Q: How do you feel when you do readings? Thoth Tarot © US Games, Inc. It’s a combination thing. It’s important that when I’m shuffling that I get my mind out of the way, breathe deeply, connect with those quantum fluctuations and the querent’s situation, not my own stuff. I try to focus on the […]
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Reading for Self vs. Others: 30-Question Tarot Challenge Q20
Q: Do you read for yourself and/or for others? Why or why not? My reading space I started reading for myself back in 1999, and occasionally for husband or friends. Then I pretty much stopped until 2011, when I met a lovely lady originally from Yorkshire, who now lives in Caithness on the northern edges […]
The Power of the Cards: 30-Question Tarot Challenge Q19
Q: Do you feel/think the cards “think” or have their own consciousness? What do you believe makes the cards “tick?” (Is it magic/outside influences or all in the mind?) My belief system on this: Physics, actually. All aspects of the space-time fabric are connected, like threads in a tapestry, at quantum (very small) levels and […]
Connecting with My Cards: 30-Question Tarot Challenge Q18
Q18: Do you feel a “connection” to your cards? Well, since I feel a quantum-level energetic connection to all matter in the universe, including the particles that make up Tarot cards, I suppose that’s literally true. Also true at the macro level of the cards being influenced by my and the querent’s psychic energies as the […]
Reversals: 30-Question Tarot Challenge Q17
Q: Do you do readings using reversals? Why or why not? Eight of Wands Reversed, Universal Waite, © US Games, Inc. I used to, if the deck creator used them in their guidance. I am generally a firm believer in respecting the tradition of the deck and its creators. I love to use the theme and […]
Grandfathers: A Samhain Tarot Blog Hop
PREVIOUS BLOG | MASTER LIST | NEXT BLOG Unconditional love. Missing and yet immortal, for we see them in us. Grandfathers, grandmothers . . . and fathers, now. Still hard to believe, this one. Blessed Samhain, everyone. Feel the presence of those who have passed, for they are closer now as the darkness looms longer and the days grow […]
Majors or Minors Alone: 30-Question Tarot Challenge Q16
Q: Do you ever use the Major Arcana without the Minor Arcana or vice versa? The Hermit, Universal Tarot de Marseille, US Games, Inc. 9 Cups Universal Tarot de Marseille, US Games, Inc. Actually, except as part of Tarot learning groups I’ve participated in, no. I’ve thought about it for certain questions (like keeping to […]
Intuition vs. Set Meanings: 30-Question Tarot Challenge Q15
Q: How much emphasis do you put on the text-book meanings for cards, and how much stress do you place on the “feeling” you get from cards through their artwork/symbolism/etc. (aka reading intuitively)? Do you do both, or one or the other? I do both, about 50/50, really. I have an energetic philosophy about reader […]
