If you try this spread out to see what happens in 2020 please share your answers! I am curious to see what all readers pick up on for the upcoming year.
REVERSED: Personal goals, inner alignment, fear of unknown, lack of planning
Two Of Wands Description (Rider Wait Smith)
The Two of Wands shows a man, dressed in a red robe and hat, holding a small globe. The world is literally in his hands, marking the enormous potential before him if he can expand his horizons accordingly. He stands within the confines of his castle, suggesting that while he is contemplating significant opportunities, the man has not yet left his comfort zone to pursue them; he is still very much in the planning phase. His hand rests on an upright wand, and a second wand is affixed to the castle’s wall, a further sign that he is still not ready to venture out. In the background, the land is fertile while also rocky, promising that he has a good chance for success, so long as he can overcome the challenges that will arise.
UPRIGHT: Inspiration, new opportunities, growth, potential
REVERSED: An emerging idea, lack of direction, distractions, delays
Ace Of Wands Description (rider wait smith)
In the Ace of Wands, a hand holding a sprouting wand extends out from a cloud, as if to offer a new opportunity or idea with the potential to grow. The rich, verdant landscape is further confirmation of this growth capability. In the distance on the left sits a castle, representing the promise of opportunities to come, and hills and mountains line the horizon. Their rolling peaks remind us that there will always be challenges along the way, but they are surmountable with enough effort.
Never sure what to ask your deck but you feel the urge to work with it? Here’s a small, simple list of questions to get you started:
Career: - What do I need to know most about my career? - How can I move my career forward? - Is my career the right choice currently?
Family: - What do I need to know the most about the situation with my ___ ? - What do I need to do about the situation involving my ___ ? - Is ___ holding me back from being my best?
Love Life: - How can I move my love life forward? - What do I need to know the most about my love life? - What would be the best way to draw romance into my life?
Travel: - How will the trip go? - Will I learn something new along the way? - What opportunities will arise on this trip?
Self: - What am I not seeing/What am I ignoring? - What are my strengths/What are my weaknesses? - What have I learned?
Other: - What’s trying to come forth in my life? - What blessings are being draw into my life? - What’s the best way to communicate ___ ? - Is there something I should look out for? - How do I go from ___ to ___ ?
If the deck is new or newer, the more frequently you use it, the more attuned you become to it. It also becomes more accustomed to you and your energy.
The first card you pull is great to give you an overall outlook on what is to come for the day. A lot of people do this. What people sometimes forget is to pull at the end of the day to see what you can learn from what happened during the day, even if you think nothing happened.
Sometimes, if my day is busy, I’ll even pull three times. The third time will be in the middle of the day as a sort of check in to see how things are playing out and to see if there’s anything I need to pay mind to.
**Note: As with all tips and tricks, these are not end all, be all. This is just simply what I do and why I do it.
Tasseomancy or Tasseography is the practice and process of using tea leaves or coffee grounds to forecast, understand, or improve upcoming or current events. This can be used for planning ahead, or for personal growth, healing and development. One nearly finished a loose herbal concoction, and then flips the remaining biological powders onto a small plate. They then scry based off of the shapes or symbols the leaves lie in. Below are aspects to consider whilst using this method of divination.
Interpretations:
Symbolism:
There are numerous factors to consider from a representation approach. Which is why most use a plate and cup inscribed with key symbols with their corresponding location. That aside, animals, numerology, symbols, or signs also are important to be considered by the placement of the herbal remains as well.
Directions:
Most practitioners divide their cup into segments of based off of the directions, zodiac signs, planetary symbols, and elemental aspects. Hence, the beautiful aesthetic from the almanac or legend of a Tasseography tea-set. Considering that each direction has its own element and meaning in countless cultures across the world, there is many ways to interpret this from the Feng Shui Bagua, the Pentagram, or Earth Medicine almanacs.
First Glance:
The first thing you notice or recognize as a symbol is something that is important to consider, although should not be your only takeaway. Intuition at its finest will help provide clarity because your first sight is just as important as your analyzed inquiry. Once both are considered and potentially seen as a synchronization, you will have your takeaway.
Horizontal:
Considering this element is massively important because it is the method or process of seeing one’s entire life in a past, present, and future manner. This can be an essential aspect for those who are trying for introspection, emotional healing, or personal growth. The left is past influences, the middle is current events, and the right is upcoming occasions.
Symbolism:
Animals:
Bird:
Fortune, positivity, wealth, travel, freedom,and a likely exploration.
Butterfly:
Transformation, accomplishment, and pleasure.
Dragon:
Massive and sudden shifts or changes lie ahead of you.
Eagle:
Attainment, admiration, nobility, favour, and reserves.
