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Tarot Reading of Russian Ambassador Karlov Assassination

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Should we believe what we see with the Russian Ambassador Karlov Assassination? What can the cards show us?

The idea behind this reading is to ask the cards to shed some more light on the assassination that just happened in Turkey. We see the situation was setup for video recording and there are high quality images from behind the scenes.

Reference: Youtube search “assassination of russian ambassador video”

Note: When I view the still picture from behind the gunman that shows the people in the crowd, it appears to me that there is another person dead or wounded on the left. I’ve placed that picture as the header to this article.

Back on topic…

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Summary

It looks like this was a onetime situation by a gunman that was acting on his own. The cards show that the situation is one where people are on edge and there might be some paranoia involved. When we dig in to see what the cards can stir us to look into it is that there is energy related to celebration and baser instincts. The investigation cards hint that the reading may be specifically about the gunman. It is as if his baser instincts took over and he celebrated his accomplishment in a way that everyone could see. When we ask specifically about the gunman, we get a card that indicates that there could have been abuse of authority, or judgment that occurred. It’s as if the gunman was abusing his authority or stepping out of line with authority. When asking outright if there is any conspiratorial link, the cards suggest that there isn’t. This was the gunman’s individual choice for a life journey. When we ask the cards for advice as to how to interpret the situation, we get the suggestion of pure disgust. The final card shows the happily ever after card hinting that this situation is over and we’ll be able to move on.

Outline

  • Draw a card that describes the issue that we’re investigating to check for alignment
  • Draw a card to indicate the issue for us to investigate regarding the issue at hand.
  • Draw a clarifier regarding the issue (if needed)
  • Consider drawing card to see if there is a hidden agenda behind this shooting that goes further than just what we see as a lone gunman.
  • How should we best interpret this situation?
  • What can the cards tell us about the overall meaning of this incident?

Cards

Request for the first card. We want a card that will describe the situation. It’s a check for alignment card. The card pertains to the situation.

9 of Wands (↓)

Video Interpretation: 9 of Wands (↓)
Key Words: On edge, defensive, hesitant, paranoia, at limit.
Key Feelings: The feeling in your stomach when you stand on the edge of a cliff and look down.
Description: Reversed, you may feel on edge, pushed to your limits, or paralyzed by your situation. It may feel that you just can’t take another step or that the foundation will collapse out from underneath you. You may feel that you will surely die if you take one more step. This energy is laced with paranoia and a severe life-threatening sense of self-defense.
Animal: Goat
Key Words: Stability.
Description: When the goat is upside down, it hints that we may feel like we have fallen from some heavenly height or critically lost our balance. We now question the choices that we've made regarding our path and particularly each step in the process. It may be that the path seems insurmountable. This card encourages us to connect with our curious instincts and gently nudge the situation intellectually in order to unlock the solution.
Suit: Wands
Words: Possessive, Forceful, Energy Suck.
Description: The inverted suit of wands is all about missing that drive that moves you to experience life. It manifests as a lack of desire, passion and creativity. It is the inability to transform anything. It is that zombie like repetitive approach to daily activity that shows no initiative. This energy should be experienced or observed through the performing arts, but it is missing leaving the event cold or uninteresting. It may be hard to start new projects or find the energy to travel. There may be the lack of enthusiasm or a outright loss of will-power.
Number: 9
Words: Arrogance, mental instability, fickle.
Description: When reversed, the generous, compassionate energy of the nine turns arrogant, egocentric and mentally unstable. Expect self-pitying behavior, excessive sentimental outbursts and emotional discontent. Nothing is ever good enough. Perfectly good solutions and activities are rejected or dismissed. The person is cold, fickle and unreasonable.
Element: Fire
Words: Anger, destruction, death.
Description: Reversed, fire is considered a power of destruction or that which transforms the situation into something that is unrecognized and unusable. It as a metaphysical essence that is fear based or leaves a sense of awe. It is the masculine energy of suppression and revenge. It is the final straw. It is hot and dry. It is associated with summer.

What should we investigate regarding this story. What can the cards show us that we don’t already see in the video today.

