TarotScopes by HiC ~ June 2010

Stubbornness and intractability will get you nowhere. When the IV Emperor card reverses, it suggests that we are not willing to take ownership and responsibility for the way our lives are and the way we want them to be. Instead, we pass the buck and are quick to point fingers and find blame with everyone and everything else. The foundation is weak and crumbling beneath you, and unless you’re willing to see that and start doing something about it, then you are likely to find things crumbling down around you. There is no stable and solid basis upon which to proceed and to try and grow or establish something right now. It will be like trying to build on quicksand. One major factor that you may need to deal with this month is a person in a position of authority or power who is acting like a tyrant, a dictator. Perhaps it’s time to stop wasting energy beating your head against their refusal to budge from their position, as the reversal of this card indicates they are totally set in their ways and they aren’t moving. A lack of purpose, of vision, of discipline, of focus, may be getting in the way of seeing things happen the way you’d like to. Sometimes, the reversed IV Emperor card is saying to us very bluntly, « Grow up and stop acting like a child ! » Stop being childish, stop expecting things to be done or given to you like a child, and start embracing your own power and your own ability to go after and manifest what you want. But that may mean learning how to say no, both to others and ourselves. We are all powerful beings. We just have to remember that and learn to use our power in a way that builds rather than tears down, that productive rather than destructive. Material and practical matters such as work, finances, living environment, may be rocked this month as the reversal of this card can indicate instability. What we thought we could count on or thought would be there for the longterm may turn out to be much more tenuous or transitory than we had anticipated. But rather than looking where to place fault and blame, simply use it as an opportunity to ask yourself, « What am I going to do about it, and what am I going to create from it ? »

Time to stop living in a fantasy world that is focused on happily ever after, whenever that might be, and time to start focusing on the immediate needs and concerns in life. Sure, we’d like everything to be perfect, and everything to work out perfect, and everyone to be happy. But that isn’t always the way life is, and right now, this is a time to be more concerned with what is necessary and what makes the most sense. Sometimes, when the 10 of Cups appears reversed, it forces us to have to look at where our need for the fairytale has become an unhealthy addiction, often acted out in ways that involve substances or actions that are designed to keep us numb to reality and/or to escape from reality. Whether it is alcohol, drugs, food, sex, work, shopping or whatever, it’s time to face the reality of whether you or someone you know has a problem and needs to start addressing it and doing something about it rather than pretending that there isn’t a problem. And the problem is usually rooted in things that we don’t want to have to admit, don’t want to have to face, don’t want to have to deal with, don’t want to have to accept. You may feel a total disconnect from the people or world around you this month. Focus on inner connection, on (re)connecting with yourself, who you are, what your hopes, dreams and aspirations are, because it seems as if these might have gotten lost somewhere along the way. A sense of unhappiness and dissatisfaction is often a rallying cry to recognise what needs to change in ourselves or in our lives. And it’s time we stop being afraid to look at those things and to start planning how to go about bringing them about. There may be some painful decisions and difficult choices, but know that the end result of them will take you to a place of greater harmony, happiness and peace than where you are now. Acknowledge the unhappiness, and you’ve taken the first step in removing the obstacle to having happiness in your life. Accept the reality of dissatisfaction, and you’ve taken the first step in a willingness to start considering the alternatives. The reversed 10 of Cups may indicate a period of a relationship coming apart, or perhaps simply the realisation that the honeymoon period is over, and if it’s going to work and grow from here, then a willingness to acknowledge and deal with the issues in a way that is not emotionally reactive will be necessary. This may be an especially emotionally draining month. Make sure you tend to yourself and don’t constantly subject yourself to people or situations that exacerbate the drain. Separate yourself and respect your need for your own space to refresh and recharge rather than always drowning in the emotional needs and situations of those around you.

