Tarot Subject of the Week: Sporn

When looking for Tarot Tuesday’s Subject of the Week, I found my usual sources of ‘buzzworthy topics’ jammed with spam. One-hundred percent of the spam was of the subcategory: porn. I’m calling it Sporn.

I don’t have a problem with porn myself, but I understand why some people do. I have to admit I learned more about sex from Playboy and Hustler than I ever did from Sex Education in High School.

I do however, have a problem with Spam. I read a report recently that something like 3 out of every million people actually buy things advertised through spam, which is enough to keep it a sustainable business model.

I say we kill those three people. A small price to pay for spam-free inboxes.

This week’s Tarot Tuesday (#tarottuesday) reads the cards for the future of Sporn on the internet, despite the very real danger of this blog getting blacklisted for including the words “Porn”, “Spam”, “Pix” “Position”, “Spread”, “Layout” and “Peanut Butter and Chocolate”.  [Note to Self: Double check for any misspellings of the word "Deck" in this post...]

The Cards

During the shuffling, the Two of Hearts fell out of the deck.  It’s often thought that when cards fall out of the deck while being shuffled it has an important meaning. the Two of Hearts means Love, Sharing, Caring, and Bonding between two people or  things. I’ll come back to this later.

I’ll add the picture later when I have access to my camera.  Meanwhile, here are the cards in a standard past-present-future layout.

Seven of Wands

King of Wands

King of Pentacles (Inverted)

Analyzing the Spread

The Seven of Wands implies standing against some force or fighting back. This card occurs in the Past position.

The King of Wands implies a person, someone wise or learned.

King of Pentacles would be a lovely card to see in the future postion…Right-side UP that is. Unfortunately, it occurs upside-down, implying an AIC (Asshole in Charge) A shifty, underhanded person who is really just in it for themselves, and doesn’t care how their actions/decisions affect others.

Interpretation

Like my Uncle Deck says, it kinda makes me want to stop reading the Tarot when I get spreads like this.

The Seven of Wands representation of struggle is obvious. We all get Sporn in our inboxes. We all fight against it daily. Three people  are supporting it in the struggle to keep it in existance.

The King of Wands in the center position? We all know better. We all sit around and agree that Sporn is bad, and that Someone ought to do Something. And we all sit back and wait.

The problem with the future postion  isn’t that we have in Inverted King of Pentacles, it’s that we Dont have an Upright one.  The simple (sounding) solution is for someone to step up and fix this for us.  But Sporn makes money, and it isn’t illegal in some countries, therefore the problem needs a bigger solution. A One World Government perhaps? A discussion for another day, and certainly not worth doing just to kill Sporn.

So going back to the Two of Cups that jumped out of the deck…  At first blush, the Two of Cups probably popped the thought of sex into your mind. Meh. It could also be the bond of Porn and Spam that makes them work well together like Peanut Butter and Chocolate.

But I think it might be a more subtle clue. The success of Sporn is tied to the way the internet works for the whole world, because there isn’t a One World Power to control it. It’s not so much of a ‘problem’ as it is a ‘side-effect’ of the way we do business.

If we have a system of cooking where we leave food out on the counter, we will get pests. The pests aren’t going to go away until we do things differently.  Unless we are willing/able to do things differently, we have to add “killing pests” to our process. Which we already have. The two simply go together.

In other words, the Two of Cups was a reminder that the ‘problem’ implied in my question wasn’t so much of a problem as an aspect of the existing process, and therefore there is no ‘solution’.

-Zero

PS – If you have a different interpretation of this tarot spread or other useful wisdom to share, drop it in the comments below. If you want to perform your own tarot readings, just link them up on twitter.com with the #tarottuesday hashtag. Don’t have a tarot deck? No problem. Go to www.ifate.com and use the free online tarot spread generator.

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