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Working with the zap-resistant punter.

 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
19:19 / 04.05.05
Right. Well. So I was doing this tarot spread today for an internet-based client. General spread, no special requirements, Celtic Cross, piece of cake.

Except... except it wasn't. Normally I just lay out the cards, call to mind the textbook meanings, and then crack open the ol' Inner Eye for a better look. I usually get loads of imagery, even if it's someone I've never met before.

This guy? This guy was like a lump of lead coated in Teflon. I was getting nothing off him. I tried going out for a walk, I tried trancing out over the spread, I tried dancing--rock hard. Took me all bloody afternoon to get a decent reading, and even then I was falling back on the textbooks half the time.

I get a similar thing with the other half. See, I've got my Reiki 1 (yeah, I know, I keep saying I'll upgrade), so if he's having health probs, I zap him. Normally it's this instinctive process: I get my head in the game, close my eyes, and my hands do the rest.

With him, it's like trying to Reiki a concrete slab. No, worse: It's like he's a hologram. I've worked on sceptics and people who were resistant to the idea before, but nothing like this. I can't "read" him like I read other subjects.

We've talked and joked about it, but frankly I'm at a loss. Any pointers?

(Oh yeah, and I did ask before I started this thread.)
 
 
Lord Switch
14:54 / 05.05.05
Hmm. I have had that experience with peoplewho don't really exist. Every man and every woman is a star, but not everyone is real. >D

On a different note it might just be that they are very bundled up or are actually one of thoe people who genuinly do not believe.

OR the clients aura is to clogged. Give them an exercise, like the middle pillar, to do and visualise, then try your luck.
 
 
grant
16:58 / 05.05.05
Well, in the case of the reading, you *could* offer a refund and say, "Sorry, it's not working for you."

That might well freak 'em out, but in a good way.

Some folks are just better defended.
 
 
rising and revolving
20:13 / 05.05.05
"I get a similar thing with the other half."

Dunno what the situation is with the punter, but the other half issue isn't too surprising. I think I have a similar thing going - I've asked what I can do to heal my (occasionally sickly) fiancee, and the response I get is "Love her and support her, and let her heal herself," - something about partners and working with them, I think, that can sometimes not work out due to the unique form of the link.
 
 
Sekhmet
20:28 / 05.05.05
I'm not much of a card reader anyway, but the few times I've tried to do a reading for my husband, the cards basically said "meh"...

Maybe you should contact the client and explain the difficulty you're having.

Is it possible that they're testing you - perhaps made themselves resistant to check if you'll just make something up? Or that they suspect they've been occluded somehow and are checking with a third party?
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
15:58 / 06.05.05
Well, I did get a useable reading for the unreadble guy in the end (he just sent me some positive feedback, which is nice).
 
  
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