Greetings of the season to the friends of Iris X Readings! Today, I am working with The Slow Tarot by Lacey Bryant. One of my friends who is a fortune teller (Drew Clark) helped to inspire the cards into creation. I love the little details. For example- the suit of cups is represented by tea cups. If you pay attention, there are all kinds of tea cups from plain to more ornate. I was told that the artist spent a great deal of time looking at tea cups when she was creating the suit of cups! The Slow Tarot is beautiful and whimsical all at once. I love the style, feeling, and colors. Tarot is a living entity- growing and changing all of the time. I love seeing the different expressions of cards and truly believe that the entity of Tarot grows with our focus and attention. I shuffled the cards and asked for a reading for someone who will see this post. It is for someone who is having a hard time. We often get pushed into light activities in the season of dark. All instincts say to stay warm and inside and the world around us tells us to shun the dark and to go out and be social! I believe in working with the dark instead of turning away from it. For the person that this reading is for, there may be a need to do exactly that. Read on- see if it's for you! And make sure to go to the subscribe page on the webpage too. It's a crazy world out there and it's hard to know what will happen. I want to make sure you all know how to find me.
The reading begins with the Five of Cups. showing a scene of loss and heartache. If this is your reading, something is broken that cannot be fixed. You have lost something that you feel lost without. While there are things in your life that are still upright and not broken, your focus is on what has been lost. It is understandable, and it is important to mourn the loss that is in front of you. Even if you try to ignore it, the sadness will overwhelm you at times. It's ok to feel sad and stuck right now- even while the world tells you to be cheerful and grateful. Feel your feelings instead. It's not up to you to make other people feel better right now.
The Eight of Swords appears next. You feel trapped and like you cannot get out of a painful predicament that you are in. It is not a good place to be, and you don't know how to remove yourself. You know that you need to go, but you keep finding reasons that you have to stay. You feel like you are powerless and you can't see a way forward. But this card speaks to finding your power. There is nothing that is keeping you in your trap except for your thoughts right now. You may be ruminating about something or blaming yourself. You may be replaying small details and feeling like you made a mistake. You are trapped. But you can get out.
Strength is your next card. You are more powerful than you think you are. You can survive quite a lot and have proven to be resilient. You are connected and held by a community that helps you to stay strong. From people to animals to plants- you are able to access great resources of power through your connections and relationships. There is a lot that is holding you up- and that includes you. You are still standing and moving forward despite feeling completely heartbroken and trapped. You have a lot of power in you, and you will make it through this time.
The Queen of Cups is the key in this reading. You are kind, compassionate and gentle. You are a sensitive soul that feels everything, for better or worse. You have great love for the people around you, and when someone is lost it is very hard on you. You are not one of those people who can effectively avoid your feelings or put them to the side. You are truly led by the heart- and your heart is the key to the situation that you are in. You can't sidestep the emotions that you have- you will have to walk straight into this. Your heart needs to heal- but first you have to let yourself experience the sadness and pain that you are in. The Queen of Cups feels everything- and the good news is that this awareness of your heart is what will help you to make it through this grieving time a lot faster.
Here's what I see. If this is your reading, you are completely heartbroken right now. It feels like everything is falling apart and you are stuck staring down at what is lost. You feel a great absence in your life, and it is breaking your heart. You may be blaming yourself for something, or getting stuck in a pattern of thinking that is causing you to feel worse than you already do. You feel like you can't move forward but that you don't have a choice right now. You are powerful and resilient (though you might hate that you have had to be), and you will push through to the other side in this situation. Take stock of your relationships right now- they are your strength. Spend time with your people and pets and let the connections with them grow the power that is inside of you. Think of it like a candle inside of you that grows with contact with close loved friends and family. You have been having a hard time- it may be time to let other people share their light with you. You will do the same for them when they need it. Be kind to yourself. Become the Queen of the heart- able to manage any emotional situation. Give yourself grace to make it through a painful loss. Don't push yourself to move fast- the Queen of Cups needs to feel her emotions; there is no way around it. Know that you will also feel Good again too. As the Queen of Cups, you can feel the extremes of the spectrum. While you are heartbroken right now, and feeling that with serious intensity- when something really good happens, you will feel the positive energy of that just as strongly. I would tell you to stay strong; but it appears that you have not had a choice to be anything but strong. Hang in there with the ones you love and make you feel empowered and comfortable. The tides will turn, just make sure you know when to move so that the sea doesn't take you in. You could go either way in this reading. It's still unseen. You may get trapped into thinking really hard things and making yourself feel worse by the day. You could also find the power that you have and count on the relationships that empower and support you. Just make sure that you are kind to yourself. Your heart is on the outside right now and you are feeling like everything is affecting you.
If you need a reading this week, I have some availability towards the end of the week! Send a message to irisxtarot@gmail.com.
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