November contest!

Posted: November 16th, 2009 | Filed under: Potentially Miscellaneous | 15 Comments »

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I have a new Face­book Fan page! And it’s great! It’s sort of addict­ing too, and I know it shouldn’t take the place of a proper blog, for for the moment, it totally has. Of course it doesn’t help that I’m some­what rather addicted to face­book anyway.

I wanted to have some kind of monthly con­test on my fan page, but it turns out that kind of a thing is a no-no with face­book, so I’m going to do a monthly con­test on my blog instead — and just pro­mote it on face­book. That works for every­one, right? Even the peo­ple who don’t have facebook.

My 3 card reading for 11-16-09

It seems as though my “fans” on FB are mostly peo­ple I know who aren’t tarot read­ers, but I know a lot of read­ers like to read this blog — so for this con­test I’m offer­ing the choice between two prizes! One per­son will win either:

  • A three-five card read­ing — online (pdf), in chat (Skype) or in per­son if you’re in the Richmond-area
  • A pretty hand­made batik and hemp tarot bag like this one in the batik col­ors of my choosing

All you have to do to enter is leave a com­ment below answer­ing the following:

Tell me about your first expe­ri­ence hav­ing a tarot read­ing done for your­self. If you’ve never had your cards read, what has been hold­ing you back?

If you’d like an addi­tional entry, fol­low me on twit­ter (@melissajohill) and retweet the following:

RT @melissajohill Check out Mel’s tarot blog & win a free tarot read­ing or tarot bag! http://digg.com/u1GUxC

And for one final addi­tional entry into my mag­i­cal hat of names, post about this con­test on your blog (make sure you link to this entry so I get a pingback!).

If you reblog or retweet this, please make a note in the com­ments too so I will put in your extra entries! :)

This con­test will run from now till Nov. 30 — plenty of time to enter and spread the word. On Nov. 30 I’ll ran­domly draw a win­ner and notify that per­son via email. Good luck everyone!

15 Comments on “November contest!”

  1. 1 Giana said at 4:12 pm on November 16th, 2009:

    My one and only expe­ri­ence with a read­ing went pretty bad. I was out and about in down­town Dal­las and a lady was doing read­ings so I stopped to get one. It was done on the street, at night and the whole time the lady kept get­ting inter­rupted because some guys were hit­ting on her daugh­ter. I walked away feel­ing yucky with the whole expe­ri­ence and did not gain any­thing from it. I’d like to change that.

    I did re-tweet on twitter!

  2. 2 Masko said at 4:41 pm on November 16th, 2009:

    Hi Melissa! I don’t have any expe­ri­ence yet sim­ply because there were no tar­rot read­ers around me. Born and grew up in Asia, other ori­en­tal method were more com­mon and famil­iar to me. You are the first Tar­rot reader I have come across!

    I don’t have a blog so I will keep tweeting!

  3. 3 Sharyn/AJ said at 1:09 pm on November 17th, 2009:

    I’ve never had an in-person read­ing, just 5 or so read­ings over the years at AT. I wish I did know or know of some­one locally who loves the cards as much as I do.

  4. 4 Johanna Waldo said at 1:16 pm on November 22nd, 2009:

    Hi Melissa,

    I would love to win one of your lovely bags, even though I am get­ting from you on AT.

    Actu­ally, I just had my first real read­ing done from Sun­char­iot, on AT. She did an amaz­ing read­ing for me and my fam­ily regard­ing what we need to be focussing on right now. The read­ing was incred­i­bly accu­rate and very heal­ing. I loved it! I’ve done read­ings for myself or friends for years, and I don’t know why I have never had a pro­fes­sional read­ing before. After this recent expe­ri­ence, I’m plan­ning on hav­ing more read­ings done in the future.

  5. 5 Karen said at 1:12 pm on November 23rd, 2009:

    Well, my first read­ing was with a reg­u­lar pack of cards. I was just a kid, and my friend’s grand­mother read them for me. It was so excit­ing. She told me how my life was going to go! I don’t remem­ber many details, but there were sev­eral Aces, and she said that was a really good thing.

  6. 6 Vicky said at 10:56 pm on November 23rd, 2009:

    My very first Tarot read­ing was done for me by a gal in Nashville, IN. years ago. It was ter­ri­ble! She told me my hus­band was going to die before I did! I think she charged me $10 for the read­ing too! I have just recently started get­ting read­ings for myself again. I also read Tarot, for oth­ers, but can get to involved when I read for myself. I plan on get­ting more read­ings done in the future too. Every­one reads the cards dif­fer­ently, and this is a good thing! I learn alot just from hav­ing some­one else read my cards.

  7. 7 Ginger said at 3:00 pm on November 24th, 2009:

    My first read­ing was years and years ago…by my mother and I was in awe of the whole process and waited in antic­i­pa­tion as each card was turned over.

