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I have noticed strong similarities between my content and this person's ever since I created my blog, and just a few days later, this person @/hermetiqa changed the aesthetic of theirs. I know i am a small blog with less than 400 followers and i disappear a lot. I have had sad experiences with plagiarism before, people have stolen my work (tarot and non tarot), and even if this isn’t exactly that, it’s really frustrating when someone with a bigger blog starts taking a lot of inspiration from you, never acknowledges it, you block them, and even after being blocked, they come back and keep doing it.

There’s no problem with being inspired, the issue is the context and how often it happens. Especially because this person changed their aesthetic after I opened my blog, along with their masterlist. I only found out now that they kept going because some friends outside my tarot blog told me. My last post was in November and guess what? So was theirs. I don’t know them, and they don’t know me. But the vibe here for me stinks bad. There’s also one thought that crossed my mind, even if it sounds silly: their blog has been around longer than mine, so what if I come back and they do it again? I won't feel comfortable because they made it weird. They could have said: oh and this masterlist was inspired by clairdelune. Like, they have paid readings, and are gaining money out of people. If you are having a business at least be transparent and support newcomers with their small business too when there's something you like or something you take inspo from.

PSA: I don't want anyone to give me advice on how to proceed, I just want to vent about this and not feel like I'm crazy. Even if it doesn't seem like it, this takes A LOT of time and days. Making tarot readings for a lot of public is draining because of the energies, and then decorating and coming up with something to make it look attractive is also draining. It's not a crime to get inspired, but the way this person has handled it has made me angry and feel a very bad energy around it.

For context this was their blog before:

It was simple, cute, straight to the point with three pictures. When you went down to read your pile, no section of "signs" with mbti or astrological placements where there. I love mbti, i checked their readings superficially and never noticed them referencing them. Here, you can see it for yourself:

then here's where it all started for me. This is what their masterlist looked like before:

Now this is what it looked like after taking inspiration from me and not even changing the roman numbers. Just changing small details but the essence is there. That's the difference with inspo and copy. You can take inspo from someone but the essence is going to be yours. If they did not change a few little tiny things, this would be confused with mine.

After this I blocked them. My thought process was: If they are a big blog and can do this with no one raising their eyebrows, It's safe to say they could even take inspo from my pictures and even readings. I don't know them, I don't know if this could be a one time thing or something that can continue, or worse: something that can enter plagiarism. I was hoping this would be enough for them to never see my blog again. But no. It kept going. At least they haven't copied what i write as I am aware.

Now, this can get tricky because unlike plagiarism, this is more inspiration based. Which is not a crime, but again, this being done heavily, with no acknowledgement whatsoever because i am a lesser known blog and after getting blocked? Not so nice and too much to be coincidence. Check the dates.

Same months, and this one took two weeks because before that, they posted another reading in between. I mean, putting floating png objects is not a trademark. But after I blocked them for what they did with my masterlist it pissed me off. Right now, them gaining more interactions with their post after this and with no acknowledgement is what did not sit well with me. It is hard to be a new blog in the tarot community and opening a ton of ask games for people to then unfollow you when they get their energy and reading from you and never interact with your blog again. Specially when this was a chance for you to get some money for college. But then again, seeing the strong similarities gets tricky, but you can see the inspiration.

Mine:

Theirs:

They never posted that section before. You can see it in their readings before, right? So when I started posting it too, guess what? they did it too. You know, it doesn’t feel fair that even after blocking them so they would leave me alone and find someone else to get inspired by, they still have this recurrent thing with me and might keep doing it with anything new I come up with. Because i stopped posting readings, the last reading I posted was the same theme (romantic partner) and with strong similarities as mine. I have not posted ever since. The one before that for me was future spouse related and theirs too. You know what's crazy? Mine got a lot of trouble and issues with the aesthetic I had to pull it down. This person's energy is so down heavy it made me put down my reading.

This can be called speculation, but we are in a spiritual community and I believe this could not be a coincidence and their energy towards me is not a good one. You can check the date. All in november. This is also a warning for other tarot readers, if you are sensitive like me with people's vibes, beware when opening a tarot blog.

They don't just do it with one thing and move on, they keep doing it with several things even after not being well received by my end, and it becomes annoying and it literally made me put my own post down.

I just want to leave this here before closing this blog and moving on, because honestly this hasn't been my year and I know it’s just starting, but little things like this don't give me a good vibe to keep running such an open blog to any audience. The energy is so draining and I want to do impulsive things like deleting my posts. Because I start thinking back to times where people straight up stole my work or envied it and posted it as theirs and I don't want that happening again.

Again, please, be mindful with your comments. If you have something rude to say, keep it.

Hello! I would like to take this opportunity to inform you all that I've had personal difficulties that force me to delay the poll winning tarot reading :(

Hiii, I hope I make it in time! :)

Initials: A.F. Age: 18 Rising sign: Leo Aries placements on earliest degree: None! (Although I have Aries MC at 13°, no other Aries placements apart from that) My question: What personal flaws of mine are blocking any potential romance from taking place? 🥲

Thank you, have a nice day :)

What personal flaws of AF are blocking any potential romance from taking place?