Love is everywhere. This is a month where you may have the sensation of just floating through life, no cares, no worries, just totally and completely in the flow. Give yourself over to it. Completely relax into it. If you simply be still, you will find that all you need, all you are asking for, all you want will seem to just flow into your life and wash over you. This is not the month to turn anything or anyone away. You may find yourself the go to shoulder to cry on, the one everyone else seems to be coming to (drawn to) because you are able to simply make them feel better. Don’t try, don’t exert. Just let them wade into your life’s current and know, that deep sense of knowing, that you are what they need and you have what they seek. Let it simply flow out of you without thinking, without trying, without editing or censoring. Just be. This is a great month to emphasise creative outlets and expression. Let what you have to create flow out of you freely and fully. Give to yourself the luxury of time and space to your imagination, and provide an outlet for your imagination to express itself in one or more forms. The Queen of Cups can be a very psychic card, so you may find your intuition at its peak this month. Give yourself over to it. Trust what your intuition has to offer you...and be willing to express what it has to offer to others when it bring those opportunities into your life. This can be an amazing time for love and relationships. If you’re in one, you may find yourself rediscovering those same feelings of first love from when you entered into the relationship. If you’re not in a relationship, you may find that love and relationship opportunities seem to be flowing into your life with you doing little or nothing to bring them about. Dive into them. Go with the flow and let the current take you where it wants to rather than trying to force things to go in a way or in a direction that you think would be the best or right way. Wish, dream, hope this month...for the Queen of Cups indicates a great energy swirling around your life and washing over you that brings us to the manifestation and realisation of our hopes, wishes and dreams.

Slow down, steady as she goes, take your time. Don’t rush into anything this month. Reign in the instant gratification and impetuousness. You may find things not moving forward as quickly or in the way that you would like them to. Red tape, bureaucracy, delays, cancellations may all be part of the problem. But trying to do something may just exacerbate the situation (or piss someone off) rather than helping or alleviating the situation. So relax and be willing to wait. This can also be true of travel plans. If you don’t have to travel this month, don’t. If you do, plan on delays (take an extra book), cancellations, lost reservations (take copies with you). When the Knight of Wands appears reversed, it may cause us to see that we are heading in the wrong direction, that we are putting energy towards something or some direction that isn’t really what we want or where we want to be going, or we may be overheating the situation by trying to do too much too fast. Be willing to examine your motives and motivations for what you’re doing, where you’re headed. Is it really what you want ? Or is it ego driven as a way of pleasing or impressing others ? Are you running on fumes and need to take a break ? Or is a project or goal running on fumes because it isn’t really viable and right, but we refuse to accept and acknowledge that fact ? Things may get overblown, overheated, maybe even blow up in our face this month. Be willing to see how and where you may be ratcheting up the heat, fanning the flames, exacerbating things. If we are willing to assess and accept that early enough, we may be able to avoid the larger explosion and catastrophe. How are you not putting your power to use; and/or how are you misusing and abusing your power to simply get what you want at all costs, no matter who gets burned in the process as long as you get what you want ? Are you doing anything to make a difference, or are you just blowing a lot of hot air that serves nothing more than to enflame and enrage ? You or someone you are dealing with may be acting like a spoiled brat. Give in to that and nothing is going to change.

Stop dragging your feet ! It’s time to get up and get moving. You’ve been stationary long enough. Stay still much longer and you’ll become a stone, fixed and immovable. Stop walking and start sprinting. Pick up the pace. You may find things suddenly picking up speed this month. Make sure things haven’t gotten off track from the original plan or goal. And if they have, work on adjusting accordingly rather than trying to force them back into a box to which they don’t want to conform. Do you have a clear goal in mind, or are you just basically making it up as you go along ? Is that working for you, or is it getting you nowhere ? The Knight of Pentacles can appear reversed when what we want, what our goal is, and what our actions are find themselves out of alignment or in opposition to each other. Is what you’re doing actually moving you forward toward the creation and manifestation of what you intend ? A bit more planning and budgeting may be required before moving forward. Or it may be time to throw out the outdated, outmoded plan and improvise rather than trying to force conformity to a plan that didn’t really work for the desired goal. This may be a time when you realise that you’re not really doing what you want to be doing, so a change in work situation may be called for. Similarly, it may be a time when you realise that you aren’t where you want to be, so a change in environment may be called for. Perhaps it’s time to admit that what you used to want no longer aligns with who you are and what you want moving forward, so a change in how you are expending your resources may be called for. You may be running yourself ragged this month. This is likely to manifest itself through illness or physical problems. Listen to your body and respect what it needs rather than taking your health or your body for granted. Nourish it properly. Give it a chance to rest. Allow it to heal itself and come back to a place of strength rather than pushing it to the point that there is no way for it to fully heal and come back to full strength again. Alter your diet, your sleep pattern, your exercise regimen...because what you’ve been doing is no longer working, and without a change, you may end up causing more harm than good to your body and health.

