Are there any Eudes Picard readers here? What do you think?


I finally got the english translation of Eudes Picard's *Manuel synthétique et pratique du Tarot (le tarot, les lames mineures et majeures, interprétation),* so it was time to dig out his deck and try a simple draw. I've been waiting to get Picard's book before really getting into that deck. It's similar to reading the Tarot Fortune Cards (AKA Thomson Leng), but by no means identical.

So I asked about the news cycle for the coming week. Cards were 7 of Sceptres, Queen of Cups, and Temperance.

For the 7, he talks about the supremacy of spirit over the elements, but the simple meaning he gives is "invention."

He relates the Q to Libra, Air (remember, he swaps the elements for Cups and Swords), an accomplished, wealthy woman of rank, a wife and mother.

He gives a pretty standard commentary on Temperance, but says that in the general sense it's "initiative."

It looks like Taylor Swift won't dominate the news this week, lol - this is a wife and mother. I don't think this is anything political, either, in spite of the allusion to "invention," i.e. mud-slinging. None of these cards are really negative. And Scepters + Cups are well-dignified. It could simply be a woman taking initiative and inventing something newsworthy. These things don't dominate the news the way the crazy stuff does, but they do happen. Temperance waters the wine, there's a certain sanity to this draw. I'm going to go with this last interpretation.

I'll be watching to see how this plays out.