Future Tarot

Although this blog has been quiet, Miss Michele has been quite busy, offering private readings and scheduling public appearances.

You can hear her at www.radioxshow.com next Wednesday, May 21, at 10 PM, and at the Business & Learning Expo June 4 – 7, where she will offer free readings and talk a bit about the business and workings of tarot.

Miss Michele also gives readings 9.30pm EST every Wednesday at Tarot Chat. All of these appearances provide free, public readings, but, of course, you can always get a personal Tarot reading from Miss Michele, on any topic, nearly any length, Order a Tarot Reading online now!

I seem to be on a roll with two readings this morning, so it’s time to draw a card of the day for Miss Michele!

Why am I not surprised that the Five of Cups has come up? This card, quite simply, shows my exhaustion today. Not so much physical (although that’s an element) but emotional exhaustion.

While I still get fulfillment from reading Tarot for others, none of my other jobs are inspiring me at the moment. I know this is a temporary, passing influence, but that is not making it easier to swallow.

Miss Michele drew another card to see how she could best get out of this frame of mind. And once again, the Tarot is telling her what she already knows: hold firm and fight your way out of this mess, exemplified by the Seven of Wands. The competition is tough, but I am in a position to win out. (In this case, the competition seems to be just myself, and that artist’s great opponent, “Resistance.”)

So, it’s off to work for MM!

Stacey aka Wyntermoon, good friend, fellow writer and soon-to-be business partner here at Miss Michele’s Tarot, tagged me with a meme. You know that’s love.

The idea is to share seven random or weird things about yourself. Here are the rules as Wynter posted them:

1. Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog.
2. Share seven random and/or weird things about yourself.
3. Tag five people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs.
4. Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

Since this is a tarot blog, I decided to add a twist. Miss Michele will draw seven cards and use the inspiration behind that card to come up with an odd fact to share.

Let’s see how this goes:

1. Ace of Swords… I’m going to share a funny random story about myself for this one. When we first moved into our current place, the cable guys arrived to hook up our modem, cable and phone lines. Since we were still in the process of moving in, we had random thing scattered all over the place. Including several realistic-looking paintball markers and a few swords in my husband’s collection. (Including one that is made of wood.)

Our paintball tank is also parked in the driveway. One guy asks “Is that tank real?”
“Real?” I ask, unsure how to answer. It’s not virtual, of course, generated by holographic technology. But nor is it “real,” as in manufactured from steel. (And I would think this would be pretty obvious looking at it!)

We walk down the hallway to the spare room to install the cable modem. Now, I’m in the house alone with these two guys in the middle of the workday and I catch them scoping the placing out. The same one who asked about the tank notes the swords leaning against the wall in the hallway and goes, “Wow, are those real?”

“Yes,” I say.

“Are they sharp?”

“Yes,” I say.

“Wow,” he says. They continue their work until he sees the paintball guns on the floor.

My response to the inevitable question: “The tank is real, the swords are sharp, the real guns are still packed up. Any other questions?”

2. Wow… didn’t that first answer cover it all? Ah, more swords… this time, the Ten of Swords. Since this is the card of illness and possible surgery, here’s my deep dark secret. I am terrified of doctors. Wrap a blood pressure machine around my arm and my blood pressure spikes automatically. I’m not sure where this came from. Perhaps from being an overweight child and picked on by an overweight doctor but never given any real *solutions* for weight loss, other than, “eat more chicken and fish,” to which I would reply: “I don’t like fish.”

Until a few years ago, I was also terrified of scales.

3. Hmmm… the Five of Pentacles. I don’t necessarily see this card, the card of poverty, as describing me at all. So let me turn this around. Two of my favorite books are The Richest Man in Babylon and Rich Dad, Poor Dad. They have helped me keep my finances in order.

4. The Ace of Cups. I’m going to go for the mundane here: I collect coffee mugs. I have one from almost every state I’ve visited, except Utah. One day, I plan to go back and finally pick up a mug. I don’t know why I never have.

5. The Wheel of Fortune. Okay, here’s something I can work with. I don’t believe in luck. You make your own luck through hard work. I really resent it when I come across something fortunate, such as a new writing gig, and someone says, “Wow, you’re so lucky.” No. I work hard and eventually (sometimes) good things come to fruition.

