hocus pocus?
It was just friday when I went to a friend's company christmas party. At the party as expected, good food and good entertainment. Among the various entertainments, this year they also have hired a fortune teller whom you can request for either a palm reading or a tarot card reading. Since I have never had any sort of reading done before, and I do consider myself some what of s a skeptic of these things. I simply couldn't resist, decided to stand on the and very slow moving line to see what comes out of it. We were of course the last two for the evening.

After that seem like an eternity of waiting, it was finally our turn. My friend, decided to have his palm read. And the fortuneteller read him like a book, and pointed out some interesting focuses.. Perhaps she was just good at reading people? But all she have asked him was his palm, and his birthdate. Amusing indeed.

Now comes my turn. The procedure was the same, reading my palm with her lighted magnifying glass and started to describe what she had read. I'll skip the next part as it is just a tad cheesy, and rather embarrassing. So fast forwarded passing that part, and on to the "srs business". The fortuneteller said, I have a very philosophical thing to address to, and it is best to be answered by the cards.

She begin by asking me to shuffle what appears to be a Rider-Waite tarot deck, and make sure I ask the cards in my head. My thoughts and concerns were the viability of my endeavor of Oneesan, and the lolita community's future. Then she asked me to separate the cards into 3 piles, and proceed to flip the first card of each of the piles. the results were The Magician, Temperance, and The Hangman. (Same card from a slightly different deck)

What was interesting that all the cards dawn were from the Major Arcana of the deck, and nothing from the Minor Arcana. The interpretation from the fortuneteller was leading with the Magician, which means the power/ability to make it happen is within me. It is supported by Temperance, which means it is balanced/ sound, supported , and will be unification. Finally The Hang Man, means in order for this to all come to fruition, seeing things from a different point of view and perspective. I must also work for my philosophy to be successful, and it will be because of the prior two cards.

It certainly a little bit more that I expected. I remain to be uncertain with rather or not is is hocus pocus, or she is just good at reading people. Nonetheless it is interesting, and some what encouraging to hear. I am compelled to ponder about how some people, in particular the japanese often are very much into this stuff. It is often that much respect, and money are paid to a good fortuneteller to steer their futures.
hocus pocus?