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fun with tarot and dead cats!
Jan. 14th, 2006 07:44 amI have a dead cat!
Uh, not really dead. Just a stuffed black cat that Brady bought at Halloween USA months ago, then brought to Mage tonight for me to use as a familiar, and I ended up keeping it. It's great. It has these staring red eyes and its mouth is open and yowling, and it looks either very angry or very surprised. Its name is Rufus, of course. How could it be anything else?
This will have to do until I get a real, live cat of my own. It's so soft, I swear. (Not really, since it's just very soft fur covering a hard plastic shell.) And the tail is broken off. I'm sleeping with it tonight. Technically, I have to give it back in a couple of weeks, so it's not really mine unless he decides that I am, in fact, allowed to keep it...but still.
Brady was actually going to buy me a Cthulhu plushie, before I explained to him that I didn't really want to go out with him. (He ended up buying one for a girl in his computer class instead.) I feel that a Cthulhu plushie is really a very romantic gift. No, really, it is. A dead cat is far more satisfactory in an entirely Platonic way. Just to make sure, I'm bringing my Santeria candle (did you know that large chain grocery stores sell semi-occult paraphenalia? I didn't!) to next game. Going to try to convince him to accept it in trade for Rufus, if he allows me to keep him, which seems likely. Even if he doesn't, I can always use it as a prop in case someone decides they want to call up a spirit. Will ask the Storyteller about extra points for props.
A new-ish player called Rose brought her tarot cards to the game. This is the second time anyone's brought a tarot deck to game, not for props, just because, and both times it's been Aleister Crowley's Thoth deck. I happen to like this deck a lot, for very shallow reasons. Is it because I, as a tarot fan, think the deck is well-organized and meaningful? How should I know! Is it because I admire Aleister Crowley's philosophy, or that of the Book of Thoth, which he wrote and based the deck upon? Not particularly! Is it because I think it has special occult resonance? Heck no! Is it because the designs are gorgeous? Yes. Even if I never used this deck for divination, therapeutic, or parlor game purposes, I'd still like to carry it around in my purse as portable art.
Best 3 scans I could find online.
I'm saving up to buy a copy, if I find a place in Michigan that sells them. Border's near me sells tarot cards, but not this deck--I checked over vacation.
Anyway, she offered to give me a reading, seeing as how I spent about a half hour of pre-game setup poring through her cards and going, "Oooh, I like this one. What does it mean? Never mind, it's pretty." And read for me she did, at Shoney's afterwards.
Reading says: I'm torn between two paths. One path is the Fool, which signifies activity and the start of a journey. That path leads to a bunch of cards with some very linear, boxy designs, which didn't appeal to me at all. I believe Rose mentioned something about communication, and how if I went this path, I would grow as a person, but would not accomplish what I thought I would by setting out on the journey, and might be very sorry for it.
The other path was...I can't remember the card, but it signified personal growth without external change; the internal change, discovery of my own power, would be much more potent in this case (as signified by the card on the end) without distraction of said disastrous journey.
There were some other cards that didn't involve fate, merely things I had to consider. (It was not the traditional Celtic or Gypsy draw, had different meanings as well as shape.) Apparently, things I will have to consider in the future involve Love. Specifically, since the card was paired with another card that it did not like, it meant destructive, disappointing, consuming love.
I hope not.
Uh, not really dead. Just a stuffed black cat that Brady bought at Halloween USA months ago, then brought to Mage tonight for me to use as a familiar, and I ended up keeping it. It's great. It has these staring red eyes and its mouth is open and yowling, and it looks either very angry or very surprised. Its name is Rufus, of course. How could it be anything else?
This will have to do until I get a real, live cat of my own. It's so soft, I swear. (Not really, since it's just very soft fur covering a hard plastic shell.) And the tail is broken off. I'm sleeping with it tonight. Technically, I have to give it back in a couple of weeks, so it's not really mine unless he decides that I am, in fact, allowed to keep it...but still.
Brady was actually going to buy me a Cthulhu plushie, before I explained to him that I didn't really want to go out with him. (He ended up buying one for a girl in his computer class instead.) I feel that a Cthulhu plushie is really a very romantic gift. No, really, it is. A dead cat is far more satisfactory in an entirely Platonic way. Just to make sure, I'm bringing my Santeria candle (did you know that large chain grocery stores sell semi-occult paraphenalia? I didn't!) to next game. Going to try to convince him to accept it in trade for Rufus, if he allows me to keep him, which seems likely. Even if he doesn't, I can always use it as a prop in case someone decides they want to call up a spirit. Will ask the Storyteller about extra points for props.
A new-ish player called Rose brought her tarot cards to the game. This is the second time anyone's brought a tarot deck to game, not for props, just because, and both times it's been Aleister Crowley's Thoth deck. I happen to like this deck a lot, for very shallow reasons. Is it because I, as a tarot fan, think the deck is well-organized and meaningful? How should I know! Is it because I admire Aleister Crowley's philosophy, or that of the Book of Thoth, which he wrote and based the deck upon? Not particularly! Is it because I think it has special occult resonance? Heck no! Is it because the designs are gorgeous? Yes. Even if I never used this deck for divination, therapeutic, or parlor game purposes, I'd still like to carry it around in my purse as portable art.
Best 3 scans I could find online.
I'm saving up to buy a copy, if I find a place in Michigan that sells them. Border's near me sells tarot cards, but not this deck--I checked over vacation.
Anyway, she offered to give me a reading, seeing as how I spent about a half hour of pre-game setup poring through her cards and going, "Oooh, I like this one. What does it mean? Never mind, it's pretty." And read for me she did, at Shoney's afterwards.
Reading says: I'm torn between two paths. One path is the Fool, which signifies activity and the start of a journey. That path leads to a bunch of cards with some very linear, boxy designs, which didn't appeal to me at all. I believe Rose mentioned something about communication, and how if I went this path, I would grow as a person, but would not accomplish what I thought I would by setting out on the journey, and might be very sorry for it.
The other path was...I can't remember the card, but it signified personal growth without external change; the internal change, discovery of my own power, would be much more potent in this case (as signified by the card on the end) without distraction of said disastrous journey.
There were some other cards that didn't involve fate, merely things I had to consider. (It was not the traditional Celtic or Gypsy draw, had different meanings as well as shape.) Apparently, things I will have to consider in the future involve Love. Specifically, since the card was paired with another card that it did not like, it meant destructive, disappointing, consuming love.
I hope not.
