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Abalyn’s Tarot

@tarot.tanglesome.com
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Sporadic tarot-posting account, sometimes even with context and/or interpretation.

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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 27/06/2026
June 26, 2026. Looking for some grounding on a hard and disconnected day, I did this intuitive 3-card reading. I do think these cards are very much in conversation with each other, but I don’t much like what I think they’re saying. So, ya know, I’m open to y’all’s thoughts on this triptych.
From the This Might Hurt Tarot: The Lovers, Seven of Wands, and Six of Swords.
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 27/06/2026
The bills are incidental table clutter.
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 27/06/2026
June 25, 2026 (later). While game planning for a complicated family funeral this weekend, I got the urge to pull a card. It did, in fact, feel resonant.
The Three of Cups from the Modern Witch Tarot. The inner deck box is behind it to the right and some loose one dollar bills are behind it to the left.
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 27/06/2026
June 25, 2026.
The Six of Pentacles from the Modern Witch Tarot. Above it on the table is a stack of cards from the Wild Unknown Archetypes deck.
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 25/06/2026
The degree to which I’ve given up account consistent in this thread amuses me.
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 25/06/2026
I also have some non–RWS-style decks I received as gifts, mostly (entirely?) from @valkyriegf.bsky.social, and I occasionally read from them. In particular, if I’m reading at my desk in the corporate office, I want a deck that has zero (human) tits in it, so I use The Keeper of The Sacred Bee.
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 25/06/2026
One recent exception, following up from this post, is The Wild Unknown deck, which I picked up a couple weeks ago. bsky.app/profile/taro...
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 25/06/2026
A skeet from part way through a thread on my main account, where I talk about my biases in tarot decks. It has a lot of typos, because so do I.
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 25/06/2026
Supplementary info for the alt text: the table is black walnut.
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 25/06/2026
(Actually) June 22, 2026. 1-card vibe-of-the-day pull: the Three of Pentacles, a repeat from the couple reading the day before.
The Three of Pentacles from the This Might Hurt Tarot. To the right of the card on the table is the deck, and to the right of that is the LWB, standing spine up.
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 25/06/2026
My bad, this was Sunday, June 21st. I just didn’t take the photo until the next morning.
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 25/06/2026
June 22, 2026. 3 card reading with my fiancée. It’s a you (her, l), me (r), the relationship (c) spread. I’m so used to relationship readings being about our Core Conflict™ that it took a hot second to recognize that this speaks more to the business she’s starting (and my supporting role).
The Modern Witch Tarot. Card 1 (left) is the Five of Wands. Card 2 (right) is the King of Wands. Card 3 (center) is the Three of Pentacles. 

The cards are laid out on a brown wooden table. Above the cards in the spread is the LWB and the rest of the deck.
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 20/06/2026
I have a journal entry that is a letter to myself from the Queen of Swords. She is kind, but not necessarily nice. She can be gentle, but she is always completely honest.
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 20/06/2026
My initial take is to embrace (hold on to) uncertainty, let go of harmful tradition (maybe religious trauma?), learn from (remember) past disasters. Pretty generic, but provably still valuable, if that’s the pattern my brain is building.
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 20/06/2026
June 19, 2026. Didn’t want to pull one card. Didn’t want to do past/present/future. So I did hold on to/let go of/remember and got… <gestures> this.
Card 1: Two of Swords
Card 2: The Hierophant 
Card 3: The Tower

