Do you have style ?

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 24 Feb 2004, and now archived in the Forum Library.

paulo32	24 Feb 2004
"trusting myself and developing a reading style has been a slow evolution for me " truthsayer http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.phps=&threadid=5904&highlight=trusting Hello All I have been away from the forum, because of my work. Now i have return for little while, and i have read the thread above, who make me think. As a person every one have a particular style. So my question is : during a reading what is your style ? What compose your style reading? What aspects you use to put in your reading style ? Thanks Paulo

paulo32	24 Feb 2004
sorry the correct link is : http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5904&highlight=trusting bye paulo

SongDeva	27 Feb 2004
Frequently my style is like the High Priestess maybe, but when I'm really tuned in and connected I think it's more like the empress, which as it happens, is my soul card. If I've read for anyone reading this, please feel free to comment.

paulo32	27 Feb 2004
Thanks SongDeva For your answer. I put this question of the forum, but i have fund myself the answer because the most important for me is to have a accurate style when you are reading. We must focus on the most important, and resume the problem as also the answer on the reading and for that all you need is to have a accurate style. Bye Paulo

full deck	27 Feb 2004
Perhaps it is better to talk about having a concept as to what is being done and how. Style is a part of concept (I would think).

paulo32	28 Feb 2004
Yes full deck i agree with you. But what is for you the concept of style ? Bye Paulo

full deck	28 Feb 2004
You *do* ask the most difficult questions and that is pretty darned cool. I would say that style is the external aspect of a concept, which begins as an internal abstraction and only after going through a forging process where one works out ideas and relationships, does a style emerge. Musicians are often only half-aware of their *style* since much of that creative process come out of an unspoken expression that just comes out of creating something. Only later, when one has the benefit of hindsight, can we sit back and recognize what was done and maybe why. Personally speaking, one's own style comes out of the study of the past. When a musician learns the masters and their "thing", then they can really get deeper into what they are trying to do. It always takes time and hard work too. Some musicians will have this long-winded discussion about how such-and-such an artist is "innovative". Well, they don't seem to understand that the idea of "innovation" is a quasi-scientific idea that came more from the development of science as a social force in the late 19th Century. Likewise, what one sees as being a "style" did not start with someone thinking "Oh, I'm going to make my own style and be innovative", it's more the eventual result of experimentation, trial-and-error, study, living, etc. Maybe it develops and then, maybe it doesn't.

paulo32	29 Feb 2004
lol full deck it seems that you are a musician. Well I has thinking in style, when you made a short analysis about the psychology, the philosophy, the situation, the future, the past, the present, etc, etc on a reading and you only made reference to the most important points of that with only one or two short sentences. What I mean is: when you do a reading you discover thinks that are in front of your eyes in the shadows but no one see. Only you with a accurate reading. Isn’t that to have style ? Bye Paulo

full deck	29 Feb 2004
Quote: Originally posted by paulo32 What I mean is: when you do a reading you discover thinks that are in front of your eyes in the shadows but no one see. Only you with a accurate reading. Isn’t that to have style ? I guess this is where my definition of style is more based upon artistic notions. What you call "style" I would refer to as "imagination" and I mean the imagination that is required of one to be a prophet (Mammonides). This is more a combination of intellect and intuition. (IMHO) a good reader needs to be knowledgeable about *everything*. That does not so much mean being a genius but simply being well informed of the world around them.

paulo32	01 Mar 2004
full deck Your answers have made me think, and also to have a clarification about this question that I have about the style. I don’t define style with artistic notions, and not with imagination but with a practical sense for every day life. I agree with you when you use the word intuition, because when you have style you enter on the mysteries of life, and you are also a mystery for the others. So during a reading with the tarot somme have and somme don´t. Bye Paulo

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