Tarot Card for the Day, October 21, 2013, (Shadowscapes Tarot Deck)

The Fool Reversed

This is one of my favorite cards. In the upright position it shows a woman on a precipice on the edge of stepping off into the void. She has faith that the universe will meet her when she does. In this card, even the doves are preparing for her to jump. Wrapping her in ribbons they can hold in their beaks to help her fly, or, at the very least, not to fall so hard. This card is generally called the “fool”, but I think of it as the “leap of faith card”. Upright, this card indicates to me a person who is following his or her gut/intuituion. The whole world thinks they are crazy or brave, most are not sure which. But the person knows that they know that they know that even with what they don’t know, they will still end up ok.
But we didn’t get this card upright. Today we got this card from Spirit in the reversed position. So, what does that mean? Here is the thing about reversed cards. They always have some twist on the meaning to what an upright card would say. It’s always on the reader to figure out what the twist is. I have heard some people say that you don’t have to be psychic to read the cards. I disagree. I think everyone is psychic of course, whether they know it or not. But I also disagree in the idea that you don’t have to be skilled in that ability to read the cards. When a reversed card comes up, to find the twist on the meaning that applies in each individual instance, if you aren’t aware of and listening to your psychic information, you just totally don’t have a clue. (Actually, now that I’m thinking about it, the same applies for upright cards as well. Each of them can have several different meanings. You have to be tuned in to know which one applies each time a card comes up.)
Totally sidetracked there. On with the interpretation. For this instance, this card being used by Sacred Spirit to make us aware of situations that we are each being called to that look like total leaps of faith. But are they really? This card is asking us to consider in a conscious way, what we are being called to and why it looks like such a leap of faith to us from where we are right now. The energy of this card is telling us to look closer, to think about it more. What I am getting from this card is that many of the situations that we are being called to, that we think of as leaps of faith, just need to be looked at from a different perspective. We need to start asking questions like, “What if I did this? Would that impact this idea in a way that would make it more stable for me to pursue it?” or “What can I do to make this possibility more doable in my life?” Sometimes, instead of a leap of faith, what we really need is just a whole lot of elbow grease, the help of a few friends, and some know how.
Bottom line is, we are being asked to stop being negative about our hopes and dreams, to stop pushing them back to that forgotten shelf in a closet in our minds, and start coming up with some ideas about how we can make them happen.
Are you up for it?

Peace,

Amista