you won't make yourself a name if you follow the rules

I'm going to do a major divination session on Mon May 28. If anyone has anything they'd like divination on, drop a comment or send a PM or email me at alexeigynaix at gmail dot com. Tarot as story prompts, tarot as plot guidance, and tarot as character exploration are also certainly options here.

I would vastly prefer money in exchange, but I will cheerfully accept an exchange consisting of you lighting a candle, pouring a libation, and saying a prayer on my behalf, on any of the matters of my prosperity, health, job hunt, and housing-situation stability. Or, if you are asking simply for a one-card tarot draw, I will cheerfully accept an exchange consisting of your good wishes on my behalf and/or a signal boost.

(dialecticdreamer is doing a Pay It Forward prompt call today, so anyone who sends money my way can and should go ask for a story from her!)

Divination systems available:

* Motherpeace Tarot cards
* Hanson-Roberts Tarot cards (in conjunction with The Creative Tarot if desired)
* Shadowscapes Tarot cards
* Earth Magic Oracle cards
* Gaian Tarot cards
* Homeric Oracle dice
* Greek Alphabet Oracle stones
* shufflemancy songs (give me a whole number greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 24, and I'll skip that many songs on shuffle on this particular playlist before hitting the one whose lyrics should contain your answer)
* Oracle Bones coins
* Hermes binary coins (the answer will be a strong or weak yes or a strong or weak no; craft your question especially carefully)
* planetary lithomancy (stones represent planets and the casting cloth is astrological houses)
* several decks I am less familiar with but happy to take for a spin:
   * Wooden Tarot
   * Seeker's Lenormand
   * Earthbound Oracle
   * Wheel of the Year Tarot
   * Wild Unknown Tarot
   * Mythic Oracle

Fiber Arts Tarot. Suits are knitting needles, crochet hooks, sewing needles, and weaving shuttles. Several of the Major Arcana figures are spinning.

I am offering one-card draws for free, one free draw per customer, using the Motherpeace Tarot deck.

I am also offering a second free draw (one card) to anyone who links me to their post advertising this, a three-card past-present-future spread to anyone who donates $5 via Paypal to alexconall at gmail, and a ten-card spread to anyone who donates $20. If you wish to donate without a bonus drawing, thank you muchly and please specify that in the comments to your donation.

Donations currently stand at $69.97 as of noon Jul 9. All donations will be directed to the Alex's First Apartment's First Month's Rent fund. Or possibly things like dinnerware!

When donations cross $50, I will give away a ten-card reading to a randomly chosen commenter.
When donations cross $100, I will give away a second ten-card reading to a randomly chosen commenter and also write an essay meditating on a randomly drawn card.
When donations cross $150, I will give away a third ten-card reading to a randomly chosen commenter.
When donations cross $200, I will buy me a something frivolous (I want to say 'pineapple pizza', but probably it will in fact be a book), give away a fourth ten-card reading, and write a second essay meditating on a second randomly drawn card.

Please be advised that due to shenanigans at home, responses will not be prompt. My plan (Jul 7) is to do as many draws tonight after paycheck work as are requested today, relay the results as soon as I'm back on the Internet tomorrow, and repeat if more draws are requested tomorrow. (ETA Jul 8: I dramatically underestimated how much disability silverware I would have after working one to midnight! I apologize for the delay. Thank you to those of you who have donated thus far!) (ETA Jul 9, noon: I have done all the spreads except one three-card, for which I don't believe I've gotten a question though the Paypal comments said one was forthcoming, and the now-six ten-card spreads. I will figure out who won the donations-passed-$50 spread Soon.) If I owe you a ten-card spread (you four know who you are), it is coming in the next couple days.

Anonymous comments are screened and will remain so unless you say in the comment to unscreen it. If you want your card by PM instead of in a comment, tell me; if you want it by email instead of in a comment, I'll need your email.

I am offering one-card draws for free, one free draw per customer, limited to the Motherpeace Tarot deck. I wanted a feminist tarot deck and Vogel and Noble's Motherpeace Tarot was one of the first search results, and it has intriguing differences from the Rider-Waite that I'd like to explore as I get to know this deck.

I am also offering a second free draw (one card) to anyone who links me to their post advertising this, a three-card past-present-future spread to anyone who donates $3 via Paypal to alexconall at gmail, and a Celtic Cross ten-card spread to anyone who donates $10. Donations currently stand at $50.

Donations have passed $20, so everyone gets a free bonus card and I get to buy The Copyright Thing Doesn't Work Here: Adinkra and Kente Cloth and Intellectual Property in Ghana, which I want for research for an article I'm writing about copyright and feminism. Donations have passed $50, so I am giving away a third Celtic Cross reading in addition to the two from the semi-anonymous $25 donation, and I get to buy A Parcel of Steeleye Span. Five folk-rock albums for the price of one! Work is ever so much easier with music, and folk music keeps inspiring me to write.

