When tarot doesn't have the answer

[Anouk]

I feel like I'm in this huge pitch black cavern in my life. I don't know how big it is. I don't know where the walls are. It's so dark I can't tell up from down.

 

I want to know what's coming, something solid to grasp onto, but even the tarot cards don't seem to know.

 

So I feel like I'm asking the wrong questions, but I asked the cards what I should be asking and I don't get an answer. Or at least I should clarify that I'm getting circular answers. A leads to B, B leads to C, and C leads to A.

 

I understand about free choice and how it means the future isn't set. And so I go round and round.

 

Has anyone experienced this and did you ever find the question you needed to ask?

 

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[Guest]

ItIt may be time to have someone do a reading for you rather than trying to do readings for yourself.

 

 

 

There are some really intuitive people here that can probably help you break out of your blockage s on the forum with a really good reading.

 

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[Grandma]

Anouk, I am sorry you are in so much pain.  I promise it will get better.  I promise, do you understand?  I know what I am talking about. 

 

The question you should ask the cards is simple: tell me something important and true. 

 

Having someone read for you is a good idea.

 

Would you like me to read for you?

[Grandma]

Anouk you knew this two days ago:

Asking no questions is the more productive path right now since I am currently blocking myself.

Perhaps it's still true.

 

Why don't you take another look at this reading that Raggydoll did for you?  I think it will help.

[Anouk]

I'm ok, I don't mean to sound so dramatic. Sorry to worry you. It's really just the general uncertainty of life. Things aren't really bleak.

 

The readings I've received have been great in showing that I'm on the cusp of something but they're frustratingly vague on details.

 

Repeatedly I've seen that there's a new relationship in my immediate future, but I can't wrap my head around it because I have no one remotely in my circle, and when I try to clarify things go haywire and the tarot readings get weird.

 

There was a potential suggestion of a Réunion with my ex, but I've seen the 3 of swords card around him so many times I know that's not happening. And I've flat out let go of that possibility.

 

And the Ace of Pentacles is chasing me, and I've tried clarifying, slept with the card under my pillow, meditated on it... I just can't understand what it's referring to. Why does it chase me?

 

It's like... I'm on the cusp of something but I have no idea what and I don't know where to focus. I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing.

 

Does that make sense?

 

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[Grandma]

Whew I'm relieved to know that you are okay.  Grandmas worry when the people we love are hurting, you know.

 

I think you are trying too hard to figure out answers when you don't, as you say, know what the questions are.  So I suggest again that the question you need to ask is just that the cards tell you something important and true. 

 

And again, if you want me to read for you now or ever, I will; and if not, that's good too.

[Anouk]

Whew I'm relieved to know that you are okay.  Grandmas worry when the people we love are hurting, you know.

 

I think you are trying too hard to figure out answers when you don't, as you say, know what the questions are.  So I suggest again that the question you need to ask is just that the cards tell you something important and true. 

 

And again, if you want me to read for you now or ever, I will; and if not, that's good too.

I would love for you to read for me, Grandma. I will try your question. I can't right now, but later. .

 

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[Grandma]

Okay, I will read for you tomorrow if you want, or do you mean at some time in the future?  Either way is good - I'm not trying to be pushy!  And you don't need to answer right away.  With luck, I won't see your answer until the morning anyway, but I'm not optimistic about that.  I am attempting with growing desperation but no success to go to bed.  It's two a.m here.  I dread night time and every night lately it's more and more difficult to relax and sleep.   

 

If and when I do read for you, I would like to use the true-and-important question if you don't mind, and a deck to be determined, although I'm leaning toward the Linestrider.

[Anouk]

Please do, Grandma. I feel like I'm going crazy. I'm happy for you to use any deck.

 

Please go to sleep, but later I want to ask why you dread sleep? I do too, because of nightmare hallucinations, but I started sleeping on the other side of my bed and with a nightlight like a child.

 

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[TheFeeLion]

Hi Anouk

 

One question I like to ask when I'm feeling stuck is "what do I need to know/do I order to move forward?" I find that it's really great for giving me insight and something actionable. In saying that, sometimes we are just too close to the situation to be able to see clearly, so having someone else do a reading for you can help provide a bit of clarity (Grandma you are amazing as always!)

 

As for your Ace of Pents, you could always try a card stalker spread (I'm pretty sure it's in the spreads section somewhere, if not let me know and I can find it for you)

[Anouk]

Hi Anouk

 

One question I like to ask when I'm feeling stuck is "what do I need to know/do I order to move forward?" I find that it's really great for giving me insight and something actionable. In saying that, sometimes we are just too close to the situation to be able to see clearly, so having someone else do a reading for you can help provide a bit of clarity (Grandma you are amazing as always!)

 

As for your Ace of Pents, you could always try a card stalker spread (I'm pretty sure it's in the spreads section somewhere, if not let me know and I can find it for you)

Thank you, I found the thread.

