THE TAROT AND ORACLES IN GENERAL can be a fantastic way to get through the shock and anxiety of a sudden, unwanted event. It need not be complicated or hard work. This is a way to use my website and all its different cards to find a way through and out of a problem. To find advice to lean on.
I have quite a few website visitors coming for answers, at any one time. Today I had over 14,000 comments in the queue. Some people want personal readings. I rarely offer these, unless they are for a charity auction. The Guardian wrote about the last one.
Reading For Yourself
A solid alternative is to read for yourself, using the three digitally shuffled card decks I have set up for Premium Members. I do this for friends.
I suggest just going in with one question: “What is happening to me right now?” and read The Smith-Waite Tarot, The Garden Oracle and The Astrology Oracle in unison. They will give you three angles on the same story. The story will be in cinemascope - big. With a little time you will be able to see what you need to tell yourself. There will be a connecting thread.
The Reader Whose Dog Killed a Cat
I had a reader whose partner was near the end of his life. They both needed to update their will. It was very difficult for both of them to face.
On the same day, her dog killed a neighbour’s purebred pedigree cat, which had got into their garden, because they left their gate open. Not her fault.
She was confronted by the angry family and their friends next door, including an old man, with a walking stick and a vicious temper. He threatened to shoot her dog. A hostile group.
She threw money at the problem of the dead cat and gave them a gift voucher from a garden centre. It was all she could do.
The Moon and the Eighth House
Using The Astrology Oracle, I drew Moon and Eighth House for her. This is the will. The Moon is mothering, caring, nurturing, protecting. The Eighth House is joint finances, and it is associated with legacies. I am sure you can see the immediate message: facing the reality of death (partners, cats) and how it affects values and the life budget.
Drilling Down Into Different Oracles
Using two or three divination systems together is a really good idea as it helps you go deeply into what ails you; what troubles you - and how to get through it. The dead cat and the need for a legacy or will, shows a brush with mortality and the fated, unavoidable nature of things. It also makes it plain. When cats or people die, for whatever reason, money is often under discussion. Sometimes it can be a large vet’s bill and the cost of a pet cemetery. With people, for obvious reasons, property comes into it!
The Garden Oracle
Cleansing from The Garden Oracle doesn’t make much sense unless you realise that it is part of post-death. Once something or someone goes, there must be a clean-up. The space must be purified. Nature usually takes care of that. We pursue cremation, or burial. I hope you can see how the cards are coming together to show the same film, in a life. There is a big message here about the need to clean up after someone has gone (or something). To try and clear the air, if there is a bad atmosphere, emotionally or literally.
The Smith-Waite Tarot and the Truth
The Garden Oracle gives an organic, natural spin on your life - your crisis. It is very close to nature. The Astrology Oracle shows you the horoscope house and horoscope factor (often a planet) which gives you the angle from the heavens. It is amazing how often the house/factor will line up with your own chart at the time.
This happened with my reader. She had the South Node in Scorpio transiting her Eighth House, and the South Node is a lunar (Moon) node. She also had Jupiter in her Eighth House, natally. It pays to check your chart!
Reading the Picture Deeply
The Smith-Waite Tarot tells the truth. At first glance this card is not about death or cleansing - at least until you realise you have a casualty here. Someone whom, for all we know, could be concussed or have a brain tumour and so be closer to death than he knows. Reading the picture deeply, helps.
There is a hostile group here, shown by the assorted wands. A range of opinions. The man is suspicious, paranoid, resentful, likely in pain. He should really be in hospital. The vicious old man in the group of people next door came to mind. He had not been well. No, not at all. Perhaps he was also near the end; it happens. The larger message here is - Life’s too short!
What Do You Make Of This Reading?
What do you make of this reading? The cards are all ‘present’ and catch a moment in time. The ‘now’ of a stressful or difficult situation. Yet, from the ‘now’ can come suggestions for tomorrow, the next day and the day after that. Ways to make things better, which was always the intention of Pamela Colman Smith and Arthur E. Waite, who created the Smith-Waite Tarot.
I created The Garden Oracle and The Astrology Oracle for the same reason. There is usually an expanding message when you use all three cards. My reader was on the verge of making one of the biggest financial decisions of her life: her legacy to her partner, and his to her.
Something obvious? Death is hard and money can remove guilt. She gave a generous voucher from a garden centre because she felt bad about her dog. Death can result in legacies which also seek to remove guilt in a life. Again - cleansing.
Fated Moments and Particular Questions
The dead cat arrived at a fated time, to trigger particular questions - that may ultimately be a lot more important in her future, than the initial shock of the neighbours. There may also be questions for the neighbours themselves. Perhaps the old man got them thinking! Death makes people angry. A legacy or will can do that. The neighbours were careless about their gate: an animal died. People can be careless about risks to life when they need to pay attention. Think of COVID-19 and the casual way some people treat that risk.
Mixing up the cards like this can be useful in revealing a greater symbolic truth. What could possibly be the connection between making a will; having your dog kill a cat; dealing with an invalid? Something broke through for her!
Three-Way Readings and You
I could show you so many example of these three-way readings. But try it. Move through the shock or trauma of crisis into the point and purpose of it. There always is one. The Tarot and oracles can help you decode it.
You can try Premium Membership at my website for a month, for six months or a year. The shorter version of the Smith-Waite Tarot is free, thanks to the generosity of the late Stuart R. Kaplan and U.S. Games Systems. It’s here.
My crisis reading - re my partner’s long term ex who always seems in the background
Three swords 😳
Money woman - she’s Taurus, wealthy, successful, unhappily married
Venus 12 - she and my partner communicate via email
Our relationship now - we have been rebuilding the last two years after a year of estrangement
Two cups
Recycling relationships
Prosperina 7 - my prosperina is exact his Pluto at 29 Leo
Brilliant article. As always, Jess! ❤️