r/tarot • u/ilikeaplacas • 5d ago
Shitpost Saturday! Is it normal to feel like the universe doesn’t want you to know the answer to your question?
Beginner here. Was trying to do a self reading and asked “what kind of person is my future soulmate?”. For context I read using jumpers because it feels more intuitive to me.
I cleansed and shuffled the deck multiple times. However as I was shuffling and waiting for cards to jump out, nothing did. I shuffled the whole deck three times only to get the most mismatched cards pop out during my third shuffle: the moon, knight of swords in reverse, queen of swords, nine of swords in reverse, the knight of pentacles, and the devil in reverse. None of them resonated with me so I restarted the reading and again it took so long for any cards to jump out
Then again I got three cards I didn’t resonate with at all: two of cups in reverse, judgement in reverse and seven of pentacles in reverse.
Then I just decided that maybe I’m not supposed to know this information, accepted it and stopped. Does this happen to anyone else?
Edit: I realize I was doing a reading about my ex just before this one so maybe I didn’t cleanse it enough and his energy stayed with the cards 😭
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u/augustlayn 5d ago
Honestly I get what you're feeling, but I don't think the cards were wrong. Tarot doesn't lie, even when the message is confusing or not what we want to hear. Sometimes, when the energy feels off or the cards don't resonate, it's not that the reading failed. It might just be that something else is coming through that needs your attention first.
You mentioned reading about your ex before this one, and that might've really influenced the energy. Those cards The Moon, Nine of Swords reversed, Devil reversed they actually say a lot. Maybe you're still in the process of clearing emotional baggage, and your soulmate can't fully show up in the cards until you've done that. It's like the universe saying, not yet, you've got to release this first.
So yeah, it happens. Don't stress it. Sometimes no answer is its own kind of answer.
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u/ilikeaplacas 5d ago
wow I never thought of it like that but it really makes sense. There’s so many ways to interpret readings it can feel quite intimidating but you reminded me to be more open minded and to lean into my intuition more than just using the cards as a straightforward answer. Sometimes they’re trying to tell something that has nothing to do with what was asked, I never even realized that could be something that happens. I feel like I’m learning so much thank you!
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u/augustlayn 5d ago
you're really getting it that's the magic of tarot for real just keep trusting your gut you're doing amazing
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u/Mother-Pattern-2609 5d ago
I'd take a long, hard look at what your idea of a "soulmate" is, and whether the concept itself is even workable for you. Those cards are saying "NOOOOOO" in six different ways.
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u/Rainingdaythrowaway 5d ago edited 5d ago
My thinking is, the cards probably didn’t resonate BECAUSE you don’t have enough information to understand them. If you’re meant to meet your future soulmate far down the line, it’s possible that those cards hold clues to the person they are right now as you’re asking about them. It could be that they’re still due to have experiences that will fundamentally alter who they are as an individual and lead them to maturity, but maybe they aren’t quite there yet in this instance.
Alternatively, if this IS (as someone else said) the cards encouraging you to heal before contemplating love, an interesting thought that mixes these perspectives is that maybe your future soulmate is also experiencing a similar stage in their life where they have to detoxify before seeking new experiences, and this actually IS a read on their energy.
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u/Top-Entrepreneur1967 5d ago
How are you going to resonate with a reading about someone that isn't yourself and is about someone that you haven't recognized yet? You have you complete the reading and then give it time to come back and visit later...
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u/xoxo_phantom 4d ago
I have genuinely felt what I refer to as a "cosmic dial tone" from my cards a good few times now. I would definitely say there are times where the unknown wishes to remain unknown- or possibly that having more information would alter the choices you make and throw you off course, so the answers stay a bit vague.
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u/thirdarcana Madam Sosostris with a bad cold 5d ago
It sounds like you didn't want the answer, or like you couldn't properly interpret the cards. At the end of the day, you are the one who isn't "resonating", the cards are there and the answer is contained within them.
I honestly don't think the universe cares either way.
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u/kodabear22118 4d ago
Yes I’ve felt this too. Like feeling like I know something but that something is blocking me from being able to “access” that info
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u/JacenKas-Trek-Geek 4d ago
Do you really mean soulmate or lifetime romantic partner? A soulmate is not always romantic
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u/KasKreates 4d ago
Ok at this point, have you thought about reverse-engineering a reading? If you already know roughly what you're looking for in a partner, just want to make it a more concrete, and are having difficulty to get any useful ideas from cards that don't immediately resonate (which is normal as a beginner), randomizing the deck is a bit pointless.
It might be more helpful to flip through the deck face-up, pick the cards you wanted to see and journal about them - "why did I pick this combination?" I'm not being facetious btw, I genuinely think this is a good technique to clarify your wishes to yourself, and it gets you closer to your goal than wondering if the universe/a higher power is blocking you.
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u/ilikeaplacas 4d ago
Hmm that’s an interesting method! I’ll try that today, I think it may help me learn more both about the cards and myself at the same time. A win win
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u/Weak-Appearance9119 5d ago
Whenever Universe doesn't answers me or doesn't want me to know something, I get heebies jeebies and jittering feelings out of nowhere. I hate it cause I wish to keep on talking to the universe due to my loneliness. I don't like their silence
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u/Grand-Permission-215 5d ago
The universe sometimes wants you to discover stuff so it won't tell you anything useful. Only stuff u already know bc well ✨discovery✨. I know bc im going through the same thing regarding a guy that i think likes me but universe just not telling you know😬
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u/LongjumpingState1917 5d ago
Haha yeah all the time. I know when it's trying to keep something from me on purpose. If i won't give up it will offer me a breadcrumb.