6. Queen of Pentacles This card, as depicted in the Hanson-Roberts deck, is the card that I always think of as myself, so it’s fitting that it should come up. I hope to have a friend do a cartoon depiction of me as the Queen of Pentacles once Stacey and I revamp the site to reflect our partnership!

7. And… the Star… Since this is the card of intuition and psychic matters, I’m going to use this card to share a bit about how the Tarot works, according to Miss Michele (and only according to Miss Michele).

The Tarot is a combination of learning card meanings by rote and relying on intuition. I keep in my brain several alternate meanings for each of the cards, and trust that the Tarot will lead me to the right definition at the right time. Every so often, I hear “whispers” in my mind that offer greater insight into the reading. Some people are easier to read for than others and, when I read for certain people, I can pretty much ‘hear’ the Tarot whispering the truth in my mind.

When a reading is “incorrect,” it is because I have misinterpreted the cards–not because the cards themselves were wrong. This sometimes happens when I have bad news to deliver and try to sugar coat it. I am getting better about simply revealing the truth at the cards share it with me, even if it is not what the person wants to hear.

After all that, I have no idea who I’d like to tag. Come back later to see if you’re “it.”

I’m starting to have flashbacks of elementary school, where I was always the one to be “It” in tag, because I was slow and fat and easy to catch. Anyway, I guess the five things I revealed about myself over at It Had to Be Said didn’t satisfy Boddie’s curiousity, as I’ve been tagged again.

Kate, over at Finding Boddie, posts:

As lovely as Miss Michele’s reading are, and how wonderful, accurate and enlightening they are, I think it’s time all of us sit back and let Miss Michele talk about herself a little bit. Consider yourself tagged, Darling! Your meme, if you choose to accept it, is to write 5 obscure things about yourself and then pass the meme along to five others. Good luck, Miss Michele.

Since this is a tarot blog, I’m going to approach this assignment with a twist. I will draw five tarot cards and use each card to tell something about myself, my current situation, or my personality. I’m confident the cards that come up will be the information I’m supposed to reveal.

1. Well, at first glance, this first card doesn’t seem like me at all. The Five of Cups indicates emotional poverty, loneliness. Ah, I’ve got it! As much as I come across as a “people person,” I’m actually quite comfortable alone. Large crowds and mayhem make me very tired after a while. I am also much better in one-on-one situations. At a party, I’m far more likely to retreat to a corner and have a deep conversation with one person, even if it’s someone I just met, than to be the center of attention, doing belly shots at the bar.
2. Hmph. Another card I wouldn’t think of as describing me… The Queen of Swords, a cool and analytical woman. When it comes to writing–and mentoring new writers–I can get VERY serious. As an editor, I’m a tough taskmaster. I bet people didn’t know that about me!
3. Okay, the Wheel of Fortune. This card comes up quite a bit in readings for me, and it sometimes predicts the hope of a new car… which doesn’t usually come to fruition. So here’s my secret: I have bad luck with cars! They just don’t like me. I take care of them, and they fall apart on me. Sadly, hubby has the same difficulties. I often say that if I could change one thing in my life, it would be to have a car that runs well and I don’t have to worry about constantly!
4. Temperance… I love this card! It is one of my favorites in the deck. I once used it in a poem. This card warns the querent to practice everything in moderation, which is something I have a problem with. It’s either all or nothing. 18 hours writing or I don’t even turn on the computer. Spending all my time with loved ones, or retreating into the shadows to be alone. Watching everything I eat frantically, or throwing caution to the wind to enjoy all that tastes good. Yup, that’s me!
5. The Ten of Pentacles symbolizes my life as it is now and my future desires. I would like financial security and to start a family. Okay, that’s not an obscure fact, it’s actually kind of run of the mill. But signs I’ve gotten lately show that 2008 will be the year for that to happen! I am a big believer in signs and synchronicity. Another big surprise coming from a tarot reader! LOL

Now, to tag others…
Patti the Wicked! and Miss Virginia Lee, over at I Ain’t Dead Yet.