What’s Weighing You Down: Tarot Pick a Card
If you’ve found yourself drawn to this reading, then that means there’s something in your life that you need to let go of. It’s easy with this tarot pick a card.
All you have to do is look at the piles of cards above. Which cute barnyard animal stands out to you the most? That’s your pile and that’s your tarot reading!
After you select your cards, scroll down to your pile or choose below.
Today I’m using the Wild Unknown Tarot and The Universe Has Your Back oracle decks (these are affiliate links that support me if you make a purchase). Remember that you have free will. That means you can manifest the positive and avoid the negative of any reading.
Now take a deep breath. We’re going to learn how to let something go so your soul will be at peace.
Pile 1: Pig
At Fate’s Mercy
Your first card is Daughter of Swords. There’s a lot you don’t know in life, and because of that, you feel unprepared. This knowledge may be spiritual, intellectual, or material. You feel at the mercy of forces greater than you and those forces aren’t always kind.
No doubt you’ve found yourself in situations where it seemed like you were going into battle without armor. All you had was a small shred of awareness. Enough to know what you don’t know, but not enough to fight failures that seemed destined to befall you.
However, this is also a card of learning. Yes, you don’t have total knowledge, but you have the ability to learn, especially through experience. For you to truly know something, it must be personalized. Knowledge isn’t useful if it’s not relevant to you.
But the fact that there’s so much you don’t know causes you anxiety. You’re afraid that you’re always going into the next chapter of your life unprepared and in danger.
It doesn’t have to be that way.
Pick Your Struggle
The second card in your spread is the Six of Swords. See the rainbow overhead? That’s a sign from the universe that you’re going in the right direction. Even though you may be worried that you’re at a disadvantage, each challenge you face helps you to be more prepared for the next.
You may find it helpful to aim for a particular direction in life. What challenges would you prefer to face? Without a direction, you’ll be aimless and traveling in circles. That means you’ll face a variety of challenges and your experience can’t build into a tangible pattern.
If you have a pattern of experiences, you’ll arm yourself with the expertise of experience. That’s wisdom.
It’s okay if you don’t know your higher purpose yet. Having a goal, even a temporary one, gives you structure in your life and you can adjust as you learn more about what it means for you to be alive.
Be Your Own Hero
Your final card is Oneness Is My True Nature. You’re an interesting person. I think of a funnel here. You pour lots of little trinkets into a funnel and it torpedos its way into a bottle of treasure. You bring a lot to the table, no doubt from all the heavy challenges you’ve faced in life. But you can aim all of who you are to something greater.
Your life has a higher purpose. It may be one you choose to follow or one you design for yourself. However, if you accept that you’re heading in a particular direction (with occasional diversions, sometimes even delightful), you’ll be able to look at your past and current challenges in a new light.
Make your life a narrative with a climactic and hopefully happy ending. Then the weight of being unprepared will only seem like part of a hero’s training in a grand adventure.
Yes, you can’t control all the challenges you’ll face in life. But in a lot of cases, you can choose the battlefield to fight on. So ask yourself: what do you want to fight for?
It’s an honor to die for something, but it’s a privilege to live for one.
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Pile 2: Cow
Too Much to Handle
With your first card being the Daughter of Wands, you have a lot of passions and desires, but you’re not yet certain how they can be shaped. You may suffer from “too many ideas” syndrome and feel like you’re constantly being pulled in all directions.
This can be exhausting because you want to achieve something, but you can’t focus on anything long enough to manifest it. This is weighing you down because you feel like you aren’t achieving your full potential. And that’s a shame because you know you have so much potential!
You’re a receiver of ideas and you’re so full that your very soul is oversaturated. Sometimes, you may even burn out or lose interest in what you loved. It just becomes too much after a while.
And you know what? That’s exactly the problem. You’re frying your mind, body, and soul with dilettante desires and you never get to experience the magic of depth. After a while, everything seems shallow and pointless because you never quite get to the point.
Focus on the Niche
Because of your second card, Daughter of Pentacles, Reversed, I see a reiteration of the last card. You can’t manifest your desires. But I want to look at the suit part of this card, earth, so you can see why your fire burns too brightly.
