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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.
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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 06:30 am (UTC)From:The card I drew for you was the King of Coins, reversed.
I'm not sure if there's anywhere online that I can link you to, in order to see the cards, so I'll describe it: all the cards have a stark white background; this one has a golden tiger, with an attentive, inquisitive look, in repose on two slabs of something yellow and fading to black. Behind him, above his head, there's a vivid red sky fading out into darkness; a red planet or moon hangs just abode the horizon, and the black silhouette of a crow wings through the red as though it's a cloud. High on the card, in the center, where you might expect to see a sun, is a golden coin, slightly oblong, and engraved with a crown and two rows of symbols. (It looks like Venetic, but if it is, it doesn't spell anything that means anything to me. Which is a shame.)
All right. Now, the three interpretations:
The keywords on the card: "Dedicated, Adamant"
The booklet says: "Facade of success. Will say anything to impress anyone." (The upright meaning given is "High-level success. Wealth. Conveys methods for success to all that will listen.)
And there's the more traditional meaning: Kings are powerful cards, leaders and motivators. Coins or pentacles are an earthy, solid, stable suit, also representing wealth and practical concerns. The King of Coins or Pentacles is a careful, grounded influence who leads into matters of wealth or stability, such as the founding of a new business.
I tend to interpret reversals as something like an inverse or subversion of meaning: the seeds of the upright meaning are there, but something is backwards or not coming across as it should be. In this case, it seems like something – either in you or your environment – which should be stable is being threatened by something which is not genuine. Perhaps someone is refusing to call the emperor out on his new clothes. Perhaps someone who has promised to see something through, or someone who can usually be trusted to bulldog their way through complications, is half-assing it. Dedication is slipping, defects are being hidden, the ground is not as solid as it should be but people are being made (or allowed) to walk on it anyway. I'd say keep an eye out for deceit, even if it's not malicious; maybe someone hopes that by pretending something is all right it'll become all right, or just hasn't looked closely enough to see the cracks.
(Sorry the Crow's Magick set tends toward the blunt and unreassuring. <_<)