COMBINATIONS WITH THE CROSS



Please note that the examples below are meant to be just that: examples. They are not in any sense exhaustive. Furthermore,they are constructed of individual meanings I myself use. If you use different keywords than I do your own combined meanings will look quite different. Also, what I did not take into account in these examples is the order of the paired cards (which card is left and which right). Lastly, if you want to learn more about how to combine two cards' meanings >> here is an explanation of what works for me.


Cross-Rider
Fateful news. News about a stroke of fate or about a duty. Tidings that bring suffering. Responsibilities are forced on us. Overwhelming responsibilities. Change of fate. Change of ideology/religion; challenge or even change of fundamental beliefs. Overwhelming suffering. Religious activities. Obtrusive ideology or religiosity. To act according to one's duty.


Cross-Clover
To shy away from responsibilities, to neglect one's duties. A welcome break from hardship. Advice: don't take your responsibilities so seriously/ lighten up about your opinions/morality and allow yourself (or others) more lenience! A small burden; a responsibility one is actually happy to accept. An opportunity to grow through suffering, or through taking on more responsibilities.


Cross-Ship
Making a change/exploration brings a lot of hardship with it. To explore an ideology. To go where fate leads. To go a away on a quest. To explore suffering. Foreign/strange ideologies or convictions. To depart from one's dogmata; to leave an ideology behind. Painful departure. The responsibility on/for a journey. Fateful journey. Commuting/travelling is a burden. Little commitment to principles, or to one's duties. To change one's principles. To leave behind that which is painful. It's our duty to go looking for something or someone, to go try and find out about something. It's our responsibility to change. To make difficult changes.


Cross-House
Home life or the family feels like a burden. Burdensome traditions. To adhere to traditions, to firmly stick with rules. The fixed idea that having a family, or having a very stable and traditional life, is what we should aspire to. Family duties. To be responsible for a family. Hardships within the family. Strong adherence to what's established and familiar. Very traditional/regressive, intolerant worldview.


Cross-Tree
Firmly rooted, unshakeable convictions. To be very stable and reliable in doing our duty. To find strength in fulfilling what we perceive as our life-task. Physical pain. Growing pain. An ideology of nature. Dogmatic ideas about health. To adhere to a physical regimen. To overexert oneself physically. Physical burden - to carry something heavy. To find one's life task in something to do with nature. To feel called to nature. Natural responsibilities.


Cross-Clouds
Unclear or confused beliefs or ideology; an ideology which relies on keeping things hidden from its adherents. A mind fogged by dogmatic thinking. Despair because of hardship/suffering. No hope to escape the pain. To not know what our task is. To take responsibility in times of confusion. Unclear principles; no principles to guide us. To get lost on a quest. Very dull duty. Impassiveness to suffering. Aimlessness vs. a clear task. Unbearable boredom.


Cross-Snake
Ambition or cravings have become a burden, are causing suffering. Someone who determinedly adheres to a very strict ideological system. To strive for more responsibilities. To very single-mindedly pursue something even if it takes a lot of hard work or the process is painful. To follow one's true calling determinedly. Someone who fulfils their duties wisely. Cult leader, ideological manipulation/indoctrination.


Cross-Coffin
Self-sacrifice; to give up one's dreams in order to fulfil one's duty. Painful ending. The responsibility for an ending. To suffer greatly from a loss. Terrible grief. To let go of a dogma, or to lose belief in an ideology/religion. The burdensome awareness that everybody will eventually die. Terminal care.


Cross-Bouquet
Social life or some aspect of it (e.g. a visit) feels like a burden. Friendliness, and/or being likeable, is our foremost duty. To be friendly on principle. To see it as our task to make things nice for others. The burden of always having to to please others. Generosity is a duty. Fateful visit. To compliment someone's dutifulness. Gratitude for someone's shouldering a burden / taking responsibility. To make someone's suffering easier for them; to help them forget their pain for a while by doing something nice. To present a pretty facade even when one is suffering inside.


