hindsight is 20/20: our strengths and weaknesses

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 14 Sep 2002, and now archived in the Forum Library.

emily2otters	14 Sep 2002
i'm beginning to reconcile myself to something i've been resisting: my tarot accuracy is 100%, but i never know what the cards are telling me until afterwards. ack! i've been reading for years! i did daily reads for most of this past year, and wrote both predictions and retrospectives. my predictions are sometimes close to the mark, but you sure wouldn't want to structure your life around them! and they're not improving with practice. this used to frustrate me. now, however, i'm starting to relax into it. for readings dealing with choices ("should i or shouldn't i?"), i look at the cards as a very very general picture, and decide whether or not i like the picture. if i do, i do, and if i don't, i don't. cards that land in advice positions are often easier for me to read than the others, and those are the ones i pay special attention to. so this is my strength. it would be nice to have a clearer picture the whys and wherefores, but i now declare to the world that predictive accuracy is a weakness of my reading. *sigh* i love and accept myself. i love and accept myself. ;) what are your strengths and weaknesses?

Laurel	15 Sep 2002
Oh my gosh, I was reading your post and going 'I know the feeling!' This is why I journal my readings, and the readings I am given. By going over things in the future, I can see more clearly all the details and 'real situation' going on. My strengths include being a really good student of human nature. I have a good way of getting to the "feelings" beneath a question (not always by intuitiion- sometimes by just knowing the right questions of my own to ask). I also have a good knack for picking up where people are coming from and what kind of language would best facilitate their understanding. My weaknesses includes going out on limbs- sometimes jumping to conclusions that are logical but erroneous because I don't have all the information. I also have an abysmally bad short term memory, and have a tendency to mispronounce certain words until I hear them spoken by someone else. I can also get cocky and focus too much on 'me' instead of 'we' if I don't discipline myself.

Umbrae	15 Sep 2002
Quote: Originally posted by Laurel ... going out on limbs- sometimes jumping to conclusions that are logical but erroneous because I don't have all the information. Sometimes, those going out on limbs produce wonderful readings (listen to the little voices).

Marion	15 Sep 2002
THe only way I can read decently is to 'relax into the cards'. Since I deal with the world on an intellectual basis, I often try and do that with my cards at first. Produces gibberish of course. I have to mentally step back from them and just sort of de-focus.

Mojo	16 Sep 2002
My biggest weakness is that I don't sugar coat my readings at all and sometimes I end up scaring the bejesus out of some of my clients... especially new ones who haven't learned my style. When I do quick readings at a party or a fair, I try to be less intense, but even then sometimes things pop out of my mouth a bit too quickly. I remember one time a couple asked me about their chances for having a baby. I took one look at the cards and I saw the Moon in the "immediate future" position and I looked at her and asked her, "you're late, aren't you?" She blushed and said yes and her husband almost fainted. Interestingly, though, the ones who I scare are usually the ones who come back, so it must be working.

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