I have a set of cards and have spent some time learning - including having a very good teacher for an hour every week for almost two years a few years ago. I hardly look at them now.
For me, I think that the greatest benefit has been the understanding of how there are different stages to everything - and that how I or anyone else might be feeling in relation to anything is probably more related to the stage of the process than anything else: think about the energy of the ace at the beginning of a project, moving through to heaviness of 7, 8 and 9 before you reach ten and begin a new cycle.
This has really helped me to see the world with a different pair of eyes and to know how better to respond to other people when they are speaking about things that are bothering them.
The problem I have with Crowan's response is that she implies that she takes the 'reading' from the spirits of the actual cards.
Which is a problem because ...?:confused:
Sometimes, even if I'm pretty sure of what I think, I'll ask other people's opinions - to maybe be told something that hadn't occurred to me, or to get a different perspective. It's sometimes the reason that I ask questions on HP. I ask other people's spirits for the same reason. Not just anyone's spirits, but with close friends, I have known their spirits for many years. For example, I have a friend whose main teacher almost always disagrees with my main teacher. If my teacher advised me to do something and her teacher advised something else, I would go by what my teacher said. But I might well talk to him about what my friend's teacher had said and find out the reasons for the disagreement - this gives me another perspective and helps me to learn. Some of my friends' teachers are beings that I regard as friends of my own. I've known them for a long time. And, of course, if I need healing then I have to trust them. They are all different with their own personalities, so I would choose who to ask based on the teacher as well as my this-reality friend.
Do you think we should shift this to the shamanism forum?
"Do you think we should shift this to the shamanism forum?" absolutely! 😮
I've read since I was 16, for friends and myself. Sometimes have been very accurate! Never charged for it, don't believe in that for me. I feel the cards represent energies that are best described as the collective unconscious, i.e. this is the nearest fit but it's a bit deeper. There is also something to do with time I feel, as if they enable you to perceive it in a less linear richer way. I believe that their psychological / archetypal aspects have to be felt quite deeply in order to do the what-is-going-to-happen stuff.
But you've explained nothing about what I'd asked..... :confused:
Yes. Fair enough. She’s a friend. It gives her a bit more income. It’s fun. But I wouldn’t ask her if she didn’t work shamanically.
Sometimes, though, it’s good to get the opinion of other people’s spirits. Usually, of course, I’d just ask a friend to ask his/her spirit teachers.
"It gives her a bit more income. It’s fun." It's for entertainment then? :confused: