Statistics for August 2021
Brief August's Stats
The stats have been a while in coming, but the August stats are here (If you’re looking for July’s, I will have moved it to the publish date of 1 August for ease of reference). August begins on Day 213 and finishes on Day 243. The Silence card dominates August’s stats and appears eight times. There’s a five-way tie, with seven appearances each, for second place, and the cards are The Master, Fighting, Thunderbolt, Morality, and Exhaustion. Like July, three cards didn’t make an appearance; they were, Transformation, Celebration and Courage.
By the way, head to the Tarot Layouts page to see all the images for the month (and previous months) in one spot. By the way, there were 2,430 cards dealt as of 31 August 2021.
A Kind Glossary
It’s not a good glossary, but here are some terms that might help clarify things.
The Cross is the first six cards, and the Base is the last four cards to the right of any layout.
Time-based positions are Distant Past, Recent Past, Future Energy. Note, the “Feelings” spot can also be referred to as the Immediate Future.
It is not set in concrete for the Cross and Base to act as external and internal or physical and emotional; respectively, it is something I use as a rough guide.
These can wiggle a little when it comes to the types of cards that appear and, dare I say it, one’s intuition. There is, of course, Others’ Views which is arguably “external”, but it’s our reaction to how Others’ Views that have internal meaning. 😁
The reason I focus mainly on the highest appearing cards is that they give me the best data. If a card appears twice in the month, it’s intriguing to ponder its significance in a pool of many and is certainly something a discord might be enjoyable to have; quantitative data is initially more fun 🤔.
Distribution Across the Layout
Silence’s presence was evenly placed over the layout without a clear preference for its position, although it appeared twice in each Now and Outcome spot.
Exhaustion has an inward focus appearing in Future Energy and Feelings for the majority of its visitations. Morality and Thunderbolt almost mirror each other when it comes to Cross versus Base. Morality is in the former and Thunderbolt in the Feelings.
Some of the more exciting cards for August’s stats were the ones that had six appearances. Breakthrough, for instance, appeared as Influence position four of its six appearances in the month and didn’t venture into the Base at all. On the other hand, Intensity and Compromise occupied Hopes & Fears and Other’s Views, respectively. However, these two cards did venture into the Cross side of the layout in no specific pattern.
The only cards in noteworthy positions are perhaps Receptivity, whose five appearances exclusively appear in Influence and Others’ Views, three and two times, retrospectively. Mind makes four out of five appearances in the Cross, and Politics focuses its energy on the time-based spots of the Cross; that is, Distant Past, Recent Past, and Future Energy.
Distribution Across the Month
Let’s see what the top cards do across the month. As we’ve established, Silence is across the layout, but its appearances aren’t restricted to consecutive days either. Likewise, The Master, Harmony, Fighting, Exhaustion, and Morality cards have spread evenly across August’s stats.
It’s the next couple of cards where it becomes exciting. Mind is even more fascinating because its layout distribution is concentrated in the Cross and only in the first six days, very intense!
Success only appears after the 17th. And Politics occupied the middle of the month between the 9th and 22nd. While Harmony seemed to occupy the same layout positions as Politics but on other days.
August's Stats - By Day By Position
The Story of August
The month begins with a lot of confusion (Mind), then a Breakthrough happens to dispel the Politics that existed. The Politics get replaced by liberation of spirit, and The Master and Success’ appearance exemplifies autonomy. All the while, feelings of Exhaustion threatened the Hopes & Fears dichotomy, the fear of Compromise and hope of Intensity.
The cards that didn’t bother getting out of bed for August were: Transformation, Celebration, and Courage. This lack of appearance could indicate while Breakthrough was influential, it wasn’t something life-changing to need Transformation. And I had encountered Success, but it did not require Celebration. The Master‘s is imbued with Courage, making the card redundant.
Year-to-August 2021
From a year-to-date perspective, The Source holds the spotlight with 42 appearances, but it is no longer alone because Harmony’s six August appearances equal 42 for the year too.
The cards with the fewest appearances in August’s stats are the same as July’s stats, Turning In, Going with the Flow and Success. And the message with their absence is to meditate, which encourages reflection, finding time to just drift along with the current of life, and in doing so, Success might follow.
When it comes to first appearances in positions, basically has a card not showing up in a layout position? If so, what positions are still vacant against which cards? You can look for yourself in the First Appearances stats, but when it comes to a summary, 94% of positions used, leaving 6%, which is 43 spots still, to have the first appearance in some layout positions.
That’s August’s stats done.
Overall Yearly Trend - Highest to Lowest
Only August's Stats - Highest to Lowest
