Pride: A Rainbow Spread
This is more complicated than my basic three-card pull. This is from the Pride Tarot guidebook. The order of my cards goes from top left to bottom right.
Red - Life - Where you are right now. Hanged Man from the Flux Arcana Tarot. Despite the potential discomfort—hanging on a sword’s edge—of this Hanged Man, the main character of the card exudes serenity. There is deep, complex work underway to prepare them for their next step on the journey. The next step is XIII or Death. Change is coming, whether you know it or not, and you are preparing yourself for it. Nice to know I am walking the edge.
Orange - Healing - Identifies part of you that needs healing. The High Priestess from the Lubanko Tarot. Woof. Some place in my subconscious needs healing. I think there is a hole here where religion should be.
Yellow - Sunlight - Some bright spots in your life: the reversed Seven of Cups by Lisa Hunt. I have a back-and-forth relationship with this card. It represents choices, and in the traditional version, the figure looks at their seven choices before them. In this case, the artist has the main figure looking away from all the choices. The intent is to make the choices look more ethereal, while in the traditional Pamela Colman Smith version, they are literal. But it can also mean that the figure has turned away from their choices. This is too ambiguous. I need to swap this card out of my deck. Regardless, the reversed Seven of Cops tells us that one course of action to take—don’t think about it too much, he said, thinking about this card too much.
Green - Nature - How to connect with nature. The Ace of Wands from the Lubanko Tarot. This makes me think of an old oak tree. In the park where I was married, there is a towering oak tree, quietly looming over the amphitheatre’s stage. I think it's time for a visit.
Blue - Serenity - how you can experience more serenity. Four of Wands by Cat Rocketship. This is an amazing card. The Tower quietly sits in the background while people leave the tower and dance under a pergola. To me, this shows a way to escape the Tower’s consequences. While the Tower is the loss of a foundational illusion (an unwelcome but necessary revelation), this Four of Wands shows people leaving the Tower’s illusion before it collapses. Can you see through the illusion before it becomes foundational?
Violet - Spirit - What moves your spirit? Four of Wands by Casi Cline. Family, but that bonfire also means something. Dancing around a fire is something ancient, something burned into the psyche of each and every one of us. This feels very “dance around the fire at the Solstice,” and I love that. Maybe it's time to dig deeper into a spiritual path.
Other Notes. Three wands in a 6-card pull. Two of them are the Four of Wands: passion and stability, things that never quite go together. There are a lot of notes pushing spiritual and subconscious meanings (Hanged Man, High Priestess), and suggestions on where I can find healing for my subconscious. Perhaps now is the time to start seeking and find something beyond the rote materialism/capitalism that governs my default mode.