Three of Cups

Video Interpretation: Three of Cups
Key Words: Rejoicing, celebration, joy, friendship, creativity, community, affirmation.
Key Feelings: Feeling behind an honest, respectful, heartfelt toast given freely to a close companion.
Description: This card suggests that you are ready and willing to receive happiness and joy into your life. It indicates that you are in harmony with the first stages of the given adventure and you’re celebrating, knowing that the future will be as good, or better, then the past. This card brings a deep sense of well-being that is sensed from friends and family. Others recognize your accomplishments and support you emotionally. This card represents the triumph over illness, disharmonious situations and stagnant routines or activities.
Animal: Moose
Key Words: Self-esteem.
Description: The Moose brings the strength to know when a 'pat on the back' is needed. It’s a proud willingness to 'tell the world' about your feelings. It is pride in maleness, joyfulness at expressing his sense of accomplishment or joy that is well performed. The energy does not seek approval, but it is a simple sharing of that explosion of deep-down joy. It is a belly laugh of enjoyment or Joy seen through pride. The Moose is a cross between the gentleness of the deer and the stampede of the buffalo. It represents knowing the difference between giving orders and having the willingness to do it yourself. Moose energy quite often expresses itself being teachers of children and through the giving of encouragement. It is the power of knowing what to say, when and to whom. You may have already accomplished something on your journey or fixed a bad habit.
Suit: Cups
Words: Emotions, feelings, open.
Description: The suit of cups is all about the flow of the energy that is perceived as emotions and feelings. It is the conscious and unconscious direction of that energy and all the intellectual aspects that go along with it. Every emotion that you can list is covered by this energy. This energy is directly related to touch, in both the physical and energetic levels.
Number: 3
Words: Imaginative, optimistic, inspiring.
Description: Here we see the expression of energy that drives the imaginative, expressive communicators and artists. There is an amplification of energy for creative uses. The personality traits associated tend to compliment this activity so the people are tolerant, joyful, optimistic, inspiring, talented, jovial, youthful, and dynamic. There is a positive feeling about what is happening and the progress that is being made towards the goals.
Element: Water
Words: Emotion, intuition, empathetic.
Description: Water is the universal solvent, reducer and purifier. It is considered the body of emotion and intuition. It is a strongly feminine element that tends to enhance the emotional experience or make it deeper. It is nurturing, sympathetic, empathetic and imaginative. Consider it fluid, cold and wet. It is associated with winter.

Clarifier card to better understand why the previous card came up.

The Devil (↓)

Video Interpretation: The Devil (↓)
Principle: Inappropriately using the animalistic aspects of our human experience. Being harmful with regards to learning the lessons that are associated with the flesh.
Key Words: Bondage, addiction, sexuality, inhibitions, blocks, fears, taboo behavior, testing cultural norms, following bodily impulses.
Key Feelings: The feeling that your baser impulses have taken over and you are out of control.
Description: Reversed, this card represents the demonic, out of control state where the animalistic baser impulses have taken over. The energy is no longer tantric, but now about domination, bondage and primal sexuality. It is the addiction to the raw power of the senses. It is addiction to the extreme. This energy can be either intentional or not. In either case, it can manifest fear in oneself and others. You are encouraged to make sure you ask permission and seek consensual interactions so as to not create emotional scars in the people you interact with.
Animal: Crow
Key Words: Law.
Description: This energy manifests itself as if you might be feeling like an outcast or rebel pushed to the point of exploding. You might be feeling that you can take on the world and force it to align to you will. If this is the case, this card warns you to have a backup plan and make it clear and concise. If the energy is tame, it may bring up past indiscretions or experiences of broken promises. You may recognize current situations where promises are broken, and you accept that as reality. If you are lying to yourself, the only loser is you and crow energy will blind you from the truth. This card encourages you to place energy back into ethical, moral and lawful actions so that the truth will once again be open to you. Honor everything around you including the shifts in your perception. Resistance causes pain. Rebellion will backfire. Old habits may reemerge.
Element: Ether
Words: Unconsciousness, repulsion, judgment.
Description: Reversed, it would seem that the Ether that fills the universe has no purpose, cause or direction. It is everywhere, but does nothing. It animates, but cannot be seen doing so. It is subtler than light yet there is no concept of its existence. Clarity and purity are missing or simply not applied. Things change in unexpected ways and there is a strong sense that everything is flawed.

Card about the gunman. What do the cards want to show us regarding the gunman.

