The Shady Tarot Tent

I've been practicing Tarot reading for a while and I thought it would be cool to offer readings here. I would call myself an intermediate Tarot reader, I'm no pro.

This is just for fun, you shouldn't take it seriously.

Even if you do believe the Tarot does what it's purported to (in fact, I believe it does), an internet forum is a poor medium for it. In a real sit-down Tarot reading session, the reader and the querant have a lot of back and forth and work together to interpret the cards. But in this case, you will ask me a question, I will read the Tarot and provide what I believe its answer is. We won't get that valuable back-and-forth (feel free to ask follow-up questions but it's still not the same as working together face to face).

Anyway, just had to get those disclaimers out of the way.

I will be using my favorite deck, the Shadowscapes Tarot deck!

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/607/3lqp.jpg

And generally I will use either a traditional 10 card Celtic Cross Spread or just a quick 3 card spread. I will decide which is better suited to your question. Generally big, broad questions are better answered by a Celtic Cross spread and little circumstantial questions can be answered just fine with three cards. I know a few other spreads and might use them occasionally, too.

So you want to ask a question? Fill out the quick form below and either post it here or PM it to me! I would prefer for you to ask your question in this thread and for me to post the answer in this thread. But if you really want privacy we can do PMs, too.

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Question:
Public or private answer:
Any other info that is relevant to the situation you're asking about:

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Rules for asking questions:

• No yes or no questions
• Don't ask "what should I do"

Bad question: How should I make Bob fall in love with me?
Good question: What are my options for getting Bob to fall in love with me?

Bad question: Will it rain tomorrow?
Good question: Tell me about the weather tomorrow. (not technically a question but totally fine)

If you don't have anything in particular to ask about you can do general questions like:

What should I be aware of?
Tell me about myself.

I will probably limit myself to answering one or maybe two questions per day if there is actually a lot of volume.

I'll give this the first whirl.

Question: What are my options for improving my life?
Public or private answer: Public.
Any other info that is relevant to the situation you're asking about: I've been feeling quite out of place recently, as if I don't really belong all that much.

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Originally Posted by DreamscapeGoat

I'll give this the first whirl.

Question: What are my options for improving my life?
Public or private answer: Public.
Any other info that is relevant to the situation you're asking about: I've been feeling quite out of place recently, as if I don't really belong all that much.

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Hokay, nice to see you again :P

I am asking your query with a slightly modified celtic cross spread. The cards that came up are listed below.

1. Three of Pentacles
2. Knight of Pentacles
3. The Empress
4. Nine of Swords
5. Eight of Swords
6. Three of Swords
7. The Hierophant
8. Strength
9. Page of Swords
10. Five of Swords & Queen of Pentacles

The numbers correspond to the positions in this image:

http://www.learntarot.com/ccross.jpg

And in case you would like to read for yourself what the positions mean check this out. The modification I mentioned is simply that I drew two different cards for position 10. Now without further ado:

I'm sorry to say the Tarot is telling a somewhat grim story here, but as always, there are ways out. It also appears to be talking about a very specific situation, which is surprising given how general your questiong was. Anyway, it looks like you came out of a dark time of turmoil and confusion not too long ago, and now you're working on some endeavor with some number of other people. One of these people has views and goals different from the rest, and this is putting stress on the group. Cracks are beginning to show, and you can see them, but you feel powerless to do anything about it. It's just not in your nature, for you are the nurturing and nonconfrontational type, and you are loathe to act contrary to your nature. You may even be afraid to think of the consequences of such inaction. But if things continue to go as they are, the endeavor is destined to fail, and that will be very painful for you.

Should that happen, you will need to recover and move on. Although you may not think so yourself, others see you as strong enough to pull through anything, but they also think you take on too much burden on your own shoulders, and they're right. When the crisis hits, you are being advised to cut yourself loose from it entirely and seek the help of your friends and family. You might feel inclined to go down with the ship and do it alone, but doing so is not in your best interests.

Does that sound like your situation at all?

Interesting. Ok then.

Question: What are my options to becoming closer in achieving my life goals this year?
Public or private answer: Public
Any other info that is relevant to the situation you're asking about: I long for the day my goals and dreams become a reality. I know they will, it's just a matter of when. I just want that when to be sooner rather than later.

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Originally Posted by Whatsnext

Does that sound like your situation at all?

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I actually had to get off the moment I read this - it was just shocking how accurate this is.

