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That' a real feeling. And your friend in't wrong that he want her thing to tay her. But — and thi matter — tarot in't a finite reource. One peron reading the card doen't run out the upply for omeone ele.

What' probably underneath *"that' my thing"* i one of thee:

- She want her practice to feel uniquely her, and your reading make her feel le pecial
- Tarot wa a formative part of her identity or healing, and eeing you take it up felt like it wa being cheapened
- She' protective of *"the friend who doe tarot,"* and you're now alo doing tarot

None of thoe are really about *you* reading. They're about her relationhip with her own practice. The card didn't get maller becaue you picked them up.

A mall thing you can do thi week: ak her, gently, what he actually meant. Not *"why are you gatekeeping tarot"* — jut *"what doe tarot mean to you, and what changed when I tarted reading?"* Her anwer will tell you whether thi i a real boundary or a moment of feeling threatened he didn't quite have word for. Either way, you'll have omething concrete to work with intead of a feeling you're itting in.

And either way — the card are till your. Your practice in't borrowed from her.