When the Same Tarot Cards Appear Over and Over and Over Again
Over the last few weeks it’s been impossible to ignore the recurring appearance of conspicuous tarot cards. These cards continually show up in readings despite thorough shuffling and despite working with different decks. They’re persistent. They’re tenacious. They’ve got something to say. To me. To you. To all of us. I first noticed it with the Six of Swords. Then it was the Queen of Wands. Now it’s the ooooh-la-la Lovers card. It’s a caravan of determined figures banging on the door and demanding to have their say.
It isn’t the first time this occurred but it is the first time I’ve taken to the blog to discuss.
First, the plausible explanations. It’s possible that even with a good shuffle cards can coincidentally re-appear in tarot pulls. There’s also humidity-induced stickiness or static charge to explain card repeaters. Cards be clumping sometimes. It happens. But what about when the decks are changed and the same card reappears? Given there’s the reasonable Newtonian explanations let’s think less about the mechanism and more about the significance.
I see two approaches for understanding this phenomena. First, either a broad cosmic wind flows over our collective emotional tide and we are collectively under its karmic influence. It’s akin to astrological transits where Mars conjuncts Neptune and we all feel like dreamy warriors. Take the last month and the recurrence of the Six of Swords in almost every reading. It’s likely that we as a collective are at the part of our journey where we traverse troubled water in the hopes of getting to a new destination, arriving at a different place than what we’ve known the last year. Our hearts beat for a different experience, to exit pandemic lockdown, and move forward.
Alternatively it could be a situation where the psychic and the client sit on the same karmic wavelength. The psychic reader resonates at the frequency of Six of Swords, emits an understanding of the card’s medicine and guidance. In tandem, the client undergoes an experience of a troubled journey and radiates restlessness. Because each psychic reader possesses a unique super-terrestrial antenna they intersect with the clients of the same frequency. With the Six of Swords both the psychic reader and the client contemplate passage through hard times or reaching the destination of earned success. The opaque mechanism for this resonance means it is more poetic idea than hardened principle. She shrugs.
Below are the caravan of cards moving through karma yard. Each one has appeared in at least four readings over the past month.
The previously mentioned Six of Swords was the first one to make repeat appearances. It’s signified literal journeys of moving to a new house/location and the journey of the mind, carrying many considerations in the mental patchwork of making moves and getting further along.
I’ve never seen deception appear as aggressively as it did in the past 10 readings. It didn’t just repeatedly appear on the same day. It’s been lurking for a few weeks. Many of us will be/are confronting hard truths that leave us never feeling the same afterwards.
Each of us needs a Queen of Wands in their lives because she’s magnetic, charismatic and a charmer. This card in particular shows up in the #7 position in the Celtic Cross spread as the energetic introduction clients make when they enter a room. I take it to mean that there will be a lot of juice moving through our system in the form of charisma.
Two of Cups and its big sister, Lovers card, are winding their way through our collective energy field. Perhaps look up Venus in your chart and related aspects. The singular heart realizes it beats for more than itself.