Your cards were very direct, I like that. Or maybe I just liked your energy cuz is more inviting haha. Anyways: You are an overthinker! That’s it. Now getting more into it… For starters I realize that your biggest obstacle is that you have all this energy and encouragement to get started but, all of a sudden you stop. It's like you're stuck in the doldrums thinking in the least optimistic way about the possibility of something without even taking the necessary steps to get into it. You don't even get to explore it, and I got a card that talks about potential in reversed. What does it mean? It's a cup, and it speaks of emotions. Your heart probably has a hard time opening up at first. You end up blocking the natural flow of things yourself. I do believe you tend to intellectualize things so much. Maybe this is why I got so much sadness from a card and if you do that be careful! I know this is a defense mechanism from you. But it is not a healthy one. You prefer what you know and dislike uncertainty. Now this means that you don't know how to manage, let alone take the initiative on your emotional connections. You get stuck in doubt and fail to balance your emotions with your anxiety. You are likely to analyze everything and become impulsive about that anxiety, and therefore cut off certain connections before they start or don't even bother to enter into them because you notice a particular detail of something you didn't like. You get stuck in that inner struggle that you don't end up doing much, really. Things don't take the initiative. So to get out of this stagnation you need to look for some stability in yourself. Learn how to stop overthinking and intellectualizing everything. Just breathe. Know that not everything needs to be perfect and sometimes hurt happens even if we try our best to avoid it. It’s inevitable. Like the Little Prince said: “Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.” You must learn to balance that stability with some action and initiative without letting those anxieties take over. Asking yourself a simple "Is it really that bad?" or "Is this my anxiety/fear or am I over analyzing it?" or even more simple “Am I living?” to yourself would serve you well. Letting your mind take over your heart is not letting it beat freely. And the heart saddens. Question that anxiety, challenge it to find out if it is really true what it makes you believe. It is good to discern and use logic, but in your case you need to learn to balance heart and mind. Because your mind doesn’t play for you, it plays against you. It puts locks in your heart. I can’t stop quoting books and authors but this will (not) be the last and it goes:

“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”

Learn how to manage it to the point it is not your enemy anymore, but your best friend. Bell Hooks said the practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control. So stop waiting and thinking about it too much and as nike says: just do it. Enjoy and feel. Don't waste your heart in fear.

Casually dropping his hyper fixation into the convo so he’s forced to talk to me for another hour

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Attention! The tarot game is closed

Just a reminder that the tarot game closed two weeks ago. I know a lot of you have been enjoying it, and I really appreciate all the interest and enthusiasm. But the message about the x-kit issue had nothing to do with the tarot game. I hope that clears things up! Thank you for your understanding and support. Please avoid sending any more questions for the game, as they won’t be answered. Right now, I’m only accepting questions about the pick a pile readings I’ve done. Thanks to everyone who participated!

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GENERAL:

★  this  is  the  general  quarters,  please  be  mindful.  remember  you  have  the  control  of  your  actions  and  your  mindset  and  this  is  a  general  reading,  it  is  only  predicting  your  most  possible  outcome!

Your Academic Strengths

PERSONAL  GROWTH:

★  this  is  the  personal  growth  quarters,  please  be  mindful.  if  you  want  to  be  the  best  version  of  yourself  you  should  remember  perfection  does  not  exist,  but  you  can  always  improve!

ROMANCE:

★  this  is  the  romance  quarters,  please  be  mindful.  you  should  not  question  if  your  partner  loves  you,  they  should  make  you  feel  secure!

I.  CRUSH:

Are they talking about you to their friends? What are they saying?

What does your person of interest thinks of you?

II.  CURRENT/FUTURE  PARTNER:

Who will be your first romantic partner?

III.  FUTURE  SPOUSE:

Who is your Future Spouse?

Their sexual style with you

IV.  EX:

hi, followed all your rules and found your blog beautiful. Can I ask from which country my future spouse comes from?

Thanks a lot, from M 23 🖤🥀

What country is M's future spouse from?

tower rx, 7 of wands 

Your future spouse could be from a latin country, or you could be. One of you moved abroad or just wants to move abroad from that country. The cards talk about a third world country. I think this would be better with astro cartography; tarot is not so much my best choice for this. The country could be from regions like Latin America (Venezuela, Argentina, and a small chance that it could be Colombia) or parts of Eastern Europe (Ukraine or even Serbia), where significant changes have taken place—whether political, economic, or even social—causing a period of struggle. Or just all of them together (phew). The country might still be dealing with the aftermath of these shifts, so its people are feeling uncertain about the future. There’s disillusionment or a loss of hope in the country’s direction, like challenges in fully regaining stability. The country is currently going through systemic changes. 

hii, how r u? I'm E and 19

Question: Who is my future spouse?

Thanks a lot 🖤💕

Who is E's future spouse?

10 of pentacles rx, 2 of cups

Your future spouse has definitely been through it with being too generous in the past, but that's actually made them pretty wise about how they share their time and energy now. Quiet and thoughtful. They are introverted. They will be sweet and kind. They've totally figured out that genuine connections matter way more than material stuff, which makes them amazing at relationships (I’m talking emotionally open: closeness/intimacy and mutual respect). They're done with fake connections and know exactly what they want. Independent. They appreciate connections but are willing to let go if something does not serves them anymore (woah, healthy! they will indeed learned from their past). They're gonna be lovable and super devoted to building something real with you.

Hi, hope you're fine. I'm NM, 22 and i would like to ask if my future spouse will reach out to me soon

Thanks in advance 😊

Will NM's future spouse reach out to them soon?

5 of wands rx & temperance rx

They won't reach out to you soon. Neither of you are ready to take that step yet. By the look of the cards it seems you already know your future spouse, but things between you two have been a little messy or maybe even strained. There is a possibility that I may have simply channeled the intense energy you are experiencing in your life right now and may be mistaken lmao. Anyways, It's as if you want to move on from a recent heartbreak but lack the trust or drive to do so. They, too, are not in the best position to reach out. They need to work on themselves and get their lives in order (there's a lot of emotional/personal struggles in their lives as of now) before they can reach out and start anything serious. As of right now, it's not their top priority.