just a question!

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 25 Jan 2005, and now archived in the Forum Library.

aphrodite	25 Jan 2005
i've been browsing around a few sites and the cencus on establishing a time line (or an outline) is a hot topic i guess! some people feel it is improbable to tell- and other people have methods. so i decided to try one out that she explained was a little unusual, and it came out all wrong! ( i'm new but pretty sure about this) so any ideas if this is a waste of time or i just need a different-and more compatible with me- approach? any suggestions? xo

Thirteen	25 Jan 2005
Time is a tricky thing in Tarot. Unless you do a year-reading (what's going to happen over the next 12 months), then MOST readings don't really predict beyond 30-60 days anyway, if that! So trying to get dates more exact is really not worth the effort. That said--what method did you use? Here's one of the most exact timing method I know, re-posted from another thread: The book "Tarot in Ten Minutes" by R.R.Kaser says the following: If you're trying to predict when something will happen (like when you'll get a promotion, or something solid like that): Magician: By the new Moon HP: Crescent moon Empress: Full moon Emperor: Quarter moon Hierophant: Winter Solstice Lovers: Spring Equinox Chariot: Summer Solstice Justice (she goes with Justice as #8--and I'd go with this, too; "Strength" wouldn't make sense for "Fall"): Autumnal Equinox Hermit: In a matter of days Wheel Of fortune: Within a year The way this is done is to use just these ten cards in a three card spread. The first indicates the "thing" (Empress might mean, what you're working on), the second what will happen (for example, the Chariot might = "a challenge") and the third is "when" (Hermit = "In a matter of days"). For more on the subject of timing, try these past threads: http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1466 http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5785 http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11811 But be aware that no method works really well (usually), and the best methods are those that you work out yourself, which, over years, you yourself learn to be true (like, each time you get the Empress something's going to happen within three days, or some such thing).

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