NOLA-verse: Tarot Readings
Nov. 4th, 2015 02:28 pm K began the readings using my Steampunk tarot. Her shuffling theme was "looking for 'the girl' meaning you know who and the first card she drew was
Page of Pentacles -- someone tied to the earth, very strong connections and lines, but being occluded as indicated by The Moon, drawn next, hidden from her True Potential. Next drawn Death (inverted), Ten of Swords and Ace of Pentacles she can either use her power to destroy or heal. Her true purpose is to heal but she's being manipulated by The Hierophant (inv)--he's supposed to be a warden but he's corrupted, The Devil, something happened to corrupt him and she should be able to heal the corruption but not while things are going like this.
(draws card while I'm writing) DAMNATION!
(shows me card: XVI Tower) Shit, says I.
(draws more cards for explanation): Two of Wands, Sun (inv), Page of Cups, Nine of Pentacles, Queen of Cups, Two of Pentacles (inv) with The Fool (inv)
The Nine = Deschamps, Sun (inv) = Devereaux. Page and Queen, one is Carver one is Fournier/Mags (K's life).
draws Seven of Cups (inv) which goes with the Page, meaning it's Carver. able to see layouts.
Queen of Cups is tied with King of Swords (inv) who came with Two of Pentacles and Fool (inverted) representing Kieran, so must be Mags.
These five destroy plans and take "her" out of isolation, but doesn't entirely answer the Tower.
Draws Eight of Swords, Page of Wands (inv), Judgement.
There have been things influencing her decisions but she's not with the warden anymore but still feels trapped and blocked by all the previous information.
Chariot, Three of Cups.
She has to make a sort of pilgrimage, and decides to give herself over "sacrifice". She's afraid and yet not that it will (Nine of Swords) destroy her but it will also (Six of Wands inv) destory her enemy (Six of Pentacles). She balances things tries to see further than she can (Three of Wands). Two of Cups and Six of Cups instead of making it about everyone she makes it about one person's happiness to save. So, she sacrifices herself without talking to everyone else about this decision.
Does it destroy everything?
Wheel (inv), Four of Wands.
There is the sacrifice but things stop moving in a way, there's not exactly celebration, so enemy is gone? but yet powers don't end...what happened?
Turning over more cards but not getting anything...
So, went to the Halloween Oracle for 3-card relationship readings.
Kieran vs Mags.
Kieran=Skull of Darkness (blind spots)
Kieran needs to face things with help because he cannot face them himself and deal with his shit. He must rely on others to pull himself out of darkness.
Mags=Barnbrack (sweetness and synergy)
Mags needs to stop over anlayzing everything and take what is going on. Ironic comment about the fact that barnbrack has many things inside of it and she can split into many people (which doesn't help with the overanalyzing).
Relationship=Skull of Stars (infinite possibility)
Fuck society. Fuck the Watch. Fuck Stephenson. Fuck all y'all. Ignore what others say about the pillars and do what they know to be right. Combined they have the strength to withstand the obstacles provided stick to guns.
Kieran vs "the girl"
Kieran=The Lamp (remembrance)
? = Winter (sacredness of pausing)
Relationship = The Underworld (where all things pause and begin)
Kieran as the lamp is a becon to lead her and may reflect someone she hopes for in a sense "her William" as far as she thinks.
Devil, Hanged Man, Seven of Wands, Eight of Wands, Page of Pentacles (inverted) with Page of Swords.
She sacrifices herself with expectation of ending things but nothing changes powers wise in the outside world because it wasn't for the right reason. Her understanding misconstrued because Stephenson had been keeping her in the dark about the way society worked and the pillars weren't properly able to help her understand the real world before she went off "half-cocked" to her decision out of emotion but whatever she did to sacrifice herself caused instead a metamorphosis/evolution (no longer the Page of Pentacles, instead the Page of Swords comes back). When she comes back she has greater understanding, more strength, more power and is better able to do what she was supposed to in the first place but Stephenson stunted her in the hopes of bending her to his purpose.
