Daily readings are not my passion. Divination moves from the assumption that something is going to happen. But life is full of uneventful days, where time seems to stand still. Yet the oracle must necessarily tell us something, for the simple fact that we allow it to speak.
This is not to say that the cards (or other means) don’t mean anything, but often we need to tone down the interpretation to such a degree, or retrieve such inconsequential shades of meaning that, unless you are a god of divination, you aren’t going to be able to consistently predict much, and I am definitely not a god of divination.
On the other hand, daily readings can sometimes be easy to read into once the event has come to pass (see my recent example). Reading into the oracle always leaves us in danger of deluding ourselves. The question I always ask myself is: would I be able to see it if I didn’t know it? Often a vaguer prediction that is true to what we can see in the cards is preferable to a highly detailed account that simply regurgitates what we already know or what we have been fed.
Still, sometimes we can afford the luxury of reading-into after the fact, and daily readings can be one such instance, because at least we can learn something, if we are careful. In the example I posted about the pregnancy, the three cards, called at random to disclose a daily influence, could have meant a variety of different things, but news about a pregnancy is without a doubt one possible interpretation. Furthermore, sometimes if we know that something is bound to happen, we may gauge by the daily reading if it is likely to happen on a particular day, or if it is going to go well.
Another thing to consider is that limiting the timeframe is always somewhat arbitrary. Do you seriously think that if you ask the cards what is going to happen this week and in ten days something terrible or wonderful is bound to happen the cards are going to keep quiet about it? Just because you told them to keep it within the week?
Often, if you pull daily cards, a major event or major influence or vibe shift will start manifesting in the cards many days in advance. A romantic reunion happening next week may start manifesting with cards of love now, even if today or tomorrow aren’t especially romantic days.
What I personally prefer to do is occasionally pulling three cards for the day, while knowing that they may describe something happening further along the way. By occasionally I mean every two or three weeks, rarely every week. That way the cards are usually more meaningful than if I stress them every day on how the day is going to go. This doesn’t mean I’m going to be able to predict something, but the careful, tentative reading-into is going to be more certain and less based on wishful thinking.
MQS
