Ravenest, what makes you say you never want to live off being a tarot reader?
Haha I work at a bookstore cafe and do tarot readings. They're both my main source of income. I do hope to be a life coach one day and incorporate tarot into the mix
I've never had tofu by the way. How was that for ya? lol.
Edit: Just noticed you're from Australia. Jealous.
1. I have never wanted to do one thing only for an income or to take up most of my time with one main thing.
2. Most people seem to want predictions (which I dont do ).
3. The majority of the public that would want a reading (and that I would have to make enough money of to live off and hence see HEAPS OF ) .... arent really my type of person .
4. To make enough money I would have enter the 'alternative market ' , promotion, etc , not my thing at all.
5. If one needs the money to live off, then one starts 'marketing' and compromising oneself to get that money (I believe it is the same in ANY job - it happens). If no money, income, credit, self-esteem, public-opinion, book sales, fees and dues are involved there is nothing to persuade me to bend towards market popularity and modify my own 'truth'.
6. I would never 'properly' work for myself, I hate admin, bureaucracy, paperwork, taxes, etc ... I am more the type to trade all that for a weeks work ... and regardless what happened to get the guaranteed amount at the end of the week (I have see SO many people go broke here and get in trouble and debt from bad and even silly business ideas. They would be far ahead if they had not wasted that money in the first place.)
7. There just isnt a market for that around here, as a profession. I would probably have to move to a more populated area (and I have moved into a state of hermitage that I very much like).
8. My approach is that tarot is full of Hermetic Spiritual knowledge ... most people are not into that stuff and want to know if they guy at work likes them (instead of just asking them if they want to go out or have a coffee together or ... ) - I wont go there.
Tofu was great! I had a reverse Christian work ethic going- work on Sunday and have the other 6 off
. I had a motorcycle, lived in a caravan, had acres of fields, forest, orchids, veggie gardens, river and beach to play in, was younger and had 3 girlfriends, always had enough food, a smoke and 6 pack in the fridge ... what more could a young lad want
But still, I relied on it as income, and the product was compromised. Hand making large batches of Tofu with near traditional equipment is more of an intuitional art (to get it near perfect - forget the mass factory machine reproduced and vacuum sealed, long-life rubbish on the market today). One time I muffed it badly and really I should have fed it to the cows. But as well as loosing the income, I had the costs of making it as well.
So I just put it on the market and hoped for the best. I compromised myself for the money. (Then I was at a friends place and he is making breakfast and he pulls out of the fridge .... some of my dodgy tofu ! ... how embarrassing. He fries onions and tomatoes in a frypan and dumps the horrible tofu in and mashes it all up together and has it on toast
I asked how it was and he goes " Huh? ... wha ? ... the tofu ? Oh ... ummm yeah it was good. "
He couldnt even tell ! - once, as a caterer I spent 6 hours making beautiful Sashimi and Sushi platters ... this guy takes a serve on a plate, goes to the roast table and puts mashed potato and gravy on top of it ... arrrgh!
No .... I cant see that happen to the spiritual hermetic gem in Tarot ....
Do not put gravy on my tarot readings !