I attempted another draw this morning, thinking that I could let the card percolate for a while during the drive home to Chicago and maybe even get it posted from the car (while someone else drives, I promise). Somehow, though, it just isn’t happening today. In unsurprising news, my mind is really full of job-related worries at the moment (or, rather, lack-of-job-related worries), so I drew a card with a question related to that.
Almost immediately, I found myself wanting to draw a different card instead. Not because the card I drew felt terrible or anything, but because it didn’t immediately fit the story I had in my head…or at least the story I WANTED to believe was true at the moment. I tried sitting with the card for a little while, but still couldn’t see past the block of the apparent image versus the desired story.
So, screw it (for today, anyway). I’ll give it another day or so and see if another draw allows me to see something different. In the meantime, I’m almost halfway home from my Thanksgiving trip and am really looking forward to sleeping in my own bed in a few hours.
2 replies on “Tarot Fail”
Have you ever run into the practice of laying out an intentional tarot spread, or picking an intentional card as the one you WANT to be true? Constructing the future you want the cards to reveal to you, then leaving it around, visible, for your subconscious to work on. It almost sounds like that’s what your brain wants to do at this point.
No, I haven’t tried that before, but I like the idea quite a bit. Thanks for the suggestion!