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11 hours ago, chamfer said:

Wonder if anyone could advise on the smell of white sage and palo santo when burned. I planned to burn that in my bedroom and also to cleanse some crystals/tarot card deck. 

 

Don't plan to do smudging the whole house as my husband and MIL does not know i'm an occultist.

 

Cone,incense stick,small loose leaf or the bundle?

 

What is the difference between these 2?

 

These are what i'm looking at the moment.

https://m.intl.taobao.com/detail/detail.html?id=569765819941&item_id=569765819941

 

https://m.intl.taobao.com/detail/detail.html?id=573690402134&item_id=573690402134

 

https://m.intl.taobao.com/detail/detail.html?id=601529000077&item_id=601529000077

Not sure about palo santo, but white sage is slightly peppery smell and is very distinct if you know what you're smelling.

Usually cone and stick incenses are sawdust mixed with fragrance oils. (I.e. you're burning a lot of other things besides sage). To burn small loose leaves, you need to throw them onto charcoal ember, bundles can be lit directly but produces a LOT of smoke.

Purity from less to most: stick, cone, small loose leaf, bundle.

Smoke level from less to most: stick, cone, small leaf, bundle.

(disclaimer: manufacturers have been known to mix in impurities, scale above might differ from brand to brand) 

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Despite living in modern times, where technology has surpassed the belief in magic, there’s still a tiny part of us that connects to our superstitious ancestors. We often tap into this mentality whenever something bizarre and unexplainable rocks our lives. And no event in our lives inspires more fear and superstition than death.  The last great mystery of humankind still gives even the most cynical among us the chills. For the dad in this joke, he learned this lesson first hand when he found out his daughter had an eerie sixth sense.

A father put his 3-year-old daughter to bed, told her a story and listened to her prayers which ended by saying, “God bless Mommy, God bless Daddy, God bless Grandma and goodbye Grandpa.”

The father asked, ‘Why did you say good-bye Grandpa?’

The little girl said, “I don’t know daddy, it just seemed like the thing to do.” The next day grandpa died. The father thought it was a strange coincidence.

A few months later the father put the girl to bed and listened to her prayers, “God bless Mommy, God Bless Daddy and goodbye Grandma.” The next day the grandmother died.

“Holy crap” thought the father, “this kid is in contact with the other side.”

Several weeks later when the girl was going to bed the dad heard her say, “God bless Mommy and goodbye Daddy.”

He practically went into shock. He couldn’t sleep all night and got up at the crack of dawn to go to his office. He was nervous as a cat all day, had lunch and watched the clock. He figured if he could get by until midnight he would be okay. He felt safe in the office, so instead of going home at the end of the day he stayed there, drinking coffee, looking at his watch and jumping at every sound. Finally midnight arrived; he breathed a sigh of relief and went home.

When he got home his wife said, “I’ve never seen you work so late. What’s the matter?” He said, “I don’t want to talk about it, I just had the worst day of my life.” She said, “You think you had a bad day? You’ll never believe what happened to me. This morning the mailman dropped dead on our porch!”

5 minutes ago, metalrover said:

This cards jskm....

12 minutes ago, chamfer said:

I see that there are no fixed number of cards in the set. Some is 78 cards, some less/more than 78 cards.

 

Does it affect the reading?

There are two decks which all other modern decks are based on, the Rider and the Thoth. The number of cards don't really affect the reading, in fact, my personal style is to use only part of the deck to read

7 minutes ago, chamfer said:

https://opentrolley.com.sg/book/9780913866597/tarot-deck-miniture-rider

 

Hope can find this version at the bookshop.

 

Does seeing the cards image counts as connection? Coz some decks image i see like not 顺眼

Know that feeling of walking pass a random stranger, and suddenly feel that you know that person? That, just a lot more subtle.

3 minutes ago, metalrover said:

If want throw away, can give me...

 

Buy the cards got come with instruction manual how to play?

The better decks usually come with a small booklet with basic instructions. There are also sets which come with a full book with details instructions.

2 minutes ago, chamfer said:

What if buy liao and find out they 'don't talk' to me then how????

 

Throw or give them away? Or is there a 'adjustment period' for the deck and me?

 

I only feel the connection when i adopt my cats or buying fishes and birds...

Usually when you pick up the decks that talk to you, you will feel a connection to them.  If the tools don't work for you, throw or give away is about the same. Of course if you can con.. *cough* introduce someone else to the art by giving him or her something, that will be nice.

So far I have never had any decks that I've "adjusted" too, YMMV

2 hours ago, chamfer said:

What i feel is that i still need to see the physical tarot cards to see if there is any connection between the cards and me.

 

I will be getting a set of rider waite tarot set (hoping to find the miniature ones) beside another deck (which is related to my pet) which i will be using for reading.

My deck all "talk" to me, don't work with any that don't.

2 hours ago, metalrover said:

What can these cards do? Seen in movies ish use to predict things. Got truth in this?

All forms of divination are estimations of the future, based on current situations. Tarot cards are no exceptions.

13 minutes ago, chamfer said:

I saw on internet that it's bad luck or no good to buy the first tarot cards set for ownself.

 

I already viewed online what type of tarot cards and planning to go bookstores to check whether can see the physical cards.

 

Does the tarot cards need to be cleanse before opening or before a reading?

 

Maybe different schools of thoughts have different views....

 

I bought my own first deck of tarot cards, they are still one of my most accurate deck. You don't have to cleanse them before you use them, but some people (like me) are a little uncomfy about it. I still cleanse my after a number of reads or if I leave them aside for too long. It's more like washing hands after you shook hands across the room.

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Applying for a job can be nerve-wracking. Finding the right clothes to wear, making sure your resume looks perfect, and getting to the interview on time is bad enough. But then there’s the interview itself, with all of those tricky questions. And, most of the time the interviewer seems like an ex-poker world chamipion, totally unreadable, leaving you to wonder if you nailed it or bombed. Well, the man in this joke definitely nailed it, but it was the one condition his new employer asked him to follow that will leave you laughing.

A guy goes to the Post Office to apply for a job. The interviewer asks him, “Are you allergic to anything?”

He replies, “Yes, caffeine. I can’t drink coffee.”

“Have you ever been in the military service?”

“Yes” he says, “I was in Iraq for two years.”

The interviewer says, “That will give you 5 extra points toward employment.”

Then he asks, “Are you disabled in any way?”

The guy says, “Yes. A bomb exploded near me and I lost both my testicles.”

The interviewer grimaces and then says, “Okay. You are a Disabled Veteran; you’ve got enough points for me to hire you right now. Our normal hours are from 8:00 am to 4:00 PM. You can start tomorrow at 10:00 am, plan on starting at 10:00 am every day.”

The guy is puzzled and asks, “If the work hours are from 8:00 am to 4:00 PM, why don’t you want me here until 10:00 am?”

“This is a government job,” the interviewer says.”For the first two hours we just stand around drinking coffee and scratching our balls. No point in you coming in for that.”