Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie (Post 10115524)

Kurumi's eyes were locked on the Magician card Eino turned over and found herself reaching out and picking it up before she knew what she was doing. “Be given a vision,” she repeated looking at the card. She hadn’t really been having any dreams lately, but perhaps the vision was not referring to that sort of vision. Perhaps this vision was in the literal sense as in the picture of her father under a different name she had found in the library. “I think that’s exactly it,” Kurumi nodded. “Most importantly, the Magician card stands for the "reveal" - as in a magic trick,” Kurumi read from the textbook.” Emphasis on NEW. When the Magician card appears, the Querent is likely to say: "Now there's an idea! Why didn't I think of that before?" Truth is, the Querent had that idea in his head all along. The Magician merely revealed it to him. But what will the Querent do with this idea? That's a question for the next card,” Kurumi set the Magician down on the table and felt her heart thumping against her chest in anticipation for the next card Eino turned over.

The Temperance. Kurumi picked up that card next and held it side by side with the Magician as if the two cards were having a conversation with each other. Perhaps they were whispering secrets about Kurumi and if she watched them closely enough she could hear. Kurumi shook her head for a moment. She was over thinking things. This wasn’t logical. They were two pieces of paper with a design on them. Not real living and breathing beings. Still, she couldn’t help but feel that there was some sort of connection. Something that was staring her right in the face. She looked at Eino when he mentioned that she would get help from an unlikely source. An opposite of her as it were. “Maybe this is referring to Mrs. Elo?” Kurumi asked more thinking a loud than anything else. “Or maybe…it is talking about us merging somehow? We are pretty different.” She shrugged. It was true, Eino was blonde and Kurumi had black hair. They came from different countries and their ways of thinking were pretty different yet they were helping each other out a lot.

Eino flipped over the next card and Kurumi groaned before she knew the meaning of it. Recent past and her being a fool, well that certainly did not sound good. She had been pretty blind as a child, ignoring all the hints that were obviously put in front of her, and she was paying for that innocence now. “That card is spot on,” she found picking it up and laying it next to the other two cards. “I really do feel like I am starting over at zero.” She smiled at Eino who, at the moment seemed to be more innocent than she was. “I am not sure that past is fully behind me yet. I need this Magician card to kick in and show me those new ideas he is supposed to represent.”

All three of the cards were having a conversation among themselves about Kurumi’s fate and they were not letting her in on it, at least, not yet.

Originally Posted by Starbreeze (Post 10116572)

Tarot card reading wasn't easy but maybe Eino should spend some time memorizing their meanings and mastering different spreads, then he could be Amazing and Magnificent Eino the Soothsayer! and he could read people's fortunes to earn monies to buy cat food for Walnut. Alas, he was very far away from that, and right now he had to stick to referring to the book.

"The next card is the the short term outlook, it says: 'This card indicates events that are likely to take place in the near future - generally within the next few months. It shows how the situation is going to develop and unfold, if things progress on their present course, over the short-term.'" He paused and looked up at Kurumi. "I guess this will show us what will happen with Mrs. Elo." He shrugged and took another card from the deck. Flipping it over he saw The Star. "'The Star is a card that looks to the future. It does not predict any immediate or powerful change, but it does predict hope and healing. This card suggests clarity of vision, spiritual insight. And, most importantly, that unexpected help will be coming, with water to quench the Querent's thirst, with a guiding light to the future.'" He read before turning to Kurumi. "I think you can expect something from the meeting with Mrs. Elo, that will possibly lead to something much bigger, so maybe she won't know everything you want to know." It said it not predict 'immediate or powerful change' so maybe Mrs. Elo might not know very much, but just enough to guide Kurumi's curiosity into something much greater. Hopefully, it wasn't something bad.

"Now it's going to be the Present State of the Problem, which means 'This card indicates whether the situation is on its way towards a resolution, or has stagnated.'" Well, supposing that the previous card lead to something, this card should either indicate a positive or a negative outcome. Eino hoped very hard to pick a good card, so it would be a good outcome for Kurumi. He closed his eyes and picked a card. He opened one eye and peeked to see what was under it. The Moon. Eino didn't like this card, but according to Kurumi he couldn't change it, so he flipped through his book to find the meaning. "'This is a card that has to do with sleep, and so with both dreams and nightmares. It is a scary card in that it warns that there might be hidden enemies, tricks and falsehoods.'" If this was true, it indicated that there would be some turmoil in Kurumi's near future. "D-d-don't worry..." Eino struggled to console her. "I'm sure it's not always accurate."

