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tarot_scholarFor someone besides myself, I take the question to mean.
The very first reading I ever did for another person was for B at some point in high school. It wasn't a particularly impressive reading—the only thing I can recall about it is that I only used the Major Arcana, for some reason, and that maybe even B had been out with me when I bought the deck (the RWS I bought to replace my Tarot de Marseilles and the deck I would eventually give to her a couple years later). We sat in the upstairs office she had turned into her computer room (it started out as a drafting office for her father, but he eventually became too sick to work) and I awkwardly shuffled the too-large cards and lay them out on the closed lid of her laptop before immediately consulting the LWB.
It was an awkward reading, to be sure: I was a totally novice reader and B was asking pretty heavy stuff that would have been better suited to someone more experienced and mature, both in life and with the cards in particular.
Except for a brief period of time doing readings for fellow members of a forum I used to frequent in late high school and early university (whose average member age must have been something like 15 or 16), I've avoided doing readings for others. My friends know that I have this hobby and sometimes they've asked me for a reading, just for fun (usually—B takes them quite seriously), and I've either made excuses and then grudgingly obliged only to get super nervous. Shaking hands, inability to make eye contact, the whole nine yards. That's why I don't think I could be a professional (or well, one of a few reasons why). I am content to volunteer my services via the Internet if a friend asks, and I can send it time delayed instead of doing it on Skype etc. IN REAL TIME, because nope.
The very first reading I ever did for another person was for B at some point in high school. It wasn't a particularly impressive reading—the only thing I can recall about it is that I only used the Major Arcana, for some reason, and that maybe even B had been out with me when I bought the deck (the RWS I bought to replace my Tarot de Marseilles and the deck I would eventually give to her a couple years later). We sat in the upstairs office she had turned into her computer room (it started out as a drafting office for her father, but he eventually became too sick to work) and I awkwardly shuffled the too-large cards and lay them out on the closed lid of her laptop before immediately consulting the LWB.
It was an awkward reading, to be sure: I was a totally novice reader and B was asking pretty heavy stuff that would have been better suited to someone more experienced and mature, both in life and with the cards in particular.
Except for a brief period of time doing readings for fellow members of a forum I used to frequent in late high school and early university (whose average member age must have been something like 15 or 16), I've avoided doing readings for others. My friends know that I have this hobby and sometimes they've asked me for a reading, just for fun (usually—B takes them quite seriously), and I've either made excuses and then grudgingly obliged only to get super nervous. Shaking hands, inability to make eye contact, the whole nine yards. That's why I don't think I could be a professional (or well, one of a few reasons why). I am content to volunteer my services via the Internet if a friend asks, and I can send it time delayed instead of doing it on Skype etc. IN REAL TIME, because nope.
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Date: 2014-12-13 02:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-12-13 06:15 pm (UTC)I might have to give this deck a test drive at some point...
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Date: 2014-12-14 02:29 pm (UTC)