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Topic: Help me and 'win' a tarot reading.
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fatinkerbell
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From: South Korea
Registered: May 2009
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posted December 10, 2009 08:23 PM
 
Now before I get called away to class for the rest of the morning, here is a mental image I want you to focus on, think about, and tell me how it makes you feel, OK : ) This comes from your tenth card, corresponding to career issues, which in your case is represented by Trump / Major Arcana number 16, The Tower, or what used to be called 'The House of God'. In the Rider Waite deck this card is depicted as a tower struck by lightning, set on fire, with people falling from the tower. I think in Linda Goodman's Chaldean numerology number 16 is also named 'A Tower Struck By Lightning'. So I want you to picture the following in your mind ... think of a tower, preferably a modern tower, like maybe a skyscraper. Then imagine a huge thunderstorm above the tower, almost like in Ghostbusters, with huge flashes of lightning in the clouds. Then a particularly strong bolt of lightning strikes the skyscraper and sets the top of it on fire. So while the top few stories are ablaze, people are jumping out of the windows of the on-fire stories in order to save themselves.
Now in your case this card is reversed, so what I want to have you do is play back the scene in reverse in your head, like video-tape rolled backwards:
First see people flying up from the ground into the windows of the flaming tower. Then see the explosion in reverse, disappearing from a big fireball into nothing at all. Then see the lightning go not from the clouds to the tower but from the tower (or skyscraper) to the clouds ... end the image-flow with the dark clouds still gathered overhead. So, what does this reversed sequence make you think of, feel, respond to whatever ... Are you scared, do you find it funny, are you mezmerized, do you want to look away, and so on : )
OK sorry now moi must go teach ... will get back to ya later : D------------------
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fatinkerbell
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posted December 10, 2009 10:52 PM
This just in: didn't get the job. I'm inconsolable!! I don't know how I feel about it yet because I'm in shock! I KNOW I could have done this job soooooooooooo well. Urgh! Well, they don't know what they're missing. Anyway, as I said, I'll be channelling my frustration into the tarot reading for sunshine ... so keep watching this space ... ------------------
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sunshine9
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From: Chapel Hill, NC, US
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posted December 10, 2009 11:03 PM
Dear fatinkerbell,Oh, I'm so sorry to hear the job didn't come through!  It's really their loss, for, from all the work you've put into your lesson plan, it's obvious you'd have been a wonderfully dedicated teacher for them to have, not to mention fun and inspiring! There must be something else intended for you, so don't you fret! You have one heckuva lesson plan to use now for next time, something more to add to that portfolio!  Keep persevering, and onward & upward you'll fly, fatinkerbell! Here is another sentence for you:
"Among the best & the brightest schools in Korea, waited an exciting job in store for unsuspecting fatinkerbell."  Cheer up, hon; things will look up again,
Hugs,
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sunshine9
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posted December 10, 2009 11:16 PM
..continued..Thank you SO much for the efforts you're putting into this reading for me, tink (and for choosing me - I tend to a bit of melodrama sometimes)! It sounds like the reading is a fair bit of work for you, and I really, really appreciate it!  (I tend to capitalize words to emphasize too!  ) I am indeed a woman, tink, you're right, and I have a LOT of earth in my chart.. and 4 planets in Capricorn to boot (in 2nd house too - your description of material matters or business/money matters fits)! So, my mental makeup and personality are somewhat masculine though I'm told I come off very girly girl. It almost seems to some that my insides are made of steel, so the 'knight' might be a very appropriate (1st house) description for me! I do enjoy challenges, and thrive in situations where I'm pressured. And while I usually persist doggedly at endeavors I pick up, I have been shocked at a few of the balls I've dropped lately! The completion card for the 12th may indicate one of my most recent, persistent fears of losing out because I chose the wrong thing to back, or of giving up prematurely on what is right for me before it comes to fruition - confusing times lately. Do you think this reading echoes a sense of who I am, what I may be experiencing currently? The imagery of the reversed Tower card for the 10th seems very fascinating. I am intrigued by it, as it suggests a way of reversing time and events, of being able to go back to fix a situation before it barrels out of control! It seems a positive card to me, something that gives me hope.. Hugs,
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sunshine9
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posted December 10, 2009 11:53 PM
p.s. Hope your day at work goes well today, tink. Please do post in to let us know how you're doing, handling the news about the job.. I'm glad to listen if you want to vent (my email is sunshine9@unc.edu). I know it must be so frustrating, but there MUST be something better in store for you, and it will come along, inevitably! 
