posted June 09, 2016 09:28 PM            

I did a reading for a friend that I don't know how to interpret. I tried to read on a past life with her husband - I do believe they definitely had at least one past life together so I felt strongly that an in depth reading on their connection would be helpful to her. I pulled the Devil to describe "the nature of their past life connection" and the Heirophant reversed to describe the karma that was created between the two in the previous life and carried over into this one. Their current spiritual lesson is represented by "Death" with the advice card as Knight of Wands reversed.

posted June 10, 2016 02:40 AM            

They have been chained together(=Devil) in an traditional school(=Heirophant). They were miserable students and did not learn the lesson.

posted June 10, 2016 05:12 AM            

I would interpret this as no past life connection.

The devil card is only talking about one person. Their past life is in a city/big town constructed near water, fairly murky water with lots of boardwalk piers/wharfs interconnecting around fairly poorly but solidly constructed buildings that have the water soaking up the big beams that are like stilts for some of these water's edge buildings. There are stone buildings further back from the edge however the mini precinct, almost, around the wharf edge has a lot of wheeling and dealing in and around it with a colourful bunch of characters living or frequenting there.

The person I think is a male in that life or a manly female that wore trousers. They have a pox which is evident on their face and the hair is cropped and just above the shoulders and not very well kept though not too unusual for the area. They will sometimes run at children and others to scare them with their poxy face and wild look. The person seems like a homosexual however it is hard to work out the combo of their liaisons with partners and whether the partners are male or female either. They are chiefly independent in their lifestyle and even know a few people higher up but at the lower end of the higher ups maybe.

The Hierophant reversed reiterates that there is no past life connection and nothing to account for or address between them.

The Death card indicates that both people do indeed have transformations to make and lessons to learn and they both have kind of like debts to offset.

The Knight of Wands reversed says that they both have a similar debt to pay off regarding children. They have to be more responsible (so I'm not sure if it was just about scaring them with the pox covered face for this main person or whether there were other issues).

The other person has a callous side where they have a history at some point of being sneering and kind of mean about kids and others who are living normally. The hope and lightheartedness kind of disgusted this person and they would be sort of sneery and vindictive. Mimicking in a nasty voice what they overhear someone saying and then laughing meanly and saying something nastily mean about the child/person.

posted June 10, 2016 11:13 AM            

Chryseis: Such a thorough look into these cards! Are you using intuition or are you getting all of this from the cards?

I pulled a few cards early in another spread which would lead me to believe that my friend was male in this past life. So interesting that you picked up on that - I also saw someone who had many affairs and may have been irresponsible in relations with others.

One thing - can you tell me more about why the Heirophant reversed leads you to believe that there definitely wasn't any debt or karma created between the two? Just need more clarification.

Thank you both!

posted June 11, 2016 10:06 PM            

Yes well when I'm looking at the cards there will often be imagery and scenes attached. However I'm sometimes way off I think perhaps and there can also be different perspectives on the same cards which does kind of make sense because there are probably levels to what the cards are expressing, whether everyday or more psychological etc.

A technique I will use are keywords for a card and this will enable me to get a 'hook' that then can expand into the other information such as imagery, sensations, etc.

I'm not sure if I naturally looked to the keyword first or not for the Hierophant reversed in this question though it is still consistent with a keyword for this card. So there are several keywords in fact for the card and upright meanings revolve around kind of like the wisdom advice and guidance of morality, religions etc. So ideas around approval and living according to established traditional ways of doing things based on things like precepts, religion, how people live well with one another etc. One book of keywords included 'relationship' and I know other keywords include alliance, marriage, servitude, commitment. So its the kind of relationship that has an emphasis on structure that is acceptable to a group of people that probably have a hierarchy of advisors and people who uphold and contribute to the guidance and support of living by such codes etc.

So when it is reversed this qualifies that there is perhaps no relationship or that it is fleeting and there is no sort of business between the two. There was no reason for them to be involved. I guess there may have been a minimal liaison that sparks a minor necessity to reconnect and I can not be sure that there wasn't however the overally impression is that they have no importance between them that would be marked by any significance.

I guess if there were other cards with it then the meaning might be modified. I just went by a definite impression and it makes sense by what I was seeing from the first card that there was no significant involvement if any in a previous life.

posted June 13, 2016 05:18 PM            

I just had the impression that they have really nothing between them and this is qualified by the advice card. Reversed Knight of wands, would say "not going anywhere". You can read that in a few ways or levels. Either the relationship is not going anywhere or if they were just dating it would be something like won't be going out together much, or you could read it like this whole question of the reading is "just not going anywhere" or "this is going nowhere".