tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30754098.post2861953932473794153..comments2024-03-26T08:01:01.445-04:00Comments on 78 Notes to Self: A Tarot Journal: Intuition and Making Shit UpGinny Claytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03759784851970527096noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30754098.post-71792859966298477222011-06-12T14:59:58.092-04:002011-06-12T14:59:58.092-04:00Heba, I hear ya. I think we just have to get out ...Heba, I hear ya. I think we just have to get out of our own way.Ginny Claytonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03759784851970527096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30754098.post-85124998318527725432011-06-12T10:59:25.656-04:002011-06-12T10:59:25.656-04:00This was such a good read, thank you.
I struggle...This was such a good read, thank you. <br /><br />I struggled with this very same battle and gagging the left side of the brain was no mean feat. When I finally let go of trying 'to make sense' of everything and just started 'making shit up' instead, I did some of my most accurate readings ever.Heba Zayhttp://www.bigtarot.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30754098.post-1730569534110671312010-07-26T09:17:19.693-04:002010-07-26T09:17:19.693-04:00What a GREAT post! I just stumbled upon it on the ...What a GREAT post! I just stumbled upon it on the perfect day as I plan on stepping back from the computer to work on some creative projects and ideas! Thank you for your enjoyable article on intuition and for the inspiration! You rock! The creative juices are rollin'!Suzi Dronzek, Starcanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07943580647459968596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30754098.post-8742682933690574832010-07-25T19:42:46.439-04:002010-07-25T19:42:46.439-04:00"I have learned so much and been so enriched ...<i>"I have learned so much and been so enriched by the stories my clients tell of their experiences and struggles."</i><br /><br />Yes, I love it when this happens, as everything resonates with my own life then I'd get to share my own experiences & struggles & thoughts. It can be cathartic both ways. <br /><br />& I guess that's what Tarot's for, to tap into our intuition via the power of imagination. It's fairly OK to make up stories as we go along based on the pictures, but like what I told a student that if we just make shit up to deliberately mislead our querents, especially if we don't want to look dumb & we need to blurt out stuff for the interaction's sake, then we'll have a problem. :))abbeehttp://sp-lovecraft.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30754098.post-24623858420811803852010-07-25T09:06:00.696-04:002010-07-25T09:06:00.696-04:00Delightful! This made me laugh but made me think ...Delightful! This made me laugh but made me think too. Ah, balancing that intuition with the rational side is never easy, is it? <br /><br />Blessings!<br />TheresaTheresahttp://www.thetarotlady.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30754098.post-58186393733762188342010-04-29T19:16:09.344-04:002010-04-29T19:16:09.344-04:00Loved your post, Hilary. I know next to nothing a...Loved your post, Hilary. I know next to nothing about I Ching, but we can all understand about trying to intuit meaning and getting that oh so rational side to shut the hell up. <br /><br />Read her post, everyone! It's good!Ginny Claytonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03759784851970527096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30754098.post-38258026184935456712010-04-29T06:34:56.157-04:002010-04-29T06:34:56.157-04:00Love it! This rings so many bells for me - the que...Love it! This rings so many bells for me - the questioning, and not knowing, and making it up. <a href="http://onlineclarity.co.uk/answers/2010/04/29/making-up-the-answers/" rel="nofollow">Here's a response</a> from an I-Ching-ish perspective.Hilaryhttp://onlineclarity.co.uk/answers/2010/04/29/making-up-the-answers/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30754098.post-1173441008850455762010-03-28T23:38:11.974-04:002010-03-28T23:38:11.974-04:00Ginny,
I am a fan! I love the questions you pose ...Ginny,<br /><br />I am a fan! I love the questions you pose and I love your contemplative process. You've made me take a long hard look at the Five of Cups. Yes, it is an obvious "loss" and "sadness" card, but it also reminds me of the human condition. In a strange way the Five of Cups helps me feel connected to others. Grief is universal. I suppose, on some level, if one were to really delve into the Five of cups, one might find compassion. Strange? Maybe. But I love taking a good look at this card all over again. THANK YOU! Looking forward to reading your other posts:)<br /><br />Best,<br /><br />Carolyn<br />Tarot Reader and Webmaster of http://tarotreadingpsychic.comCarolynhttp:tarotreadingpsychic.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30754098.post-45650456956775661032010-03-26T01:22:21.328-04:002010-03-26T01:22:21.328-04:00Ginny,