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fatinkerbell
Knowflake Posts: 387
From: South Korea
Registered: May 2009
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posted December 11, 2009 12:49 AM
Hey Sunshine... thank you for your sweet sweet words of encouragement. No definately this must be fate that I didn't get the job, because honestly, I know that I was better prepared than any of the other candidates sharing the waiting room with me ... It's so weird! The thing is, they made up their mind so quickly, so I doubt that they actually read through my 40 page lesson plan, and moreover, they hardly gave me any time to finish my teaching demonstration so I really really feel that I was unfairly judged so it must mean the gremlins of destiny were messing with their minds. I mean really! I feel EXACTLY the way I felt when I heard Susan Boyle didn't win Britain's got Talent, you know? I mean, everyone was raving over her, and in fact she really really has an extraordinary gift, but ... there you go, for some mysterious reason, she didn't win! Well, life is unfair, so it seems sometimes, but actually while I've been fretting and fuming over the whole thing an answer as to why I didn't get the job came to my mind. One of the main reasons why I wanted to move to Seoul was that I could be closer to my therapist ... I see her twice a week and usually it takes me like two hours to get there and two hours to get back. Really a mission. The thing is, I really need this healing and I'm really happy with her as a therapist and she actually has a Jungian background too! So I was thinking that maybe this is a test to make sure I'm serious about therapy. Well, like I said elsewhere on this site, I think on 'Is this the job for me?' in personal readings, I have a deep-seated psychological problem in that I am a survivor of incest, and I've never really been treated for it before. Actually it is like the biggest 'thing' in my life ... like a 'you can't see the forest for the trees' kind of situation. The thing about therapy though is that naturally your mind resists it a lot because you just don't want to 'go there' to where the pain is. So maybe if I keep going to my therapist so vert far away in Seoul it will prove that I'm really serious about getting help, and then maybe later help will come come in other ways to make it less of a mission to get there. I mean, basically it's an entire day invested in therapy, because it takes me two hours to get there by subway and bus, two hours to come back by subway and bus, an hour of therapy, and of course usually when I get back from a session I'm sort of emotional and a little bit useless for a few hours. Since my current job has me spending many hours in my office with nothing to do (seriously!) I really have very little time to be at home by myself, which with cancer south node is exactly where I wanna be ... I feel like I've been denied parole!
But anyway, I think maybe it's better because if I do have a lot of time alone I get to brooding over stuff and it's really a drain in energy. So, I just hope my school renews my contract for 2010 and maybe 2011 will be a good time to move to Seoul and maybe then I'll be able to better impress them with qualifications as then I'll be busy doing a Master's Degree in TESOL. The weird thing about me, that I know, is that it takes a while for me to make an impression on people, because in person I might come across as somehow 'invisible' because I'm always sort of taking everything in at once and it makes me seem hesitant ... but once I get going there's no stopping me and I'm actually a very authoritative person! The problem is, people need time to get to know me and trust me as such and it's just my misfortune that most times I don't have enough time to make that impression you know! Well, like your sentence says ... for the unsuspecting me ... there is ... somewhere ... out there ..... THE job. You know?
Urgh ... anyway actually this is exactly why I sort of had this Tarot reading thingy as a plan for in case I get the job and also a plan for in case I don't get the job, because I'm actually happy as a puppy to turn my mind to tarot stuff ...: ) It's sort of a hobby but also let's me take a position of perspective away and above my own personal drama's.