The deck is the Modern Witch Tarot. On the table above the line of cards (l to r): can of Dr. Pepper Strawberries & Cream Zero Sugar, the Modern Witch Instructional Guide, the remainder of the deck. In the top right corner of the image are some fidget bracelets.
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 20/06/2026
I don’t know that I have A Message from this reading, but it feels like it’s unlocking part of a path forward that I’ve independently been working on. (Thanks, therapy!)
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 20/06/2026
Historically, it’s often been a problem card: “check yourself” or “be careful” (or “this might hurt”). Here it’s in the “what is ready for healing” spot. Paired with the Ace in the “what hurts” spot, it prompted me to feel like I have reached the point where that fraught energy is ready to resolve.
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 20/06/2026
I have mentioned previously my often-fraught relationship with the Knight of Cups, and its appearance in this spread is why it feels like the deck is talking to me again.
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 19/06/2026
June 18, 2026. This Might Hurt is talking to me again. This is the 6-card Cycle of Healing spread from the back of the This Might Hurt LWB. It’s the first time I’ve read this spread, and this reading feels pretty relevant to this moment.
1. Knight of Swords
2. Ace of Cups
3. Knight of Cups
4. Temperance
5. Four of Pentacles
6. Page of Wands
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 30/05/2026
Can’t say for sure. Something about the energy of the deck. It felt gentle and open. And the art is beautiful, of course.
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 30/05/2026
I pulled a single card for my realtor a couple months ago, which is technically my frost reading, but that whole experience was rushed and awkward, so I’m mentally filing that as a practice read.
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 30/05/2026
Did my first real reading for another person, today. It was a coworker, and it was the first time she’d been read for. Her girlfriend was also in the office, and the whole experience was really lovely, with me talking about the cards and them discussing together intricacies of possible meaning.
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 26/05/2026
Who doesn’t love a little turtle with a candle on his shell?
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 26/05/2026
I mean, also, I have ADHD, so half the time I can’t remember what the rules were supposed to be.
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 26/05/2026
It does, honestly, but deconstructing the high-demand religion of my childhood, parenting 2 neurodivergent children to adulthood, and dissolving a 25-year marriage also taught me to do what is exigent even if it sometimes breaks the rules.
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 26/05/2026
It’s worth noting that I have two copies of each of these decks, one on each end of my relationship commute. This was the copy in Utah, which I’ve only had for a few months. No idea how it got so salty so fast, but I’ll be curious to see if my Massachusetts This Might Hurt feels the same way.
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 26/05/2026
So I put the deck away, got out The Modern Witch, and got a really helpful and sense-making reading. I am not a very woo human, so this whole thing was very, very wild. But yeah, I guess I’m gonna work with The Modern Witch for a while and let This Might Hurt cool off.
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 26/05/2026
I pulled the second card and it made even less sense than the first. I was confused, and probably said something about it out loud. Then I asked, “Okay, friend. What’s going on?” I put my hand on top of the deck, and she said, “You haven’t been fucking listening to me. What did you expect?”
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 26/05/2026
I grabbed my This Might Hurt deck. It’s always my go-to deck for Big Feelings and Big Problems, though it has felt a bit wonky of late. I started pulling cards. With the first card I went, “Huh, okay. Weird flex, but maybe it’ll sort itself out.” And I asked, out loud, “What are you getting at?”
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 26/05/2026
Funny story about a reading I forgot to photograph. I was up late with Big Emotions, so I decided to meditate on them a little (to lower the charge) and then do a reading on the emotion. I settled on this Emotional Arrow spread from Interrobang: www.interrobangtarot.com/8u-emotional... 🧵
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8U Emotional Arrow
for listening to challenging emotions
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 26/05/2026
No, it was the 20th. I have been pretty irregular about my 3-card readings, hadn’t done one in a while, and decided to just do it on Wednesday — a few more days in card 1 (past), a few fewer days in card 3 (future).
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 26/05/2026
Given how often I fuck up dates in these posts, I have zero judgement.
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 26/05/2026
I have resisted getting The Wild Unknown Tarot, because it doesn’t fit my general preference for decks that follow the RWS archetype. After this reading (using her travel-size deck), I am more likely to pick up a copy. The art is gorgeous, the LWB is spare and direct, and the deck is very gentle.
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 26/05/2026
This is the first spread on this page: www.autostraddle.com/3-tarot-spre...
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3 Tarot Spreads for Checking in with Your Relationships
This week, I want to share a few tarot spreads with you, which you can use to look at what's going on with your relationships. Firstly with your one-to-one relationships, secondly a spread for polyamo...
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 26/05/2026
My fiancée and I are on planes a lot and decided to do a joint reading as a way to connect on our flight, tonight. I found this interesting 10-card reading on @autostraddle.bsky.social (of course). No earth shattering insights, but definitely some things to mull over. May 25, 2026.
All cards are from The Wild Unknown Tarot (travel size). 

On the left (l to r): 3 of pentacles, 10 of pentacles, son of swords.

