Probie
This would be part B of my question from the other recent thread of mine about criticism. This was the part of the criticism that I owned, my style was convuluted! Here's part of what I said in that other thread:
Okay, an edit here for you smarties: no card can have "Scorpio" + "Venus" + "Netzach" and be either earth or air - whoops! This is why you don't post @ 6:30am!
So while this is a reading question, it's a Thoth one because of all the leaning on dignitaries: elemental, royal elemental, zodiac, planetary, decanate, positional, and I'm sure I'm missing a bunch! How much of that is for me & how much do you share? Examples (obscuring 3rd parties of course) would also be appreciated.
probie said:The biggest problem I have right now is a reading presentation style. I need to figure out how much to share and how much is for me.
I'm getting the sense this is becoming like The Antique Road Show. Some of the people who bring in their stuff really do want to hear the expert appraiser say their spiel, it's the item that's important for them. However, there's also a distinct group that you can see in their face, "C'mon, c'mon, c'mon! Enough history already, what's the cash value? I got a cruise to take!"
Online readings, for me, are tough. In my day job, I'm a human services person and I do all those active listening techniques plus obsesses about body language and paralinguistics (tone, pacing, emphasis, pauses, etc.). In this format, I got a screen and it's mine.
With phone/F2F (face-to-face) you get some of this and can just go, "These two cards don't get along" and skip the fact that they're earth and air as well as the later has Venus in Scorpio and is on the 7th point (Netzach) & far down the Tree of Life - so isn't a happy little card to begin with!
Okay, an edit here for you smarties: no card can have "Scorpio" + "Venus" + "Netzach" and be either earth or air - whoops! This is why you don't post @ 6:30am!
So while this is a reading question, it's a Thoth one because of all the leaning on dignitaries: elemental, royal elemental, zodiac, planetary, decanate, positional, and I'm sure I'm missing a bunch! How much of that is for me & how much do you share? Examples (obscuring 3rd parties of course) would also be appreciated.