Tarot Reading

Rick Hunter

Celestial
I would say both, especially in the sense that we have no idea what consequences may come from our actions today decades or centuries into the future. We tip over the first domino with good intentions but have no way to know where that row ends.
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
no way to know where that row ends.

This opens doors for a few peculiar thoughts.

I give you a 100-dot picture of a pony and you have a line drawing of a pony. I give you a 10-million dot picture of a pony and you have a high definition unmistakably clear look at the subject. Same for statistics - the bigger the sample the more accurate it generally is.

Started thinking about us. Human beings - been an awful of us. You don't have to go back as far as you think before we're all related: Humans Are All More Closely Related Than We Commonly Think
So I started thinking, in those terms how big of a sample size would you need to get that super-accurate picture of humanity? Could you make one bookend the point where we can all find a common ancestor? What would the other bookend look like? Would it all have to end before we got that picture or could we make some finite mark at each end and divine some purpose, a pattern in there?

Jeez - it's 0515 and Louie and I are just having coffee. Actually, he's just licking his ass I'm drinking coffee :)
Not the sort of thing that usually invades my thoughts at this hour.
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
A little less fuzzy - what I am saying is that I'd like to apply Big Data to a lot of things to reveal trends not otherwise visible. Hadn't realized it at the time.

For example, if we could actually collate ALL of the various piles of UFO reports extant into one coordinated database there could be something in common we haven't noticed up until now. Jacques Vallee has said as much. Actually making that database a a practical reality is impractical though - something else to add to Sisyphus' to do list.

Imagine if we could somehow do that to all of human existence. The thought being that if we can readily find common ancestors then you'd think there might be an approximation of common descendants. That would sort of give you a moving window in which your mortal existence has more relevance.
 

nivek

As Above So Below
Tarot card reader made my $20,000 disappear, Omaha woman tells police

A South Omaha woman told police that she arranged to have a tarot card reader bless the $20,000 she had withdrawn from her bank.

You probably can guess what happened.

The 46-year-old woman told officers that she had tracked down a tarot card reader through Facebook Marketplace and arranged to have her money blessed Saturday morning.

At 9:30 a.m. Saturday, two women came to the woman’s residence near 14th and Vinton Streets to perform the blessing. At some time during the ritual, the woman said, the tarot card reader and a woman who came with her switched the $20,000 for a stack of newspaper clippings and a $1 bill.

The newspaper clippings and $1 bill were wrapped in foil and sealed in an envelope. After the women left, the 46-year-old opened the envelope to find that her money was gone.

Texts between the South Omaha woman and the other women have been forwarded to police.

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nivek

As Above So Below

Why did I choose the Tarot?

Upon reflection, I don't believe I chose the Tarot. I think it chose me. It is like that with divination tools, spirit guides and connecting to spirit in general. Your connect will be presented to you in an unmistakably profound manner. Resisting would be futile because it/ and or they, will simply keep appearing.

I was introduced to the Tarot deck by a man who became my first serious love and live-in for a few years in my early twenties. The year was 1974. The Tarot in those days, was regarded by many to be on par with a Ouija Board. Dark, unpredictable and possibly, according to some, an instrument of the DEVIL. Most shunned it out of fear.

There were only 2 Tarot decks for sale in the city of Toronto and they were tucked away in a rare and unusual bookshop downtown, close to U of T. I've always been attracted to places, people, businesses and things that are of questionable repute: The strange, extraordinary, mysterious, unpredictable. Put a sign, "Beware!" on it and I'm first in line. A Scorpio. 'nuf said.

By the time I was introduced to the Tarot by this man of the world, I already knew I was psychic and had had many enlivening experiences with it. I used to play psychic games with my bestie at 14 years old. In Grade 10 the following year, I presented psychic ability as a topic in a physics class presentation which was enthusiastically received!

When this fellow pulled out a deck of cards to do a "read" for us, I was all in. That first Tarot reading was mind-boggling enough to motivate me to get my own deck and begin a serious daily study. A journey that I continue to pursue 46 years later. I'm still waiting on a new Tarot book to arrive which discusses the new deck I have on my table. Studying the Tarot is never a fait accompli.


All Divination Systems Tell Us Something

The quality of that something however, depends on the values supported in that system. The Tarot deck offers a profound philosophy which in essence is an outline of the human consciousness evolving. Shuffling the cards brings these profound values (archetypal Tinkertoys) into play with each other in a random form that tells us a story. The cards tell a collective story of consciousness evolution but in the context of a reading they tell us YOUR personal spiritual story.

The Tarot nudges us in directions that encourage optimism, spirituality and a belief in the necessity and value of change. Such a vital guide for us all to have since generally people distrust and fear change.

We structure space, time, and nature from a strong ego position in our Western Culture. We fool ourselves into believing we control everything. Nothing will ever change. Once we get everything set in place, we're good for the long haul, or so we desperately hope. When that fails and our ordered existence slips out of sync again, we panic. "The fates are against us!", we lament.

We know in our hearts and from our experience that nothing ever stays the same but like a default position, we return to it immediately following any change or crisis. In the real world we have absolutely no control over the forces of nature which change all the time. Natural disasters and wars especially triggered masses to seek the guidance of an oracle.

Kings, Queens and other leaders have consulted oracles for millennia (always secretly!) to get a sense of where the spirits are carrying the tribe. Oracles have played a pivotal role in our evolution yet are rarely acknowledged or credited for it.

A good Tarot reader combines a sensitivity to the pictures on the cards, to the person sitting there nervously and excitedly staring at the cards and most significantly, to their inner voice/intuition. An effective reader does not repeat traditional fixed meanings, but rather they will find new meanings and interpretations. Part of a reader's training lies simply in studying the cards while another part lies in gaining a personal sense of them through practice, meditation and creative work. It takes years of dedicated study and practice to become an aficionado reader.


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