Tarot Card Reading: 12 September, Virgo 2015

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Happy Saturday, Sault Ste. Marie! As always, we've got a lot happening, and if you choose to spend some of your Saturday with us, we'll be delighted to see you here. For today's Tarot card reading, I'm responding to an anonymous seeker who asks,

Like you, I'm a Tarot reader. I've followed a very strict interpretation of the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot for years, but lately I've found that I don't interpret it the same way anymore. I want to continue reading Tarot, but the system I've used for so long doesn't "speak" to me anymore. What's the beef? Should I push through this block, or is there a deeper message to be had?

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Hello, Seeker; and thanks for trusting me to look into this for you. From one reader to another, I absolutely understand where you're coming from. Without even looking at the cards, I can relate to your experience - this sort of thing happens to every reader. Like you said, sometimes it's just a matter of powering through some other stress or obstacle happening around you. And then, sometimes it's because your world-view, or the paradigm through which you understand your life, shifts so radically that the vocabulary in your cards no longer matches the language you're speaking. 

Having said that, though, I think there's a lot more to your particular system that you've yet to discover. I know how that sounds - if you've spent years learning and practicing the ins and outs of a particular method of divination, then you should have it all by now - and yet, I think there's more to be had.

And the reason for this isn't because your method of divination is hiding secrets from you. I think it's because you haven't truly applied yourself. If you disagree, then tell me I'm wrong - I promise it won't hurt my feelings - what I see here is that your dominant focus isn't the solving of problems, but the forgetting of problems. You can't plug your ears and say "la la la" until the root of this problem just vanishes. Are you aware of what the real issue is? I think you might be missing it.

Precisely, you're missing that your particular method of divination has a lot more to offer you because you haven't dug deep enough to find it. To be perfectly blunt, I think you haven't applied yourself to the scholarly pursuit of the history of your system of divination. If you investigate what informed the thinking of Arthur Edward Waite, I think your Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot deck will take on an entirely different attitude for you. Your relationship with the cards will become intense and full of vitality. In a word, you'll rediscover the life you feel like you've lost.

But all of this only comes from your own effort. The cards, of course, are only paper. You are the living and breathing person who has the ability to decide to truly invest yourself into this practice. If you're a responsible student, you'll find that the study of the cards beyond the study of the cards (if you see my meaning) produces far greater rewards than you had anticipated.