Sample Reading 2
What you can expect from each full six line Gypsy Tarot Reading:
Meanings of all cards followed by my personal interpretation of the reading.
I am able to read tarot cards from a distance. All I have to know is that you are thinking about those things that I ask you to think about as I shuffle the cards for you.
Those questions will be:
- Think about an incidence that happened in the past six months, those people that were involved in the incident and how they related to the incident and to each other. There are a couple of reasons why we limit it to 6 months into the past and therefore does not go more than 6 months into the future. It is not good to have this reading done more than 6 months at a time.
- Think about a question you want an answer to but please don't tell me what it is. Think of all the people involved in your question and how they relate to your question and to you.
- Think about what you wish to happen so far as your question is concerned. Again, think about all the people involved and how they related to your wishes.
Your part is done. I will deal the cards out at my end and compose the reading in an email for you. It will look something like this:
Past Line
Delays in Recognition for Hard work
The Six of Wands reversed shows delays in recognition and reward for hard work, resulting in a feeling of being unappreciated. The cause for the delay may be circumstantial or maybe because of another person.
Selfishness and arrogance, devoid of conscience or care, compels an individual to seek gain at another’s expense. There may be open hostility and willful cheating perpetuated through lies and trickery. This card speaks of viciousness and abuse.
Card 3: King of Pentacles Reversed
The card reversed shows an unfeeling and miserly man who serves the priority of his own material gain. He can be mean-spirited, possessive, and inclined to treat others around him as objects and tools that he uses for his own gain.
Card 4: Six of Pentacles Reversed
The Six of Pentacles reversed shows money changing hands either through legitimate sources, although the amount is disappointing, or through dubious dealings, such as bribes or fraudulent business transactions. Someone may be taking advantage of someone else for financial gain.
There is preparedness for an attack with determination to hold ground. This suggests endurance card as a reservoir of strength to hold fast in the face of unexpected adversity.
Card 6: Five of Wands Reversed
Disagreements and Pointless Struggles
The Five of Wands reversed shows disagreements and pointless struggles that seem to be never-ending. There is weariness and discouragement attached to a cycle of glitches, delays, and complications wrought by legal difficulties, bureaucratic bungles, and trying people.
Emotional Youth Who Has Deep Feelings
The coming and going of emotional situations involving a youth with rich, warm, and deep feelings is important here. The young person represented by this card is in love with love, and the journey’s end is the glory of true love. Idealism, poetry, and loving compassion steer these individuals.
General Atmosphere Line
Card 1: XX – Judgement Reversed
The Judgement card is a visual depiction of events described in the New Testament book of Revelation. These events concern the day of final judgment before the end of the world, as envisioned by John, who saw “the seas gave up its dead”; and indeed, the dead are seen rising from the sea in background of Waite’s design of this card. He is faithful to the Biblical description of the final judgment, but he contends that its meaning lies in realms far beyond literal Biblical interpretation
Reversed, shows difficulties arising from inability to be accountable for the consequences of one’s own actions. Failure to take responsibility and own one’s own problems results in conflict and losses.
Here is a young power player gifted with considerable mental agility and strategic insight. Youths represented by this card know what they want and assertively attend to get it.
Card 3: Eight of Swords Reversed
The Eight of Swords reversed shows a release from bondage. Blocks and binders are removed, and a fresh start is underway.
Card 4: Knight of Wands Reversed
The Knight of Wands reversed indicates a youth’s volatile and impetuous tendencies that lead to pointless upheavals and disruptions. There is unsettledness about the youth represented by this card.
New beginnings are made in the realm of career and work. The card can indicate a return to school or an opportunity to learn a new trade. The money might not be good at first, but the move is gratifying and brings contentment.
The child represented by this card is gentle and sweet- natured. There is a deep introspective nature, a great deal of warmth, and a capacity for sensitive responses to others.
A dynamic combination of individuals has worked in partnership, pooling their talents and resources to create a viable business plan that will generate wealth. Now that a future financial plan is solid, it is time to move forward with confidence.
Outer Influences Line
Card 1: Knight of Pentacles Reversed
Youth Who Needs to Be More Consistency in Material Well Being
The Knight of Pentacles reversed highlights the need for youth to have greater practicality and consistency in establishing material well-being. Youthful immaturity is expressed as carelessness.
