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You know what, why not? It's been a while since I've done one of these, they're generally fun, and I can always use the practice.
The Basics
I'll do free one-card draws today and tomorrow, until midnight PST on Sunday. [ETA: Now closed! Thanks for all the interest!] Ask a specific question, or just see what messages arise from the ether.
I'll also draw additional cards to address specific questions at $1 a card, up to seven cards. (Use the PayPal button below if you're interested in that option! Then, you can either comment with the email which sent the payment, or put your journal name in the Paypal notes.)
You can see an example of the sort of depth and analysis I do in a previous Tarot post.
The Decks:
I use a somewhat non-traditional approach to reading, with two different decks:
1) The Endangered Ark art card deck, which is not traditionally used in divination, but which I've found to have a very good signal strength. In my experience, this deck is good for illustrating a particular issue and digging up surrounding issues – bringing things into the light, as it were. My interpretation of Endangered Ark cards has a lot to do with the art and the symbolic as well as biological/ethological qualities of the animals depicted, but it also incorporates my interpretations of the numbers and suits.
2)The Crow's Magick Tarot. I like to call this my "brutal truths" deck; every time I've used it to read for myself, it's given me firm answers that dig up things I don't actually want to look at or face, but which end up being spot-on. I've never used this deck to read for other people, but I respect it a heck of a lot. The Crow's Magick has keywords on the cards as well as its own book of interpretations; because I believe in taking decks as they present themselves, I use these less-traditional readings as well as the more-traditional Tarot readings in interpreting them.
If you don't specify a deck, I'll use the Endangered Ark, as I think it's a bit better to get a general read.
Privacy:
All comments to this entry are screened, and I'll only unscreen them if you tell me it's okay. Tell me how you want your results: I can email them to an email you provide, I can post them in a public reply to your comment, or I can PM them to your Dreamwidth account.
Purchase Additional Cards:
The Obligatory Disclaimer:
If you have medical, legal, or similarly serious problems, I strongly advise that you consult an expert and not a deck of cards. I make no guarantees on accuracy or precision of results. I'm somewhat agnostic on Tarot and tend to regard these as useful means of self-diagnosis, with my own analysis of the cards giving me as much insight into them as the selection of the cards themselves, but whether you regard readings as pure fun, Jungian diagnostic tools, or applied magic, you're welcome here.
The Basics
I'll do free one-card draws today and tomorrow, until midnight PST on Sunday. [ETA: Now closed! Thanks for all the interest!] Ask a specific question, or just see what messages arise from the ether.
I'll also draw additional cards to address specific questions at $1 a card, up to seven cards. (Use the PayPal button below if you're interested in that option! Then, you can either comment with the email which sent the payment, or put your journal name in the Paypal notes.)
You can see an example of the sort of depth and analysis I do in a previous Tarot post.
The Decks:
I use a somewhat non-traditional approach to reading, with two different decks:
1) The Endangered Ark art card deck, which is not traditionally used in divination, but which I've found to have a very good signal strength. In my experience, this deck is good for illustrating a particular issue and digging up surrounding issues – bringing things into the light, as it were. My interpretation of Endangered Ark cards has a lot to do with the art and the symbolic as well as biological/ethological qualities of the animals depicted, but it also incorporates my interpretations of the numbers and suits.
2)The Crow's Magick Tarot. I like to call this my "brutal truths" deck; every time I've used it to read for myself, it's given me firm answers that dig up things I don't actually want to look at or face, but which end up being spot-on. I've never used this deck to read for other people, but I respect it a heck of a lot. The Crow's Magick has keywords on the cards as well as its own book of interpretations; because I believe in taking decks as they present themselves, I use these less-traditional readings as well as the more-traditional Tarot readings in interpreting them.
If you don't specify a deck, I'll use the Endangered Ark, as I think it's a bit better to get a general read.
Privacy:
All comments to this entry are screened, and I'll only unscreen them if you tell me it's okay. Tell me how you want your results: I can email them to an email you provide, I can post them in a public reply to your comment, or I can PM them to your Dreamwidth account.
Purchase Additional Cards:
The Obligatory Disclaimer:
If you have medical, legal, or similarly serious problems, I strongly advise that you consult an expert and not a deck of cards. I make no guarantees on accuracy or precision of results. I'm somewhat agnostic on Tarot and tend to regard these as useful means of self-diagnosis, with my own analysis of the cards giving me as much insight into them as the selection of the cards themselves, but whether you regard readings as pure fun, Jungian diagnostic tools, or applied magic, you're welcome here.
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Date: 2013-07-21 06:05 am (UTC)From:I find that, when I do readings for myself, the real value is usually in the interpretation more than the cards itself. The cards bring up correspondences and suggestions that might not spring into the mind when it's just you, mulling over something; they cast things in a different light, and sometimes that's enough to bring an answer or a potential answer to light. And a lot of times, especially with the Crow's Magick deck, the stuff that comes up suggests things that I already know, but because it seems like an external force bringing them up, it feels more like someone calling me on my bullshit and less like something that can just be casually brushed aside. Sure, it might be psychological, but so are placebo effects, and placebo effects, however maligned, are still clinically effective and real.
...and then there are times when it seems like everything lines up way too well for coincidence, and I get all weird about discounting those. Hey, it's always possible that real, external forces and intelligences are communicating to me! Even if I'm not going to treat it as scientific evidence. But my subjective experience of magic and spiritual matters doesn't need to be objective in order to present value, if that makes sense.
So. Yes. :) Treat it as pretendy fun times, treat it as a jumping-off point for things to mull over, treat it as truth from the spirit realms, they're all perfectly fine and valid experiences of divinatory readings, in my book.
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Date: 2013-07-21 06:47 am (UTC)From:*Er, speaking as a liberal arts major who reads a lot, which bears about as much resemblance to an actual physicist as a lightning bug has to actual lightning.
I know what you mean about being a sort of spiritual rationalist, though. I don't think I believe in this sort of thing on the deep-down level where belief lives, but ... I sort of do, in a way? Or at least I try to be respectful of it, not just respectful to human beings' beliefs (though that, too, as much as possible) but to the spiritual/divine as well, if that makes any sense. I'm an atheist who is too practical to go around disrespecting unfamiliar gods, I guess is a good way to put it.
And that's also a very interesting point about readings creating new connections and new ways of looking at things! I wouldn't have thought of that, but it makes a lot of sense.
Anyway, I appreciated the reading; thank you very much! It was a new experience at the very least, and gave me things to think about.