Divisions and Precisions

Book meme

Choose three books from your personal library that as a set of three would allow most of your friends to guess with reasonable certainty that they came from your house, and explain why if necessary. The aim is to pick books if possible such that any two of the three don't necessarily uniquely define you.

Any of Stephen King's Dark Tower books
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Philosophy

Then choose three more that people would be surprised to find on your shelves (Terminal damage to your street cred is optional).

Any of the Harlequin romances hidden away on the bottom of my bookshelves.
Some really bad fannish biography of Brad Pitt I once got as a gag gift, unless I've already thrown it away.
Erm... a copy of the Book of Mormon, with passages underlined and everything!

Tarot stuff...

Since I actually got a response last time, I'm posting some readings again. I'm a little puzzled. The deck I use most often is the Old English Tarot. It's a nice, friendly little deck. I have several different decks, and they all seem to have very different personalities in their readings (my unicorn deck, for example, is almost violently pointed and straightforward--appropriate, I know). The OE deck is pretty gentle, in comparison. I think it gave me an interesting kick in the ass this morning though.

I did two readings. For the first one I was concentrating mostly on the upcoming move. For the second, my career/job situation. The little booklet that came with the deck uses some quite different interpretations for the Celtic cross positions than other books and booklets I've seen, so I'm a little at sea on how to read some of this. (Anyone have recommendations for a really GOOD book about reading Tarot?)

Anyway, I wrote the readings down, and thought I'd post them here for any insight anybody's got. I followed the positioning set in the booklet, although I originally learned to do a Celtic cross differently.

I always use either the Queen of Wands (Batons, in the OE deck) or the Queen of Cups to represent me as the significator, depending on the deck and my mood. For the OE deck, I always use the Queen of Batons. Normally I do the first card, crossing card, then start at the bottom and move clockwise, then go up the side. The OE booklet says to start at the top and move clockwise, then go up the side. The booklet also gives some different interpretations on what each position means as well, but I don't have it here with me to detail. So, for the two readings, I'm numbering the cards the way the OE booklet does, with 3 being the top of the cross, going clockwise around to 6 on the left hand side, and so on.

1 - Three of Coins
2 - The Magician
3 - Five of Cups, reversed
4 - Two of Swords
5 - Four of Coins, reversed
6 - Four of Cups, reversed
7 - Six of Coins, reversed
8 - The Sun
9 - The World, reversed
10 - Ten of Cups, reversed

1 - Seven of Coins, reversed
2 - The Magician (AGAIN!)
3 - Six of Cups, reversed
4 - Queen of Swords
5 - Knight of Cups
6 - The Chariot, reversed
7 - Knave of Coins
8 - Two of Coins
9 - Nine of Coins
10 - Judgment, reversed

It's not lost on me that the Magician turned up as the crossing card both times. That feels very much to me like the deck saying, "Yeah, hello. Free will? Take that into consideration here." For the rest... I have my own ideas, but I'd be interested to see what other people have to say. Lots of Major Arcana again (for me, at least), and lots of coins and cups, but the latter is nothing new. I always get readings with lots of cups.

So, any insights? Book recommendations?

To quote a friend of mine, "Bloody hell..."

"...that's short notice!"

I talked to my mom this afternoon. We got the apartment. We can start moving in as of this Wednesday. That's right. The day after tomorrow. Clearly, I am NOT moving that soon. There's no way in hell. My mom, however, may be moving in that soon, with only a bed and a TV and the kitchen appliances. She says things with my stepfather aren't bad, just awkward as hell. I can understand that. Hell, I spent a night or two sleeping on an empty floor in an empty house when I was moving away from Hollingsworth, at least she'll have a bed.

So, it looks like I'll be moving as soon as I can find some way to get all my stuff to the apartment, i.e., whenever we can find movers. We decided to hire some movers, it's easier overall. So, I should be packing, but here I am at the library, because I couldn't take another minute in the chaos that is my old apartment.

I watched Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing while I was cleaning this afternoon. There aren't words for how much I adore that movie. It makes me insanely happy, every time I see it. I can (and do) recite whole passages from it along with the movie. I want to LIVE in that movie. Everyone and everything is either beautiful or at least funny; even the pain is dramatic, lovely, and short-lived.

I also, to the very bottom of my geekish little heart, want to play Beatrice and Benedick as sidhe somewhere. It could be perfect! (I'd stick 'em in my Changeling campaign, but there seems to be a lack of a need for light-hearted romance in it at the moment...)

That's life in a nutshell for now, stressed and a little frantic. I guess I'll dive back into work tonight when I get home, or tomorrow.