August 20th, 2009 Author: sythyry
I’m going to do Crowdsource Tarot readings tonight. Ask a question in a comment; I will give it a shorter or longer answer as a comment. I’ll edit this to say "Too Late" when I’m done for the night.
Edit: Bedtime is 11:00, and I’ve got all I can handle before then!
If you have an important question that you want an answer for soon, ask it and I’ll answer tomorrow. (Crossing my palm with Paypal wouldn’t hurt on getting that answer, y’know?) Otherwise, I’m going to do this now and then!
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Any feel for what aspect of my life the deception is in? Jobsearch? Creative? Home? Kid? Those are the primary ones, I think…
The cards for creative, especially the wolf, are making me think. (-: Oops–got to get to the grocery store before they close. More later!
Oh, and all I actually guarantee about this reading is that it’s done with genuine Crowdsource Tarot cards (accept no imitations!). Truth, insight, and inspiration may or may not be present.
Pretzel, reversed
On a crowded city street, a vendor sells dry-looking pretzels from a cart. A teenaged boy looks dubiously at his girlfriend as she buys herself one.
Meaning: You cannot stop others from making their own mistakes.
Home? Kid? Perhaps someone is doing something you don’t approve of and know is stupid, and covering it up?
Good luck with stores and creatives!
Dunno. Likely Rhys and I will stop by, but if I’m tending a 6-y-o I won’t be running anything. Probably we’ll bring something to play in the gaming room.
Perhaps it will be otherwise! I don’t know!
What does the tarot say?
Coyote
Wile E. Coyote sits at the edge of a cliff, trying to put together a complicated contraption out of pieces he removes from a giant box from the ACME Corporation.
Meaning: You retain your optimism even though a positive outcome is unlikely.
And yeah, that meaning pretty much covers it, as far as me running game goes.
Perceptive deck tonight.
Oh wow, this is really amazing–you’ve hit a couple points that I’ve mused about before.
Great advice. I appreciate it.
–Riss.
A small gift has been sent to your gmail address.
I hope that you like it!
I’d cross your palm with Paypal, but Paypal and I have had a little bit of an argument, seems my money is not good enough for it so they closed my account. I’m in no hurry to go back to them.
You have any other means of receiving donations?
Two questions:
How to mediate the conflict between the scary, fascinating career I want to reach and the mellow, comfortable home life I want to keep?
And more specific: (How can / can / should) I survive doing ochem, bio AND physics this year?
I’ll just take a moment to say that “leaving things out” is why games have supplements. Sometimes it’s an overlooked idea that ends up expanding under pressure, and sometimes it’s a deliberate “we won’t cover this fully until the supplement is ready”.
Woot!
Actually, though, there’s a mailto: all over the donations page, and we prefer to have stuff go there. Mostly for organizational purposes. Vicki’s coordinating the artists — she’s the Crowdsource Tarot project lead, I’m just playing with it now — and you are now one of them!
Thanks for the luck!
Well, the kid is a teenager; if she’s getting herself into something foolish and complicated that I might be happier not knowing about, perhaps she can get herself out of it again too. Or I’m being warned my help or support may be needed when she realizes it’s a mistake.
If not…a vendor is a business; what recurring, complicated deception could be going on related to my old job or to job seeking?
I can’t make home or creative fit into the pattern of these three cards, at least not with the facts I’m aware of.
Anyway, if I can’t stop the mistakes, all I can do is dodge the fallout or, if it’s the kid, be as ready as I can to help with the fallout, if that’s needed.
Of course, I know, no guarantees of insight or anything. But the three cards for creative endeavors made a lot of sense, even if I did get two “full moon” images during the new moon, for a spicing of irony. Makes me think that the other three are likely equally sensical.
So I’ll have to figure out what I can do to be more interesting, and better at advertising…
It often is. Vicki had some excellent ideas for it, including that every meaning be a perceptive answer to some question one might ask.
