tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30754098.post8690118851771890229..comments2009-04-12T11:47:42.290-04:00Ginnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03759784851970527096noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30754098.post-90350228802503235982009-04-12T11:47:00.000-04:002009-04-12T11:47:00.000-04:00Hehe, Sam, I know, right? But seriously, we all have that. Intuition, I mean. And it comes into play a great deal when reading tarot, but reading tarot cards themselves also involves understanding what the cards themselves mean. Many clients will assume tarot readers = psychic. And that's a whole post in itself.Ginnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03759784851970527096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30754098.post-8501399607685864272009-04-12T03:43:00.000-04:002009-04-12T03:43:00.000-04:00You mean you DON'T have the second sight!??!? <BR/>Haha.<BR/>I feel as though I get that reaction a lot when I ask questions about Tarot and its variations.samhttp://poker.betfair.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30754098.post-53554080847259788452008-11-05T19:13:00.000-05:002008-11-05T19:13:00.000-05:00PS: the link is http://stregheriapratica.blogspot.com/2008/11/6-coisas-aleatrias.htmlPietrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10634128553847103919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30754098.post-18663413964143575302008-10-29T17:55:00.000-04:002008-10-29T17:55:00.000-04:00I can see that. <BR/><BR/>A number of tarot readers see themselves as so spontaneous, and free, and "Fool-like" they feel they can't be bothered with clarification. <BR/><BR/>It's still a hundred steps above above asking to be worshipped as the wisest and most enlightened person on earth because you can read the cards well, or, god forbid, tarot-reading curses to be lifted for a "small sum", but all these behaviors come from a reader's poor boundary issues. <BR/><BR/>Unfortunately, when it comes to behavior, some creative people drawn to the tarot, tend to be . . . too creative.David Alan Richardshttp://www.davidalanrichards.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30754098.post-27921460063002058232008-10-23T19:24:00.000-04:002008-10-23T19:24:00.000-04:00Hi David,<BR/><BR/>I hear ya. Traditions start somewhere and where they started most likely was out of someone's underwear. Like the martial artists you referenced, someone once created that move, that style, out of seemingly nowhere. So I am quick to point out that I do see tarot reading as an ever-evolving kind if thing, not static, and open to change and new ideas and practices. Time and common acceptance of a practice tends to create "tradition."<BR/><BR/>That said, that random punch out of nowhere can be awesome. But I don't think anyone who knows that style would accept that it was of that style. It may very well be effective and win the day, but it's not part of the traditional framework. And then again, new things have come from that, such as MMA, mixed martial arts, which includes boxing, wrestling, martial arts, and all sorts of no holds barred fighting styles. However, it's not called "Kung Fu" nor "Jujitsu" but MMA. It fully accepts it is a mishmash of all styles. A tarot reading, too, can include psychic "punches," flashes of intuitive knowing that may not have come directly from the cards, but which certainly should be shared with the querant. I would simply be clear that this did not come from the cards. As Troi's father's tarot reader described the car he just sold -- certainly intuitive/psychic, but no, we don't see silver Chryslers in a Rider Waite Smith deck. Good call on her part, but not from the cards.<BR/><BR/>So why am I nitpicking if intuitive readings work? Because it bugs me when they are billed as "tarot readings." I had enough trouble on that online consulting service from clients who expected tarot readers to be psychic that I do feel the distinction should be made clearly. Certainly the two kinds of readings can be combined, a kind of MMA of readings, but I feel the reader should say so.Ginnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03759784851970527096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30754098.post-50669064710373478492008-10-23T16:41:00.000-04:002008-10-23T16:41:00.000-04:00I kind of relate to what you're saying. I kind of don't. <BR/><BR/>It's kind of like, if you call yourself a martial artist and, in a fight, you give someone a random punch out of nowhere, based on no tradition or technique or formal art and you knock them out Well, obviously it's martially effective, but martial arts are more then results. They're also about honor and tradition, and studying regardless of what martial results you get from them and perhaps, in a sense, that's the most important part of being a martial artist.<BR/><BR/>On the other hand, unlike the martial arts, most of the traditional meanings of the modern tarot cards were invented by people claiming ancient Egyptian knowledge which they didn't have and just made up, ancient kabbalistic knowledge which they didn't have and just made up, and other general ancient knowledge which they didn't have and just made up and the cards still work effectively as divination and fortune-telling tools using their made up definitions. <BR/><BR/>It could be said that our respected tarot forefathers just pulled *these* definitions out of their underwear, so what's the difference?David Alan Richardshttp://www.davidalanrichards.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30754098.post-50376423227412051092008-10-22T14:28:00.000-04:002008-10-22T14:28:00.000-04:00Ginny<BR/>You have so fluidly tapped into your gift. Not just the readings, which I have had the opportunity to partake in with you, but in listening to your own intuition, your inner voice! I enjoyed your thoughts on this topic, definite resonation with me. I have never found you to be arrogant or self-righteous, always open to the possibility that there is more than one way to look at something.