So, having said that, you asked:------------ Do you think this reading echoes a sense of who I am, what I may be experiencing currently? ------------- I think with the kind of reading I do which I kinda like invented by myself and tested on myself and friends and family and unsuspecting people in general ( : D ) is that it is almost like an actual Natal Chart, in that it reflects more than what you're experiencing now ... it's kinda permanent ... it shows you who and what you really are, and if there are things about yourself you wish to change it can be done through re-interpretation of the symbols. So actually it's more of a 'personal fulfillment' technique than a predictive one, and more of a kind of 'personal magic' rather than an acceptance of your fate. For example, everything can be interpreted in a good way or in a bad way ... take my job REJECTION for instance ... [fatinkerbell turns her thoughts away from murder and bloodshed with great difficulty ... ] ... You can see the glass as half empty or as half full, but it takes some work and imagination and you've gotta sort of trick yourself into feeling better about certain stuff. So in that sense yes the reading reflects you but as yet it's a curious unpolished distorting mirror which you may re-paint to your liking. However, what emerges, might actually be your true self... know what I mean?
So here I'm gonna post my first image for you, that of the knight of disks .... then I'm gonna bemoan my fate some more to life, the universe and everything, wait for 4 40 pm to come so I can go home and crawl into bed and not come out, and I'll be back with you again 2morrow!!
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fatinkerbell
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posted December 11, 2009 12:56 AM
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fatinkerbell
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posted December 11, 2009 06:57 PM
OK I'm working out to "Rage Against The Machine" and feeling a lot better. The more I think about the job interview and demo lesson the more I feel I was robbed! But there must be a reason for all this. For me everything always means something ...
... Aaaaanyway Sunshine, the next card I want to comment on is your third card, the Hanged Man. The position of this card is one I associate with mental acuity, siblings, communication, words, and maybe even relationships that are not love relationships but rather just acquaintances and colleagues and so on. The hanged man for me is symbolic of a true martryr - that is someone willing to be sacrificed for a cause because he or she knows they'll survive. In the traditional deck the hanged man, who is hanging upside down by one foot, actually torture! looks serene and even happy. In my experience I have come to associate this card with invulnerability, even invincibility ... Whatever area of your life this card symbolizes seems to be full of turmoil, many changes, many troubles, but you always survive them. So in this reading I would interpret it for you to mean that you are able to take on mental challenges that would leave others crippled, because somehow you just seem to enormous strength of mind. Now this might not be strength of will and so maybe you haven't really exploited it, but I suspect you would make a very good student in just about any field and you'd be able to master any subject you choose because your ability to concentrate is great. If you have siblings maybe things are a bit difficult for you with them? But same thing, you are the strong one among your brothers and sisters if you have any, or in any case amongst friends. You hold friendships together with your strength, and even if people should happen to betray you it would not mean a mortal wound for you. You would continue to be there for the people in your life and in fact find it easy to give them support.
Okay ... gotta get back to my work-out ... endorphins make me think more clearly ... six pack abs, here I come .... 2b continued------------------
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sunshine9
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From: Chapel Hill, NC, US
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posted December 12, 2009 12:59 AM
Omigosh, fatinkerbell, I'm SO terribly sorry to hear you had to go through incest.. I can't even begin to imagine how hard that must've been to deal with, and I can totally understand you wanting to move closer to a therapist who speaks to you and can really help you - can she do this over the phone with you until you can move closer? Or perhaps even videoconference over Skype? And I can also sympathize with feeling shy & hesitant at a first meeting despite having so much to say, much to offer - I'm introverted by nature and used to be way for a long time. I wonder if that is why you were drawn to that particular sentence I'd constructed - that notion speaks to some of us more poignantly. Well, in that case, I feel that you're just waiting to be discovered and it will be by a school that's right for you - a career where they appreciate the kind of woman who prepares a 40 page lesson plan. Those are the kind of employers you will want to work for, ones that understand and value what you bring to the table. The summer before I started college, when I first started looking for jobs, I had applied and interviewed for a couple of positions - one was in a library doing some sort of research (can't remember what it was now), and another was a counselor job at a summer camp. I was so eager and interested in both opportunities, and was so very disappointed when I got turned down at both places. The next job I interviewed for, succesfully, was a summer student job at a government agency! It was a wonderful first experience and a stepping stone that took me to my next job and the next one and so on.. If I hadn't gone through those rejections, I never would've gotten all those wonderful opportunities. So, I firmly believe in fate's guiding hand, feel that your current state of disappointment is temporary, and that you are meant for something much more fulfilling and satisfying.
