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Backwards Tarot Prompts

A quick exercise where the situation comes first, and then we choose a card to represent it.
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Inspired by this post on Llewellyn's blog by Susan Chang, here's a quick exercise where the situation comes first, and then we choose a card to represent it.

For the prompt, you can use the one the person before you used or add your own, whichever you prefer. One option is to use a prompt generator like this one.

Then choose the card that best represents that prompt in whatever tarot deck you're considering. You can explain why you chose that card, or you can just quickly tell us the card and deck.


(It's not about picking a "correct" card. Decks vary, and as the post linked above says, one person might choose The Chariot (their car) for "running errands" while another might choose the Knight of Wands (on a mission))

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prompt from generator: "climbing a hill"

7 Pents - Wild Unknown
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prompt from generator: "trying on clothes while shopping"

9 Pents - Cosmic
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prompt from generator: "you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar"

6 of Pentacles - Galaxy Tarot (Tarot app)
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prompt from generator: "dance like no one is watching"

Lust (aka The Spiral) in Pharos Tarot
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prompt from generator: "measure twice cut once"

8 of Pentacles - RWS

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prompt from generator: "chasing a tornado"

Thoth Knight of Swords
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prompt from generator: "take one for the team"

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prompt from generator: "learning to ride a bike"

Thoth 2 of Disks
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prompt from generator: "feeling blue"

Thoth 3 of Swords - Sorrow

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prompt from generator: "read between the lines"

8 of Pentacles - (RWS, Galaxy Tarot)

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prompt from generator: "playing with play dough"

The Hermit - Tabula Mundi Tarot
(Yod - the hand - and earthy Virgo)
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prompt from generator: "my way or the highway"

RWS 5 of Swords


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prompt from generator: "prepping for the worst case scenario"

5 of Disks from an as yet unnamed tarot in progress by M.M. Meleen
(golden ration calipers for planning, while 5 disks show potential calamities: drought, harsh wind, flood, locust, and a cracked seed")
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prompt from generator: "come full circle"

Fantastic Menagerie - 4 of Wands

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prompt from generator: "it's all the same"

Fool - Tabula Mundi Tarot
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prompt from generator: "everything but the kitchen sink"

9 of Pentacles - RWS


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prompt from generator: "paint yourself into a corner"

7 of Wands - Thoth
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prompt from generator: "back to square one"

4 of Cups - RWS


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prompt from generator: "living room"

6 of Cups - Thoth
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prompt from generator: "get cold feet"

5 of Cups - RWS


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prompt from generator: "baseball"

4 of Wands - Wild Unknown
(hey, and even the Aries timing works - first games of the season :) )
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Nice! Some of these are quite difficult...
prompt from generator: "beating around the bush"

7 of Swords - RWS



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prompt from generator: "rabbit"

yep, speaking of difficult, I blanked on this one, and then just went with fertility...

Empress - Tabula Mundi
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prompt from generator: "have your cake and eat it too"

9 of Pentacles - RWS (Galaxy Tarot)

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prompt from generator: "quit cold turkey"

Death - Dame Fortune's Wheel Tarot
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