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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