BrightEye
I did a reading the other day about what might happen to if I follow a certain course of action. The reading involved another person, even though the focus was on me and what I was doing.
One of the cards was the 5 of Cups. In the Tarot of the Old Path, which as the deck I used, we see a middle-aged man in the foreground. He is bent over in sorrow and oblivious to the child in the background that promises a solution or new beginnings. My attention was drawn to the man, not the child, so I thought the message of the card was to be found in the foreground.
This and the other cards in the reading suggested that my course of action would cause sadness (it's not a course of action I would like to pursue, but I feel it might be for the best), and I had a sense the man in the 5 of Cups was the other party involved. But then I became afraid that my perspective might be skewed (self-readings etc.) and that a more appropriate reading would be that the card refers to my own sadness.
It may be a bit of both, and I know lots of people say go with the first impression. But how do you distinguish between intuition and wishful thinking? I've been reading for many years now and still doubt myself...
One of the cards was the 5 of Cups. In the Tarot of the Old Path, which as the deck I used, we see a middle-aged man in the foreground. He is bent over in sorrow and oblivious to the child in the background that promises a solution or new beginnings. My attention was drawn to the man, not the child, so I thought the message of the card was to be found in the foreground.
This and the other cards in the reading suggested that my course of action would cause sadness (it's not a course of action I would like to pursue, but I feel it might be for the best), and I had a sense the man in the 5 of Cups was the other party involved. But then I became afraid that my perspective might be skewed (self-readings etc.) and that a more appropriate reading would be that the card refers to my own sadness.
It may be a bit of both, and I know lots of people say go with the first impression. But how do you distinguish between intuition and wishful thinking? I've been reading for many years now and still doubt myself...
