Being quite bad at interpretation, and seeing that
I can't find the tarot deck item, I was wondering
if someone could interpret from a deck that I have
I guess I'd just 'deal' out the cards and ask...
um, I guess i'll do them in a circular formation
with ... uh, how many cards should I use?  Oh
great, now I can't find my deck... er..
um.

32 responses total.

I personally like to plan my spreads out before dealing anything.

That said, I guess we can make this the Tarot discussion item.

Use ten cards in a circular fashion.  Your deck is under the sofa.  The cat has
eaten the Death card, so now you can never change.  :-)

Why not try a different form of divination?

well, i don't have any runes, and haven't heard of anything else. 
however, i do have my tarot handy, so...here we go.  th cards were taken
off the top of the deck, and laid starting at the top and proceeding
clockwise.  they ended up something like this.

                        seeker


        prince pentacles        four wands
         (inverted)

prince wands                            four cups
 (inverted)                              (inverted)

eight cups                              king wands
 (inverted)

        wheel of fortun         ten wands
         (inverted)              (inverted)

                eight pentacles


there it is.  have at it.

Oh my god!   Burn the deck!   It's possessed!
No, seriously, someone else do it.

My first impulse is that this concerns something mental.  Other people
are going to help or distract you.   I am no good at Tarot.
Anybody else?

Gee, Arwen, maybe I'm the one who's trying to distract?

shoo...go away...shoo

Not mental, perhaps, but spiritual?  Looking for a path, in need of better
balance/grounding, but a fairly clear idea of his own will. Needs to be mor
open to aspects of water: vision/intuition and emotional responses.  Hm, why
would the 8 of pantacles be the anchoring/ opposite the person card?

Maybe a gift to help?  

um... i'm sorta lost.  could you explain after you're done discussing?

Divining... hmm...
i don't get it!

Exactly what do you not get, jon?
I do other types of divination such as rune stones and
I Ching.

Dang, you showed us a reading which you wanted interpreted, right? Well,
Arwen gave you her imediate reaction- the general topic or scope or the
reading.  Then I looked at the cards for relationships between them, 
balances or things that seemed emphasized (which is what I do in any reading)
and read what made sense to me.  The card at the bottom of the circle
seemed to be equivalent, in some ways, to the crossing card in the old
"Celtic cross" spread, that is both emphasizing and opposing the starting
(ah, "card" sigh.)  The top card generally represents the person about whom
the reading is being done, or there current position.  I think response
#10 was Arwen's input to my confusion about that card.  

re: #13- I haven't made any sense of the I Ching, but I am learning to
use rune sticks (similar but different...), want to learn to use the
Ogham (see related item- might have been my notes from Etheracon), and
sometimes don't use any tool at all; just say what I "see".  

The I Ching is another Rob specialty, though I suspect he wont like me
telling anyone this!

I Ching is basically like asking your mother for advice.
Lengthy, in-depth and obscure as hell!

Shhh, don't tell them, they'll start pestering me to enter
an item...  >8)

Hey Rob, old buddy old pal!  How about an item?  (:))

This is actually arwen using bach's log-in because I am too
lazy to log him off and log me on.  I will enter a I Ching item
since it is the one I use the most.  There Rob....aren't
you happy?

Just so you know that really was me!  I will do a I Ching (yee jing)
item...probably tomorrow when I can grab my book.
,
,.

Soon Arwen. . .anybody want to comment on the validity of palm reading?
Curiosity of course.

Bhell!  There is an awesome palmist at the Ren faire.
Her name is Denzil Sol and she is a freind of mine/
I think her readings are 25 but I am not sure.

I suppose that means that I think that palmistry is valed
or valid I meant...I would like to interject here that many
people are out to make a buck.  Do not let yourself get
trapped into a scenario where someone tells you that you
have a dark cloud hanging over you and for $XXX they can
remove it.  It is an endless loop.  Keep all three of your
eyes open!

I don't necessarily want to go for regular palm readings. It's just that a
friend and I were discussing it, and I knew this would be the prfect place to
open up an intelligent dialogue.

it's useful.  it's not comprehensive.  good point about scams.  I like to
chat with the various "soothsayers" while they aren' working ,but not to
spend money on what I can get for free at home.
I rather like response #16...:)

RE:16...thank you Kami!  
I know of someone who believed the scenario in 23 and spent alot
a lot! of money  If it doesn't *feel* right...skip it!
Words to live by in any aspect of your life.  Just because 
I might make a good teacher doesn't mean I would make anyone a
good teacher!  Teachers must be students must be teachers.....

Well, I'm back with another series of readings.  I took the advice of
someone on this cf, and tried to do one short reading a day.  Here is the
ones for the past month.  I'm sorry to say that I wasn't able to do it
every day, but here are the ones I did do.  Enjoy!  :)


        Body            Mind            Spirit

        3 cups          world (in)      devil(in)

        9 wands (in)    empress (in)    judgement (in)

        page wands (in) world           page swords (in)

        page swords     5 swords        moon

        9 wands         magician (in)   3 wands

        High Priest(in) 8 swords (in)   empress (in)

        10 cups (in)    king pent (in)  wheel of fortune (in)

        star            chariot         page pent

        5 pent (in)     king wands (in) 10 wands (in)

        High Priest     Justice (in)    page swords

        High Priestess(in) Tower        4 wands

        2 pent (in)     9 swords (in)   7 swords (in)

        7 swords        10 pent (in)    ace swords

        king swords(in) High Priestess(in) page pent (in)

        10 cups (in)    3 wands (in)    strength

        Queen cups      Hermit          ace cups

There it is.  "(in)" means inverted.  Have fun all!  

I use the runes and Tarot when reading, and I am fairly accurate when reading
for others. When i read for myself, the readings make no sense. Can anyone tell
me why?

Maybe you're too close to the question.  I've heard other people say that.
While I usually do pretty good readings for myself, I do even better ones for
other people.  OTOH, there are some questions that need the extra subjectivity
of a self-reading.

i find that i do better readings formyself.

is there any chance someone could give me a listing of runes and what
they mean?  i have been thinking about making myself a set, but if i
don't know what they mean....

so far, the deck i primarily use is not a tarot deck, but a fortune-
telling deck.  I LOVE IT!!!!!!  it responds so nicely!
i have another deck that i want to get into, but i have not
had the time or energy to deal with it, but i think i will soon.

Eeyore, I can give you some stuff on runes when we get together in a few
weeks, or bring my notes to the walk on Sat., but I think there's also
an item on runes somewhere in theis conf.  They are fun.  Sometimes it's
cool to do a tarot reading and then a rune casting on the same topic.

That Russian deck is really cool!

i'm rather fond of it myself....:)

please do bring it on sat....i wanna get started as soon as possible!

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