Laying aside the cards...

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 30 Sep 2004, and now archived in the Forum Library.

Vita-morte	30 Sep 2004
It's been a while since I've posted here! For the past six months or so I haven't picked up my deck even once. Oh, it's caught my eye from the bookshelf, but I haven't had the urge to read. Tonight it just seems I'm really ready to read again. Has anyone else here ever had the problem of just being disinterested or out of tune for such a long time?

Tarot Sparrow	30 Sep 2004
I have. I got my first deck years ago when I got interested in tarot, and just loved it. But I had trouble understanding things from the LWB. I still had fun, but I mainly only used the Celtic Cross spread which I now realize was much too complicated for a beginner, being that I didn't have enough of an understanding of how to interpret the cards. My intuition wasn't as clear then as it was now. And I was only reading for myself, which is a tough thing to do. I became disinterested in the cards until about a year ago, when I came back to Aeclectic, which I had joined but never posted, and I took up Thirteen's Tarot Basics and received some great advice on the boards. I think one of the things that helped me the most was just having the time in my life to actually sit down and get to know tarot, and enjoy it, and participating in the Seeker threads in the Reading Exchange. It really helped me develop my skills and trust my intuition, and started me on reading for others as well. So for anyone new, I highly recommend participating in group readings! :D

Kath	01 Oct 2004
I put the cards aside for over a year. I had gone through some pretty big changes in my life, and I didn’t use my cards for a long time. It wasn’t a conscious choice, I just stopped using them. It wasn’t till a few months ago that I picked up my cards again. I’m still not doing as many readings as I used to, but I have a pretty busy life these days, so it’s more a matter of time, than a matter of interest.

Fulgour	01 Oct 2004
A happy photographer will learn how to be the camera, just as with Tarot the deck is always there to be read. *

Vilyariel	01 Oct 2004
I've had my LOTR deck kicking around the house for about 8 months, but i only got the urge to read with it properly at the beginning of this week.

blackadder	01 Oct 2004
I've gone thorugh a very long period where I didn't touch my tarot cards. I would say about 4 or 5 years long. I just didn't have the draw to read them. Then one day I was visiting my mom's house and I saw them sitting on the dresser in my old room. They seem so lonely and in need of attention. I brought them home, but still didn't touch them for another six months. Then I just had the urge to read them again, and they have been used almost daily now! I hope to never go through a long dry spell like that again.

Thindelock	01 Oct 2004
I've had two periods like what you describe, each lasting for several months, nearly a year. I honestly can't explain why I put them aside for so long, or what draws me back to them. I find that I'm a very cyclical person, that most interests and moods wax and wane for me over (relatively) long periods of time. It's been a little less than a year since my last down-swing involving tarot, but even since then I haven't worked with any of my decks much. Only in the past two weeks did I really take a strong interest again. For some reason, around the autmn equinox each year I seem to re-awaken to the spritual side of things, and this time one of the real foci seems to be Tarot and divination.

Maelin	01 Oct 2004
Does 15 years count? When I married, I put my cards away. The man I married, and the life I bought into were practical, and rational, and Tarot didn't seem to fit. I thought that was what I believed...and yet, I couldn't get rid of my deck, although lots of other things left. Then they somehow came out, but only rarely, when the season or a thought thread from my past would move me to. Then, when the marriage was over, and I was looking for me - the thing that got lost somewhere along the way - there I was, in a little velvet bag in the bottom of a drawer - and thankfully I had not thrown myself away, just hidden myself in a drawer for a long long time.

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