#cryptic readings

[lunarique]

I'd love a cryptic reading! :3 Vague Theme: The Fall

pray under the aching sun where you met me, the edge of the water where we drank deep the withering love that blossoms in the pit of your stomach. pray, prey. pray under the weight of the sun in your horns. pray, prey. pray until the sun returns comma turning comma blurring comma PRAY. until we rest against the lion paws COMMA teeth COMMA maw. 

[crypticcartomancer]

Free Readings Open!

Ask away, little one. I'll be drawing you a single card. Will it be a tarot card? A Yu-Gi-Oh card? A pokemon card? Perhaps an Uno card?

You'll have to find out <3

[lunarique]

Cryptic Readings Open: Drunk Edition

Cryptic readings are open again for the first time in a while. I'll be answering them tonight after some drinks with friends. We're all poets so expect some (drunken) collaboration this time.

Description and guidelines here! 

Quick reminder:

Readings will be posted publicly

Send in requests via ask, not messaging

Keep the theme vague. I prefer themes over questions.

You can find examples of what the readings look like here.

[lunarique]

Hello dear, if your cryptic readings are still open, may I have one concerning my path in life? Thank you so much.

Of course, sorry for the delay.

Feral eyes husk heavy draw out prayer, draw lines across membranous skin. They leave teeth in your flesh, you draw them into your body. You break feathers between your fingers and draw them across your lips, draw breath between your teeth breathe out bitter wine. Fragments of moon-tide rot gored on antlers draw nearer closer waiting, dawning dawning dawning, fire eating up moonlight, midnight feast.

[crypticcartomancer]

Cryptic Readings Open!!

Greetings, star child! Why yes, I would be delighted to help you!!! ... Once. You can ask me anything!! But be careful, you might get exactly what you ask for... And be mindful, we all need to make our own decisions... Feeling confident? Adorable. Let's see just how far we can get you...

[lunarique]

Cryptic Readings Open

Finals are over, so to celebrate (and spend some time working with my deck again, not much time during finals season :o) I’m opening up cryptic readings again! They were really fun and rewarding last time, and I’m hoping for a repeat experience c:

“Basically, they’re free tarot readings with energy reading elements blended in. I draw tarot and/or oracle cards (basically whatever feels right) and intuit a cryptic message for you based on the cards that come up and the general feeling I get from the reading. It could take the form of a short description of a scene, a warning, straight up nonsense, or anything in between! The message might make zero sense to you and they definitely won’t make any sense to me. That’s the beauty of it.”

Please read the guidelines here!

Some important points:

Send requests in via ask, not messaging

I post the readings publicly

Please read the guidelines, I was a pushover last time and I’m going to start ignoring requests that ignore the rules.

Also I would really appreciate it if you checked if they are still open before sending in a request!

As a side note, everyone who reblogged their readings with impressions and comments, you literally made my day a hundred times over. I would have thanked you all personally for the confidence boost, but I am very shy D:

I will start answering them in a little while, maybe an hour idk

[lunarique]

hi! your cryptic reading are fascinating and i was wondering if you could explain the process of creating them?

Of course I can!

I have two decks that I use for these readings currently: my rider-waite, and the Animal Spirit oracle deck (hence animals often making an experience). Typically, I draw two or three tarot cards, and one oracle card, but it can be all oracle cards, or all tarot, or many of both! I use the shuffling and drawing of the cards as a quick sort of meditation, I guess? I focus on the direction I’ve been given (and if they’re off anon, I also try to get a feeling for what energy they’re bringing to the reading) and clear my mind of the kind of thing I might want to say.

Sometimes the message is clear immediately based on the meanings of the cards (I don’t, however, ever let myself look at the guidebooks for these readings. So what you’re getting from me is often a lot of intuitive leaps), other times recurring symbols stand out to me (if there’s a river in all the cards I drew, that’ll go into the message), or if the cards seem to be interacting I make sure that the reading acknowledges that (characters are facing each other, or very pointedly not facing each other). I typically spend a solid couple of minutes just staring at the cards and noticing these details and how they might play into the meanings of the cards and the overall message.

The fun part is taking all of this nuance and translating it into something vaguely poetic and interesting to read. Usually, this isn’t too hard because I have a good feel for what needs to be said and I genuinely enjoy conveying this in the way I do. Sometimes I barely have to think about what needs to be said because it’s like something is telling me exactly what I need to write and gods help me if I don’t write exactly that. Basically, it involves a lot of me reading very weird sentences out loud to myself. If it makes me feel a little uneasy, then we’re good to go.

So let’s say I drew Ten of Pentacles, Eight of Cups, and the Wolf. I’m going to say “Okay, well it looks to me like we’re at ease, doing really well for ourselves, surrounded by family, but we’re leaving this behind for some reason! The Wolf is kind of protector figure, so I think we’re probably leaving because it’s what’s best for someone else. The ten of pentacles is a really busy and full card, but we’re moving into the eight if cups, which is very sparse.”

A bit of thinking and meditation later, and we have...

“I am hungry for your joy: I have feasted and rejoiced, held the rotten flesh of your happiness between my teeth and called it my own (I am a scavenger, picking over your remains for every morsel you have to give). To turn my back is adoration, and not malice (never malice, not towards you.)”

[lunarique]

oops i forgot to mention that that was for a cryptic reading, please!

It’s not a problem, here you go:

I am in the moment of my death. The moon phases speed up, but it never sets and the sun never rises. I am decaying. A bat hangs from my rib cage: “Haven’t we met before?”