53-Four of Swords Upright Rider Waite Spiritual Tarot Reading

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Faith, Spirituality Or Psychic Progression:

In the context of spirituality, this card indicates a need for space. You need time and quiet, to really get in touch with your soul and the universal energies around us all. Even if you work full time and have fourteen children, if you make it a priority, you can find a minute or Two of solitude. Find it and take it. Your sanity, and your soul, is crying out for this.

Card Meanings: Contemplation, Feeling Overwhelmed, Spiritual Counselling Or Support, Mental Overload, Regrouping, Rest, Introspection, Self-Protection, Planning For The Future, Relaxation, Strife, Hospitalisation, Needing Solitude, Fear, Anxiety, Meditation, Peace And Quiet, Recuperation, Retreat, Stress, Temporary Exile, Sanctuary

The Four of Swords is a card that signifies a break (or need for a break) from normal life. This can also mean that you or someone in your life may withdraw for a time. This withdrawal is not likely to be permanent. It also occasionally means illness or time in the hospital or (even more rarely) in jail. It’s a clear signifier to give people their space.

This reading is part of a spiritual tarot reading using the The Four of Swords using cards from the with the Rider Waite Tarot Deck. You will find many more tarot pages that will be of great help if you need tarot card meanings. Use the search at the bottom of the page. We have some amazing tarot books for you to browse. Please see below.


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Complete Book of Tarot
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Complete Book of Tarot: Myths/Archetypes: Persephone. Cassandra. Pope Joan. The Virgin Mary. Sor Juana. Matris Spirituale. The Oracle at Delphi. Gestation in the womb.

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Reversed Cards: During a retrograde cycle, planets go into a shadow phase. This is not the same as the shadow aspect of a card but is more an in-between phase. Here in the Four of Swords we see Jupiter coming out of his slumber and preparing for his newly awakened state. He has learned much during his retrograde vacation and is now preparing all his new information and knowledge so that he can leap forth once this shadow phase is complete. You may be feeling exactly the same way. Right now you are preparing and collecting all you have learned so you can hit the ground running once this in-between phase is over with.

Complete Book of Tarot: Let’s do an experiment. Take the Tower (trump XVI) from your tarot deck. In Llewellyn’s Classic Tarot, the scene depicts a tower struck and shattered by lightning. Two occupants of the tower fall headfirst toward the rocks below. In mythology, the thunderbolt is a favorite weapon of the gods who evidence their displeasure by hurling bolts of lightning at mortals below. The Greek philosopher Heraclitus believed that the sky god Zeus represented the ordaining pattern of the universe and that Zeus’ thunderbolt symbolized divine force steering the course of events.

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Complete Book of Tarot: This method makes use of the entire seventy-eight-card deck divided into thirteen six-card spreads (13 x 6 = 78). Choose a significator card to represent the querent. This can be done by matching the querent’s personality to one of the court cards, or in any other way you and the querent see fit. Shuffle and cut the cards, and then reassemble the deck. Beginning with house 1, proceed around the wheel placing one card in each house and one card in the center of the wheel (13 cards in all). Continue this process until the entire pack is used up. You will now have thirteen stacks of cards, one stack in each house and one stack in the center of the wheel. Each stack will contain six cards.