Late Cards

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 31 Jul 2002, and now archived in the Forum Library.

Adrian	31 Jul 2002
Hi All, Have you ever gone through a period when your cards are giving you a reading that seems to already have happened. I do a daily card and for the last few days the card seems to represent what has happened the day before and not as a guide for the present day. Any explanations?

Yodes	31 Jul 2002
While i'm new here, i'll chuck in my two cents worth. While shuffling your mind was on these events. Maybe you haven't learnt everything. The energies are still present, and you need to be aware that they are not over.

squigglywiggly	31 Jul 2002
Tarot is the art of shoehorning card meanings onto the events of real life. Since the cards embody such general vague meanings, this usually works over the medium to long term (say weeks or months). One is sure to experience some event or another that fits somehow or other with the vague meanings on the cards. However, this is not as likely to happen day by day. So the typical Tarot reader, rather than admitting that Tarot is a charade, starts to form odd beliefs such as "my daily reading was referring to some day in the past" or "my daily reading was referring to some day in the future". It's really funny to me to watch somebody go through such contortions in an effort to try and hold onto the belief that Tarot is legit. When your daily reading doesn't hold up, what more proof do you need that Tarot doesn't work?

Umbrae	31 Jul 2002
Ah, the wisdom of an un-educated opinion incorrectly stated as fact! A conservative pen wielded by a liberal hand. Adrian, sometimes we are looking a little too hard at the meanings, and the logical left-brain does its best to ‘make connections’. The easiest connections to make are recent. Looking forward is more difficult. There is not left-brain shoehorn to use. When you are new to Tarot, it is difficult to shut down the left-brain, and give voice to the right. Also remember, those who have no dreams, will steal yours. Dream-stealers are dangerous and wrong…and you are surrounded by them.

jade	31 Jul 2002
i would think that you are seeing what has passed because you haven't finished with that experience or lesson yet. i totally agree with Yodes. i've had this happen with clients (and i've been reading for about 14 years now) and when it does i ask them what they learned from the experience.... also...... ask your cards why you are reading for yesterday instead of today. they should tell you. in light, jade

Mojo	31 Jul 2002
I beg to differ. Shoehorning is primarily a right-brain activity. It calls for lots of creativity and intuition. The left-brain is only involved in as much as you observe the querent to measure their reaction and adjust your readings accordingly (if done for a live querent - if reading for oneself, the left-brain is usually left out of this entire process and we shoehorn meanings based on our own emotional reactions) And I wouldn't call that an uneducated opinion. It's a highly observant recognition of the process. We all do it whether we realize it or not.

Laurel	31 Jul 2002
It was funny to find myself bristling at first at Squig's commentary, instead of taking it for the practical albeit cynical insight that it is. I processed that through I think, and I'm ready to throw in my .02 which are neither more or less valuable :) This is why and where journaling is so helpful. If you write down your daily reading and why it makes you think of events from the past day, you can look back at the end of the day and see if your opinions have been reinforced or changed. Tarot is completely legitimate but its not "fortune-telling" unless you deliberately make it so and that's hard to do. People who already psychic/clairovoyant/"sensitive" have a whole lot easier time using it to predict the future- in which case the power is coming from within and the cards are just a medium. Tarot readers can become a lot more intuitive over time, but that takes practice and self-confidence. Don't be afraid to ask more questions with the cards if a daily reading is confusing or isn't making sense. Write it all down, let the day roll forward, review it before bed. (As an added post script- check out what James Rioux has to say about daily readings not working well for him in this thread here. Laurel

truthsayer	31 Jul 2002
Quote: Originally posted by Adrian Hi All, Have you ever gone through a period when your cards are giving you a reading that seems to already have happened. I do a daily card and for the last few days the card seems to represent what has happened the day before and not as a guide for the present day. Any explanations? when that has happened to me, in retrospect it was a warning that i was still holding on to something that happened in the past. sometimes our pasts bleed into our present lives. the cards can't help but pick that up. i think until you become aware of the shadow from the past this will keep coming up like a broken record. i know it has happened to me. when i came out of denial and faced what the cards were saying then their patterns would change. if you want to second guess yourself that's fine but you won't really get a coherent reading unless you put your doubts aside and just do it. when you've finished you'll have plenty of time to doubt what you came up with then. when i read with my left brain my inner critic analyzes the cards in an organized, linear4, logical and systematic. when i read w/ my right brain, it's easier to just talk and let it flow thru like channeling. it becomes a story and seems to flow in a more spatial way.the right side of the brain is where creativity is stored. there really isn't a system. it's free association. sometimes i sense things at a visual nonverbal level that i have to draw a picture of in order to communicate. verbal skills are stored in the left brain in general. visual/spatial skills are stored in the right.

Adrian	01 Aug 2002
Thanks for all you replies.................even squiggle. Now for another question why do you read whats here if you dont believe squig?????? Are you afraid of missing something??

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