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This is tarot, a different tradition from astrology. The card is drawn at random: nothing in the sky chooses it. It is a prompt for reflection and it predicts nothing.

How tarot is handled here

IThe Magician
Tarot cardMajor Arcana

Traditionally read as the skill of using what is already at hand. The card is associated with intention turned into action, with focus, and with seeing which tools a situation offers.

  • skill
  • focus
  • initiative
A question to sit withWhich of the things I already have have I not used yet?

Reversed

What the tradition associates with this card when it falls the other way up.

Reversed, traditionally read as skill that is scattered or not put to use. It is associated with plans that stay as talk, with talent pointed at too many things at once and, in its shadow reading, with persuasion used to mislead.

  • scattered effort
  • unused talent
  • pretence
A question to sit withWhat am I able to do here that I keep describing instead of doing?

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