Couple things. First, suits. Pentacles can mean money, but they often mean work, the kind of 'put your back into it' work, achievement through effort rather than through luck, gift, or inspiration. Pentacles are earth. Swords have that cutting 'decision' quality, but they're also air, and therefore words. I think the king of swords reversed is the very personification of writer's block - the domineering, threatening presence that bars you from your words.
Wands are fire, thus inspiration, passion, impulse, vision. Cups, water, emotions and relationships.
And then--how I might read it. But I don't know you, and the person who read for you does. So....I'd back her over me any day. :)
So, you - balancing a lot of different kinds of work. Trying to put your sweat equity into the book, but still maintain all yourother obligations. Tightrope walk indeed.
Situation - I would say, perceived situation: the barrier of words. Possibly the intimidation of Writing with a capital W, the idea getting in the way of the actuality. Or not!
Recent past - you picked out your creative turf, defined your territory very forthrightly. I-Am-Going-To-Write-This-Like-This. A strong position, but one not suited to accepting momentary uncertainties with grace.
Bridge to cross: the ultimate, idealized craft of words. To travel from one lived reality into another livable reality, across an idea.
Near future - pages have, as their provence, the Beginner's Mind. Sparks shoot off in all directions. This is a much more mobile, reaching, stretching kind of creativity than the seven of wands. Less rooted, more expansive, more experimental.
Foundation - I read the five of pentacles as "Misery." Drizzling, grey, cold, bleak, and nothing offered seems as though it would help. There is light, there is warmth somewhere, but it's not where you are. To work without a visceral feeling of hope. I think some of your glare reports have evoked that sensation pretty well.
Crown - The one who taught me most of what I know about tarot calls this trip the journey to Avalon. It's a mystic or spiritual journey. Reversed, I wonder if it might be about letting go of /direction/, goal-orientation, and letting the (s)words take you into a place of unbeing, ungoing, and finding what happens there.
yourself - you have harnessed great and opposing forces, brought them together, to produce great power and movement. You do not guide, you get things started, and ride them out.
I read the next card as emotions, but if you read it as how others see you, I wonder if there's a sense of others perceiving you as free when you feel bound, or others not able to perceive the ways in which you may be bound. But of course, they may be right.
Hopes and fears....'nuff said. Which of us doesn't hope for the 10 of cups at some point?
And outcome, the only one you actually asked about. If the six of pentacles is a person who is already wealthy, and is handing out measured gifts, a stable, solid, established kind of figure, then reversed, perhaps you have a person still in the swirling middle of everything, giving to others, not in that stolid, measured way, but in rushes and halts, as best as can be at any given moment. And perhaps since pentacles are the sign of craft, this is your ability write, to give yourself to your craft and to give your craft to the world. You're not Anthony Trollope writing a set number of pages every day, whether that means stopping in the middle of something or finishing one book and starting the next. You don't have that kind of placid, reasonable production like an irrigation system, and it's not coming any time soon. Which....may not be such a bad thing, anyhow.
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Date: 2005-03-28 11:17 pm (UTC)Wands are fire, thus inspiration, passion, impulse, vision. Cups, water, emotions and relationships.
And then--how I might read it. But I don't know you, and the person who read for you does. So....I'd back her over me any day. :)
So, you - balancing a lot of different kinds of work. Trying to put your sweat equity into the book, but still maintain all yourother obligations. Tightrope walk indeed.
Situation - I would say, perceived situation: the barrier of words. Possibly the intimidation of Writing with a capital W, the idea getting in the way of the actuality. Or not!
Recent past - you picked out your creative turf, defined your territory very forthrightly. I-Am-Going-To-Write-This-Like-This. A strong position, but one not suited to accepting momentary uncertainties with grace.
Bridge to cross: the ultimate, idealized craft of words. To travel from one lived reality into another livable reality, across an idea.
Near future - pages have, as their provence, the Beginner's Mind. Sparks shoot off in all directions. This is a much more mobile, reaching, stretching kind of creativity than the seven of wands. Less rooted, more expansive, more experimental.
Foundation - I read the five of pentacles as "Misery." Drizzling, grey, cold, bleak, and nothing offered seems as though it would help. There is light, there is warmth somewhere, but it's not where you are. To work without a visceral feeling of hope. I think some of your glare reports have evoked that sensation pretty well.
Crown - The one who taught me most of what I know about tarot calls this trip the journey to Avalon. It's a mystic or spiritual journey. Reversed, I wonder if it might be about letting go of /direction/, goal-orientation, and letting the (s)words take you into a place of unbeing, ungoing, and finding what happens there.
yourself - you have harnessed great and opposing forces, brought them together, to produce great power and movement. You do not guide, you get things started, and ride them out.
I read the next card as emotions, but if you read it as how others see you, I wonder if there's a sense of others perceiving you as free when you feel bound, or others not able to perceive the ways in which you may be bound. But of course, they may be right.
Hopes and fears....'nuff said. Which of us doesn't hope for the 10 of cups at some point?
And outcome, the only one you actually asked about. If the six of pentacles is a person who is already wealthy, and is handing out measured gifts, a stable, solid, established kind of figure, then reversed, perhaps you have a person still in the swirling middle of everything, giving to others, not in that stolid, measured way, but in rushes and halts, as best as can be at any given moment. And perhaps since pentacles are the sign of craft, this is your ability write, to give yourself to your craft and to give your craft to the world. You're not Anthony Trollope writing a set number of pages every day, whether that means stopping in the middle of something or finishing one book and starting the next. You don't have that kind of placid, reasonable production like an irrigation system, and it's not coming any time soon. Which....may not be such a bad thing, anyhow.