Well.. I am new to this forum, as you can see from the number of my posts, and I am liking it here. But just have a doubt so wanted your opinions..
My teacher who taught me Tarot said that usually one should not read the readings of others. I mean one should not read spreads of others. Also the cards are personalized for each reader...(meaning as I read on this forum, each spread is a friend of the reader, the more you read, the better the spread's friendship develops with you) due to which you can read better. However as i see on this forum people post their spreads for others to interpret too (even I did) and somehow this gives a wider meaning for the cards than we know. So how does the fact that one should not read others spreads fit in here???
Actually, I personally very much believe in all that you said. I also see many people post readings they have done here for review and feedback by others and I don't get it. That is very much my belief too. That the readings we do are "pesonalized" to us. The come to us in a language only we can know and understand. And yes, the longer you are a reader the more developed the language becomes. You develop shorthands and abbreviations and the language personalizes itself more and more.
Just looking around her when someone post a thread just asking what one card means in general in one of their readings, there are almost as many answers as there are respondants to the thread. It's like if I speak French and you speak English, and the ideas you were meant to see and understand were sent to you by the powers that be IN English. There may be some common words between the two (the cards) but they will not mean the same thing to me as they do to you. There is no possible way that I can know what your cards were saying to you because I don't speak the language that your cards were speaking to you.
I think it can be useful to discuss with others what cards mean to us in general, not within the format of a reading. That can help us improve our personal meanings and enhance them,
But once a reading has been done, to ask others what the cards mean within the context of the reading seems useless to me according to my beliefs on it. I see many of these posts and the person who started the post often says "No it couldn't mean that in the situation". Well of course not, the person does not speak the language that the readings was sent it. Or they say "Hmmmm, it could mean that, I never thoght of that" If the original reader never thought of it, then it was not part of the intended meaning. They would have gotten the cards that would have mande them think of exactly what they were meant to., If they did not think of it it was not part of the intended meaning.
Those are my beliefs on that. That talking about what cards mean to each of us outside of a reading can be very helpful. And that talking about what they mean in a reading that has already been done,....there is no conceivable way that anyone but the original reader could ever know. Meanings cannot be added on to a reading retroactively.
As a reading is being done, a card means exactly what it feels it means to the reader at the time. You can't take someone else's meanings later on and add them in and think it means that. it doesn't. The other person does not speak the language the reading was sent to the reader in.
As for spreads, I never reallu use them and prefer reading without spreads. But if you mean just sharing threads that we have developed with others, I don't see anything wrong wtih that, personally.
Hope that did not sound harsh to any who do this. I was just stating my personal beleifs on the topic as asked. If you look, in all the time here I have never posted a reading for others; opinions on what it means. I never saw a purpose to doing so. Just my personal beliefs.
Babs