Card 2: XXI - The World Reversed
Stagnation, Dissatisfaction and Discontent
The image on this card is also Biblical in origin, denoting the restoration of the world to the state of perfection lost by the fall of Adam and Eve. It is “a story of the past,” Waite writes, a time “when all was declared to be good, when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy”. In his commentary on the card, he hints that perfection has dwelled in the world all along, “unchanged – and indeed unchangeable”. It is not in the material world, he says but in the “consciousness of Divine Vision”, implying, perhaps, that it is through expanded consciousness that we come to know what we truly need to live well in the glory of the world.
Reversed, the World is upside down, bringing stagnation, dissatisfaction, and discontent through fear and resistance to growth and change.
Friction in Business Relationship
The Two of Wands reversed shows frustrated efforts in a business relationship to get a venture off the ground. There is friction involved in the project, perhaps signifying a difference of opinion, scattered energy, or an imbalance in the relationship, making forward movement impossible.
Card 4: Page of Swords Reversed
A Child who is Cunning and Selfish
The Page of Swords reversed shows a child with intelligence turned to cunning, selfishness, and a will to conquer without conscience or regret.
The Ace of Wands reversed indicates setbacks in making headway on new plans. A lack of determination in organization, funds, or human resources may slow or stop the new project altogether. Check the surrounding cards to look for the nature of the blockage.
The Strength card is one of the four cardinal virtues represented in the tarot deck. The Waite-Smith design engages the classical Renaissance personification of this virtue as a person with strength greater than the jaws of a lion.
Waite engages the familiar personification of justice as a woman who balances, on one hand, the sword of swift retribution and, on the other, the scales of equity. The only difference between this design and the classical motif is that Lady Justina is not blindfolded. She has eyes to see what truth is and what is just.
Justice shows a favorable outcome in some manner of contention, perhaps a legal issue, and justice has been served. It can also indicate equilibrium and balanced conditions, good judgment, and fair- mindedness.
Present Line
Temperance is the fourth card of the cardinal virtue set included in the parade of trumps. The iconography is highly traditional, showing a figure mixing water with wine for sobriety. However, sobriety has meanings that go beyond the commonplace usage of the term denoting not drunk. A great many choices and actions in life demand clear thinking and a sober respect for the gravity of the matter. Sobriety means awake and aware.
This card will show clear thinking, modesty, and moderation in a reading. It also suggests balance, carefulness, and calm. There is a right blend of emotion and intellect, leading to sober, thoughtful, and rational choices.
Card 2: Eight of Pentacles
Apprenticeship
New beginnings are made in the realm of career and work. The card can indicate a return to school or an opportunity to learn a new trade. The money might not be good at first, but the move is gratifying and brings contentment.
The emotional impact of the dramatic event depicted in Waite’s Tower card is immediate and shocking. Clearly, something has gone very wrong. A towering edifice topped by a gold regal crown is struck by lightning. The crown of the tower falls away, and flames descend, scattering people who fall haplessly through dense clouds of smoke. As an allusion to the story of Babel in the Book of Genesis, there is a universal teaching that warns of the risks of arrogance. People who live at lofty heights have a long way to fall down when they discover the limits of their own power. The awakening can be especially brutal for those who believe they are impervious and above the rest.
As the image suggests, the Tower card means catastrophe and sudden changes. The old order of life is breaking apart, and the questioner may well be in shock because these changes occur so suddenly without warning. This card denotes disruptions and unsettling shifts of circumstance. Sometimes, there is a bitter pill to swallow in the discovery that what was taken for granted, be it a relationship, a job, or even the truth of one’s own self was an illusion born of vanity and self-deception.
Card 4: The Empress
Fertility and Fruitfulness
The Empress is consort to the Emperor, wife, and most certainly a mother, as is the customary expectation in dynastic families. Thus, in the Waite- Smith design, the Empress is nestled in the images and symbols of feminine fertility: the wheat in the foreground is ripe; her shield bears the Ankh of Isis, a symbol of generation, and the waters of life flow at her side. The power the Empress commands is fruitfulness.
When the Empress is in a reading, the focus of the reading is opulence, fertility, and abundance. She can signify pregnancy, but that generative power can be extended to include fruitfulness in all its forms: the arts, business, learning – anything that can be nurtured, and it will grow prolifically when represented in the cards by the presence of the Empress.
Card 5: Page of Pentacles Reversed
The Page of Pentacles reversed reveals a child whose immaturity is expressed through rebelliousness, scattered energy, and unreasonable actions.
Card 6: Ten of Pentacles Reversed
Conflicts with Differences Between the Generations
The Ten of Pentacles suggests family conflicts with differences between the generations. There may be trouble with inheritances, risk of robbery, and possibly loss of family honor.
