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bloodygranuaileTarot always gives me a lot to think about.
I find it interesting every time I do a reading to see how much stuff I've forgotten, which is frustrating, as opposed to how much stuff I feel I've been able to make more sense of than I had a handle on when I was first taught, which is pretty satisfying. I like finding things I consider to be errors in the way I was taught, and what that says about how I think versus the way he thought. I like trying to figure out what card most likely corresponds to people.
I don't so much like trying to explain the element/personality system to people, because I find it very, very difficult to put into easily understandable words that aren't too highly colored by the specifics I've run into in the past (and how much I hate them, sometimes), since it tends to get all metaphorical and intuitive and if you can't think using occult-sense it makes no sense at all, but if you can think using occult-sense it all seems self-explanatory. But it's a good challenge for me.
Some boys seem to have... problems with Tarot, either problems understanding it, or it makes them defensive and uncomfortable. Occasionally this is slightly amusing, but as I do tend to take it as an indication that something is wrong I tend to also feel bad for them. Although mostly it just annoys me, probably more than in other situations, because a Tarot reading works best as a dialogue and it gets annoying when the subject just listens silently to the interpretation and then runs away, or deliberatly misinterprets things in an absurd manner so that it can't function as it's supposed to--which is *not* as a tool for divination, but as a tool for introspection and analysis. (This is doubly annoying in group readings. *evil glare at Josh*) And it is both amusing and frustrating the amount of stuff that I was taught that I'm pretty sure is just wrong, and not part of any tradition, and that my teacher made up so that he could interpret things in a way that he was more comfortable with.
Tarot made for a hell of a chick bonding session, though; Ally and I have *completely* different reading systems, so when I asked her to teach me a Celtic Cross spread (because 21-card is a pain in the arse and I only know it because my teacher liked it because it is chronological and divides neatly into threes, and he was mathematic like that!), we ended up comparing decks and court card interpretations and what do with reverses and blah blah blah... and it went on for hours. And it was awesome. And eventually we got into talking about chakras and all sorts of other hippie new age bullshit forms of personality analysis that I haven't thought about for years.
I need to do readings for myself more often, especially now that I know a card draw that takes less than an hour to do. I've still never had a reading that was wrong. I've had ones that were accurate, and ones that were vague, and ones that I thought couldn't possibly be accurate but turned out to be right on the money, for better or for worse.
Reading Ally did for me seemed to say I am trying to rationalize my emotions into submission. This is about accurate. Hrmmmm.
I find it interesting every time I do a reading to see how much stuff I've forgotten, which is frustrating, as opposed to how much stuff I feel I've been able to make more sense of than I had a handle on when I was first taught, which is pretty satisfying. I like finding things I consider to be errors in the way I was taught, and what that says about how I think versus the way he thought. I like trying to figure out what card most likely corresponds to people.
I don't so much like trying to explain the element/personality system to people, because I find it very, very difficult to put into easily understandable words that aren't too highly colored by the specifics I've run into in the past (and how much I hate them, sometimes), since it tends to get all metaphorical and intuitive and if you can't think using occult-sense it makes no sense at all, but if you can think using occult-sense it all seems self-explanatory. But it's a good challenge for me.
Some boys seem to have... problems with Tarot, either problems understanding it, or it makes them defensive and uncomfortable. Occasionally this is slightly amusing, but as I do tend to take it as an indication that something is wrong I tend to also feel bad for them. Although mostly it just annoys me, probably more than in other situations, because a Tarot reading works best as a dialogue and it gets annoying when the subject just listens silently to the interpretation and then runs away, or deliberatly misinterprets things in an absurd manner so that it can't function as it's supposed to--which is *not* as a tool for divination, but as a tool for introspection and analysis. (This is doubly annoying in group readings. *evil glare at Josh*) And it is both amusing and frustrating the amount of stuff that I was taught that I'm pretty sure is just wrong, and not part of any tradition, and that my teacher made up so that he could interpret things in a way that he was more comfortable with.
Tarot made for a hell of a chick bonding session, though; Ally and I have *completely* different reading systems, so when I asked her to teach me a Celtic Cross spread (because 21-card is a pain in the arse and I only know it because my teacher liked it because it is chronological and divides neatly into threes, and he was mathematic like that!), we ended up comparing decks and court card interpretations and what do with reverses and blah blah blah... and it went on for hours. And it was awesome. And eventually we got into talking about chakras and all sorts of other hippie new age bullshit forms of personality analysis that I haven't thought about for years.
I need to do readings for myself more often, especially now that I know a card draw that takes less than an hour to do. I've still never had a reading that was wrong. I've had ones that were accurate, and ones that were vague, and ones that I thought couldn't possibly be accurate but turned out to be right on the money, for better or for worse.
Reading Ally did for me seemed to say I am trying to rationalize my emotions into submission. This is about accurate. Hrmmmm.
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Date: 2008-02-13 08:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-13 11:55 pm (UTC)And on a TOTALLY UNRELATED note, was there any sort of deck in particular you are keeping meaning to get?