[OPEN] *draws a tarot card* oh sh—

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who: Noah & You
what: Tarot readings~
when: Post-Disney fieldtrip, so 02/12 and on
where: Dorm Common Room
warnings: I'm on my pagan bullshit again it's fine

[If you venture into the dorm common room at any point after the fieldtrip ends, you will find Noah sitting in the middle of the floor with a deck of tarot cards, Trying His Best. He only recently acquired these cards (they were scattered about his room, see) and he hasn't had too much time to play with them.

Obviously, the correct thing to do is to play with them now. Step right up and get a very amateurish tarot reading free of charge! He has a book open in his lap about how to do this, including multiple spreads that he can use. If he spots you while he's nose-deep in studying, he'll wave you over with a hand and ask if he can read your fortune — you just have to tell him what you're interested in knowing. Past, present, future? Love? Interpersonal relationships of a non-romantic nature? Just ask!

As a disclaimer, Noah is not responsible for any harm that comes to you if he divines your future and it turns out really badly. That is not his fault. Your fate was written in the stars, after all.]

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[notsosou]

[Shin's curious as he's waved over and sits down, especially since, well, Noah has magic and so he's assuming this will have some actual power behind it, but what to ask?]

If you like... Ahaha, I'm not sure there'd be anything good, though...

[He's tempted to ask about his future, but... it's not like he has a good history when it comes to predictions of it (much as I the mun personally would love a classic past-present-future spread).

Instead of what's certain to be in his future... maybe.]

What do they say about what I should do next?

[In other words, how to achieve his goals? Keeping the people he cares about safe, keeping himself safe, finding a way for everyone to leave the school if they want to, unraveling it's mysteries in general before the current cycle ends, and things he doesn't even know he should be doing yet... what kind of person does he need to become if he's going to achieve these things?]

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[There's a slight touch of magic in this deck. He can use it to give people passive attack buffs and stuff, but currently he's using it to try and divine the future. He's not quite as good at this stuff as Natsume is, but it's good to practice on all your friends by potentially making them scared for the future, yes?]

Mm... okay. Let's see...

[He shuffles the deck a couple of times thoroughly, puts it down on the floor between them, cuts the cards... with that all taken care of, he thinks for a moment. What's a good way to find out what to do next? Noah decides to use a simple three-card reading instead of one of the more complicated types that could answer that question but would take far too long to do. Laying out two cards facedown on the floor between himself and Shin, he says,]

The leftmost card represents you as you are now, the middle card is issues you need to tackle, and the rightmost card is what Fate believes you should do next to tackle those issues and move forward — okay?

[Okay! And with that, Noah flips the leftmost card. If Shin is familiar with tarot at all, he'll find that the numbers on the cards match up with your standard arcana, but they're all named for astral bodies.]

...the first card is Jupiter, Reversed. [The Emperor, is what that is in a regular run-of-the-mill deck. Noah squints down at the card to recall its meaning, and then carefully says,] ...the deck thinks you're a rigid individual. Are you struggling with stress because you're too hard on yourself? Maybe you're not sleeping enough because of that or something?

[He looks at Shin seriously for a moment before his eyes flick back down to the cards and he flips the middlemost.]

Columba, Reversed. [The card is marked with a 0 — the number of The Fool. There's a nice drawing of a dove on the card, the constellation running through the drawing.] Normally, this card signifies the beginning of a journey, but it's Reversed, so... it says that this new journey or beginning is something that you're reluctant to jump into. Or will be reluctant to jump into, since this is the future. This goes in line with Jupiter saying you're too rigid, I think.

[He flips over the last card, another major arcana. This one is labelled "VII - Auriga" and depicts a man riding a chariot with an almost-rectangular constellation drawn through it. It's the only upright card, and is synonymous with The Chariot if the picture wasn't glaringly obvious.]

What you should do, according to Auriga... first and foremost, you need to take better care of yourself. [If Jupiter thinks you're stressed, buddy, you've gotta find some stress relief.] Furthermore, you should cast out the fear you have of jumping into a new journey and just go for it. You can't get whatever it is you want if you don't take a leap. Um... stay focused on your goals if you want to achieve them, too, and you should be successful.

[Pausing, Noah leans back a bit, folding his hands in his lap.]

All in all, Fate says you need to learn to loosen up a bit so that you can have this "next", if that makes sense. Or, alternatively, the next thing you should do is loosen up a bit so you can focus more on your goals? S-something like that...