I finally went to my friend Avigail’s Tarot class Saturday afternoon. It’s run by Rachel Pollack, who has written about 20 books and is one the most well known tarot experts in the country (along with Mary Greer). They were kind enough to do a spread for me about my daughter—with these really cool transparent plastic cards which enable you to see how the cards look on top of each other.
I got mostly pentacles and swords cards (can’t remember the exact names) but it was very interesting. My daughter loves to swing sticks and is enamored of weapons like swords. Pentacles are the practical, down to earth cards, and the consensus was that she and her father and stepmother were the swords and I was the pentacles. In the first card I was holding out a pentacle in a supplicating posture, representing how I don’t stand up to my daughter, I try to “buy” her with things which doesn’t work.
As the reading progressed my cards got stronger. My figure finally stood up to offer the pentacles. In another two characters were facing each other each with a sword—connoting me finally standing up to my daughter. In another a knight of swords, a small, sneaky knight, was trying to cut off my head when his card was put on top of mine. I interpreted this as my ex trying to undermine our relationship, as usual. He’s not going to change. In another a figure was standing behind fence of swords, with a small opening in the middle, interpreted as my daughter still fencing me off, but leaving a small opening for me or her to pass through.
The cards I liked best were ones with the king of pentacles and another with a queen of swords reversed, which for sure was my daughter’s wicked stepmother. I was the king of pentacles. The queen of swords had black hair and looked evil, just like her. But when the cards were laid on top of each other, the king was vanquishing the queen, which everyone interpreted as me finally triumphing over her. The reading was for this year by the way.
If you believe in this stuff, and why not, it can give you all kinds of insights into your situation. I hope the reading had some veracity. I’ll report back.