Tarot...

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I treated myself to a tarot reading this morning, with the question, "How shall I compose my New Year's Resolutions?"

I love making New Year's Resolutions. I also love reading Tarot Cards, and may even do a physical reading as well as the electronic one online. I have the deck pictured here, but I also have several others - my favourite to do a reading with is the Hanson Roberts deck, though I'm also very fond of the Norse Tarot.

Like all oracles, the meaning of the cards is whatever we put into them. I like that as an exercise in creativity, in using parts of the brain and imagination that don't usually get used, a bit of psychological aerobics. I like finding patterns of meaning in bits of art. I like the historicity of the act - people have been doing this for centuries.

And it's a particularly useful thing to do at the end of the year.