OOC: Crowdsource Tarot Readings!

[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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[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Not sure if this counts as one question or two: Should I accept the current equilibrium? If not, how should I change it? PS - How are you deciding how many cards to use in each particular reading since it seems to vary from one to the next.

(I'm in a sort of Tarot-based trance, kind of. I read until I come to the end of the reading, which is obvious when I get there.)

Emergence (Alpha of States), reversed
A tiny iridescent dragon hatches from a mottled green egg.
Meaning: The most important thing is tiny and fragile; you must nurture and protect it.

No; the current equilibrium, even now, is giving way to a newer and rather more glorious disequilibrium. Standing in its way to maintain equilibrium would be a terrible shame.

Puzzle
A child places the last piece into a jigsaw puzzle, on which is depicted the classic Rider-Waite image of the World.
Meaning: Everything is about to fall into place the way it should.

You know how, or you will soon know how. You're not asking this question totally out of the blue, are you?

Coelacanth (Alpha of Beasts), reversed
A coelacanth swims serenely in a beautiful blue-green sea.
Meaning: You focus too tightly on things of interest to very few people.

Well, maybe you don't know, but that's because you're not paying attention ... or you're deliberately avoiding knowing.

Lightbulb (Alpha of Devices)
A large, clear lightbulb, filament glowing, is surrounded by blindingly bright light. Inside it, two flies are screwing.
Meaning: Your ideas are really good. Go for it!

When the (fairly obvious) right answer occurs to you, you will know it. Follow it.

[stormydragon.livejournal.com]

You're not asking this question totally out of the blue, are you?

It's not entirely out of the blue, but not in the way you're thinking. This is a question I've been asking myself for a couple years now.

If you don't mind, there's an alternate interpretation I'd like you to consider for the second and third cards? They seem an expression of fatalism to me. What if the second is not saying that everything is about to fall into place, but that everything already has fallen into place? Reenforced by the Coelacanth which is in many ways an icon of the unchanging.

I see those two cards as saying 'everything is as it should be and always has been'.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

For extra fodder for your intuition, I draw one more card:

Edgewalker
This card is divided along the diagonal. In the upper half, a shaman speaks with guides in the spirit world. In the lower half, he sits in trance while the family of a sick man looks on worriedly.
Meaning: You serve a specific and valued role in your community.

Dunno what it means though. My psyche is toast after a dozen quick readings.

[stormydragon.livejournal.com]

Sorry to have stressed you like that. I'm sure we all appreciate the effort.

[stormydragon.livejournal.com]

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

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

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.