Elephant:
Immense prosperity, wellbeing, and luck are ahead.
Owl:
Deceit, deception, loss, probable illness, or deprivation.
Pig:
Faithful love and romance, but jealous or lying friends.
Rat:
Defeats or failures from adversaries, possibly in a job sense.
Worms:
Deceit, treachery, dishonesty, and deception, defeat, or loss.
Nature:
Clouds:
If clear, trails and troubles are to come. If surrounded by dots, monetary success is coming.
Clover:
Upcoming luck. The higher up its located, the sooner it will come.
Mountain:
Forthcoming impediments, obstacles, and challenges.
Runes are an Ancient Germanic Alphabet that many use for divination. They can also be used as sigils because each Rune holds its own meaning. Witches write out the Runic Alphabet on small stones, bones, or marbles and gently toss them into a vessel and scry based on where they land or what falls at all.
The Elder Futhark:
The Elder Futhark is the oldest form of the Runic Alphabet, and is consisted of three aspects of three different deities being Freyja’s, Heimdall’s, and Tyr’s Aetts. Each Rune has a meaning and its own correspondences. The Younger Futhark are also referred to as Scandinavian runes, is considered to be a reduced form of the Elder Futhark, but still remains a runic alphabet with sixteen characters. These were most prominently used through the ninth century.
Freya’s Aett:
ᚠ Fehu:
Freya’s Rune, domestic cattle, power and position gained by your own hand, earned prosperity or regard.
ᚢ Uruz:
Auroch’s Horns, forces beyond our control are afoot, so stay serene and let it the process flow.
ᚦ Thursiaz:
Thor’s Rune, thorns and defense, protection within and around oneself or space, and security.
ᚱ Raido:
The Chariot, travel, intellect, logic, the arts, journey, action, effort, change, progress, and movement.
ᚲ Kenzaz:
The Torch, bending nature towards your will, paving your own way through with blazing passion..
ᚷ Gebo:
Sacrifice, substitution, replacement, exchange, trade, offering up something for something better in return.
ᚹ Wunjo:
Strength in bliss, companionship, splendor, delight, pleasure, happiness, company, and camaraderie.
Heimdal’s Aett:
ᚻ Hagalaz:
Precipitation, particularly Hail, Duality. Purging Chaos. The union of opposites. Fire and ice.
ᚾ Naudiz:
Determination, character, endurance, independence, desperation, self-reliance, force, and effort.
ᛁ Isa:
Ice, perfect stillness, introspection, sanctuary in seclusion, contemplation, being frozen.
ᛃ Jera:
Harvest, time, reaping what is sown, enjoying the fruits of your labors, abundance from work.
ᛇ Ahwaz:
Stability, reliability, firmly planted, grounded, connected, to be deeply rooted,
ᛈ Pertho:
The grail, mystery, magick, femininity, secrets, reproduction, fertility, nether regions.
ᛇ Eiwaz:
Horns of a stag, labor and sacrifice for development and growth, high strength of will.
ᛋ Sowilo:
The Sun, transformation, productivity, maturity. movement, achievement.
Tyr’s Aett:
ᛉ Algiz:
Odin’s Rune, defensive protection, intellect and wisdom, divine connection, and interaction.
ᛏ Tiwaz:
Tyr’s Rune, authority, power, leadership, honor, admiration, regard, and reverence.
ᛒ Berkanano:
The Birch Tree, new beginnings, openings, and journeys ahead. Growth and cycles.
ᛖ Ehwaz:
Horses, coordination, movement, independent cooperation to achieve the same goal.
ᛗ Mannaz:
Memories, union, fellowship, connection, the collective of humanity, harmony and peace.
ᛚ Laguz:
Leek, fluidity, emotion, insight, subconscious, processing, & divinity of the lake’s waters.
ᛝ Ingwaz:
Masculinity, fertility, potential, new perspectives, and opportunities, ripe with chance.
ᛟ Othila:
The hearth and home, sacred family, ancestral property, stability, inheritance, and hospitality.
ᛞ Dagaz:
Duality, balance, union of opposites, the day and night, oppositions finding peace.
Astragalomancy or Astragyromancy is a procedure of divination cast by throwing five dice, teeth, or bones engraved with celestial symbols, numbers, or letters. The placement and symbolism of each particular thrown item matters. In prehistoric times, mammal knuckles were primarily used in Astragyromancy.
Belomancy:
A structure of divination used by monitoring and examining the passage, performance, and landing of arrows during and after being shot off by a Bow. Different structures of arrows and materials should also be taken into account. This is not to be mistaken for or confused with Rhabdomancy’s use of arrows.
