The Lawyer who reads Tarot: Suhad Yazbak on Clarity, courage and Inner power

Suhad Yazbak Final

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Suhad: So what I do is I give my clients a brief overview of the cards just to contextualize it for them to understand.

It can be quite overwhelming to be faced with the cards the first time you come. Yeah. So there's seven to eight cards. The cards are split into 22 majors. Yeah. So let me just pull out the majors to show you what they look like. So this is a major card and the one thing I didn't mention, in the, in, in this chat, which is really relevant is they have a lot to do with Carl Young, the Swiss psychotherapist's ideas.

And so the moon is, it's great. I pulled this 'cause the moon is about the shadow. So the moon is a card about our subconscious. We're driven 90% by our subconscious. So we're driven 90% by things we're not aware of. So what does that mean? Things we bury that can be traumas, fears, limitations, and the idea with the moon card, it's the soul's [00:01:00] journey.

Sometimes the dark journey of the soul, the dark night of the soul. And it's all about extracting the stuff that we've buried that cause us to feel fearful, insecure, doubtful, to bring it to the surface. Because once we bring it out to the surface and we have an understanding. Understanding ourselves is incredibly empowering.

It's 50% awareness is really 50% to start this journey of making change or to lead you to a place of empowerment. So that's the moon card. And then if I had to choose, I mean I could talk about these cars for, the next 10 hours, but I'll just pick three majors to talk about. So the Star is another card that is about.

Our big dream. So most people do have a dream. They either think they don't know it or they know it, but they don't want to admit it to themselves because they don't believe they can [00:02:00] achieve it. And that's the idea of this card, that it's something that it's out of our reach, but if we were to believe in it, it's a very healing thing for us.

So it's, think of it as our kind of like big purpose. That is healing, but we are too scared to believe it's achievable. We don't want to believe in it. This takes ruthless belief when you've lost hope and you have this card, it's telling you ruthlessly believe no matter what. And then God, I might end up doing more than three.

The hermit is a card representing 2025 and the hermit is about. Being true to ourselves, listening to our inner voice, not being influenced by our families, social media, societies, expectations, other people's ideas of happiness, fulfillment, success. It's what do these things really mean for you? And this is [00:03:00] something I've had to work on.

To read tarot for people because I've had to really say, I need to embrace that this is a bit, that might be a bit strange to some people. I need to em, it's okay because I'm, I trust my own voice. I'm on my own path. And it's also okay if I'm on that path alone because here we have this star in the lantern.

I have everything I need to guide me by way of my inner truth, my in own integrity, and.

So this is a card of manifestation, the Magician. It's the number one, and the magician has all the tools on the table, and it is the ultimate card representing our sense of agency free will, but also willpower, determination. But if you have all the tools in the table, you have everything it takes to pull something off.

You need radical self-belief to do it, but also you need the [00:04:00] vision and application to, to take those tools to transform them into the thing that you want. So it is an ultimate card of how can I tap into my full potential, my full power? How can I tap into my most empowered self? And I'll pull a final card, which is.

I'll just show you. This is the card that my teacher pulled for me to start the fool, the new journey. Look, I'm looking for the world. So the world is the number 21, which is the 22nd, and the majors, because the fool is a zero, and the world is the culmination of the pool's journey, the 22 majors.

It's also about. Individuation, which is a concept of Carl Young. Individuation is reaching our authentic self. What is the purpose of our lives? To strip away all the layers that are not ours, that people have put on us, or things, experiences. It could be traumas have put them on us, or [00:05:00] people expectations, whatever it.

To strip them to a place where we are whole. We act from a place of wholeness, not a place of lack. And it's a type of, it's fulfillment. Individuation is becoming who we're really meant to be in this lifetime.

So aside from the 22 majors, there is also 16 court cards. Court cards are pages, Kings, Knights, and Queens.

And they're also based on. Carl Young's ideas of human archetypes we're all meant to embrace some qualities. And at some point we can't stay too long in any of the archetypes because then we flip into its shadow, but they're almost like skill sets or traits that we need to embody a different moment.

And the art is understanding what is the appropriate moment to embody that. So if we take these two cards. The Queen of Swords and the Queen of Pentacle. The Queen of Swords is the queen [00:06:00] of clarity, strictness boundaries, but she's not particularly emotionally. She's not particularly tied to herself emotionally.