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sunshine9
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posted December 12, 2009 01:20 AM
p.s. I think this reading totally rocks, by the way and I really like that you can interpret it in a positive light and change what you don't like.
p.p.s. Like the Knight of Discs image - looks like he has a shield up!So, I don't have siblings, but was amazed to read what came up for the 3rd house.. I did just finish my PhD doing it part-time while working full-time over the past 3 years (I still don't know how it happened because I'm not sure I have that kind of focus in other areas I so desperately need!), so perhaps this influence helped me focus & get it done. I can also see the getting-past-wounds with people in my life (Man, I totally don't learn, I'm always hoping it will change - crazy, what?! lol). Hugs,
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fatinkerbell
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posted December 12, 2009 04:23 AM
Hi Sunshine : )
You really are my sunshine ... that's why my smiley's got sunglasses on! Well I'm happy you're enjoying the reading so far .... it's as much fun for me as it is for you ... I should be finished with all my thoughts on the reading in about a week or so (I just can't do anything by half-measures!) Thanks for your sympathy with my trauma too ... actually I'm writing a book about it which I hope can be published because one thing I've learned is that my experience is not unique, and since it's something that's so hard to talk about I would like to be the voice for other who suffered the same ordeal ... Actually I don't mind so much the long trip to Seoul every two weeks ... the subway is kind of a meditative place to be with lots of different energy to absorb ... you sort of become part of an anonymous crowd and I'm getting to like the feeling : )
So anyway sunshine, you can tell me if you a particular question or something particular to focus on, such as relationships, love, career, you know, the usual : ) I can try to sort of go to a specific card and go into greater depth in it ... but anyway I'll try to go through each card one at a time eventually although maybe not in a specific order ... as the spirit moves moi : )
Well luckily I'm in a more of a cheerful mood tonight ... I got a message back from the university, which is a women's university, that actually they hired seven men for the jobs ... can you appreciate the irony? I'm like ... what's a girl gotta do to get a break if you can't even get a break at a women's only university ... like duh??? Anyway, it's actually so funny ... and so typical of the Korean experience which is strangely like being Alice in Wonderland ... it's the land of opposites but actually I like it cos I'm quite the same ... extreme and full of contradictions!
Anyway, I'm calling it a night and getting some shut eye .... it's 6 48 pm but I'm an early sleeper and early riser so ... goodnight and sweet dreams ... or day dreams for you if you're on the side of the globe that's waking up now : D
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sunshine9
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posted December 13, 2009 03:06 AM
Dear fatinkerbell,WOW - I can't believe that a women's school would hire man after man for all those positions - so blatantly sexist! A hex on the interviewers' houses - I like your idea about having their kimchi go bland - or how about their tastebuds go bland for a week?! Well, at least you know the real reason now.. and hopefully there are other places & employers who won't be so prejudiced! I think it's really wonderful that you're channeling the effects of your traumatic experience into something so positive - that is such a sunny Sagittarian thing to do, and I will keep my fingers crossed for you on getting that book published! So, for a focus for the reading - it would have to be relationships/love.. I've had such bad luck in my love life for years. It's not that I've not found anyone - oh no!, I've HAD people to love (one great love of my life that circumstances prevented me from getting together with, twice!, and another guy I met recently who I've been falling for so quickly), but it seems like big, seemingly-insurmountable challenges have a way of arising, that prevent us from getting together. So I worry I will end up alone or find someone only when it is too late to have kids (that is another big worry, maybe even an obsession, for me these days, though I'm trying to channel my thoughts in a positive direction a la The Secret). *sigh* So please do peer into the relationship card and tell me what you see. Kamsahamnida,
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fatinkerbell
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posted December 13, 2009 08:07 PM
Aha! Love. Love, love, love. Well, let's see what I can do. I will look at the card in your seventh house, of relationships (duh, I know!) which is actually a bit grim ... 8 of swords, "interference". Mmm, my Saggitarian spin-doctor skills will have to throw this one for a positive loop somehow. I'm also however gonna look at the 11th house, which is the Moon, reversed... (fatinkerbell sneaks of the that amazing library, Google !! to do sum research ... will get back to you when some more thoughts have popped into my head!) ------------------
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fatinkerbell
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posted December 13, 2009 10:15 PM
Dear Sunshine
