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Torch Tarot
TL;DR: Torch Tarot is a unique take at personal healing and the inner journey. Skeptic? Aren't we all?! Sh...it's crazy, man!
Long version: The Torch's Glow reminds us to simply "Be More Punk".
What will spark imagination and hope, which path should you light, and what is the thing in front of you that you need to focus on in order to pass it?
Nothing can tell you what will happen in the exact way you actually end up experiencing it. That's why it's critical you're asking the right questions the right way, and also doing the inner healing and work in the background.
Sometimes, it can be hard to dial in and organize the chaos floating around us. We are all responsible for our actions and what we do. With that weight, it is nice to know we have options to get through it.
If you need a push, are trying to heal, or need to move forward in general, let me help guide and settle your soul through my own way of Tarot Interpretation.
Long version: The Torch's Glow reminds us to simply "Be More Punk".
What will spark imagination and hope, which path should you light, and what is the thing in front of you that you need to focus on in order to pass it?
Nothing can tell you what will happen in the exact way you actually end up experiencing it. That's why it's critical you're asking the right questions the right way, and also doing the inner healing and work in the background.
Sometimes, it can be hard to dial in and organize the chaos floating around us. We are all responsible for our actions and what we do. With that weight, it is nice to know we have options to get through it.
If you need a push, are trying to heal, or need to move forward in general, let me help guide and settle your soul through my own way of Tarot Interpretation.
Jen Mettscher
Tarot Interpreter & Friendly Ruralhood Aquarian
"Shadow"?... "Jumper"?
There are certain spots in a reading with names you may not have heard before. Shadow cards come with every reading, however Jumper cards may vary and are completely random. Those definitions are below.
There are certain spots in a reading with names you may not have heard before. Shadow cards come with every reading, however Jumper cards may vary and are completely random. Those definitions are below.
Shadow: card at the bottom of the deck, typically all encompassing of the entire reading - perhaps an important message or something weighing on the subject at hand.
Jumper: These cards are things that can't be held back and that you need to hear.
Jumper: These cards are things that can't be held back and that you need to hear.
How I interpret Tarot cards:
To start, I use a Rider-Waite deck. There are religious ties with this deck system, but they are not the core or at the forefront of my readings. In simple terms, I believe we all carry our own magic. For me, this comes with the acknowledgment that everyone is in their own journey of discovery. Meaning, everyone interprets differently, but furthermore it also means that once you get a reading, YOU are now responsible for YOUR actions and what YOU can control going forward. Any of your actions in the present affect your own future. Not everyone at present or any given time has their spark to light their path, so my hope is to pass one to those lost, confused, or stalled on their journey.
Our ancestors and loved ones, even those most recent, who have passed on are always with us - it's the energy and matter we all share; how can they not be? Everything is a cycle. We are either fortunate or doomed to repeat it if we don't acknowledge it and claim our own story from those ashes. After all, those ashes are made out of the same things we all share, so nothing is ever truly gone... but we can make it worthwhile with the time we have left to not repeat hateful behavior.
To start, I use a Rider-Waite deck. There are religious ties with this deck system, but they are not the core or at the forefront of my readings. In simple terms, I believe we all carry our own magic. For me, this comes with the acknowledgment that everyone is in their own journey of discovery. Meaning, everyone interprets differently, but furthermore it also means that once you get a reading, YOU are now responsible for YOUR actions and what YOU can control going forward. Any of your actions in the present affect your own future. Not everyone at present or any given time has their spark to light their path, so my hope is to pass one to those lost, confused, or stalled on their journey.
Our ancestors and loved ones, even those most recent, who have passed on are always with us - it's the energy and matter we all share; how can they not be? Everything is a cycle. We are either fortunate or doomed to repeat it if we don't acknowledge it and claim our own story from those ashes. After all, those ashes are made out of the same things we all share, so nothing is ever truly gone... but we can make it worthwhile with the time we have left to not repeat hateful behavior.
Random Bits & Bobs:
Narrator of dogs since 1991, born in Spokane, shuffling across the United States as a military brat and angsty child in a blended family, lover of trash TV and crime shows, oblivious to any true passion, Nebraska was just where I happened to end up when my dad retired from service.
After finally admitting I was starting to call Nebraska "home", I found a curious and seemingly unrelated pull to reading Tarot at the end of 2019. Then, naturally... I sat on that feeling for too long a while.
Tarot seemed taboo as a subject people never wanted to breach or take seriously. I felt like it was some kind of power I couldn't understand or grasp. A power beyond myself.
Then came the Forbidden Beer of 2020, and maybe the dreams (quite literally) I'd been having for so long all meant something more... connected deeper?... and I realized I needed to act. Not before a mental break or two, though. Maybe even a lil emo b, as a lil treat.
Growing up in different places, meeting vastly different people, with countless individual problems, all helped served as a catalyst for the realization that there is so much work to be done (socially, mentally, emotionally, punk-ially) in what I have come to call "my home".
In 2021, I made it a priority to do something for myself - and before I knew it friends from my domestic travels were asking for readings! What started as a way to help me confront and sort through thoughts and pain from my past ended up extending to those I love... AND I COULDN'T GET ENOUGH! Here we are, making it happen.
So, "Why Nebraska?"... With so much going on right now, and so much uncertainty in the world... but also with so much hope and potential? Luck, I'd say. What a time to be alive.
Long story, absolutely filled with stops along the way, to say - "Life is too short. Just. Go. Be."
Stay loud, mfs.
Narrator of dogs since 1991, born in Spokane, shuffling across the United States as a military brat and angsty child in a blended family, lover of trash TV and crime shows, oblivious to any true passion, Nebraska was just where I happened to end up when my dad retired from service.
After finally admitting I was starting to call Nebraska "home", I found a curious and seemingly unrelated pull to reading Tarot at the end of 2019. Then, naturally... I sat on that feeling for too long a while.
Tarot seemed taboo as a subject people never wanted to breach or take seriously. I felt like it was some kind of power I couldn't understand or grasp. A power beyond myself.
Then came the Forbidden Beer of 2020, and maybe the dreams (quite literally) I'd been having for so long all meant something more... connected deeper?... and I realized I needed to act. Not before a mental break or two, though. Maybe even a lil emo b, as a lil treat.
Growing up in different places, meeting vastly different people, with countless individual problems, all helped served as a catalyst for the realization that there is so much work to be done (socially, mentally, emotionally, punk-ially) in what I have come to call "my home".
In 2021, I made it a priority to do something for myself - and before I knew it friends from my domestic travels were asking for readings! What started as a way to help me confront and sort through thoughts and pain from my past ended up extending to those I love... AND I COULDN'T GET ENOUGH! Here we are, making it happen.
So, "Why Nebraska?"... With so much going on right now, and so much uncertainty in the world... but also with so much hope and potential? Luck, I'd say. What a time to be alive.
Long story, absolutely filled with stops along the way, to say - "Life is too short. Just. Go. Be."
Stay loud, mfs.