Lion-O
Today I woke up somewhat late and because its sunday, a rather lazy day for me, I didn't feel like getting up right away but instead turned on the television an started zapping. Eventually I came across the Astro TV show, this is a program from a commercial tv station ("RTL") presented by a so called Tarot reader. The main idea is that people can call her up (ofcourse using an expensive telephone number) and ask her to do a reading. So far nothing really special.
Unfortunately for her no one seemed to feel like calling and so she started showing her Rider-Waite deck to her television audience by doing a few random spreads. So far also nothing too special but although difficult due to the fast moving camera I started noticing certain cards. And to my surprise she drew a lot of cards from the Swords and Pentacles suits. Now, bear with me; when it comes to relationships between cards I'm still very new. Still, it is my impression that many swords and pentacles together do bring a rather "dynamic" spread. The first two spreads were totally unfamiliar with me but I did spot a world card, the 3 of swords, 5 of swords, 4 of pentacles, 5 of pentacles and the fool showing up (note; these weren't all the cards, just the ones I managed to spot). When she did her second "demo" spread I noticed the 3 of swords as well as the 10 of swords showing up. Still; not familiar with the used spread but this was still a somewhat disturbing sight for me.
Then the poor woman didn't know quite well what to do other than to shuffle her cards when someone in the studio apparently told her to do a celtic cross spread. At first she didn't even understand what was being meant! But finally she seemed to come to her senses and started lying out the cards. Since I'm quite familiar with the Celtic Cross spread (and some of the variations) this immediately got my full attention. Considering that she didn't seem to ask a specific question it is my impression that the outcome of the spread totally reflected on her, on that same situation:
............10
.....5.......9
4..1/2..6..8
.....3.......7
Now, I didn't get to see all the cards but the ones I did see made me seriously wonder if this shouldn't have been at least somewhat upsetting to her. The first card she drew was the Sun reversed, considering this to be the heart of the manner I can't help wonder. I'm picking this up as if she could have done very great things, but is being blocked. The second card I saw was the 5 of Swords. Well, if that is your opposing factor I can't help wonder if this woman really is what she says to be!
Then the camera started tilting and moving again and during the next glimpse I managed to make out the four of cups on position 5. 7 of pentacles on position 6.
But when she was lying down the staff it became really disturbing to me. On Position 7 the ten of swords made another appearance and position 8 gave us the three of swords again. And to my astonishment she even made a comment: "Well now, thats not a very nice card. So lets change it with... this one" after which she replaced the three of swords with something else (the camera tilted away again and that was all I could see from the cards).
What gives?!
To me this particular spread just screamed for attention and I cannot help my line of thinking that something is very disturbingly wrong here. To me this spread was somewhat giving an impression that what she was doing wasn't fully done right. How she might be expecting some kind of reward for it while the outside environment may still witness all of this with some disdain maybe even considering a form of betrayal.
I was quite surprised that after lying about this spread she somewhat glimpsed over it, mumbling something in the likes of "And thats what a celtic spread looks like" after which she simply stashed the cards together and started shuffling them as if nothing serious happened.
Personally I'm quite weary when it comes to programs like these, where you have to call a rather expensive phone number in order to do something (play a game, cast a vote or ask for a reading). But seldom have I witnessed something like this. In my mind the cards basically revealed the whole thing for what it really is.
What do you think about all this ? Better yet; have you ever seen anything like this, maybe even seen this particular show too?
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quick edit: now I know why I used .'s the other time I presented a spread diagram
Unfortunately for her no one seemed to feel like calling and so she started showing her Rider-Waite deck to her television audience by doing a few random spreads. So far also nothing too special but although difficult due to the fast moving camera I started noticing certain cards. And to my surprise she drew a lot of cards from the Swords and Pentacles suits. Now, bear with me; when it comes to relationships between cards I'm still very new. Still, it is my impression that many swords and pentacles together do bring a rather "dynamic" spread. The first two spreads were totally unfamiliar with me but I did spot a world card, the 3 of swords, 5 of swords, 4 of pentacles, 5 of pentacles and the fool showing up (note; these weren't all the cards, just the ones I managed to spot). When she did her second "demo" spread I noticed the 3 of swords as well as the 10 of swords showing up. Still; not familiar with the used spread but this was still a somewhat disturbing sight for me.
Then the poor woman didn't know quite well what to do other than to shuffle her cards when someone in the studio apparently told her to do a celtic cross spread. At first she didn't even understand what was being meant! But finally she seemed to come to her senses and started lying out the cards. Since I'm quite familiar with the Celtic Cross spread (and some of the variations) this immediately got my full attention. Considering that she didn't seem to ask a specific question it is my impression that the outcome of the spread totally reflected on her, on that same situation:
............10
.....5.......9
4..1/2..6..8
.....3.......7
Now, I didn't get to see all the cards but the ones I did see made me seriously wonder if this shouldn't have been at least somewhat upsetting to her. The first card she drew was the Sun reversed, considering this to be the heart of the manner I can't help wonder. I'm picking this up as if she could have done very great things, but is being blocked. The second card I saw was the 5 of Swords. Well, if that is your opposing factor I can't help wonder if this woman really is what she says to be!
Then the camera started tilting and moving again and during the next glimpse I managed to make out the four of cups on position 5. 7 of pentacles on position 6.
But when she was lying down the staff it became really disturbing to me. On Position 7 the ten of swords made another appearance and position 8 gave us the three of swords again. And to my astonishment she even made a comment: "Well now, thats not a very nice card. So lets change it with... this one" after which she replaced the three of swords with something else (the camera tilted away again and that was all I could see from the cards).
What gives?!
To me this particular spread just screamed for attention and I cannot help my line of thinking that something is very disturbingly wrong here. To me this spread was somewhat giving an impression that what she was doing wasn't fully done right. How she might be expecting some kind of reward for it while the outside environment may still witness all of this with some disdain maybe even considering a form of betrayal.
I was quite surprised that after lying about this spread she somewhat glimpsed over it, mumbling something in the likes of "And thats what a celtic spread looks like" after which she simply stashed the cards together and started shuffling them as if nothing serious happened.
Personally I'm quite weary when it comes to programs like these, where you have to call a rather expensive phone number in order to do something (play a game, cast a vote or ask for a reading). But seldom have I witnessed something like this. In my mind the cards basically revealed the whole thing for what it really is.
What do you think about all this ? Better yet; have you ever seen anything like this, maybe even seen this particular show too?
--
quick edit: now I know why I used .'s the other time I presented a spread diagram
