My husband and I are househunting, a process that is frustrating and nerve-jangling. We looked at a house the other day that we considered putting an offer on, but we weren't totally sure about even after a thorough viewing and much discussion. This post, then, is about the reading I decided to do in hopes of clarifying whether this house was THE house.
digression: I actually rarely do readings for myself on important issues, or on issues with a lot of personal investment involved, because frankly I'm often afraid to see what the cards will say. Afraid they'll be right; afraid they'll tell me something I don't want to hear; afraid they'll be wrong and I'll make the wrong decision. I often wonder if other tarot readers feel the same way, or if they are more confident about their abilities. It's obviously one of the things one has to deal with before one goes professional, and now just as obvious that I myself am not a professional reader.
I call this the four-card three-card spread because I meant to draw three cards and only realized when I turned them over that an extra one had gone down with the first card. I looked at the two card that had come out the way I expected to deal them first: the Queen of Cups and the Two of Swords. In the Legend Arthurian Tarot, which I was using, the Queen is Britannia, the personification of the land, and that combines with the decision--and indecision--of the Two described my state of mind. I was looking for a place to put down roots and identify with, and i needed to trust my intuition with this decision.
The two-in-one cards were the Three and Four of Shields. They were reversed, though I hadn't meant to work with reversed cards in this spread. The Three in this deck, titled The Homespun Tunic and depicting Parsifal's mother sewing his shirts, I always associate with work done in the domestic sphere. The Four establishes a home base and a solid foundation (oddly enough, solid foundations have been an issue in our search, as most houses we've seen haven't had very bad foundations).
As it turns out, these cards were an accurate description of the situation, as by the next afternoon the house had another offer on it, so because we could not decide, the decision was made for us. We still don't have that place to root into. However, the hesitation was due to this house not being the eight one for us (hence the cards that were reversed), which is born out by the fact that there was only a little disappointment at the news it was off the market, mostly based the decision being taken out of our hands then by losing the house.
Truth spoken again.
