Silicon Dawn and Graduate School

[rax]

So I got my copy of the Silicon Dawn Tarot today. (You should all go buy one.) Because I'm having angst over this lately, I decided to ask it about graduate school --- how it was going, why am I here, what am I getting out of it. I realized that rather than traditional tarot spreads, most of which other than three-card draw I've never really liked

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[shatterstripes]

This is a FUCKING AWESOME spread and I am halfway tempted to ask you to write up a quick one-page guide to it for potential inclusion in the second printing of the deck. If there is one and if I can persuade LS to expand the book a little.

[rax]

I could totally do that, and hopefully you wouldn't even get sued by Pokemon if I did so. :P

[shatterstripes]

oooh you do have a point there never mind then. n.n

[rax]

I mean, you could change the layout a bit and change the wording and probably most people wouldn't know. But you'd lose the cool synchronicity and instant recognizability. (I thought briefly about Race for the Galaxy but I don't think it really works; there isn't a specific layout everyone follows.)

[shatterstripes]

Also if you are comfortable making this entry public I would LOVE to link to it on my LJ and on the deck's Faceblaargh page.

[rax]

Cool, let me... make some slight edits. :) It should be public in a bit.

[shatterstripes]

Thanks a ton! ♥

[oath_n_oblivion]

This was awesome - I am very tempted to do this for myself right now. I think the only times I have ever tried doing tarot/palm reading was once on my birthday (when I was 18) and when you read my tarot at the house. It is interesting that these are just cards and the format is arbitrary to some extent but it brings out a sometimes needed introspection.

Where could you find these cards btw?

[rax]

You can get them on Amazon, but they're currently sold out; I don't know of any other places right now, but you might check, like, mystic-stuff shops.

I find it a really awesome way to organize my thoughts, personally. And I have a really good relationship with this deck even though I haven't had a physical copy for long at all.

[oath_n_oblivion]

it doesn't say sold out...weird. well I am probably going to get these. I will totally bite your idea :)

[rax]

"ships in 2 to 3 weeks"

But that's not that long really. And I do recommend biting my idea, it's awesome. :P

[unnecessary_]

This is the best entry ever written. I am going to do this spread for myself immediately and come back here and show you a picture. I love this to death.

Please tell me more about this gorgeous deck I am seeing?

[rax]

I am glad you like it!

The deck you are seeing is the Silicon Dawn Tarot, drawn by my friend shatterstripes and published by Lo Scarabeo. Her website has almost all of the cards --- it's just missing a few of the Secret Extras like the 8 and a half, or the She-Is-Legend, or the fourth fool, which I can imagine some people taking out but I really like so far. (Although the one time I drew the scrawny androgynous cat-thing I had utterly no idea how to read it. Need more practice.)

That's quite the spread you've got there! (I didn't know you did tarot at all, awesome.) I really like the ten of cups as the sort of Final Destination card for you, in any of the decks I know well. In both the Waite and Peggy's deck, water is born[e] in air, but in Peggy's deck it's more of an active process and the style of jubilation isn't so... well, pastoral.

[rax]

(Oh and if you are interested, you can get it from Amazon although apparently they need to restock.)

[unnecessary_]

Thanks!

That's all very interesting. I hope you bond more with Death and cups. :)