#when my chronic illness would be GREATLY worsened in philly

[cookinguptales]

Okay, so it's *checks clock* about 3:30 here and my parents have left me alone for the next 24 hours so dad can take mom to a concert for her birthday.

That means I'm gonna have a TAROT NIGHT.

For my new followers, I do these periodically. Standard disclaimer that I am not psychic, I do not necessarily believe in such things, but I am an enormous tarot geek who did a lot of work on that when I was in college. I love tarot for a lot of reasons, both personal and academic, and my view on tarot readings is that... well, tarot cards are based on human archetypes, which means that yes, they are very vague and apply to most people in some way or another.

Some people think that means that tarot is entirely useless at best, fraudulent at worst, but I guess I look at it differently. I think because most tarot cards will apply to us in some way or another, we will always read our own situations into the cards. That means that, in an announcement designed for all ears, you will still hear a message tailored to you. And if a reading makes you think about a certain situation in your life... well, maybe that's your subconscious telling you you should probably be thinking about it.

It's sort of like that old saying, y'know? If you want to make a decision, flip a coin -- the see which side you find yourself rooting for. I don't think cartomancy is going to tell your future, but I do think it might help guide you towards subjects that are bothering you. I think people can take what they need from most readings, and that's not a bad thing.

So... yeah. I'm not a psychic. This is not a psychic reading. This is just for fun. What I read may or may not apply to you. But if you do get something out of it, that makes me happy.

All that said, I'll be using my Mushroom Hunter's Tarot Deck (I... think... backup deck is Pulp Tarot if I can't find the former) because I think that's the one I was using last time before I got distracted. That said, if you'd really prefer a reading from the Pulp Tarot, I'm fine with that as well. I know where that one is. lmao

I collect tarot decks and I usually let people vote on which ones I use for the evening (some people have favorites, some people just want to see what certain cards look like in certain decks, etc.) but yeah, I was distracted from my last tarot night due to personal reasons so I'm just gonna jump back into that.

I'll get started in a couple hours and I'll post instructions on how to request a reading then! But I usually make a post like this whenever I do this just so people have warning and also know where we stand.

I post each reading publicly (like I said, a lot of people just want to see the card designs) so if you don't want to see any of this, the tag to block is "#tarot shenanigans".

okay I'm gonna go eat lunch bye