  8. 8 Filipa said at 7:18 am on November 26th, 2009:

    Well my first read­ing was..through ebay! I’ve been inter­ested in tarot for a while but didn’t know how to get a read­ing so i tried ebay but chose the wrong reader, it was an auto­matic read­ing that i could have found online, thank­fully there are a lot of peo­ple, even on ebay that can be trusted

  9. 9 caitriona said at 1:41 pm on November 26th, 2009:

    Hi i have had a few tarot read­ings, all of which have been very accu­rate, things i for­got about and then when the hap­pened i thought back and remem­bered that it was said in the read­ing, my 2nd child was one thing i was told about– i would have her within 18 months, thought no more of it and low and behold there she was 18 months later!! Lots of other stuff too. I am learn­ing tarot at the moment, tak­ing classes, and i dont know how i ended up doing it but here i am, id love a bag to put my first deck into!

  10. 10 Sonja said at 1:48 pm on November 26th, 2009:

    My very first tarot read­ing was in high school. I don’t remem­ber much of it except my friend had got­ten the Zerner-Farber deck and was doing read­ing for fun. I thought the deck was pretty, but I’m not sure if the read­ing was accu­rate or not. How­ever, it did inspire me to go out and buy my own deck to try.

  11. 11 Will said at 1:03 pm on November 30th, 2009:

    One of my first expe­ri­ences wirth tarot was at school. my room­mates and me always asked the card about every­thing. schoolyard-stuff, tech­ers, ohter stu­dents, love

  12. 12 Adrienne said at 8:43 pm on November 30th, 2009:

    Q: Tell me about your first expe­ri­ence hav­ing a tarot read­ing done for your­self. If you’ve never had your cards read, what has been hold­ing you back?

    A: My first and only read­ing was done by a very cute friend ;-) at her very cute house dur­ing a very cute Hal­loween party. I really wanted to ask her to read my cards but I was ner­vous because 1) I’d never done it before and 2) I didn’t really know the scope of the ques­tion to ask, i.e., vague & broad or as spe­cific as pos­si­ble. I finally set­tled on a ques­tion that had to do with “What’s next” for me, school/career-wise. She laid the cards out in the shape of the car­di­nal direc­tions and explained why going–physically, spatially–in cer­tain direc­tions might be bet­ter than oth­ers. I loved the way she did this because it so directly trans­lated to “real-life” advice. I was sur­prised by the sug­ges­tion that going West might not be the best idea–it would be “con­fus­ing”, I think she said–because I have been con­sid­er­ing a really amaz­ing grad school in Cal­i­for­nia. Because I am (per­haps inor­di­nately?) super­sti­tious, I can no longer think about mov­ing to Cal­i­for­nia for school with­out remem­ber­ing that she advised against it. :-) I think that the advice about not going South was spot-on–she said, mem­o­rably, that if I go South she sees a preg­nancy. The hyper-feminine card was laid in that posi­tion and it made sense: I’m from Geor­gia, that’s where my fam­ily is, it would be easy to move there and set­tle down. But, of course, I’m far from ready for that. :-)

    Her read­ing helped expand my think­ing about these ques­tions. It gave me a meta­phys­i­cal per­spec­tive, one I hadn’t thought too much about in the process of writ­ing all those “Pro” and “Con” lists. The best part was how totally non­judg­men­tal she was–I felt com­pletely com­fort­able ask­ing, and mus­ing about, any­thing. I hope to have another, more sub­stan­tive, read­ing soon. :-)

  13. 13 Ashtaroot said at 10:37 pm on November 30th, 2009:

    nice bags and I can’t wait for your Lenormand

    My first tarot read­ing was actu­ally not long ago from a friend but I have been read­ing with Lenor­mand since I was 12 :)

  14. 14 Robyn said at 11:35 am on December 1st, 2009:

    My very first tarot read­ing hap­pened when I was 11 years old. My beau­ti­ful and older cousin had taken a class, and read for me with her RWS deck.
    We decided that my card was the Queen of Cups, even though I was just a child.
    I was com­pletely enchanted, curi­ous and asked her about what every card meant. I very much wanted a deck for my own.
    Just last week, I had the oppor­tu­nity to share my new deck cre­ation with my cousin, and this time she was the one who was enchanted, and curi­ous, and asked about every card!

  15. 15 Silverwings said at 1:21 pm on December 1st, 2009:

    Hi Melissa,
    Well when I had my first read­ing done, I couldn’t believe how on track it really was.It helped me to stay focused and to fol­low my heart.I was told that I was going to be doing some indepth studying…4 months later I was study­ing to become a EMT.Something I never thought of doing. By the way I love being a EMT.
    Kat

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