Cross-Scythe
Something that very suddenly and maybe painfully challenges one's strongest beliefs. It's your responsibility to put a stop to X! Sharp, unexpected pain. To cut away a burden. To discontinue something out of a feeling of duty. Self-inflicted suffering. To take stock of one's life - of the good/bad things, of its purpose etc. Burdensome efficiency; pressure to be efficient.


Cross-Whip
Conflict of dogma, conflict of believes. Sense of guilt; bad conscience. To apologise and atone. Flagellation (literal, or metaphorically speaking). To go to confession. Abusive behaviour in the sense of pressuring someone to do something or burdening someone with something they do not want to be responsible for. The burden on the soul of being verbally attacked. To bear abuse. Our convictions about punishment, shame, or guilt.


Cross-Birds
Worries about our fate, or our responsibilities . To be rash in taking on responsibilities. Gossip, noise, or instability are very hard for us to bear and exhaust us in the long run. To struggle with a chaotic situation. To not tolerate noise, chaos, or gossip. To be totally convinced of what is only gossip. To shoulder many different tasks.


Cross-Child
Child under pressure; child is a burden; beginning of responsibilities, inexperience with responsibilities. To be naive concerning the hardship something entails. Hardship which is (yet) small. Too weak for a burden. Someone who is easily indoctrinated. Great weakness. Inner child is weighed down by life's work. Playful approach to our duties; to play around when we should behave responsibly.


Cross-Fox
Conflict between responsibilities and self-care. Conflict between duty and self-interest. To adapt to a burdensome situation, to responsibilities, to pressure, or to suffering. Suffering has become an integral part of one's identity. To fulfil one's duty with every ounce of strength one has.


Cross-Bear
The burden of leadership/parenthood/being the boss. The care for a parent is a burden. Religious parent, suffering parent. Burdensome relationship with parent/teacher/boss. To suffer under a choleric parent/teacher/boss. Choleric personality traits are a heavy load to carry; dominant partner puts stress on you. The burden of providing (now, or for the future). To view parenthood as the ultimate life-task. Priest, pastor, pope, cult leader. (Overly) dogmatic views which dominate everything. To struggle against some dominant influence.


Cross-Stars
Strong religious/spiritual beliefs and feelings. Conflict between religious dogma and personal spiritual experiences. Conflict between what we feel is right and true for us and what our upbringing or our culture's dominant ideology want us to believe. To trust in fate; to believe that what we perceive as our life-task is also a good thing. The idea that suffering will make us wiser, better. Hope is a burden; wishful thinking causes suffering.


Cross-Stork
Suffering or hardship change us very profoundly and irrevocably. Change of ideology. A transformation or transition brings suffering with it and/or necessitates very hard work. The belief that something is predestined and thus inevitable. Because we think something is predestined we do nothing against it but go along with it. Something about what our inner nature wants feels like a burden. Our longings cause suffering (to ourselves or others). Strokes of fate which cannot be prevented; inevitable pain. Pain which is in the nature of things - e.g. childbirth, growing pains. Recurring pain. Someone is very dutiful by nature. A strong pull towards suffering / towards self-sacrifice.


Cross-Dog
To adhere to an ideology, or to bow to a political, religious or moral authority, without ever challenging it. To never question something we've been led to believe. The dependence on strong (ethical/political) guidelines. To perceive it at an inescapable duty to be loyal. Burdensome loyalty. Responsibility for a dependent. Helper's syndrome. To shoulder something for a friend. A friend shoulders something for us. Support in times of suffering. A dogmatic/religious/suffering friend.


Cross-Tower
To take pride in hardship, suffering. Pride in our adherence to principles. To hold our principles above all else. To isolate ourselves when things are difficult. Highest suffering. Loneliness is hard to bear. The loneliness of leadership is a burden. Dogmatic authority. Authority which demands strict adherence/obedience. Inability to delegate. To say no to responsibilities; "No, I won't take this upon myself!" To distance oneself from other people's suffering.


