Trends
In a reading sometimes certain trends appear in the cards and in general they will correspond to whatever is trending in your life at the current moment. They can help guide the direction of a reading and make the narrative a little clearer.
If a reading is predominantly…
Swords the cards are trying to paint a picture of a time of strife or struggle.
Cups the cards are trying to paint a picture of love, goodness, and emotions.
Wands the cards are trying to paint a picture of change and growth.
Pentacles the cards are trying to paint a picture of drama and intrigue concerning your material life.
Major Arcana cards it means a person’s fate is largely control by other people or forces beyond their control.
Like everything else, those are just guidelines and not steadfast rules. Trust your gut to take a reading in the right direction.
In life, trends and fads come and go, but it always amazes me how affected we all are by the collective unconscious— including myself. Sometimes it makes me wonder if I genuinely like something or if I only like it because the media I see every day tells me I do. But then I look back at who I was 10 or even 20 years ago and I feel like the only thing that has changed is my perception of what’s socially acceptable for a person my age to be into.
The last time I went back to my parents house I cleaned out my old bedroom. I found many stuffed animals, a large portion of which were unicorns. I found my old rock collection. I found all my celestial themed trinkets in an old jewelry box my grandmother gave me. Instead of leaving them behind like I had so many times before, I brought them all back with me because those things have come back into style and now I feel validated for keeping them around. I’m sure I’m not the only one with this experience.
I’ll just be real: the world is shit right now. Maybe it always has been and we’re just getting old enough to realize it. Whatever the case may be, we’re all looking for the kind of comfort that can be found in our childhood bedrooms.
Another thing I’ve noticed is a spike in the mainstream popularity of the tarot.
It's difficult for me to see something I'm passionate about become a fad because in that context it can be taken less seriously and misunderstood. I actively try to fight my natural Scorpio gatekeeper instincts, but sometimes it’s difficult. It's true that tarot being en Vogue would serve to benefit me at the moment, but it's somewhat displeasing to see it so abstracted from its purpose. I’ve seen tarot illustrations on make up, in stores with Halloween decor, on t-shirts etc. Everyone seems to be making their own decks and tarot themed imagery right now, but not as a study of the tarot so much as to bank on the popularity of the aesthetic.
You shouldn't just slap a pentagram on something and call it the ace of pentacles, or put a tarot sized border around a drawing of just anything, add a title to it and say it’s a certain card. There's an amount of thought required that some people just skip over leaving their work shallow and devoid of meaning.
Tarot study and practice, which has been a passion of mine for the past decade or so, is not something I openly talked about before this blog because people tend to have a knee-jerk reaction and relate it to the wrong things or think it’s silly. Now the fear is that my intentions will be misconstrued as trying to profit off of a trend or hop on a bandwagon. I guess at the end of the day it's most important that I know what I'm about and my reasons for doing this, but like I mentioned in my face value post—the fear of being misunderstood can be crippling.
Despite my personal feelings, the bottom line is that Tarot should be available to everyone. The reason for its resurgence is very understandable. We’re living in frightening uncertain times. People need something to turn to for answers and comfort. I do hope one day my cards can serve that purpose for someone.
