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[bedlamsbard]

...dude, I'm not even going to ask how Edmund knows how to read tarot cards. (Narnian tarot cards at that, and he's not even reading from a tarot deck, just a regular deck of cards. Anyone on my flist read tarot cards?)

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[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Could you tell me what the actual process of tarot is? Or what a reading might sound like? Because I really don't know, and the Internet is confusing.

[reni-m.livejournal.com]

Well, there are tons of different ways of reading the cards but my favorite way is through the Celtic Cross spread.
http://www.learntarot.com/ccross.htm
The website explains pretty well which each card is supposed to mean when it is in a certain spot in the spread.
When it comes down to the cards there are the Major Arcana, Wands (or rods), cups, pentacles (or coins), and swords. When it comes to the wands, cups, pentacles, and swords you will find an Ace - King like a standard deck of cards, but instead of a Jack you will have a Knight and Page. Also, each card has its own meaning.
I totally suggest Wikipedia to see what the cards look like. The illustrations are really cool and are also influential in a reading.

I know that is vague but if you have any specific questions I'll try my best to answer them.

[reni-m.livejournal.com]

Oh I realized you wanted to know how a reading goes. lol.

Usually when I start I take out the card that is most similar to me. These cards are always taken from Page, Knight, Queen, and King. For example my card is the Page of Cups (only women can be queens, men can only be kings, both can be knights and pages).
Then laying out 'my' card I start to shuffle the deck. While shuffling you have the cards face down. While mixing them around you ask your question out loud or to yourself, but you always focus on the question. When the deck feels 'right' you take them into your left hand split it into three piles with your left hand dropping off a little pile from the bottom starting right and ending to the left. Repile the 3 sections into a single deck by taking the rightest pile and placing it on top the next left pile and then the last left pile. Now you're ready to spread the cards.
If someone is reading for you make sure they recieve the deck the way it was facing you or the reading will not be correct.
When taking the cards off the deck you flip them to the side so the card doesn't give the wrong meaning. Upsidedown and rightside up matters in tarot.
At this point you can do any spread and as I said before my favorite is the Celtic Cross.
Hope this helps!

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Man, if anyone who actually knows anything about tarot reads this scene, they're going to laugh at me...oh, well, fantasy.

Thank you muchly!

[reni-m.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. I love reading whatever you write so even if it's all messed up it's Peter and Edmund.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Actually, if you don't mind, let me put up the scene so that you can tell me if it even fakes making sense or not?

[reni-m.livejournal.com]

alright, I can tell ya if it sounds legit.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

(As one can probably tell, I made up all the suits. *rolls eyes*)


On a whim, he spreads out the first seven cards on the top of the deck face-down in front of Peter. It's not a reader's deck like Gaesa Ganting taught him on, but she'd also taught him how to read from any deck of cards.

Peter eyes him warily. "I'd forgotten you did that," he says, suddenly uneasy. "Second from the left," he adds, reluctantly, and Edmund flips the card over.

"Three of Axes," he says after a minute where he has to stop and count cards, comparing the deck in front of him to the one he'd learned on. "War and conflict."

"I could have told you that," Peter grumbles. "Third from the right."

"Maiden of Stones," Edmund says. "That's subtle," he adds sarcastically. "Any reason you're so jumpy? You never used to care?"

"Things change," Peter says again. "First on the right. Ossian and I and some of the 'Hawks went out one night, when we were over the border in Salicar. There was a bone reader there."

"Nine of Stars -- er, that's the, er --" he racks his brain, trying to remember. "That's the Broken Castle. What did your Salican bone reader say?"

"Second on the right," Peter says, and runs a hand distractedly through his hair, the flicker of light in the lanterns glinting off his signet ring. "Betrayal," he says at last. "She said I'd be betrayed and my house destroyed -- but that I'd live forever. It didn't make any sense at the time."

"Seldom does," Edmund notes. "Ace of Ships. That's a journey, I think. Did you believe her?"

Peter drums his fingers on the table, expression uneasy. "Not at the time. Now, though...fourth from the right."

"Six of Arrows -- that's the Widow. Why now and not before?"

He shrugs. "Does it matter? First on the left."

"King of Axes. If I didn't think it didn't matter, I wouldn't have asked."

"You're the one who believes in this stuff, not me," Peter says. "That I remember."

Edmund turns over the last card. "Seven of Stones," he says. "The Felon --"

Peter puts his hand down over the cards. "I don't want to know," he says firmly. "I've had my future foretold often enough before, and I'd rather not know."

[reni-m.livejournal.com]

I like this alot, and on the tarot front sounds like a good Narnia spread to me. <-- there are just so many ways of reading the cards. By the way, I love how Peter already knows the cards he wants unfolded first.
Passes my inspection if that has any credit to it. lol.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

YAY. Thank you muchly!