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Spent a full day yesterday at a LETS day doing tarot readings. First time I'd done them for people other than friends. Big queues for me, much to my surprise. Surprising how many people had the same cards turning up in both spreads, and sometimes in the same position.

Met a friend I'd lost touch with and another psychic.

I didn't know you read Tarot, Zarquon!!! YAY!!! I do too, well, very rarely, and only for myself...



Miss you around the Musehome, you know...

Yes, I've read it for years, on and off. This was the first time I'd done it for strangers. I've sometimes done it for friends and I'm told I'm quite accurate. I once pulled the Ace of Cups in the 'attitude of another' slot around someone I rather fancied and we fell in love the next day (it didn't last, but I was impressed!).

Ah yes, the Musehome. I was thinking of it a couple of days ago. Must pop in again. I've spent such a lot of time scouting that sometimes it seems I don't do anything else.

Very cool. I'm heard from some that you should never read the cards for yourself, but I've never found them to lie when I do.... I had a reading in March, I think, and it wasn't all that accurate...

Herrrrrmmmm....

Have you enjoyed your scouting!??

I've not read Tarot for myself for a while, although I did buy a set of Medicine Cards recently. That's had some really interesting results. In a two card spread, I've drawn the same card three times consecutively!!

Scouting - yes, it can be fun and you certainly see a spread of really interesting topics. To do it properly, I need to keep in touch with what is being written so that when my picks come up (I've just made three), I don't have to spend ages trawling through. I already knew which ones I thought were ready.

Was the March reading done for you by someone else then?

Yes the reading was done by someone else!!!

I like your singing fish!!!

I think Tarot cards are beeeautiful!!! YAY!!! Only have a Rider-Waite set... that doesn't look spelled right..

Oh, I think that the Rider Waite (and I think it is spelled correctly), is quite sufficient. Although I've other sets, I use that the most.

The Medicine Cards are different. Native American totems with animals, birds and reptiles. One of my totems is the snake.

And Singing Fish? From Zaphod Beeblebrox's exclamation 'Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish!' when he was in the marble Nutrimatic Cup on the planet Bronitall. It just sort of came to me out of the blue.

you'd all ready told me where it came from, I was talking about those smileys!!!!

Oh, those! I learned the ASCII (spelling?), so they're really easy to do, and I use them so often, that I find myself doing them in RL as well at the end of e-mails and letters, then have to delete them, as people would not understand!

You might be interested to know that I'm starting to get asked to do T'ai Chi and Qi Gong at work health days as well (I could at a pinch argue that it fits with my job description of preventing accidents).

Ahhh!??? Ahhh... cool....

I am well convinced that only one card has a bunny on it(Tarot). The Queen of Pentacles came up in a reading, and she strongly represents my Great-Grandmother. The bunny made me realize it(I know she has sent bunnies to me before!!!). I read the description according to Nacny Garen's "Tarot Made Easy", and it said that the queen represents teachers.... my great-grandmother taught English...

I've briefly looked through my book, and I don't see any other rabbits... not in the major arcana, you think!??

Out of 78 cards...

How can you doubt!??

Queen of Pentacles - water of earth. Serious, tenacious, unflappable, generous and self protective, a person who will often be the lynchpin of the family. Do you know, I've never noticed the bunny. My favourite Rider Waite set is a very small one and the bunny is tucked away in the corner, well camouflaged by either earth or bracken.

I think you're right about there being no other on any of the cards.

My favourite book is 'Tarot for Tomorrow by Emily Peach'. I don't know the Nancy Garen one. Is it good?

I think the Garen one is good, because you can select different categories... ooo....

Different categories? Do tell me more!

It also shows you how to tell time, wwhat the Major Arcana cards mean in a time reading(event will usually happen soon), that the aces determine the season: Speaking of which, I asked the cards the other day why my boyfriend was looking at a certain town... I don't think I mentioned that it was about teaching...

I drew three cards: The Queen of Pentacles, the Ace of Swords, and the Page of Pentacles. If you FEEL like interpreting that you can, but you don't need to tell me your take on it, although that would be interesting... I just wonder if you agree that the middle card could indicate that he will know about the job or have a breakthrough regarding it in the winter. I didn't think of it at the time of the reading, but I kinda skipped over the significance of that poor Ace, focusing on the swords indicating action-- I just had good feelings. YAY!!!

Ummmm.... the book has 32 caterogories, like Romance, Travel, Success, Blessings, Others, Inheritance, Special Guidance, Best Course of Action, Focus, and Outcome. I really like this book. It's not really obscure.

Hmm, time - always a difficult one. I have an 'If so, when' spread where you ask the question will something happen and if so, when.

It involved dealing the cards into three piles of no more than 12 cards, stopping when you come to an ace and then dealing the next pile. I don't use it often, so I've not learned it that well. Dignified = yes, ill dignified = no.

Thus:

Ace of staves = Spring
Ace of Cups = Summer
Ace of swords = Autumn
Ace of coins = Winter

In another system:

Years = coins
Months = swords
Weeks = staves
Days = cups (but only when they fall next to a coin card)

In your spread, the ace of swords looks like a decision or a change - often a new lease of life.

What was the context - was it a past, present, future spread?

Present, actually... "Why is he deciding on XXXX town!??"

See, this town is still about 250 miles from me, and over the mountains. It's where I grew up. I was at first VERY EXCITED, then I got second thoughts. "Why not here or around Denver!?? There are a lot omore choices." It was stupid to have second thoughts. He loves me very much, and the high school he chose was somewhat arbitrary, but based on all the things I have said about it.

And I could transfer to the nearby college if he comes to work there.

You mean all three cards were about the present, or that Queen of Pentacles was past and Page of Pentacles was future?

Two lots of pentacles - work, ambition, security, concern with the material.

If the reading was for you, then you might have to make the decision or face the change.

Is your system of telling time similar to mine?

According to my book, I have a different time system, where winter is the ace of swords.. I think that is different from yours!!!! I am just now starting to determine time, so we'll see how accurate the book is on that!!!

I think that the first card was definately the present...

I am aware I will probably have to face changes. It all works out, though...

Do you hear from your spirit guide a lot!?? I know we all do... but do you feel close to yours!??