Tenth Card
Sep. 27th, 2004 07:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
odd_tea_leavesPerhaps I am mulling too much over this err with the cards.
This last class I even withdrew the obviously cursed deck from my drawer and played out another hand until the tenth card. One of my beloved students pointed out that my Ten-card spread had eleven cards already and therefore incorrect. How little my students know of the cards! Modifiers cannot qualify under the ten! Such vague and distant cards, they be.
The Tenth Card is not something definite, but the end of a prediction wherein the prediction is truly formed!
Naturally I explained this to them, and were met with a room full of blank eyes!
I assigned each student a simple bit of homework in the hopes that they would perhaps learn something of divining. That assignment, for those of you sleeping or absent was thus:
One divination with tarot cards using a sixteen card spread—four rows of four cards placed down with the eyes closed. Plus an additional twenty inches of parchment detailing the spread with notes concerning the probable divine meaning.
Merlin, Morgana, and Mordred…I was in such a fit over the failure of my students that I slammed that deck down and a card slid off the top and onto the floor. When all the students left I picked the fool thing up and accidentally turned it over!
I nearly fainted right then. In fact, I still feel a bit flush…I think I’m going to go lay down…perhaps with a nice bottle of sherry.
This last class I even withdrew the obviously cursed deck from my drawer and played out another hand until the tenth card. One of my beloved students pointed out that my Ten-card spread had eleven cards already and therefore incorrect. How little my students know of the cards! Modifiers cannot qualify under the ten! Such vague and distant cards, they be.
The Tenth Card is not something definite, but the end of a prediction wherein the prediction is truly formed!
Naturally I explained this to them, and were met with a room full of blank eyes!
I assigned each student a simple bit of homework in the hopes that they would perhaps learn something of divining. That assignment, for those of you sleeping or absent was thus:
One divination with tarot cards using a sixteen card spread—four rows of four cards placed down with the eyes closed. Plus an additional twenty inches of parchment detailing the spread with notes concerning the probable divine meaning.
Merlin, Morgana, and Mordred…I was in such a fit over the failure of my students that I slammed that deck down and a card slid off the top and onto the floor. When all the students left I picked the fool thing up and accidentally turned it over!
I nearly fainted right then. In fact, I still feel a bit flush…I think I’m going to go lay down…perhaps with a nice bottle of sherry.