In tarot, pentacles is the earth suit and it’s known for going at a slower and more methodical pace. With your desires, you aren’t taking the time to fully explore the nooks and crannies. You see the forest, but not the trees.
Although I think limiting the number of things you do will help, that’s not actually the solution to your problem. Instead, you need to dive deep. For example, an amateur artist may find that it’s time to focus on a particular learning project, like how to draw hands, instead of randomly throwing themselves at sparks of inspiration. There’s a reason most doodlers never become professional artists.
You can use these sparks of inspiration to direct you towards a theme, but you need to latch onto something in detail. Don’t think broadly, such as drawing, painting, or sculpture, but narrow, like drawing hands, painting sunsets, or sculpting squirrels.
This will force you to dwell on specific skills of mastery and it will bring you joy over a desire that was once quite shallow.
If you’re not quite sure what to specialize in, taking a course or reading a book may be helpful.
Love What You Do
The third card in your spread is I’m Unapologetic About What I Desire and Trust That What I Focus On Will Grow. Don’t judge your desires and rank them just so you can limit what to focus on with the hopes it will lead to deep dives. Instead, find mini-projects and your soul will sort them for you. Or you’ll have all these desires, but pursue them at a pace and depth that you’ll be proud of.
It’s okay, for example, to put something you love on the back burner while you pursue something else. You don’t have to abandon a passion forever. Just make sure that what you’re working on at the time is given the attention it deserves so it’s not a shallow passion that simply fills time.
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Pile 3: Sheep
A Broken World
I see that your first card is the Two of Cups, Reversed. For most who chose this pile, this is going to refer to a broken relationship or some sort of heartbreak within a relationship. A few of you may have it referring to a broken contract.
Think of a relationship as a covenant. Both people agree on a common cause. But for you, this covenant was broken and it has caused a wound that’s weighed you down ever since.
This may have caused you to distrust other people or love itself. How can someone truly love you as you love them? You had agreed and really meant to follow this covenant, but it didn’t work out. And if this commitment didn’t work out… what could?
You may be suffering from disenchantment or nihilism. Chances are, you put a lot of yourself into that covenant and expected the other party to do the same. But this didn’t happen.
No longer do you have the romanticism towards life that would feel you with hope and fantasy. Now the world is just too real and blunt and you wonder if you’re alone even when you’re around other people.
Working Together
Your next card is Five of Wands. The good news is that no matter how fresh or distant your wound is, the conflict that arose from it is starting to cease.
This could be because you’re far away from the person or contract that caused you pain. You might have also decided to move on or forgive. Some of you are fortunate that it just happened recently, but the healing is already beginning.
But be aware that in this healing, your soul has decided to part from what caused you pain. Some people look at relationships as where you fight and make up, fight and make up. But here, I sense a desire to avoid conflict altogether.
It would help you to know that no covenant can be perfect as every person or system involved is somehow flawed. There is bound to be conflict that must be negotiated. Think of a person who eats a piece of candy on a diet and gives up because their covenant was broken. That’s what happened here.
Some people don’t recognize this and let their romanticism fall. Think of a child who is sheltered from the realities of the world, and then upon reaching adulthood, can’t handle basic life.
Your goal shouldn’t be to avoid conflict or to be walked over by someone abusive, but to find someone willing to work through problems when they arise. A covenant isn’t a static thing. There are always amendments as life presents itself. A perfect, static covenant is always broken. But a real covenant, like the American constitution, is a living document.
Joy Abounds
The last card is I Witness the Darkness and Call on the Light With My Prayer: Thank You Universe, for Guiding Me to Perceive This Fear Through the Eyes of the Teacher of Love. Your disappointment in love or a contract is not mere sorrow, but personal assertion. Although an ideal life can’t be manifested, a good life can. Your sorrow is a sign from the universe that you deserve better and it’s something worth fighting for.
The universe is with you. If your past relationship is broken, you will find another. If your current relationship is suffering, it can heal. And if a past contract or something you pledged to was dissolved, you can make another.
What you desire in love can be achieved. Sorrow is not meant to be in perpetuity. Trust that you can make another covenant.
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