What is a Tarot card reading? Tarot reading has all the
wonder of reading an exotic novel and discovering yourself
as the main character. Tarot cards do not require the
ability to read minds or flashes of clairvoyance. The
insight of a Tarot master comes from her knowledge of
symbolism and metaphor. Poets make excellent Tarot card
readers. So do artists and linguists. If you can read
between the lines, find the humour in a bad situation,
or have a knack for understanding the intentions of other
people then you are already a natural Tarot card reader.
The best Tarot card readers are always interested in the
symbolism of their decks and resist the urge to follow
any formula when performing an interpretation. A Tarot
card reading is a learning process. An enormous amount
of information is enfolded into a Tarot deck and one human
lifetime is simply too brief to unpack it all. Most of
that information is irrelevant to whatever matter sparked
our interest in the Tarot in the first place. The cards
tend to describe internal conditions more often than external
circumstances simply because our internal lives tend to
be much more active than our external lives. The majority
of the cards in our spreads will refer to our habits and
daily minutiae, which is fine, but in the beginning we
need a method or system to emphasize the issues that we
want to explore in depth. The traditional way of identifying
and extracting useful information is to structure a reading
around the themes of world mythology. My own introduction
to the mythology of the Tarot was through the booklet
that was included with my Tarot cards. If companion manuals
to Tarot card sets are seen as a type of rulebook for
the Tarot, then this series of posts is a kind of exegesis
or history of those rules. Eventually all this information
will be packaged into a book so take advantage of it while
its freely available! It should only take me a few decades
to analyze all 78 cards so don’t wait. We begin our journey
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