Tarot reading

Back in my room to collect my sword and cloak, I decided I had just enough time to try a fast tarot reading. Of course urgency and apprehension make the worst possible state of mind to obtain a clear augury, so I should not have been surprised that the results seemed very mixed at first glance. Some cards made sense, others did not. I tucked them away in my memory and the deck under my pillow, then went to tell Giorgio it was time to go. 

He pulled a face. I can t. The other three lines work out, so keep it in mind. And your two tarot readings. Revisit those for me. ... 

I probably blinked like an owl. Tmmp XX is Judgment, of course, the card my tarot reading had used to represent my helper. The cat had helped me several times and died for its pains, but that was the only resemblance I could see to the trump. 

There is more than one way to reverse an emperor. Tell me again about your tarot reading last night. ... 

Tarot is limited in scope because it is restricted to seventy-eight cards, and only thirty-eight have pictures on them. The numbered cards can drop hints, of course, such as the three of swords to represent the state inquisitors, but the more pictures that turn up, the more explicit the reading. Although mine had been all in pictures, I could make very little sense of it. 

Which brought me to the most confusing card of the tarot deck. The top card of my spread had been trump number two, the Popess. Violetta s reading had shown the same card reversed as the snare to avoid, and here it had shown up again in mine, upright, showing the objective or solution. 

Nostradamus pretends that tarot is childish and overrated, but I suspect that s because it works better for me than it does for him. Despite his scoffing, he does not ignore my readings when he is stuck with a problem. 

Well, even if we don t count it, four out of five is still remarkable. Very few tarot workers could equal that. Now your own reading ... 

Those interests led me to other areas of the paranormal. Pretty soon I was engrossed in studying all kinds of topics. I learned different techniques for divination, including the Tarot. I learned how to meditate. I took courses to develop my own psychic skills, and I gave psychic readings to others. Everyone has at least some natural psychic ability and can improve it with attention and practice. 

I had intended to bottle and label the reagents I had purchased in the afternoon, but the quatrain s warning seemed more urgent. In search of a second opinion, I locked up the atelier and went back to my room. There I unwrapped my tarot deck and took a reading, laying out the spread on my bedcover. It almost made my hair stand on end. 

I was both surprised and gratified, for I suspect that tarot is the one occult skill at which I can better him. I went over my reading again. 

Resisting a temptation to grind my teeth or punch out his, I said, I tried a reading before we came out. Tarot Old wives nonsense. ... 

As soon as I had shaved, I took my tarot deck from under my pillow and tried another reading. It was no more informative than the last one and I tucked the deck away again, fearing that any more attempts to force it might desensitize it. My tarot skill had apparently become as useless as the Maestro s clairvoyance, which confirmed what I already suspected— that whatever we were up against would not be deterred by bolted doors or Filiberto Vasco s sword. 

Phoebe, from the television program Friends, would love this place. Live acoustic guitar music occasionally accompanied by bongos and tambourines takes place on the weekends. Tarot card readings are available on Thursday nights. 

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