The Reading

Knight of Pentacles, Nine of Wands, Ten of Pentacles

She asked a question. Silently. I only have cards to answer.

I draw three cards.

Knight of Pentacles.

Nine of Wands.

Ten of Pentacles.

A familiar spread.

Steady work.

Persistence.

Completion.

I could give that. I will sound like a common place. She came for mystery. For divination.

Let’s try something else.

Suppose we begin at the other end.

Ten of Pentacles.

There are many.

No, not “wealth.”

Just…

many.

The picture is full of relationships.

The old man.

The child.

The couple.

The dogs.

Many.

…

The next card.

Nine of Wands.

The many have not really disappeared.

They are still there.

Not reduced.

Held as one.

Enclosed many as one.

That points to what she needs — to consolidate her surroundings through her own self. The overview. She needs to look from above and see the overview.

…

The Knight.

Only one remains.

Or perhaps only one is being looked at.

The rider is not looking at the road.

He is looking at one thing.

…

Why is it important that she has an overview? If I say overview, she would feel that I am fishing for clues.

If the middle card disappears.

Without the middle card the movement changes.

The many become one.

No.

That isn’t right.

The many become…

one selected thing.

That isn’t the same.

Something would be missing to explain how one can become many — or how many focuses on one and does not see the road he is on. She needs to disclose details to Tarot, because without that middle card that encloses, we encounter a discontinuity.

I will say to her that a measure of her reality uses something she has focused everything on. And we need to know it. She will give me that scalar.

I tell her that before we apply the lenses to see where it stands in her life, we need to have an overview. We enclose the situation by seeing it as one.

Once she gives me those details, I would be able to point to how wonderful her life would be ahead — wealth, relationships, whatever I find out from her. That would be good for her. It is good for anyone. Positive attitude is a beautiful operator.

Thank you, Tarot, for showing me how to approach this reading.

I love you)

The After

1

Leibniz searched for a universal symbolic language.

2

Pythagoras searched for harmony expressed through number.

3

Notation was a way of encountering the mystery of reality through a structure one can hold on to.