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2024 October - Tarot Card Challenge



Are you ready to read by fate this October? This October, in the spirit of Halloween, let the cards guide your reading journey through the eerie and the unknown.


Only books completed from 1 October 2024 will be counted! You will get your first tasks before though to plan ahead


The Challenge

1. We will play a Bookish version of the Tarot Card Reading

2. You will be reading for 15 prompts from a total of 78 cards deck. I will shuffle a virtual tarot deck and you will choose a number. I will then reveal the card. It is all based on positive interpretations or constructive guidance!

Your 3 set of tasks will depend on what it symbolises in the aspect of love, career and finances.
You need to read for only one of those 3 tasks. Or you can read a book in which the cover connects to the card in some manner.

3. If you feel stuck, you have 1 skip available which you can use to read any book. For skipping more, please use 1 point to draw another card to get the tasks related to another card.

4. You will win 2 points per task and additional 5 points for completing all 15 tasks!

5. If you don't have a personal point account thread yet, request one here.

Sample game:
I shuffle the deck and you choose a number. The number gives you Magician card which symbolises the following:
1. Love: creating opportunities for love, being proactive in love
2. Career: harnessing career opportunities, determination and drive
3. Finance: pursuing financial opportunity, making use of skills
So you can read a book where a character is being quite proactive in love / character has a lot of drive / character is making use of all their skills to make money.


Or you can read do a cover based task: something magical on cover / a character with one hand risen in the cover / someone wearing red and white on cover / flower vines or cover

A little about Tarots

🔮 Tarot began in the 15th century in Europe as a card game called Tarocchi. It was originally used for playing, not for spiritual or fortune-telling purposes. In the 18th century, tarot started being used for divination and mystical purposes, especially in France and England.

🔮 Tarot card decks will always have 78 cards within it. You're going to have 22 major arcana cards or trump cards and then you'll have 56 minor arcana or minor trumps or pips.

🔮 While many people think of tarot as a way to predict the future, it's actually more about self-reflection and gaining insight into current situations or challenges. Think of it as a way to explore your thoughts and feelings.

🔮 Famous artists like Salvador Dalí and writers like Italo Calvino were inspired by tarot. Dalí even designed his own tarot deck with surrealist imagery.

How the Tarot Deck is Structured:

Major Arcana (22 cards):

These are the "big" cards that represent major life themes or lessons. Some well-known cards are The Fool, The Magician. They deal with big ideas like change, growth, love, and power.

Minor Arcana (56 cards):

These cards are more about everyday life. They're divided into four suits:
Cups (Emotions and relationships)
Pentacles (Work and money)
Swords (Challenges and intellect)
Wands (Creativity and action)
Each suit has cards numbered 1 to 10, plus four "court" cards: Page, Knight, Queen, and King.

Points: 6


Your Draws





Summarised Reading:
1. It's time to let loose of whatever emotional baggage you have and start living your life to the fullest.
2. Sheer ambition, strength and determination to succeed. This needs to be balanced with a proper and actual realization of compassion and responsibility.
3. This is not the time to feel stressed and overwhelmed. Assistance will be there for you, you just have to ask for it.
4. The meaning of this card can be deep loneliness, illness, poverty or loss. The Five of Pentacles symbolism can also be that of old debts, high credit card balances, or unpaid loans.

Completion Post:
Book & Author:
Date read:
How it fits:
Next number:

Choose a number from 1 to 78 to start. The cards are shuffled in each turn so you can choose the same number again.

You have 1 free skip available to read a book of your choice. For additional skips, please spend 1 point and choose another number to get another card.

16, please

Ace of Cups – New emotions, relationships

"Getting the Ace of Cups upright shows that it's time to let loose of whatever emotional baggage you have and start living your life to the fullest. Like with all the other aces, there is a new beginning that is indicated here - a chance to start fresh. "

1. Love: new romance / friendship, taking next level in relationship
2. Career: friendly relations at work, new emotions about job, jolt of creativity
3. Finance: financial assistance, happy financial news, creativity in earning money

Completion Post:
Book & Author: Die Hoffnung der Chani Kaufman by Eve Harris
Date read: 12/05/24
How it fits: MC and her husband taking the next level in their relationship: they get pregnant and start a family
Next number: 25

Knight of Swords – Ambition, speed, action

" The Knight of Swords is a very powerful figure that is full of life as well as energy. This needs to be balanced with a proper and actual realization of compassion and responsibility.Once the knight sets forth towards his goals, there is absolutely no stopping him. He doesn’t see - and he doesn’t care - about any upcoming challenges. He is filled with sheer ambition, strength and determination to succeed with his quest no matter what."

1. Love: fears about intimacy, easily bored partner
2. Career: getting things done, focus on career, efficiency, making big moves
3. Finance: focus on financial goals, taking action on financial goals

I’ve got a question about a cover based task.
Would it count to read a book with a horse on the cover or does someone have to go horseback riding?

Book with horse on cover will work

Thank you for the answer 😊

Completion Post:
Book & Author: The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
Date read: March, 24th
How it fits: horse on Cover
Next number: 23

Page of Pentacles – Ambition, study, new opportunities

" Generally, the Page of pentacles refers to the kind of energy that you need to complete all that is needed for your work. It may point to the determination, focus and the ability to stick with a particular task no matter how boring it may seem. In terms of work, the Page of Pentacles may signify that there are a lot of tasks you are responsible for, but your time to complete them is much too limited. This is not the time to feel stressed and overwhelmed. Assistance will be there for you, you just have to ask for it. "

1. Love: quiet, steady, diligent lover
2. Career: making plans to achieve ambitions, big dreams, training
3. Finance: setting good habits with finances

Completion Post:
Book & Author: The Titan Probe by Brandon Q. Morris
Date read: May, 17th
How it fits: Career: Making plans to realize ambitions: about plans and realization of an expedition to Saturn's moon Titan
Next number: 15

Five of Pentacles – Poverty, isolation, worry

"Whenever the Five of Pentacles shows up in a reading, it suggests a time of hardship and insecurity. The meaning of this card can be deep loneliness, illness, poverty or loss. The Five of Pentacles symbolism can also be that of old debts, high credit card balances, or unpaid loans. "

1. Love: isolation, loneliness, feeling distant
2. Career: work hardships, isolation from colleagues, outcast
3. Finance: poverty, debt, bankruptcy, tight finances