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::You find yourself at a studio and apartment. It's obviously being renovated but it's usable. Euphie's putting up some mystical curtains, candles and a big enough table to do your reading right. She notices you.::

So explain the circumstances you wish me to keep private.

He shrugs.

"I got quite a few leashes on me, and I don't know which one's the... 'right' one. Or if I need to be leashed at all for what I gotta do. If that makes sense."

Then let's sit down.

::Motions to the table, drawing out a deck, shuffling it vigorously.::

"Ten cards, please."

He sits at the table, staring at the deck.

::She flips the first card over placing it in the center. It depicts a Valentine's Heart being impaled by 3 Swords::

1. The Present: 3 of Swords Upright

The reading's present is defined by a desire to cut to the hart of the matter but in doing so, sorrow, heartbreak, and failing those important to you, including yourself, is likely happening or coming to pass. You fear getting hurt. And there is a betrayal from someone you trust possibly at work. This is a card of "Goodbye, May We Meet Again Some Other Day". It can often also refer to old pains coming to haunt you, but they also need to be release and confronted.

However, you should remember why you started. All this to begin with. What it is you truly love in life. Make sure you aren't escaping from one problem to another. Your own life is important.

If this is an inquiry to your work, it's giving you incredible amounts of stress. The present is pain, pure and simple.

He merely... nods.

"Yeah. Alright. And the next?"

::She flips over the second card.::

2. The Challenge: XIII - Death Upright

The obstacle that lays before you is a great transformation. The end of things as they are. The beginning of a new order. Your life and world as you know it are about to change as the Pale Rider walks into your land. A chapter in your life is over and you need to put the past behind you. You must confront your inner demons and the problems haunting you most severely to let yourself grow into being a better person.

You half outgrown a part of yourself. It is time for you to struggle and embrace the new place in your life. Your new identity. You are a fire, ever changing. You are not meant to stay the same. You are meant to change. You need to shake off who you currently are to embrace a better you.

Death with regards to a career refers to work in the police and military, and also shows up when you need to change your career properly.

This and the 3 of Swords begs you to bring an end to sorrow.

Don't fear the inevitable. Life moves on.

Alright maybe he should've asked for it in a private message. He grimaces at this one.

"Cop or military, huh? ... Yeah, alright."

::Flips ove a third card, depicting three people in a church, with star coins in the glass.::

3. The Past: 3 of Coins Upright.

Teamwork with others. You reached the height of a past career. You felt proud and competent and practical. You delivered what was asked of you. It might of been hard work but it was good work. However, you are now or were being asked to compromise on what you've done. This was skilled work you honestly enjoyed until the moment you were forced to change the path you follow.

"... Forced? Hrm."

He rubs at his temples.

"...I suppose that's... a way to look at it."

Only if you consider destiny real. Anyways, let us continue.

::Flips over the next card, it depicts a noble standing at the edge of a battle mount with two spears. The card is lying inverted to the others.::

4. The Future: 2 of Wands Inverted

Simply put, your new job has you uncomfortable, you feel nervous about making the right decision because if you pick wrong, things will... I believe the term is "Shit the bed" or "Be fucked up beyond all recognition", or at least you imagine so. Instead of being eager with your past work, you're antsy and nervous about your new work. Your strength has become your weakness. You second guess yourself. But guessing too much doesn't help.

You feel exhausted and will be more exhausted if you don't decide. You know what you need to do, but you don't know what is the right choice to make sure what is done should get done. But you're also a team leader now as indicated by the energy of the Three of Coins, that energy hasn't changed. The past and the future of the Two of Wands and the Three of Swords are bound by making tough decisions. Very tough, and uncomfortable decisions.

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Oh, good.

"... Yeah. That's also.. good."

he's staring at the noble. ... they're going to die, aren't they?

::yes because he'll get shot by an arrow since he can't fucking make up his mind.

She flips over a card in front of the previous four. It depicts an angel floating over a lake, pouring liquids together.::

5. The Goal: XIV - Temperance Upright

Your goal is that of the team leader, trying to make people who don't work together, work together. You seek to make sure people compliment each other, and bring balance and harmony. You need to create something new. Something the likes of which hasn't been seen before, and you need to bring out the best of each person in the grow you lead. If you can do so, great things will happen. Your heart will swell with joy. But the best way to do this is through moderation and humility. This card also signals energy from the spiritual and emotional, and thus a sense to trust your gut instincts.

Temperance and the Inverted 2 of Wands imply this might be a successful enterprise, but only if you can solve the indecision that awaits you. If you can't, chaos shall reign instead of order.

Temperance is the angel being an alchemist, blending things together, but in moderation.

Opens his mouth. Closes it.

"... Moderation. Compliment..."

As these things usually go: Get the lead out of your heels Kaz. As the world usually screams.

"... Continue."

