How are you learning?

jean bosco

Hi

Who is JDM, and EE? And what Lee's book, please?


Kev

Hey Kev,

welcome to aeclectic!! Here we go.

Jean Michel David
Enrique Enriquez
Lee Bursten

JMD wrote one of the best Marseille Tarot books, 'Reading the Marseille Tarot'
http://www.lulu.com/shop/jean-michel-david/reading-the-marseille-tarot/ebook/product-20823176.html

EE is a very interesting author in the Tarot world. He also contributed nice stuff here on aeclectic. For example the 'Marseille Seeker' threads, http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=102599
or... http://newsletter.tarotstudies.org/2009/11/embodied-tarot/

Lee Bursten is also an interesting author and mod here.
http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=165645

Injoy
 

kevin.mason1

Ahhhh thanks. I'm rubbish at acronyms. [emoji106]🏻[emoji106]🏻
 

Frater Benedict

What methods and methods of learning have people found useful? Especially but not exclusive to those pips....

For me, this has been useful:

10: Right: Places. Reversed: Bad stuff
8: Persons
7: Mental activity
6: Motion in space and time (Think a TARDIS which may travel to eight different destinations)
5: Actions
4: Emotional states
3: Events
2: Emotions

Nines and aces are not that easy to generalise.
 

Mr Timothy Gray

I can only speak from my own experience:

Once I learnt that there was NOTHING to learn - EVERYTHING became available. These images have no meaning to me - they are expressive pictures of postures and actions - all of which we can relate to - and when placed against the blades of six or seven swords, or the blunt thud of two or three wands, or the overflowing of ten cups, or the clicking of two coins against each other, the picture expands, dances and is relate-able to whatever question is posed.

I have to turn off the head and respond with the heart. I can not intellectualize abstract images. They dance with my stupidity and something beautiful emerges.
 

3ill.yazi

I can only speak from my own experience:

Once I learnt that there was NOTHING to learn - EVERYTHING became available. These images have no meaning to me - they are expressive pictures of postures and actions - all of which we can relate to - and when placed against the blades of six or seven swords, or the blunt thud of two or three wands, or the overflowing of ten cups, or the clicking of two coins against each other, the picture expands, dances and is relate-able to whatever question is posed.

I have to turn off the head and respond with the heart. I can not intellectualize abstract images. They dance with my stupidity and something beautiful emerges.

I so wish I could do that. I'm not wired that way, though.
 

3ill.yazi

Lee Bursten is also an interesting author and mod here.
http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=165645

Injoy

I continue to maintain that it's a crime against tarot that Lee's book (booklet, but not really) seems to be mostly unavailable now. I was lucky enough to snap up the box set that contained it (the book is worth more than the deck, to be frank, though the deck has grown on me), and it's a condensed little masterpiece, in part based on some writing by Robert O'Neill, whose work is online thankfully, as his book is prohibitively priced wherever I have seen it.
 

Lee

[...]it's a condensed little masterpiece [...]
Thanks! :) I was given a maximum word count which didn't leave a lot of room to maneuver, but I think that turned out to be a virtue.
 

Barleywine

Good news, for those who haven't looked lately! JMD's book Reading the Marseille Tarot is now available through Lulu as an e-book for $13.74 US. I was never able to justify the $50+ for the paper version (although it's what I much prefer), so I grabbed the pdf file.
 

mrpants

Barleywine, Woo Hoo! I loaned my $50 copy to a friend. I'll just buy a new one, I think!