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Step NINE is about questions and snapshots. This step starts off discussing open-ended questions, a wonderful way to draw out the querent's perceptions of the card(s) before him/her. It is the unexpected comment, or the new-to-us way of expressing something that creates a special moment. This special moment where both we and the querent embark together on our journey of discovery is part of the magic of the Tarot.
Mary Greer gives us dialog between the reader and querent which illustrates how this process might work. From this dialog, which started so easily, we can see how the whole shape of the querent's problems started to emerge. No guessing, no tarot-babble. Just sharting which allows the reader to proceed with a better understanding of the context in which the cards are to be read.
Mary takes our focus back to "snapshots" and the metaphors they represent. As we have learned, metaphors are symbol groupings having (often) emotional charges that make them powerful carriers of meaning.
Step 9:2 brings us into the reader's shoes, where we are asked to pickup that role. We get both the positive and less-positive aspects of reading from Mary so that we can better judge what our standards of self-expectation should be as we try to better relate to others in service to their needs.
We find in this step extensive Empowerment Questions. It is my belief that these questions could be the basis of a couple of months of fruitful discussion. So often, I feel, we do disservice to ourselves concerning the questions we ask or don't ask compared to what we could have asked and better advanced the conversation. Perhaps we can do just that--explore these questions once we have done this step. Your comments on this will be most welcome.
Another treasure of this step is Mary's addressing of "Anomalies and Blind Spots" -- the quirks in a reading that we sometimes gloss over because we can't fit it into our reading flow. In my many years of astrological practice, I've learned that it is precisely these wrinkles that offer us greater understanding of a person's life story.
Step 9:4 brings us to a self-testing phase.
I think that this chapter is probably the richest and deepest portion of the book we have encountered so far. I expect we'll love this and gain so very much from it. As always, have fun. Take this at whatever pace is right for you. Dave
Mary Greer gives us dialog between the reader and querent which illustrates how this process might work. From this dialog, which started so easily, we can see how the whole shape of the querent's problems started to emerge. No guessing, no tarot-babble. Just sharting which allows the reader to proceed with a better understanding of the context in which the cards are to be read.
Mary takes our focus back to "snapshots" and the metaphors they represent. As we have learned, metaphors are symbol groupings having (often) emotional charges that make them powerful carriers of meaning.
Step 9:2 brings us into the reader's shoes, where we are asked to pickup that role. We get both the positive and less-positive aspects of reading from Mary so that we can better judge what our standards of self-expectation should be as we try to better relate to others in service to their needs.
We find in this step extensive Empowerment Questions. It is my belief that these questions could be the basis of a couple of months of fruitful discussion. So often, I feel, we do disservice to ourselves concerning the questions we ask or don't ask compared to what we could have asked and better advanced the conversation. Perhaps we can do just that--explore these questions once we have done this step. Your comments on this will be most welcome.
Another treasure of this step is Mary's addressing of "Anomalies and Blind Spots" -- the quirks in a reading that we sometimes gloss over because we can't fit it into our reading flow. In my many years of astrological practice, I've learned that it is precisely these wrinkles that offer us greater understanding of a person's life story.
Step 9:4 brings us to a self-testing phase.
I think that this chapter is probably the richest and deepest portion of the book we have encountered so far. I expect we'll love this and gain so very much from it. As always, have fun. Take this at whatever pace is right for you. Dave