Tarot reading can help you find ‘Meaning’…
Anyone else feeling like this today.
Not particularly enthusiastic about what life has on offer.
A bit unsure about what you DO want to do, and definitely a bit disinterested about what is on offer, there’s nothing you feel particularly excited about, or motivated, or inspired by. Instead there’s a feeling of being a bit disgruntled with life, with yourself, a bit undecided about everything, very undecided! Disappointed even….then this is the card that turns up in Tarot that says
Don’t miss the opportunity!
Alert! Sitting on the ground with your arms crossed not taking the cup in front of you is not the attitude to make the most out of life. Okay you don’t like the look of it but beware you could be missing out on an opportunity. Or even turn down something that is being offered to you….some opportunity that is held in the cup that seems to be still up in the air, unmaterialised, which will only materialise if you take the cup.
The four of cups depicts a feeling of dissatisfaction about what is going on, when we hold back from committing to what is on offer and giving it our best shot, thereby missing out on having a good day and instead have another very average, unsatisfying, feeling sorry for yourself (me) wondering what you are doing wrong (me), turning away from, uncommitted to anything kind of day that leaves you knowing you missed out on making the most of the day.
Fortunately, while starting this blog and contemplating the Four of Cups, I have been reading, and just finished Viktor Frankl’s book ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’. I have read it three times now over the years. The first half is about his experiences in a concentration camp, where the hardship, brutality, hopelessness, terror, starvation, and constant fear of the gas chamber wears some men down to give up, and die, while others survive against all the odds. Somehow he believes, survivors survive because they find meaning in their suffering.
The second half of the book is about Logotherapy, the therapy he conceived that came out of his experience which at its heart is about helping patients to find ‘meaning’ to motivate them to overcome their suffering, psychological or other.
Given that I am loitering in four of cups territory, I can see I am missing ‘meaning’ or purpose. I seem to have lost my driving passion for tarot reading. I haven’t posted on Instagram for nearly two months as can’t see what the point would be. Would a post from me really help or be of interest or cheer up anyone? I scroll through insta and find plenty to entertain, cheer, move, comfort….without a post from me.
The truth is I write these blogs for myself, for me to work out what I am feeling and then navigate a way out of a dodgy feeling and into a positive productive energised one. These blogs are a form of self therapy. For me. And as a by product for my website as Google’s desire for original content enables me to write freely without anyone but google to judge and at the same time boosts the chances of when someone looks for a tarot reader, they find me. And today I have two readings which is plenty. If I take a leaf out of Viktor Frankl’s book, it is the meaning I give these two readings that matters
Do come and have a reading with me in Battersea or online and we can ponder the meaning of life. Online readings seem to work just as well. They have all the warmth and naturalness of connection that I experience when someone is sitting opposite me. The only difference is I pull the cards. Which actually is more pressure, or can be. I have to just ‘act as if’, because sometimes I question the cards I pull. And the tarot reader can’t question herself surely!