Forum Table of Contents - All About Reading

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 14 Jun 2003, and now archived in the Forum Library.

firemaiden	14 Jun 2003
- Do you use special rituals, etc before starting a reading? - Tarot reading rituals - info please! - dependancy on ritual - So what are your rituals? purification - how to cleanse my cards - Ordering and purifying your tarot cards - Ordering the Deck Between Readings? - Others touching my cards Forming a question rephrasing the question Basic types of questions yes & no questions Yes/No-Questions Questions Asking the correct questions Asking the deck a question... Specific vs. general questions in readings Doing a Reading to find the Question To know the Question or not know the Question? when the spread only mirrors my question... Relationship between cards and questions asked Stating the question aloud vs. keeping quiet... Do you ask the question as you pull the card? Can three people shuffle asking the same question? - Another question from Ms. Perplexed: who shuffles? - Querants and shuffling - Shuffling - I prefer to shuffle for the client How? - Are there special techniques? my hands hurt - riffling vs. lacing - riffle shuffle? - Shuffling tips? okay to riffle? - Shuffling Cards - way to shuffle? - *shuffle shuffle* - Shuffling Method - How do you shuffle a large deck? - What's your shuffling method, why does it work for you? - Interest in a shuffling video - Kyrielle's Rhythmic Focus Shuffle - Shuffling and cutting the deck - Shuffling & Cutting the deck.. CONFUSED - help! - shuffling and card selection - Shuffling when using reversals - Reshuffle before drawing clarification card? - Cards falling out while shuffling - shuffle and storage question hazards of shuffling - Aggressive Shufflers - accidental shuffles - Shuffling Callouses? - Shuffling related injury philosophy of shuffling - Why is there Shuffle? - Does it matter how I shuffle the cards? - can 3 persons shuffle asking the same question? - How random is your shuffle? Cutting the Deck Choosing the Cards "choosing" cards Choosing the cards. I'm perplexed. How do you pick your cards? Drawing cards off top or from a fan pulling cards off the deck for readings card from top or fan out deck?? How do you pick extra cards? Laying out the Cards Flip or Turn the cards? Laying of the cards How to place the cards ? Re-dealing? Dealing: Face up or down? How do you deal the cards laying the cards.... Unusual ways of dealing the cards Clarification Cards Drawing additional cards Those Clarification Cards How do you pick extra cards?

firemaiden	15 Jun 2003
- people - pets? - skeptics - the curious/skeptical - other readers - family members - teenagers/young adults - online - for someone on line - absentee querant - Public Cases Reading in Special Situations - To converse with the dead - outdoors - in public - on a palm pilot Reading Problems - Readings that don’t work - negative readings - Really way off readings - Strange Readings - Confusing Readings - irrelevant readings - Reader's Block - The Reading doesn’t count when… Reading for yourself - What about reading for yourself? - How do you do an effective reading for yourself? - Self-Reads v/s Reading For Others (DollChica) - Self-Readings vs. Readings for Others (ChrisTheObsure) - Reading for Yourself - Difficulty in Reading Accurately for Self - Reading for Self / Developing Intuition / Cleansing the Deck - reading as meditation / for answers

firemaiden	15 Jun 2003
SPECIAL TECHNIQUES [*] Newbie Questions - Beginner’s Query – reversed cards???? - when do you know to reverse meanings? - How do reversed cards work? - Should newbies wait before using reversals? - Are my spreads wrong if I don't use reversals? - Can Majors be read reversed too? - Ill-Dignified...How Can You Tell? [*] Interpretations - How do you interpret reversed cards? - What's the general opinion about reversals...? - Reversed cards as opposites? - Reversals as blockage [*] Do you or don't you... - Reversals or not??? - to reverse or not to reverse? - reversals or no reversals... that is the question! - What does it mean to not use reversals? - Reversals, and the lack thereof - In a Celtic Cross, upright the crossing card? - Reading Reversals - My Perspective - when decks claim not to use reversals [*] Shuffling for reversals - A, maybe strange, question about reversals - Creating Reversals - Practical Reversals question sans debate - ultra-stupid question on reversed cards - Am I upside down?? [*] Polls - Poll: To allow reversals or not - that is the question! - Poll: Do you use reverse meanings - Poll: Do you use reversals? [*] Questionnaire - Reversals – opinions, please[/list]

