Does it ever make you cry?

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 15 Jul 2004, and now archived in the Forum Library.

Indigo_lady	15 Jul 2004
This is odd. I haven't been doing any readings at all in a very long time. Something has been keeping me away from the cards.. I think in part it has to do with the fact that I haven't been feeling all that balanced, anyways. So finally today I decided to get the "guts" (I would actually call it guts, because it seemed like something I was afraid to do) to do a reading. As I started shuffling and the more I shuffled the more I felt like crying and out of sync... It tottally threw me off, but at the same time it kept me going. I didn't cry. yet now I still have this anguish in my heart. The reading wasn't all that splendid, and makes me think that things are still going to be on the verge of chaos for a while... maybe I was feeling myself from the outsider's perspective. Anyways, has any of you ever experienced this sadness before the reading itself for no "obvious" reason?????????

September Pixie	15 Jul 2004
I think I would refrain from using the cards in this kind of state, perhaps cleanse them and yourself and do some grounding exercises... or perhaps even smudge the room you spend most of your time in.. and then just wait it out :) We all feel a little out of sorts at times.

morandia	15 Jul 2004
were you readintg for yourself? maybe there is something in your life that you don't want to face and possibly you know that the cards will tell you about it plain and simple. maybe it's something you aren't quite ready to face, or maybe you are in denial..... I agree on the cleansing yourself and the cards, and the area you read in... that might just help more than you realize!!

Flavio	15 Jul 2004
Sorry to hear you are going through hard times, I think that shuffling the cards made you realize about the things you like and the little personal pleasures we all deserve but you can not have now because of other situations keeping from feel balanced. Take some time just for yourself, hope everything get better soon.

Woof	15 Jul 2004
I know exactly what you mean. I haven't been able to touch my cards for a while. If I had I inevitably would have asked about my beloved Shep who I had to help pass on on Tuesday. I couldn't bear to hear what they would have said. And I don't have anyone to read for but myself. Now that he is safely on the other side I will wait until I'm a little more recovered and balanced before I pick them up again. Woof

firemaiden	16 Jul 2004
ABSOLUTELY! and the pain and sadness may not be yours. I have gotten this several times, it seemed from absolutely no where, when reading for others: it was very magical. I was sure it was because of connecting to the person I was reading for. In fact it may not have properly been called pain and sadness or anguish, but simply a rush of emotion, which is actually a rush of feeling, from a rush of connection... zing.. zing.. zing... something is happening. This is good!

blackroseivy	16 Jul 2004
...but I wanted to share an odd experience I once had to do with a friend of mine. It was not card-reading, but rather what you might call psychometry that brought on a real crying fit. What I was doing was edging a dance-skirt for my dance teacher & close friend, Lu. As soon as I picked up the skirt to start to work, I teared up, & I cried all the way through! I stopped as soon as I put it down! Your experience reminded me of this so strongly I just *had* to share it. What was going on with Lu was something rather mysterious because she very seldom opened up about herself (*I*, on the other hand, was going through anguishes aplenty of my own which I shared with her), but I *do* know she was going through a bitter seperation & divorce from an alchoholic husband; she was impossible to call after this, she only had a cell-phone & she never answered it. I think he was harassing her. I just happened to be going through something somewhat similar, but a *whole* lot stranger. I think I just really identified with her so strongly for those few moments that I had to cry. I think I told her about it afterwards, & she thought it was strange too - I think, I can't remember really. But this last post here made me think that perhaps you *do* identify too strongly with the other person - if it *was* another person. Perhaps you are struggling with your own block, if not. But anyway, these things can definitely happen! Keep working at it!

Venian	17 Jul 2004
Very sad that you feel like that. As already mentioned, its not a good idea to go reading for yourself when you feel so down. Why not get someone to read for you? Maybe just light-heartedly from a friend, or from someone on here so you can find out why your feeling this way and what you can do about it? Of course only you know if that will help or not.

Indigo_lady	18 Jul 2004
Thanks for all the worlds of encouragement I'm not feeling down anymore, at least not all the time ;) But this was more like the feeling of having put off something for a long time, exactly what Morandia described. You know when you have a sandwich and you leave it in your lunch bag for weeks, until eventually you force yourself to open it and throw it out, yet your afraid of how it's going to look or smell???? - I used to do that often when I was a kid ... yuckkkkkk I've had experience like the ones firemaiden and danubhe described but never with the cards, so I guess that's what threw me off there... well after the last couple of months I will admit that my sensitivity is really on a high But yess... it probably has to do with blockage, I posted smth about it on the "your readings" section. But thank you guys very much, because it has helped me to develop some ideas and ways to deal with the over charge empathy I've been feeling lately ;)

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