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.

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[rowyn]

Note that I still don't have psychic powers, so no guarantee that advice to Taarna will be any good, any more than my advice to real people is. n.n This is the advice that Rowyn interprets the tarot cards to be offering Taarna, not the advice the GM is giving her PC. If Taarna wants actual prophecy, she should ask Eve!

For Taarna, I drew: (untitled), inverted (the Hanged Man/the Traitor); The Empress, inverted, the Five of Pentacles, inverted.

(untitled) is a cheerful half-blindfolded woman in a rubber coccoon, hanging upside down. Inverted, she suggests the you need toshed your bondage. Stop being a sub! Stop being tied up by everyone else'e |rules|! You have great powers: use them!

The Empress is a powerful woman, two-faced and masked, upon a throne. Inverted, she suggests that your masks and efforts to look in all directions at once are failing you. Focus on one thing, and be honest about what you're trying to do, why you're trying to do it, and who you are. The Empress's inversion reinforces the message of (untitled): you have great power and accompanying responsibility: your sense of helplessness is artificial.

It is brought on by your fears, as represented in the Five of Pentacles: a woman listening to, and shirking from, two people arguing. She thinks the argument is about her: maybe it is, and maybe it isn't. The message is "stop worrying about what other people think" and "everything isn't about _you_." If your morale is low, maybe it's because you keep blaming yourself for things that aren't actually your fault. So there's fighting in Somalia! Is that really about _you_? The inversion of the Empress reinforces the "stop worrying about what other people think" message. The mask is not helping you; it's just giving you one more thing to fret over ("who's seeing through it now?")

[the-vulture.livejournal.com]

That's awesome, and, yes, I know this is for funsies. :)

Goodness, that Hanged Man card has got a bit of a kink factor! XD

After seeing those three, I had to browse a bunch of the others. I rather like the visuals of the deck. Had to say, I was quite amused by the 99 of Swords (especially with the nod to Nena's '99 Luftballons').