Grizabella
I've been thinking about this for a quite awhile now. Do I want to read the cards or do I just want to flit around acquiring and looking through decks?
Now, if I want to read the cards, then I only need one deck. And I don't need to keep getting this deck and that deck and flitting around among them, learning a little about this one and a little about that one and a little about another one and shopping and trading for more and more decks.
This is kind of like a One Deck Wonder line of thinking but different.
The way it's different is that I'm not talking about committing myself to a month or two months or six months with just one deck. It's about getting honest with myself about why I pursue tarot at all. Is my purpose to get a lot of decks and learn to read with all different ones as fast as I can? Or is it to get really, really good with A (meaning ONE) deck with the goal of reading the cards? To just buckle down and get with it with one deck and one goal in mind.
It's the latter.
I want to devote myself to reading the cards. Not becoming an expert on history (god forbid we start that topic again!) not becoming an expert on the differences between all the schools of tarot thought, not adding every new or every OOP deck to a collection so I can admire them-----I just want to read the cards.
Now, of course in doing this I'm going to be learning some history and all that stuff we got into in another thread, but that isn't my primary goal. And of course, the better I get with just one deck, the better I'll be able to read with other decks I have if I choose to sometimes, but at least I want to have a focus for a change.
This might sound like I don't know how to read. I didn't mean for it to. I just meant to make a post about having a pinpoint focus and sticking with it.
Now, if I want to read the cards, then I only need one deck. And I don't need to keep getting this deck and that deck and flitting around among them, learning a little about this one and a little about that one and a little about another one and shopping and trading for more and more decks.
This is kind of like a One Deck Wonder line of thinking but different.
The way it's different is that I'm not talking about committing myself to a month or two months or six months with just one deck. It's about getting honest with myself about why I pursue tarot at all. Is my purpose to get a lot of decks and learn to read with all different ones as fast as I can? Or is it to get really, really good with A (meaning ONE) deck with the goal of reading the cards? To just buckle down and get with it with one deck and one goal in mind.
It's the latter.
I want to devote myself to reading the cards. Not becoming an expert on history (god forbid we start that topic again!) not becoming an expert on the differences between all the schools of tarot thought, not adding every new or every OOP deck to a collection so I can admire them-----I just want to read the cards.
Now, of course in doing this I'm going to be learning some history and all that stuff we got into in another thread, but that isn't my primary goal. And of course, the better I get with just one deck, the better I'll be able to read with other decks I have if I choose to sometimes, but at least I want to have a focus for a change.
This might sound like I don't know how to read. I didn't mean for it to. I just meant to make a post about having a pinpoint focus and sticking with it.