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!

Comments

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

I'd love a reading. I expect the cards will know what aspect of my life they want to talk about, though finding ways to make my creative efforts profitable is much on my mind of late.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

I'd love a reading. I expect the cards will know what aspect of my life they want to talk about, though finding ways to make my creative efforts profitable is much on my mind of late.

I've never done an unfocussed reading with this deck before, and my usual methods of doing them with Tarot decks don't seem to work, so this is random and experimental.

Walrus, reversed
A walrus walks along the beach with a collection of oysters, chatting amicably. A carpenter trails behind, with a slice of bread spread thick with butter.
Meaning: Someone is deceiving you.

(I've been drawing cards one at a time, and that one came up three times in a row.)

Beldam (Alpha of Callings), reversed
A withered old woman with white hair and a wandering eye offers to lay cards for the viewer.
Meaning: Don't ask a question if you don't want to know the answer.

So I think you'd better figure out where that lie is, and go deal with it. It's not going to be pretty.

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And, as for making creative efforts profitable:

Firefly, reversed
A wide screen television shows the spaceship Serenity floating placidly through space, its tail section lit brightly. A group of fen stare in rapt attention.
Meaning: Don't waste all your energy on an unimportant, lost cause.

If some line of creative work isn't turning profitable, or at least getting enough attention, after a reasonable amount of time --- squish it. Switch to something that actually does work, or has a better chance of working.

Cat
A tomcat sits on a fence under a full moon, yowling.
Meaning: You should be ready to make noise in order to make sure your needs get met.

Advertising and publicity are the key here. Your material is good, but if nobody knows about it, nobody's going to buy it. (If you're anything like me, you know that already but you hate hate hate hate to hear it.

Wolf
A lycanthrope changes form under a full moon.
Meaning: Honor the bestial and raw within your nature. Do not disdain parts of who you are.

You seem like a very sweet and gentle woman. (Whether you are or not isn't relevant for this: people quickly get the impression that you are.) Many potential customers dismiss you early, thinking that you are too bland and insipid for them. Be sweet like pomegranite juice; be sweet like espresso; be sweet like chutney. And be obvious about it.

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

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!

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

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!

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

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...

[bard-bloom.livejournal.com]

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!

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

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!

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

I certainly do my best to give useful advice, based on the cards and anything else I know.

Best of luck and skill!

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

I like "Best of Luck and Skill" !!!