She's suppressed her emotion. So this card, if you think of, for example, a parent by some moments, you need to be a bit of queen of sorts to establish some sort of boundaries. If you are only that all the time, you're going to be quite a harsh parent who alienates their children. So you need to balance that with love, nurture.

So you need the balance. So these are two of the suits. So the Queen of Pentacles is the stable queen, the more nurturing queen, bit of kind of the homemaker queen. But she's accountable. She's responsible, she's reliable. And you can apply those to any areas, even in work. Sometimes with the queen of stories, we need to have the tough conversations.

If we're like that all the time, it makes us very difficult to interact with, to deal [00:07:00] with. So it's about establishing the right kind of moments and time to embody those traits. Here we have the King of Ws. King of wands is the closest relative, is the magician, the very empowered king. Someone who's a visionary, someone who's an entrepreneur, makes and breaks the rules super empowered.

He's usually a creative and he he's innovative. He pushes the boundaries of things. And, he thinks differently. He's an outside the box thinker, also an unconventional character. So often what people happens is when they have these in their readings and I start to describe the traits they say, oh yes, I identify with this.

Oh yes, I think I am this one or this one a lot of the time, or, yes, this one, at home and this one at work and this one. Which is very powerful. And then we have, so there's four suits in tarot, the cup, the sword, the pentacle, and the wand. So this is [00:08:00] the beautiful card of the Ace of Cups. And the Ace of Cups is All ACEs.

A new beginnings given by the hand of God and the Ace of Cups is that beautiful moment of emotional release. It's a new emotional beginning. It's catharsis. It could be tears of happiness and sadness, and it's about emotional openness. It's falling in love with yourself, your life. Someone else, something else.

This is very much how I feel about my tower cards. I would say I feel very ace of cups about them. It's an overflow of extreme emotion. It is really, the thing that I love. And then just to show you, this is a sword card, the two of swords, and this is a wand. So this is the eighth of one.

So swords represent our intellect, the cerebral space logic. It's the head, essentially the space of, how we relate to things from a place of clarity and rationality. The wand is creativity, [00:09:00] passion libido. It's also excitement, things taking off, happening, launching. It's very exciting.

So here we have, let's do the eighth of Pentacles, which is the flip side of this eight of wands. And the pentacle is really hard work. It's what we manifest. It's what's tangible. It's bricks and mortar. It's what we build. It can be finances or anything tangible that we want to manifest. The pentacle is also our legacy.

So the 10 of Pentacles, which is the combination of the Pentacles, is again, parts of our purpose, is what's the legacy we want to build in this life for ourselves? What is our legacy? That can come in any form, it can be in the craft that we do or in something else. Now, all of these cards. Whether it's the majors or the, the court cards, the minors, they have good and bad aspects.

No, no card. Some cards are on the whole positive, but they can appear in a negative aspect. And if you're a negatively as aspected by a [00:10:00] card, it can be too much of that, or the idea of the shadow of the card. So if we go back to the idea of head versus heart emotion versus logic. Tarot is also about balance.

It's also understanding the balance of the suits. So too much emotion can be detrimental. It can make us volatile, it can, cause not very good boundaries. Not very good decisions. We can't be led purely by emotion. But equally, we can't be led purely by logic. Because if we take emotion out of everything and we're led purely by logic, it can lead to a level of.

Unpleasantness ruthlessness. So what do we need? We need the third component of intuition and the best decision making in tarot is a balance of head, heart and intuition. So this is a little snippet. You have anything? Is there a card that you remember from your last reading you want to ask about?

Maybe? Or anything else you want [00:11:00] to I think want me to talk about, let's get a

Arthur: visual one, just the, on the card, I think. That's amazing. There

we see. Yeah.

Suhad: I'm trying to pick out, some of the ones that I love, particularly Queen of Wands, this is my favorite card which everyone, I think, everyone who knows me knows this is very much my favorite card and strength. It's very important card. It's the card of the month actually is Strength.

The Lovers a really beautiful card about alignment, divine choice, things that are faded.

Arthur: Amazing. People really like this one. Amazing. Thank you so much.