Babes, You’ve Thought About It Enough | Two-Card Collective Tarot Reading
There comes a point when you’ve made the tea, talked it through with a friend and mentally rehearsed every possible outcome. Then you make another cup and call it thinking things through.
Babes, at some point you’re just making more tea.
Today’s two-card collective tarot reading brings together the Eight of Swords and the Page of Pentacles. One asks what all that thinking is doing for you. The other would like you to pull up a chair and give it a go.
Eight of Swords: Who told you that was a rule?
In the Rider–Waite–Smith deck, a blindfolded figure stands with her arms bound and swords planted in the ground around her. From where we’re looking, there’s a gap between the swords. From where she’s standing, she has every reason to be careful about where she puts her foot.
That’s what I like about this card. It lets us be honest about why we hesitate. Sometimes I say I need more time when what I really want is a guarantee that I won’t look foolish. I want to write the first draft and already sound like someone on her fifth. I’d like to have the awkward conversation and know in advance that everyone will be terribly mature about it. Imagine my disappointment.
Other times, I genuinely need more time, money or help. Once I say which of those I’m waiting for, I can see whether there’s something to arrange or whether I’m holding out for a guarantee nobody can give me.
Page of Pentacles: Give yourself something to work with
The Page of Pentacles holds a single coin in both hands and gives it their full attention. I can imagine this Page at the kitchen table with a slightly wonky first attempt, quietly working out what they’ll do differently on the next one.
If you’ve been thinking about writing again, put one scene on the page and see which detail you remember first. If you’ve been putting off a conversation, write down the sentence you’d say if you weren’t busy trying to make it sound agreeable. You can decide what to do with it once you’ve heard how it sounds in your own voice.
Between them, these cards ask for a little honesty and one small experiment. If you’re going to make another cup of tea, you may as well have a page to sit down with when the kettle clicks off.
A journal prompt for when you feel stuck
What have I been thinking about for long enough, and what could I do in twenty minutes that would tell me more than another afternoon of going over it?
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This collective tarot reading is for personal reflection and entertainment.