Hi all,
I finally got around to purchasing myself a Harrow Deck, and I'm very glad I did. It's an awesome product, and I've already used it a couple of times to try and divine my and my wife's future, just to get a feel of it.
However, with our last spread, we got the card called 'The Theater' (NG Cha), and reading the explanation in the booklet made me none the wiser.
It says:
"The Theater is the card of true prophecy. The puppets act out a scene, just as the prophet acts out a scene in which he has no part. The prophet is the audience and the prophecy is the show. She has no influence on what she sees, and its importance is often not recognized until too late. [...]"
I have no idea how to interpret this one. Is the prophet mentioned actually the Harrower reading this deck, and the prophecy the spread she has before her? In other words, is this more a meta-card? If not, who is the prophet, and what is the prophecy?
The description ends with:
"[...] If misaligned, the prophecy is just for show."
And this is the part that made me confused in the first place (since the card we had was indeed misaligned). At first I thought this card meant the whole spread was just bogus.
Or am I just looking to far? Perhaps this card is only useful within an actual game where divinations are made and prophecies are followed, and not really suited for "real life spreads"?
How would you interpret this card?
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Mis-alligned, I would see this weaving through the other prophecies, giving multiple 'branches' of prophecy, some true, some not... I would say less "x will happen" and more "X may happen, but depending on your choices so may Y,Z or W" That way you don't loose the importance of the other cards, but the reading feels a lot less true to the PCs. The truth is in there, but you have to find it.
Chief Technical Officer
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I suspect that if you try to take cards as "meta," you'll have a tough time.
The way I see it, this card means "What you think will happen will happen, no matter what you do or don't do." Misaligned, I'd go with "What you think will happen is just a ruse—don't be misled" or perhaps in the right-hand column, "You will think that what happened was exactly what you thought was going to—but that isn't what *really* will have happened."