[ SECRET POST #3013 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3013 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I can give you a quick example, if you like? Just a quick five card spread and resulting story using my favourite storytelling deck:

1) The Questioner: The Emperor (upright)
2) The Past/Past Influences: Five of Pentacles (upright)
3) The Future/Coming Influences: Eight of Swords (upright)
4) Reason Behind Question: Ace of Wands (reversed)
5) The Development/Potential/Possibility: Four of Cups (reversed)

I'm giving the card meanings as offered in the booklet that came with my deck --Norbert Lösche's Cosmic Tarot-- and then my more liberal interpretation of them in a narrative setting. I generally don't pay too much attention to reversed/upright when in narrative mode, using all the suggested meanings as made sense by my plotting rather than necessarily in the order they come in. I use each of the cards as a story element - character (questioner), backstory (past influences), incoming plot points (future influences), plot startpoint (reason for query), general direction of plot from here (possibilities). Different spreads give slightly different elements, but the five card spread is good for a basic shape.

So. This one has given us the following:

1) Questioner/Main Character

The Emperor: masculine power, shaping of the material world, rulership, will, severity, stability, power and its danger, force

2) Past Influences/Backstory

Five of Pentacles: worry, torture, chaos, poverty, effort, tension, need, idleness, immorality, belief in the future, reconciliation

3) Future Influences/Incoming Plot Elements

Eight of Swords: disturbance, interference, limitation, conflict, blame, resistance, problematic thoughts, mental prison, delimitation of own ideas, great mental tasks

4) Reason for Question/Plot Instigator

Ace of Wands: origin, beginning, source, birth, creativity, blind power, inheritance, identity, self-realisation

5) Possibility/Direction of Plot

Four of Cups: exuberance, uncertain feelings, weariness, decaying joy, refusal, insight, reflection, new possibilities, anticipation


To me, this looks like the story of a new king/ruler, who comes to power in the aftermath of an extremely bad time for his nation, who's at first joyous at having won free of that darkness and taken his throne, but soon becomes beset with worries and doubts about his fitness for the role and the question of how he's going to put his kingdom back together and where to take it from here. Possibly, given the future/incoming elements, because his rule is being actively interfered with by an outside force (or remnants of the inside ones).

I'd say the backstory event, to since it contains lots of torture, poverty, and chaos, but no controlling elements like a Devil, was probably a civil war, which allows the card's flipsides of reconcilation and belief in the future to be the immediate backstory and our boy's ascension. Some of those elements may refer to him personally (torture), and he's emerged at the start as a severe, driven man (Emperor), glad to be free, and determined to reshape his nation. As he settles into his new role, though, reborn as the new king (Ace of Wands), he's wondering about what he's inherited in his shattered kingdom, and slowly coalescing his plans for where he wants it to go. To judge from the plot card, Four of Cups, he goes through a crisis of faith in himself as the Coming Influences from the Eight of Swords start affecting his judgement, making him despair of being able to uplift his country, but both of the future cards offer hope that he will eventually break through this and succeed in at least getting started (insight, delimitation of own ideas, great mental tasks, new possibilities, anticipation).

So, overall, I think this is the story of a man who comes to power out of the ruins of a shattered nation, struggles mightily with his new responsibility and the chaotic elements that still plague his newly-freed nation, but eventually gets his traction as a ruler and begins the laborious process of rebuilding.

Voila. A quick and dirty story sketch based on the archetypal imagery of the tarot. Heh. And you can do as many of these as you like. It really is a bundle of fun.

[dreemyweird]

Thank you, nonnie!! This sounds awesome. I imagine that with some tweaking and a bit of imagination, I could match my cards to some characters from my canons. I could have so much fun doing this.

I'm bookmarking this post for when I first get my hands on a tarot deck <3

[(Anonymous)]

aeclectic.net/tarot has some great explanations of the cards. I love how they tell a narrative of the major arcana.

If you want a tarot card deck that is jam packed full of symbolism, the Rider-Waite is the most commonly used with all sorts of meaning incorporated into the imagery.

If you want a tarot deck that is stunningly beautiful, I recommend the one by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law. The Shadowscapes Tarot is the most beautiful deck I have ever seen.