King of Coins (↓)

Video Interpretation: King of Coins (↓)
Key Words: Authoritative, domineering, controlling, ruler, abuse of authority, judgment.
Key Feelings: The feeling of being scolded by a father figure even though you did nothing wrong.
Description: Reversed, the energy of this card shows that rules, laws and money can keep people controlled and performing. It is where an energy where if you do not follow the rules of the land, you will be cast out and abused. It is the energy of the lawsuit that binds both the winner and loser. It can represent a long-term subservient relationship that you are involved in. As a messenger, a male figure may be in, or come into your life that is authoritarian. You may feel that you’re being judged and forced to serve the sentence regardless to how you protest with no path for overturning the ruling. It is as if they have a hand on your shoulder holding you back or keeping you down.
Zodiac: Capricorn
Words: Pessimistic, stubborn, shy, self-centered, moody.
Description: Reversed, the traits of this energy tend to bring up all the more difficult aspects associated with the Capricorn archetype. Here we find a person that can come across as lonely, reserved, standoffish that might be in a period of time when they can’t get sure-footed or steady. It may feel like they are taking too long to get something done or that they have aimed too high with their aspirations. It may feel like they are being unimaginative or incorrectly using the resources that are at their disposal. Because this is usually a hard-working, dependable, competent type person, it may feel that they are not upholding their side of the bargain or that what they are working on is impractical or frivolous.
Animal: Skunk
Key Words: Reputation.
Description: Here we find energy that typically works to repeal others and manipulate relationships. Others may view you with envy, jealousy and disrespect because of their low self-esteem. You may come across as assaulting others or rubbing them the wrong way. Using the animalistic hormonal sexuality for your own gain regardless of how others perceive the situation. You may find others wanting to distance themselves from you.
Suit: Coins
Words: Subject to matter, stingy with time, unwilling to work.
Description: When inverted, this suit shows an inability to or resistance to the energy of matter and how we use it. Like clay, matter is used to help build our experience in this life, yet here, we might find that there is a lack of matter or lack of energy to manipulate it. Shaping matter may take more time or resources then there is available for sharing. Money might be tight. There may also be lack of creativity or loss of imagination in play. This energy represents what people want to ‘work on’ and ‘shape’ but find it difficult to do.
Element: Earth
Words: Sticky, heavy, lifeless.
Description: Reversed, the Earth is heavy, sticky and foreboding. It is associated with the terrestrial world, but we find that the energies here bring seasons out of order, death where life is expected and unfertile situations. It adds a coldness to any sensual interactions or aspects of life. It may feel as if life is hell and that all what we experience is part of the great underworld. There is no resting, peace or calm. It is considered cold and dry, yet it binds with the strength of metal. It is the dreaded fall.

Is there organized crime behind this? Was he hired? Is there a link to conspiracy or not?

The Magician

Video Interpretation: The Magician
Principle: Law of manifestation.
Key Words: Guidance, new opportunities, creative initiative, power, skill, concentration, action, resourcefulness, connection between divine and mundane, conscious/unconscious link, infinite outcomes, manifesting your desires, using the tools that are available to you.
Key Feelings: That feeling that you are connected to the divine and your worldly experience are improved by spiritual insights.
Description: This card represents the connection that we all have to the divine and that the divine is what powers our worldly experiences. The upright position of this card indicates that the connection is strong and open. There is the power to manifest your desires using the tools that have been given to you. The realm of infinite possibilities is open to you if you just choose to embrace it. Ask, and you shall receive. You are encouraged to clarify your thoughts so they are sharp, clear and well defined.
Animal: Snake
Key Words: Transmutation, manifestation, trinity.
Description: When in tune with snake energy, a person can overcome poisonous mental, physical, spiritual and emotional situations. The snake energy empowers transmutation of our life situation through sexuality, psychic activities, alchemical processes, reproduction and acts that lead towards ascension. Snake allows us to experience anything without resistance for it knows it can shed the experience and start again. Snake understands that with the proper state of mind, it can transmute poisonous situations eating, digesting, and integrating a problem or experience. It provides for healing by merging of male and female energy. Transmutation is fire energy. On a material level, the fire becomes ambition, creation, resolution and dreams. On the metal level, the fire becomes intellect, power, charisma and leadership, on the spiritual level, the fire becomes wisdom, understanding, and wholeness which enhances the connection to the great spirit. This spirit encourages you to refine your practice and perfect your skills.
Animal: Hawk
Key Words: Messenger.
Description: Mercury is the messenger of the gods. Be observant of your surroundings and everything that you do. Hawks help through stressful and difficult situations when you observe the nuances of the power lurking nearby. You are only as powerful as your capacity to perceive, receive and use your abilities. You must use discernment and seek the truth in all actions. The cry of the hawk could mark the coming of a conflict, the birth of a child or a celebration. The Hawk energy requires responsibility. Remember the details. You are encouraged to trust the message and observe.
Symbol: Lily
Words: Hope, faith, purity, chastity, innocence, fertility.
Description: Drawing the lily symbolizes that divinity is present or that there is an air of innocence about the matter. It represents purity, chastity and fertility. It symbolizes that it may be time to act now or that the time is short. It shows that now could be a good time for a cleanse, or to place time into performing purifying activities. The lily deals with the sanctity and tenderness of the heart. We are encouraged to thoroughly enjoy the tender moments before the bloom is over.
Symbol: Rose
Words: Devotion, balance, magic.
Description: The roses represent a strong commitment and devotion to the process of creating your own reality. Hang onto the passion that empowers the magic because the adventure is at your command.
Element: Ether
Words: Consciousness, karma, attraction.
Description: Ether is the material that fills the universe. It permeates everything. It is everywhere always. It is the animating force and is subtler than light. It is associated with purity and clarity. It is transparent and moves cyclically or naturally. It is unchanging, divine and infallible.

