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SHOW NOTES:

Deck used: The Fountain Tarot

Spread used: 2 cards. Shuffle and draw the first card from to center the reading. Draw your second card to cross it.

Transcript:

Hi there, my name is Melissa Jo Hill and this is The Tiny Tarot podcast. The only podcast where you can get a very tiny tarot reading from me. It’s like a daily draw, but weekly and for your ears. 

Gentle listeners, thank you so much for joining me this morning. In case you don’t know the drill, each week I record a tiny tarot reading for you and hope you like it. 

I pull from different decks of cards and share a snapshot of the reading on Instagram. Look for the hashtag, #TinyTarot or just follow me @melissajohill. You can also find photos and show notes at MelissaJoHill.com. 

If you have a question you’d like me to answer via a tiny tarot reading on the show, please submit it through my website. If you don’t have a question, I’ll ask one of my own or just make one up. 

On to this week’s question. 

Dear Mel, I have a contentious relationship with a very close family member. We have very different worldviews, and I feel like I have to be on the defensive all the time. She seems to enjoy making me suffer, and I feel like I have to choose between my family and my peace of mind. The rift between us has been widening for years and at this point trying to talk to this person to appeal to their empathy and humanity further entrenches us both. I know you can’t pick your family, but if it were up to me this person wouldn’t be in my life. 

Can the tarot offer any insight on the best way to deal with this relationship? I’m at a loss. 

Deep gratitude, Fallout Girl. 

Dear Fallout Girl, thanks for your note. 

Oh boy does this resonate with me. There are certain people in all our lives like that right? Let’s check in with the cards but first some show business. 

This weeks deck is the beautiful Fountain Tarot. The spread is a two card draw based on the heart of the Celtic Cross. The first card centers the reading. The second card shines light on the big problem. 

The first card, lucky #13. Death. And I even drew it in reverse. 

You said you can’t pick your family and yet you recognize your life would be better without the influence of this person. I can’t help but think of all the survivors, strugglers and scrappers in the world who’ve done just that. Escaped toxic and abusive relationships, and gone on to find their soul family elsewhere. 

I know several because we’re soul family. They didn’t choose the blood they were born with, sure, and I don’t know your exact details, but Fallout Girl, I want to be very clear that if your relationship is abusive–either mental, physical, or emotional–you have permission, I will grant it right here and now, to walk. 

May the bridges you burn light the way. 

The Death card is your invitation to evaluate this relationship and decide whether to let it go or transform it completely. Either way, things can’t go on like this. 

If you want to stick it out. If you feel there’s any chance for redemption, then you’re going to need to grab hold of a really big stick and prepared to defend the ramparts. 

Your second card is the 9 of Wands. 

This is a card for someone who has fought for every inch of ground gained and I’m afraid that’s exactly what you need to do here. Establish your boundaries and hold to them. If that means you don’t talk anymore or don’t talk for a while or that you’re the one that decides how and when to engage whatever healthy distance you need, you draw your line in the sand. 

I’m afraid it won’t be easy. I’m afraid it might even hurt going forward. 

I wish I had better news for you. I wish it was easy and I wish the people who should love us up the most weren’t capable of causing pain for you. For me. For all of us. 

Love, Mel. 

You can say hello and submit a question for the show at MelissaJohHill.com and find the tiny tarot archives. That’s all for this week. Thank you so much for listening. 

Show Notes:

Transcript:

Music by Lee Rosevere. Thank you Lee!

Deck used: Morgan Greer Tarot (Standard) | Morgan Greer (Tinned)

Spread used: 2 cards. Shuffle and draw the first card from to center the reading. Draw your second card to cross it.

Transcript:

Hello, my name is Melissa Jo Hill and this is the tiny Tarot podcast, the only podcast where you can get a very tiny tarot reading from me. 

It’s like a daily draw but weekly and for your ears. 

Gentle listeners, welcome to the first episode of my new podcast and thank you so much for tuning in.  

Each week I’ll be doing a very tiny tarot reading for your listening enjoyment. 

I’ll be pulling from different decks of cards and sharing a snapshot of the reading on Instagram. 

You can search for the hashtag #TinyTarot. 

Or just follow me @melissajohill and refresh your feed compulsively till you find it. 

If you have questions that you’d like me to answer via a tiny tarot reading on the show, please submit it through my website, MelissaJoHill.com 

And if you don’t have a question, I’ll ask one of my own or just make one up. 

Today’s question comes from a friend I desperately badgered until she came up with something sufficiently juicy. 

She writes, Dear Mel, I recently made a really big lifestyle change because I thought it was in my best interest. 

At first everything was great and I was riding high on the waves of newfound health, wellness and happiness. 

But once I started to settle into the groove of routine, doubt started creeping in. 

Are things really better now or did I just imagine them to be? 

Can a tiny to reading help alleviate my uncertainty? Did I make the right choice? Am I doing the right thing? 

Signed your Badgered Friend Forever. 

Dear BFF, let’s see what the tarot has to say. But before we begin, some show notes. Today’s tarot reading is using the deck The Morgan Greer Tarot. The version that I own was published by Morgan Press in 1979, but the deck is now available through US games in a standard and smaller tin size. 

The Reading is a two-card reading based on the heart of the Celtic Cross. In other words, it’s the meat of the matter along with what’s crossing it. You can find more information about the deck and spread in today’s show notes. 

The Six of Cups tells me that the choice you made was with the best of intentions. That your heart was in the right place when you made that commitment to try something new and yet for a while it was awesome, like being a kid again, you were feeling a whole different energy and exuberance. 

But was it the changes you made or the challenge of changing that was rocking your world? 

Meanwhile, the six of Swords is the crossing card. The crux of your dilemma. 

You see yourself and your progress as part of a grander journey, but you’re just going with the flow at the moment and not really feeling it. 

Here’s the message in that Six of Swords: look up. 

This is the long game you’re playing now. The prize you want it so bad–health, wellness, happiness–it’s all there on the horizon. 

But overthinking is going to cancel out any over feeling in this case. 

Stay true to the course and you’ll get there. 

Finally, I just want to point out with the Six of Swords, maybe at first these changes you made were challenging. 

Maybe the waters you were testing were choppy, Well BFF, the rapids have eased, the river has straightened and now you get to coast for a bit, but if you’re feeling blue about that, maybe it means you do long for a little more excitement, challenge and change in your life. 

So now you tell me what does your inner child long to explore next. 

Much love, Mel. 

You can say hello at melissajohill.com. 

That’s it for this week. Thanks so much for listening.