After much research and pondering I have come up with a preliminary answer to your question regarding love. Actually as far as research goes I got a bit side-tracked while surfing the web and learned all kinds of funny stuff about stuff that doesn't matter, which is what usually happens if one surfs around without any specific purpose in mind. Well, actually I had a purpose ... discovering the true meaning of the 8 of swords, interference! But I find it's best to let myself get distracted and then ideas actually do come to me. I should perhaps also mention that after that I had a nice nap in front of my computer with lesson 12 on 'repeat' on my CD player behind me. I believe in subliminal language learning, so taking short naps at work for me counts as work. The Korean language is being pumped into my unconscious mind while I'm asleep. Or at least dozing! : D One day I'll start a language school which is basically a hotel with subliminal English being broadcast through the speakers at a low volume and then people can come and sleep and learn English. OK I'm kidding. But what I'm not kidding about is that sometimes I find it helps to let the unconscious mind percolate a bit and spit up an answer. So suddenly I have seen something which is actually perfectly obvious. While I was thinking about the eight of swords it actually occurred to me that your love life is perhaps more accurately represented by the 8 of cups, indolence, which is reversed, and which comes right after the 8 of swords, so it's in your 8th house. Well the 8th house rules sexuality among other things, and since the suit of cups represent emotions, feelings and love, it's a good idea to look here too to see what's up with your love life. Well, it turns out that the eight of swords and the eight of cups reversed are sending the same loud strong clear message. Before telling you this message I'll first describe the pictures of these cards in the Rider-Waite deck. The 8 of swords, which is in your 7th house of relationships, shows a woman who has been blinfolded and tied up with ropes standing on muddy, watery ground. She seems to be surrounded by swords arranged in a circle around her, trapping her and keeping her prisoner. In the eight of cups, the picture is of a man walking away from two rows of neatly stacked cups. His back is towards the cups and he ventures forth into the unknown.
So I interpret these two cards to mean the following:
OK so in the 8 of swords you are like the woman who is tied up and blindfolded and surrounded by swords stuck with their points downwards into the mud. So this is a very depressing card. I mean, this woman is trapped! But is she really? Think about it ... is she really unable to move or is there some escape possible? Well if you look at the pic, which I'll post a bit later, you can see that she's only 'cut off' from the back ... the swords are behind har and next to her. If she were to move forward the path would be open. Of course she'd still be blindfolded and bound, but she needen't stay where she is. But stay she does (and this is of course you ... you stay in a particular pattern of love because you are blinded to the possibilitiy that it might be possible to break out of this pattern completely). Well, one can't blame her, because she's blinfolded and can't see the path is open in front of her. But the point is, if she had courage she would perhaps try walking a few steps forward and then find that actually there is no barricade in front of her. Now this interpretation was suggested by another tarot reader on another site so I can't take credit for that, but to my credit, before I read that interpretation, while I was dozing, it occured to me this chickie is an utter dunce (and i don't mean you, I mean the girl in the picture, I mean clearly you're no dunce! no really you're not!! I bet you have an exceptionally high emotional IQ!!).What she could do is cut the ropes that bind her on the edge of one of the swords that surround her. Then she'd be able to take off her blindfold and escape!! Well, maybe I think like this because I watch too many movies, but it seems perfectly logical to me! Anyway, then I saw that actually no, there aren't any swords in front of her, she could sort of stumble forward. Anyway, it's now just occurred to me that maybe this card is like some medieval version of the traps people wake up to in those horrible "Saw" movies. (Normally I'm a fan of horror but for now actually those movies freak me out waaaayyy too much! I always imagine what I would do and it's really no fun to saw my foot off. I would stay where I was and let whatever horrible bad thing that's coming just come for me. But luckily it is not I who finds myself in this horrible trap. It is you! So imagine that this card is actually exactly the same situation as 'Saw'. You have a choice to eaither cut through your foot and be freed from your shackles and live, or stay where you are and die. The message of this card very clearly is that you MUST try to escape. Even though it might be scary, if the woman in the card tried to find her way out of this scary situation, she would most probably succeed. The eight of cups shows someone walking away from his her or accomplishments in order to go in search of that elusive ninth cup of happiness. The traditional meaning for this card reversed in a reading is that it represent a fear of venturing out and away from your present situation, because you are too attatched to the past, and therefore you're at a standstill. So for your love life to improve, Sunshine, you must NOT wait around like Sleeping Beauty for the Prince to kiss you awake ... you MUST move. Do you ever make the first move in a new relationship? Do you go out to singles bars to pick up guys? Do you place ads in the newspaper singles colums? Do you take Salsa lessons on a Thursday night? How do you meet guys usually? Would you be willing to take a bet on a complete stranger? Mmmm... these are all questions I shall leave you with g\for now Sunshine. In the meantime let me post the pic. (To be continued ....)------------------
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fatinkerbell
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posted December 13, 2009 10:19 PM
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WinkAway
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posted December 14, 2009 10:23 AM
Wow... I just popped in to tell tink thanks for the english lesson lol. It was cool to learn how to do those descriptive sentences. And (((HUGS))) to both Tink and Sunshine. Sounds like you have both been thru a lot. Hope everything works out for you both!
