do you think some people are just naturaly better at reading tarot?

Minotauro

Im asking because in the thread talking about your first reading has some pretty amazing stories , finding out about illness or a thief , sending people in tears etc on their very first reading ever! D:

I dont think Im that good even now ._. lol I've never seen stuff like that , well I did make someone cry one time lol
 

MareSaturni

Hum... some people are naturally good at drawing. Others, naturally good at dancing. Others have this special ear for music. And others have an incredible talent for learning languages.

So I suppose some people are naturally good at reading tarot.

That said, no talent evolves without practice and study. Being born with Mozart's talent for music, or Da Vinci's talent for... a lot of things (lol!)... will mean nothing if you don't use it, develop it. It'll be a latent characteristic. Talent itself doesn't do anything.

Same way with tarot, in my opinion.

And just because you don't have the 'natural talent', it does not mean you that cannot learn and become good at it. The human brain is incredibly flexible, if you give it the opportunity to learn. ;)

PS. I don't believe in these stories of people making their sitters gasp and cry in their first time reading cards -- no more than I believe in girls having overwhelming orgasms in their first sexual experience. It's just people trying to show off, if you ask me.
 

Grizabella

Marina said:
PS. I don't believe in these stories of people making their sitters gasp and cry in their first time reading cards -- no more than I believe in girls having overwhelming orgasms in their first sexual experience. It's just people trying to show off, if you ask me.
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Bless your heart, Marina, you're one of my favorite people here. :heart: You just tell it like it is and often, you're saying what I'm thinking. lol Those who claim "incredibly accurate" or "scary accurate" readings from the get-go make me feel the same way.

But to answer the question, I guess there are people who are more adept at the cards right from the start, but who knows what they might have learned in their lives that ties in with the skills we work hard to get that are new to us? Maybe they've had experiences that are similar to reading cards so they're ahead of the game at the beginning.

However, I believe that we're all capable of becoming equally good at reading. It just depends on how long and earnestly you apply yourself to it. The real secret is doing lots and lots of face-to-face reading for others. That face-to-face stuff is scary as hell at first but you get over that and it becomes very, very rewarding. The fright is just your fear of being wrong and looking stupid, but that comes from a big ego and if you can humble yourself---voila! You'll learn to love it. (I'm not being insulting when I say "big ego". I've learned that most of the time, an over-inflated ego is what an insecure person develops to hide their insecurities. That's been a big problem for me over the years, too.)
 

Sinduction

Yes, the ego is the hardest thing to master. It helps me to put myself aside, as if I am not even there.

I also think, that people who are more intuitive are better readers. And anyone can become intuitive if they feel they are not already.

A lot of it is putting the self aside and reading from somewhere else. I have a hard time explaining because I don't feel the messages come from me.

And I get stuff wrong all the time. In little ways, I may think a card is talking about a client only to find out it's a completely different person. And these are readings people pay me for. I think if you are humble, as Griz says, people take you in a different way than if you are all ego. I see myself as a servant and I don't worry about being wrong or foolish because as long as my sitter gets the message, that's all that matters. *I* don't matter. I am merely the messenger.
 

VGimlet

I think there probably are people who are just naturally better, but I sure wasn't one of them, LOL. When I first started I was BAD, and not the good kind of bad.

Took me a long time and lots of practice to get where I am now.

I have to add a note of thanks to Umbrae, aka That Dan Guy, who got me started on the path I'm on now, instead of the rut I'd been in for a long while.
 

gregory

Marina said:
PS. I don't believe in these stories of people making their sitters gasp and cry in their first time reading cards -- no more than I believe in girls having overwhelming orgasms in their first sexual experience. It's just people trying to show off, if you ask me.
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Thank you darling. :*

It happened to me, and I stopped reading at once - it was my first reading, and my last for almost 30 years. I don't even know what about it was so accurate; my sitter did not share that with me, and I had had no real interest in reading for her in the first place. We just used the book - and that WAS what happened. I didn't see it as ME being accurate; I assumed the cards REALLY WORKED :bugeyed: together with the book - so that put me off BIG TIME. I had always avoided reading for that very reason - they might WORK.... :eek:

That said - I imagine there are readers who are better than others - as is the case with almost everything in life.

