Tarot Today (feat. Olden L. Smith)
The Sun, The Fool, and The Star (and Charlie) join us on this rainy New England morning to celebrate the Tarot. February 3rd, 2022
(Pixie here. Just letting you know that per usual Olden has failed to give me credit where credit is due. I helped him save this reading today by showing him the library. And yeah, Olden’s telling me that it’s true now. You should have heard him apologize. Olden just sat down at that library keyboard like a big man. I think he’s finally going to start writing now. I just keep reading fiction.)
The Portal — Eight of Coins
Olden here. I am borrowing a library computer and I normally don’t do this. I prefer typewriting. So if my language appears harsh and abnormally sharp, it’s because I’m working fast. However, for the sake of giving proper Tarot readings in honor of Pixie, we’re going to try flowing this way today and see how it goes. It may reach more people and therefore increase my service area.
Do you see that blurry photo above? Don’t look for too long as it will strain your eyes. It’s because of the Internet here, I think. Anyway, the Eight of Pentacles has been working around the clock. The good news is, the mundane work is about to come to an end. So for now, just keep on grinding.
Card #1 — Queen of Swords
We have the Queen of Swords here right off the bat offering her concerns for the many changes happening recently as a result of said hard work. Some disrupting force has come in and shaken things up.
Card #2 — The Sun
Whatever force this is that’s shaking things, it’s backed by The Sun. Number 19. Major Arcana. Some Tarot practitioners call this the happiest card in the deck. All cards are happy depending on the way you think, though The Sun makes it easy to celebrate new beginnings, victory, attainment of wisdom, and prosperity. Mustn’t forget healing comes from The Sun, too.
Card #3 — Page of Cups
Jacques Le Gris, the snake in the grass that he is — pretends to be a man with a message. In truth, he is here to collect.
He has come to steal your most brilliant plot of land, which is legally part of your wife’s dowry. Le Gris shall take your captainship, which you have been working toward earning, for years.
And once you complain about this to the King, Captain Le Gris will take this as a slight, and plans to rape your beautiful wife while you’re out of town. Even though you are sick from battle, you must collect this coin as payment for becoming a knight. This requires a few day’s ride to Paris. You go, even though you are wounded from battle and sick, to collect this coin to provide for your wife and family. While you are gone, your mother decides to take all maids with her into town. During this time, Le Gris uses trickery to slither his way into your home where he shall take your wife, ignoring all screams to stop, destroying her life.
You return to find all this out, how your wife was traumatized, and now you must duel this man to death because Le Gris won’t admit to his crimes. You must force a knife into this man’s mouth, and shove it up into his brain, to make sure he’s dead. This will save your wife’s life for accusing Le Gris of rape, and clear your name. It will also make you rich and famous and favored by the King of France. Which is a good thing, because he’s mad.
Just remember when your carotid artery gets severed by Le Gris during the duel, and blood spurts everywhere — that this wound may have killed that soldier in Black Hawk Dawn, but it sure as hell won’t stop Sir Jean de Carrouges from killing Le Gris and clearing his wife’s name.
Sir Jean has been mocked and demoted and displaced and dishonored, and through all of this earned his knighthood, not to be mocked by this puny squire Le Gris, who was promoted to captain when Sir Jean should have been the one.
“Olden, you know this has nothing to do with the Page of Cups. Have you been watching The Last Duel again?”
“Yes, Pixie,” I said. “I love Ridley Scott. He’s 84, like Charlie.”
“Please write about duels at home on your typewriter. Doing this here is an error. People don’t have the time for it. We’re here to manage the Tarot for those who want a reading.”
“You’re right.”
“Of course I’m right. Now I know you love movies, Olden. I do too. Just not the same ones that you like. As you are a lumbering man. You like manly things, and that means you like Ridley Scott movies like The Last Duel, Gladiator, and that previously mentioned Black Hawk Down.”
“Have you seen Blade Runner?”
“No, not yet. Only the one by Villeneuve, because he’s French.”
“Blade Runner 2049 is an excellent film, Pixie. Though the original Blade Runner has a number of Easter eggs you may appreciate. And the film is quite beautiful. An entire city was built from scratch to give the impression that it was 2019 back in 1982. As there were no green screens then. Even the Gold Room from the Shining was used in Blade Runner’s production.”
“That’s not possible.” Pixie said.
“It’s true. The Gold Room was used. And Ridley Scott even used Stanley Kubrick’s helicopter footage from The Shining for the outro credits.”
“Stanley Kubrick made The Shining?”
“Yes Pixie, he did.”
“The same director that did Eyes Wide Shut?”
“Yes. He’s also the same director that filmed Barry Lyndon. I recall you appreciating the lighting in that film as it was managed by candles. Did you know Barry Lyndon the character came from nothing?”
“Olden, this is not a film critique. Although I love it, I’m taking over now.”
