Could an experienced reader tell me what Rider Waite tarot card represents a change in residence/moving house? Thank you in advance!! :)
6 OF SWORDS is moving from one place to another-leaving troubled times behinds and 7 of swords is leaving things behind before you decide to move on.
read a lot for friends but not an expert all I can say is watch for the Wands it means actions/ movements with question : Will I relocate? celtic spread position : immediate future, or outcome
In the Universal Rider Waite Deck the Knight of Wands can represent a change in residence and or moving to another house. It can also mean emigration, such as to another country. Years ago, I did a reading after work for a lady that trained me in my job as she was retiring (I did not know this at the time). The two cards I remember are the Six of Swords and the Knight of Wands in the future and self spots in the Celtic Cross. I kidded her about moving to Hawaii. Six months later she moved to England! Talk about a journey over water!?! She sent me a postcard from London with a brief explanation and it took me a week to get my jaw off the floor and find all my teeth. Many times one needs to read the cards around a specific card to get the full impact. Tarot reading is an intuitive art. They may not come right out and say this, this and this is going to happen, but they can infer that something along this nature can happen. Wands do contain a lot of movement cards, but in conjunction with other cards can tell the same story. Same place of work, after work, a co worker asked for a general reading, no question really. Four cards grabbed my attention. The Two of Cups, the Four of Wands, the Knight of Pentacles and the Knight of Wands. I don't remember the other cards. She saw the look on my face and asked me what I saw. You have a beloved and a wedding seems to be in your future, but you marry a dark horse and move away from work. She looked at me a bit strangely - and left. This was a Friday. Monday a co-worker asked if I had heard the latest gossip. Seems that week-end this person (the lady I had done the reading for on Friday) had married a guy no one knew, called in her resignation that morning and moved to Texas. She called me at work a couple of weeks later and told me I was spooky. No one was supposed to know. I told her, Hey you drew the cards, not me. So , , , The Knight of Wands really sticks with me.
I don't know that any correspond to moving house particularly. At least as I understand them, the tarot cards aren't that specific; they are more symbolic and subject to the particular circumstances/intuition of the querent as well as the intuition of the reader. If it was so exact, reading tarot wouldn't be an art form (we could just look things up in an answer key) and a lot of us would feel like we'd have to move every 3rd reading. There are a few cards that represent change (like someone mentioned above -- the set of wands particularly) which could possibly indicate a change of residence in your case. Certain positions are stronger in a reading (like the Core Situation card in a Celtic cross) and I'd intuit that if you have perhaps have a lot of wands in strong positions (the 8 of Wands especially since that represents a voyage) that there is some sort of movement/change in the offing. How you interpret the cards also depends of the question (if you asked one) so if you specifically asked Am I moving? and a lot of wands came up, for example, I'd guess there was a better chance than if you got, say the 5 of pentacles (temporary loss of faith). It's really hard to gage without seeing the entire spread and again, it's no exact science. There are definitely oracle cards with more clear-cut answers but I wouldn't say the Rider-Waite is one of those decks. I'd rely on your own intuition for this one and try to pick out some themes from an overall reading good luck!!
