Using the cards to find lost things

nisaba said:

I haven't played it for a couple of month, but when I was playing regularly it went like this:

One person, the one who won the last round, gets to hide a real object in their home, that is, physically take a thing out of its normal place and put it somewhere else. The rest of us get to use our Tarot decks to work out two things: what the object is, and where it has been placed.

Me, I found one particular deck to be very good at it. I'd pull two cards, one for "what" and one for "where". And I wouldn't think about the meaning of the cards at all, but I'd look at details: the kinds of scenes, objects shown in the card, and occasionally the meaning. Then we'd write our thoughts back, and hte person who had hidden the object would say "warm" or "cool" to indicate if we were heading in the right direction.

After playing that game for a while, it takes fewer and fewer guesses, especially with decks that don 't mind a bit of casual fun. A while after I stopped playing (for want of time, not because I wasn't interested), someone here PMed me in great distress, having lost their grandmother's necklace. I pulled a where card only, since I already knew what, and they looked where I suggested, and drew a blank. So I pulled another card, and bearing in mind the previous card as well as the new ones, suggested some other stuff. The necklace was found.

More recently, a friend of mine who's only dimly Tarot-aware and certainly isn't Aeclectic-aware, lost her car-keys, and because she and her partner were at war, needed to find them again before he found out. I pulled the Star. I couldn't think of anything except "look in the place you most often go in the early evening". She found the key-ring stuffed under the cushions of the lounge where she liked to sit and watch the news of an evening. That was on a first guess.

That game is *very* good at getting you in-tune with how your deck communicates ordinary stuff, something none of us should ever be high-and-mighty enough to ignore.

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Celtictarot said:

I used my Harmonious tarot and I kept getting the hanged man? I lost my headphones and been unable to find them!

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seven stars said:

Alright I'm giving this a shot....my daughter is frantic looking for her ipod. BRB.

6 of cups....in her sister's room? with something she used when she was little? an old craft? With a bunch of cups? there are flowers in the cups, it's got a house in the background......2 kids....hmmm...

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Jenny_writer said:

Tell her to calmly sit down and retrace her steps. The six of cups suggests (to me) that perhaps her memory will tell her where it is.

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Gloria Jean said:

I was going crazy one day looking for my car keys. I'm good at loosing them. I decided to see if the tarot could be of some help in finding them. I picked up the deck and demanded to know where my car keys were. (LOL) It was a three card reading.

The cards implied that I was being lazy and disorganized and that was the reason I misplaced things. (I was being preached at by the cards.) I acknowledged that advice and once again asked where my car keys were.

In my mind I was thinking: "How stupid is this. How can a deck of cards tell me where something is? I'm just wasting my time."

The readings meant pretty much nothing as I stared at them, and I did three readings... nothing came to mind. But then I took note that in every reading the page of wands had shown up.

Now when a card's traditional meaning tells you nothing, I had read that you should just look at the picture and ignore the traditional meaning. On that page of wands (my former deck) there was a lot of darkness and a candle. Since the card had shown up three time out of three I knew that was the card with the answer, but I got nothing. I got frustrated and just decided to give up and I grabbed all of the cards and started putting them back and while doing that the page of wands flipped out of the deck.

Four out of four. That did it. That was my card. I studied it carefully. It's dark, and there is a candle. That is what stood out to me. My car keys were in a dark place .... where I kept ... candles?

Then I remembered a drawer next to my computer where I kept candles because one night the lights had gone out so I put candles and matches in there. I went to that drawer, and low and behold, there were my car keys.

I think the answer is there, but sometimes we just don't see it.

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junkyardmystic said:

Do you think you might have just projected what your subconscious already knew on that particular card?

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