skylark

i collect tarot cards, and i used to read tarot fairly regularly. by most accounts - except from alison, for whom tarot doesn’t seem to mean much, and who, as a hereditary witch, has different standards for this kind of thing - i was pretty good at it. i was an intuitive reader, letting the cards tell a story, and letting the story tell itself to the person i was reading.

but i’ve lost a good deal of that intuition, and like lyra and the alethiometer, i’ve decided to take a systematic approach, re-learning the skill on a different, hopefully more sophisticated level.

i’ve laid out the universal waite and thoth decks, and am studying them in tandem, suit by suit, card by card, immersing myself in history, artistic and psychomystical intentions, and a more conscious semiotics.

i’m trying to keep my expectations minimal, and just do it for its own sake. and anyone who knows me, knows how hard that is. my life is littered with things taken up, avoided, attempted, put away in frustration, tears or silence.

let’s just see how this goes, shall we?