The Tarot and the Thief.

Most people that I ask have said that they play video games in their spare time or watch tv, which I do but I decided that I wanted to do something mystical, gain a skill or read more books than I do. I came to the decision that I would learn how to read the Tarot after buying a set from the Waterstones Store in Derby where I go to university. The cards were beautiful, the pictures were amazing. I could even recognise some of the symbols on the cards. I typed Tarot card reading into youtube and the first video I came across was one person who said that they had been learning about Tarot for about five years and they still considered themselves to be a beginner... frickin' icky thump mate.
I returned home for the weekend and my mum happened to have a book on Tarot cards that she had got from a friend which she gave to me to look at. Tarot card reading is incredibly complex. Not only do you have to learn the meanings of the cards but there is a whole universe of information that you have to know.
One thing that surprised me most is that the book said that if the person you are giving a reading to is forty then you have to change the reading slighty...so why are forty year olds different to the other ages. What's with the discrimination?
There are four suits in Tarot cards; cups, wands, pentacles and swords. There are also cards called higher arcana. If you draw four kings in one reading then you have to adapt the reading slightly...bla bla bla...there is loads to learn.
BUT
I WILL learn the Tarot because not many people nowadays know how to do it and it's pretty fun so far. It looks like you need quite some skills to do a reading but the day will come when I will be able to do it.
Oh yeah and the reason that I am posting the picture below is because it looks cool...slightly mystical

Ramble on.
Over and Out.
ED

P.S--- I do not necessarily hold a personal belief in Tarot but in the words of someone I recently interviewed for my dissertation,

'There are many forms of storytelling, there are very many varied ways to reflect on oneself, through identifying with characters in books or through using symbols. The mystical is looking into the complex, organic world of yourself.'