Readings
Two Cards
If you are trying to make a very important decision in your life and you don’t know which path to follow, if you are really doubtful about the consequences the crossroads tarot spread will help you to find your way.
Queen of Cups
Upright
Compassionate, caring, emotionally stable, intuitive, in flow
The Queen of Cups is caring, kind and sensitive. When you see her in a Tarot reading, you are embracing her ‘nourishing’ energy. You are listening with your heart and caring people strongly. You are empathic and can feel the needs of others by attuning into your heart, and you keep the space for others to show their emotions.
The Queen of Cups tells you are very intuitive, artistic, and in tune with the energies around. In your communications with others, you can simply know other people to get a feeling of how to interact efficiently. Other people may come to you to reveal their problems about the emotional level. They believe you and understand that you always have the right answer. You see the Divine in everyone you see.
In your creative plans and efforts, you sense your step into them, trusting your heart to guide you on the right path. You know when something is ‘wrong’, and you notice this, even if it doesn’t make logical sense. You may be in harmony with the lunar cycles, using these cycles to manifest your purposes and live your desires.
Sometimes the Queen of Cups hints that you are being asked to trust your inner voice and pay awareness to your feelings. Act with your heart, not your head. Be open to receiving intuitive messages streaming to you through your dreams or meditation.
Reversed
Inner feelings, self-care, self-love, co-dependency
When the reversed Queen of Cups appears in a Tarot reading, you need to bring your awareness inwards and focus on your emotional self. You’re amazing at taking care of other people – but now it’s time to take care of Yourself. This card implies that you are emotionally exhausted because you have been so occupied helping others, but not yourself. You may need to set clear limits with people so that they understand you love them but will not take on their emotional baggage. They are responsible for their life experiences, and they need to go on their own mission to learn.
The reversed Queen of Cups could mean you have created a co-dependent connection that is not good for either person. Review your relationships and see where you can build a healthy distance.
The reversed Queen of Cups is often a warning that your intuition is powerful right now, however, you should give yourself the time to listen.
In some cases, the reversed Queen of Cups is a signal that you are allowing your emotions to rule over you. Be mindful not to let your emotions catch your life in such a way that you are losing control and outlook. Find a quiet space to be centered and calm your soul.
Sometimes, the reversed Queen of Cups implies that you may be out of touch with your emotions or holding them deep inside. You may try to prove yourself, instead of bottling up your emotions. If you do not connect these emotional problems, they will reach a boiling limit.
The Moon
Upright
Illusion, fear, anxiety, dreams, subconscious, intuition
The Moon symbolizes your illusions and often shows up when you are projecting fear and worry into your present and your future, based on your past. You may have a depressing memory that caused emotional suffering, and rather than dealing with the emotions, you pushed them down into your subconsciousness. Now, these emotions are appearing again, and now you find yourself under their impact on your conscious or subconscious. To solve this, connect with your unconscious mind and free any fears holding you back. Hypnosis, treatment, and shamanic healing can be very helpful.
The Moon can symbolize a period of uncertainty. Be careful of making quick judgments and decisions when the Moon shows up because you may later realize that there was a hidden side of the situation. You need to trust your intuition so you can see beyond everything. Feel into circumstances rather than analyzing. Let go of your conscious mental barriers or negative thinking and let your intuition lead you. Your dreams and inner guidance guide you toward higher levels of understanding if you listen to the messages of the subconsciousness.
When the Moon card arrives in your Tarot reading, pay attention to the cycles of the moon and be in tune with its divineness by meditating. Once Zen meditators have opened their eyes, and they have seen the moon and out of their meditation, a certain phrase has emerged. Only through meditation will you be able to understand it; it is not poetry, it is not composed with the mind, it is a deep feeling in the heart.
One full moon;
stars numberless; the sky
dark green.
If you are in deep meditation and you see this dark sky with so many stars and a single moon, your silence will become very deeper.
Reversed
Release of fear, repressed emotion, inner confusion
The Moon reversed shows the negative impacts of fears and anxiety that you have been dealing with are descending. You are fighting through your fears, understanding them and free yourself from such limiting beliefs. This is a truly liberating practice.
You may try to avoid your darkness by burying these feelings even deeper within your unconscious. This strategy might work for a short period, but finally, you will need to bring to the surface these emotions and deal with them.
The Moon reversed can also show that you are accepting intuitive messages but it is difficult to understand what they signify for you. The message may be unclear. Trust that the solutions you need are already inside you, pay attention to your dreams, and tune in to your inner guidance to discover answers.