Tarot much?

Last month I got myself a Rider-Waite deck. It's my first tarot deck ever and I bought it while I'm halfway through my eleventh year of practice. I chose it because I'm most familiar with its cards and symbolism, having made use of them more than once in my work.

Some fanatics demand people get a tarot deck as soon as they begin their magical practice, making it seem indispensable to the work. It's not. It won't help you LBRP-ing yourself into exhaustion or in maintaining a constant regular practice. Quite the opposite, it can become addictive and distract one from magical work. So if you want to really practice the occult it's best to do the actual thing instead of wasting time playing with cards for trivialities.

It will help you in contemplating the symbolism behind the cards in order to better understand each of the forces they represent to a greater degree. It will help if using the cards as gateways to astral realms. Naturally, it will help if you want to learn, or become better at tarot divination.

Once I got the deck I blasted it with Air for consecration since I remembered that element is attributed the power of divination in 777. While I could've used other forces, I was too lazy to schedule such a ritual at another time. Then I started playing with it.

The first thing I noticed is how draining it can be, the more the question covers a situation surrounded by many and/or complex energies. I expected that and yet I couldn't help myself from giggling when I was doing a reading about a certain person and began to feel sleepier by the second. Add to that the person in question had been subjected to magical forces prior to the reading and the plethora of forces I was playing with almost knocked me out cold. To get an idea, most of the cards came out as major arcanas, including the cards I pulled to explain the initial ones, despite my having shuffled the damn things until I got bored.

Anyway, I'm not gifted with divination in general, my occult skills laying elsewhere. While I can usually do a decent dice reading, I'm not even a neophyte at tarot. I know the general meanings of all the cards and I can somewhat craft a story from them based on the question, but as with divination in general I'm usually better whenever I do it for another.

While I do my best to get my biased interpretations out of the way whenever I'm divining for myself, somehow I end up spinning the narative to fit my own desires and thus veer away from the answers I receive. I found this is not so uncommon, as I recently discussed with a lady who told me the same thing when it comes to her divining for herself.

Oh well, I wasn't planning on doing tarot for money anyway. The market is already full of flashy vids of people practically begging others to do at least one reading for them. They're a dime a dozen. I simply got the deck for myself as a curiosity and also to check my dice results if needed, or one of my more rare horary interpretations.

So that's that.