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tarot_scholar(Either for yourself or another.)
No readings, but a couple sitters/querents in particular spring to mind.
First and foremost is B, as you could probably guess. I was her go-to free Tarot reader for years, though thankfully she didn't ask as often as she could. I linked her to my favorite online Tarot reading tool a few weeks ago, so we'll see if that works for her.
The other was a girl during college. She was some years younger than me, still in high school at the time, and was a member of a massive forum that had its own currency, which you used to buy items for your custom chibi-style avatar.. You could earn money by posting in the forums and answering polls, but you could also give other people currency, so people set up little shops offering services in exchange for site currency. The most popular ones were art shops (people loved having pictures of their avatars) and Tarot shops. This girl found my shop, paid for a reading about something (I think a fight she was having with a friend or another girl in her class?), paid, and was happy with it. She asked if she could add me on AIM (remember AIM?) to chat and I said sure, and it turned into a three-month period of her asking for more readings and tips on how to read Tarot herself. Eventually it was clear that she was just in constant need for outside validation for everything, which is understandable in a teenage girl but not something I felt I was equipped to address. If she had been fun or interesting to talk to otherwise, she could have well been a new friend, but all she cared to talk about was Tarot and how to read it and could I draw a few cards for her and etc. I ended up blocking her because I couldn't figure out a way to tell her to back off without it coming off mean.
No readings, but a couple sitters/querents in particular spring to mind.
First and foremost is B, as you could probably guess. I was her go-to free Tarot reader for years, though thankfully she didn't ask as often as she could. I linked her to my favorite online Tarot reading tool a few weeks ago, so we'll see if that works for her.
The other was a girl during college. She was some years younger than me, still in high school at the time, and was a member of a massive forum that had its own currency, which you used to buy items for your custom chibi-style avatar.. You could earn money by posting in the forums and answering polls, but you could also give other people currency, so people set up little shops offering services in exchange for site currency. The most popular ones were art shops (people loved having pictures of their avatars) and Tarot shops. This girl found my shop, paid for a reading about something (I think a fight she was having with a friend or another girl in her class?), paid, and was happy with it. She asked if she could add me on AIM (remember AIM?) to chat and I said sure, and it turned into a three-month period of her asking for more readings and tips on how to read Tarot herself. Eventually it was clear that she was just in constant need for outside validation for everything, which is understandable in a teenage girl but not something I felt I was equipped to address. If she had been fun or interesting to talk to otherwise, she could have well been a new friend, but all she cared to talk about was Tarot and how to read it and could I draw a few cards for her and etc. I ended up blocking her because I couldn't figure out a way to tell her to back off without it coming off mean.
