An interesting way to practice...Reading on crime-mystery shows

[Saturn Celeste]

http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=276459

I found this thread fascinating!  It was started by Julian Jaymes:

OK, so my Mom and I love those real-crime mystery shows - you know, the ones where you start out hearing about the crime scene, and then how they proceeded with the case, and finally, in the end, you hear who was convicted? *I don't say "who REALLY did it" because I honestly don't think they always get it right.*

 

(Bear in mind that I DO realize this could be considered disrespectful, and also many people probably wouldn't be comfortable reading on real stories. You could also use a crime show like Criminal Minds or one of the Law & Order series, if you're not comfortable reading on a true tragedy.)

 

Anyway, recently we were watching Forensic Files together - it's kind of our bonding thing, always has been - and I was just shuffling, and suddenly it hit me. And I said to my Mom: "I wonder if I could predict who the killer was with Tarot cards?"

 

Mom laughed but agreed that would be cool. We decided that I would shuffle up my cards and read during commercial breaks. So we watched the show together and I gave Mom my theories during each commercial break. To be honest, I didn't get that one right - but we both thought they arrested the wrong guy anyway, so we didn't discount my reading entirely.

 

It was also a great way to learn to just trust my instinct, not think or over-analyze - I had to just say "I think it was a guy he was dealing drugs with out of the restaurant, and they had a deal gone bad and his 'business partner' killed him over it." I think this could also be a great way to learn to "speed read," if you're interested in that. If not, you could certainly pause the show (if you have a DVR thingy) and take some time during each commercial break, or maybe just that last break before they reveal the outcome.

 

I've heard of reading for fictional characters, so I guess you could really do this with any kind of show, not necessarily a murder mystery. Game of Thrones? Criminal Minds? Twin Peaks?

 

Let me know what you think, and whether you've done this, and how it turned out!

 

~Julian

[AJ-ish/Sharyn]

I practiced by

who died

who dunit

Wrote them on sticky notes and put it in the last page of the book

with mysteries for quite awhile.  Good for a laugh if nothing else.

 

I defy anyone to get some right...

[joy]

Love Crime / Conspiracy movies. So guess I will give this a try next time I watch one!

[Sar]

Doing this and copy the styles of the readers I admired the most were how I learned to read Tarot and other systems.

[Morwenna]

I never read for crime shows, but I have read for fictional characters in books, analytically rather than predictively, and it's surprising how well that works out. It's a great learning tool.