We often use the Tarot to unpack grand truths, delve into our wildest curiosities… and of course, unpack our true feelings about someone or something else.
But what about the other side?
Ever wondered, “How do they feel about me?” Your relationship with someone else (whether romantic, platonic, or something else entirely) is a two-way street, and empathizing with another point of view can give you a unique perspective on the situation at hand.
However, rather than pop into someone’s true thoughts and feelings unannounced, you can instead use Tarot to fairly dissect your relationship with someone with both sides of the situation with your Tarot deck as a trusty mediator.
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Think of someone else you’d like to explore a connection with beforehand and ask your Tarot deck to illuminate the feelings that will best help you proceed with the relationship productively.
Then, lay your cards out in this fashion:
What are my true intentions for the connection?What are their true intentions for the connection?What do I want from the connection?What do they want from the connection?Where are we most aligned in our feelings?Where are we least aligned in our feelings?Need a bit more direction on what to do from here? Let’s see an example of what the spread may look like in practice.
In other words, the 7 of Cups may be interpreted as having potentially inconclusive intentions, or at best, more open-minded intentions towards what the connection could become.
These intentions are positive and pragmatic, but sometimes harder to notice if your vision of affection is more dramatic or larger in scale.
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Thankfully, this would align well with the Knight of Pentacles from earlier, as their intentions match what you’d be looking for in someone else.
Love and all the bounty it can bring is overall what this other person wants from the connection. Although their intentions come off as more grounded and practical than the earlier Knight of Pentacles, this card supports the fact that their feelings are also true and more aligned with romance as well.
Additionally, as The Hierophant is the merger between the unseen (emotions, spirituality, and so on) and the practical, and therefore can signify things like contracts and institutions, it may be a good sign for marriage or eventual long-term commitments.
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The Magician shows us how we create and manifest, and even with similar end goals, you can still go after similar things with different techniques and methods. This part of the spread can help illuminate disagreements or difficulties but isn’t necessarily the “end all be all” of the connection.
Now, you know what to work through and look out for, as well as how you can compromise using the things you have in common as a starting point!
At the end of the day, everyone has different points of view and experiences connections and relationships differently. When we approach a reading with an open heart and mind — and are ready to perceive different perspectives with love and compassion — our Tarot readings prosper as a result too!
Although it can be difficult to approach readings about such deeply-ridden emotions and matters of the heart with objectivity, sometimes the key is compassion and the knowledge that your intuition will guide you to where it needs to go — just like with any other reading!
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