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Statistics for October 2021

October stats are here! The daily cards can be found on the Tarot layouts, even if I haven’t had time to finish writing all the posts for the month. The important thing is that they happen daily.

October begins on Day 274 and finishes on Day 304. Friendliness makes a whopping ten shows being the first card to reach double-digit appearances all year! All I can say is, I’m glad it was Friendliness 🤗. The Source and Politics each have nine appearances, followed by Stress with eight shows.

Thunderbolt, Adventure, Abundance, Transformation, and Guilt have seven turns, and Intensity is the top of the cards with six appearances. Sadly, Harmony, who looked a promising contender for the year’s most popular card, had dropped back due to making only five appearances in October.

When it comes to cards with the same position two or more days running, two cards did this; The Source and Adventure. The Source accomplished that on Day 298 and Day 299 in the Others’ Views position, while Adventure had the Influence spot on Day 301 and Day 302.

To date, there were 3,040 cards dealt as of 31 October 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

Interestingly, even with Friendliness’ ten appearances, it was over the month; it doesn’t once show in positions eight, nine or ten. While The Source also has a relatively uniform showing rate, it avoids the Goal, Distant Past, and Outcome spots, although The Source dominates position five through nine.

At the same time, Politics makes regular appearances in the middle of the month and avoids the Goal, Distant Past, and Others’ Views spots. Stress finds its groove in positions four and five, ignoring positions one to three and ten.

Transformation primarily liked the Cross area focussing most of its energy on the Distant Past and Goal.

Distribution Across the Month

Concerning timing across the month, the other top ten cards placed themselves evenly across the month, with perhaps the exception of Adventure, who arrived later in the month. The cards were more focused on selected positions rather than when they showed up.

October's Stats - By Day By Position

The Story of October

Friendliness’ showing in Feelings and Distant Past possibly played into the political mindset that pervaded the past positions. Furthermore, Intensity and The Source inhabited the inner realms of Hopes & Fears and Feelings. Conversely, it also showed on the outside how others perceived me. It’s the perception that I’m constantly trying to “find” myself.

However, I do not believe we need to go searching for ourselves. Think of hardwood floors painted over, tiled and carpeted. Once you remove these elements, you still have hardwood floors. It’s the stripped-back hardwood floor, which is The Source of who we are. It’s the part we need to embrace. Once we’ve adopted the rawness, we can then find a clear varnish to suit our style; this is so our authentic selves can shine through and be protected.

Intensity is simply the drive and passion for pursuing whatever endeavour energy holds sway.

Year-to-October 2021

From a year-to-date perspective, The Source (54), edged out by Harmony (51) from last month, is back in top position. It leads appearances by three. My focus has returned to incorporating a previous couple of changes and working out how it affects “me”. Ironically, the thing that would help with this assimilation sits in the last position Turning In (25), the act of meditating.

When it comes to first appearances in positions, basically, what card hasn’t shown up in a layout position? If so, what positions are still vacant against which cards? The First Appearances stats are summarised with 97% of positions occupied, leaving 3% or 19 spots still unclaimed.