A falling out, a rift, a conflict. This may characterise the month for you. While it can be resolved, healed, overcome, it will take the willingness and openness of all involved to do what is necessary. You can’t fix or save the relationship or situation on your own. Similarly, you can’t just expect the other person(s) to do everything to resolve or fix the situation either. Unless you’re willing to meet in the middle and work together towards change, compromise and resolution, then it’s time to walk away from the relationship or situation. Because no relationship will ever be able to sustain itself over the longterm when the feelings or efforts are one sided. Are you feeling taken for granted ? Or are you taking someone or a relationship for granted ? Without acknowledgement and an honouring of the other, then the connection is lost, and what had been is now drained away and an empty shell. The reversed 2 of Cups can indicate the dissolution of a relationship (friend or romantic). It often appears reversed when there is a realisation that there wasn’t really a « love » connection to begin with. There may be infatuation, or a crush, but a true connection with deeper love doesn’t seem to be there. We have relationship with everyone and everything in our lives, so this doesn’t have to just be about a romantic relationship. It could be about anyone or anything that we thought we loved but are now realising isn’t really right for us or doesn’t really offer us what we thought it would (such as taking a painting class because we love art, then realising that painting isn’t really right for us after all). This may not be a time for partnering up with someone or something in order to bring something about. Instead, there is still work to be done on an individual level before the time is right for entering into a partnership; or perhaps it is time to acknowledge that who or what we are partnered with isn’t really working out. Don’t let emotions (especially things like sympathy, compassion, avoidance of hurt feelings, etc) get in the way of what you know is the best or right way to proceed or thing to do.

Open your heart and follow it. This is a month to let your heart be your guide. Trust in yourself, listen to your intuition, act on what your inner voice is telling you to do. Your mantra for the month is, « I believe I can fly. » And this is because you have complete and utter trust in yourself and in the Universe, knowing that neither would ever lead you in a direction that is anything less than your highest good. The Knight of Cups can appear when a proposal is likely to be made, whether it is something being offered to us, or if it is time for us to do the offering. It’s a proposal worth accepting, because it is offered in good faith, with love, and is designed to help you move further and deeper in your life’s journey. No strings attached (which is also how you need to offer). No ulterior motives. It’s time to allow yourself to open up and allow in again rather than continuing to operated from a very guarded, defensive place. Act on your imagination. Pursue your dreams. Know that your hopes can be fulfilled and let this be the time that you start taking action on moving them forward toward manifestation. Release yourself to possibility rather than holding yourself back in limitation. Express yourself, as you will likely be pleasantly surprised how what you express is received, and what comes about as a result of your willingness to express rather than holding back and holding in. Your Prince(ss) Charming may enter into your life this month (and it may even be someone younger than you). Give yourself over to your feelings and trust where they want to take you. Similarly, perhaps you may finally be able to realise and accept that you can be someone else’s Prince(ss) Charming...so go for it, don’t hold back (and remember, age ain’t nothin’ but a number).

Rhythm is a dancer ! When the 3 of Cups appears, there is cause for celebration. You may find things have gone as planned, you may find that something has happened or manifested that is reason to celebrate. Or, perhaps there is a need to simply let go and celebrate the joy of life, love and laughter. Surround yourself with people that you love, with people that have common hopes, dreams, interests as you. Be social and connect with others this month rather than being solitary and stand offish. Accept invitations to social occasions. Create opportunities to bring others together, such as a dinner party, event, or just an outing with no other purpose than to socialise. Group situations and networking seem to be highlighted and quite beneficial for you this month, especially if you’re looking for a job or to make connections in order for something to happen or come in to your life. Take advantage of a support network. Kick off your shoes and dance...let the rhythm (of life) flow through you and give yourself permission to move to the rhythm, to dance to the music. Life is a dance, not a march in lockstep. Stop being so rigid and practical every minute of every day. Let yourself go. Give yourself over to freedom and flow. Get messy...stop worrying about your hair and how you look...dance in the rain and splash in the puddles...jump into the pool or the lake with your clothes on or just get naked and dive in...don’t neglect yourself the opportunity to swim just because you don’t have a swimsuit. Embrace the possibility of polyamory...two’s a drag, three’s a party ! Throw open your arms and embrace what the Universe brings into them. Really pay attention to your body language this month...is it saying stay back, don’t come too close, keep your distance, I need my space ? Or is it saying welcome, come in, take my hand, show me what you have to offer ? Give yourself over to the moment and do what comes naturally in that moment rather than being too controlled, too censoring, too...afraid. Be The Fool, and everyone around you will be The Fool with you rather than looking at you as a fool.

