years accumulated tarot experience at aeclectic

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 08 Mar 2002, and now archived in the Forum Library.

truthsayer	08 Mar 2002
with all the people we have at aeclectic, i think it would be interesting to survey the forum to look at our individual and combined experience in tarot.

Kiama	09 Mar 2002
DAMN! I thought the poll was about how many years we'd had on Aeclectic! So, I voted for less than 3. Then I saw that there was an option for 25 years, and worked out that Aeclectic hadn't been up that long... Then it clicked. This was about how many years experience with Tarot itself. DOH! So, just add five years to the final total. Sorry! *Kiama tries to wake up* Kiama

Diana	09 Mar 2002
edited

Kiama	09 Mar 2002
Thanks, Diana!

Emily	09 Mar 2002
I've voted for my one year or less :D

MeeWah	09 Mar 2002
I voted for "10 years or less" because I think that is about how long I've been actively using Tarot seriously, but I am not sure. I acquired my first Tarot deck decades ago when I was 19, but didn't focus on it since I was busy with cartomancy (divination using a regular deck of playing cards) & numerology & other means. Compared to some of the other folks, I am a "newbie" :D

Mateo06	10 Mar 2002
Meewah can you give me some info on cartomancy is it just like tarot or are the meanings different? thanks

truthsayer	10 Mar 2002
sorry if my directions were confusing in anyway. since this is the best tarot forum in the world, i thought that knowing how much tarot experience we represent as a group would be interesting. kind of like positive advertizing about how wonderful it is here and how extensive our knowledge base is. i'm surprized at some of the totals all ready. looks like we have a lot of combined experience and we've only gotten in a small portion of votes in so far.

catlin	11 Mar 2002
I am still not so accustomed to the new layout, that's why I am late with voting.

Jewel	11 Mar 2002
~giggles~ well this was a hard one for me *LOL*. I guess I would say I have 7-8 years experience, and I could not decide if it was the "5 or less" category or "10 or less" ... I was cought in the middle there. I finally voted in the "5 or less" so if that was not the right place someone please move my vote to the right place. Love & Light,

MeeWah	11 Mar 2002
Mateo06: I already replied to your query elsewhere; however-- Cartomancy is very different from Tarot by reasons of the types of cards (a regular playing deck of 52 cards as opposed to 78 cards), the symbols & the meanings. I have found some overlapping of meanings with the 52 pip cards & court cards, but that may be because I bring some of the cartomancy influences to my Tarot work. I have been able to read successfully with a regular deck & using numbers, the latter much in the same way I do for Tarot. I think cartomancy can give one a basis in Tarot, but some of it is so different as to be like using a different language--dialect may be a better description. For those who may be interested, I think it is worth examining to get another view of divination.

Liliana	11 Mar 2002
I had the same problem as Jewel, I couldnt decide if i was5years or less or 10 years or less, since i think it was like 7 years ago I started getting interested, but I went with 5since I think thats when i got serious. Truthfully, like 10 years ago, I had the game for the original Nintendo called Taboo, itread Tarot cards for you :) I handcopied the deck onto index cards and did readings for kids at school heheh, and someone said i had porno because of the lovers card. The deck was created for the game the lovers had the man facing forward and the woman facing backwards side by side with the opposite persons hands cover the private parts lol. I had all kinds of strange little fortunetelling devices, on was called fan-tell, it had all these coloredsticks, you picked anumber out and attached them to a metal handle and it made a fan, then you interpreted the pictures on the sticks with the book. It was fun hehe

truthsayer	11 Mar 2002
if you have 12 years then it would be 15 years or less. if you have 6 or 7 years experience then it would be 10 years or less. if you have 4 years then it would be 5 years or less. i was trying to fix it to show a wide range of experience w/ emphasis on less than 5 b/c i think most ppl here have less than 5. does that help?

cjtarot	19 Mar 2002
Hi all, I started really studing about a year and a half ago..found this forum about a year ago... I have learned so much from you all and look forward to the day when I can vote 10 yrs +... cj

jade	04 Apr 2002
so has anyone figured out how many years in total? i have just under 15 years. in light, jade

Sam	18 Jun 2002
1 year or less ;)

Jeannette	18 Jun 2002
My computer is saying that the poll is closed. So, is it too late to participate? Or is my computer being glitchy? -- Jeannette http://www.tarotgarden.com

Phoenix	18 Jun 2002
Methinks its too late Jeanette. Oh well. I've been practising the tarot for almost 4 years now.

Jeannette	18 Jun 2002
Ah, well. Add me "virtually" to the twenty years or less category -- it's been twenty years (and approx. 500 decks) this year since I started seriously collecting and studying tarot... ...And yet, what I don't know about the subject still far outweighs what I do. 'Tis a never-ending process... -- Jeannette http://www.tarotgarden.com

Sam	18 Jun 2002
what's the total? i'm to lazy to do the math because i'm on summer vacation! :P;)

SharonElizabeth	22 Jun 2002
I voted 15 or less, because I started reading tarot when I got my first deck in my early teens, even thought I was using the lwb, I was able to do some comprehesable readings. It wasn't until more recently that I found a better way to read the cards in books like learning the tarot and tarot for yourself. I find it interesting that there's such a even distribution of answers. It just goes to show that people of all levels find help and guidance in these forums.

tigerlily	22 Jun 2002
I can't vote! This is the third or fourth time I tried (in different polls...) So I'll just state that I have 16 years of Tarot experience and now I feel old LOL

tigerlily	22 Jun 2002
Oops - the poll is closed? that would explain why I can't vote .. hey, it *is* late over here

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