How do strangers see Taemin?
“💕💕☘️ Could you do a reading for Taemin, similar to the one you did for jimin? So answering what effect he has on strangers tysm (ps tha rant about how you felt now that you have to do things on your own, i really appreciated it, i feel like im not alone in feeling scared to make moves on my own, i wish you confidence in getting what you want) 🌻🌻🌞”
So, this kind of threw m off a bit because the first two cards out just didn’t seem to vibe with him but then I was like, oh right, strangers, first impressions, perceptions of energy, whatever. So, the first cards out where the 10 of Swords and the 3 of Swords, both very negative, painful, broken energies. So, when people, who aren’t familiar with him AT ALL see him or meet him for the first time they feel… bad? Sad? It’s a heavy energy, almost imposing, but then it’s like Taemin is actually aware of this because he compensates for it.
I don’t want to throw any assumptions out there for obvious reasons, but as an EXAMPLE, this really makes me think of something where someone who struggles with depression quite a lot and it’s to the point where it’s just in their eyes. Like, you can see that in them. So, it’s like they meet people and they smile and do all the stuff, but they can see other people looking at them like that, like with that weirdly pointed concern where they want to ask if they’re okay or if they’ve been sleeping or if they’re sick, and they’ve seen it and heard it so many times that they can clock that look from ten miles away, so they flip a switch. They go from that heavy, heartbroken state of the 3 of Swords to the Queen of Wands, a card of pride and stability, high levels of confidences. They try to overshadow the 10 of Swords with the reversed 10 of Wands, being like, “nah, I’m not struggling with anything, it’s all good! Look how strong I am, look how confident I am, look how loud I can be, look how big I can smile, look at the lights, look at the sunshine, pay no mind to the dead man impaled to the ground behind the curtain!”
It comes off like he’s overcompensating for something that people who don’t even know hm can see, and because of that, new people perceive the Queen and the reversed 10 of Wands as the 7 of Swords, as a lie. He’s trying to fool them, trying to hide those swords, hide his thoughts, and in that sense, he’s hiding himself.