Is he going to like me? Am I going to succeed in my business? Am I going to find a new and better job? Are we going to get married? 

Its amazing how many people want cut and dried answers to these questions, as if they have no part in the outcome themselves, as if they don’t believe in, or even want, free will. I can answer most of these questions without a tarot reading. Am I going to find a new and better job? Well, if you research the job availability, build a better resume, brush up on the required skills, and hone your interview techniques then theres a pretty darned high chance of you landing that job. If you sit around drinking beer and watching Oprah, chances are…. no.

When asking a question about the future, the answer is always maybe.  Sometime there is so much impetus in a certain direction, the cards will give a huge thumbs up, but even in those circumstances, you can always change that outcome.

I’m always a little perplexed by people who want to know their future but aren’t willing to put anything into their future. If you aren’t willing to put anything into developing your future, then your future is going to be awfully dull.

The tarot doesn’t tell the future. It can give likelihoods, and it can help examine ways to achieve those likelihoods (or avoid them, as the case may be). Witcacy said, “This moment is the only one”. The past is past, and the future exists only as potential. The threads you wove in the past can determine what patterns may emerge in the future, but you have the choice to cut those threads and pick a new colour. (feh, you try and come up with a better analogy this time of the morning). 

Is he going to like me? Maybe. I can look at your star charts to see what sort of potential for compatibility there is, but if you show up on your first date fresh from working at the pig farm without having bathed, then chances are he won’t get a good first impression.

Unless he’s a pig farmer too.

Are we going to get married? This one is always funny. When two people in a relationship approach me asking if they’re going to get married, I get the strange feeling they probably want to. So why do they need my permission? If they want my services as a minister thats another issue altogether. I’ll be happy to join them in holy matrimony.

I’m a big believer in free will, and as such, I see a tarot reading as a conversation between myself, the querent, and the cards. 

Is he going to like me? I spent a lot of time answering this question for someone recently. It was a long, involved reading that examined the astrological data of both parties to sort out relationship potentials, with two different tarot spreads to get a feel for whats going on mentally and emotionally on both sides. I get the feeling all this person wanted was a “Yes”.

 I suppose I could have given the standard ‘happily ever after’ story, and may have even made a big tip for a lot less effort,  but I dont’ work that way. I feel its dishonest and lazy.  I’m not dishonest, and I’m lazy on Sundays. 

Want certainty in a reading? You’re going to die, and you’re going to pay taxes. And nowadays with the many advances in science and medicine, you may not even die. My ex husband intends to have himself uploaded. I plan to become a cyborg.

A cyborg space pirate. 

Hey maybe I should ask the cards about that one.  

People who believe that life is fated should probably not seek out a reading with me. As stated before, believe in free will, but beyond that, I see humans as divine, consciousness as non-local and each of us as creators of our own reality.

I know, and respect the fact that most people don’t have as extreme a view of the nature of reality as I do. I’m very flexible in my readings and try to help people in the context of their own personal philosophies. Which is another reason I prefer to dialogue with the querent. I never do a reading and say ‘the end’. I always offer a dialogue. I welcome feedback, comments, disagreements, questions, etc. Life is not static, and neither is a tarot reading. I’m always happy to build on that initial reading.

But if its ‘tall dark and handsome, happily ever after’ that you want, without being willing to put in the effort of making changes in your life, then maybe you need to see Madame Penelope in the tent up the street.

Here at Noumenal Net, fatalists need not apply.