Reading Associations

Are you curious where I draw my messages from during tarot readings or during rune readings? Or, perhaps you are interested in learning to do these types of readings yourself?  If so, I wanted to share with you the associations that I use to begin reading from tarot spreads or rune castings. Then allowing intuition to guide fine-tuning the messages of each card according to the energy of the quarrent. 

It is important to understand that the interpretations of the meanings of each tarot card or rune will change slightly according to its spread/layout position and also, whether it has been placed right side up, sideways or reversed will further refine the message from the reading.

Tarot readings:

The Cards

For the following, these are general associations according to Rider Waite symbolism.   

Card Suites

The Quarrent - Spirit, Within, subject or question

Pentacles or coins - Earth, North, money and achievement

Swords or blades - Air, East, intellect and decision

Wands or rods - Fire, South, and action

Cups or chalices- Water, West, and emotion

Higher Arcana

0 The Fool - a fresh start or leap of faith

I The Magician - power, skill

II The High Priest(ess) - intuition, higher wisdom

III The Empress - fertility, abundance, creativity

IV The Emperor - authority

V The Heirophant - religion, group identity

VI The Lovers - union, binders

VII The Chariot - victory, assertion, momentum

VIII Strength - cottage, self control

IX The Hermit - solitude, soul searching

X The Wheel of Fortune - Karma, turning a cycle

XI Justice - fairness, cause and effect

XII The Hanged Man - letting go, suspension

XIII Death - endings, beginnings

IXV Temperance - balance, healing

XV The Devil - bondage, restriction

XVI The Tower - sudden change

XVII The Star - hope, spiritual, guidance

XVIII The Moon - illusion, Merry, dreams

IXX The Sun - success, vitality, youth

XX Judgement - Inner Calling

XXI The World - completion, accomplishment

Court 

Page - messages, enthusiasm, synchronicity, curiosity, youth

Knight - motion, passion, romance, haste, adolescence

Queen - creativity, vibrancy, nurturing, astute, women

King - vision, emotional self control, truth, man

Lower Arcana

Pentacles / coins

I prosperity

II balance

III teamwork

IV budgeting

V poverty

VI charity / giving

VII making investment

VIII patience

IX independent wealth

X culmination, ancestry

Wands / rods

I inspiration

II choice

III foresight

IV community

V conflict

VI recognition

VII standing your ground

VIII travel / news

IX resilience

X burden

Swords / blades

I clarity

II decision

III pain

IV rest

V defeat

VI transition

VII making a break for it

VIII isolation

IX anxiety

X endings/ defeat

Cups / chalices

I intimacy

II love

III friendship

IV apathy

V loss

VI youth

VII dreams / fantasy

VIII moving on

IX fulfillment

X marriage / happy home

Positions from spreads used

Target

Environment

Quarrant

Subject

Rival/against

Ground

Past

Present

Future

Many come to pass

Will come to pass

Fear

Family opinion

Hope

Outcome

Path

Dilema

Advise

Resolve

Action

Tool

Considerations

Reversed

Oracle