Comments on 78 Notes to Self: A Tarot Journal: Crazy Talking Cards

Lol, had to comment on this one. I've only had one...

2008-06-22T04:44:00.000-04:00

Lol, had to comment on this one. I've only had one deck, from the beginner's guide to tarot, but it does have moods when it wants. It especially likes to add one final shocker to the info as I'm shuffling the cards back in. Especially for relationship questions. Imagine the akwardness of explaining to your friend, in the back of science class, that her next boyfriend would have had a gay experience! And in the end her net boyfriend did have one, which kinda made my ears bleed when she told me, tmi...

It's a whole new word that opens up when that happ...

2006-10-24T17:41:00.000-04:00

It's a whole new word that opens up when that happens. I remember how it began to start in whispers for me, but when the Vacchetta tarot started "talking" -- and this deck is not RWS based, so it had to tell me everything -- I was amazed when I could actually understand its language. So cool, kat! Isn't it cool?

Browsing, I just came across this older post w/com...

2006-10-24T16:26:00.000-04:00

Browsing, I just came across this older post w/commentage. When you all were first talking I only used between 1 and 3 decks and wondered if I would ever reach the point of being able to discriminate meanings using varying symbolism - without relying too much in "traditional" meanings.

Now I've ventured into many more of my collected beauties and see what you are saying. So true...It's beginning to come clear for me too. These days I'm much more likely to listen to the card and the deck than what I originally learned. I still consult books a lot but the intuition is kicking in more. :)

See? Now, I'm not the only crazy one who hears the...

2006-08-16T02:04:00.000-04:00

See? Now, I'm not the only crazy one who hears the cards talking, am I? They truly do seem to have their own "voices" and "personalities" once we get to know them, right? This is why I don't usually offer a choice of decks to my clients. I have come to understand the language in which each deck "speaks" to me and therefore I usually know which one will render the kinds of answers I need.

And :D LOL, flavio and aguaclara. I don't have the Hanson Roberts, but yes, the Morgan Greer does seem to stick to the day to day issues. And the Haindl? Like telling jokes to a monk on retreat. Great for spiritual and deep, personal readings, though.

>the Haindl always takes things far too seriouslyT...

2006-08-15T21:10:00.000-04:00

>the Haindl always takes things far too seriously

That's true, that's true :-)

You're so right! my Hanson Roberts will tell me an...

2006-08-15T12:29:00.000-04:00

You're so right! my Hanson Roberts will tell me anything! but the Morgan Greer will only speak about mundane issues :)

Of course! Your analogy of one’s knowing the card...

2006-08-10T14:48:00.000-04:00

Of course! Your analogy of one’s knowing the cards as ever-changing as in a human relationship was so perfectly applicable to how I have come to understand them and will, no doubt, continue to grow in understanding. I loved how you said we can never fully know them just as we cannot fully know another human being because as we change and grow so do our understandings of the cards. It really IS about “relationship” and “dialogue” with these funny scraps of paper.

Oh, Sophia, I am so ... honored? ... verklempt? .....

2006-08-10T14:21:00.000-04:00

Oh, Sophia, I am so ... honored? ... verklempt? ... that this wonderful article was in any way prompted by my quote. You cover the topic so well. And I can only agree with it all!

blessings,
Patricia (a/k/a Roswila)

I hear ya. I've started and dropped too many blog...

2006-08-07T02:00:00.000-04:00

I hear ya. I've started and dropped too many blogs. What I've done is picked up an old blog that I let lapse and I'm turning it into my freeform Tarot musing blog. So the archaeomom8 one at LJ is for my daily stuff, work, archy stuff, family blahblah, etc., and the bloggger one will be mainly for working out Tarot. I'll sign in with that name and hopefully you can click and access it. If I fail I'll try again.

Journaling your thoughts about tarot is often high...

2006-08-06T21:45:00.000-04:00

Journaling your thoughts about tarot is often highly recommended. Me, I get grand ideas about journals, way too ambitious, and end up starting and not keeping up with them, or just being very haphazard. My suggestion would be to keep it simple and easy, no internal judge telling you how to do it, just free form. No systems. You'll be more likely to like doing it. Online is great, too, just like this one. :)

You are hitting the nail squarely on its little he...

2006-08-06T02:03:00.000-04:00

You are hitting the nail squarely on its little head in every post, Sophia. Now you've got me wanting to begin a Tarot journal, since I tend to learn and process by writing about stuff. Talking too, yes, but few to really talk Tarot to are around me right now. I don't want to burn out my intuitive young daughter. ;)