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fatinkerbell
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posted December 14, 2009 08:39 PM
Thanks WinkAway ... you're so sweet : D
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sunshine9
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posted December 15, 2009 12:00 AM
Dear WinkAway, Thank you for the sweetness! ((((((HUGS)))))) Dear fatinkerbell, OMG, you are so funny, I LOVE your sense of humor!! I'm totally digging the hotel idea! And I was amazed by your description & interpretation of the 7th house card.. I had been dreading it a bit, having seen that it was a reversed Swords card, but I love that you could see the positive in that (thank you!) I have been feeling very much trapped in this matter for several reasons, very much like the blind-folded woman with her hands tied, but I see that I can actually do something to help myself out of this situation! Thank you for the inspiring words, tink!!! I'm going to do everything in my power to help myself out of the corner I've painted myself into - wish me luck!
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fatinkerbell
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posted December 15, 2009 12:59 AM
I am actually feeling better! I have another interview coming up Thursday with teeny tiny school in the middle of nowhere, but it might turn out to be ACTUALLY the job for me ... Anyway, this time I'm touching wood left right and center!!------------------
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fatinkerbell
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posted December 15, 2009 01:02 AM
Anyway, just in case you were under the impression that you have now been fully 'tarot-ed', think again ... I've had some thoughts about all the wands in your reading, and I'm gonna get back to you on them tomorrow! You have the three of wands, virtue, in the second house, the six of wands, victory, in the sixth house, and the four of wands, which we've discussed a little already, in the twelfth house. I see more happy stuff here for you so I'm gonna let it simmer just a little more and tomorrow post the pics and explain my feeling regarding your career / work / ambitions in life / stuff like that : D------------------
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fatinkerbell
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posted December 15, 2009 01:07 AM
For fatinkerbell's further adventures in education, go to this topic: http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum25/HTML/000831.html
As soon as I'm settled in a new stable position I promise I'll stop using up virtual LL space regarding my job anxieties ... But really I feel that this is the most shaken up I've gotten in a loooong time and I can't shake the feeling that like huge important changes are happening to me. Well even if no-one else is interested in making an astrological case study of me, at least I'm kinda blogging all this for posterity : )------------------
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WinkAway
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posted December 15, 2009 11:15 AM
It will happen for you Tink! I'm a firm believer that everything happens for a reason. Just keep keeping on and don't give up. The Universe will respond :-)IP: Logged |
fatinkerbell
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posted December 15, 2009 08:00 PM
Thanks WinkAway ... It does all seem to have worked out well, strangely, but this time I'll be slightly more cautious in my predictions. Tomorrow I have an interview at the teeny tiny elementary school, so basically if I were to audition for that it would be by singing "The wheels of the bus", lol. But I won't do that. Fortunately I have some stuff that I made for my previous elementary school, at which I taught two years ago, which I can show the Principal of Gojeong Elemntary. These include a compelling story that I wrote which goes something along these lines:
"I am a cat. I sit on a mat. It is my mat. I am fat." Luckily I find this story AS compelling as stories that start with "It was a dark and stormy night ...." I'm not kidding, seriously! I mean if I think about the fact that I cannot read Chinese, I would really appreciate a very simple story like that to get me started in Chinese. Need I add that very clear drawn pictures accompany the words? Fortunately I can draw. Not like a genius, but enough to get by : )
Speaking of pictures: Sunshine, o Sunshine!! Where are you?? You have some homework for today. You have to come up with a story that matches these three pics in the sequence given:
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posted December 15, 2009 11:21 PM
