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[Insert a photo of a tarot card. However, the slight grain in the photo says that this is a capture from a phone. In the photo, the tarot card is surrounded by some kind of blue-colored mist. The design on the card though is still very clear.]

A few questions to those familiar with tarot:

What is this card, and what does it symbolize? Whether as an individual card or in a deck, I do not mind. I'm simply trying to discover what this card's relevance is to myself.

[Well, she does have an idea from all her research, but she would rather know from a person what they think it means.]

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It's the Wheel of Fortune. Fate, the every changing whim of reality, change and destiny.

Not familiar with that deck style, though.

Is that so?

It's an interesting analysis at the very least.

Fits with everything going on, huh?

Let me guess, flashbacked it?

Quite. And I didn't exactly "flashback" on it so much as actually received the ability to manifest it through sheer willpower.

More than it just appearing, you can summon it, you mean?

Correct. It- along with the accompanying blue mist present in the image- appears whenever I want it too, though disappears after a few seconds, no matter what I do to it.

So likely more than just a tarot card...

Think there might be something sealed in it? Or that it might be waiting for you to do something with it.

Gotten anything else back? Something that maybe you can run the card through?

I have no other new memories save for this card. It doesn't appear to be capable of being scanned, as it has no magnetic strip at the other side. For all intents and purposes, it is simply a card. I can hold it, yes, but it disappears anyway.

Something magic, maybe? Maybe there's something you have to yell or something before it activates?

And it doesn't have to have anything that can be scanned, it just needs to have something happen. That's just how those things work.

[... Like an anime. Oh boy. She takes a moment to check with her QR reader though.]

For the latter, I likely not have received a scanner for it yet, unless it is compatible with any mundane item. I can tell you however that a QR reader registers nothing.

QR reader?

An application or item that is capable of reading Quick Response codes, or QR codes. QR codes see very prominent use in certain parts of the world.

[[one moment. Googling...]]

Oh those square cell phone code thingis? Didn't know they had a name.

A friend of mine had a card he flashbacked back. He can run it through a belt and it does a thing. Might be something like that.

If I did have a belt or other item for it, I don't have it yet.

Maybe a later flashback then.

Wish I had any other ideas! Sorry.

No, it's fine. I suppose it's unrealistic to know everything from just one small card of a deck of 22, and under these circumstances.

Everything with this comes in bits and confusion. I'm sure eventually it'll make more sense.

Until then, keep poking at it. Maybe it'll do something if you find just the right way to shake it.

That's the Fortune Arcana. It's usually associated with people who know their fates, but want to make their own path anyway.

[loooong pause.]

I don't know how I know that.

Really? You never had knowledge of this before?

Not until I saw your picture. Now I know about all of them.

Have you ever seen a tarot deck before?

I don't think so. I don't even really know what it's for.

On the importance of this card, neither do I. However, I'm able to manifest it by simply willing it to appear.

Does that make sense to you?

[There's a pause while Phillip thinks this over.]

No. I'm sorry.

It's fine. Your own analysis of the card is help enough.

I hope you figure it out.

Thank you.

In the meantime, may you tell me what the other cards are, and what they symbolize?

All of them? There are like 22.

That many? Perhaps simply the names of the rest then. I wouldn't want to keep you for too long.

[Especially when the handwriting makes it obvious that this is that young boy.]

Ok.

There's the Magician, the Priestess, the Empress, the Emperor, the Hierophant, the Lovers, the Chariot, the Justice, the Hermit, the Fortune, the Strength, the Hanged Man, the Death, the Temperance, the Devil, the Tower, the Star, the Moon, the Sun, the Aeon, the World, and the Fool. The Fool's either the first or the last one.

So the Fool is 1 or 22?

[Pause. No she's not counting this right.] Rather, 0 or 22.

Yes. It's special.

Interesting. A quick check online says it can also be unnumbered.

Apparently it can be used to signify the "protagonist" in a story. Is this true?

Yes. [...he doesn't know why that makes him smile.]

I see. That means it's a very unique card, and it would be interesting to see if I can manifest it one day.

Thank you for your help.

I hope you don't mind me snooping in your other conversations, but the idea of "summoning" something like this is pretty intriguing.

Doesn't it matter if it's right side up or upside down though? Does it differ when you summon it or is it always the same?

I don't mind at all. In fact, I welcome discussions of this nature, as I have had no interest nor knowledge in the sort before I received this card.

"Summoning" it is always the same; the blue mist appears just a fraction of a second before the card itself does, and the card will always appear upright, the face towards me.

I think a study of Echoes would be interesting, so I'm trying to go through Network posts to see different types...

I don't know anything about tarot to be honest, though. A quick google right now tells me... "Upright: Good luck, karma, life cycles, destiny, a turning point."

The life cycles, destiny, and turning point parts are actually pretty logical if you consider the reincarnation.

I've heard tell of an anonymous "echo" GDoc, where anyone can insert those they have already experienced, though I have not used it myself just yet. In addition, there is someone claiming they are working on a directory specific to the abilities one receives through these echoes.

Your search on the Wheel of Fortune is in line with what other people have been telling me, and yes I do find it strangely appropriate for our situation. Though I am not sure if this is some omen, a reminder or something else entirely.

I found that looking through the posts, actually. It's pretty vague, but it's useful for a data point graph so I have it printed out.

If anyone at work asks what I'm doing I just tell them I'm working on a book. Webbing, you know? It's worked so far.

Who's working on that? Are they anonymous? I'd like to talk to them about it at least.

As for the card, I can't be sure either. Nothing's impossible until proved otherwise, though, so just keep an eye on it. Who knows if it'll change?

[Okay okay working on... Organizing that by question, excuse her.]

1. The directory is not anonymous-- I have seen people leave their names and the one running it goes by the name "Raven". The GDoc however is indeed anonymous.

2. Or if I will receive more cards in the future. It is after all just one part of a deck.

Oh, the directory? I thought you meant the GDoc. I'll look into it.

Don't you need three cards for a tarot reading? Maybe you should expect more in the future.

Good luck. I know there are links to it somewhere around here.

And I am now aware of some rules to a reading, so I do expect to see more tarot-related echoes in my future, as odd as it now seems. Though they may help us in discovering more about this situation, or myself in knowing who I had been.

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