"M-moving on..." He said quickly pulling another card from the deck. The High Priestess. He showed it to her and read its description. "'The High Priestess is the card of knowledge, instinctual, supernatural, secret knowledge. She holds scrolls of arcane information that she might, or might not reveal to you.' This is the seventh card, which is supposed to symbolize outside influences, so I suppose it might have to do with what others know that you don't and how that will, perhaps, influence the outcome of the situation."

Originally Posted by Grrr..Meow (Post 10115492)

Since Lea was new through the whole class she just sat there taking notes. She didn't take Divination at her old school. She looked around, everyone started to pair up. "Excuses me Professor, I do not have a partner." she said while looking at everyone with their friends, while she sat there quite alone.

Originally Posted by Herminny (Post 10115512)

Chloe heard a girl call out she did not have a partner. Chloe had yet to find one herself so she walked up to the girl she soon realized is a Gryffindor just like her and said, "Hi, I'm Chloe. I hear you don't have a partner. I would be more then happy to be your partner ifyou would like.".

Originally Posted by top94a (Post 10115810)

"Thanks professor, I'll try then" Raven say.

now for the reading


Raven stared at the card "it's a Lion, what a coincidence he is a gryff" he said. he continue reading what he book says. but Raven most admire is the woman in back of the lion, she is very confident in over powering the lions. Basically the lion is more strengthfull than the lady, what is that means, he read again "ah, it's mind strength is more vicious than the physical, raven smile", is that he really is.

Raven read the book, "this means, he is likely be unbiased in making observation and prediction or what ever, Raven smile again, he is amused what his reading is true of a myth. can he be as neutral as the the justice will be, physically, emotionally, spiritually --what ever.

Originally Posted by scarsandtetris (Post 10116223)

Charley noticed Professor Bishop walking towards her desk after she placed her cards on her desk, and tried to hide that she was beaming when she told Charley that she had an advantage over her classmates. That was her favourite thing about being, well, Charley. It was her nature.
Always on top. Always over-prepared. Always the smartest. Always the best. Always the brightest. Sometimes I doubt her hand leaves the air during class. She reminisced over the comments her mother told her that teachers had made to her about her daughter. Of course, Nathaniel said them sarcastically back to her consistently, but Charley knew it was worth it.
"Thank you, Ma'am," she said, that momentary feeling of success seeping through her words. "I think I'll just do it myself."
As her Professor's attention drifted, Charley took the cards from their package and began to shuffle them. It proved to be a difficult task, as Charley had not had to shuffle cards since before Lauren bought the family a deck-or five- of self-shuffling playing cards four years before. Still, she was happy Professor Bishop had not paired her off with someone. Regardless of how little she might know, she would rather work by herself than with someone she didn't know, and the only people in the class she did know were quite older and working with their peers.
She picked her Significator, then drew the first card for her eight-card spread: the Fool, and then the Chariot.
She looked into her book for a description of the second:
The chariot is one of the most complex cards to define. On its most basic level, it implies war, a struggle, and an eventual, hard-won victory; either over enemies, obstacles, nature, the beasts inside you, or to just get what you want. But there is a great deal more to it. The charioteer wears emblems of the sun, yet the sign behind this card is Cancer, the moon. The chariot is all about motion, and yet it is often shown as stationary.

What does this all mean? It means a union of opposites, like the black and white steeds. They pull in different directions, but must be (and can be!) made to go together in one direction. Control is required over opposing emotions, wants, needs, people, or circumstances; to bring them together and give them a single direction, your direction. Confidence is also needed and, most especially, motivation. The card can, in fact, indicate new motivation or inspiration, which gets a stagnant situation moving again. It can also imply, on a more pragmatic level, a trip (usually by car), a vehicle - in the shop for repairs if the card comes up reversed - or a message.

She laid it softly on her desk next to the other card, and then pulled seven more: the High Priestess, Strength, the Hermit, the Lovers, the Wheel of Fortune, the Tower, Judgement, and the Star.
Maybe I should have stuck with less cards. Dad always said this was the best spread, but I'm not sure how I'm supposed to interpret all of this. What do these all even mean? she fretted, hoping that now someone who knew what to do would come help, or maybe a friend of hers.
I've been here a week; can I say I have friends already? She made a mental note to check with her mother. It didn't seem like a Henry sort of question. If only he'd butt in now, though. Her successful feeling had faded, leaving her unsure, nervous and she even felt a bit jaded, though she didn't know why.

That's the problem with always being the best, isn't it? When you aren't.