Reading tarot

Kenzie's begun reading tarot cards. He often brings them up to the kitchen to look through the beautiful illustrations. We have three decks, and he likes to spread them out and choose his favorites. The other day, though, he wanted to learn how to read them. Since I don't know the cards well enough to read them, much less teach anyone else how to read them, I got out a how-to book, and we sat down and read each other's cards for a few hours - a very basic spread: past, present, future. He would read the descriptions verbatim, and then we'd talk about what each meant, and how the three meanings were connected.

I marked the book with tabs labeled coins, cups, etc., so he could easily find the card description he needed. Today, he read cards for every member of his family: me, his father, his uncle, his grandmother and grandfather, and even their basset hound, Layla. He's memorized the meanings of several of the cards, already, and doesn't need to look them up. I wouldn't say he's clairvoyant, but he's certainly having fun.