>> I love love love love love doing stuff with symbolic systems like tarot, <<
In that case, look around at different readings. A 3-card reading can be: Past / Present / Future Character A / Character B / Their Relationship Home / Job / Church ... or pretty much any set of 3 things.
But if you move to a longer one, like Celtic Cross, it basically tells you a story. Which you could then write.
>> even if I have long lost my aptitude for doing readings and am a pretty thorough skeptic despite believing in the power of spells and divination to serve as mundane catalysts for focus and self-reflection. <<
Pretty much all divination systems can work for purposes of insight. Tarot is pretty good for that.
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Date: 2020-01-06 07:19 am (UTC)In that case, look around at different readings. A 3-card reading can be:
Past / Present / Future
Character A / Character B / Their Relationship
Home / Job / Church
... or pretty much any set of 3 things.
But if you move to a longer one, like Celtic Cross, it basically tells you a story. Which you could then write.
>> even if I have long lost my aptitude for doing readings and am a pretty thorough skeptic despite believing in the power of spells and divination to serve as mundane catalysts for focus and self-reflection. <<
Pretty much all divination systems can work for purposes of insight. Tarot is pretty good for that.