People read this thing?

Really? So you see a vague and undefined future ahead of me?

So Friday night a friend of my roommate Brenda came over (whom I’ve apparently met several times). Shockingly enough she had somehow been duped into reading this thing, and further more wanted her cards read. Now I’ve set myself several guidelines for determining success in the fast-paced world of internet hobby tarot reading and they are as follows:

1. Instant Name Recognition
2. Get Paid Upfront
3. Get Paid Afterwards
4. Barter people’s futures for cool stuff
5. Don’t Get attacked by your marks

Now, so far, I haven’t been doing so well, that is… until Friday night. I both had a reader whom I didn’t specifically direct towards the website recognize me (ok lets put aside the fact we had met before). I read her cards and she DIDN’T attack me. As far as #4 is concerned she did take us to a party where we go free beer, however it was mostly Budweiser so I’m not sure if you call this a win or a loss.

I think the hardest part about giving a reading (aside from the absolutely massive amounts of memorization required to do it without a book in your hand) is developing the confidence to tell people specifics. There are things you want to say and the cards seem to be indicating but I get nervous that if I say that I will be exposed for the fraud that right now you only suspect me of being. In that vein I tried to a little in this reading but that was probably imperceptible to all but myself. The thing about being a budding tarot medium is that you want to ask the client about your reading as much as they wanted to know what the cards meant, but that would appear unprofessional!

I’ll have to refrain from writing about the results and specifics of the actual reading however… you see there is a strict and unwritten code of medium-mark confidentiality, a code I have been, so far, unpaid to break.

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