◆ PARALLAX

I read tarot for free in here because a reading should never be about money and because practice keeps the hands honest. Rules: post a real question, pick one card or three (I will draw), and be patient, I get to everyone eventually. Skeptics actively welcome -- a cold read and a real read look different from the inside and I would like you to learn to tell them apart at my expense.

Opening the floor. Who is first.

Me, before my shift. Three cards, question is just "what am I not seeing about the night job." I read a bit myself but I never read for me, it is like tickling yourself, does not work.

Cass -- drawn: Eight of Pentacles, the Hermit reversed, Three of Cups. The boring honest read, not the flattering one: you have made the night job into a craft (Eight) which is good, but the Hermit reversed says the solitude that was a refuge is starting to cost you, and the Three of Cups is practically shouting that the thing you are not seeing is that you have stopped letting anyone in because it is easier at 4am alone. Not mystical. Mostly it is the cards giving you permission to admit what you half-knew. That is what they are for.

I will say this once, in love, and then leave it with you. Deuteronomy 18:10-12 is not ambiguous on divination and neither is Leviticus 19:31. I came to this board for the seed-saving and the canning, and I have brothers and sisters here in the homesteading boards who know me as a reasonable man. But I cannot scroll past a thread that invites people to consult cards for guidance and say nothing. You are not playing a parlour game. You are opening a door you cannot see the far side of. Please. I am not angry. I am warning.

Caleb, I genuinely thank you for doing it without heat, which is rarer than you would think. I am not going to debate scripture with you because you will win on chapter and verse and I do not think that is the real disagreement anyway. The real one is whether this is a door to something or a mirror that helps a tired nurse hear herself. I believe it is mostly the mirror. You believe it is the door. We are not going to settle that in a forum.

I will make you one offer: I will never read for anyone who tells me their faith forbids it. That is a line I actually hold. Deal?

Strange day: I agree with the tarot reader and the fundamentalist at once. Fenn is honest that it is a mirror, which is the only defensible version of this, and Caleb is right that people who think it is a door can get hurt walking through it. My only addition, for Cass and anyone else: the Three-of-Cups read worked because Fenn is a perceptive person who would have given you that advice over a coffee with no cards at all. The cards are a permission structure. Useful. Just know which part is doing the work.

all of you are right and it is annoying. the read landed, i did stop letting people in, and yes Fenn would have said it over coffee. Caleb i hear you and i am not going to argue with a man being kind about it. going to go ring my sister after shift. that is the actual three of cups i think.