You know you live in a witchy household when...

[azurelunatic]

...you can announce the name or number of a Tarot key in response to or explaination of something, and have your meaning perfectly understood.

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Re: very four-of-wands weather we're having

[azurelunatic]

Was taught that using the Tarot to give you a specific answer on what was going, absolutely going, to happen in the future, was a misuse and was not good. Doing a "most likely outcome" reading on certain decisions ('What would be the most likely outcome if I went to this college versus that one?' 'What would be the most likely outcome if I went to the other college instead of the first one?') is a good use. Using it to figure out what the hell is happening on an issue that you're unclear of what's going on is a good use.

...Amusingly, I once gave a very good reading using the Sesame Street deck.

My roommate's mother came over for 4th of July one year, and saw me absently shuffling Little Fayoumis' Sesame Street flashcards, and asked me to do a Tarot reading for her. So, I did. With the Sesame Street flashcards, since I didn't feel like getting up and getting my Tarot deck, and also because my opinion of the woman wasn't so great.

The cards drawn for a Past Present Future were "Stop", "Don't Walk", and "Up". The past: something that was so not going anywhere, a place of personal stagnation; the "Don't Walk" was the present, not going anywhere, but far more impersonal, as the Stop was a specific person holding things up, but the Don't Walk was just going nowhere... and the future was Up, things going places, and looking up from where it had been: not only not stagnation, but getting better!

Throughout this, votania's mother's eyes had been getting wider and wider. The thing she'd been thinking of was about whether or not one of Votania's aunts should be going on the world tour thing she'd been planning. Said aunt had been going nowhere fast in her marriage for a long time, and had recently moved out and gotten an apartment of her own, and was still doing nothing, but was thinking of just going to see the world and get out and get something she'd always wanted to do done.

Not only proved Tarot to her, but demonstrated that someone who can interpret these things right can do it without the deck...

Re: very four-of-wands weather we're having

[waywind.livejournal.com]

I had no idea there was a Sesame Street Tarot deck.

I've heard someone mention being able to tell fortunes using any weird card deck they could find. Pokemon cards, for example. Can't remember where I saw that article, though... beh.

Re: very four-of-wands weather we're having

[azurelunatic]

Not a Sesame Street Tarot deck as such... just flash cards.

But yes, any old deck. I'd be amused to see what came out of a Pokemon Deck reading.