Coincidences that benefit: That is what miracles are! Breaking the English language like a code, phonetically, with two picture dictionaries, beginning when she was 3 or 4 years old, paved the way for a later occupation that also treats the English language as a code: court reporting. Which in turn paved the way for breaking the code of Tarot's meanings for Tarot! And out of that grows a Tarot system that *indicates its degree of accuracy, *often reports the words people say or will say, *talks directly to the questioner; *the reader doesn't have to understand.
Teaching herself how to read It all started when Mother claimed to be reading and refused to prove it. Mother was tired of this kid saying 'See, you're a liar again, the stove isn't hot' when the stove wasn't turned on. So now the kid had to find out whether those things on pages were really words. Kid had two picture dictionaries, so she used them to phonetically break the English language like a code. This upset everyone, so she persisted.
One way out of the ghetto - It's 1965 and father is a disabled veteran, having been severely mustard gassed by Germans who occupied France where he was a spy blowing up bridges. Daddy was not exactly sane and the army cared about $30 to $43 a month's worth. $1,000 was available for education. That meant vocational school. Only two choices there would result in a good income: computer programming or court reporting. If you can't count and you can write, voila: court reporting.
Court reporting schools in 1965 had a 99% dropout rate. 50% of graduates dropped out of the profession in the first year. The schools did not expect to have to graduate you. Working for the YWCA for $12 a week. Those women were ferocious.
Next coincidence is being hired for a job in the State Attorney's office over her protests that her shorthand speed is insufficient. (The State Attorney's mother ran the school, and the school was tired of a student that had paid up already taking up a seat.) In 1967. For $90 a week. The Jackson 5 are on television 5 minutes of every hour, and Michael is a cute toddler.
Now we own Court Reporting Office - Flash forward to 1980 or so. Here is a skilled technical court reporter who has owned her own court reporting office for some years now. She listens to a professor - on the radio, yet - lecture on Consistent Violators of the Laws of Random Distribution, a fascination of hers. She has been dreaming repeatedly about those Laws. Tarot is one of only five known consistent violators of the Laws of Random Distribution, he says. The professor's experiments are easily reenacted, just buy a deck of Rider Waite Tarot.
Well, Tarot takes only a few minutes here and there, a hobby a court reporter can do. Just buy a Tarot book. Ten Tarot books are nonsense. Hmm. What do the people do who make a living reading Tarot? Three Tarot psychics allow her to sit in. She discovers they get their information from spirit guides and just use some colors or just use one or two card pictures to get started. "Don't you hear the spirits; you do cards?" one of them asks. Hunh-uh.
Teaching herself how to read again - Hmm. The lectures show there is some power in Tarot all by itself. If you need to get meanings out of them...well, remember algebra? 'There can be only one unknown in an equation if you are to solve it.' If you use the whole Tarot deck for each answer to a 'known' question and write it all down, you will eventually get the Tarot's meaning for Tarot. Nine years of that!
Some of those 'known' questions come from the trials she court reports; and she uses trials to test the system's ability to predict as well. Unconsciously, the meanings she finds for the cards are expressed verbatim.
Now there is a cluster of miracles - Serendipity happens: What results is a system that often quotes what a person says or will say, word for word. What also results is a system that answers verbatim directly to the person who is questioning: The reader/interpreter does not have to understand! And what also results is a system that answers legal questions really well because it was 'born there.'
But we have saved the best for last. Only because she wanted to not have any cards left over in the 78-card deck when she used the whole deck to answer the 'known' questions, she expands each layout or spread to 13 cards instead of the Celtic Cross's 11 cards. Putting those extra two where the last card was creates a spread with three distinct parts: the middle 'tower,' (Sentence 2) so called because of the Celtic history of this spread; all those that come before it (Sentence 1); and all those that come after (Sentence 3).
Those three divisions form three sentences that repeat and support one another when the answer is correct! This discovery is easy when the answer is a 'known,' of course.
Cards with the same meanings appear in two or three of the sentences to make a theme. When you see those theme cards, you are on to what the answer is, quickly. Discovering the theme cards was easy too, when you knew what answer was correct ahead of time.
A divination system that indicates its own accuracy is worth its weight in sweat! WHAT A HAPPY ACCIDENT!
What drives all these coincidences? - being a mystic. Now comes the confession that while all this analytical and logic-based search for meanings was going on, so were repeating dreams of driving a chocolate brown purring '78 Delta 88 convertible with leather-brown seats, top down, onto the very wide curved road with a huge overhead wrought iron gate that said 'TAROTLAND.'
There was the Queen of Pentacles in the laundromat with the Page of Wands in those dreams. Yes, Tarot had gotten into the subconscious for sure. Had it not, would all those answers be as on point? Had it not, would her approach to answering your questions be as analytical, as detailed and as intuitive as her approach to learning Tarot was!
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Emily provides ingenious creative solutions to all kinds of situations for humans through her wide life experience, through her different slant on everything, and through her extreme expertise in Tarot. Her most useful dramatic talent is telling you 100% accurately in detail with no information from you how anyone (or any group of people) feels and thinks about you - motive, intention, attitude - or feels and thinks about anyone or anything else. 25 years of technical court reporting enables her to get into legal issues well for you.
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