I noticed the #Tarot7Connection video challenge via Marilyn from Tarot Clarity on Tarot Tube and determined I might publish a response by way of weblog earlier than studying the questions! =)
For visible curiosity, there will probably be random images of fairly tarot decks accompanying my responses – no connection between the images and my responses past coincidence.
1. Are there any varieties of readings you gained’t do? Why not?
If I don’t assume I can do a honest studying for the querent, then I’ll decline. For me, it’s not a lot the regurgitated tarot ethics of no well being, authorized, monetary, third-party, blah blah; it’s extra about whether or not or not I’m able to dial in 100% for that querent for the query at hand.
There’s a complete weblog sequence someplace on this web site the place I discuss tarot ethics.
I feel a number of speaking of curses and breaking curses are large pink flags. However I additionally assume perception in curses might be cultural and bonafide, so in the end it’s a “it relies upon.”
Getting folks to depend on tarot readings for authorized, monetary, or medical recommendation is extraordinarily irresponsible and will get you into a great deal of shopper safety bother, because it ought to. However I additionally assume dismissing that modalities of mysticism may reply questions that established establishments can not at the moment show you how to with is ignorant, and even a missed alternative.
I feel third-party readings is akin to gossiping and/or spying. It’s not the worst factor to do, but it surely’s in all probability not a nice factor to do.
All that’s to say there aren’t any varieties of readings I’ll by no means, ever do it doesn’t matter what, however there are additionally varieties of readings that instantly put me on alert and I tread with care. It’s bought to be a case by case evaluation.
2. Is there any tarot card you establish with essentially the most? Which is it?
For me, this may change relying on the section in life or experiences I’m going by. So as an example, going by a section of in search of Divinity, I felt most linked with the Ace of Cups, which additionally coincided with a interval of my life once I was making an attempt to develop a deeper sense of management over elemental Water. Recently, not by any sense of private preferences or intentions however reasonably due to precise circumstances in my life, it’s been The Solar card.
I recall as a pre-teen figuring out with the Web page of Swords essentially the most, after which a while round regulation college I promoted myself to the Queen of Swords. As of late I really feel like I establish essentially the most with Justice, but additionally Justice-Energy, Energy-Justice, curiously sufficient, the place I’m bonded to each. The pairing additionally occurs to correspond with the pairing of my solar and moon indicators.
3. Is there any studying that you just’ve ever finished that both gave you the chills or impressed you.
I might guess anybody who has been studying tarot for years can have numerous eerie tales to inform. In any case, if there wasn’t noticed and palpable, repeated accuracy or synchronicity taking place whenever you learn tarot, what’s preserving your curiosity?
I additionally assume that as a practitioner, it’s wholesome to detach from “spectacular” previous readings so that you by no means lose perspective or develop an over-inflated ego about your individual superpowers.
To reply the query although, maybe essentially the most memorable ones aren’t ones I do alone, however occur when a bunch of tarot readers get collectively and consensus actuality occurs. Like all of us, in unison, felt the identical presence of one thing, or bought the identical actual message throughout completely different decks, or created and apparently generated one thing by our mixed focus.
4. Which is your most well-liked system of tarot? Why do you want this method finest?
The RWS is the system I’m essentially the most acquainted with, like in-my-sleep degree of familiarity. Coming in second could be the Thoth. Though at the moment, in the meanwhile of scripting this, just because I’ve been working on my Etteilla deck, my private dabblings with the tarot have been Etteilla associated.
My most well-liked system of tarot proper now, which means if I had a super-important studying I needed to do, which might I attain for, it’d be my very own SKT. However that’s simply because I designed the SKT particularly tailor-made to my private studying strategy, how I entry The Past, and the way I finest obtain messages from The Past.
5. Do you like doing in-person readings, distant, or different varieties? Why?
I wouldn’t say I’ve a desire. Between, say, 1995 and 2012, I solely did in-person readings, after which from 2012 to 2019, half of the skilled readings I did have been in-person. The pandemic modified that fairly a bit. Readings I do as of late are usually distant, although I’ve finished a couple of native in-person studying occasions.
This query may be an excellent launching off level for speaking about studying fashion.
In highschool, faculty, and even for many of regulation college, my studying fashion was the monotonous Celtic Cross unfold. No deviation from it. I’d ask on your solar signal, decide a significator card based mostly in your signal, have you ever shuffle the deck whereas specializing in the query, you resolve whether or not you wish to ask the query upfront or have me proceed with a normal studying after which we slim right down to answering your query, after which out offers the Celtic Cross.
After nearly a decade of Celtic Cross or bust, I went by this section of desirous to check out all the spreads, the whole lot from one- and two-card readings to utilizing all 78 playing cards, specified by concentric circles on the ground (as a result of who has a desk that large?), and you need to stroll round simply to learn the studying.
Then in my grownup years of studying, I favored going with a short-form adaptation of the Opening of the Key (OOTK). Once more, choosing a significator card, then the Opening of the 4 Worlds earlier than realizing your query, an operation I known as a “preliminary studying,” after which after you get the preliminary studying (and earlier than I’ve heard your query), you ask your query and we proceed with no matter unfold technique I decide will work finest on your kind of query. Sometimes that unfold technique will pull from the opposite operations of the OOTK.
6. Apart from tarot are there some other oracular programs you take pleasure in utilizing? Which of them and why?
I Ching was in my life earlier than the tarot. So there’s that. I’m additionally confidently satisfied that I’ve discovered a tried-and-true strategy of reconciling the tarot and the I Ching programs, so I really like making use of my very own strategy and dealing with the 2 in tandem with one another.
I don’t know whether or not tea leaf studying and palmistry depend as oracular programs, however these two have at all times been in my life as properly, by way of household. A lot of my aunts, uncles, and cousins to some degree or one other would learn tea leaves and palms.
Is feng shui an oracular system? I do not know. It may be, arguably, as a result of there’s the idea that the configuration of your dwelling house says rather a lot about your luck, well being, wealth, and future.
Oh, and likewise in fact, astrology.
7. What solidified your reference to the tarot?
I imply. The higher query is how is somebody not fascinated with the tarot, other than having non secular ideologies programmed in opposition to it? Even the atheistic scientist who isn’t closed-minded and who takes the time to be taught slightly extra concerning the tarot will take pause.
You may strategy the tarot on the degree of deliciously enjoyable and entertaining fortune-telling. You may go deep making an attempt to research what its historic and cultural origins might need been past the Italian Renaissance.
Finding out how varied occultists have documented connections between the tarot and esoteric philosophies is a lifetime’s provide of exploration. There’s one thing about it that makes the tarot extremely conducive for self-reflection and introspection.
Whether or not you name it speaking to your internal self or speaking to spirit entities, the tarot is an efficient medium. Which is why tarot readers typically discuss concerning the earlier Query #3 — all of us have chilling or spectacular, unexplained and eerie experiences with the tarot.
Would love to listen to your response to anybody or mixture of those seven questions!
Additionally, be sure you head on over to Tarot Tube to observe the numerous video responses (VRs) to Marilyn’s #Tarot7Connection problem!
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