Reading the cards.
Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 17 Apr 2005, and now archived in the Forum Library.
| James 57 |
17 Apr 2005 |
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Hi I am very new to Tarot and have never done a reading before.
How do you know when a reading is "right on" or Accurate"?
James 57
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| Thirteen |
17 Apr 2005 |
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Hi I am very new to Tarot and have never done a reading before. How do you know when a reading is "right on" or Accurate"?
Hi, James. Welcome to Aeclectic! When you do a reading for someone, it's accuracy in most cases will be verified by that person. You'll say to the querent, "You're having trouble with your mother--" and they'll say, "That's right!" The only question is whether the future or unknowns are accurate. In the first instance, the future, the accurcy there might well be up to the querent. You might say to them, "If you don't slow down, you're going to be in trouble--" and whether that comes true or not is up to them.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, you don't know if you've been accurate till you're proved right. The Querent says, "I won the lottery just as you predicted!" or "My girlfriend was cheating on me!" You just don't know for sure until you get confirmation. Until what you say is true is indeed proven to be true.
This uncertainty you're feeling about accuracy, however, is not uncommon. Everyone of us hits a point in our readings where we think, "Gosh, there's so many interpetations to these cards. Which is right?" You edge forward toward "rightness" by asking the querent questions, "Are you having problems with your mother?"--by getting a feel of them and who they are. You edge ahead by examining connections between the cards--lots of cups? A repeat of a theme like getting Tower/Death/Judgement day--i.e., things ending and beginning anew? By looking to see if there's a progression: Fool (moving), Hermit (settling in alone), 2/Cups (meeting someone).
These will get you more in touch with your instincts and psyhic insights. Along the way, you'll make mistakes. You won't always be right or right on the money. You may read the cards wrong or just not be able to figure some out. Come on here if you need any help; it's what we love to do. The better you get, the more you do it, the more you know, the more accurate you'll be.
And when you are accurate, you won't even have to doubt yourself. The reading will come out, a picture, a story unfolding. It'll come together holistically, and it will just feel right.
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| Gwynne |
17 Apr 2005 |
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I have found, and most will agree with me, the times I thought I was way off base, were the times I was the most accurate.
Most definitely! I'll be sitting down to do an email reading, lay out the cards and start writing, and I'll think "This can't possibly be right... I'm so way off base they're going to hate me..." And it's those readings that are the absolute most accurate! The kind that dig so deep into the querant's soul that it catches them off guard! Which of course then freaks me out...
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| SunChariot |
19 Apr 2005 |
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Hi I am very new to Tarot and have never done a reading before.
How do you know when a reading is "right on" or Accurate"?
James 57
Tarot is all about learning to follow your intuition and your feelings. You know a reading is right when it feels right. Not necessarily when it tells you all the asnwers you want to hear, but when you look at the cards and have a gut feeling that they are telling you the truth. When you have an "AHA" moment, then your interpretation of the reading is right for you.
Bar
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