Can you read tarot for pets? Absolutely. Tarot connects you to the energy of a situation, a person and - yes, an animal. I have already done readings for people asking about their pets who have passed over or whose background is unknown. I've even recently done a reading to help diagnose a sick horse.
Here is a sample reading I used for my beloved English Setter Gassie who came to us a year ago having had a pretty awful past. He was abandoned near Naples, left starving by the road, attacked with sticks by locals for trying to get some food (they broke a rib and a tooth and gave him a nosebleed) and then rescued by a passing animal lover, thank God. He was then taken to Milan and from there came to us in Tuscany. You can see a photo of him below with one of my other dogs, Maia, who he's very attached to - quite mutual as you can see!
What would Gassie's cards show? I decided to do a three card reading for him, using the Robin Wood deck, asking 'How is Gassie feeling now after his past experiences ?' The three cards were:
PAST: Eight of Pentacles Ha ha! This shows you the reading wasn't 'fixed', because I would have expected a card like the nine or ten of swords here or another 'painful' card, and it didn't come up! As I operate on the premise that the cards are always right, I will do my best with this surprising card. I say surprising, because the card shows a young boy at a table carving a big star on a coin with great care. On the wall behind him are six examples of his previous pentacle-carving efforts with another on the table in front of him. It is usually a card of apprenticeship and learning new skills as well as cycles and routine and doing your best. Pentacles is the suit of the material world and health as well as service, business and money. Applying this to Gassie's past, well, he is a young dog as represented by the boy, although we don't know his exact age obviously, and as a hunting dog in Italy he would have been in training (or in service) for the 'caccia' (hunt). As I now know, he is very intelligent and willing to learn, but scared of guns and so he would have gone through an 'apprenticeship' and done his best to learn what was expected of him, but despite his best efforts he didn't make the grade and was chucked out. As I feel he is also a very wise dog, it looks like he bears no resentment for what was done to him, but views it as a 'learning experience'. As a matter of fact he shows no fear of men, children or other animals, which is surprising considering what he went through.The only thing he is scared of is sticks, gunshots and thunder. I am drawn also to the number eight on the card and wonder if the time it took between being abandoned and finally reaching us was eight months. He was rescued in March and we got him in July and he was probably abandoned several months before his rescue, so that could be about right.
PRESENT: Six of Cups and Three of Cups. As we know, cups represent emotions, love, spirituality, creativity and imagination. Cups represent the element of water and 'go deep'. The fact that these two cards came up for his present feelings gladdens my heart. The Six of Cups in the Robin Wood deck shows a young boy giving a flower filled cup to a younger child, while in the background is an idyllic country cottage with a walled garden. Three flower-filled cups are in the foreground and two on the walls behind. Literally speaking, this shows our house as we have a large walled and fenced garden with a lot of grass and although the house isn't a cottage but an Italian farmhouse, to Gassie this must surely represent the home he longed for. The card also traditonally represents a gift or giving in some way and this must seem like the ultimate present for him - a new life. However gifts can go both ways and we have got just as much back - if not more - from him!
The Three of Cups shows three very happy girls, each holding a cup, dancing in a meadow. They are a blonde, a brunette and a redhead and seem totally carefree. Again, looking literally at the card, it immediately struck me that this was Gassie with our two other dogs, ZsaZsa and Maia, who together must be the most spoiled dogs in Italy! ZsaZsa ia a golden lab (blonde), Maia is a little mongrel with a lot of white and reddish brown fur and Gassie could be the 'brunette' as he is black and white. Traditionally this is a card of celebrating and having fun. As Gassie spends a lot of his time racing round the garden with Maia and then jumping over the fence, gambolling roud the field behind the house and then barking at the gate to be let back in, I think we can safely say he has a lot of fun!
It seems Gassie bears no resentment for his past treatment, has not been psychologically damaged by it and is thoroughly enjoying his new life. You can't much have better than that, can you?
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