Sojourn By Tarot

I decided years ago, way back when I bought my first tarot deck, that I'd learn the tarot "someday". Over the decade and more since, "someday" has come and gone. This was a bit frustrating to me, because learning the tarot was something that I'd always wanted to do, ever since my first experience with someone else reading for me.  But instead, I just collected decks and struggled to get "learning the tarot" going in a manner that satisfied me. Some of this was fear. I was still struggling with the baggage of Christianity that I'd been lugging around most of my life and trying to find ways to continue in that faith. The rest was that I guess I just wasn't ready to commit in any significant manner. I'd start to study the tarot, then let myself get distracted. At the end of July of this year, my lack of commitment to the tarot really bothered me. I decided something had to be done. So I created an Instagram dedicated to the tarot. My goal ...

In late July, I did a reading on the results of pursuing a spiritual path at this time. The spread is from the book Modern Magick by Donald Michael Kraig, and he advises that the spread be used prior to initiating any major event in one's life; he even suggests the format the question should take. This spread uses only Major Arcana cards. For this post, I'll provide an image of the spread, but I'm going to do something different with the reading itself. Instead of going through each card individually, I'm going to try to make the reading into a story, as I've seen suggested by a number of sources, including Biddy Tarot. So, here goes: My question: What will be the result if I choose to learn Magick now? Date: 22 July 2020 Day: Wednesday Time: ~04:40 Reading: My first thought was, "Wow, there's a lot of reversed cards here." But I kept an open mind and didn't immediately decide that they were all telling me it was a bad time for this. Using a combin...