Thank you to the awesome people who have donated thus far! If donations pass $75 by Sunday 12th, I will, no later than Sunday 19th, start my post series on alexconall going through the tarot card by card. I haven't decided yet whether to go through the deck in an organized manner or in a randomly drawn order (no repeats though); feel free to voice an opinion! (From here out, money raised from this week's tarot draw goes toward debt. This is unexciting, but when I am out of debt I want to buy this lyre and harp duet set and learn how to play.)

Thanks to someone who donated $25 with instructions to do readings for other people, I am giving away two three Celtic Cross readings and two past-present-future spreads to random.org-selected people who ask for cards on this post. I will poke random.org on Sunday to see who gets the readings.

Anonymous comments are screened and will remain so unless you say in the comment to unscreen it. If you want your card by PM instead of in a comment, tell me; if you want it by email instead of in a comment, I'll need your email.

I am offering one-card draws for free, one free draw per customer, either the Pocket Goddess Tarot or the Hanson-Roberts. The Hanson-Roberts is basically the Rider-Waite; the Pocket Goddess deck, though based on Rider-Waite, has Prince, Princess, King, and Queen instead of Page, Knight, Queen, and King, and there is considerable difference in the major arcana; for example, card XV is not the Devil but Temptation, and the card has the likeness of Nyai Loro Kidul.

I am also offering a second free draw (one card) to anyone who links me to their post advertising this, a three-card past-present-future spread to anyone who donates $3 via Paypal to alexconall at gmail or via my GoFundMe, and a Celtic Cross ten-card spread to anyone who donates $10. If donations reach $30, everybody gets another card for free; donations currently stand at $0.

Anonymous comments are screened and will remain so unless you say in the comment to unscreen it. If you want your card by PM instead of in a comment, tell me; if you want it by email instead of in a comment, I'll need your email.

I am offering one-card draws for free, one free draw per customer, either the Pocket Goddess Tarot, the Hanson-Roberts, or the Goddess Guidance Oracle Cards. The Hanson-Roberts is basically the Rider-Waite; the Pocket Goddess deck, though based on Rider-Waite, has Prince, Princess, King, and Queen instead of Page, Knight, Queen, and King, and there is considerable difference in the major arcana; for example, card XV is not the Devil but Temptation, and the card has the likeness of Nyai Loro Kidul. The Goddess Guidance Oracle Cards are less tarot-like, being forty-four cards each with a goddess and a piece of advice that goddess might give. (To be honest I'm not sure how that deck will work in a spread, but I'm willing to give it a try if you are.)

I am also offering a second free draw (one card) to anyone who links me to their post advertising this, a three-card past-present-future spread to anyone who donates 3 USD via my Paypal button below, and a Celtic Cross ten-card spread to anyone who donates 10 USD.

Anonymous comments are screened and will remain so unless you say in the comment to unscreen it. If you want your card by PM instead of in a comment, tell me; if you want it by email instead of in a comment, I'll need your email.

The free draw is CLOSED.

I am offering one-card draws for free, one free draw per customer, Hanson-Roberts or Pocket Goddess Tarot. The Hanson-Roberts is basically the Rider-Waite; the Pocket Goddess deck, though based on Rider-Waite, has Prince, Princess, King, and Queen instead of Page, Knight, Queen, and King, and there is considerable difference in the major arcana; for example, card XV is not the Devil but Temptation, and the card has the likeness of Nyai Loro Kidul.

Here's the catch. Inspired by sharpeningthebones (who looks to still be open), instead of the standard 'draw a card, interpret a card' with more cards if you tip the fortuneteller, when you ask for a card, leave a prompt of up to five words. I will take the card and the prompt and write you a story of about a hundred words.

I am not putting up prices for more in-depth efforts today, but tips are always appreciated.

Anonymous comments are screened as always, but all the stories will be publicly visible.

The draw is CLOSED.

I am offering one-card draws for free, one free draw per customer, and I am sticking to my Hanson-Roberts deck—it's essentially the Rider-Waite except the art is prettier; that's the Hanson-Roberts Queen of Swords in my icon, and yes, sadly, all the people in the deck are white. I am also offering a second free draw (one card) to anyone who links me to their post advertising this, a three-card past-present-future spread to anyone who donates 2 USD via my Paypal button below, and a Celtic Cross ten-card spread to anyone who donates 5 USD.

Anonymous comments are screened and will remain so unless you say in the comment to unscreen it. If you want your card by PM instead of in a comment, tell me; if you want it by email instead of in a comment, I'll need your email.

The free draw is CLOSED.

alexseanchai, tarot reader, is opening for business.

Since I am new to doing this for other people, I am offering both one-card draws and three-card past-present-future draws for free, one free draw per customer, and I am sticking to my Hanson-Roberts deck—it's essentially the Rider-Waite except the art is prettier; that's the Hanson-Roberts Queen of Swords in my icon, and yes, sadly, all the people in the deck are white. I am also offering a second free draw (one card) to anyone who links me to their post advertising this, and a Celtic Cross ten-card spread to anyone who donates 5 USD via my Paypal button below.

Anonymous comments are screened and will remain so unless you say in the comment to unscreen it. If you want your card by PM instead of in a comment, tell me; if you want it by email instead of in a comment, I'll need your email.

The free draw is CLOSED.