<BR/><BR/>I love Froud's deck and use it only on a personal level myself. Allowing intuition to work its magic through that deck. You are right it dances and sings to a whole different vibration. <BR/><BR/>Thank you for continuing to enlighten us with your personal touch and views!<BR/>DeannaDeanna Zonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11917955786927259827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30754098.post-7118312277513401232008-10-21T17:33:00.000-04:002008-10-21T17:33:00.000-04:00Excellent article. Please write more. <BR/><BR/>Of course there has to be a framework of some kind otherwise it is a psychic consultation not a tarot *reading*. My father went to see a lady tarot reader and she described his car, which he had just sold, and what colour it was. How?<BR/><BR/>Mind you, I do like the odd flash of 'knowing'. It doesn't happen all the time but nice when it does.<BR/><BR/>TroiTroihttp://tarotcard.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30754098.post-74951499617181012392008-10-20T03:40:00.000-04:002008-10-20T03:40:00.000-04:00I appreciate your article<BR/><BR/>It is true that lines of tradition must be drawn for certain matters.<BR/><BR/>Knowledge, which has been around for years, should not be discarded.<BR/><BR/>I-ching the book of changes is another knowledge which has history and rules too.<BR/><BR/>But i feel that spreads and the way a tarot reader lays his or her cards should be personal and a way to define one's intuition.<BR/><BR/>Keep up the work.<BR/><BR/>I will drop by time and again....SHIMUREhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04479176493350435430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30754098.post-67436345054385326242008-10-09T15:54:00.000-04:002008-10-09T15:54:00.000-04:00Hi Ginny!<BR/><BR/>I just found your blog and I am loving your clear, crisp writing style. Plus your heading quote made me laugh!!<BR/><BR/>I'm new to Tarot but interested and feeling that maybe I'll be writing something Tarot-based or related soon. Maybe for Nanowrimo.<BR/><BR/>I had an experience last month wiht a psychic haughtily proclaiming, "I didn't learn. It's a natural gift!" And I thought, Hmmm.<BR/><BR/>I'll be back to read you again!<BR/>And if you like, you can check my writing blog at the link above.<BR/><BR/>Namaste,<BR/>MarieBegin - writing, yoga, and morehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16085632875123586185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30754098.post-77123012562450968082008-10-01T11:52:00.000-04:002008-10-01T11:52:00.000-04:00Well said!Marisolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10453194883396986400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30754098.post-29859420788544772052008-10-01T08:21:00.000-04:002008-10-01T08:21:00.000-04:00Precisely! Great post, Ginny. I could not have said it better myself.Kobarothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00460169137551427562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30754098.post-33509092925260763532008-09-30T04:20:00.000-04:002008-09-30T04:20:00.000-04:00Ginny<BR/><BR/>As ever, you get it spot on (in that you agree with my own opinion and therefore you are right, LOL). <BR/><BR/>When someone told me many years ago something like "I read tarot intuitively and of course, intuition can't be taught" I simply heard "I haven't learnt anything and I can't teach intuition". <BR/><BR/>I took that as a challenge and over the years have developed a load of ways of teaching people to develop "intuition", allied with a sound "installation" of the principles of tarot.<BR/><BR/>It's interesting combining the two skills - conscious learning and intuition, as you end up with a student looking at two cards together and saying, "these mean 'deferred decision' with no knowledge of why, until it is 'explained' to them. Agreeing with Mary here - waves - that there should be some type of correlation.<BR/><BR/>Even if that correlation is 'only' one like "over twenty years of reading,that card often has come up for people 'going on a study course'and it fits here." (5 of Pentacles).<BR/><BR/>Marcus<BR/>http://www.tarotprofessionals.comTemplumKathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09296115889202604147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30754098.post-56069804291539125132008-09-29T21:49:00.000-04:002008-09-29T21:49:00.000-04:00I'm with you. My Tarot mentor advised me not to get too hung up on memorizing the meanings from the LWB and other sources, but that said, we should see that there is some some type of correlation between what is depicted on the card and the reader's interpretation!MaryCollins0128http://www.blogger.com/profile/05136789721385025897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30754098.post-62676995046108910052008-09-28T05:48:00.000-04:002008-09-28T05:48:00.000-04:00Thank you Ginny!! I feel totally and utterly understood for the first time. You know, so many people have thrown in my face the fact that I have a blog where I explain card meanings relying on tradition, symbology and accepted meanings.Sometimes you feel you have to apologize for that!! What's wrong with havingcertain limits or rules? They don't hinder intuition,on the contrary (in my case) they help me control it and make sense of it. Thanks Ginny for making me feel supported :DRozondahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10043167261932827059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30754098.post-81566959075100256892008-09-28T03:35:00.000-04:002008-09-28T03:35:00.000-04:00Great article Ginny, you expressed exactly what I also feel.Helenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14608660319222974923noreply@blogger.com