(2020-08-18) Lim Tarot

Liminal Warmth: Just mentally append, “… assuming any of this is true and I’m not deluding myself” to every statement I make here and we can both be happy. (model agnosticism)

it’s occurred to me that tampering with low level reality in my own life might not be ideal if things are already cruising along according to some kind of divine plan. This is a low-key belief I loosely hold in the goodness of the Universe in general. I haven’t felt the urge to attempt much reality manipulation lately, because if it works, I don’t know what else I might be mucking up that’s intended for me. The cards tell me to tune into my spiritual side a lot lately. They rarely tell me to go manifest action.

Because of these concerns, I’ve basically ceased doing all Chaos Magick experiments and focused almost entirely on divination (with Tarot) as I’ve tried to laser in on one weird (fairly harmless) thing and try to understand it better. I want to know IF something weird is happening, and if so, HOW that weird thing could be happening.

Usually I’ll declare the context of my reading within a specific domain or for a specific question (IE, “Love life” or “Finances” or “What should I do in X situation?”) and then choose a spread that helps me answer what I want.

Often this will be a simple three-card spread with slots declared like 1) Past, 2) Present, 3) Future. My personal favorite is actually to do 1) Situation, 2) Influences, 3) Actions I should take (SCQOD). The point is that the slots get called ahead of time.

A brief primer: There are 80 tarot cards in my deck (a Marseilles deck which relies less on imagery than the classic tarot you may have seen). Each card can be read in two possible ways depending on how it falls (straight or reversed). Each of these 160 possibilities have different, highly specific interpretations and associated meanings (or keywords, if you will). I am not yet good enough to have memorized these all, so I tend to read the meanings verbatim once dealt from either the handbook that goes with my deck or Biddy Tarot. You can laugh at the name, but damn do they seem to nail the descriptions