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Seven of Pentacles - Ten of Cups – Hierophant

1 Wondering whether he would be happy if he were respectable.

2 Trying to figure out how respectable people can be happy.

1 Wondering whether he would be happy if he were respectable.

Wondering whether he would be ... if he were – Seven of Pentacles

happy – Ten of Cups

respectable. - Hierophant

Seven of Pentacles - Hierophant

2 Trying to figure out how respectable people

Trying to figure out how – Seven of Pentacles

respectable people – Hierophant

(Note: Both Hierophant and Ten of Cups are about being respectable, being good people.)

(Note: Today’s spread is an example of how a spread in a given question can be phrased and interpreted in more than one way. It happens all the time. It can depend on the sequence in which you read the spread, and in Tarot Verbatim that can be any sequence because Tarot Verbatim focuses on what it says in language and reads the spreads in that sequence.)

Seven of Pentacles wonders and tries to figure out. His plant may or may not bear since a bee is going to have to visit it at just the right time with pollen from another such plant on its legs. Today in context Seven of Pentacles says both ‘Wondering whether he would be, if he were’ and ‘Trying to figure out how.’

Ten of Cups is colloquially called the happily ever after card because it goes out of its way to show a happy marriage, so it means ‘happy’ and ‘be happy’ a lot.

Hierophant as the pope is respectable. How can you not assume that? It stands for anything respectable people can be and do.

TWO-CARD COMBINATIONS

Seven of Pentacles - Ten of Cups – Hierophant

1 Wondering whether he would be happy if he were respectable.

Seven of Pentacles and Ten of Cups

wondering whether he would be happy

wondering whether he would be – Seven of Pentacles

happy – Ten of Cups

Seven of Pentacles and Hierophant

wondering whether he would be – Seven of Pentacles

respectable. - Hierophant

Ten of Cups and Hierophant

happy and respectable

happy – Ten of Cups

respectable – Hierophant

Seven of Pentacles - Hierophant – Ten of Cups

2 Trying to figure out how respectable people can be happy.

Seven of Pentacles - Hierophant

2 Trying to figure out how respectable people

Trying to figure out how – Seven of Pentacles

respectable people – Hierophant

Seven of Pentacles - Ten of Cups

2 Trying to figure out how to be happy.

Trying to figure out how – Seven of Pentacles

to be happy. - Ten of Cups

Hierophant – Ten of Cups

2 Respectable people can be happy.

Respectable people can – Hierophant

be happy. - Ten of Cups

Nine of Swords - Nine of Wands - Three of Cups

These are fearful times, when you hang in there the best you can until you are profitable in your business with like-minded people.

These are fearful times, - Nine of Swords

when you hang in there the best you can until - Nine of Wands

you are profitable in your business with like-minded people. - Three of Cups

Nine of Swords When you can't even get a good night's sleep, these are fearful times.

Nine of Wands is when you have already taken a loss and are still under threat of attack, when you hang in there the best you can until there's a favorable shift in an unfavorable situation, like our border guard who is still on duty with a fresh head wound.

Three of Cups is when you are profitable in your business with like-minded people, celebrating and saluting your joint success together. Story here is that the gals pooled their money and abilities, grew pumpkins, harvested them, sold them, and split the profits still as good friends.

TWO-CARD COMBINATIONS

Nine of Swords - Nine of Wands - Three of Cups

These are fearful times, when you hang in there the best you can until you are profitable in your business with like-minded people.

Nine of Swords - Nine of Wands

These are fearful times, when you hang in there the best you can until

These are fearful times, - Nine of Swords

when you hang in there the best you can until - Nine of Wands

Nine of Swords - Three of Cups

In these fearful times, you are profitable in your business with like-minded people.

In these fearful times, - Nine of Swords

you are profitable in your business with like-minded people. - Three of Cups

Nine of Wands - Three of Cups

You hang in there the best you can until you are profitable in your business with like-minded people.

You hang in there the best you can until - Nine of Wands

you are profitable in your business with like-minded people. - Three of Cups

Queen of Wands - Page of Pentacles - Chariot
Wife sees him as the one in charge.
Wife - Queen of Wands
sees - Page of Pentacles
him as the one in charge. - Chariot

(Page of Pentacles translates as 'sees' and it also means 'him,' so we have an overlap.)

Queen of Wands is the wife, the main card for that. She is at home with her cat, has that alert look 'the woman of the house' should sport, has a flower in one hand and a big stick in the other. Watch her show up for the wife as well as the woman who lives there, the female manager, and a sensible woman.

Page of Pentacles sees and thinks ... and is. These are the main functions of Page of Pentacles. As a page, he is image conscious because other people's confidence in him paves his way to knighthood. He sees and thinks because of the way he stares at and studies that pentacle he holds in his face.

Chariot is the one in charge because charioteers directed both the battle (as they manned its main weapon, the tank of its day) and the war (the strategies for the whole war, all the battles).

TWO-CARD COMBINATIONS

Queen of Wands - Page of Pentacles - Chariot
Wife sees him as the one in charge.

Queen of Wands - Page of Pentacles
Wife sees
Wife - Queen of Wands
sees - Page of Pentacles

Queen of Wands - Chariot
Wife as the one in charge
Wife - Queen of Wands
as the one in charge - Chariot

Page of Pentacles - Chariot
sees him as the one in charge
sees - Page of Pentacles
him as the one in charge - Chariot

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magician loses control of spirits

magician – Magician

loses control of spirits – Seven of Cups

he confuses himself

he – Magician

confuses – Seven of Cups

himself – Magician

he is confused

he – Magician

is confused – Seven of Cups

black magic

black magic*

*Seven of Cups is conjured evil spirits who escaped;

it is the Sorcerer’s Apprentice story.

*Magician is a magician

doing all sorts of things

doing – Magician

all sorts of things – Seven of Cups

doing something bizarre

doing – Magician

something bizarre – Seven of Cups

magician conjures

magician – Magician

conjures – Seven of Cups

bringing down spirits

bringing down – Magician

spirits – Seven of Cups

he makes a mess of things

he makes a – Magician

mess of things – Seven of Cups

he made a mess of

He made – Magician

a mess of – Seven of Cups

doing all kinds of different things

doing – Magician

all kinds of different things – Seven of Cups

He gets/He brings about cooperation

He gets/He brings about – Magician

cooperation. – Ace of Cups

he brings peace*

he brings – Magician

peace – Ace of Cups

*(Yes, Magician ‘brings down’ and ‘brings’)

do the routine

do – Magician

the routine – Hierophant

do what you usually do

do – Magician

what you usually do – Hierophant

do what is usually done

do – Magician

what is usually one – Hierophant

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