Category: Exceeding strange

Tarot reading

Like a busybody, I asked The Italian Randomizer (one of my nicknames for the tarot deck) about the spiritual requirements of a friend.

In the Celtic Cross, and with the proviso that I don’t use a querent (picking a card for the person being asked about) or reverse cards, here was the layout:

Judgement

8 Wands

Justice

9 Swords

King Swords

Temperance

King Wands

9 Wands

King Pentacles

Wheel of Fortune

….I thought my eyes were going to bug out of my head.  Three Kings? Four Major Arcana?? Nothing smaller than an eight? All of the cards well placed, and Judgement and Temperance (two spiritual, winged beings) standing side by side in the layout?

The gloss is – your fears are imaginary.  With the full application of masculine energy, temperance and rationality, all will be well.

Too bad this person is too rational to tell.

But ours is a love that can never be fulfilled….

Full marks if you get the movie reference.

Photo credit Getty.  The little horse is called Thumbelina.  She actually is more of a freak of nature than the big one, being a midget version of a miniature horse.  The big one is Radar, he’s a Belgian draft horse and he hails from Texas,  natch.

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One of the many many things I’m thankful to my parents for…

is that they had a book by Bernard Heuvelmans called On the Track of Unknown Animals, which is about cryptids.  Anyway, here’s a link to a picture from his study in Switzerland.  I read the whole thing cover to cover about 100 times when I was a kid.  It permanently set in me the desire to be a person to see a cryptid, which, unless I get to catch a Cadborosaurus, seems highly unlikely.  Anyway, folks, if you want a laugh, check out what it would cost to replace the book these days.  It’s been out of print since the sixties….

I got the link from dailygrail.com, which is part of my blogroll.