 

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[DanielJUK]

Sometimes I have found that tarot doesn't give you a clear answer. There was a period of my life where I could not get a clear message on a question from my own readings and from others. I think there are times when you are not to know or perhaps divination doesn't know, the detailed message is kept from us. Perhaps it's up to us to work it out ourselves or listen to our intuition telling us. I think also something has to happen and then it all changes. In my case, things did change and suddenly all the readings got detailed again. I was sure I was not supposed to know during the "vague" time and I just to deal with it myself  :bugeyed: <3

[Guest]

If one is certain that all of the issues that they're question this about are internal things, things which were having trouble thinking our way through convincing ourself that we should or should not do, it's a good practice to just pull out the major cards and use just them with the four horse men.

 

Just what I would do.

 

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[MysticMoonlight]

I'm ok, I don't mean to sound so dramatic. Sorry to worry you. It's really just the general uncertainty of life. Things aren't really bleak.

 

The readings I've received have been great in showing that I'm on the cusp of something but they're frustratingly vague on details.

 

Repeatedly I've seen that there's a new relationship in my immediate future, but I can't wrap my head around it because I have no one remotely in my circle, and when I try to clarify things go haywire and the tarot readings get weird.

 

There was a potential suggestion of a Réunion with my ex, but I've seen the 3 of swords card around him so many times I know that's not happening. And I've flat out let go of that possibility.

 

And the Ace of Pentacles is chasing me, and I've tried clarifying, slept with the card under my pillow, meditated on it... I just can't understand what it's referring to. Why does it chase me?

 

It's like... I'm on the cusp of something but I have no idea what and I don't know where to focus. I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing.

 

Does that make sense?

 

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Hello Anouk. I just want to say that I relate to your situation and I've been there, recently especially so.

 

When Tarot doesn't help with what I'm wanting to know, over the years I've learned that it's usually because I'm not ready for whatever's next just yet. There are lessons that I still need to learn, knowledge I still yet need to gain, things that need to work themselves out organically before the next stage can become set. For me, it means there are things that I must do first.

 

I've also noticed it's usually involving something I'm trying not to see, something I'm trying to avoid or look over that I must face and deal with before the next door can open for me. It's usually quite difficult and sometimes painful or trying but somehow a necessity. For me, it's almost always about some type of healing. When Tarot does not give the upfront answers, for me, it's because I'm in a cycle of "spinning my wheels" but not getting anywhere so I know I need to get to work on any baggage I'm carrying that's weighing me down or that just simply no longer serves.

 

I see the 3 of Swords as healing after difficulty/pain/trauma. I see the Ace of Pentacles as the spark of growth for a new opportunity involving the material world...job, health, home, finances, etc. A promising seed that's waiting to be tended to and nurtured so that it may sprout and grow and be productive. So maybe, perhaps, after working on healing old traumas or wounds, the new growth/new beginning can occur?

 

I hope this helps in some way. These are just some thoughts based on personal experiences. I wish you the very, very best  ((

 

Just some thoughts that I thought I'd share that may hopefully help.

 

[Grizabella]

My firm belief is that we're not meant to know everything, whether by reading cards ourselves or having others read for us. Some of our life lessons involve learning by doing and by going through some of life's experiences without any way of being sure what will happen next.

 

There's something called "dark night of the soul" where we feel like we're all alone, we can't see where we're going, and it seems that God or the Universe or ("whoever") is up there isn't seeing or hearing the state we're in. Those dark nights of the soul are built into life, kind of. It's like when we're kids learning to ride a bike----someone got you going real fast and then let go and you're on your own whether you skin up your knees or succeed in staying upright and actually riding a bike or not.

[Grandma]

There's something called "dark night of the soul" where we feel like we're all alone, we can't see where we're going, and it seems that God or the Universe or ("whoever") is up there isn't seeing or hearing the state we're in. Those dark nights of the soul are built into life, kind of.

 

Thank you for this, Grizabella.  For me at least, knowing that we all experience these dark nights of the soul makes them somehow less terrifying and lonely, and more tolerable.

[Guest]

Dark night of the soul the fifteenth card...

 

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[Anouk]

Thank you for your replies everyone.

 

My firm belief is that we're not meant to know everything, whether by reading cards ourselves or having others read for us. Some of our life lessons involve learning by doing and by going through some of life's experiences without any way of being sure what will happen next.

 

Which is, of course, the natural state of things. I don't think I was truly able to put it into words, but I did a reading last night and it resulted in me discovering the concept of Ho'onopono, the Hawaiian "art" of forgiving, loving and thanking. This clicked with me and felt like a piece of the puzzle that I was missing. I'm sure there are more pieces, but this has given me something to hang my coat on.

 

When Tarot doesn't help with what I'm wanting to know, over the years I've learned that it's usually because I'm not ready for whatever's next just yet. There are lessons that I still need to learn, knowledge I still yet need to gain, things that need to work themselves out organically before the next stage can become set. For me, it means there are things that I must do first.

 

That rings true. I was feeling from the cards, or readings both my own and others, suggested that something was already happening and I was looking around thinking "what? where". So many of my daily draws lately have been a major arcana, and yet my day to day life is shockingly uneventful. I barely leave the house.

 

Perhaps it's up to us to work it out ourselves or listen to our intuition telling us

 

That's certainly been amongst the messages I've had from the cards, but I don't trust my intuition. I am trying to build it back up. I used to trust it without any doubt, but the last few years (14-15 years I strayed so far from my path, I have no idea where I've ended up.

 

Grandma[/member] I hope you're taking it nice and easy today.  <3