Free Tarot Card Draw!

[rowyn]

So, while I was in Seattle, I bought shatterstripes's Tarot of the Silicon Dawn, because it was very shiny.

I have no discernable psychic or precognitive abilities*, but the deck is very shiny, and I rather want to, you know. Do something with it. Other than leaf through the pretty pictures. And offering card readings is something people seem to do on LJ fairly often, so hey, why not?

So leave a question on this entry if you like, and I will draw a card or three from the deck and reference the short descriptions helpfully written by queenofstripes and provided in the deck's accompanying book. Based on these, I will give you a most-likely-not-very-useful response to your question. I will even link to the image of your card from shatterstripes's website. It'll be fun!

Edit: If you would like to ask for a question on behalf of a fictional character (like a character from a book you're writing, or a game you're playing), feel free! My fictitious psychic powers* will work just as well if not better on fictitious people, after all. :)

Edit the second: I should mention that this Tarot deck is NSFW: it has quite a bit of nudity, as well as kink and gender genderqueer. You are warned!

* No slight is intended here to people who take tarot readings seriously or find spiritual import in them! I am only making fun of myself, I promise. I do think that tarot cards can be interesting problem-solving or meditation tool, in terms of making one think about different angles or approaches, even absent any divinatory abilities. But I'm not even sure I do a good job at that, hence the disclaimers.

Comments

[rowyn]

For you, I draw: History, inverted; the Magician, upright; the Six of Swords, inverted.

History is inverted: the Vepri are just another part of the pattern of World Tree's history, of corruption, partisanship, and greed. It is the pattern that must be broken, not the Vepri. History is also the story you tell yourself: it is the story that binds you, as it wraps around History's arms. Inverted, it can be the story that sets you free. Tell your tale well, and you can change its course.

The Magician is, of course, you; she is seated at her keyboard, a writing device of my own world; her presence in the drawing suggests that you, personally, do have the power to defeat those wicked Vepri. In connection with inverted History, I think it means you are at least as likely to defeat them with words -- with the way you present their actions to the greater Tree -- as with magic. But magic will have a part to play as well.

The Six of Swords represents Science, a master craftsman working over her latest weapon. Inverted, it represents the failure of your initial attempt to disprove the Vepri theory logically. You need to undermine not just their theory, but actually attack the underlying pattern: the prime need to claim superiority over perceived lessers, the prime desire to factionalize into small groups, and to claim that their own group is best. That is an emotional craving, and that's the problem. Free primes of the need for status, and the Vepri obsession will serve no purpose.

Of course, that's a pretty tall order. It might take you a few millenia to reach enlightenment. In the meantime, perhaps fostering a love for justice and the rule-of-law, over corruption and cronyism, would help start the way.