Kieran=The Lamp (remembrance)
? = Winter (sacredness of pausing)
Relationship = The Underworld (where all things pause and begin)
Kieran as the lamp is a becon to lead her and may reflect someone she hopes for in a sense "her William" as far as she thinks.
Winter is a time of change but being afraid, preparing for a rebirth,
Underworld is sacfificing for a future life.
Mags vs. "the girl"
Megs = Witch (earthly weaver of worlds)
? = Wise seeing, wise action.
Relationship = Winter (sacredness of pausing)
Mags - others are threatened by your growing power but don't be discouraged you can heal things.
? needs wise council before acting. Needs to think logically and not emotionally.
In their relationship Mags must help ? to accept that change is necessary for growth. Things remain strained though until ?'s reawakening.
Then we decided to look for the Carver because they weren't mentioned during the regression, only the Dave equivalent and the Teague equivalent (K's life) and the Wuornos equivalent came up so we did.
Carver vs. Mags.
Carver = Trick or Treat (mischief and play)
Mags = Skull of Darkness (blind spot)
Relationship = Night song (hidden talents)
The Carver is wound very tight and can't let anything go especially to relax.
Then we did some die rolls about them.
Carver is female, older than Kieran, older than Mike (Deveraux/Dave equiv who is 32) but not by much. Works for watch (crit yes 4/100), conflicted about their work (crit no 96/100), but that is denial talking. Not exactly working against the watch (49/100).
Kieran knows the Carver (17/100).
Carver is chick who in game was called Allison Gallagher, one of the Watch members who is sent to clean up after Kieran does his work. She does not know she is the Carver but the Watch suspects. She has manifested a few powers but not The Big One.
Back to reading:
Mags cards, blind spots happen because of pre-existing opinions about the Watch and attitudes, this shouldn't be done this way just because it always etc.
Mags must convince Alli to embrance the power she has as a pillar and make her own decisions but at the same time not act out of her own prejudice. There's also a good bit of "why do you trust KENNICK with this but not me?" and Alli bias against Kennick because the Watch has a bit of boogeyman thing about him and Alli has seen things Kennick has done.
Kennick being what the Watch knows Kieran as.
Page of Pentacles -- someone tied to the earth, very strong connections and lines, but being occluded as indicated by The Moon, drawn next, hidden from her True Potential. Next drawn Death (inverted), Ten of Swords and Ace of Pentacles she can either use her power to destroy or heal. Her true purpose is to heal but she's being manipulated by The Hierophant (inv)--he's supposed to be a warden but he's corrupted, The Devil, something happened to corrupt him and she should be able to heal the corruption but not while things are going like this.
(draws card while I'm writing) DAMNATION!
(shows me card: XVI Tower) Shit, says I.
(draws more cards for explanation): Two of Wands, Sun (inv), Page of Cups, Nine of Pentacles, Queen of Cups, Two of Pentacles (inv) with The Fool (inv)
The Nine = Deschamps, Sun (inv) = Devereaux. Page and Queen, one is Carver one is Fournier/Mags (K's life).
draws Seven of Cups (inv) which goes with the Page, meaning it's Carver. able to see layouts.
Queen of Cups is tied with King of Swords (inv) who came with Two of Pentacles and Fool (inverted) representing Kieran, so must be Mags.
These five destroy plans and take "her" out of isolation, but doesn't entirely answer the Tower.
Draws Eight of Swords, Page of Wands (inv), Judgement.
There have been things influencing her decisions but she's not with the warden anymore but still feels trapped and blocked by all the previous information.
Chariot, Three of Cups.
She has to make a sort of pilgrimage, and decides to give herself over "sacrifice". She's afraid and yet not that it will (Nine of Swords) destroy her but it will also (Six of Wands inv) destory her enemy (Six of Pentacles). She balances things tries to see further than she can (Three of Wands). Two of Cups and Six of Cups instead of making it about everyone she makes it about one person's happiness to save. So, she sacrifices herself without talking to everyone else about this decision.
Does it destroy everything?
Wheel (inv), Four of Wands.
There is the sacrifice but things stop moving in a way, there's not exactly celebration, so enemy is gone? but yet powers don't end...what happened?