Cross-Garden
Public suffering. Being in the public eye is a burden. Society's duties: public health care, public transport, garbage disposal etc. Mainstream ideology; the pressure society puts on us. Cultural burden - the burdens we carry because we're members of our society. Networks which deal with suffering. A dogmatic approach to publicity, to coming out, to what should or should not be public.


Cross-Mountain
Something weighs on you terribly; unbearable pressure. Something is very hard to bear, difficult duty or responsibility. Something is blocking you from fulfilling your life-task; obstacle to following your calling. A challenging stroke of fate. Exhausting challenge; difficulties that wear you down. To persist out of a feeling of duty. Problematically dogmatic.


Cross-Crossroad
Conflict between relativism and absolutism, tolerance and intolerance. Freedom vs. responsibility. We chose our own life-task. Too much freedom is a burden. Painful choice; painful indecision. To deliberate our principles/convictions/responsibilities. Varying convictions. No strong pull anywhere - everything feels optional.


Cross-Mice
Corrupt/unhealthy ideology or worldview; lack of principles, to be negligent with our duties/responsibilities. To slowly lose our convictions. To little by little stop believing that something is really that important. Slow dwindling of dogmatic thinking. Pressure/responsibilities drain us. Exhausting illness. Pain is dwindling! Less suffering.


Cross-Heart
The love and care for someone has become a burden - or someone's love for us is burdensome. Love and compassion help carrying our burdens. To soothe someone's pain. To feel a duty to act lovingly and understandingly although we don't want to. Love that hurts. Stroke of fate which concerns a loved one. The believe in the one true love; to believe we are destined to be with a specific partner. Falling in love can't be forced.


Cross-Ring
To feel very committed to doing our duty. Strong ideological connection. A relationship that feels like burden or causes suffering. Inescapable ties. To be connected to someone through suffering. A fateful connection. Cause and effect can't be escaped. To stick with keeping a promise even when it's hard. Mutual struggles. Shared ideological or religious beliefs. A connection which is painful to accept.


Cross-Book
Religious or ideological writings. The actual facts behind the religious dogma. Knowledge which burdens. The truth is hard to bear. To study religion. Studying is burdensome or exhausting. It's one's duty to be knowledgeable. To categorise something as dogmatic, fateful, burdensome, painful etc.


Cross-Letter
Indoctrination. To communicate because one thinks its a duty. Hard conversations; conversation about a painful issue. The responsibility to inform others about relevant issues. Communication is very hard; to feel the pressure to talk about something although you don't want to. Communication about ideology, dogmata, responsibilities, duties, pressure, or suffering. To communicate when things become too much to handle. Expressions of suffering and pain.


Cross-Man (a)
Man who is: ideological, religious, convinced of something, principled, dogmatic, absolutist, intolerant, uncritical, doesn't question. Man who is dutiful, responsible. Man who is burdened, or burdensome, exhausted or exhausting, who is in pain, suffering. Minister, monk. Man who is a burden to us; man who we feel destined to know/be in a relationship with. Responsibility for a man; duties to a man. Traditionally male duties; specifically male sufferings. Absolutist convictions of what is "male", or of how men should behave.


Cross-Woman (a)
Woman who is: ideological, religious, convinced of something, principled, dogmatic, absolutist, intolerant, uncritical, doesn't question. Woman who is dutiful, responsible. Woman who is burdened, or burdensome, exhausted or exhausting, who is in pain, suffering. Minister, nun. Woman who is a burden to us; woman who we feel destined to know/be in a relationship with. Responsibility for a woman; duties to a woman. Traditionally female duties; specifically female sufferings. Absolutist convictions of what is "female", or of how women should behave.


Cross-Man (b)
Man who is: ideological, religious, convinced of something, principled, dogmatic, absolutist, intolerant, uncritical, doesn't question. Man who is dutiful, responsible. Man who is burdened, or burdensome, exhausted or exhausting, who is in pain, suffering. Minister, monk. Man who is a burden to us; man who we feel destined to know/be in a relationship with. Responsibility for a man; duties to a man. Traditionally male duties; specifically male sufferings. Absolutist convictions of what is "male", or of how men should behave.


