05/26/25 The Monday Blueprint: Dreams of puddles made of sky. A tarot spread that ends with Death. Also, my kid wrecked the car and the market’s dancing in parachute pants.
From your description I can tell you have a Rider-Waite deck. I've read Tarot cards since I was 16 although these days it's few and far between.
A thought on the Death card. In my preferred deck, Death looms in the foreground on a road where a baby crawls off if the distance. Traditionally the Death card can mean actual Death but it often, in my experience, means the more metaphorical death of something big in your life to make room for something new. Like the end of an important relationship, job or maybe a big shift in perception. Something is dying/ending to make way for something big and important in your life. I think that interpretation fits in with the rest of your spread as well. Just wanted to geek out about Tarot and the many nuanced meanings the cards can have 😊
Hell yes! Thank you for geeking out with me. Something about the baby crawling off in the distance hits pretty hard. And yeah, I get the metaphorical death. I get that totally, and maybe wish that was the case for this spread. I mean, your read fits pretty beautifully, especially coming off that reversed Knight of Swords--less sprinting toward the grave, more crawling toward the sacred?
The draw I did last night, though, was The Tower. And I'm rather new to all of this tarot stuff so I've just been kinda staring at that card for a while. It was a 5-card spread where the 5th card held the intention of a secret tool I keep forgetting that I have.
You said you've been reading since you were 16, but not so much now? Any reason why so few and far between? It's been kind of a weird thing for me to even think about or consider, totally against anything I actually believe in. Yet here I am. Throwing cards. Listening, pausing in a way I never have.
I started learning in High School and really got into it heavily in college, peaking in my early to mid twenties. Once I had my daughter though I put them down and sort of lost my mojo. It's like I was so inundated with the mundane that I lost my spiritualism. I've never really stopped, always pulling short spreads before school pick up or during naps but now my kids are teenagers and I have time again to explore if I want.
Oof, The Tower. That's my least favorite Major Arcana. It usually means some major shit is coming for you BUT the fall out is needed and freeing. If I did my cards right now I bet I'd get The Tower in the past position having just recently gone through losing an institution/relationship in my life that was super important to me. Just like the lightning strike in the card, BAM! No more thing I cared about. But honestly, that relationship wasn't serving me anymore so as much as that hurt, it's probably for the best.
From your description I can tell you have a Rider-Waite deck. I've read Tarot cards since I was 16 although these days it's few and far between.
A thought on the Death card. In my preferred deck, Death looms in the foreground on a road where a baby crawls off if the distance. Traditionally the Death card can mean actual Death but it often, in my experience, means the more metaphorical death of something big in your life to make room for something new. Like the end of an important relationship, job or maybe a big shift in perception. Something is dying/ending to make way for something big and important in your life. I think that interpretation fits in with the rest of your spread as well. Just wanted to geek out about Tarot and the many nuanced meanings the cards can have 😊
Hell yes! Thank you for geeking out with me. Something about the baby crawling off in the distance hits pretty hard. And yeah, I get the metaphorical death. I get that totally, and maybe wish that was the case for this spread. I mean, your read fits pretty beautifully, especially coming off that reversed Knight of Swords--less sprinting toward the grave, more crawling toward the sacred?
The draw I did last night, though, was The Tower. And I'm rather new to all of this tarot stuff so I've just been kinda staring at that card for a while. It was a 5-card spread where the 5th card held the intention of a secret tool I keep forgetting that I have.
You said you've been reading since you were 16, but not so much now? Any reason why so few and far between? It's been kind of a weird thing for me to even think about or consider, totally against anything I actually believe in. Yet here I am. Throwing cards. Listening, pausing in a way I never have.
I started learning in High School and really got into it heavily in college, peaking in my early to mid twenties. Once I had my daughter though I put them down and sort of lost my mojo. It's like I was so inundated with the mundane that I lost my spiritualism. I've never really stopped, always pulling short spreads before school pick up or during naps but now my kids are teenagers and I have time again to explore if I want.
Oof, The Tower. That's my least favorite Major Arcana. It usually means some major shit is coming for you BUT the fall out is needed and freeing. If I did my cards right now I bet I'd get The Tower in the past position having just recently gone through losing an institution/relationship in my life that was super important to me. Just like the lightning strike in the card, BAM! No more thing I cared about. But honestly, that relationship wasn't serving me anymore so as much as that hurt, it's probably for the best.