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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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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.
To book a reading, or learn more visit www.arcanaadvising.com
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.
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".
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".
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