The Tarot reading for August 18th, 2012 through August 24th, 2012 encourages you to display your own independence. If you can do this, you can achieve a higher level of understanding and the rewards that go along with it.
Card 1: Queen of Swords — You need to be independent. Empathy may distract you, so try thinking with your head instead of your heart. Concentrate on your situation or the sheer volume of information could overwhelm you.
Card 2: Page of Pentacles — Ignoring emotion, intuition, and imagination could block your progress. But being frivolous will gain you nothing. Balance both your impractical nature and the practicality of logical thought.
Card 3: Strength — It's a good idea to find a balance between your spirituality and your carnal desires. If you can do this, you may find the courage to move forward despite your fear of the unknown.
Card 4: Four of Swords — Your ability to recognize the value of seclusion, detachment, and retreat is important just now. To can accomplish great things in little time if you practice just a little more detachment. If you want to rid yourself of stress and anxiety, look within yourself for strength, for you will not find it without.
Card 5: The Empress — Your ability to respond creatively to life's challenges has brought you success in the past. Because of this, your current situation is entirely of your own making. But the influence of creativity may be waning, forcing you to find other ways to solve your problems.
Card 6: Nine of Pentacles — You will soon be able to exercise your independence. You will come to know abundance, increasing your wealth, health, and possibly your waistline. A love of nature, or someone who loves nature, may be intimately involved.
Card 7: The Chariot — Be determined, brace, and self-confident throughout the situation. Focus on the goal at hand until your victory is won. Show that you love the journey as much as the destination and your path to victory will open up before you.
Card 8: Ten of Wands — Others see you as having a lot of irons in the fire. They know you are stressed and overworked, and they know that you've spread yourself too thin. They can also see that you may not have the energy to get through this, and are just waiting for you to ask for help.
Card 9: Ten of Cups — You may hope to be considered successful by yourself and others, but may fear that this will not come to pass. You might also fear success, or at least the price you must pay to have it. But fearing a thing only causes you to avoid it, so try not to fear your own success.
Card 10: The World — You will soon attain a degree of achievement and understanding that enables you to graduate to a higher level and enjoy the rewards. These rewards will be physical, mental, and spiritual in nature, so savor this time in your life. You have earned the rewards you have gained.
The Tarot reading
for August 11, 2012 through August 17, 2012 warns you to focus on the now. If you can do this, you stand a very good chance of celebrating a victory with family and friends.
Card 1: Eight of
Pentacles — You need to approach the situation as if you were crafting a delicate piece of art. Study the subject, learn as you go, and attend to every detail. Also try hard to avoid perfectionism, for nothing is truly perfect. Don't think about results or rewards, but live in the moment.
Card 2: Justice — Truth, or sometimes the lack of it, can blog progress. Problem with balance, agreements, law, or even an agent of the law may interfere. Dishonesty and vengeance won't get you anywhere, but neither will honesty and fairness. Play it save and don't volunteer any information.
Card 3: Four of Wands — It is a good idea to celebrate and give thanks for your good fortune. Don't take it for granted, but don't forget to partake of the sweetness around you while you're being thankful. Good fortune is everywhere, if you only choose to look for it.
Card 4: Ace of Cups — Crucial to your situation is your ability to give and receive uncontitional love and to really know joy. Experience or recapture the feelings that arise when love is in its infancy. You should also deal with the needs of your loved ones before they become true problems.
Card 5: Nine of Pentacles — In the past, you might have seen the benefits of being self-reliant and healthy. If you did not apply what you learned, time was wasted. Your independence rests on what you learned. Ecological concerns or those of a nature lover may be waning, but should not be forgotten.
Card 6: Eight of Cups — You may soon be required to be more aware of the physical, mental, or emotional sacrifices that are or will soon become involved in the present situation. A more worthy cause or diection may have to be found. Also, you must take the time to heal from past hurts.
Card 7: Three of Wands — You are surrounded by opportunities, both obvious and hidden. Do not expect these opportunities to show up when you want them to. Keep your eyes open and be ready to grasp them when they do, for they will be fleeting. Regardless, it is time to advance your own position.
Card 8: The Tower — Progressives see you as a champion of what is exciting and revolutionary. You seem unafraid of change. Conservatives see you as wild, dangerous, and disruptive. They may fear that you are trying to destroy what they treasure most in life.
Card 9: Ten of Cups — You may hope to be considered successful, both by yourself and by others, but you fear that you may not. You may fear that if you do attain success, the price for that success will be too high. You may fear, or fear for, a successful person.
Card 10: Three of Cups — There will be the opportunity to celebrate with those you care about and to feel filled with gratitude for life's gifts. There may be something wonderful to celebrate. Sharing faith, hope, and charity may hearten all concerned and pave the way for future successes.