::Flips over the sixth card placing it behind the others. It depicts a sorcerer with a Grail, a magic wand, a coin, and an enchanted sword.::

6. The Subconscious & Foundation: I - The Magician Upright

This card is the hidden foundation and subconscious mind at play in the reading. The Fool meets the Magician, the master of all things. A desire that you can change destiny and make things better. He is both the wizard Merlin and the trickster Loki at play. You need to manipulate and act and change those around you into what the Temperance demands. This card says yes, you are doing the right thing for the moment, Mr. Briar.

You just need to convince people of that. By any means necessary. You have all the tools and resources to achieve your goal right in front of you.

... okay FINALLY he relaxes. A little.

"... I think I'd known that, but... What Temperance demands, huh? That's possible. This is doable then."

Temperance is the goal of desiring unity. The yin and the yang become whole, at one, and balanced. The Magician offers the tools to create that balance. He just might need to lie a little and smudge out a few details.

::Places the seventh card on a parallel column to the Magician away from the other cards.::

Now we enter the more specifics of more abstract points, rather with the circumstances of the matter.

7. The Advice: IX - The Hermit Inverted

There is someone or something isolated. Paranoid. Someone who wears the mask of a person but is either mad, or worse, a monster. A loss of reality. Lack of wsdom and mental clarity. They continue to make foolish decisions. The lantern of the Hermit that brings insight in the endless dark instead invites the devil's lies. Worries and darkness consume them, as they spend further and further time in their head.

If this is a person, this is someone with a rigid belief system of the world. They feel completely worthless and lonely. They're needy, and fail to understand the boundaries of others. They are isolated. Over-analyzing to the point they're hurting themselves. They hate and judge themselves, their bodies, their very lives. This is a person in desperate need for a mentor. For someone to care for them and make them realize they aren't awful, and they don't need to bind themselves in chains.

To avoid beating around the bush, I think we both know who this card refers to.

"... Yeah.

I think... Trena and I at least have this one covered."

::Flips over the eight card, placing it in front of the Hermit. It depicts a demon on a hideous throne, choking the chains of a man and woman, both naked, and turning into demon themselves. The card is inverted.::

8. The External Factors: XV - The Devil Inverted

The Devil is Temptation and the Carnal Needs, and the Black Magic of the Underworld. It is the card of darkness, but darkness is never bad. However here it means these energies blocked. Perhaps you find yourself forbidden from indulging or unwilling to indulge. You might of freed yourself from something that had long since captured you. But keep in mind you don't need to become a saint.

On the other hand if this is referring to the hermit. It indicates the person has traumas they're not facing. Buried so deep that they're wasting energy trying to bind themselves down. They're trying to be so perfect, and walking the line so tight they never shine. This is shame for what they really are. Shame for what you really are. Shame of others refusing to admit what they are. Those who take no chances, and never let go will miss opportunities.

This one strikes me as complicated as I get the feeling it's more than just the Hermit's energy. This refers to plenty of outside factors. But it might just as well be the hidden side of the hermit, bound in chains.

"... It's complicated, yeah. Maybe just... what's going around."

He waves a hand.

... ... have I become such a respectable adult that instead of getting advice from the future it instead tells me who to give advice TO?

::Possibly. And that might be horrifying.

The ninth card, placed above the devil depicts a knight sleeping in a church, on a bed or possibly coffin, with four swords hanging on a wall.::

9. The Hopes and Fears: 4 of Swords Upright

You want to rest but you fear the lull of silence. The silence is deafening and damning. You feel anxious, and you feel guilty if you take a night off to let yourself heal and recuperate. But if you don't you might suffer for it. If you rest, you fear things will go badly, but if you don't rest they might go just as bad because you won't be at the top of your game. Rest is the core here. The question is what to do. Do you rest or do you stay up, so to speak.

Stepping back even for a little bit is never bad, arguably, as long as you time it right.

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The world is really screwed.

"...Yeah? ... alright."

Now to convince literally everyone else of this too.

::Flips over the last card. It depicts a cloud with a hand appearing out of it holding a magic sword. It is unfortunately upside down.::

10. The Outcome: Ace of Swords Inverted

This isn't the only future, just the one most likely to come at the moment due to the arrangement of the math. But it speaks of discord. and failure to communicate. The Ace of Swords is the power to break through your current bondage, typically. The stirring of the ace is blocked. A lost memory. The wrong words could ruin everything and people might assume you're the opposite of what you're doing. This is a card indicating a time of lies, and a time of betrayal. People refuse to understand. Refuse to listen.

The Three of coins shows a team that is so competitive they refuse to listen to each other.

The Two of Wands indicates Failure due to stubbornness on the part of the team.

The Three of Swords indicates it's because their opinions and world views differ so harshly that complimenting features don't have a time to shine.

Aaaand he's back to looking stressed again.

"Fucking... really? God damn. Where the hell am I gonna find an angel of temperance though? Balance all this ou-... Oh."

I can check for an alternative outcome. Or more details to the current outcome. If you'd like.

But that means more candy or more money up front. Or anything else you're wishing to bargain with, Mr. Briar. Personally candy and exotic knowledge and items mean more to me than money.

Since Mother has more gold and jewels than could be spent in a lifetime.