Posted here because I couldn't find anywhere more appropriate - please relocate it if it's in the wrong place....
Recently I've been trying to get a handle on card reading, crystal ball etc. Wikipedia suggests something like the following: Tarot reading revolves around the belief that the cards can be used to gain insight into the past, current and possible future situations of the enquirer. Some believe they are guided by a spiritual force, while others believe the cards help them tap into a collective unconscious or their own creative, brainstorming subconscious. I'd guess there'll be something similar for other forms of reading.
I'm not interested in the mechanism of readings but I'd like to hear what practitioners feel they are doing, the source of any information acquired. I'd also like to hear what enquirers felt about the readings they've had and where they thought any information came from. Additionally I'd like to learn what benefit practitioners feel they are providing and what recipients feel they received.
Plenty to go at!
I'm not interested in the mechanism of readings but I'd like to hear what practitioners feel they are doing, the source of any information acquired. I'd also like to hear what enquirers felt about the readings they've had and where they thought any information came from. Additionally I'd like to learn what benefit practitioners feel they are providing and what recipients feel they received.
I’m not a practitioner, although I have a set of cards. I’m not what you might call a ‘natural’ – it doesn’t flow and I have other, easier ways of having my questions answered. But I do have the cards read, about once a year, by a friend who also practices shamanism. I go to her (well, being strictly honest, partly because it is convenient and fun) because she does it in a shamanic way, connecting with the spirit/s of the cards and also her personal teachers and helpers, so the advice and help I get comes, not from her ‘intuition’, but from her spirits. I’ve had cards read in the past by people who do it conventionally, and have been completely underwhelmed by what they’ve told me.
I’m not a practitioner, although I have a set of cards. I’m not what you might call a ‘natural’ – it doesn’t flow and I have other, easier ways of having my questions answered. But I do have the cards read, about once a year, by a friend who also practices shamanism. I go to her (well, being strictly honest, partly because it is convenient and fun) because she does it in a shamanic way, connecting with the spirit/s of the cards and also her personal teachers and helpers, so the advice and help I get comes, not from her ‘intuition’, but from her spirits. I’ve had cards read in the past by people who do it conventionally, and have been completely underwhelmed by what they’ve told me.
"....connecting with the spirit/s of the cards" Would you please enlarge on what this means to you?
connecting with the spirit/s of the cards" Would you please enlarge on what this means to you?
Shamanism is an animalistic belief system. That is, we believe that everything has a spirit. That includes tarot cards. Through the shamanic trance journey we can meet and speak with these spirits. My friend has spoken to the spirits of her cards and they have agreed to help her.
I'm a bit bemused by your response, Crowan.
Why would the spirits of certain Tarot cards give any more insight into your past/present/future than any other spirit which you could ask yourself? I find it odd that a Shamanic practitioner would give or acccept 'readings' in this way.