The Tarot reading for July 28, 2012 through August 3, 2012 warns you to be studious and focus on the moment. In the end, you should get what you deserve, though this may not necessarily be what you want.
Card 1: Eight of Pentacles — Approach the week like a skilled crafts person would. Study the situation, learn on the job, and attend to all details with both love and skill. But don't try to be perfect and don't think about the end results or the possible rewards you'll reap.
Card 2: Kind of Wands — The dynamics of the situation are getting in the way. But if you can find a way to utilize your own strengths, weaknesses, and logic correctly, you'll find a way to muddle through. Keep your eye on the bottom line and be aware that a dynamic or overbearing person may be the source of the problem.
Card 3: The Hierophant — It would be a good idea to seek the blessings and approval of your family and the established social order in which you operate. Before you do this, visualize them all approving and supporting your efforts in the current situation as they realize the many ways in which your actions can have positive results.
Card 4: Four of Cups — Crucial to your situation is your ability to reevaluate things and deal with a possible change in perspective. Distractions must be avoided. Also take care not to succumb to the fear of what the outcome of the process of reevaluation may produce. Avoid moaning over what you cannot change and try to widen your perspective.
Card 5: Five of Cups — A disappointment that may have caused the rejection or someone or something is now affecting the present situation. If you can see how this is so, you can finally put it behind you. If not, try not to let the past intrude on the present. You can resolve your feelings later.
Card 6: Queen of Swords — You will soon have to deal with someone who is an independent thinker who sees ideas and information as powers to be used. This person may be you. Sympathy will be lacking, so be careful that loneliness does not turn your strength into rigidity, tactlessness, or prudishness.
Card 7: Two of Cups — You are surrounded by the change to know the clear, nurturing, supportive, and heartfelt emotional exchange that is the mark of a good relationship. This relationship could be romantic, but it could easily be a familial or business relationship instead.
Card 8: Nine of Pentacles — Others see you as independent and self-reliant and natural person, though they may also think you are a little out of touch. You seem to be an abundant source of ideas and inspiration, but your ideas may not always meet the needs of others.
Card 9: Ace of Cups — You would like to give and receive love unconditionally, but fear you lack the ability. The opportunity to love comes to us all in a variety of ways. Love is not a weakness but a strength. You may fear, or fear for, a lover or close friend.
Card 10: Justice — You should get what you deserve, but it may not be exactly what you had hoped for. Agreements may be made and upheld. There may be a rebalancing on all levels of your life, including financial and legal matters. Truth and justice will eventually prevail.
The Tarot reading for July 21, 2012 through July 27, 2012 indicates that luck will be as important as anything this week. And everything may not turn out as you hoped. So be cautious as you navigate your week.
Card 1: Wheel of Fortune — You need to rely on luck as much as skill. Maybe even more so. Luck usually comes when opportunity, preparation, and skill meet. Devote yourself to understanding cycles and timing if you want to get ahead.
Card 2: Ten of Pentacles — Protection or lack of it is getting in the way, keeping you from important life lessons. You are wounded and must heal, but this usually means doing it on your own. An overprotective person might be the problem. Step back and give yourself some space.
Card 3: The Empress — The blessing and support of a nurting, unconditionally loving, and maternal figure would be of great help right now. See the essence of this card giving you love, peace, security, beauty, and creativity. You'll need this in the week to come.
Card 4: Two of Swords — Crucial to your situation is taking a break. Not from life but from your usual ways of thinking and doing. Consider alternative ideas and viewpoints. Diplomacy and a measure of compromise can help achieve balance and harmony.
Card 5: Seven of Pentacles — In the past, feelings of frustration, impotence, and ingratitude plagued you. If you learned to appreciate what you have, you might not be so frustrated. The influences that keep you set in your ways might be waning.
Card 6: Knight of Swords — You will either encounter or become an ingenious, clever, and outspoken person who is not afraid to fight for what you believe in. But be aware that frustrated plans may become the source of aggression if you don't keep control of yourself.
Card 7: Four of Swords — You are surrounded by an air of calm detachment. Forces may be pushing you toward seclusion, allowing you to examine your thoughts and feelings without distractions or unnecessary stress. A strategic withdrawal may be the best thing in this situation.
Card 8: Strength — Others seem to view you as strong, courageous, and kind. You seem to have conquered your fears and weaknesses, at least to someone looking at you from the outside. But this facade may not be in your own best interests.
Card 9: Page of Pentacles — You hope you can learn or teach something useful and practical, but you fear that it simply will not happen. You may fear digging in and doing some hard work, and you may fear new ideas. But these things aren't all bad.
Card 10: Ten of Swords — Yo umay encounter a situation where the worse possible outcome is your reality. The hopes and dreams you'd spent such time cultivating are gone. If you can't deal with what is, consider seeking some real help to get your life in order.
