Tarot Reading for V.V.

A while ago I said I would do a Tarot reading for Vassya Vassileva, as much for fun as anything else. Vassya said she would wait till she saw me in the future so as to check up on how her future was progressing. A nice idea. Anyway. Here’s the question I asked:

Question: How’s is Vassya life developing?

This is a very vague question but then I didn’t feel the urge to ask anything more specific.

1. What covers Five of Wands
2. What crosses Three of Cups
3. What crowns Four of Wands
4. What is beneath Four of Swords
5. What is behind Eight of Swords
6. What is before The Lord
7. What is feared Prince of Cups
8. What others feel Four of Pentacles
9. What is wished Five of Swords
10. What may come Ten of cups

My interpretation of the cards
Just glancing at this spread, what is immediately weird for me is the amount of swords present in it. I would have expected a reading concerning Vassya to have more cups than anything else. But perhaps the reason for the amount of swords is because the reading is mostly describing a situation to do with work or study in some way. Anyway, now the cards:

What covers: The card in this position represents the inner state of the situation or individual about which I am enquiring. The card in this position is the five of wands. This card is indicates that you are in a conflict with someone although it is not serious (yet). The conflict may be playful in nature but there is a chance that this can become more serious. Perhaps this indicates that you are currently involved in some kind of inner debate with yourself that you are currently only playing with but that it might actually become something more important to you and something worth acting on in the near future.

What Crosses: This card represents the external situation of the individual or condition I am enquiring about. This cup is the three of Cups and it is associated with friendship celebration and gifts. This card can symbolise success in the arts, an end to difficulties and it can also signify receiving help. This card in this position suggests that you are in a good place in your life. Perhaps. There is some conflict between this situation and your inner self and in this is what is causing the situation represented by the first card.

What Crowns: The card in this position represents the prevailing goal, principle or ideal that guides the current situation. The card here is the four of wands. This card is denoted by the concepts of hearth home and, again, celebration. This card in this position could suggest a couple of things. The first is that you are enjoying the harvests of your work. The second interpretation is that your home or work environment is constraining you too much and you are frustrated and wish for a new environment. Either way what is happening here is some kind of dynamic feeling towards your daily routines and life.

What is Beneath: The card in this position represents the foundation or basis for the situation the individual now finds himself or herself in. This card is the four of swords. This card is associated with retreat, rest and solace. It may suggest that you have recently been through a time of difficulty and that you feel are in need of withdrawing to consider your plans for the future and to reassess some aspect of your life. The contrast between the inner and outer aspects of this card and the last, as with the contrast between the first two cards, suggests that the inner and outer realms are not presently in balance.

What is behind: This card represents influences or situations that have or are passing. This is the eight of swords. This card is depicted by someone trapped bound and blindfolded in a ring of swords. Thus even though the situation looks bad there is all the potential for escape. Escape is therefore dependent on working out what exactly has been restraining you. Perhaps these are beliefs of some sort, or social situations that no longer suit you. The sword is normally associated with the intellect so the suggestion here is that the mind is the key to solving a problem, as opposed to physical action.

What is before: The card in this position represents events that may lie before the person I am enquiring about in the very near future. The card here is that of the Lord. The Lord is the 4th card of the Major Arcana. This card is associated with Fatherhood, structure, authority, leadership, protection, boundaries, accomplishment and order. This is a very curious card to fall in the near future, and hard to place, so I will give a few possibilities. My instinct is to say that this represents a man you will have some form of relationship with in the near future, although this may be some sort of business relationship based on the amount of swords in your reading. Then again it may be a personal relationship with someone you know through work. It is hard to place. Then again this card may represent an official or governmental body that you may have to interact with. The other possibility is that it may represent an occurrence in the near future that will really call upon you to act responsibly in line with your inner principles. The important thing is that it will be a significant occurrence in the near future of this character be it a relationship between yourself and a person, institution or ethics.

What is feared: this card represents what the person I am enquiring about may fear. In this position we see the prince of cups. This card can suggest one of three things. The first is that either you or someone you know is suffering a conflict between what is felt in the heart and what is going on directly around them in the world. This card can also suggest that you are organising or supporting someone who is organising an artistic or social event. It can also suggest a trip across water. I would say that this card in this position suggests that what you fear is this imbalance between what you feel and what you feel inside and what you believe to be going on around you in the world. Either that or there is something going on in your locale that is causing you to feel disturbed.

