LotusSong
In retrospect, I truly believe I was "meant" to read tarot. Yes, laugh all you want. ;x
I was first exposed in the 7th grade when a friend of mine brought this tiny little deck to school one day and did readings out of her LWB. I quickly forgot about it.
A long time later, a video game came out that made a splash in the gaming communities. In this one livejournal community I liked to read (a place where people upload anonymous pictures with fandom-related secrets on them), an end-game spoiler was mentioned for this game. I thought it was very interesting, but quickly forgot about it and moved on. I'm almost certain the name of this game was not mentioned anywhere specifically.
Over a year after that, my mother turned to me one evening and said she was going to drop by Toys-R-Us after my little sister went to the dentist, and wanted to know if their were any video games I wanted. Suddenly, I recalled the end-game spoiler and after a bit more thinking, the name of the game came to me. After looking it up online to make sure it was correct, I asked her to buy it for me. I knew absolutely nothing about the game except this spoiler, but I wanted it.
After she returned home empty-handed, I became obsessed with it. Oh how I burned for that game! The few pieces of knowledge I had consumed me and it was all I could think about. My mother, being the awesome mom she is, ordered it online for me and I simply chomped at the bit.
When it got to my house, I played it for hours. I adored it. At the beginning of the game, I had noticed each main character was represented by a different Greek mythological figure (expect one, who is a Catholic saint). I did research into these myths and was blown away at how the figures tied into each character's personalities and actions.
Much later on, sometime after the crazy school nurse lectured the class on tarot, I noticed each of the main characters also had a different major arcana tied to them. So I thought, if the Greek figures added so much to my understanding of these characters, why shouldn't the major arcana do the same thing?
I started at Wikipedia of all places and the search for answers was hard. So much of it made so little sense to me, and the things I did understand turned out to be wrong later. I grew frustrated. One of the cards I understood nothing about was tied to my favorite character. It was stumbling upon a representation of the Fool's Journey on a completely unrelated message board that helped me both understand the card and made me view that character in a whole new light (this was even before he did something I feel truly embodies that card!).
Several months later, as my mother and I were in Barns and Noble looking for books on forensics, I turned around and saw a display case with some decks. I recognized the RWS as being the deck where Strength was at 8, like in the game, and saw it came bundled with a book. My mother bought it for me for my birthday.
The character I loved whom made me continue to look for understanding, even thought I was frustrated and lost, was represented by The Hierophant. I later discovered The Hierophant is my soul card (I'm still shocked!). It also turned out that the day I received my first deck, on my birthday, marked my exit from the year of Death (where I did I lot of transforming) into the year of The Hierophant.
After I got my first deck (and certain plot events *coughoctoberfourthcough*), my interest in the game has gone from intense passion to almost apathy. I can hardly play it anymore. (I did however pick up the next one in line, which starts with a tarot card reading. <3)
So many random elements came into alignment to bring me here. If I didn't remember the game's name, if I hadn't found that post, if we didn't go into that bookstore, ugh! I feel kind of ill when I think about it. It's going back over the events that brought me here that made me realize that there is less "random chance" and "coincidence" out there than I originally thought. I'm slowly starting to think that perhaps, all things really do happen for a reason.
So, yeah. tl;dr. Sorry, I just wanted to get it all out there for once. >.>;
I was first exposed in the 7th grade when a friend of mine brought this tiny little deck to school one day and did readings out of her LWB. I quickly forgot about it.
A long time later, a video game came out that made a splash in the gaming communities. In this one livejournal community I liked to read (a place where people upload anonymous pictures with fandom-related secrets on them), an end-game spoiler was mentioned for this game. I thought it was very interesting, but quickly forgot about it and moved on. I'm almost certain the name of this game was not mentioned anywhere specifically.
Over a year after that, my mother turned to me one evening and said she was going to drop by Toys-R-Us after my little sister went to the dentist, and wanted to know if their were any video games I wanted. Suddenly, I recalled the end-game spoiler and after a bit more thinking, the name of the game came to me. After looking it up online to make sure it was correct, I asked her to buy it for me. I knew absolutely nothing about the game except this spoiler, but I wanted it.
After she returned home empty-handed, I became obsessed with it. Oh how I burned for that game! The few pieces of knowledge I had consumed me and it was all I could think about. My mother, being the awesome mom she is, ordered it online for me and I simply chomped at the bit.
When it got to my house, I played it for hours. I adored it. At the beginning of the game, I had noticed each main character was represented by a different Greek mythological figure (expect one, who is a Catholic saint). I did research into these myths and was blown away at how the figures tied into each character's personalities and actions.
Much later on, sometime after the crazy school nurse lectured the class on tarot, I noticed each of the main characters also had a different major arcana tied to them. So I thought, if the Greek figures added so much to my understanding of these characters, why shouldn't the major arcana do the same thing?
I started at Wikipedia of all places and the search for answers was hard. So much of it made so little sense to me, and the things I did understand turned out to be wrong later. I grew frustrated. One of the cards I understood nothing about was tied to my favorite character. It was stumbling upon a representation of the Fool's Journey on a completely unrelated message board that helped me both understand the card and made me view that character in a whole new light (this was even before he did something I feel truly embodies that card!).
Several months later, as my mother and I were in Barns and Noble looking for books on forensics, I turned around and saw a display case with some decks. I recognized the RWS as being the deck where Strength was at 8, like in the game, and saw it came bundled with a book. My mother bought it for me for my birthday.
The character I loved whom made me continue to look for understanding, even thought I was frustrated and lost, was represented by The Hierophant. I later discovered The Hierophant is my soul card (I'm still shocked!). It also turned out that the day I received my first deck, on my birthday, marked my exit from the year of Death (where I did I lot of transforming) into the year of The Hierophant.
After I got my first deck (and certain plot events *coughoctoberfourthcough*), my interest in the game has gone from intense passion to almost apathy. I can hardly play it anymore. (I did however pick up the next one in line, which starts with a tarot card reading. <3)
So many random elements came into alignment to bring me here. If I didn't remember the game's name, if I hadn't found that post, if we didn't go into that bookstore, ugh! I feel kind of ill when I think about it. It's going back over the events that brought me here that made me realize that there is less "random chance" and "coincidence" out there than I originally thought. I'm slowly starting to think that perhaps, all things really do happen for a reason.
So, yeah. tl;dr. Sorry, I just wanted to get it all out there for once. >.>;
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