Today's Tarot Reading for a Friend and an Experiment

Today’s Tarot reading, shared with permission of the client.

Here I am, sitting in a local coffee shop. In front of me is a friend working on one of his novels. So … I am done working on a project and decide to pull out my Tarot deck.

“Hey, Dana.” He turns around and I ask, “Can I do a reading for you?”

He says “Sure.” This time we do it with a twist. He formulates his question and doesn’t tell me. I shuffle and pick the cards like normal with spirit and intuitive guidance.

This really turned out cool.

The following cards (from the Haindl Tarot deck) came up out of the process:
The Magician
Eight of Cups (Failure)
Radha Daughter of Wands in the East (Princess of Wands)
Alchemy
Ten of Stones (Richness)

The Magician depicts working with the intuitive and creative energies in the world. The card is a very accurate depiction of a workshop my friend was working on this morning.

Eight of Cups is failure in reference to intuition and emotion.

Princess of Wands depicts the young feminine in relation to creative energy.

The Alchemy card is a direct and unmistakable depiction of the four characters another of Dana’s current writing projects. The Princess of Wands is also very symbolic of the main theme of the writing project represented by the Alchemy card.

Ten of Stones refers to richness or reward in the material plane.

When I asked Dana if he would like a reading he was, unknown to me, blocked that moment in the work he was doing to design the workshop. The workshop he is designing is about working with chi and relationships.

The question he asked was “Of the three things I am working on, which is the most important to be doing?”

The answer: The project represented by the The Daughter of Wands and Alchemy is most important. Stop working on the project represented by The Magician.

The message was obvious to him the moment I overturned the cards! My reading was a bit more general but was narrowing into the same place. Fun stuff!

Edit 08/06/2012 4:00 PM

Dana’s response (originally posted on Facebook):

First card was the magician. One who practices the energy arts directly. It was followed by the card of failure. That slammed me: leave the Ayame practice alone for now. No brainer. I spent 20 years under her tutelage in the arts of Nei Kun
g as well as others. She defines the Magician.

The princess card made me laugh. The Consequence Series has two main characters, the Fay, Consequence, and her best friend, the immortal Lady Takiko Kisaki. Takiko is royalty. Alchemy is a card that has shown up a number of times and has been the definition of the Consequence story as a whole-the battle between dark and light. The card itself has slightly different meaning but the pictures are what I go by in my decks. This deck screams of the constant struggle for Yin and Yang to find balance and imbalance to remain alive. That is the premise of the entire series of novels. That was when I began to laugh because it was so in your face. Ten of stones was opened up last even though it was the card you almost discarded. Wealth and success. That was when we both broke into laughter.