What others feel: the card in this position represents the opinions of those around us. This card is the four of pentacles and is a reference to money and materiality. Pentacles are concerned with the materiality of the world, and so is the number for concerned with the earth, so this card has a double earthly resonance. This card may well refer to building a business, working on your finances or empire building in the broadest sense of the term. Though there is a certain danger denoted by this card in that there is a suggestion that this might become a preoccupation, a preoccupation that might stem from some form of inward loss. And so this preoccupation may be used as a distraction from something inward that is upsetting you. This card in this position might be an indicator that those closest to you might be worried that you are throwing yourself into you work too much and they are worried that you are doing this in order to escape some aspect of yourself that they may be aware of.

What is Wished: The card in this position may represent either what is desired or what is influencing your current desires and dreams. This card is the five of swords and it is a very odd card to fall in this position. The overtone of this card is defeat, blame, communication breakdown and jealousy. Yet there is also a suggestion in this card that things need to get worse before they can get better. Perhaps you are wishing for an end to a certain situation and the only way that seems likely is through some of the paths mentioned above.

What may come: the card in this position represents the potential outcome of the situation. It is not so much a prediction of the future, but a marker of its potential. The card in this position is the Ten of cups. This is a very good card. All of the tens represent some form of culmination and beginning. The key words for the ten of cups are happiness, love and fulfilment. In some ways this card represents the fulfilment of a promise and a reaffirmation of the way in which life is truly magical. This is represented in the background of this card by a rainbow. What is significant here is the fact that rainbows normally appear after a storm. So there is an indication that bad times must come before this moment of fulfilment. Perhaps this is how this card relates to the previous one, which symbolised what is wished.

Some thoughts on this reading
All in all I found this a very odd spread for Vassya. It doesn’t sound too much like her to me, but then again I don’t know exactly what is going on with he outside of art. There is some significance with the number of fours that have occurred in this reading, but I can’t recall what it is. If anyone knows, please let me know. I’m going to go look into it.

Hexing banks (part three)

You know, ever since I hexed my bank I’ve been having nothing but bad luck with them. And I mean really bad luck with them. It all started with some fuck ups with my bank card and has ended in me having to wait for nearly two months to get it all sorted. Either my bank is run by masonic wizards and they know what I’m doing and are taking counter steps to fuck me up Or I am getting bad Karma as a result of the hexing.
I was talking to a friend who has been into magick for a much longer time than I have. At the time I was jokingly talking to her about hexing my bank she suggested that this was not the best approach. Rather, she suggested sending my bank lots of luck and feel good ecstatic buzz kind of energy so that they would feel an urge to be extra nice to me and help me out where possible. Thinking about her advice I think she might actually have been on to something. I think what she was suggesting was a much more clever way of getting what I wanted without any of the bad luck coming back at me. So today I lifted both the previous hexes I placed on my bank and sent them instead good vibes for a happy weekend.
Lets see how this one develops.

THE TRUTH

Today I was wandering around Belfast with my brother. We were having a nice day, having coffee and catching up with what each other had been up to since we last met up. As we walked down the Dublin Road we passed the phone boxes towards the cinema end of the road. Inside the phone box there was a video propped up. On it’s cover was written in Big letters “The Truth”. In smaller letters were the names of many gods. From Allah and Jesus to Zeus, Apollo and others. I couldn’t believe it. It was obviously a sign put there for me as a Wizard by the powers that be. Luckily I had my camera on me, so I photographed the video. I then picked it up and put it in my bag.
I plan to watch it soon and then engage with whoever put it there. I suspect it is Christian propaganda, as there is a small note on the back of the video sighting some Christian scriptures. What I find fascinating about Christian belief is that within my own paradigm of belief it is fine for Christians to hold there beliefs, yet within their belief system I, as a wizard, am probably damned. I find this quite a sad state of affairs given that my intentions towards life and humanity are positive and well meaning. Therefore I would welcome the opportunity to expand this discussion with the Christians who put the video in the phone box. More on this as it develops. In the mean time check out the photographs of the video in the phone box.

video as I found it in the phonebox on the Dublin Road, Belfast

A bit psychic

This is a small thing but worth mentioning. Today I emailed my friend Julie Bacon as I needed some information from her for a project I am working on. I mailed her to ask her for the information, and just as I sent the email, an email arrived in my inbox with all the information I had requested. We had both emailed each other about the same matter at the exact same time.
A bit psychic I thought!
What do you reckon?

