Can a Tarot Reading help interpret a Dream?
Can you ask the Tarot what your dreams mean? I have no idea, I’ve never tried it before.
I had woken up with a lot of bits of dreams sifting around in my head, not making much sense. I recognised a few themes, visiting new York and not having plans, nor having the impetus or confidence to make them….back in some sort of familiar relationship with a favourite ex…the night before, about Trumpet and wanting to get him home alone for a proper ‘lovin’ time together but having food to feed him.
I thought in lieu of a daily reflection card I’d pull a card for my dreams. And decided they needed a two card tarot spread.
I pulled the Sun and the Death card.
The Sun - Positive Energy, Death - end of an era beginning of a new
First glance, the Sun, positivity, optimism, having the energy to manifest things out into the world. Death the end of an era and the beginning of a new.
The only time I have pulled Death before was a year ago when Trumpet died.
Of course we can put all sorts of interpretations on to those two cards and their combination and that’s the joy of Tarot as it draws a response from you, starts a conversation, and if like me, you can use the cards to write your way into and out of your thoughts, and gain useful insight, you might not otherwise have got it, taken the time to consider.
The combination spoke to me immediately of a sense of materialising a new life, a life I’ve always dreamed of (in the day dream sense of the word), spending time on the isle of wight, swimming, walking, by the sea, making new friends. Death is a pretty powerful card that heralds a real end of an era and the beginning of a new.
What else I ask myself would I like to materialise into the world that might herald a new era. I’ve hardly been able to believe my luck as this whole new life on the island has materialised. At 73 and wondered astrologically whether it was in my chart? I must check as was given a reading for my birthday this year which I havent listened to since.
Perhaps the two card tarot reading was pointing to another kind of ‘dream’? One I dont verbalise. My long term dream of living by the sea and being a writer. A writer writer, which means published.
Might this two card tarot reading is referring to this and saying ‘Be Positive, be fearless like the naked child of the horse who’s holding on with no hands! there’s the beginning of a whole new era for you?’
Coincidentally this morning, before writing this, I decided to read the first chapter of Ann Patchett’s novel ‘This is the Story of a Happy Marriage’. I never read fiction before meditating/walking in the morning! Her opening introduction is about her writing and how she started with non fiction journalism in order to be able to write her novels.
Not saying. But interesting in the context or perhaps influencing my interpretation of the two card spread.
Back to the dream dreams. They remind me of old fears, doubts, confusion, as well as remind me of a conscious desire to pay them more attention and expand my relationship with the unconscious, the mystery, my soul, the collective.
I have the journey to the isle of wight to ponder all this. Having also decided just this morning to drive and take the hover, and stay a night or two.
Perhaps the sun is literally enjoy the sunshine, the swimming, the walking the saying hello to friends and happy times. Death let your old fears and doubts die, they belong to the past.
Do come and have a tarot reading with me in Battersea or online. You can see how fascinating a reading can be. Having a tarot reading is more. of a conversation between you and the cards with me as a bridge which is why I’m always interesting in your interpretation of what a card or reading means to you.