Gonzo Tarot - Positive Negative

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Pull the 10 of Swords and what happens? Gasps. It’s a scary image, right? Most readers will agree that this card is a sign that things are coming to a big end.

But what if we changed the perspective around and tried to find a positive in this negative?

Here’s a fun Tarotcise that I like to play around with: look at a “bad” card and find a positive spin on it. The key is to be playful and spontaneous.

Let’s use our dreadful 10 of Swords as an example. Let’s try to find an upbeat interpretation, Tarotistas:

That back surgery went well. Now you have an excuse to chill and lay around in front of the tube.

Turnabout is fair play: how about trying to find a negative in a so called positive card?

The Six of Cups is a sweet card that often speaks of nostalgia and pleasant times. Let’s find a bummer here:

Shotgun wedding (see the guy walking away in the background?). Or how about allergy season? Again, make this as tongue in cheek as you’d like.

It’s very easy to get hung up a on rote “positive” or “negative” interpretation for a card, but if you look at the potential for the opposite, you’ll see that good and bad are often simply a matter of perspective – and they frequently reside in the same situation. Yin yang, baby.

Like anything in life, your frame of reference can change depending on how you CHOOSE to look at it.

Have fun with this one, playas.

Theresa