How should we interpret the situation?

Page of Coins (↓)

Video Interpretation: Page of Coins (↓)
Key Words: Lack of progress and planning, short-term focus, overlooked, not seen, remaining on the bottom.
Key Feelings: The feeling of disgust when that young republican that does the opposite of what he says.
Description: Reversed, this card suggests that no matter what you do to stand out, you are always overlooked. Regardless of how much you prepared to be noticed, someone else is picked. You may feel like you’re throwing the last of your money away on something that will never bear fruit. As a messenger, someone may be trying to groom you for something you don’t want to do or is morally unacceptable to you. They may be telling you one thing and doing another or teaching you this art of deception. You may be at the start of a political situation where you are damned if you do and damned if you don’t.
Suit: Coins
Words: Subject to matter, stingy with time, unwilling to work.
Description: When inverted, this suit shows an inability to or resistance to the energy of matter and how we use it. Like clay, matter is used to help build our experience in this life, yet here, we might find that there is a lack of matter or lack of energy to manipulate it. Shaping matter may take more time or resources then there is available for sharing. Money might be tight. There may also be lack of creativity or loss of imagination in play. This energy represents what people want to ‘work on’ and ‘shape’ but find it difficult to do.
Element: Earth
Words: Sticky, heavy, lifeless.
Description: Reversed, the Earth is heavy, sticky and foreboding. It is associated with the terrestrial world, but we find that the energies here bring seasons out of order, death where life is expected and unfertile situations. It adds a coldness to any sensual interactions or aspects of life. It may feel as if life is hell and that all what we experience is part of the great underworld. There is no resting, peace or calm. It is considered cold and dry, yet it binds with the strength of metal. It is the dreaded fall.

What can we do to make us feel better about the situation? Or the overall situation.

10 of Cups

Video Interpretation: 10 of Cups
Key Words: Harmony in relationships, cooperation, harmony in family, marriage, happiness, alignment.
Key Feelings: The feeling where you realize that you get to live and love your best friend.
Description: This card tells us that the current harmonic energy will lead to long lasting happiness. This is marriage energy of permanence. It is exemplified by your success and the acceptance of everything you’d asked for. The harmony in the relationship may be one where each person completes and compliments the actions of the other. There is strong unity in family and energy to create family. This card hints that there will be a long period of spiritual harmony and divine guidance. You may feel that you’ve been given the most treasured gift.
Animal: Grouse
Key Words: Sacred spiral.
Description: The grouse energy is here to remind us that there spiral of life; birth and rebirth in a ribbed tunnel of the eternal. It is a symbol of personal power harvested by the tornado. What is sacred and divine lives in the eye of the storm, life happens in the body of the storm. Sacred movements and rituals bring a higher state of awareness and magic is returned from the center of the spiral. Depending on the direction of the spiral, the spin will attract or repeal the energy of the current situation. Consider a ritualistic meditation that has some form of repeated motion to focus your thoughts and bring balance. Allow yourself to become the spiral and seek its calm center. Dance. Pay attention to how you move and where the movement is taking you.
Suit: Cups
Words: Emotions, feelings, open.
Description: The suit of cups is all about the flow of the energy that is perceived as emotions and feelings. It is the conscious and unconscious direction of that energy and all the intellectual aspects that go along with it. Every emotion that you can list is covered by this energy. This energy is directly related to touch, in both the physical and energetic levels.
Element: Water
Words: Emotion, intuition, empathetic.
Description: Water is the universal solvent, reducer and purifier. It is considered the body of emotion and intuition. It is a strongly feminine element that tends to enhance the emotional experience or make it deeper. It is nurturing, sympathetic, empathetic and imaginative. Consider it fluid, cold and wet. It is associated with winter.

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