firemaiden
Okay, I don't mean to make it a habit of this, but I actually read for sort of money today. I say sort of because it wasn't very much, LOL, she didn't ask for the reading, and I didn't ask for it for money, it was sort of token money - you know, symbolic. But its a threshold crossed; perhaps it will happen again.
My favorite haunt (aka "The Wormhole") has recently errected tables, and there is now a wireless signal; so I was drinking the world's best coffee, and finishing up a reading online for my "Victorian Romantic Tarot Goes to Work" thread, when a lady I often visit with popped in, eyes full of tears. She'd just put her cat of 19 years down, and was in a lot of distress about many things. I made her sit down, and we talked a bit. A friend had told her "maybe some things were just not meant to be...." suggesting that maybe she was not meant to ever find another man in her life, or love again, ever (LOL).
So I just took out my deck and started shuffling, and told her to pick three cards. At first she wasn't much interested, but the Victorian Romantic deck is so beautiful, it intrigues and makes converts out of everyone!
The first card was the Wheel of Fortune, it shows a man and a white horse coming with the offering of a crown, towards a man on the ground, tending to trapping birds. (Trapping birds!) I said it suggested gifts and a change were on their way ... (I can think of so much more to say now, of course!). I said this man on his way might not be the man she was looking for, but there might be someone else who interested her within his retinue. Ah yes, the retinue.
She also picked the Nine of Swords for "What is hidden" - I suggested it reflected her misery, but it also suggested she was allowing negative thoughts to affect her prospects.
She picked The Fool as her final outcome. At the sight of the fool balancing on a drum, she seemed to understand right away, it had to do with letting go of all burdens, and beginning anew. And she seemed to drop her burdens even as she saw the card.
When were were done, her face was full of joy again!
I have the feeling it mattered very little whether what I said was accurate or relevant: it was not the content, but the mere fact of reading, the mere fact of sitting there with her, and inquiring of fortune together, that was in itself a healing act.
Since she knew of the expression "cross my palm with silver", she superstitiously gave me some
-- I won't say how much, it was so not the point -- But anyway, there we go, I am no longer a virgin.
Anyone else want to tell how they lost their virginity?
My favorite haunt (aka "The Wormhole") has recently errected tables, and there is now a wireless signal; so I was drinking the world's best coffee, and finishing up a reading online for my "Victorian Romantic Tarot Goes to Work" thread, when a lady I often visit with popped in, eyes full of tears. She'd just put her cat of 19 years down, and was in a lot of distress about many things. I made her sit down, and we talked a bit. A friend had told her "maybe some things were just not meant to be...." suggesting that maybe she was not meant to ever find another man in her life, or love again, ever (LOL).
So I just took out my deck and started shuffling, and told her to pick three cards. At first she wasn't much interested, but the Victorian Romantic deck is so beautiful, it intrigues and makes converts out of everyone!
The first card was the Wheel of Fortune, it shows a man and a white horse coming with the offering of a crown, towards a man on the ground, tending to trapping birds. (Trapping birds!) I said it suggested gifts and a change were on their way ... (I can think of so much more to say now, of course!). I said this man on his way might not be the man she was looking for, but there might be someone else who interested her within his retinue. Ah yes, the retinue.
She also picked the Nine of Swords for "What is hidden" - I suggested it reflected her misery, but it also suggested she was allowing negative thoughts to affect her prospects.
She picked The Fool as her final outcome. At the sight of the fool balancing on a drum, she seemed to understand right away, it had to do with letting go of all burdens, and beginning anew. And she seemed to drop her burdens even as she saw the card.
When were were done, her face was full of joy again!
I have the feeling it mattered very little whether what I said was accurate or relevant: it was not the content, but the mere fact of reading, the mere fact of sitting there with her, and inquiring of fortune together, that was in itself a healing act.
Since she knew of the expression "cross my palm with silver", she superstitiously gave me some
-- I won't say how much, it was so not the point -- But anyway, there we go, I am no longer a virgin. Anyone else want to tell how they lost their virginity?
