http://ask.metafilter.com/tags/fortunetelling tag posts with fortunetelling Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:29:16 -0800 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:29:16 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://ask.metafilter.com/81578/Tarot-reading-books What is the best book on tarot, and on doing tarot reading? I'm hoping to find something that's satisfyingly mystical (and perhaps steeped in history) without being too silly and New Age-y.<br> <br> It has to take the whole tarot thing seriously enough that I'll be able to do good readings based on what it says.<br> <br> I'm not going into the sketchy divination business or anything, I just want to do personal readings for myself. tag:ask.metafilter.com,2008:site.81578 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:29:16 -0800 tarot tarotcards divination fortunetelling tarotreading books bubukaba http://ask.metafilter.com/79848/Not-the-Happy-Squirrel Who are your favorite fortune tellers in the Manhattan/Brooklyn area? I want to interview a dozen or so fortune tellers in New York during New Year's day. I'm looking for some real cards (zing) and as well as popular veterans. Tarot and palm-reading is included. tag:ask.metafilter.com,2008:site.79848 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:09:30 -0800 fortunetelling newyork nyc brooklyn tarot palm readers zoomorphic http://ask.metafilter.com/15397/How-do-I-do-this-love-fortune How do I do this love fortune thing? When I was in junior high, I learned how to tell love fortunes using playing cards, where... ...you dealt the cards out into four piles, had the person choose one pile, then flipped through it until you came across the Ace of Spades, the Ace of Hearts, the King of Spades, or the Queen of Hearts. And when you came across one of them, you put the rest of the pile aside and asked the person to choose another pile. You kept on with the process of elimination until you had four or five cards. <br> <br> You laid out the four (or five) cards, and the order they were in would tell your love fortune, with the Queen of Hearts being the fortune's receipient, the Ace of Hearts being her heart, the King of Spades being the person the receipient was thinking of, and the Ace of Spades being their heart. And if there was a fifth card, then it was another person who was in the way.<br> <br> I remember a lot about this, but I just tried to teach a ten-year-old girl about it, and I couldn't remember all the explanations for how the cards turned out at the end. When I look on Google, I get a lot more complicated fortune telling rules, and I really just want to know how this works.<br> <br> Did anyone else do this? Does anyone remember how it's supposed to go? tag:ask.metafilter.com,2008:site.15397 Sun, 20 Feb 2005 05:15:08 -0800 cards fortunetelling love cardgames Katemonkey