Tarot Taps for Saturday the 6th of September 2025

Present

High Priestess reversed

You may be ignoring or doubting your intuition right now. The inner voice is whispering, but fear or confusion makes it hard to trust. Secrets could be hidden, or someone may be withholding truth.

“Intuition is always right in at least two important ways: It is always in response to something, and it always has your best interest at heart.” – Gavin de Becker

“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.” – Ram Dass

“Don’t discount the whispers just because they aren’t shouts.”

Conflict

Nine of Pentacles reversed

This usually upright card represents self-sufficiency and abundance. Reversed, it warns of dependence on others, financial instability, or feeling trapped by circumstance. It can also show a fear of being alone.

“The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.” – Samuel Johnson

“Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom.” – Patricia Sampson

“Beware of those who clip your wings while praising your feathers.”

Past

Five of Wands reversed

Conflict has simmered down, but not because it was solved more like brushed aside or avoided. Old disagreements may still linger beneath the surface.

“Peace is not the absence of conflict but the ability to cope with it.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain neutrality in times of moral crisis.” – Dante

“Unresolved conflict is silent poison.”

Root

Temperance reversed

This reveals imbalance, overindulgence, or clashing energies. It may feel like your inner equilibrium is constantly tested, leaving you pulled in opposing directions.

“Balance is not something you find, it’s something you create.” – Jana Kingsford

“You can’t calm the storm, so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself.” – Timber Hawkeye

“Chaos is rejecting what you can’t control; harmony is embracing it.” – Marcus Aurelius

Crown

Ten of Swords reversed

The worst has happened or almost. This reversal suggests recovery from betrayal, heartbreak, or exhaustion. It’s the “getting up after the fall” moment, even when wounds are still raw.

“Sometimes it’s not the people who change, it’s the mask that falls off.” – Haruki Murakami

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” – J.K. Rowling

“You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.” – Edwin Louis Cole

Near Future

The Star

A shining beacon. This card brings renewal, hope, spiritual healing, and a sense of destiny. After so much heaviness, a breath of light and clarity is coming.

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” – Victor Hugo

“Stars can’t shine without darkness.” – D.H. Sidebottom

“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” – Desmond Tutu

You and Me

Wheel of Fortune reversed

The bond or dynamic in question feels stuck in karmic loops. Lessons repeat until truly learned. Fate feels heavy, but reversal suggests the need to reclaim free will instead of waiting for luck to shift.

“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” – Karl Marx

“When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.” – Tuli Kupferberg

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” – James Baldwin

External Influence

The Devil

Temptation, manipulation, toxic patterns, or unhealthy attachments are pressing in from the outside. It may represent control, addiction, or someone who thrives on power dynamics.

“The chains of love are stronger than the chains of fear.” – William Blake

“We are all prisoners of our own device.” – Eagles

“The devil doesn’t come dressed in red with pointy horns. He comes as everything you ever wished for.” – Tucker Max

Hopes and Fears

Chariot reversed

You both long for control, direction, and victory, yet fear the lack of willpower, chaos, or being pulled in two different directions. This card reversed signals inner conflict about whether the journey is truly worth continuing.

“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” – Lewis Carroll

“Control your destiny, or someone else will.” – Jack Welch

“The opposite of courage is not cowardice; it is conformity.” – Rollo May

Outcome

Eight of Swords

The story ends (for now) with mental entrapment. Someone feels stuck, bound by fear or circumstance, though the chains are not locked they could be broken if truth and clarity are embraced.

“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.” – Seneca

“The cage is nothing without the bird.” – Frank Herbert

“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” – Wayne Dyer

Patterns and Themes ✨

Many reversals → resistance, stagnation, avoidance of truth.

Major Arcana (High Priestess, Temperance, Star, Wheel, Devil, Chariot) → this isn’t small; these are life-path lessons about balance, fate, temptation, and willpower.

Sword energy (Ten, Eight) → mental battles, harsh truths, and liberation through awareness.

The Devil + Eight of Swords → a caution about manipulation and self-imposed prisons.

🌌 The message is heavy but clear: after a storm of lies, imbalance, and karmic cycles, hope is breaking through with The Star. But freedom (Eight of Swords) will require recognizing illusions (High Priestess reversed), breaking free from dependency (Nine of Pentacles reversed), and confronting toxic ties (Devil).