Cross-Woman (b)
Woman who is: ideological, religious, convinced of something, principled, dogmatic, absolutist, intolerant, uncritical, doesn't question. Woman who is dutiful, responsible. Woman who is burdened, or burdensome, exhausted or exhausting, who is in pain, suffering. Minister, nun. Woman who is a burden to us; woman who we feel destined to know/be in a relationship with. Responsibility for a woman; duties to a woman. Traditionally female duties; specifically female sufferings. Absolutist convictions of what is "female", or of how women should behave.


Cross-(Sensual)Lily
A sexual relationship, sex drive in general, or sensual pleasures, have become a burden. Overindulgence, laziness, debauchery are difficult to shake off, causing suffering. Intense pain, intense suffering. To take pleasure in pain. Dogmatic views about sensuality/sexuality. Responsible sexuality; contraception. To enjoy what one perceives as one's life-task; to find pleasure in mastering the hardships of life.


Cross-(Virtuous)Lily
Virtues which are relevant to (your) religion, e.g. the Christian virtues faith, love, hope, or the Buddhist "sublime attitudes" compassion, shared joy, equanimity, loving kindness. Also: piety! To act virtuously out of religious fear. Virtuousness as a burden. To think that suffering is a virtue. The virtue of bearing suffering with dignity. To do the right thing even when it's difficult, even when it's burdensome. Selfless (altruistic) service. To make peace with pain/suffering.


Cross-Sun
To find joy despite hardship. To celebrate welcome responsibilities. To ease suffering; to try and ignore anything that is difficult. To make light of hardship. To be(come) aware of dogmatic thinking. To look for happiness. Being burdened dampens our joy. To hide our light under a bushel. Superficial suffering; the burden is not that big.


Cross-Moon
Emotional suffering; emotional strain. Something weighs on our emotional wellbeing. Suffering which is very profound, goes down very deep. Painful needs. Fear of pain. The fear that something bad might happen. Acute feeling of responsibility; profound sense of duty. A respite from carrying a burden/responsibilities/suffering. Ideological/dogmatic views on emotions. To not tolerate emotionality. Needs feel like a burden. To bear dark emotions with dignity. Quiet suffering.


Cross-Key
To accept responsibility, to take on a burden willingly. To understand an ideology and its implications. Openness (vulnerability) for indoctrination. Understanding of suffering. To open one's door to suffering. Pain relief; deliverance from hardship, relief of a duty. The light at the end of the tunnel. To view it as one's duty to welcome others. If you want to succeed you'll have to work extremely hard. Dogmatic thinking vs. open-mindedness.


Cross-Fish
To be the breadwinner (which might feel like a burden). Many responsibilities. Financial responsibilities. Mortgage. Debt - not necessarily in a monetary sense. Your ideology/religion means a lot to you. The idea that accumulating money or possessions is the most important thing in life. The struggle of making a daily living. Your job has become a burden. To overwork. To endure suffering/struggles because they might pay off in the end.


Cross-Anchor
To find great stability an safety in religion/ideology. God/Jesus/Buddha etc. as pillar of strength. To cling to dogma. To focus on one's life-task. Status quo, or everyday life, is burdensome. Workday life feels like a (painful) duty. Everything revolves around some kind of suffering. Focus on what's painful.


Cross-Cross*)
Painful duties; great burden; exhaustive responsibilities. Dogmatic thinking and behaviour causes suffering. To greatly exert oneself to adhere to one's principles. To think that doing one's life's work should be hard.

Cross - Wild Card
To question a dogma, an important principle, an ideology. Question mark regarding one's life task. A quest or calling we haven't followed yet. The strokes of fate we will suffer cannot be predicted. To struggle with one's oddball qualities, or with one's genderqueerness. The hardship genderqueer people face. Not convicted yet. The distinct feeling that we should do something but we don't know what. A (possibly genderqueer) person with the attributes of the Cross (see the Cross's keywords).


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