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7 of Wands: Tremendous Obstacles in Your Path

7 of wands tarot card

We all need a reality check sometimes.

The 7 of Wands tarot card may well show up to give you a reality check. It’s not your imagination, you’re not being overly dramatic, and you are not overreacting. There really are tremendous obstacles in your path. You really have hit a wall. To proceed as you had hoped to proceed may not be possible. You may need to abandon the hopes you had, and find something new to pursue. That’s just life.

Things don’t always go the way we had hoped. We get reality checks that force us to consider alternatives and new ideas. If we can find those alternatives perhaps we will feel liberated. If we cannot, we will likely suffer from frustration. The 7 of wands tarot card reminds us that we all have these setbacks in the quest of our goals. We all have those occasions when he have to face reality and understand what we hope for simply is not possible, so do not take it personally. — Jim Larsen

Chariot: When a Wheel is Lost

The Chariot Tarot Card

Staying Motivated

Sometimes it can feel like your chariot has lost a wheel. You know what we want to do and what you want to accomplish, but somehow can’t seem to motivate yourself to do it. Although we can visualize the steps needed to take in order to get what we want, we are having difficulty getting up and getting moving. This is when our chariot has lost a wheel.

We need to put that wheel back on so we can get busy. Great accomplishments don’t just happen all on their own. No. They are the result of effort- the effort we put into it. We need to find the motivation for that effort. Remind yourself that if you don’t find that motivation, all you are is somebody who had dreams, but not the wherewithal to make those dreams come true. Is that really how you want to be thought of?

Or would you rather project the image of somebody who had a vision of what they could accomplish without letting anything stop them? There is so much more to be said about somebody who accomplishes their dreams than there is about somebody who dreams without action, disallowing their dreams to become reality. Ultimately, it is your choice how you want people to think of you.

Be that person- the accomplisher, not the procrastinator. Secure all the wheels on your chariot, and accomplish your dreams. –Jim Larsen

10 of Swords: Your Words Can Stab Like Daggers

Painful Words

The 10 of Swords tarot card reminds us that the words we use can be as sharp as daggers when you are careless with them or use them to inflict damage. Are you throwing words at people, trying to hurt them? Are you unaware that you are doing this? Because sometimes, intentionally or not, that is what you are doing. When you are careless with your words, speaking them to somebody without being mindful of a difficult time they are going through or triggering something within them that you could not have known about. Be mindful of this. Take care to handle these daggers gently as you hand them to somebody.

Verbal Attacks

These word daggers represented by the 10 of swords tarot card become exceptionally sharp when they are thrown intentionally. Harsh words can stab into a person unlike anything else. They can cause injury that may never heal. Be careful how you give somebody criticism. Do so in a way that does not inflict mortal damage. This is a powerful reminder from the 10 of swords tarot card.
— Jim Larsen

The Devil Tarot Card: Past the Darkness to the Light

The Devil Tarot Card

The Devil as pain we don’t want to experience again

The Devil tarot card may represent a question you are simply afraid to seek an answer to. Perhaps this is an issue you have experienced before and it was painful to you. You are now faced with a similar situation where you fear it may go in the direction of pain again, but at the same time, it could easily go in the direction of positivity and happiness.

Looking at this situation, you are conditioned to expect the negative outcome. This is fear and worry. It is not a dark shadow void of light. This is a shadow in its last seconds of darkness before the light overtakes it. Instead of fearfully retreating from it, barrel through it. Let it surprise you. By retreating you deny yourself the opportunity to prosper from the positive outcome. By facing this fear you get through the shadow.

Never stay stuck in darkness

When faced with the fear that a situation will go in a negative direction, visualize the light. Instead of letting the fear slow you down, let the optimism of the light propel you. Use the light as fuel to drive you.

In this way you will succeed. In this way, you will excel.


By accepting fear, you will always stay stuck and stagnate. In life, we are meant to move forward. Always move towards the light. Never stay stuck in the darkness, the shadow. Don’t let fear rule you. Don’t let fear dictate your growth. — Jim Larsen

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Judgment Tarot Card: The Assessment is Complete

Judgment Tarot Card

Judgment as Evaluation

The judgment card can be like a cosmic command of “Put your pencils down and hand in your test.” How did you do? Did you learn the lessons that circumstances and challenges were designed to teach you? Or do you need another chance to learn them and integrate them into who you are? The time has come to assess where you are, what your standings are, what you accomplished, what you need to work on, and what comes next. This is not a harsh judgment. It is an evaluation of what you have accomplished on your personal path to enlightenment.

