wyld_dandelyon | New Moon Readings

I'm going to try something different this time around. ( Being a New Moon, it should be a good time to experiment.)

I have a Tarot post due at my Patreon, but between the work I'm doing to try to get better elected officials into office, some totally unnecessary interpersonal drama, and my head full of the work in progress, I open a blank page to write about Tarot and it stays blank.. I'm also getting ready to perform at the 19th Street Coffeehouse in their Midwinter Talent Contest on Saturday, I've got a Writer's Group meeting on Sunday, and a sick cat who needs extra care in his old age. So, I've lots of non-Tarot things cluttering my brain, and I'm finding that I don't seem to have any handy topic-hooks handy for a proper reasonable-sized post. (I know there's lots of possible hooks, they're just evading me.)

So, instead of free readings, I propose the following:

Anyone who poses at least one question/topic about Tarot, writing, music, art, or some other creative thing I do can request a card.
If you don't want a card, you can still ask a question or suggest a topic (or more than one), and receive my thanks for your kindness.
All of my Patrons over on Patreon can ask for a card, and people who are Patrons specifically for my Tarot work get two. Just remind me. Please feel free to ask a question or suggest a topic if you want, but it's not required of patrons.
Anyone who tips can also get a card whether or not they pose a question or topic hook. The guitar case below is my personal PayPal link, featuring my own artwork, which still inspires me even though it isn't Tarot-related.
Patrons, people who have tipped, and people who have signal boosted (for this draw or for my Patreon) can ask a clarifying question after I do their reading, and I will draw another card for you.
I am continuing to offer a five-card reading for $25, or if you want a larger reading we can discuss costs.

As always, new friends and old are very welcome.

About the readings,

You may ask about real life or a creative project, even for a character you play in a game. I can draw a card for you to meditate on, to represent the Guide you need right now, or to get you unstuck. I can draw a card for your protagonist or villain, or can draw a card or cards for you to use as writing or art prompts, and I can modify a more-traditional five-card spread into a prompt for a story focusing on plot or characters or a little of both. Let me know if you have any particular request.

You can pick from my decks, including the Brian Froud's Faeries Oracle, the Daughters of the Moon Tarot (one of the round decks), or the Shapeshifter Tarot. If you want a Guide to companion you in the new year or the holidays, the Susan Seddon Boulet or Fairies Oracle both work well. If you don't pick a deck, I might pick from any of the decks available to me (I have a whole shelf of them).

I understand all too well that when people don't have cash or spoons that is generally when they most need inspiration. Don't be afraid to ask for a card if you can't tip--just let me know some topic or question you'd like me to post about.

If you're not a Patron, and I use your question for a patrons-only post, I will privately share that post with you as a thank-you. If I use it for a public post, I'll reply with the link.

When you tip, it's helpful to me for you to mention it here so I can connect your Paypal information with your request. Tips should be at least $2 (Paypal charges fees). If Paypal doesn't work for you, drop me a message and we'll work something out.

I will reply to all requests, though with the contest and writers group this weekend, there may be a little delay, depending on when I see your post.

Thank you, and Blessed Be.

Status: Open! I plan to leave this post open through Sunday night.

As always, while I work hard to offer insight and inspiration, all I can legally promise is entertainment. See my "Dandelyon's Readings" page if you have questions.

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I'm not going to make any demands on your time or energy. I just want to comment that I'd have a lot of difficulty if I ever tried using different Tarot decks, especially the most "non-mainstream" ones. I am very, very strongly imprinted upon the standard Ryder/Waite/Smith deck, because that's the first one I ever learned.

Actually, I first learned how to "tell fortunes" with normal playing cards. One of my aunts "had the Sight" - she could read tea leaves, cards, or even palms, but she told me once that she didn't need any of these tools, but people got scared if she just started telling them things. She died when I was six, though, so all I ever learned was some of her card-reading - and I had to make up the rest myself. But then, around 1966 or so, when I was in the process of becoming a hippie (but before I became a Witch), I was telling my friends' fortunes with playing cards when someone informed me that he'd heard there was a special deck of cards that was just for divination. That "someone" and I bought our own Tarot decks, and learned together, from books and things, how to use them. (I consider him my "brother", although we were born into different families by mistake.)

Just some of my thoughts on the Tarot... :-)

I also started with Rider/Waite, but as I moved from doing readings by laying the cards out and reading from the book to a more intuitive process, I found that deck harder and harder to read, often feeling like it was hiding the meaning behind the symbolism instead of revealing it through the pictures. I found that I connected much better with less orderly decks, and decks whose art called to me as art.

I'm astonished that anyone can do readings based on regular playing cards, but I'm sure I'd have no trouble with Magick cards, so long as there was a wide enough selection of images available to symbolically represent the complex world we live in.

As I said, my aunt died when I was six years old, so whatever I learned from her happened when I was very, very young. And that was now 64 years ago. But the way I remember, the suits stood for different things ("diamonds mean money"), and each rank represented something ("nines are good luck", "queens are women"). So each card was somewhat specific - the nine of diamonds meant "good luck with money" - and I could infer more details by the positions of the cards with respect to each other.

I find the pictures in the Rider/Waite/Smith(*) deck much easier to read than playing cards. The pictures suggest their meaning(s) to me, and it's been decades since I needed to consult a book, because I just look at the pictures and know what they're trying to tell me. (Although I daresay quite a few of my readings are more than slightly unorthodox!)

(*) Pamela Colman Smith, an amazing woman, was the artist who created all the pictures in the RWS Tarot deck, as instructed by Arthur Waite

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