Tarot Tuesday: The Occultation, One Card You Do Not Turn Over

Eclipse tarot spread with three cards and the middle card face down

An eclipse covers something. That is the whole event. The Sun is still there, and for a few minutes you cannot see it, and then it comes back.

So today’s spread works the same way. Three cards in a row. You turn over the two on the outside. The middle one stays face down until Thursday.

Deal it now if you have a deck. If you do not, read along and pick the middle card in your head.

🦁 BEFORE: The Sun

A lion stands in the open with sunflowers on both sides and a banner behind him. He is not doing anything. He is simply visible, and comfortable being visible, which is the whole card. This is where you are standing today. Whatever you have been building is further along than it feels, and more people have noticed than have told you so.

🌑 DURING: face down

Put a card here and do not look at it.

Here is why. In a solar eclipse, the Moon passes in front of the Sun. Card nineteen is The Sun. Card seventeen is The Star. The card that sits between them, number eighteen, is The Moon. The order is not a coincidence and neither is the gap.

Something happens tomorrow in one area of your life, and you will not be able to see it clearly while it happens. That is not a failure of attention. It is how eclipses work.

🦢 AFTER: The Star

A swan floats on still dark water under a sky full of stars, with one star burning brighter than the rest directly overhead. Notice that this is a night scene. The swan is not waiting for morning. It is already moving, in the dark, by a light that was always up there and only becomes visible once something brighter gets out of the way.

Turn the middle card on Thursday. By then the eclipse will have happened, you will know what it touched, and the card will read completely differently than it would have today. That is the point of leaving it down.