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Some time has passed so here is another divination offering. If you have a question, I'll be happy to use geomancy or the tarot about it. That said, divination is like weather forecasting not a tablet of truth handed down from above, so take the advice I give you through the reading as such. The conditions that divination taps into are also in constant flux, the same as atmospheric pressure and the Moon.

Instructions Please leave a little bit of background about your situation or, if you practice magic, or are up for an experiment do the following. Take note of the time and place where you are and leave it in the comments. Take a moment to put both your mind and and your body into the present moment, feel your weight, your thoughts and your environment, become present. Perform your banishing ritual if you have one, if not, an opening prayer is enough. Before you imagine a door with a sacred sign for you and the time and place of your location inscribed in golden letters. In your imagination, stand up, walk and open the door. You have entered my private divining room, and yes, it has multiple rooms and this one is just for you. In the room there is a table with a red cloth and a deck of cards. Focus on your query or situation and shuffle the cards there. Leave the deck for me to pick up and you can go out the door, close it and return to your body. Close with another banishing or closing prayer or clap once loudly.

Any actions taken from the information of the readings are entirely the responsibility of the querent and do not replace nor pretend to be professional legal, medical or psychological counseling.

Please noteBe sure to ask questions to which you want to know the answer. Also, divination doesn't always tell you about things you already know about, actually, it almost never does! My suggestion is that you question yourself, especially on things that make you think or flinch if any, and consider the points mentioned from a stance of possibility not of confirmation bias or it's diametrical opposite, falsification bias.

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Thanks very much for the generous offer!

What with Decline jumping out and making itself visible, I'm a bit anxious about what to do, so, if I might, here's my question:

"What do I most need to know about our economic situation?"

Thanks very much, and please let me know if you need further clarification/specification.

Cheers,
Jeff

Hi Jeff,

Thank you for dropping by with a question! I am happy to do so and I've you've got follow ups, or other questions I'll gladly answer them too.

What you need to know about the Decline is that you should not close yourself off from other people. I got a lot of cards saying that you should, firstly, do not let your inner peace be disturbed and secondly try to become drawn into yourself but rather focus on being helped, asking for help and looking into what aspects of community you can bring into your life.

Also, something you should focus on is on the discipline of your spiritual practices.

Thank you so much! The emphasis on keeping up with spiritual practices is pretty consistent with what I've been getting, and I suppose the emphasis on trying to maintain inner peace is as well - as I've been getting a lot of results that say something to the effect "you're not really ready, it's going to be rocky, but you'll learn/be better for it spiritually."

If you do have time for a follow-up, the emphasis on asking for/accepting help and bringing more community into my life is an interesting one, and less familiar from my own readings so far. I'd accept any help on wording this in a way more likely to yield a good answer, but something like "should I focus on my in-person community rather than remote?"

It's an attitude. My cards are telling me that you should try to move some of your unity of focus that is taking you to get lost in your inner world and try to become more open "drop yourself", so to speak. The personality is that, a persona, a mask. The cards are recommending to keep yourself nimble and flexible in your attitudes, judgements and positions. I don't happen to know if this is relevant but "increased activity" is something I get, in the sense of being caution and hesitant about things, but without straining.

For what is worth, my Tarot suggests that even though the coming iteration of the Decline will be tough and might delay some of your plans, it won't be life changing for you. Don't act on panic impulses and make plans for the long term and you should be fine. My Tarot is also saying that you are being a little bit pessimistic and that the way out of it is to quiet your mind and focus on things that make your imagination spring forth. Prepare as best as you can without becoming overly-prepped, plan ahead for this one, use it as an example for the next iteration of the Decline, but don't forget to get in touch with the fun and light side of things.

Hmmm, thank you much! My own readings have had a fair share of seeming doom and gloom, but maybe that's me putting too much on things. So, "lighten up, take yourself less seriously, and have some fun with others" seems to be the general direction I need to take things. Again, many thanks for your time and efforts!

Fun it won't be, that's for sure. But my Tarot suggests that it will be better than what you are expecting. It's a matter of degree I guess, you won't starve and not have a roof over your head.

Exactly, it's the attitude of resilience my Tarot is trying to instill, even in hard situations. Being stressed out is definitely not useful as higher order thinking gets shot off, for example.

And you are welcome!

Hey Jeff,

You've dropped by a few times and wanted to ask you. Which format do you find more useful? The long, elaborate descriptions per card with the picture of the reading or this shorter version were I only post the interpretation of the cards?

Thanks for any insight and for coming here to help me with my skills :-)

I am sorry to have taken so long to get back to you on this, I wanted to go back and review the longer, more elaborate approach before I offered an opinion on the difference, and then other stuff came up.

It's hard to say which is more useful - the boiled down version you presented here certainly got to the point helpfully, and you were still able to answer some follow up questions. The longer form, on the other hand, made it a bit clearer how you arrived at your distilled summary of the reading, even without much knowledge of the Tarot.

I imagine that if you were doing a reading in a system I was familiar with, I'd likely prefer the more detailed one, just as a way to compare notes and learn. Also, if you were charging, I might feel more like I "got my money's worth" with the more detail (kidding aside, it would make coming back to it and re-assessing easier, so maybe there truly is some added value there).

Does that help? If you'd like me to come down one way or the other, I will, but I'm leaning toward thinking whichever lets you more readily get this out there is likely better.

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