Yes, I did indeed come out of a dark spiral that started a few years ago. It wasn't too great, but I managed to pull myself out. I did this only a few months ago.

There is a particular group that I'm trying to help make all of our goals converge to make things work out well. It's pretty hard - especially with what you said, I do see multiple cracks and holes in it. I am afraid this won't work out. Yes, it is true, I'm more of one to nurture people back to health - I'm not once to use force to make things happen.

It's actually very comforting to know that other people really see that I am a strong individual, though I think otherwise. I do tend to take the blame for just about anything, which really isn't healthy - the weight's practically crushing.

I'll be taking the answer to heart - I shouldn't let bad results marr my life, I should pick myself up and keep moving forward.

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Originally Posted by puddlekins

Interesting. Ok then.

Question: What are my options to becoming closer in achieving my life goals this year?
Public or private answer: Public
Any other info that is relevant to the situation you're asking about: I long for the day my goals and dreams become a reality. I know they will, it's just a matter of when. I just want that when to be sooner rather than later.

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Hey, could you pick one goal instead? It's tough to get info about multiple goals from a single reading.

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Originally Posted by Whatsnext

Hey, could you pick one goal instead? It's tough to get info about multiple goals from a single reading.

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Ok. "What are my options to becoming closer in achieving my dream home this year?" Hope that's better.

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Originally Posted by puddlekins

Ok. "What are my options to becoming closer in achieving my dream home this year?" Hope that's better.

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Yup! That I can work with. I did the same spread as I did for DreamscapeGoat (this is the one I usually use for "what are my options" questions)

Your cards are:

1. Page of Pentacles
2. Eight of Pentacles
3. Two of Pentacles
4. King of Cups
5. The Hierophant
6. The Star
7. Nine of Swords
8. Three of Swords
9. The Sun
10. Temperance & Page of Cups

You got a couple of cards (The Star & Temperance) that I almost never see doing readings for myself. It's funny how that seems to happen. So anyway, cards 1, 2, and 3 appear to be referring to your career. It looks like you're in a pretty fast-paced and demanding job, but you are adaptable and able to keep up with all of the juggling you have to do. You like your job and feel secure about it, and basically it looks like you fit in well and are in a great position career-wise.

However, it looks like some sort of personal loss is pulling you down right now, some sort of emotional trauma, and you're in a bit of a rut because of it. No worries though, it is temporary, and soon you will regain faith in the future, which looks bright for you.

Now, to answer the root question, there are too different options here, both of which would ultimately lead you to your goal. I'm getting the vibe here that you're single and contemplating staying that way for a while. If you remain single, you will be able to achieve your dream house, but only after you make some compromises and revise your conception of your dream house. The dream house you're thinking of right now would be out of reach, but you can get one 99% as good. Your other option is to get back in the game, meet some of the opposite gender, wind up with a partner, and together you will be able to get what it is the two of you dream of (also probably not 100% the same as what you're thinking now). Either way you won't get exactly what you're thinking of now, but you'll be very happy with it anyhow. Also, you need to take some initiative about this starting soon. It looks like you're a rather calm, go-with-the-flow person by nature, but in this you will need some vigor.

But really your prospects are very good. If you keep your eye on the goal and put your back into it, you'll get to where you want to go no matter which path you go down. You're on the right path now, you just need to turn on the afterburners.

Does that sound like your situation?

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Originally Posted by Whatsnext

Does that sound like your situation?

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Yep that sounds like my situation. My job is very fast paced, but I manage.
And yes, something is pulling me down right now. I know what it is but I'll just have to make the best out of it.
Everything is pretty much spot on, except I'm actually in a committed relationship. We have our dream home planned out, but haven't talked to the builder about it yet. I know once we do, it'll change a bit.

Thankyou very much for your time! I appreciate it!! Solidifies what I want even more.

This is quite cool, I think I'll go again.

Question: What are my options for securing a happy life with my SO?
Public or private answer: Public
Any other info that is relevant to the situation you're asking about: I'm a little worried that things might not work out. I'd appreciate a little bit of reassurance that we can make it work in the long run.

I really like to practice tarot as well! Just got a new deck for Christmas :D

Question: I want to know about my sister's occupational experience. Past, present, future, that kind of stuff
Public or private answer: Public
Any other info that is relevant to the situation you're asking about: She doesn't have a job right now

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Originally Posted by DreamscapeGoat

This is quite cool, I think I'll go again.