Summoning Trisha

Yesterday I attempted a double summoning at the John Hewitt Bar in Belfast. I was standing outside with my friend Stephen while he was having a cigarette. I hadn’t seen him in ages and we were having a pint. It was really nice to catch up with him. Then it started to rain so he asked me could I use my magickal abilities to summon his friends Tirsha and Sinead BC, whom he was waiting on. So I gave it a go.
Something misfired along the way and I accidentally summoned a Brain Patterson and a Bigit Salling Hansen but then Tisha showed up. One out of two wasn’t bad. I finished my pint and headed off home. In the words of that twat Gordon Ramsey:
“Job done”

Magickal Lull

What a busy few weeks it’s been. SO busy I haven’t managed to do much magick.
This is about to change in the coming week’s however. for while I haven’t been working on Magick, I have been working away in my garage on something magickal, which will reveal itself soon in a short public event.
stay tuned!

Sigil to protect the punks in the park

Today I went for a walk inside my I want to meet interesting people sigil. I met up with my friend Sinead O’Donnell, who I hadn’t seen in ages. Sinead and I went for coffee in a little place called Queens on botanic. It was really nice. There were two eastern European woman working behind the counter who seemed to fine everything I said funny, which put a smile on my face, as it seemed I could do no wrong.
Sinead and I must have spent about three hours sitting in their chatting and drinking coffee. Afterward, we went to the crescent park just around the corner. When we got there I got out my notebook, a piece of chalk, my wizards hat and a sparkler. From my notebook I retrieved the design of a sigil I had recently made. The purpose of the sigil is to protect the punks who hang out in the park. I like the punks, so that was my motivation. I put on my wizards hat, then I drew the sigil on the ground. I stood over it with my sparkler outstretched in my left hand. I lit the sparkler and then held my right hand out over the sigil. I was passing the charge of the fire, earth air energy exchange, which was going on as the sparkler burnt, down through my left arm and out of my right down into the sigil.
As above so below.
I left the sigil on the ground, when it rain’s the rainwater will wash away the sigil and complete the magick. It will then become active.
Sinead took a few photographs of what I was doing, I’ve attached them to this entry for anyone who is interested.

me drawing sigil in the park

Sigil I drew in the park. When it rains the spell will be completed and it will be activated

Hexing Banks (part two)

Not only was I pissed of with previous bank activity. Now they have lost my new bank card on me.
I was so angry I went and got a candle, etched the Abbey national and Santander symbol into it. Above these I drew a turd so that as the candle melted the turd melted and ran all over their logos, there by hexing them with the return of the shitty luck they have recently directed at me.

Tarot Reading for LB

This Tarot Reading is being performed for a Friend. I will not mention him by name, but will refer to him as L.B. Instead of the usual Celtic cross spread I normally use I have instead this time opted to try a new spread: the Romany Spread. The Romany spread is an old spread that provides a more general over view than the Celtic cross spread. It used more cards, but gives less specific information.
There are four houses in the Romany Spread. Each house contains three cards. The Spread is laid out sort of like an X. The three houses are:

What the person I am enquiring brings to the situation (cards 7, 11 & 15)
The recent Past (Cards 14, 10 & 6)
Near Future (Cards 3, 1 & 2)
The Natural Future (Cards 4, 8 & 12)
The Alternative Future (Cards 13, 9, 5)

I will deal with each house in turn and try to make some reading of it. The question I asked was: Can you give me a general overview of the progression of L.B’s life.

I will begin the reading with what the Querent brings to the situation:

What the person I am enquiring about brings to the situation
The cards in this house represent some of the innate characteristics of the person. It can also reveal factors from childhood and the like which continue to influence the peron’s being. The cards in this house are as follows:
Ten of Pentacles
King of Cups
Justice
The Ten of cups is a card associated with blessings, prosperity and also legacy. In a reading this card may indicate that you are either in receipt of a legacy or else you are trying to create one, either for your family or a wider community of people. So in terms of the cards position in this reading, the card may indicate someone who is very giving but gives with a sense of purpose: i.e. to create something lasting.
The King of Cups represents either someone involved in the arts, or else artistic accomplishment. If this card does not represent a person then it may represent either a spiritual group, or a group of people concerned with some kind of ritual, therapeutic of cultural project. It can also signify involvements in the arts. If the card represents a person then it represents someone of fair complexion who is wise, compassionate and possesses artistic sensibility. It represents someone who has directed their creativity towards socially responsible goals. It represents someone who as mastered their feelings and places responsibility before his own personal need for self-expression. This may create conflict in the person’s life because the life he has built around himself may keep him away form the source of his creative inspiration, which is emotional involvement in the world.
Justice Is denoted by the words: discrimination, balance, poise, choice, decision, judgement, clarity, fairness & action born of understanding. I think this says it all really.
These three cards all lean in the same direction in terms of meaning. Together they can be read to suggest that the L.B. is someone one who has an innate sense of purpose. They are a giving person, but someone who gives in a measured way i.e. to enhance the world around them rather than simply for the fact of giving. It also suggests that they are ruled by their mind although the have a very deep and rich emotional quality which is less often seen.