Turning over more cards but not getting anything...
So, went to the Halloween Oracle for 3-card relationship readings.
Kieran vs Mags.
Kieran=Skull of Darkness (blind spots)
Kieran needs to face things with help because he cannot face them himself and deal with his shit. He must rely on others to pull himself out of darkness.
Mags=Barnbrack (sweetness and synergy)
Mags needs to stop over anlayzing everything and take what is going on. Ironic comment about the fact that barnbrack has many things inside of it and she can split into many people (which doesn't help with the overanalyzing).
Relationship=Skull of Stars (infinite possibility)
Fuck society. Fuck the Watch. Fuck Stephenson. Fuck all y'all. Ignore what others say about the pillars and do what they know to be right. Combined they have the strength to withstand the obstacles provided stick to guns.
Kieran vs "the girl"
Kieran=The Lamp (remembrance)
? = Winter (sacredness of pausing)
Relationship = The Underworld (where all things pause and begin)
Kieran as the lamp is a becon to lead her and may reflect someone she hopes for in a sense "her William" as far as she thinks.
- This is the point K was like OMG and started drawing more cards for the other reading.
- So back to the Steampunk.
Devil, Hanged Man, Seven of Wands, Eight of Wands, Page of Pentacles (inverted) with Page of Swords.
She sacrifices herself with expectation of ending things but nothing changes powers wise in the outside world because it wasn't for the right reason. Her understanding misconstrued because Stephenson had been keeping her in the dark about the way society worked and the pillars weren't properly able to help her understand the real world before she went off "half-cocked" to her decision out of emotion but whatever she did to sacrifice herself caused instead a metamorphosis/evolution (no longer the Page of Pentacles, instead the Page of Swords comes back). When she comes back she has greater understanding, more strength, more power and is better able to do what she was supposed to in the first place but Stephenson stunted her in the hopes of bending her to his purpose.
- Back to the Oracle reading.
Kieran=The Lamp (remembrance)
? = Winter (sacredness of pausing)
Relationship = The Underworld (where all things pause and begin)
Kieran as the lamp is a becon to lead her and may reflect someone she hopes for in a sense "her William" as far as she thinks.
Winter is a time of change but being afraid, preparing for a rebirth,
Underworld is sacfificing for a future life.
Mags vs. "the girl"
Megs = Witch (earthly weaver of worlds)
? = Wise seeing, wise action.
Relationship = Winter (sacredness of pausing)
Mags - others are threatened by your growing power but don't be discouraged you can heal things.
? needs wise council before acting. Needs to think logically and not emotionally.
In their relationship Mags must help ? to accept that change is necessary for growth. Things remain strained though until ?'s reawakening.
Then we decided to look for the Carver because they weren't mentioned during the regression, only the Dave equivalent and the Teague equivalent (K's life) and the Wuornos equivalent came up so we did.
Carver vs. Mags.
Carver = Trick or Treat (mischief and play)
Mags = Skull of Darkness (blind spot)
Relationship = Night song (hidden talents)
The Carver is wound very tight and can't let anything go especially to relax.
Then we did some die rolls about them.
Carver is female, older than Kieran, older than Mike (Deveraux/Dave equiv who is 32) but not by much. Works for watch (crit yes 4/100), conflicted about their work (crit no 96/100), but that is denial talking. Not exactly working against the watch (49/100).
Kieran knows the Carver (17/100).
Carver is chick who in game was called Allison Gallagher, one of the Watch members who is sent to clean up after Kieran does his work. She does not know she is the Carver but the Watch suspects. She has manifested a few powers but not The Big One.
Back to reading:
Mags cards, blind spots happen because of pre-existing opinions about the Watch and attitudes, this shouldn't be done this way just because it always etc.
Mags must convince Alli to embrance the power she has as a pillar and make her own decisions but at the same time not act out of her own prejudice. There's also a good bit of "why do you trust KENNICK with this but not me?" and Alli bias against Kennick because the Watch has a bit of boogeyman thing about him and Alli has seen things Kennick has done.
Kennick being what the Watch knows Kieran as.