What Does The Deck Say? April 22, 2025

Universal Waite: 9 of Wands, The Fool, & 8 of Swords (reversed). ©US Games Systems, Inc.

Today’s cards: 9 of Wands, The Fool, & 8 of Swords (reversed).

The recovery time was necessary. It took you this long to figure that out and accept it. The problem is now that you have accepted that you had to sit down then, you have forgotten what it’s like to get back up. No one is expecting you to take things on a full force like you did before. That is how you got blindsided in the first place. But those helping you are expecting you to stop acting helpless and begin picking yourself back up by yourself. Yes, you’re comfortable, but now that same comfort is hiding how dire things have begun. Get up while you still have the ability to get up.


The Universal Waite is Mary Hanson-Roberts’s recolored rendition of the Waite-Smith deck. Nearly identical lining is softened by gentle coloring. Some faces have been reworked to be more pleasing to the eye. The Universal Waite Tarot is ©US Games Systems, Inc.

What Does The Deck Say” is a weekday series of 3 card pulls from a cartomancy deck. No context or query is given to frame what the cards say as the posts are reading samples and not personal instruction. The result is sometimes humorous, sometimes serious, and usually surprising. All readers are invited to leave a comment about what they perceive in the random spread as each person will interact with the cards in their own way.

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