The recent Past (Cards 14, 10 & 6)
The next set of cards deals with the recent past. The cards in this house are:
Three of wands
Seven of Pentacles
The Fferyllt
The three of wands is a card associated with Enterprise and confidence. It denotes realising a project or achieving goals. This card can also denote favourable financial returns and the ability to realise long terms goals if you have just embarked on a long-term project. The card can also suggest that L.B. is looking for an overview of a situation and that this might involve travel to initiate a new venture. As this is the recent past, I think, from my knowledge, this card is quite apt.
The Seven of Pentacles can be read in two ways. At its root is the idea of harvesting. It can be read to be either suggesting that if you have been working hard that you can now begin to take a break and being to enjoy the fruits of your labour, just as a farmer would take joy in bringing in his harvest. The other meaning with this card is that of clearing away unnecessary clutter from your life, or to take stock of a situation before moving forward.
The Ffyerllt is essentially a druidic alchemist. This is a card of the major arcana and in more traditional decks this card is represented by Temperance. The concept of temperance should not necessarily be associated with refraining from pleasures, but rather is it about control. The word temperance stems from the Latin temperare, which means to blend and harmonise opposing factors. This card essentially denotes harmony and successful creative endeavour. It also urges the many different aspects of ones being to cease being separate and become instead one alchemical entity.
These three cards together in the house of the recent past suggest that L.B. was in recent times seeking to move beyond somewhere or something. He felt the need to clear the brushwood from his life and find a vantage point on some aspect of his life. The Card of the Fferyllt in this respect can also be seen in another aspect here. For the major arcane can be seen as containing a series of three cycles. The Fferyllt is the final card of the second cycle of the major arcana. In this respect the card can be seen to symbolise here, not only an alchemy of our being but also some form of submission to the spirit. In this sense the card represents the completion of some aspect of an inner struggle or cycle of life and in so doing represents a move towards a new phase of being in ones life.

Near Future (Cards 3, 1 & 2)
The cards of the near future usually represent events that will transpire within the next three months or so. They are:
The three of Pentacles
The high Priest
The eight of Cups
The three of pentacles is associated with some form of monetary gain, normally through some form of skilled labour. It also represents some form of appreciation or recognition for ones endeavours. This card is essentially about increase, about building upon the foundations of what has been done before, it is this aspect of the card that we draw the idea of craft from. The card can also be associated with repairs to housing. You might be thinking about either decorating or renovating where you are currently living.
The High Priest is another card of the major arcana. It is the counter part of The high Priestess. The high priest is sometimes associated with marriage. However, if he is, it is normally the legal and outward ceremonial affairs surrounding the marriage that he is symbolising rather than the union itself. The card may also signify a yearning for some form of spiritual marriage i.e. between the physical and spiritual worlds. In this sense the card can also represent either an established spiritual order or individual that can guide or advise the searcher on his quest for spiritual union. In this sense the card may represent a person who will make himself known to the L.B. in the next three months or so. The card can also represent the wider world of formal knowledge, education and academic establishments. So it might also represent a quest for this rather than spiritual knowledge. Again it may represent some form of mentor who may appear in L.B’s life in the coming months.
The Either of Cups suggests that either a project or a relationship has fulfilled its purpose and it’s time to move on. Yet moving away from something is not necessarily negative, it is not about rejection but choosing what we embrace. This card can be read to mean that the goals you are working towards no longer satisfy you and so it can even suggest that you are looking for something more meaningful to fill your life. This card again hints at the idea of some form of mystical union of marriage and can be read to suggest that you may require either a retreat or holiday in which to recharge yourself and perhaps even rededicate your sense of purpose.
All in all these cards altogether bode well. They represent progression, achievement, recognition and perhaps even guidance in the near future. They also suggest self-evaluation, which is something that was sought in the cards of the recent past, so in some way it suggests that the near future will fulfil past desires.

