posted September 17, 2016 12:54 PM            

So I pulled a lot of cards that speak directly to transformation, anguish, victory, success, and triumph. I'm sure that in here is also your current state of mind, and if anything, you'll end up getting the grades that you want despite how hard this struggle has been. But I think these cards point nicely to the topic you're discussing.

6 WANDS - DEATH - CHARIOT - 9 SWORDS (clarifier)

What stands out to me here is that, because your thesis is on social movements for justice, the juxtaposition of the cruelties and injustices that have had to happen (death) is flanked by this sort of upward mobility of the six of wands (past) and the strong will of the chariot (future). I almost feel like what you need to communicate is that as certain groups or movements started to really gain traction, because they were "radical" or different from from the existing social norms, society/people/whoever got scared by this and started to take measures, whether legal, illegal or questionable, we eventually came to a point laws had to be made around these practices to stop the atrocities that were happening. The death card (present) is actually a skeleton, symbolizing what remains after death, and in the sense of what you're researching, I think you might need to focus on how trying to keep down certain groups/individuals prior to now has led to the sort of devastation and "remains" that exist now--things that are not literally plump or alive with meaning because they'e been exterminated/extinguished because they made us scared. BUT because there IS something that does remain from the past (the skeletons, the reminders), it forces us to confront the fact that there are some things that are not eradicable, things that cannot be destroyed (memories, overall social climates of eras past/present) and is asking us to rise up above the pain and re-invent what is left from the destruction on a larger scale. The chariot (future) literally has visuals on it depicting the spiritual transformation of man. It represents overcoming opposition, conquest, and victory. I actually really love this description of it from Biddy and think you should read through it (https://www.biddytarot.com/tarot-card-meanings/major-arcana/chariot/). The conclusion you need to come to is basically what this card signifies--that you must fight to attain the goals you're laying out in your paper, that you cannot give up, it will take hard work, and it will take society as a whole to accomplish it, but that it will be well worth it and should be something EVERYONE is interested in for the betterment of civilization.

The clarifier being the nine of swords reminds you to pull the theme of anguish throughout the paper, the shadows of society that have been allowed to run rampant because of fear or anxiety or worry, simply things that are unknown and scare us which is why we have come to the point we are now at. We're battling ourselves (literal civil unrest, versus a personal battle if this is about a bigger scale subject matter), and we need to reach out (I guess reaching out to the government/local groups/organizations/etc who can have a literal impact on the way society operates for help) and find joy/peace.