Tuesday, July 18, 2017

My first big read and interview with the Mary El Tarot


I’m usually not a “let’s interview the tarot deck” personHowever when I received the Mary El Tarot , I thought that an interview might be in order.
The spread I used is as follows: 
1     2     3 
4     5     6

1.      Tell me about yourself. What is your most important characteristic?
2.      What are your strengths as a deck?
3.      What are your limits as a deck?
4.      What are you here to teach me?
5.      How can I best learn and collaborate with you?
6.      What is the potential outcome of our working relationship?


And then I pulled another card for How do you like to work with querants/seekers/clients?


1.       Tell me about yourself. What is your most important characteristic? Queen of swords. The queen of swords is often translated as truthful to the point of being critical. The combination of the raven/crow and the eye reminds me of various messengers of prophecy, or scouts. Odin. This deck she speaks what she sees. By no small coincidence, I have also received recently the book Queen of Swords by R.S. Belcher as well. All the messages!
2.       What are your strengths as a deck?  Queen of Wands. Book notes refer to the Queen of Wands in shorthand as creates an environment of spirit. She is not the high priestess or the hierophant or the magician, dealing with religion, science, teaching, or will, but she fosters growth.
3.       What are your limits as a deck? Ten of Disks. This deck isn’t for parties or family time, and prefers not to read mundane. Not a quick deck to master.
4.       What are you here to teach me? Ten of Cups. Fullness of spirit.  Time flies. Choose your connections.
5.       How can I best learn and collaborate with you? Three of Cups  Building relationship and creativity . Read what you see.  “Fill yourself” . Go to Source.
6.       What is the potential outcome of our working relationship? Book notes shorthand is initiators of body. Page of disks . Wow. Not an ace beginning of a certain aspect, but a new start that is nurtured . Not just the seed, but also not complete. Tenderly aware. Bliss of a baby.  Sheltered and carried. Book keywords are have faith in your own abilities, you were made for this. Perfection in form. Be grounded and in the moment. Take your skills and walk forward in life. The focus on sandals, and newly formed baby feet haven’t walked much, but are ready. 
 And then I pulled another card for How do you like to work with querants/seekers/clients? The Mary El likes to help people grow emotionally, it seems, as well as to work with reflective, and deep readings. 

       The Mary El Tarot is not an "easy" deck, and not a deck that has books and books upon it. But tarot is tarot, and I appreciate being challenged to dive in a bit on this one.   



  



Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Have you ever lost faith in the tarot?

The other day, on an online forum, someone had asked if I had ever lost faith in the Tarot.

My response.

As a matter of fact it exists. As a matter of experience, I have found using the Tarot to be effective.

Tarot does not require ever having faith, so there is no faith to be lost, or found for that matter.  As a tool, like a hammer. Used effectively, by a skilled person can create or will create the desired result.

I have always found tarot to be useful. To show or reveal new perceptions of the situation, yes. To give a hint or peek at the likely outcome, yes. To reflect or meditate upon, yes.

I am human, and therefore receiving things through a human perception. Reading the tarot is telling the story of what I see, so I am telling you always what I see at the time.

To say I am perfect, is too much ego. The greatest chef sometimes burn a dish or have a cake fall. As it is with tarot.

I will say I am confident in my use of the tarot, to provide answers, to provide the thoughts and story for contemplation.

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Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Does that mean something that the card is upside down?


Tarot Rebels Blog hop

As part of this months Tarot Rebel's blog hop, I'm giving my response to if I read reversals , or read them differently than cards upright.  First, I'll start out with stating that there is no set right or wrong answer, just as there are many methods or styles. 

There are also , as well many decks that aren't suited or designed for reversals. The Thoth deck, (and Thoth based) are not to be read reversed. They is though a consideration of well dignified or ill dignified, which are similar to the concept of reversed, but the cards are right side up. A card would be considered ill dignified, in simplest terms, if the cards surrounding it "weaken it" by being its elemental opposite  

Pip minors cards tend to not  read reversals well as they are nearly upright or reversed can hardly be distinguished. 

As I shuffle, I tend to naturally keep my cards facing the same direction. It just was a kind of natural habit for me. 

From here on below, is more my perspectives. 

Viewing tarot as art, an upside down painting doesn't  change what the image is, or what it means, it is simply upside down. 

In mathematical terms, there are so many possibilities of card combinations to me. 

To say that reversals are absolutely needed, is to say that somehow the Tarot at 78 cards, is incomplete, and that double those would be needed to account for different meanings.  

Most importantly, the majority of my readings are face to face, and the way that I read, in my Tarot "voice" , find reversals would be a distraction and a detractor of the messages. 

I personally have gotten plenty of detail without reversals, and I've never felt the need for reversals. 

There are so many  messages and perspectives that already turn me on my head, without reversals.

As a side note, some Marseilles have the number 12 flipped on the Hanged Man.



I feel also that whatever systems the reader is using, spreads, or reversals, should be planned, and consistent. 

So does it mean something if the card is upside down? This depends on the reader usually and their system. 

Does it mean something if I know that I've had all my cards one direction, and then somehow a few are turned differently? Possibly,  

Does it mean something if the card is upside down? If the seeker or querant notices and asks the question, perhaps it does, even if it does just to them. 

In general, I don't read tarot reversals with any of the decks I currently have.

Recently, a card came up reversed. What was odd is the fact that I intentionally shuffle one direction, yet somehow it came  up reversed. The client asked about this, so I said "It may. The card typically means more along the lines of this, but in this case, since this drew your attention, we may consider that you should pay attention to "this" " . This gave the possibility and observation that it could, gave some consideration, but did not give the automatic "this now means this".