Cartomancy:
The use of playing cards, tarot, or oracle decks to gain insight into current, past, or future personal affairs. Crucial in personal development and individual progress from a spiritual standpoint. Each suit in playing cards represents a suit in tarot, with different elements and senses of their own.
Cleromancy:
A form of divination in which one is to cast a lot based off of random chance or divine will. “Casting a lot” is often gently tossing objects with their each individual significant meanings to analyze the pattern in which they land. There are so very numerous unique varieties and procedures to this.
Cowrie Shells:
Cowrie shells have been used for numerous purposes throughout different cultures across all time, created in Arica ranging from West Africa, Santeria, and Candomblé. There are effectively several different procedures to use these stunning shells for divination as well.
Favomancy:
This technique of Cleromancy involves casting a lot employing beans. The origins of Favomancy come from the Ubykh of Russia. However, most archaic methods were lost through the passing of time and are now open to interpretation. I must admit I wish I knew more about this fascinating concept.
Osteomancy:
The use of bone casting for divinatory purposes or perspective. Each distinct bone has covers a specific aspect of your life, and are thrown in order to determine your current position. Certain bones have specific values but the arrangement of the bones also should be considered.
Rhabdomancy:
Rhabdomancy is a kind of Cleromancy including the use of casting rods, wands, branches, or something similar. There are various ways to do this, but is most frequently used to cast lots for answering questions or insight. The items could range from arrows to dowels which I find incredible from a possibility prospect.
Rune-casting:
Rune casting is a process of divination in which a practitioner uses small items such as stones, crystal tumbles, or chips in order to determine ones current circumstances and upcoming opportunities. Runes are also extraordinarily commonly used as words of power and sigils but are predominantly established for this.
Tasseomancy:
A technique of divination developed by just about polishing off your cup of loose tea, and then flipping the tea leaves onto a plate for evaluation. Representation plays key to reading tea leaves, and all figures, characters, and placements account for something. Can also be preformed with coffee grounds or wine fragments.
Theriomancy:
Divination involving animals through either observing their movements, reactions, or demeanor’s shifts. Wildlife themselves have intuition and abilities that are easier for them to stay connected with. Almost all of these are also forms of Augury.
Upright Meaning: Emotions, inspiration pleasant surprise, new relationship (not always romantic), sensitivity, rules by the heart, loving, open, caring
Reversed Meaning: Want to be alone, less communication with others, moody
Associated Deities: Aphrodite, Venus, Lada
Page of Swords
❄️ Element: air
❄️ Upright Meaning: Determination, wild energy, relentless, spontaneous, assertive, clever, ready for battle, calm during crazy times
Day 1: This day is for you, start off your morning by choosing a fruit or vegetable that corresponds with something you truly need for the day, take your time to eat it then enjoy a cup of cold water. •*• Create or find a spell to help you get a better sleep. Ensure it’s a restful, safe sleep with peaceful dreams . When it’s bedtime, preform your spell and get ready for day two.
Day 2: Now you need a spell to fill the hole in your life. Take some time to meditate a few times today. When you wake, during the day, and before bed. At night review where you feel it most. Are you lacking passion? Love? Abundance? Feeling fuzzy brained? Lost? Suicidal? Maybe you’ve even been a bad person and you need some good. Whatever the case, whoever you are, today you need to figure out where the hole is, for day three tomorrow.
Day 3: Today you will create the spell that is needed to heal over that hole you found in day two. Make time for it and do it with heart .
Day 4: Give back today. To the earth beneath your toes. Water a plant today, feed an animal, or create a spell to make rain where drought covers the earth, something nice like that.
Day 5: Banish evil. This day can be done on a windy day, rainy day/stormy day , snowy day or a sunny day. Have all doors, and windows if you want, open. Now, if you have incense, find one that is a wood scent or a herbal scent. If you don’t have that, get a scented candle, if that’s not an option, get anything strongly scented. Walk around your house and “push” the bad energies with the smoke or whatever it is you have out of your house through the doors and or windows. Really go over the areas people spend the most time in.
Day 6: Create a spell you can drink. Simply look up food correspondences, tea correspondences and what herbs or flowers you can add to drinks!
Day 7: create a spell based off the current moon phase and its correspondences.
Day 8: Collect water from anywhere that isn’t from your house. Water from different types of sources have correspondences, if you don’t know them, nows the time to learn! You can use this water in a spell!
Day 9: Make a spell or each of or all of the elements. (Air, Earth, Water, Fire)
Day 10: make a spell based of the tarot card of death. It resembles transition and rebirth. Make a spell to bring on change that is needed to set a different course in your life. This change needs to happen voluntarily or involuntarily, you don’t get to choose what happens, but something, subtle or big, will change.
