Satori said:
There are lots of us here on AT who've been collecting toys and other stuff and reading with it. In fact, there is even ZannaMarie who is an Animal Cracker reader. She does your reading and then eats it with a cup of tea afterwards.
Oh, that's GREAT!! I love it! I want a reading from her! And a great way to ground yourself afterwards, with food.
Satori said:
I had no idea there was someone doing junk oracle readings on Etsy until Thor posted about it here. Hope that was successful for you.
I have been doing pretty well with the readings on Etsy. Although I offer several types (tarot, dice, junk), Junk is my best selling reading and the best seller overall in the shop, accounting for like 90% of my sales. It takes a little time to find the time to do them, though, because I like to leave the whole evening open. Usually they go pretty quickly once I start, but sometimes a particular piece gives me fits and I have to sit there and ponder its meaning. Get up from the table, throw a couple darts, shoot a little pool, maybe do the dishes, and come back to it. Rinse and repeat if necessary.
Funny, in person I can just pop 'em out, bam bam bam. Maybe because I can ask the client "hey, what do you think about when you think of aardvarks?"
I do think that proximity has something to do with being able to do fast readings. I'm very good at cold reading people (from job experience in a former life in security). I never thought I would like doing online readings -- no warm body there -- until I tried it through Etsy.
I trade the ability to read people for the option of doing a little extra research online. Like I wasn't sure what the medical symbol stood for but it came up in a reading (where did that piece come from? I didn't know I had it) and so I could look it up and learn more about it and how it fit in. Or the time Kwan Yin didn't mean serenity but instead meant being really stubborn. I could have forced a decent reading from it in person, but the deeper meaning I got from research really improved it. I guess I could do it for all my pieces in advance, but :shrug:
I've heard that I'm kinda good at it, and people give me good feedback and some really cool private emails which help me learn and also to trust myself in the messages I get to pass to them. Sometimes I have no idea why I get a certain idea, and I say that: "I don't really know where this comes in, but I've just had a very strong impression of <something terribly weird>". And they always, always know exactly what it is. So I've learned just to spit it out and not wonder if I'm right or wrong. They will tell me.
They are safe in telling me, because I have a return policy on readings! If the first one doesn't make sense, I can recast or do a tarot reading, and if that doesn't make sense, then they get their money back. I occasionally (1 in 15 or so) have to do a recast, but nobody has ever had to get a refund.
Babble.
cardlady22 said:
Welcome to the Purple Pages, lefthandedgoth!
I am liking the purple a LOT. This is a neat forum. Thanks for the hiya!
Ande