Where do you want to go today ? When the VII Chariot appears reversed, it often indicates that we may be heading in the wrong direction, that the direction we are headed isn’t going to get us to where we thought or wanted to end up. It may also say that we are just spinning our wheels, lots of energy but getting nowhere and seeing no progress or advancement despite the amount of energy we’re putting in to something. it’s time to pull over to the rest area and check the map, because it seems that we may have taken a wrong turn or gotten off course from where we wanted or needed to be going. Too many backseat drivers and not enough listening to your own internal GPS, your intuition that guides you and never steers you wrong. How you’re going about doing things, or the direction you are headed, is not likely to be successful. Stop. Be willing to ask for direction (which can include from your intuition, your Higher Self, from your spirit guides, the Universe, whoever you turn to for direction that has an awareness of the greater journey and Right destinations). Is your ego out of control and the driving force that blinds you to Reason ? Is yours a Purpose driven life, or a life that is driven by and for other purposes (and/or the purposes of others) ? The reversed VII Chariot can indicate that we have been a passenger in life long enough, and it is time for us to get in the driver’s seat of our own life to be the driving and determining force behind when and where it goes and how it gets there. Right now, you may be at a point where you are simply running on fumes. Pull over, refuel, reconnect with your own Will in order to know where you want to be going and what direction you want your life to take. This is not a good time to be making any sort of major move or taking any sort of major travel. Stay close to home and simply focus on things there rather than be to far away or being too focused on the exotic otherness rather than the everyday. it may be that you are no longer aware of who you are becoming, who you want to be, where you want to go. Take some time to start reconnecting with and figuring those things out before proceeding rather than engaging in action/movement simply for the sake of action/movement. Exhaustion. Burnout. Honour these states of being rather than trying to squeeze one more mile out of an empty tank.

Pro choice. That’s right, the Universe is pro choice. It has given us freewill to determine our own lives and the paths we follow. But the reversal of the VI Lovers card can indicate that we are abdicating our right to choose and either being fatalistic and pre-deterministic, giving up and saying, « Well, guess that’s just the way things are and there’s nothing I can do about it, » or we are allowing others to make choices for us. There may be a sense that there is no choice because everything is pointing in one direction. That can sometimes be the Universe’s way of making it easier for us, by very clearly pointing in the direction that would be in our highest good. But we are often afraid of that, afraid that it’s too easy, or convinced that we have to have options, otherwise, we have no say and no control over our own destinies. But even when there seems to be only one choice, we always have the choice of our response to it. We can choose to refuse to accept the direction and stay put, stay stuck where we’re at, waiting and hoping and convinced that another direction, another option will magically appear at some point. We can choose to see it as the end of the road rather than a crossroads that leads off in vastly different directions. The reversal of this card can also indicate a fear or resistance to acting on a choice already made. What doubts and fears are holding us back from following through on our choices ? Why are we so convinced that we aren’t capable of making the right and best choices for ourselves ? A lack of cohesion may permeate the month as disharmony and division seem to prevail. Is our lack of taking a stand and making a choice contributing to that ? Perhaps we have made a wrong or ill-informed choice. We can choose to accept that and move forward, or we can choose to give up and let others make choices for us from now on. The reversal of this card indicates that you can no longer continue choosing the same thing over and over and over again. It is time to make different choices because making the same choices will simply keep you stuck in a never-ending loop of choice, undesirable result, choice, undesirable result, choice, undesirable result...because different choice means different result. What path does your life follow from this moment forward ? The choice is up to you.