Dear tink,I'm riiight here!!! *waves* I saw your 'window' thread, and hope that it comes through for you very soon! LOTS of luck with the interview; I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you! So, here is my homework; this one was easy for me to do because the storyline jumped out at me (let me know what you think of my 'answer', tink!): The Three of Wands picture seems to indicate a man who has just planted saplings and is in 'patient' mode, waiting for them to grow & take root. The Six of Wands seems to show a character who has seen success - the wreath atop his sapling/stick suggests that, and he is either leading his army to success, or more likely, returning from a successful battle to celebrate. And, the Four of Wands seems to show a wedding scene - the four saplings hold up a lovely arch under which the couple got married - they now hold up their bouquets (why does the man have one?) jubilantly, as they wave back at their family & friends. So, the story probably goes like this - the individual has to be patient after sowing the seeds that will help him/her achieve sought-after goals and dreams. Once they've taken root, they will help lead her to victory (in the field indicated by the card position), and having come out victorious, she ultimately winds up marrying the man of her dreams and walking off into the sunset with him. That is my story interweaving the symbolism
I interpreted from the 3 cards. Does that sound remotely close to what it probably really means, or is it some fantastic (albeit sickly sweet) fairytale of my imagination?
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posted December 17, 2009 01:34 AM
Sickly sweet is my favorite flavor : D Well I'm glad that the ideas set of in your head went in the same direction as mine: around the theme of patience and eventual victory. The story that jumped out at me was sort of like this:
In the first card you see someone, let's say it's you, who has three wands, or saplings as you call them. And the person is waiting waiting waiting patiently and is basically alert to the coming of something. Vigilant is the word I'm looking for. In my imagination I see a very simple story where what the person is waiting for is the fourth wand ... which gets delivered by the guy on horseback ... then there are four wands and the 'whatever' is complete! Now this is not a traditional interpretation but rather one that I believe I was led to by whatever helpful higher beings might be out there ... I've learned to trust these leaps of intuition even though sometimes they might be wrong. Well, practice makes perfect and in a sense you're still a hamster I'm doing wicked experiments on, because I want to see for myself if this works ... I mean I've been studying the tarot on and off for a long time now and all I've learned is that there is still so much to learn! But I definately believe that something tries to communicate with the reader (moi) and the querent (you) so all I can do is tell you what I think I've been told ...
So, basically, I think this is a very important theme in your life ... it's probably something that has happened before, but ultimately it will keep on happening and eventually it might even be that you are to complete your soul's mission, whatever it is, in this way. You are like the person waiting and looking out over the sea ... this card is called virtue by the way, and I think it can be taken quite literally: it is the mark of a good person to be someone who waits for the right moment and who is not impatient. Basically it's like this: you on your own can accomplish really a lot ... but there will come a point in your work (because wands have to do with working, your job, unlike pentacles it's not the fruits of your labour but your labour itself) where you are going to need something that will come not from you, but that you must wait for. Once this 'something' get's 'delivered' to you, Fedex-ed so to speak, you will be able to complete the project. This might happen only many years from now, who knows? but since the four of wands is your destiny card, and therefore in a way the most important card in your reading, you will feel a deep satisfaction when this finally happens.
Let's contrast that for a moment with what I've said regarding your love life ... so basically you need to follow two entirely different strategies for work/career and love/romance: Where romance is concerned you have to take initiative and get out there and actively look for it. In work career you should do the opposite: wait for the opportunity to come to you and then step into it when the moment is right. So in your career it's okay to be passive actually, as long as you are vigilant ... whatever it is that is the opportunity for you to gain career satisfaction and success, you needn't worry ... it will come to you. ------------------
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