Brush At Cartomancy
With nothing better to do and a fresh pack of playing cards just opened, we agreed to have our fortune read by our resident suomi who happens to know a trick or two on the process.
Cartomancy, or the act of divination or fortune telling through cards, started long ago when playing cards first came into existence. In those days, divination cards were called tarots. Diamonds, hearts, spades, and clubs were called pentacles, cups, swords, and wands, respectively. The four suits we have now then comprised only the minor arcana, complete with four court cards each, comprising of the king, queen, the knight, and the page. Quite similar to the cards you use for pusoy-dos, actually. The major arcana are comprised of symbols and images frowned upon as heretical and having occult roots and were thus subsequently discarded, except for the tarot sets that remained true to their original form.
The cards were shuffled. The willing subject was then told to think of a special someone for whom, together with the subject, the wheels of fate would tell its tale, limited to how the current romance is or how the future would most likely look for the the couple. Almost always, the subjects could only affirm how their romance is doing currently. There might be a reading on a third party but we could all only speculate. Nothing is really certain. Cards aren't entirely fool-proof. You can't really put up a fight saying "the cards told you were cheating, you two-timing cu*t!"
The future is blurry. It forks and branches into different paths, each consequent to current or past actions. The paths could also, somewhere along the way, converge with other paths, thereby creating the same resulting future for different past actions. The more actions these futures could possibly result from, the more foreseeable it is. The more solid it becomes for the diviner. Their possibility being more certain than the other possible futures. As such is the case, these convergences could manifest themselves more via the medium of those practicing divination. The card or palm reader could then tell you how many children you could have, how you haven't met your soulmate yet, how it is that you are going to lose your house from fire in the next two years, or why it is that you should refrain from traveling by air within the year as much as possible, for want of better examples.
My turn came. The cards were shuffled and I was asked to knock on the deck three times. A few cards were discarded and much remained. It was explained that I was represented by the Kind of Swords as my heart was the Heart of Swords. My precious would then be the Queen of Cups, her heart being the Ace of Cups. The cards were spread on the mat and the King of Swords was shown to be surrounded by so many court cards, so many royalties, what the hey?! Our self-representations were drawn apart. Our hearts even farther, separated by happiness, problems, even more court cards, distance, and money. The interpretation: "Fritz, you are surrounded and loved by people, whom you may love back, and you have found solace in them. That's a good thing but it also draws you away from possibly making romantic connections as evidenced by your being closer to other court cards. See these other cards separating you and your precious' hearts? These are problems ot tribulations, if you may. Money, distance, circumstance, differences. It needs work, and from the looks of it, you would need to do a whole lot." My interpretation: Either I'm surrounded by people whom I love or that I'm really very promiscuous! (The latter having a more remote possiblity than us having snow in Manila. In June!) I'm royally screwed! The part where I'm surrounded by people is a fact. My reality. A major truth that I have overlooked all these years. This suomi is good! She's got that aspect right!The realm of fate is complex. Put the fortune-teller in the picture and watch the margin of error rise exponentially. The future is only as good told as the skills and capability of the diviner on interpreting how it is manifested in the cards or the palm or tea-leaves. The cards may have shown the most evident future but the reader may not be apt to pick it up or, much worse, tell a different tale from that told by the medium. It is thereby advised to be wary of fortunes. Keep an open mind. Treat the experience as mere entertainment. And just leave the following thought in your head: you are such a wuss so get your lovelife in shape, as*ho*e!
In the current age and time, there are only a handful who are still adept in the art of divination. The hunt is on to find them if you want to know what Destiny's book has written about you, that is, if you can't wait to find out for yourself once you are already there.
Vertigo Tarot image Copyright © 1995 DC Comics
posted by Fritz @ 12:28 PM
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Shyacks natalo card reading abilities ko...hehe...
Do you?
Do you believe in "set-up"? That's one way of kicking off ones love life... i think.
Do I what?
For the set-up portion, tama, marami ng success stories about this di ba, like, um, ehem... hahahaha! Pero hindi naman set-up yung inyo di ba? Anyways. Whatever works. Dami ways. I'm open to any. Naks. Parang uhaw na uhaw na dating ko nito ah! hehehe.
Teka, anung natalo card-reading mo eh reading mo yung dinescribe ko. Iningles ko lang ang interpretation for the post. Hehehe.
Hay naku Fritzie, salamat sa blog mo, nawala ang init ng ulo ko sa $#%@, oh well, alam mo na kung kanino.
Ei Fritzie, dali mag-aral ka ng card reading para mabasa mo na rin ang kapalaran namin ni ana banana.
Really love your blog (nasa favorites ko na nga e!)always learn something new, di ko nga lang alam kung totoo lahat ng mga pinaglalagay mong info dito. Nyahahaha!
Buti naman eh dito ka na nag-comment instead na sa email, hehehe. Yoko aralin yung totohanang hulaan, parang nakakatanda eh, and I know na taxing yan sa diviner. Tas dapat pang alamin mo kung saang medium ka comfortable. Kung i-ching, runes, scrying mirror, tarot (na may iba-iba pang klase), or palmistry among others pa. Pag-pili palang at pagaral sa lahat so you could get a feel of the media eh aabutin ka ng ng siyam-syam. Mahirap. Baka pagtumanda na ako. hehehe.
Thanks for always reading what I have here. Glad you enjoy.
I better send you the Date-a-base file!!! :-)
Balik uli tayo sa date-a-base ah, hehehe. Thanks Ainns!
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