dangerous game.

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 25 Jun 2004, and now archived in the Forum Library.

cartarum	25 Jun 2004
i have been staying with my mom in medicine hat for a week now. shes been putting me to work in the building she manages. last night, i read my spiral deck. the reading indicated that she would be regretfull that we did not finish cleaning one of the suites that a tenant had left. i was going to tell her that night, but i did not want to get all taroty around her. besides, ive been wrong before. anyways, in the morning,(which i classify as the time i get up) i learned that while i slept in the afternoon, another tenant, who was supposed to move out during the week, had not done a single thing! all her stuff was still there! another tenent was supposed to move in that suite the same day! my mom told me all this when i got up, that she should have finished the other suite completely last night, then she would have had more time to compensate for the lazy tenant.(the page of pentacles reversed figured promenantly in the spread) she ended up rushing to complete the other suite, then cleaning up after the tenant as they got their stuff out. it was just a big mess. complicated, but the reading got the general gist of what was to happen. ive been thinking.. so what if i had told my mom what the cards were saying last night? what would it prove? now my mom would think im a prophet, and everything regarding her spirituality would be screwed up. as new card readers, we might expect to impress people with our skill, but at what cost? my mom knows nothing about what i read. i want to keep it that way. who needs the responsibility?certain psychics who have this ability built into their brain cant escape it, and i think that some would, if they could. in fact, it probably becomes a problem after awhile. i am just glad that i am so weak as to be barely noticeable, more along the lines of womans intuition, in a man. why try to prove anything? tarot is for the individual, not the crowd. ~A~

katie_here	26 Jun 2004
but you wouldn't have to say anything about Tarot, you could just say "Hey Mum, a thought just occurred to me, why don't we go and check that apartment and see if its ready for the new tenant" or something along those lines, then you won't have to mention Tarot to her, just an idea that occurred to you.

tao51	30 Jun 2004
I just say that I have a feeling... That usually takes care of it. Once I was eating breakfast in a cafe and started to draw attention with my tarot deck. I said to a nosey person, "I collect art prints!" That took care of that.--Tao

cartarum	30 Jun 2004
good stuff. but when i read for prophecy, i try to keep the entire thing to myself. excepting, on aeclectic. the nature of this place is such that one could say almost anything about personal experience and its all good. i was ruminating... ~A~

dolphingirl	30 Jun 2004
Maybe this reading wasn't about cleaning the appartments but maybe it had a added message for you to push you to act on your future readings. Maybe the purpose of this one wasn't to save time on cleaning this appartment but to make sure you speak up on what you get from a future reading? :) I like the idea of leaving tarot out of it when talking to your mother. You don't have to say where the information came from just that it is there.

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