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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: 2013-07-22 03:07 am (UTC)From:The Star, upright.
Card keywords: "Trapped, Confined"
Booklet gloss: "Divert personal sabotage", "clearly defining your personality"
Traditional: Eights in Tarot are about strength and limitations – specifically, interacting with limitations, either to transcend them or work with/around them. Swords are the suit of air, of intellectual pursuits and the mind, and of conflict and obstacles. Traditionally, the Eight of Swords is about the traps your mind sets you, fears and apprehensions which keep you confined.
The image on this card is a golden eagle behind a window made of swords, with two of the swords forming bars. There are stripes of light in the background, as though distant slitted windows, and the eagle is in flight, but clearly constrained.
I tend to read reversals as inversions or subversions of the meaning of the card. Here, it seems to be saying: perhaps you have these self-imposed controls on your behavior, but perhaps they're good ones. Things that support you in becoming who you want to be. (Or perhaps these are things which would be good to develop.) Or, perhaps your fears should be interrogated, to see what it is that they're protecting you from. Are the walls your mind builds confining, or are they structural? Or do they need to be built to get you to where you want to be?
In reversed position, the eagle is flying upside-down, and seems to be angled toward the ground. If it is a case that a crash is imminent, perhaps the bars which the mind erects can be protective.
In the image, there are gaps in the bars – the swords which cross the window don't make it all the way across. There is room to slip through, although it would be difficult and dangerous. In looking at the walls, don't try to make them shut everything out. But the unimportant things and the dangerous things need not come through.
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Date: 2013-07-23 06:08 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2013-07-24 07:17 pm (UTC)From: