Plea for Help & Review of 2 Decks

I come before you today because my situation is urgent and dire. Due to an overdraft (I was buying groceries) in November, I was charged cascading overdraft fees so that I got barely ½ of my SSI check. Paying calls by KEEN have been non-existent. I can’t pay all my rent, can’t pay my phone bill, can’t pay Stephen 6580 my share of the house bills, (we’re housemates), and I certainly don’t have money to bid, so I am in dire straits, and I don’t mean the 80s band. I hate to beg, but Stephen told me we are a family, and help each other. Also, if you are looking to relocate to the Sacramento area, we desperately need a Pagan house-mate to pay hir share of the rent, which will be $400 plus 1/3 of the utilities. My share has averaged about $85 per month. If we don’t find someone by January 3rd, 2010, we will have to pay $600 each. Prove Stephen right, and me wrong.

Now to the main part of this blog. In my last blog, I said I would review the Tarot decks in my collection (I got them when I had money, which means I haven’t bought any for about 4 months. The Fey Tarot by Riccardo Minetti, artwork by Mara Aghem. I’d wanted this deck for at least 6 years, but couldn’t find it anywhere. None of my favorite purveyors of fine occult, New Age, and Pagan goods carried it. I ended up getting it from Amazon.com. It is kind of a cute deck, which borders on the cutesy. The artwork, while gorgeous and colorful, definitely borders on the cutesy. The deck and book are published by Llewellyn Pub. Even without reading the book I could read the cards, and because it has an extremely positive orientation, there are no reversed card meanings.

The next deck I would like to talk about is the Tarot of the Elves also by Llewellyn.. It is drop dead gorgeous. The book includes a novel about the characters on the cards. It is a very easy deck to read. You know what is going on just by looking at the card. It, like the deck above, is very suitable for my minimalist method of reading the Tarot, which I discussed in a prior blog. Also, pay particular attention to the spreads that author Mark McElroy. I don’t do this with a paying client, but when I have a willing guinea pig, I like to try out the spreads in the book provided in the book, on other decks to see what that brings me. It is often very interesting what turns up. Try it, see what happens. Nothing is going to explode. You should have respect for, and honor your Tarot decks, but don’t hold them as some kind of sacred chao that you can’t experiment and have fun with.

That is one thing that both Stephen6580 and I have in common regarding divination. We’re both willing to think outside the box, have fun with concepts, new ways of looking at the means of divination. You should not fear your divination tools. They are just that: tools. Take good care of them, honor them, but do not fear them. If you are getting frighteningly accurate readings, it is NOT time to put away the cards. It is time to explore more, to see why this deck, more than any other is giving you these readings. Certainly meditate, and contemplate what is going on in either your life or your client’s life that is making the cards behave this way. Remember that what you are getting is simply a snapshot of the way the currents of energy, for our more Eastern cousins, prana, are flowing right at the time you are doing the reading. And don’t forget, if you are a client, to rate your reader. That is the only s/he can advance in the KEEN system.

That’s it for now. Merry Part and Merry Meet Again.
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