Card 7: Seven of Wands Reversed
String of Small Problems Must Be Resolved
The Seven of Wands reversed shows that a string of small problems must be faced and resolved to avoid awkward situations that result in loss of integrity. It may already be too late in that trust of a person may be in question.
Future Possibilities Line
Card 1: Ace of Swords Reversed
Confusion Through Angry Feelings
The Ace of Swords reversed shows confusion through agitated and angry feelings. There may be difficulty concentrating on new thought processes and a problem in finding the underlying cause because of someone’s inflexibility and belligerence.
Loss and Regret
The Five of Cups denotes devastating losses and difficulties getting past associated crushing disappointment. With two full cups, there is still something emotional involved, maybe regrets and certainly grief in the aftermath of separation, divorce, betrayal, death of a loved one, or loss of a friend.
A Man Who is an Authority Figure
Here is a man who wields considerable power and authority, often through the professions. He is beyond reproach and has a private corner in some areas of specialized knowledge. This is a man in charge, endowed with a formidable will and a sharp analytical mind.
Endings and Perhaps New Beginnings
The stark image of the Grim Reaper riding his high white horse over kings, pontiffs, and children alike is perhaps one of the most startling images of the Waite pack. But all is not what it seems: on the right-hand side of the card, an area designated east by map- making conventions, the sun rises between two pillars. It is morning, and from this, we understand that with death comes a new day. One situation ends, and in its wake, a new one begins. The card portrays the life/death/life cycles that result in the eternal renewal of nature. That which dies gives way to new life.
It tends to strike a note of terror, but the Death card in reading most usually signifies an ending that makes way for a new beginning. There can be sudden and drastic changes in home, marriage, work, lifestyle, and possibly even spiritual awareness, but the changes are ultimately for the best. Old circumstances die away, and in their wake, new ones arise. Death should never be predicted.
Card 5: XVII - The Star Reversed
Waite specifically refers to the star illustrated on the seventeenth trump card as the “Dog Star,” which is an ancient Egyptian appellation for Sirius – the brightest star in the night sky. The star was especially important to the Egyptians, who marked time in the annual cycles of planting and harvesting by the position of Sirius. In fact, as far back as 3000 B.C., the Egyptian calendar year started on the day Sirius rose just before the sun – an event that signaled the annual flooding of the Nile. Thus, the significance of the Star in conventional tarot interpretation is renewal.
Reversed promises a new cycle of growth, but the season is not right yet. Under these circumstances, it is best to remember that delays are not denials and that the new growth will come in good time.
The Chariot is the most ancient of vehicles, and all the great warriors of mythology gallantly rode them. The Chariot was forged for war; it is a war machine, and its rider is a General of war. The Waite-Smith design incorporates a great many arcane symbolisms, including the two sphinxes that pull the Chariot. These sphinxes are a polar pair, one black and white, and suggest that the commander victoriously commands power over two opposing forces.
The Chariot signifies conquest in the day-to-day battles of life. There is harnessed control and the ability to subdue two opposing forces. The Chariot shows winners in the day-to-day skirmishes of life. Travel may be an issue.
Need For Introspection and Careful Thought
A hooded figure on an icy night landscape gazes into his lantern. Lights and lanterns are, of course, objects of illumination, and it can be inferred from this image that the Hermit is intent on illumination: wisdom and knowledge.
This card denotes the need for careful thought and reflection. It can also indicate a voluntary retreat from the hustle and bustle of ordinary life to regroup and rethink. The Hermit card signifies aloneness, but meaningful solitude is unlike desperate loneliness. In aloneness, we can recharge our batteries and search our hearts and souls for the answers we need for life’s tough questions. Sometimes, we just need to rest and respite.
Future Line
When wishes come true, there is immense satisfaction and perhaps a hint of smugness. The cups are full in this situation, and a part of the pleasure is reveling in self-satisfaction.
Card 2: I - The Magician Reversed
Someone works without enough knowledge
The Magician stands before a table laden with icons of the four suits of the Tarot, representing four branches of human knowledge. He is a master of this knowledge, a sage with one hand pointing to heaven and the other to earth. He is grounded and firm in the knowledge that as it is above, it is below. He knows all the teachings and can perform miracles. The Magician is a personification of knowledge and mastery.
Reversed, the Magician tells us someone is working without enough knowledge or information: ignorance. Opportunities may be missed or ventures entered into blindly without full knowledge of the facts, and in day-to-day matters, important facts may be inadvertently or deliberately withheld, causing complications and difficulties.
