Nathaniel R. Summerby (piseag) wrote in afic, @ 2011-03-28 17:40:00 |
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Entry tags: | !completed, character: lavender brown, character: nate summerby, player: deb, player: l |
Who: Nate and Lavender
When: 28 March
Where: the back room of The Summer Bee
What: a tarot reading and conversation!
Rating: PG
Status: threading
Nate had ushered Lavender into the back room where tea and a plate of cannoli already waited on the table. He sat down next to her, so they'd both be looking at the cards the same way round, then handed her the deck and waited patiently while she shuffled. "Just think hard enough on the question, and I'll tell you the story the cards give us," he said, even though he knew she already knew that.
Once she'd cut the deck and handed the cards back to him, he waited a moment to center himself before he laid them out. He used the standard Celtic Cross layout that he almost always used: the two cards in the center for the situation, and the cards around them for recent goals and activity, then the cards up the side for the rest of it. This deck was well worn, used by his Muggle aunt before him, and used an awful lot in the more than a half dozen years since she gave it to him.
Once the cards were laid, he paused again to look it over. "Hm. For all that you've got a lot of pentacles and practical matters, I think we're talking about matters of the heart here. And the swords you've got are reversed, which is a good thing, considering swords aren't good on the their own, generally. Besides, the central card makes it obvious." He smiled slightly.
"Your current situation is the Lovers, which isn't just love, but also temptation, which can be good or bad depending on what we're talking about," Nate said. "You're crossed by the ten of pentacles. Matters of ancestry or inheritance are taking the fun out of love, or are getting in the way of love."