Question: What are my options for securing a happy life with my SO?
Public or private answer: Public
Any other info that is relevant to the situation you're asking about: I'm a little worried that things might not work out. I'd appreciate a little bit of reassurance that we can make it work in the long run.

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Actually, I'd like to revoke this question - as of recent events, this no longer needs to be answered.

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Originally Posted by DreamscapeGoat

Actually, I'd like to revoke this question - as of recent events, this no longer needs to be answered.

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Ah somehow I missed a few notifications for this thread, I didn't even realize more questions had been posted, sorry.

I'll get to anotherdreamer's question tomorrow :D

By the way folks, if you do two celtic cross spreads, do you know the likelihood of getting the exact same cards in the same order for both? It's about 1 in 5 quintillion. It's almost certain that every celtic cross reading that's ever been done was different (provided the deck gets shuffled in between, of course). Fascinating! :shadewink:

Anyway

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Originally Posted by anotherdreamer

I really like to practice tarot as well! Just got a new deck for Christmas :D

Question: I want to know about my sister's occupational experience. Past, present, future, that kind of stuff
Public or private answer: Public
Any other info that is relevant to the situation you're asking about: She doesn't have a job right now

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Hokee dokee sorry for being slow on this one. What deck did you get by the way? I love getting new decks :p I'd collect them if I had the money.

I'm using a regular celtic cross to answer your query.

CARDS:
1. Six of Cups
2. The World
3. Ace of Swords
4. Three of Pentacles
5. The Devil
6. Queen of Cups
7. Seven of Swords
8. Ten of Wands
9. Three of Cups
10. The Wheel of Fortune

Her occupational past is represented by the Three of Pentacles which, quite fittingly, suggests that she did have a job in her past, and it was one that required teamwork and planning. She wasn't working alone. In the present it looks like she's run into a bit of an existential crisis concerning work. She feels that she was a slave to the system and that she was going down a path that wouldn't lead her to the ultimate enlightenment we all seek in life. Her inner child is bubbling to the surface and reminding her of the innocence, sense of adventure, and hopes and dreams of her past. It is in these old feelings and memories that she senses the true path to completeness now - no longer does it lie for her in the trappings of career advancement. But in our world where it is expected that an adult should get a "regular" job and settle down, these feelings feel traitorous to her, and she feels like she would be shirking her responsibilities if she follows them. And yet she feels she must follow them. A conundrum indeed, and the strain it puts on her is visible to the people around her.

These new ideas will not go away. In the future, she will finally heed them and embark on this new path that she envisions for herself. She will seek connection with the world and with other people, and reorient her occupational life around finding it. Whatever her occupational life was before, it looks like she will move far away from it.

How does that sound?

Wow, that was pretty good! Especially for us not having any kind of back and forth to help interpret the meaning. I got a new Rider Waite deck, my old one was getting in really bad shape. I also have a Zerner-Farber deck and a message from your angels deck but that isn't exactly a tarot deck in the traditional sense. I guess those are called 'oracle cards'.

As for the reading, my sister worked as an interior designer. So yes, she did work at a job that required teamwork and planning, working with several other people constantly but she didn't like the job because the boss was a total bitch. I don't think my sister even wanted to have a job, she just wanted to party and have fun all the time and the job was her means to do that. She ended up losing the job because of constantly being late to work and I could tell that she had lost interest in it. It seems now as though she is trying to find a job to placate our father and because she has no money.

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It is in these old feelings and memories that she senses the true path to completeness now - no longer does it lie for her in the trappings of career advancement. But in our world where it is expected that an adult should get a "regular" job and settle down, these feelings feel traitorous to her, and she feels like she would be shirking her responsibilities if she follows them. And yet she feels she must follow them

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I'm not certain as to how she feels about this but what you said fits the scenario quite well. I really do hope that she finds something that makes her happy. Thank you for the reading! :D

Have you ever tried doing a completely cold reading for someone, without any details or even knowing their question?

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Originally Posted by anotherdreamer

Wow, that was pretty good! Especially for us not having any kind of back and forth to help interpret the meaning. I got a new Rider Waite deck, my old one was getting in really bad shape. I also have a Zerner-Farber deck and a message from your angels deck but that isn't exactly a tarot deck in the traditional sense. I guess those are called 'oracle cards'.

As for the reading, my sister worked as an interior designer. So yes, she did work at a job that required teamwork and planning, working with several other people constantly but she didn't like the job because the boss was a total bitch. I don't think my sister even wanted to have a job, she just wanted to party and have fun all the time and the job was her means to do that. She ended up losing the job because of constantly being late to work and I could tell that she had lost interest in it. It seems now as though she is trying to find a job to placate our father and because she has no money.