Pixie here. I do thank you for your patience. Olden has a tendency to go on and on, and if you don’t stop him, and tell him he’s been a good boy, he won’t get the hint and he’ll just keep rambling because he thinks he’s magical. He’s a Fool. And his card is coming. Just you wait.
Card #3 — Page of Cups (finally)
Ahh, the refreshing truth, presented to you by Pixie. Sponsored by Ada Lovelace. It’s true. Ada has been helping me with all the formatting. She’s a computer expert.
The Page of Cups brings a message that indicates the first steps in a romantic endeavor. Which would explain how strange Olden is acting. He’s putting this out there for his children, that’s true. We know this and he says it all the time. We know Olden, we hear you, just stop talking about it now, please.
According to the Page of Cups, Olden put a message out there for love yet he hasn’t announced it. In fact, he’s trying to cover it up. Like there were secrets I don’t know about or something. Hence, Olden is The Fool. I suppose it could work. The Fool has been known to attract love through the show and tell if nothing else. Though I look at Olden and I see shyness. His steps are always awkward. Though I must say, his intentions are sincere. Let’s clarify this a bit more.
Card #4 — Knight of Wands
This is a king who has lost everything and now sits on his throne. When I say his throne, it acts as an energy marker. To let you understand that the king is active like the wands, and the queen is passive like the cups. We are discussing energies here.
We are also discussing direction. The King appears to be looking to the left when it is actually stage right. He’s speaking to the Page of Cups and the Page of Cups is looking at The Sun. The Queen of Swords is on the other end of all this, and she is trying to explain to everyone to turn around and speak with the King of Wands, as he is here to invest his assets into future projects.
Choose to face the King of Wands, and negotiate, and it leads to…
Card #5 — Three of Cups
Calling for joyful social contact. The Three of Cups depicts three women in celebration. We know the investments of the King of Wands have facilitated your success. And now it is time to collaborate. This coming project will not only have material benefits but will also be fun to do.
Card #6 — Six of Wands
When I was younger, I studied the Tarot of Marseilles, realizing that many modern Tarot readers were imparting the negative elements of their lives into their explanations.
I often return to my Marseilles booklet in order to provide the reader with proper truth:
Six of Wands means collaboration. A strong alliance between two parties with different goals but common present interests. A taste for luxury is made possible by favorable conditions.
Card #7 — The Fool
Of course, the seventh card of the day has to be The Fool. This is a jackpot for those who gamble. Congratulations, for you are now the receiver of a lifetime of wishes that shall be manifest faster than you can imagine, as a result of this crazy leap of faith.
Card #8–Eight of Wands
There’s a pattern forming here. Birds of a feather. Aside from The Chariot, this is the fastest-moving card in the deck. It contains a message. Something flung in motion as a result of The Fool’s leap of faith, and this movement is heading in one direction only.
Card #9 — The Star
Card Number 9 of the day is the repeater. Mars supervises today’s reading to offer endless energy. Translation: Unlimited Wish Fulfillment.
To make a wish, it’s not — I want to have money — or — I wish to be in a loving relationship.
You did not come here to wish for wishes. You came here to spark changes in your life.
To make a wish you must first think about that which you wish to have in your life. And then you must feel it as real as if you have it in your hands, tangible. Happening. And that conviction gives the wish the energy to become a seed in your own personal wish-fulfillment garden. It’s planted after you feel it, so leave it alone, and move on to the next seed. It has all it needs to grow now. Especially with the energies being aligned the way they are today with Mars.
Card #10 — Five of Swords
You only see three swords in this photo above because the two swords of the defeated lay on the sand. Marseilles describes this as a breakthrough. A forward thrust overcoming the existing limits. Keeping up spirits in a tight situation. Doing things in one’s own way.
The mind of Humanity Card — Mars
Mars is the spiritual soldier of the Sun. Mars provides the energy a seed needs to break the surface of the earth and stretch up. Mars allows a plant to defy gravity for the rest of its life while soaring towards the heavens.
Mars is also the God of Cats. At least in the most recent book, we are working on:
And by “we” I mean all of us, are working on this monstrosity of a book. Who knows what Olden is going to put in there today.
“I’m planning on talking about the duel,” Olden says to me, interrupting.
“Are you done with what you have to do here?”
“I still have to look up Barbara Cartland’s name in the Guinness Book of World Records so I can take a copy and send it to them, and carbon copy the New York Times.”
“Sounds like a plan. You have five minutes as I have already reviewed the fiction that’s here and I’ve read everything already.”
“You’ve read every book?”
“Yes, Olden. I have. I read books fast now, thanks to Ada.”
“Why hasn’t Ada shown me how to read fast?”
“It’s part of the default features with Neuralink.”
“I don’t know how I missed it.”
“It’s because you spend all your time on a typewriter.”