On the right (r to l): father of cups, temperance, son of wands.

In the center (l to r, t to b): 6 of pentacles, 6 of swords, the lovers, the hermit.
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 26/05/2026
Also, I have a sordid history with the Knight of Cups, who is maybe me, sometimes.
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 26/05/2026
Cups is my suit. It’s interesting because I’m an engineer and should probably be all swords. But I’m an engineer with a Literature degree, relationship excitement (sometimes verging on drama), and a bunch of therapy. And Cups is my suit.
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 26/05/2026
Relationships showing up in a spread? For me? Never! May 20, 2026, weekly 3-card spread.
The Three of Cups, the Four of Cups, and the goddessdamn Knight of Cups from The Modern Witch Tarot.
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 26/05/2026
May 11, 2026. My tarot reading dropped off dramatically (and my photographing/posting even more so), but this was the 3-card spread that started getting me back into the saddle.
The Wheel of Fortune, the Four of Swords, and the King of Cups from the This Might Hurt Tarot.
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 26/05/2026
March 17, 2026. My (irregular) weekly 3-card spread.
The King of Wands, The Fool, and The Empress from the Modern Witch Tarot.
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 26/05/2026
Also, this was March 13th, not the 9th.
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 26/05/2026
This is why I should actually post promptly.
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 26/05/2026
March 9, 2026. Do I remember why I pulled two cards? I most certainly do not, but The World and the Nine of Cups feels like a good reading, whatever I was doing.
Two face up cards on top of a face down deck. The face up cards overlap so the top card covers all but the title of the bottom card. The top card is the Nine of Cups. The bottom card is The World. The cards are from the This Might Hurt Tarot.
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 09/03/2026
March 9, 2026. Missed a couple days, so I’m doing my 3-card weekly reading today. The This Might Hurt/This Might Heal card was my first card, and I wasn’t sure what to do with it, so I decided to apply it to the whole reading, making it an ad hoc 4-card spread.
A 3-card spread using the This Might Hurt Tarot. Left to right: Two of Pentacles, The Moon, Ace of Pentacles. The This Might Hurt/This Might Heal hard is tucked behind The Moon with the The Might Heal end showing.
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 08/05/2026
May 7, 2026 Learned a new spread at the @utubookstore.bsky.social Studying the Cards tarot club.
5-card “Waning Gibbous Moon” spread:
“turn inward and pay atention to your deepest thoughts and feelings” — 1. reflect… 2. release… 3. cleans… 4. meditate… 5. set intentions…

Cards are from This Might Hurt Tarot:
Knight of Pentacles
Seven of Wands
Knight of Wands
Page of Pentacles
Page of Wands
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 09/03/2026
I would love it if The Moon would just fuck right off, though. Yes, I have a lot of not understood bullshit going on, right now. But I’m honestly not even sure, right now, how to do the shadow work that I need to do.
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 09/03/2026
I don’t do reversals (and shuffle my deck to avoid them) and the TMH card is reversal dependent, so I spin-tossed it in the air and took the orientation it landed closest to, which was with the Heal end upright. I’m not sure yet what it means to “apply it to the whole reading.” I’ll let you know.
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 09/03/2026
March 9, 2026. Missed a couple days, so I’m doing my 3-card weekly reading today. The This Might Hurt/This Might Heal card was my first card, and I wasn’t sure what to do with it, so I decided to apply it to the whole reading, making it an ad hoc 4-card spread.
A 3-card spread using the This Might Hurt Tarot. Left to right: Two of Pentacles, The Moon, Ace of Pentacles. The This Might Hurt/This Might Heal hard is tucked behind The Moon with the The Might Heal end showing.
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 06/03/2026
March 6, 2026. I gave in and bought the Agatha All Along tarot earlier this week. So far I think the art is fun, but the book is kind of a disappointment. Like, the deck and book seems to have been done 75% by a marketing department and 25% by someone who groks tarot. 🤷🏻‍♀️
Queen of Swords from the Agatha All Along deck. The card is resting on top of the little white book (which is, in actuality, purple).
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Abalyn’s Tarot @tarot.tanglesome.com · 06/03/2026
March 5, 2026.
The Princess of Pentacles, from whatever the fuck the Beekeeper deck is called.
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