson.
Given that this brings you together, and that this pulls you apart, you must focus on this.
Given that you want this from the relationship, and your partner wants this, your relationship is heading towards this.
Given Option 1 and Option 2, This is what you need to know to make a decision.
Crossed 3 Card Tarot Spreads
As the layout would imply, this is about understanding conflicts and obstacles. The card that crosses over is something that stands in the way and that needs to be overcome, something that blocks you from attaining your ultimate goal, while the third card acts as a sort of advice card, looking at the situation from a more distant viewpoint. These can also be used as simpler 2 card spreads if you want to use only the crossing cards.
Grimoire- Finally another zodiac page, there’s two more I can post, and then I’ll be showing colour correspondents :) if you want any of the resources I use in these pages feel free to ask🌊
Also feel free to give me your opinion on my work :)
DEPARTMENT STORE: Mobile - Alabama (1956), by Gordon Parks
UNTITLED: Shady Grove - Alabama (1956), by Gordon Parks
THE LOUISVILLE FLOOD: Louisville - Kentucky (1937), by Margaret Bourke-White
I know this isn't specifically about Harley Quinn, but since it's her movie, I gotta make the comparison. I mean I wonder why all men were drooling over this Harley
But I havent heard a single male praise for her hotness since the trailers for her movie came out and they find out now she looks like this
I love this lady though because she always gives like a minute long explanation that possums aren’t naturally pets and hers are all ones people brought to nature centers and can’t be returned to the wild, so please do not kidnap possums.
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