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In the Cards [OWL & NEWT Divination] - Dido Bloom - December 29, 2024
"As you know by now," the professor beamed, "I view the tarot as a particularly approachable form of divination. Allowing us to use our own intuition rather than relying upon symbols... for the layperson, it is far more reliable, I think, than your crystal balls or your tea leaves. What I want from you is simply to learn which card you would most or least like to see in your spread—and, of course, why."
The why was eternally important; it would show Dido who truly understood the cards and who simply saw the word DEATH and balked at it.
"I shall give us... a week, I think, to compile our information. Yes. You may use the remainder of our time togehter today to begin your work!"
OOC Due February 1st
Up to up to 20HP available per assignmeny
Work to be submitted as a reply to this post! Finished assignment should be 50-200 words in length. Students will be assessed on their understanding of their chosen card as well as how well they express that understanding. Unless your assignment is completely and utterly wrong, all work will get at least 5HP!
RE: In the Cards [OWL & NEWT Divination] - Antelope Grace - December 29, 2024
An understanding of the will of the Tarot
By Miss Antelope E Grace
Before I discuss my choice I must foreword it by discussing the nuanced nature of the deck. No card has one true meaning, the order in which they are pulled even their orientation can throw up all different meanings. Let me use the oft-maligned card, Death, as an example, it is an end to something important? A terrible thing to find? However, on this occasion it was preceded by the five of pentacles, a purveyor of financial turmoil, so where are we? Perhaps an end to a debt that has weighed around one's neck?
My least favourite card, would have to be the Three of Swords. This card typically signifies loneliness and loss. This is my anathema, loneliness or rejection is not the way I would like to live my life and I take great pains to fill my world with other people. This would again be dependant on context. I would suggest The Fool and perhaps Ten of Swords along side it. Taking the Fools meaning of friendship and the Ten Swords often being associated with lasting anguish. This could indicate that a long-standing friendship will end in pain and will likely never be returned to what it was.
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RE: In the Cards [OWL & NEWT Divination] - Cadogan Glynn - December 29, 2024
10 Jan 1895
Cadogan Glynn
The Star says that even after things have gone wrong and you’re having a rough time that everything is going to be okay. I’m not afraid of hardship or working for things in my life, but seeing the Star in my spread would make all the hard work I put into graduating with my NEWTs worth it. It means that I have hope of achieving things that I want to achieve, and that is what pushes me to try to do well on all my assignments. I hope that I would continuously see the Star throughout my life, as it means that I would have great opportunities coming up.
RE: In the Cards [OWL & NEWT Divination] - Bonnie Greyback - December 30, 2024
This is an easy one for me, whenever I have a game I always like to consult the Tarot for my fate and seeing the sparkling cloak of that red-headed Magician come out of my own deck is a surefire way to make me smile. The Magician embodies the conversion of spiritual potential into real-world actions. I can think of nothing better to see before hitting the field. If I believe I can, then I will, having the fates on my side only increases that further.
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RE: In the Cards [OWL & NEWT Divination] - Olive Norris - January 3, 2025
Olive Norris
I have dabbled with the cards in the past, not in a search for guidance or in a bid to glimpse my future, but in an attempt to divine my past. To my missing origin the cards have offered no answer-- or, perhaps, every answer. Two cards, which I dread, hold perpetual dominion over the gleaning of my past-- The Tower, and the Seven of Cups. For this reason I must include both cards in my answer. Each card would be troubling enough, but the Tower and the Cups together I find truly alarming.
The Tower indicates catastrophe, destruction, loss, and transformation. Its presence in my past comes as no surprise, for the timing suggests my family was lost to the Plague. The Seven of Cups, meanwhile, is a card of illusions, and its meaning I still struggle to glean. It suggests some sort of veil, which I suppose could simply be the absence of my memories. My childhood is an abyss, to me.
The Tower and Cups together, though, concern me most. The Cups offer a personal origin to the catastrophes of my past. This spread, which haunts me so, claims that change came from someone close to me.