Unlike political or business clubs, where one must be recommended by a full member to join, the Soothsayer Club's membership criteria are quite relaxed.
Just fill in the details and pay the annual membership fee.
The fee is £5 initially and £1 per year thereafter, which is not a high fee at all.
"...Miss Valeela, have you decided whether to join our club?"
The receptionist Ms. Angelica asked after introducing the benefits of club members.
"certainly."
With a smile on her face, Valeela said: "As you said, I can learn divination, communicate with divination, and use divination here. I think I have no reason to refuse."
After filling out the form and paying the membership fee, she received a dark gold membership sleeve pin.
After that, Valeera listened to Angelica explain the various rules again, and then she set her own divination charging standards and became a member of the "divination" album for customers to choose from.
As for the specific amount of the charge, she also settled on 8 pence - since she wants to imitate "The Fool", she should imitate it to the end.
On non-weekends, there are only a few members in the Fortune Teller Club, and there is only one lady, all gathered in a conference room.
Some of them were looking through the divination textbooks in the club, while others were playing with divination tools such as tarot cards and astrolabes. Occasionally, some of them whispered to each other.
Valila randomly picked a textbook on tarot card symbol interpretation, sat down on an empty seat and started quietly.
Not long after, Angelica brought a cup of hot Xibo black tea.
Although the only divination method that she can obtain clear "revelation" from is magic mirror divination, this does not mean that she cannot master other divination techniques.
At least, she can learn and use simple card divination like ordinary people.
Divination can be roughly divided into three categories according to the source of "revelation".
The first type of divination methods includes tarot, poker, pendulum, divination rod, and dreams. It relies on asking the person's spirituality to communicate with the spiritual world to obtain "revelation" and interpret the results of divination.
It's just that the pendulum and divination staff methods have high requirements on spirituality, spiritual body, and astral body. It's not that extraordinary people cannot get accurate and obvious "revelation"; while card divination uses the idea of providing fixed symbolic elements in advance, so that ordinary people can The "revelation" of human ignorance and empathy can also be realized; dreams are somewhere in between.
The second type of divination methods include spiritual numbers, astrology, and all types derived from them. The diviner calculates, speculates, and interprets the corresponding results by asking objective information provided by people or natural changes. The initiative lies not with the person asking, but with the diviner. .
The third type of divination method is to use a third party other than the fortune teller and the inquirer to ask unknown and mysterious beings to directly give answers through certain rituals.
In the general sense, "magic divination" falls into this category.
But for "witches", the "magic mirror" is just a tool to communicate with the spiritual world and a door to the spiritual world. It is no different from the pendulum and the divination staff, so it also belongs to the first type of divination.
Valeela finished reading the symbols of the main card, and when she was about to continue reading the secondary card, a lady with brown curly hair sat next to her.
"Hello, I'm Olinka Hayes."
"Hello, Valeera Kaldwin." Valeera smiled.
"I wonder what kind of divination skills you are good at, sister?" Olinka came closer and whispered: "Sister, I am good at tarot card divination and I am very familiar with the symbolic interpretation of the cards."
Apparently, she noticed the textbook Valeela was reading.
Valeera picked up a fortune telling on the table and shook it with a silver mirror, then smiled and said, "I'm good at this."
"Would you like to try it on?"
Olinka's eyes lit up and she replied: "You can try mine too."
Valeera agreed.
But she actually knew very well that Olinka's tarot divination might not be successful.
Because according to the principles of tarot divination, it is she who gets the "revelation" from the spiritual world, and Olinka is just an interpreter.
There is nothing wrong with this.
But the key point is that she is a "witch" and it is difficult for her to communicate with the spirit world through channels other than the "magic mirror". Of course, she cannot complete a successful tarot divination.
"What do you want to divine?" Olinka took out the tarot cards and was already in the mood.
Valeela thought about it casually and replied: "Just divine my love."
This is one of the most common divination questions, along with health, lost property, etc.
After reciting the question silently, Valeela finished cutting and shuffling the cards.
Olinka picked up one from the top and pushed it horizontally in front of Valeela: "Turn it clockwise to vertical, and then open it."
Valeera did as she was told and received an upside down Hanged Man card.
"Ah, your love fortune doesn't seem to be very good," Olinka smiled awkwardly, "The Hanged Man is upside down, which usually means that your relationship is currently on hold, and may even be in danger."
"It's okay." Valeela smiled and shook her head.
Not to mention that this divination is not accurate in principle. As far as her current situation is concerned, if her love fortune is good, that is bad news.
She picked up the silver mirror for divination, turned the mirror toward herself, and asked, "It's your turn, what do you want to divination?"
Olinka pointed to the empty ear hole above the left earlobe and said with a smile:
"Just divine the earrings I lost this morning. They are the same pair as the ones on my right ear."
Valeera nodded, it wasn't difficult for her.
She opened her palm and motioned for Olinka to hand the right earring to her hand.
After getting the earrings, she reached out and touched the surface of the silver mirror and whispered: "Mirror, magic mirror, tell me the location of the other half of the earrings."
Come and try it quickly. 】
Soon, a picture appeared on the silver mirror.
A silver earring set with a small ruby fell into the gap between the bookshelf and the wall. The books on the bookshelf were all kinds of divination teaching materials.
Valeela's expression turned strange.
Because the more she looked at it, the more familiar it seemed. Wasn't that bookshelf in the corner of this conference room?
Olinka saw Valeera's strange expression and quickly asked: "What's wrong? Did the divination fail?"
"No, I succeeded."
Valila didn't explain, she got up and walked to the corner, took a thin book from the bookshelf as a tool, and swept out the earrings in a few clicks.
"Goddess, this is amazing!"
Olinka followed Valeela to the wall and saw her taking out the earrings with her own eyes. She was so surprised and happy that it was difficult to describe in words.
Although she also thought that the earrings were lost in the club, she and several members here did divination several times but could not find them.
Her voice was loud and attracted everyone's attention.
"Olinka, did you find your earring?" someone asked.
The few remaining members in the conference room had basically tried divination, and Olinka's voice clearly reflected the latest developments in the matter.
"That's right, Edward."
Olinka's voice was full of excitement and joy, "Valeela helped me find it. Her divination skills are very, very magical!"
"Congratulations. I originally thought I would have to wait until the day after tomorrow, until Mr. Heinus Vincent comes over, to help you find the earrings." Someone said congratulations.
Some people also became interested in Valeera's divination, "Miss Valeera, can you let me see your magical divination skills?"
"Of course," Valeela's mouth gradually curved gracefully, "No!"
"I can only perform this magical divination once a day."
"How about you try my tarot divination?"