Card 3: II - The High Priestess
Pay Attention to Your Intuition
The High Priestess is a classical feminine figure representing the gateway to the knowledge possessed by the Magician. In Judaism, she is Shekinah and Sophia to the Greeks. In the postmodern West, the High Priestess serves as a personification of hidden knowledge and intuition. She sits between two pillars, one black, representing evil, and one white, representing good, and holds a scroll that contains valuable information about both, and since she knows both, she can speak the truth.
The High Priestess signals the need to pay attention to the inner voice and to act on gut feelings, premonitions, and intuitive sense. What is perceived is correct, even though the source of the information is as wispy as a hunch, and it should be acted on. The message reads: listen to the inner voice for the right guidance.
Hard work and persistent effort have paid off, bringing satisfactory material rewards. Now is the time to stop and take stock of the situation before jumping into action again.
The Four of Cups shows the refusal of a person to accept the help offered by others. He withdraws, discontentedly, to view what is happening around him, determined to make it on his own.
This card depicts states of anguished misery, whether real or imagined. The pain experienced is paralyzing, and the ability to function is severely compromised. The despair can be caused by guilt or feelings of inadequacy.
This card shows a bright and clever child who is sometimes given to restlessness. He has a lot of energy and is learning the discipline to channel it consistently.
My Interpetation
Past Line
I see one man and one teenager in the past line. This man is a reversed King of Pentacles and is miserly and unfeeling. He has treated others around him as objects and tools for his own gain. I think that the gain he was looking at was money that changed hands was because of dubious dealings. Some took advantage of someone else for financial gain. The Questioner was prepared for the attack and has handled the cycle of glitches, delays, and complications brought on by this man. The end of the line shows a young or immature person who was in love with love and whom I am guessing is the Questioner.
General Atmosphere Line
There are three people in this line: two teens or immature adults and one child. One of the teens is supportive of the Questioner and one of the teens is not. I believe the issue is that the Questioner is being judged harshly because he/she is not being accountable for their actions. There is conflict and losses because of this. The one knight wants to help her be accountable as that is what the young people need at the moment. He rushes to help the others and help them to see this realistically and knows that this is what they need to be set free of the bondage they feel. The first Knight encourages the second Knight to turn his life around, to get a job, any job even if he is not making a lot of money, at least he will find satisfaction. The child is a page, who is gentle and sweet- natured. He possesses a deep introspective nature, and a capacity to be sensitive to others. Working together, they can overcome things in their lives now.
Outer Influences Line
There are three Major Arcana in this line which means that someone who is not known to the Questioner is making a decision that will affect the way the Questioner will make their future decisions. There are two people in this line and both are reversed which means that neither are supportive to the Questioner. This could be an immature man who is careless and needs to be more practical with financial resources. This person is discontented as they refuse to grow and change. He is unable to get a business relationship off the ground. It somehow involved a child and a new start that is not going to go well. The intelligent child is cunning and selfish with a will to conquer without conscience or regret. It will take a lot of Inner fortitude and strength to get the relationship going the right direction. Justice will prevail but not after a lot of work. No sign of spirits in the reading.
Present Line
There are three Major Arcana in this line which means that someone known to the Questioner is making a decision that will affect the way the Questioner will make their future decisions. There is a child in this line but I don’t know if this child is the person making the decision. It has something to do first with clear thinking followed by a sudden disaster. It has something to do with a new start in a career. There are wishes for someone to be more fruitful and that seems to be attached to the child. The child is a rebellious child who is scattering their energy. There are conflicts between the generations. The Seven of Wands reversed shows that a string of small problems must be faced and resolved to avoid awkward situations that result in loss of integrity. It may already be too late in that trust of a person may be in question.
Possibilities for Future Line
There are 4 Major Arcana cards in this line which means someone is making a decision that will affect the way the Questioner makes theirs. It appears that a man is involved in this. The man is Man Who is an Authority Figure, one who wields considerable power and authority, often through the professions. He is beyond reproach and has a private corner in some areas of specialized knowledge. He has a sharp analytical mind. The issue involved is one of starting over and drastic changes in home, marriage, work and lifestyle. The season is not quite right for a cycle of new growth. Somehow travel is connected with these changes and the feeling that this man needs to be alone to get the answers he needs for life tough questions. He needs rest and respite to think about things.
Future Line
Someone is awfully smug about something but he is without enough knowledge to make important decisions. He must rely on his intuition as he can’t see all that is happening. He must take stock and see what is actually going on before making plans. He will refuse help, determined to make it on his own. He will feel paralyzed and his ability to function will be severely compromised. He will suffer feelings of despair caused by guilt and feelings of inadequacy. This has something to do with a bright child, one that is restless. That child has a lot of energy and is learning to discipline it consistently.