Thanks for posting this. I've never h...Ginny,<br /><br />Thanks for posting this. I've never heard anyone put it in those words before, and some might chide you for such a statement given the connotations of true psychic visions and intuition, as we call it, but I very much appreciate you going there. So many skeptics would read this and think, "I knew it--I knew you were just making it up," but as an insider and creative thinker I can see the true value in this as an exercise and appreciate you bringing it to light. I have many of these issues from time to time (letting the left brain take over, being unsatisfied with the simple story, et cetera), and this makes me feel more justified in "playing" with the cards and really letting my creativity shine. I'm a writer of creative nonfiction, so I'm used to playing with the "emotional truth" in my writing and bending stories to fit my vision of meaning. Perhaps I should use these skills more in my tarot readings (who knows, maybe someday I'll even be able to write fiction again).Amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01529215712504067209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30754098.post-51380645722364871682010-03-22T15:53:12.361-04:002010-03-22T15:53:12.361-04:00This post raised so many thoughts for me. I know t...This post raised so many thoughts for me. I know that feeling of "Stop it! You're making shit up!" It's hard for me to trust my intuition because, like Andre, I'm always trying to see how the puzzle fits together. I tend to ask a lot of questions during a reading, partly because of this questioning of my own intuition.<br /><br />In fact, Ginny, I remember doing a reading for you years ago and saying to you, "This card doesn't make sense here unless you haven't been telling me everything." And then you admitted it belonged to a situation I didn't know anything about yet. That was a pretty defining moment in my trusting my own intuition and the patterns I see in the cards--on a good day. :-)<br /><br />Glad you're writing again.Carolhttp://reticulatedwriter.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30754098.post-24163168797046963972010-03-22T12:20:25.568-04:002010-03-22T12:20:25.568-04:00Ginny, I just about pissed myself reading this pos...Ginny, I just about pissed myself reading this post. <i>And</i> I found it enlightening and encouraging. My little Queen of Swords control-freak persona likes to have her say and if there's one thing she's deathly afraid of, it's being wrong. Because wrong = bad, stupid, weak, and ultimately at a disadvantage. But things <b>flow</b> so much better when I just let my Page of Cups out to play. *sigh* My QoS brain is, yes, very smart, but honestly she's got a serious inferiority complex! I have to nearly break out a straitjacket and tranquilizer dart for her whenever I want to do a good reading.Erinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30754098.post-26160757651787210622010-03-19T20:18:22.696-04:002010-03-19T20:18:22.696-04:00This is a cool post, Ginny, thanks a lot for writi...This is a cool post, Ginny, thanks a lot for writing it- I twittered about it :)J Goreham-Penneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12948591681078814457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30754098.post-28523088995863412012010-03-19T17:23:52.126-04:002010-03-19T17:23:52.126-04:00Andre, I don't have a problem admitting my hum...Andre, I don't have a problem admitting my humanity to my querants. I assure them that tarot readings are not a science and even if they were, science can be wrong. If the shoe doesn't fit, I don't expect them to try and wear it. I encourage them to feel free to discard anything that their own intuition rejects. Being wrong is part of life and remaining transparent is key to honesty. My clients appreciate that I am an honest reader even more than they appreciate my accuracy.Ginny Claytonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03759784851970527096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30754098.post-59791416468214182022010-03-19T14:15:24.394-04:002010-03-19T14:15:24.394-04:00I, too, am more prone to analytical thinking, Andr...I, too, am more prone to analytical thinking, Andre, so I understand the challenge. I like how you found a way to work with your natural analytical bent, treating the cards messages like a puzzle to be solved. But you also seem to be allowing your right brain to seize the day by entering into that semi-hypnotic state so your left brain doesn't take over, but just gives input. Nice. Playing RPG type games is definitely helpful with the right brain activity because it encourages imagination and fantasy. My left brain always seems to stop me mid role play if I attempt it, chiding me for making shit up, LOL, but I do enjoy those games as well.<br /><br />ardeth blood, talking oneself out of things that end up being correct is something I ran into a LOT early on in tarot and after kicking myself in the butt so many times for NOT going with the intuitive interpretation and finding out after it was the correct one, I have learned to just blurt things out that seem to make no sense but in the end are exactly right.<br /><br />Frustrating!Ginny Claytonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03759784851970527096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30754098.post-54806152569111489242010-03-19T08:35:34.253-04:002010-03-19T08:35:34.253-04:00So odd you posted on this right now.
I've be...So odd you posted on this right now.<br /> <br />I've been trying to strengthen my intuition in general, and learn to tell the difference between my fears/desires and pure intuition. <br />You are completely right, about needing to shut the logical side out for a while. I've talked myself out of many things I wanted because my logical self said no.ardeth bloodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08558504187855253849noreply@blogger.com