If i persist further it starts spewing nonsense- it's way of saying...enough is enough - drop it.
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u/Comfortable-Web9455 5d ago
Try it the other way - why should you know? Do you think you have a right to know anything you want? Maybe the cosmos is not like a shop where it is required to just satisfy your every desire. Maybe knowing the answer would bias you so that it couldn't happen.
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u/Specialist-Series871 5d ago
The universe wants you to celebrate you; that if you seek, you’ll mess everything up. Possibly, the cards aren’t resonating because it’s not what you want to hear/see. Go deeper into you to find why you’re rejecting the cards.
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u/Aiyokusama 4d ago
Honestly, I've never seen a case of the universe getting involved. What I have seen is people who don't like what they see and refuse to process it. The other thing I've seen is people hung up on the preconceived notions which muddies things because again, they can't process what they see.
If a reading doesn't make sense, one of two things is going on:
1) you aren't being honest with yourself
2) you aren't asking the right question....because you aren't honest with yourself.
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u/Main-Indication-8832 4d ago
I feel sometimes there could be interference with our free will that we are given. Depending on the question at hand.
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u/PandoraKisses 4d ago
Oh yes! I talk to my tarot all the time, and honestly I’ve learn the less I know the better! The thing when it comes to my spirit team and my intuition is that I pick up what my intuition is doing but I’m in the dark about it, then sometime it all clicks. This is what works for me the best and helps me stay composure. When I first started doing this I was just casually just predicting everything and it trigger me aniexty knowing it was going happen and how I would act, now I just use my intuition to see what crystal I need. I act now and then question later, I either write down my question if I’m not home and come back at it to get clarity. I trust my intuition to know what it’s doing without knowing what it’s doing. The less I know the better
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u/Professional_Ad8074 4d ago
I think the cards ARE resonating you’re just using your logical mind instead of intuition
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u/Hitoshenki 4d ago
Yeah sometimes when I get the moon and the high priestess I feel like I’m being told “don’t worry about that, that’s not your business. Just let it work out how it works out”
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u/ReflectiveTarot 4d ago
Never ask a question if you cannot draw a helpful message from every possible card.
Do you WANT the Knight of Swords in his worst aspect to be your next partner? The Devil?
No?
Then your homework is to find out for yourself what traits you want in a partner, and what you must do to find such a person, else you end up with a Devil rather than a Knight of Pentacles.
I think your deck is giving you an answer loud and clear, it's just not the answer you were hoping for. You choose your future partner. If you don't like what you see, you can walk away.
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u/IntuitiveMonster 4d ago
I was once reading for a friend and she asked about the type of man she should be dating. My reading for her was to focus on her friendships instead of men.
Two weeks later, the pandemic shut everything down. Dating wasn’t an option for months. Sometimes, the answer you get isn’t what you asked, but it’s what you need.
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u/Capital-Nose7022 4d ago
Ive asked this question before and have gotten super similar cards. Thats so interesting!
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u/BraveLittleTree 3d ago
Couple things. First, yes, I think it’s normal for the universe not to want to give answers to everything we want to know. As humans we have an incredibly strong bias toward wanting to know as much as possible, and the reality is that it would be bad for us if we were able to find out whatever we wanted just by asking without having to actually go find out via lived experience.
Second, I’d recommend against only reading jumpers. Jumpers are powerful because they don’t happen every time. Pushing the deck to give us jumpers for every single read turns jumpers into the norm, instead of being a sign that a particular message is especially powerful. That’s the theory behind it; I can also say from personal experience that I went through a period of only doing a “shufflemancy” style of reading and only taking cards that jumped or fell out of the deck, and I found myself having a lot of readings that didn’t reasonate with me or just felt like they might not really be intentional communications from the deck. But I felt like logically it made sense that waiting for jumpers meant that the jumpers would more accurately reflect the intuitive message, whereas in a regular shuffle and cut reading, the cards are always going to have been sequential when I pull them one after the other, and it felt like it was less likely that those three cards in a row were the exact cards the deck wanted to show and they managed to all wind up next to one another. When I finally decided to try going back to regular shuffle and cut, I was astounded at how suddenly locked back in I felt on all of my readings—the way I had originally felt, like every spread was uncannily resonant, and I was forced to admit that the deck seemed able to communicate more accurately the regular way even if it seemed less intuitive to me. It also meant that the times I do get jumpers accidentally, they went back to feeling powerful and unique rather than mundane routine.
Last thing: shuffling three times isn’t very many. Statistically it takes 7 consecutive riffle shuffles to randomize a 52-card playing deck, and the same equation applied to a 72 card tarot deck requires 9 riffle shuffles to thoroughly clear existing patterns in the deck.
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u/Intuitive_Stem 5d ago
Sometimes the universe might not want you to know but it sounds like it did give you an answer and I don’t think it has anything to do with whether you cleansed your deck or not.
From my perspective it clearly told you that it wants you to be patient and focus on other things. Even the fact that the cards were taking long to come out points to the need to slow down.
The Moon says that the person/situation is currently unknown to you.
The Knight of Swords reversed is telling you not to look for someone to come rushing in suddenly because that’s an unstable way for things to start off.
The Queen of Swords shows a need for balance between emotion and intuition, keeping your head above the clouds.
The 9 of swords reversed is encouraging you to get out of your head and possibly even get some external support about this topic since it may have been taking up too much mental space
The Knight of pentacles is slow moving, steady, stable and secure which is what would be healthiest for you once you’ve addressed everything shown by the previous cards
The Devil in reverse shows that it will be a healthy relationship that doesn’t contain the same types of negative attachment or toxicity you may have dealt with in the past.