UN: ScielCandide | Video

[cache_coeur]

[The camera is fixed on a table, upon which sits a neat stack of cards –– black with gold foil in the shape of a sun and moon bisecting each other. The user’s hands pass over the deck and spreads it wide into an arc. Her hands are tanned, with two rings on her ring finger and one on her index finger, and she has so many colourful braided bracelets that some wind around her palm.

Her voice is pleasant, playful, French, a little theatrical:]

Bonsoir, mes amies!

Tonight and tonight only, I will tell your fortune with a single card. Tell me your name, and if you would like to hear about love, money, health or the soul.

If it moves you, you must repay me with an amusing anecdote about yourself.

Ready to play?

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[cache_coeur]

If you want to read for me, sure.

[nottheboss]

[He takes the deck and shuffles it--not as artfully as she had, but with a steady determination.]

Okay, ask.

[cache_coeur]

[She considers what her question should be for a moment.]

What risks am I afraid to take?

[nottheboss]

That's a three card question. Draw three.

[He at least would want a more complex answer if he were asking]

[cache_coeur]

[She draws, selecting them and turning them over one by one –– the Ace of Swords, the Ace of Cups, the Page of Cups. She can’t hide the amusement on her face, her nose scrunched from the half-grimace-half-smile.]

Ooh. They’re really chatty today. What do you think they mean, looking at the pictures?

[A godlike hand clutching a sword thrust through a crown covered in laurels, another hand holding a cup with fountains and a white dove bursting from its basin, and a finely dressed man holding a cup with a fish in it.]

[nottheboss]

[He studies them but they're inscrutable to him.]

Well, Ace is a powerful thing in poker, right? And this one, the Ace of Swords, makes me think of victory. You stab someone through the head you've pretty much won.

And this one... the bird is going free. But the fish makes me sad. Makes me think of captivity.

[cache_coeur]

Good enough guesses. You’re right about victory, but it’s less about combat and more about a breakthrough. The Ace of Swords is about a new focus and intensity, and with it, new plans.

[Her finger moves to the Ace of Cups.]

This one… the cup is overflowing. It’s an invitation to drink to the fullest after a long period of sadness. The bird brings us inspiration to try a new beginning. All of the Aces are about new beginnings, actually.

And this…

[She smiles.]

The fish is a surprise. The boy doesn’t know what to do with this surprise. The card is a message that something new is coming. The Cups are all about love and family, you know.

[nottheboss]

[Cups are family and love. Okay. He can remember that.]

A fish is a shitty gift, though. Hope whatever new coming your way is better than that.

If cups are love and family, what are swords?

[cache_coeur]

If I don’t take the risk, nothing will come to me at all.

[She shrugs, smiles.]

Intellect and logic. And they’re powerful about it. They demand we are truthful with ourselves.

[nottheboss]

[He nods thoughtfully, studying the cards again more intently]

Cups are love and family. Swords are logic and brains. What are the other two?

[cache_coeur]

Wands are ambition, passion and desire. Pentacles are about the “real” –– truths and work and growth.