Re: Two questions:
How to mediate the conflict between the scary, fascinating career I want to reach and the mellow, comfortable home life I want to keep?
And more specific: (How can / can / should) I survive doing ochem, bio AND
physics this year?
Denial, reversed
An ostrich hides its head in the sand
of its backyard, while bill collectors knock at its front door.
Meaning: Ignoring your problems will not make them go away.
The difficulties in mediating between the two are real and structural. You
will not find a solution to them per se; you will have to give them constant
(hopefully mostly easy) maintenance.
Corset
A woman holds her breath as her companion laces
her into a brocade corset, her waist made impossibly thin.
Meaning:
The rules under which you are working give comforting definition and
boundaries to your endeavors.
At least it’ll be pretty obvious what’s going on. And if when your life is
being well-structured, it will look pretty and feel comfortable.
Gazebo
A gazebo stands unused in an open field,
bedecked with flowers. A group of adventurers eye it warily, weapons drawn.
Meaning: An orientation toward fear and defensiveness creates problems
that did not previously exist.
If you act like you expect people to attack you, they will sense it and attack
you. If you act like you expect people to accept you, they will sense it and
accept you.
Icosahedron (Alpha of Forms), reversed
An RPG player
smirks as she rolls a 20 on a 20 sided die.
Meaning: An unexpected
opportunity is about to change all of your plans.
… I don’t have anything more to say about this yet.
Zucchini, reversed
A tired person in wizard’s robes
leans on a hoe in the middle of a zucchini patch. Glorious green zucchinis
and brilliant yellow blossoms surround him.
Meaning: You feel owned by
your stuff rather than the other way around.
Three hard subjects is fun and valuable, but overwhelming. The “stuff” in this
case is knowledge, for what it’s worth.
Crow, reversed
An emaciated lion wearing a jacket and
tie considers a dead crow in the middle of the road.
Meaning: Beware
of pride; it will not serve you well.
If you need to drop a course or otherwise cut back on obligations, do it
early. That way, you will have spent more energy and time the courses that you
wind up sticking with.
Good luck!
I’m sorry; I don’t have any further insight into the problem in part 1. For all I know, the tarot deck itself is trying to deceive you, or you are trying to deceive yourself, or something.
Anyways, the crowdfunding community may be a good place to bat ideas around about creativity and marketing. I’ll be listening there!
Our donations page has a few options, especially if the donations are art or email.
Your deck apparently doesn’t like the traditional deck and this its response to the Hanging Man card I keep getting. Like the hanging man, the edgewalker lives between two states, but where the hanging man is passive and trapped by this, the edgewalker is active
Re: Two questions:
Thanks! I hadn’t read this yet today and was just thinking on the subject and reaching many of the same conclusions. Your input is quite in key with what is going on in my head.
(…and I’m really curious about the icosahedron…)
I’m sorry, I wasn’t asking for more, I was thinking aloud! Thank you very much for the reading, and for the extra card, which I think was quite helpful.
I’ve had awfully accurate results from Tarot, including under odd circumstances, like doing a reading in character, as a storyteller at a Gen Con, and getting results that seemed EXTREMELY unlikely, indeed practically impossible, given the characters I’d designed and the scenario I was running, and had them nonetheless accurately predict the (sadly inevitable) results of the players’ actions. I do keep some skepticism handy for things like this–even though I believe they’re not random nonsense, that doesn’t mean one can always interpret them accurately without hindsight, and besides, things can change. And I don’t make any decisions based solely (or even primarily, if I can find other sources of information) on divination. But I do open my eyes and look around to see if something’s been whizzing past my head, unheeded, when I get a warning from the cards.
As for the creative, the images are potent, and I think will be very helpful, perhaps more for just keeping them in mind than from making any particular decision based on them.
And I really liked your advice on how to be sweet!
Again, Thank You!
I certainly do my best to give useful advice, based on the cards and anything else I know.
Best of luck and skill!
I like “Best of Luck and Skill” !!!