The Natural Future (Cards 4, 8 & 12)
Now we move too the natural future. These cards represent the future, as it is most likely to transpire if we continue on as we are doing. The cards in this house are:
The Ten of Swords
The five of Wands
The Princess of Swords
The Ten of Swords is a card I always think of as being a down right nasty. This card represents nadir. Usually through some form of betrayal or slander. It can also indicate that you are the subject of unmerited hatred or malicious acts. It can suggest that a long-term situation may have come to an end. Be it either in terms of a relationship, business arrangement, career, job etc. Yet these is some positive aspect of this card as it represents the lowest point you can reach, so after what may transpire you will be in the beginning of a new phase on the road upwards. The card can also be read to represent not so much a situation as the way one may react in the world to a situation. I.e. it may represent a rather immature reaction to the ending of a situation, through which you bring about your own moment of nadir. As such the card could be read as a warning against such a reaction in the future.
The five of Wands is a card of conflict. However this conflict tends to be playful and creative rather than threatening, at present anyway. This card suggests that you are either involved in some kind of playful competition either with colleagues or friends, or that you are involved in a battle of wits with someone. Wands are creative, generous, fiery cards, yet they can also be combative. So there is a warning here not to let whatever the situation is escalate from play to something more serious. In a sexual relationship this card can also represent passion and wild exploits.
The princess of cups, if representing a person represents a woman who tends to take a detached view of life. While this can be helpful as if provides her with objectivity that allows for clarity and discrimination, it can also work against her as others may perceive her as being aloof or distant. This card may represent someone you know or someone you are communicating with especially via electronic media such as phone or Internet. Who ever it is they may well excel at communication skills and verbal diplomacy. They will be bright and agile and enjoy intellectual challenges and team sports. If this card does not represent a person then it indicates a new phase in our intellectual life. A new impulse to learn or a fresh viewpoint on your being that is just dawning.
Read together these card could be seen to suggest that you need to be aware of your relationship with either the person or business situation represented by the Princess of Swords, because, if left on checked, it may escalate into the situation suggested by the Ten of Swords. The answer may not necessarily be to brake communication or relations with this person or situation. Rather some advice may be offered with the final cards.

The Alternative Future (Cards 13, 9, 5)
The Cards of the alternative future do not necessarily represent a different reality that may occur, but more what one may bring into the development of the future so as to avoid any mishaps that may be projected by the previous cards. The cards in the house of the alternative future are:
Nine of Cups
Rebirth
Prince of Wands
The nine of cups suggests that you have realised a dream of fulfilled a long held wish. You may be experiencing a period of great happiness and emotional satisfaction. Yet with all this, the card suggests that you may either have forgotten someone or are feeling strangely alone even despite the prosperous situation. In general though the card suggests a rewarding and emotional life. The card also warns against complacency in such situations and therefore may have some bearing on the card in the previous house.
Rebirth is a very powerful symbol. It is tied up in the mysteries of birth and death, regeneration, redemption, renewal and reaping. In traditional Tarot decks this card is known as Judgement. The key to this card lies in the symbol of the trumpet. This card suggests that you have heard the call of your vocation, your mission in life, the spiritual path you are seeking or simply the call of a new direction you know you must take. Essentially the card is a call to change to some form of being that is more your own and more fully at one with your existence. It also indicates that the change is already underway, that you are in the process of being reborn. But is can also indicate that a decision must be taken. You may have come to a crossroads and the cards may indicate that you are called to make a decision about the future. In light of the previous house this card may again be warning for you to act with clarity in your decisions, to follow your inner voice.
The Prince of wands if representing as person, represents someone who is passionate, eager and rebellious. It tends to represent someone who is either in the later teens to mid twenties who takes much joy in initiating situations but is not so fond of fine detail. As such this person can make a passionate but uncommitted lover. If this card does not represent a person then it may indicate challenges, travel moving house, putting ideas in action or meeting interesting people. It is hard to place this card in a reading. It may suggest someone you either know or are yet to meet. The person may either be an aid to you in your future situation or the cause of the disruption suggested by the previous house. It is hard to tell. If it does not represent a person then it represents a phase of interesting times for you.
All three cards together seem to suggest a period or exciting renewal and comfort in ones life. If these cards are read in relation to the previous house then one might see them as suggesting against complacency in ones being either towards situations at hand or ones own inner calling to self-realisation.

As a total over view the cards suggest a pretty steady progression from your innate character, through the recent past and into the close future. There does seem to be some suggestion of potential disruption over the next year or so in your coming future. This may relate to a woman and/or man the first of dark complexion and the second of fair complexion. Other than this disruption, which is potentially avoidable through consideration of the alternative future cards, there seems to be a pretty clear progression from past desires to future fulfilment. All in all this is quite a positive reading.