Great post! I read tarot and agree about its connection with art—mine is a gorgeous gothic deck by a fab artist. There is certainly misunderstanding of it, too, so this post is a good explainer.
In my experience, many people weirdly think of it as part of the 'dark arts', but I love the way you frame it in terms of storytelling and narrative, and its consequent benefits in self-exploration. That's perfect.
I must confess that I stopped reading for people who don't understand it. I got tired of trying to dissuade people of that weird association, and of explaining - again - that I wasn't going to conjure their dead granny to tell them their future or something. In other words, hats off to you for explaining it so beautifully and patiently. I'll just direct everyone here in future! :)
Ooh lovely! Send me some pics of your deck! Do you read for other people?
I use a few different decks for reading - I'll talk about some of them in the next post. I do think there's an intuitive and magical nature to Tarot but you definitely don't have to be psychic or clairvoyant to read the cards. Indeed, I got an AI to do a reading and it was spot on. I'll also write about that in a future post!
I will send a pic later :) It's very rare for me to read for other people these days. I used to, but I mostly read for myself now. Looking forward to the future posts! x
Indeed. There are many ways to read Tarot cards, depending on your purposes! Also depending on the deck, as the meaning and tone of different images can vary. It's a very versatile resource, in my experience.
Great post! I read tarot and agree about its connection with art—mine is a gorgeous gothic deck by a fab artist. There is certainly misunderstanding of it, too, so this post is a good explainer.
In my experience, many people weirdly think of it as part of the 'dark arts', but I love the way you frame it in terms of storytelling and narrative, and its consequent benefits in self-exploration. That's perfect.
I must confess that I stopped reading for people who don't understand it. I got tired of trying to dissuade people of that weird association, and of explaining - again - that I wasn't going to conjure their dead granny to tell them their future or something. In other words, hats off to you for explaining it so beautifully and patiently. I'll just direct everyone here in future! :)
Ooh lovely! Send me some pics of your deck! Do you read for other people?
I use a few different decks for reading - I'll talk about some of them in the next post. I do think there's an intuitive and magical nature to Tarot but you definitely don't have to be psychic or clairvoyant to read the cards. Indeed, I got an AI to do a reading and it was spot on. I'll also write about that in a future post!
I will send a pic later :) It's very rare for me to read for other people these days. I used to, but I mostly read for myself now. Looking forward to the future posts! x
Thanks Sarah!
Indeed. There are many ways to read Tarot cards, depending on your purposes! Also depending on the deck, as the meaning and tone of different images can vary. It's a very versatile resource, in my experience.
I've found all sorts of keys from all sorts of books. Personally find Waites Pictorial Key to the Tarot very obscure, deliberately so I assume.
Do you read for others or mainly for yourself?
Aha! That's great. Love to get a reading from you at some point.