New Job and Initiating a Deck
SO. New Job. I've been very mum over the journals, I apologise - it is AMAZING. J, the manager, is phenomenal, and M the assistant manager is a riot. I have one very Cute Coworker who I have to admit, I'm nursing a crush on, but that's okay because she's a sweetie, and she's the CUTEST with her boyfriend. The four of us, if nothing goes wrong, will be the core staff after holidays, according to J. I still need to work on speeding up in the camera room and in editing, but my sales are great, and I AM getting faster, I just need more practise getting the little'uns to do what I want. Though I'm not sure if I'll EVER be able to get down to the 15 minutes for 9-12 poses that will be required come Christmas.
I broke in a new tarot deck today! I got my hands on Zach Wong's Revelations deck a while back (saw it in a used bookstore for, like $12, and had to have it, considering how much I loved Jaqui's deck), and it's just been chillin' in the house, waiting for me to break it out. This was probably a good thing - gave it a chance to release all that energy it picked up from the bookstore and the previous owner, and pick up a lot of our energy here. I did a couple readings for me (one of which I messed up by forgetting what the cards were signifying, and one of which seemed pretty positive on the employment front) and one for Mat, my darling angel upon whom I have currently inflicted Babylon Wood. It was SHOCKINGLY accurate, for what I was expecting and what I was planning, though I was startled by the appearance of the Tower in his spread - I've only ever drawn it once before, I think. Still, not really BAD, just difficult for him, poor bit. But I mentioned the spread to my friend Jenna, who's playing Lily Evans in BW, because Lily showed up in a "foundation/influence" position, as the Queen of Wands.
Jenna actually asked me, then, if I'd read HER cards. Well, I've never really read for other people in a serious way before, so with the caveat that I'm summarising from a book and will possibly be HORRIBLY off, and that it's not an exact science, and so forth, I read her cards. It was... kind of exhilarating, to be perfectly honest, and after just giving the meanings for all the cards in their positions (I mostly use a celtic cross spread - it's my favourite), I offered my own interpretation of the main themes, since she was a little unsettled by the last card (Queen of Wands reversed). So I offered my take on it. Which, honestly, had been building the whole reading, just strengthened by every additional card, so I was pretty confident about it. I'm not going to spout it off here, but it was something I felt very strongly about for some reason - maybe because the spread indicated such a Rachel Berry soul in her, which would not surprise me in the LEAST. Just... I don't know - it made me feel like I did something GOOD. Like I was able to tell her that yeah, these tough things are coming, but you have the strength to handle it, if not in yourself alone, then through the support of your friends.
I don't know, maybe I'm just a silly girl with a deck of pretty cards, pretending to know what I'm doing. But it felt right, and that's something that I can say very rarely about extending my own spiritual knowledge to someone else.
/toddles off to bed
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I broke in a new tarot deck today! I got my hands on Zach Wong's Revelations deck a while back (saw it in a used bookstore for, like $12, and had to have it, considering how much I loved Jaqui's deck), and it's just been chillin' in the house, waiting for me to break it out. This was probably a good thing - gave it a chance to release all that energy it picked up from the bookstore and the previous owner, and pick up a lot of our energy here. I did a couple readings for me (one of which I messed up by forgetting what the cards were signifying, and one of which seemed pretty positive on the employment front) and one for Mat, my darling angel upon whom I have currently inflicted Babylon Wood. It was SHOCKINGLY accurate, for what I was expecting and what I was planning, though I was startled by the appearance of the Tower in his spread - I've only ever drawn it once before, I think. Still, not really BAD, just difficult for him, poor bit. But I mentioned the spread to my friend Jenna, who's playing Lily Evans in BW, because Lily showed up in a "foundation/influence" position, as the Queen of Wands.
Jenna actually asked me, then, if I'd read HER cards. Well, I've never really read for other people in a serious way before, so with the caveat that I'm summarising from a book and will possibly be HORRIBLY off, and that it's not an exact science, and so forth, I read her cards. It was... kind of exhilarating, to be perfectly honest, and after just giving the meanings for all the cards in their positions (I mostly use a celtic cross spread - it's my favourite), I offered my own interpretation of the main themes, since she was a little unsettled by the last card (Queen of Wands reversed). So I offered my take on it. Which, honestly, had been building the whole reading, just strengthened by every additional card, so I was pretty confident about it. I'm not going to spout it off here, but it was something I felt very strongly about for some reason - maybe because the spread indicated such a Rachel Berry soul in her, which would not surprise me in the LEAST. Just... I don't know - it made me feel like I did something GOOD. Like I was able to tell her that yeah, these tough things are coming, but you have the strength to handle it, if not in yourself alone, then through the support of your friends.
I don't know, maybe I'm just a silly girl with a deck of pretty cards, pretending to know what I'm doing. But it felt right, and that's something that I can say very rarely about extending my own spiritual knowledge to someone else.
/toddles off to bed
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