| Coincidences that benefit: That is what miracles are! | | | | card pictures to get started. "Don't you hear the |
| Breaking the English language like a code, phonetically, | | | | spirits; you do cards?" one of them asks. Hunh-uh. |
| with two picture dictionaries, beginning when she was | | | | Teaching herself how to read again - Hmm. The |
| 3 or 4 years old, paved the way for a later | | | | lectures show there is some power in Tarot all by |
| occupation that also treats the English language as a | | | | itself. If you need to get meanings out of them...well, |
| code: court reporting. Which in turn paved the way | | | | remember algebra? 'There can be only one unknown |
| for breaking the code of Tarot's meanings for Tarot! | | | | in an equation if you are to solve it.' If you use the |
| And out of that grows a Tarot system that | | | | whole Tarot deck for each answer to a 'known' |
| *indicates its degree of accuracy, *often reports the | | | | question and write it all down, you will eventually get |
| words people say or will say, *talks directly to the | | | | the Tarot's meaning for Tarot. Nine years of that! |
| questioner; *the reader doesn't have to understand. | | | | Some of those 'known' questions come from the |
| Teaching herself how to read It all started when | | | | trials she court reports; and she uses trials to test |
| Mother claimed to be reading and refused to prove it. | | | | the system's ability to predict as well. Unconsciously, |
| Mother was tired of this kid saying 'See, you're a liar | | | | the meanings she finds for the cards are expressed |
| again, the stove isn't hot' when the stove wasn't | | | | verbatim. |
| turned on. So now the kid had to find out whether | | | | Now there is a cluster of miracles - Serendipity |
| those things on pages were really words. Kid had | | | | happens: What results is a system that often quotes |
| two picture dictionaries, so she used them to | | | | what a person says or will say, word for word. What |
| phonetically break the English language like a code. | | | | also results is a system that answers verbatim |
| This upset everyone, so she persisted. | | | | directly to the person who is questioning: The reader |
| One way out of the ghetto - It's 1965 and father is | | | | interpreter does not have to understand! And what |
| a disabled veteran, having been severely mustard | | | | also results is a system that answers legal questions |
| gassed by Germans who occupied France where he | | | | really well because it was 'born there.' |
| was a spy blowing up bridges. Daddy was not | | | | But we have saved the best for last. Only because |
| exactly sane and the army cared about $30 to $43 a | | | | she wanted to not have any cards left over in the |
| month's worth. $1,000 was available for education. | | | | 78-card deck when she used the whole deck to |
| That meant vocational school. Only two choices there | | | | answer the 'known' questions, she expands each |
| would result in a good income: computer | | | | layout or spread to 13 cards instead of the Celtic |
| programming or court reporting. If you can't count | | | | Cross's 11 cards. Putting those extra two where the |
| and you can write, voila: court reporting. | | | | last card was creates a spread with three distinct |
| Court reporting schools in 1965 had a 99% dropout | | | | parts: the middle 'tower,' (Sentence 2) so called |
| rate. 50% of graduates dropped out of the | | | | because of the Celtic history of this spread; all those |
| profession in the first year. The schools did not | | | | that come before it (Sentence 1); and all those that |
| expect to have to graduate you. Working for the | | | | come after (Sentence 3). |
| YWCA for $12 a week. Those women were | | | | Those three divisions form three sentences that |
| ferocious. | | | | repeat and support one another when the answer is |
| Next coincidence is being hired for a job in the State | | | | correct! This discovery is easy when the answer is a |
| Attorney's office over her protests that her | | | | 'known,' of course. |
| shorthand speed is insufficient. (The State Attorney's | | | | Cards with the same meanings appear in two or |
| mother ran the school, and the school was tired of a | | | | three of the sentences to make a theme. When you |
| student that had paid up already taking up a seat.) In | | | | see those theme cards, you are on to what the |
| 1967. For $90 a week. The Jackson 5 are on | | | | answer is, quickly. Discovering the theme cards was |
| television 5 minutes of every hour, and Michael is a | | | | easy too, when you knew what answer was correct |
| cute toddler. | | | | ahead of time. |
| Now we own Court Reporting Office - Flash forward | | | | A divination system that indicates its own accuracy is |
| to 1980 or so. Here is a skilled technical court | | | | worth its weight in sweat! WHAT A HAPPY |
| reporter who has owned her own court reporting | | | | ACCIDENT! |
| office for some years now. She listens to a | | | | What drives all these coincidences? - being a mystic. |
| professor - on the radio, yet - lecture on Consistent | | | | Now comes the confession that while all this analytical |
| Violators of the Laws of Random Distribution, a | | | | and logic-based search for meanings was going on, so |
| fascination of hers. She has been dreaming | | | | were repeating dreams of driving a chocolate brown |
| repeatedly about those Laws. Tarot is one of only | | | | purring '78 Delta 88 convertible with leather-brown |
| five known consistent violators of the Laws of | | | | seats, top down, onto the very wide curved road |
| Random Distribution, he says. The professor's | | | | with a huge overhead wrought iron gate that said |
| experiments are easily reenacted, just buy a deck of | | | | 'TAROTLAND.' |
| Rider Waite Tarot. | | | | There was the Queen of Pentacles in the laundromat |
| Well, Tarot takes only a few minutes here and there, | | | | with the Page of Wands in those dreams. Yes, Tarot |
| a hobby a court reporter can do. Just buy a Tarot | | | | had gotten into the subconscious for sure. Had it not, |
| book. Ten Tarot books are nonsense. Hmm. What do | | | | would all those answers be as on point? Had it not, |
| the people do who make a living reading Tarot? | | | | would her approach to answering your questions be |
| Three Tarot psychics allow her to sit in. She | | | | as analytical, as detailed and as intuitive as her |
| discovers they get their information from spirit guides | | | | approach to learning Tarot was! |
| and just use some colors or just use one or two | | | | |