firemaiden	15 Jun 2003
Significators - Solandia Significators -Moongold Significator - Teal Significators? – Demonesse Significator - Butterfly A beginner question: Significators Question regarding significators Choosing a significator? (Kirali) Choosing a Significator (wolven) Choosing a significator / the cowardly way Significator = Zodiac / Major Arcana Gift Card Becomes Signifier? Zodiac signs, court cards, significators What is your Year Card - 2001 (MeeWah) What is your Year Card - 2003 (joya250) Personal card Finding YOUR personal tarot card out of your deck Personal Power cards How do you work out Personality,Soul and Year Cards? Key Cards Lifetime Cards- Personality, Soul and year – how do we use them? Something else about Personality and Soul Cards Soul- and personality card quickie...!

firemaiden	15 Jun 2003
- Elemental correspondances - Numerology in Tarot? - The Attributes of numbers and their correlation to suit elements - Elements and Majors - Numerology and the Minor Arcana - Minors and numerological systems - Pips : Element and Numerology - Elemental Dignities - Elemental Dignities question - Elementals: Passive vs Active? - Elements and suits Astrological - Tarot & the Zodiac - Natal Charts for Cards - Court Cards & Astrology - Help Please - Astrological Signs and Court Cards - Astrology and Tarot cards - Astrological Aspects in Cards - The Combining of Tarot and Astrology - Major Arcana & Zodiac sign correspondences - Minors - Origin of Astrological Assignments Seasonal - Seasons and the Suits - Seasons & Elements - Seasons of the Tarot? - Do suits represent seasons Time - Question about timelines and cards - Question re: spreads / timing / elementals - People and time in readings? - Poll: Whats the maximum time span you covered? - Just a matter of time - A matter of timing - Timing (punkangel) - Timing - Celtic Cross Time Telling - Timing Systems - Timing Events: any specific cards? - Question on time frames Medical - Healing with Tarots! - Spotting Specific Illnesses with the Cards? - The Dr is in ? Tarot and health - Tarot for 'diagnosis' - Tarot and Injuries - Health Problems - Major Arcana Associations Gender - Tarot cards as masculine and feminine Occupational - cards/occupations - Find the Profession Nutritional - Diet and Tarot?? - Flavours for The Cards....? Animal - Animal associations? Alphabetical - Tarot and Letters Musical - Tarot Cards and Musical Notes - Musical Minors Life Moments - It’s not the Fool’s Journey - no, it's the bateleur’s Journey- by Diana - The Fool’s Journey - The Reversed Fool’s Journey - Quabalists do the Fool’s Journey Backwards - The Moon’s Journey I - The Moons Journey II - The Moon's Journey III - a shuffled journey Interpretation of the Majors Sequence ... - as Development of Civilisation - as Creative Process - as the Six Days of Creation Putting cards together - Linking the Majors to Minors - How do you read relationships between the cards? - How to connect the cards together - Interesting Tarot Pairs - Majors' Higher and Deeper Meaning Cards

firemaiden	27 Jun 2003
- Ways of learning Tarot - How did you and do you learn tarot? - self-teaching - Learning the Tarot by Joan Bunning and The Rider Tarot Deck - learning without the Rider-Waite Deck Learning the Cards - Study the cards - Learning the cards - How to learn – memorizing cards - How to learn your deck Keeping a Journal - Tarot Journal - Tarot Journal - Tarot Journal Question - Keeping a Tarot Journal - How to keep a tarot journal - Starting a Journal – please – feedback Daily Readings - Daily Readings…AM? PM? - Questions about daily cards - Alternative to daily readings: for your notebook - Daily Cards - Daily Cards (Nexorious) - Daily Card (Gloria) - Your personal daily cards – question - How do you choose your daily card?

firemaiden	27 Jun 2003
- the truth, or the reaction? - predictions or reflections? - reflections instead of readings? - Are all the cards both positive and negative? Intuitive versus Analytical Approaches - Analytical Readings About using different tarot decks - effect of style of deck on readings - switching decks for readings

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