I’ve been too busy to post my weekly tarot card reading until now, but we are heading into an extremely important weekend for many people, so I wanted to offer readings for the weekend. Let me know if you’d like a card to inspire you! My card reminds me to keep moving forward, even if there are hurdles. So true!!
Four of Cups
Traditional meaning:
If you’re feeling stuck, it’s time to look around you at the routines you’ve created. Take action to break out of your cycles. Step outside your worn-in-the-dirt ruts.
The alternative is there already. The options are there. You just need to shake yourself loose of your patterns and experiment.
Take a risk. Try a new path.
Also, give thought to those around you who may be holding you back. Realize that their views reflect their own limitations. Take the step to separate their views from your own path in life. Find the way to say “Thank you for your thoughts. Now I am going to follow my dream, my own way.” It is a valuable skill to learn which will serve you well throughout your life.
Aquarian Deck Interpretation:
The person is not joyful. They are contemplative, perhaps with a bit of despondence, while looking at these three lovely wooden cups they have. The cups are nice, but apparently not nice enough for what the person wants.
The person doesn’t even notice that the heavens – the world – is freely giving them yet another cup. A tree is growing, leaves are blooming, and a cup is being handed to them. The gift even seems to have energy to it. “Here! Take this! It’s yours!”
But the person doesn’t see the gift. The person is lost in their own view of their circumstance. Even the world in this scene is a completely blank slate. It’s as if the outer world of landscapes and people and opportunities don’t exist.
The person needs to truly open their eyes to all the opportunities out there. To see all the amazing choices our world has to offer them.
Cloister Deck Interpretation:
I know this is odd, because clearly the Aquarian cup is coming out of a cloud, but somehow I feel the Cloister deck is much more in-your-face about a Holy Grail Descending From Above almost in a Monty Python sort of way. I’m not sure I’m keen on that. The person seems to pondering in a frustrated way rather than of quiet contemplation. But the colors here are much more vibrant with the blue sky and green grass, making it more clear that the world really is a good one and the person is simply not seeing it.
Hanson-Roberts Deck Interpretation:
IN this version, there is definitely sad poignancy on the part of the main character. They have beautifully polished gold cups but they are treated as unimportant. We once again have a Monty Python-esque ‘cup from the heavens’ which I’m not keen on. Still, the sense is there of needing to open one’s eyes.
Tarot of the Divine Deck Interpretation:
The Nightingale / Denmark / Danish Folk Tale – This was written in Denmark but set in China. This isn’t a folk tale, in the ‘ancient passed down’ sense, but a deliberately written tale by Hans Christian Anderson about his unrequited love for the singer Jenny Lind. In any case, in the tale a Chinese Emperor loves the song of the nightingale. He’s given a mechanical one and decides he likes that better, so the real bird flies back to the forest. Eventually the fake one breaks, the Emperor collapses, and the real bird flies back to sing to him and save him. The Emperor gets better.
I’m not sure this relates at all to the topic at hand. Maybe the message is, if you’ve gotten yourself addicted to a fake bird, and it breaks, stop mourning the loss of the fake bird. Wake up and look around at the reality all around you 
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