I admit to failure on the orgasm one though :D
 

Grizabella

Yeah, that orgasm/first time thing is definitely a fiction for me. :p

I know the feeling, gregory. Even though I didn't get gasping and tears the first time, there were things that were so uncanny that it scared the heck out of me and I put them away for awhile, too.

At first, I thought I'd just never get it. Everyone else was gifted but I wasn't. I was convinced of that. Sometimes I still feel that way.
 

Minotauro

Marina said:
Hum... some people are naturally good at drawing. Others, naturally good at dancing. Others have this special ear for music. And others have an incredible talent for learning languages.

So I suppose some people are naturally good at reading tarot.

That said, no talent evolves without practice and study. Being born with Mozart's talent for music, or Da Vinci's talent for... a lot of things (lol!)... will mean nothing if you don't use it, develop it. It'll be a latent characteristic. Talent itself doesn't do anything.

Same way with tarot, in my opinion.

And just because you don't have the 'natural talent', it does not mean you that cannot learn and become good at it. The human brain is incredibly flexible, if you give it the opportunity to learn. ;)

PS. I don't believe in these stories of people making their sitters gasp and cry in their first time reading cards -- no more than I believe in girls having overwhelming orgasms in their first sexual experience. It's just people trying to show off, if you ask me.
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._. hmm it didnt even ocured to me that they could exagerate XD lol
I didnt see that there woyuld be a reason to impress random strangers on the internet ._. but I guess I was wrong =P lol


and I was tottalkt fooled by that orgasm thing too ._. porn LIES!

I'll just keep studyng besides it's only recently that I started getting deeper and studyng it more seriously =P lol
 

Minotauro

Grizabella said:
Bless your heart, Marina, you're one of my favorite people here. :heart: You just tell it like it is and often, you're saying what I'm thinking. lol Those who claim "incredibly accurate" or "scary accurate" readings from the get-go make me feel the same way.

But to answer the question, I guess there are people who are more adept at the cards right from the start, but who knows what they might have learned in their lives that ties in with the skills we work hard to get that are new to us? Maybe they've had experiences that are similar to reading cards so they're ahead of the game at the beginning.

However, I believe that we're all capable of becoming equally good at reading. It just depends on how long and earnestly you apply yourself to it. The real secret is doing lots and lots of face-to-face reading for others. That face-to-face stuff is scary as hell at first but you get over that and it becomes very, very rewarding. The fright is just your fear of being wrong and looking stupid, but that comes from a big ego and if you can humble yourself---voila! You'll learn to love it. (I'm not being insulting when I say "big ego". I've learned that most of the time, an over-inflated ego is what an insecure person develops to hide their insecurities. That's been a big problem for me over the years, too.)
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Im just soo glad I wasnt the only one who felt overwhelmed by the resonses to that thread
XD
specially comming for very experienced readers :B lol

and I really never mind about me being wrong , mostly because it was with friends and they knew Im just learning and sometimes I'd check the book XD lol but I think I might be on the right path. still there's so much to learn but you're right in the fact that I need to put myself aside because sometimes I speak from the prior knowledge I have... I think that could be holding me back ._.
 

Minotauro

VGimlet said:
I think there probably are people who are just naturally better, but I sure wasn't one of them, LOL. When I first started I was BAD, and not the good kind of bad.

Took me a long time and lots of practice to get where I am now.

I have to add a note of thanks to Umbrae, aka That Dan Guy, who got me started on the path I'm on now, instead of the rut I'd been in for a long while.
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well I wanst that bd XD lol but reading those responses worried me XD lol

I think I was pretty mediocre :/

Im now kinda better ish X)

and Im just starting to learn Im not even sure if Im on the path yet! maybe still looking for the right path
=P lol
 
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