I'm not certain as to how she feels about this but what you said fits the scenario quite well. I really do hope that she finds something that makes her happy. Thank you for the reading! :D

Have you ever tried doing a completely cold reading for someone, without any details or even knowing their question?

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It's interesting that you mention partying and having fun, because that is the main feeling behind the Three of Cups card which came up in the hopes/fears/guidance position, position 9. I interpreted it as meaning a deeper or more personal connection than that, true friendship or such, because The World seemed to be suggesting that her goals are loftier than just partying and having fun. But if she thinks superficial partying and having fun is the path to the final enlightenment represented by The World, then that would explain well why the Three of Cups came up there instead of the Ace or Two of Cups, which are the cards more typically interpreted as representing a more personal or romantic connection.

When someone doesn't have a question I use "What should I be aware of" as a default question. I am always afraid that having nothing to go on, I'll read the answer totally wrong. But, surprisingly, that's never been the result, somehow it seems to always work out. But it always helps to be able to have a two-way dialogue between reader and querent. I don't let people say "I'm thinking of my question but won't tell you". I ask that they either have a specific question or we will do a "what should I be aware of" reading and I do my best with the information I have (more is always better).

This sounds pretty cool, let's give it a try :D

Question: Tell me about myself.
Public or private answer: Public.

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Originally Posted by GigaByte777

This sounds pretty cool, let's give it a try :D

Question: Tell me about myself.
Public or private answer: Public.

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Heya sorry for being super slow, I am in the process of moving. This is the first reading in my new apartment. So we can see if the energies here are aligned and such :banana:

Regular old celtic cross spread (see the first reading I did for some information about what that looks like and means)

Cards:

1. Nine of Wands
2. Two of Wands
3. Death
4. The Sun
5. Two of Cups
6. Page of Cups
7. Eight of Wands
8. Six of Wands
9. The World
10. Ace of Swords

This reading looks like it's mostly talking about love and romance. I see a very confident person, but one who's beginning to develop the caution and patience of true adulthood. In this way, you're in a very transformative time. And you realize that you're changing and indeed, you try to encourage the change by deciding what you want to be and striving to be that.

It looks like the main impetus for this transformation is a new relationship you're starting, one that is encouraging you to cast out the old and become a new person. Whoever this new love in your life is, he or she is quite a fetch, not just someone you're dating for the heck of it, and you sense that you're going to be together for a long time. In this, you are correct.

How does that sound?

Question: Am I on the correct career path for me?
Public or private answer: Public
Any other info that is relevant to the situation you're asking about: I work in the lab but was recently asked if I wanted a management position. I also am not sure that a job in a corporate laboratory is the right fit for me.

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Originally Posted by Whatsnext

Heya sorry for being super slow, I am in the process of moving. This is the first reading in my new apartment. So we can see if the energies here are aligned and such :banana:

Regular old celtic cross spread (see the first reading I did for some information about what that looks like and means)

Cards:

1. Nine of Wands
2. Two of Wands
3. Death
4. The Sun
5. Two of Cups
6. Page of Cups
7. Eight of Wands
8. Six of Wands
9. The World
10. Ace of Swords

This reading looks like it's mostly talking about love and romance. I see a very confident person, but one who's beginning to develop the caution and patience of true adulthood. In this way, you're in a very transformative time. And you realize that you're changing and indeed, you try to encourage the change by deciding what you want to be and striving to be that.

It looks like the main impetus for this transformation is a new relationship you're starting, one that is encouraging you to cast out the old and become a new person. Whoever this new love in your life is, he or she is quite a fetch, not just someone you're dating for the heck of it, and you sense that you're going to be together for a long time. In this, you are correct.

How does that sound?

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Well, it's right about the transformative time, it shocked me :D But not about that new love haha.

Thank you!

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Originally Posted by FoxyGrandma3000

Question: Am I on the correct career path for me?
Public or private answer: Public
Any other info that is relevant to the situation you're asking about: I work in the lab but was recently asked if I wanted a management position. I also am not sure that a job in a corporate laboratory is the right fit for me.

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Sorry for leaving you folks hanging D: I finally got internet in the new apartment :shadewink:

That's a yes/no question, could you ask something broader? Maybe you would like to know the status of your professional life in general?