There’s a post on the CBC’s jobs site for Associate Producer of Interactive Kids Programming. I applied last night, and then Tanya the Electrowitch gave me a Rider-Waite tarot deck.

I ran the cards this morning and the outlook isn’t good: covered by Ace of Wands, reversed, crossed by Knight of Cups, reversed.

The Big Dick: A card specifically about what one does for a living. Success in all aspects, reversed.

The Grail Knight: A bringer of ideas, opportunities and offers, reversed. Probably indicates my application info was too thin.

Quite inauspicious!

I’ve realized the key to Tarot reading: It’s exactly the same as screenwriting. You have a collection of archetypes that you apply creatively to situations to tell a story. I think there might be more meaningful spread-patterns than the traditional ones as well — why not use Monomythic structures to lay out the cards? That seems to make a whole lot more sense than cover/cross plus annotations or any of the other spreads I’ve read about. Something like this, for example.

Tarot is a neat fusion of poker and writing — no wonder it’s so diggable. I’m considering doing big spreads for all my characters to add random detail to their personalities, but until I get the backbone of the tale down that might be fapping about.