twinkletoes said:
I am delving deep into the spirit world of guides, ancestors, angels and my higher self. I use tarot as a tool for communing with these evolved beings of light and find that, depending on which deck I use, their presence is amplified.
Where do your answers come from? Your sub-conscious? Or do you also intentionally contact the spirit realm in readings?
Good question. I think my answers are a synthesis of all those, including the Universe or Out There that Grizabella mentions. I believe in Synchronicity -- and that we receive the answers we're meant to receive -- and that sometimes what we're meant to receive might even be the "wrong" answer because it leads us where we're supposed to go, to what we need most. I try to trust what the cards show me and how I'm able to put it all together -- sometimes easily, as in a flash of insight, and sometimes only with a great deal of turning things over and around, pondering for a while.
nisaba said:
Why do you seem to think that the subconscious is not a part of the spirit realm? Are we not all angels whose wings haven't sprouted yet? Everyone from Jesus to the Charge of the Goddess says that if you cannot find God within yourself, you will never find it outside yourself. We are all God. Tarot helps us remember that.
Nisaba makes excellent points. We're ALL spiritual beings.
halimah said:
I believe that my soul, my spirit is... bigger than the little piece on earth (I liked what Nisaba said), and that if I'm in a good state, the answers come from there, or even higher, from God/Godess.
But I also believe that if I'm not in a good state inwardly, not quiet or especially troubled that the answers I get may be from lower forces - my will or my heart overriding the reading. Hence asking someone else to do a reading if I'm too *close* to the subject at hand.
True, there are days when I'm best off leaving the cards alone. My inward state can have a bearing on how I read, for myself or others. I like to think I've learned when those times are, but nobody's perfect. Sometimes, for whatever reason, we're just wrong. I think it's usually more a case of the reader not being such a good channel in that reading as in others, or their communication channels/skills (Spirit/Universe/collevtive unconscious/whatever to cards to reader to querent) suffering a disconnect somewhere at that moment. It happens, and usually I think it has to do with the reader's state of mind/emotions/health. But we just don't really know.
ETA: Wherever else it might come from, it filters through us humans. We are sometimes very wise, and at other times not, and not even very good filters. I don't expect 100% accuracy, or even close, at gaining outside information through the cards, so much as I like to read the cards as they fall in front of me and trust that the right information is there for me to see.
I haven't used the cards to contact the deceased, though it wouldn't surprise me if I'm sometimes influenced by some loved ones who've passed. I never invite strangers who've died into my readings.
If anything is going to fail, it will be me, not some other entity I brought into the deal as a middleman. I can work on myself to improve my ability to receive the messages. A middleman I can't. 