What Does The Deck Say? August 28, 2023

Tavaglionne's Stairs of Gold Tarot: The Hanged Man – XII, King of Staves, & Ace of Staves. ©US Games Systems.

Today’s cards: The Hanged Man – XII, King of Staves, & Ace of Staves.

To learn something new requires a sacrifice of ignorance. It would be trivial to say that sacrifice will involve the time and effort needed to study the thing. What is not trivial is when you reach the point where you have to sacrifice a previous habit or association so you can incorporate what you have learned. Here then, is the pain. If you want to move forward, you are going to have to cut ties with the past and leave what happened in the annals of your history. How much of your identity is based on what you are being asked to give up? How far are you willing to remake yourself so that part of you that you keep hiding can keep going?


Tavaglione’s Stairs of Gold Tarot is a richly decorated esoteric book in the form of 78 tarot cards. Sometimes wildly diverging from Waite’s road, the deck can read as slim as necessary and as deep as the reader is willing to focus. Tavaglione’s Stairs of Gold Tarot is ©US Games Systems.

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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