Judgment offers the opportunity to grow

If the assessment represented by the Judgment card indicates you have something to work on, remember, you have the opportunity to grow. You have the chance to take that next step. Are you taking it? Are you taking full advantage of the resources at your disposal? You have complete free will. Are you using your free will for the high road or the low? Are you using it to pursue highest and greatest good, or are you letting opportunities slip through your hands? Examine your circumstances. Appreciate the opportunities before you. Make the most of them. Aim high. Hear the call, then answer the call.

How do you know your assessment?

With Judgment representing an assessment, how do you know what your assessment is? You do this by considering where you want to be as contrasted by where you are. Have you achieved what you set to achieve? Are you respected as you feel you should be respected? Are you doing the things you would like to be doing? Do you feel good about who you are and how you relate to your environment and to others? If so, you can confidently say you have passed the assessment offered by the Judgment archetype. If something here is lacking, then there is more to work on. Work on it until it feels right to you. — Jim Larsen

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The World Tarot Card: The Fool Becomes Enlightened

The World Tarot Card
The World Tarot Card

The Fool has learned many lessons on the way to the World

The Fool on his path to the World endures much. Some joys, some pains, some ecstasy and some misery. Through it all, he is learning the lessons that will eventually lead to his enlightenment.

Enlightenment means to know the true nature of all things. This means knowing the true nature of your own feelings, your emotions, what motivates and what triggers you. It also means to know the true nature of nature itself and how the self fits into the grand scheme of it all. It means to understand the motivations of others and to understand why they act the way they do and why they do the things they do.

When you understand these things, when you see the truth about these things, you no longer take any of it personally. You accept what is without judgment. This is a very Stoic way to see the world. People are what they are. You are what you are. Nature is what nature is. Suffering comes from trying to change it when it cannot be changed. Change what you can change and adapt to the parameters of what you cannot. When you do, suffering comes to an end. When suffering comes to an end, you are enlightened. You are that Fool who has reached the World. — Jim Larsen

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The Tower- The Power of Lightning

tower tarot card

Keeping us on the right path

The lightning bolts in the Tower tarot card are dramatic. They instigate the crumbling of our false beliefs are absolutely necessary. With nothing to open our eyes to the reality that what we are living is far from our best interest, we will continue down paths that take us nowhere we need to be, and far from where we need to be.  Therefore, these lightning bolts are essential to pushing us back onto the path we most need to be on. When the tower tarot card comes up for you, ponder where you are in relation to where you most need to be —Jim Larsen

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The Fool- Take Risks, Take Chances

The Fool Tarot Card

Don’t be afraid to walk off a cliff

The Fool follows his instincts, and he knows his instincts will not lead him in a bad direction. Therefore, if his instincts lead him to step off a cliff, he knows that ultimately, he is meant to step off that cliff even if by reasoning of rational mind, it makes no sense to step off the cliff, he knows intuitively that it’s best and will understand why later. This is how the Fool ultimately finds success, but stepping off cliffs if his intuition tells him to. The cliff, of course, is just a metaphor. Don’t literally walk off cliffs, of course. You do have to have some common sense, but don’t be afraid to take chances. –Jim Larsen

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The Fool- No Expectations

The Fool Tarot Card

The Fool can be whatever they want to be

As the number zero, there is no expectation placed upon the Fool, therefore the Fool can be anything it desires to become. Perhaps the Fool does not have an expectation of what it wants to become. This is ideal, for now it can discover, without hinderances, what it is meant to be. By following their own instincts and intuition, the Fool is not bound by any predetermined ideas or expectations of who they should be or how they should live their life.

With zero, nothing can be taken away, because there is nothing to subtract- no preconceived expectations and no ideas of how things ought to be. Without these expectations placed upon you, you are free to discover for yourself what is meaningful, pertinent, relevant and authentic to you.

For example, if you live in a society that places great emphasis on the outcome of a sporting events, say, a football team, and this society cheers for its victory, mourns for its losses, and overall allows the outcome of each game to effect its overall mood, you will inevitably get sucked into the mindset in the interest of being a part of that society is important to you. So, you are what society expects you to be. But are you authentic? Is this intrinsic to your true soul-level nature?

Deep within you, you know the outcome of this sporting event is of no consequence whatsoever. Deep within you, you know that your life is much more meaningful, in a way that is important to you, with things that are important to you. As a Fool, you know you must move beyond the expectations of society to find what those things are, and then to live them.

The Fool is not afraid to follow their own intuition to discover their authentic self. Those who break out of the boxes society has put them in to discover their authentic self, and by doing so, live a much more satisfactory. — Jim Larsen

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