Resubmitted with more detailed interpretations.
This is The Legend of Tarot, a gorgeous deck based on the Legend of Zelda video games.
Recently I had a polyamorous relationship end. It wasn’t working for either of us. We’re both in bad places mentally & I made some awful mistakes. He said we also could not be friends because he both could not forgive me for my mistakes but also because he would always be tempted by me because he planned to no longer be polyamorous. The latter felt like an excuse & the former the real reason but he insisted it’s both & I’m going to take him at his word.
My question was: “after all that has happened, what will be the future of us?”
Seven of Bottles (cups in this deck)- In most decks I think of this card as temptations, but in the Zelda deck it has strong elements of choice & option paralysis. It could simply mean he’s tempted by my continuing to be in his life, but it could also mean feeling paralyzed due to multiple options. I drew two more cards for clarification.
The Hermit - I think two aspects of the card come in to play here. There’s the surface level of the relationship ending. Couldn’t be clearer. But I think, critically, there’s also this element of isolation specifically for the seeking of knowledge. In the email he repeatedly said he is in therapy & working on himself. I think this card is saying that our breakup is necessary for both of us to grow as people & gain knowledge. And so far that’s been true, I’ve grown so much without him, & his last email indicates he’s also done a lot of work on himself that he wouldn’t have before.
Empress - Huh? My strong impression of this card has always been about motherhood. I recently became a mother & the card has come up a lot for me in other readings but it has never come up in a romance reading. I could see this card meaning we will use what we’ve learned from our time together to become better parents to our respective families. It could mean there will always be affection between us despite the permanent separation. But it could also mean reconciliation, a rebirth of us in a different way, & that’s why I am so confused, because he is adamant that he never wants to speak to me again, & I intend to respect that, so, again, huh??
I’ve thought of a number of interpretations for the three cards as a whole, but they all seem slightly wrong for various reasons:
1) My first interpretation is that despite temptation to continue the relationship is decidedly over and we are both going to focus on our families in positive ways. I am unsure of this reading because I specifically asked about us, and it seems weird that the first two cards would be solely about us & the third open the spread to other people.
2) Next I thought that maybe while the first two cards were correct, the third was about how this relationship helped me learn how to be a mother, & it is those lessons I will carry forward in my life. But the spread wasn’t about me, it was about us. I don’t see how the Empress can be about us two.
3) A totally different interpretation is that this temptation has caused the relationship as it exists to end, but that someday we will reconnect but in another capacity as fellow parents that are friends & share a bond. This feels more correct because all three cards are about both of us, & it’s the one my intuition leads me to, but I’m hesitating because anytime I get a positive reading after a breakup I’m worried I might be reading possibilities that aren’t really there.
4) My last interpretation is that the cards are linear. That our past was one of temptation for both of us, & that our present is this ending of a relationship & no longer speaking. But if that is true, then the Empress would be the future card, & what kind of future can exist for us when we both need so much time & space to heal? Or is that what the Empress stands for, that we will heal?
My gut tells me that options 3 & 4 are the most likely, but logic tells me options 1 & 2 are more likely. I have been reading for a long time & usually trust my intuition. But I want to be very sure that my affection for this person isn’t causing me to see interpretations that are way, way off.
Please help me out?
And lmao at the "disrespect" to her birth mother... the drug-addicted, BPD prostitute who is apparently hated by all her children, including Becky's doppelgänger brother.
