sworm09
So I've had my Thoth for almost a year now (It'll be a year in March) and I find myself in a fluctuating relationship with the thing. Sometimes, particularly with other people, I can tell them exactly what the cards are saying, but the vast majority of the time I just get confused by the vast majority of things that I must think about to get a meaning out of the cards (Qabalah, Astrology, etc.) I posted this in the Thoth deck forum because this is a problem that I have specifically with this deck: silent cards and bizarre symbols that have nothing to do with my situation. And yes, I've read the Book of Thoth so many times and in theory everything makes sense, but when I actually sit down to do the readings, the things from the Book of Thoth concerning the cards either have NOTHING to do with my situation or they just confuse me.
Here's an example of both the types of cards that I get, as well as my (perhaps flawed) method of interpreting them.
I asked a question about where things would go between a girl and I over the next few months. I drew the Princess of Wands.
The confusion automatically begins: is this representative of her? Me? The situation?
And then the attributions...this card is attributed to Cancer, Leo, and Virgo and it's Final Heh of Atziluth showing the manifestation of the will........ -_-
What I'm trying to say here is that when reading the cards in this deck I find so many layers of meaning that I end up confused. When I see a card ALL of these attributions explode in my head; astrological, qabalistic, elemental, divinatory meanings, things mentioned in the Book of Thoth.....then after having all of those things strike me at once, I become overwhelmed and I either end up with no meaning to the card at all (silent card) or I end up with a meaning that has nothing to do with my situation.
I've even started to study every minute symbol in the deck (in the above example I know what the alter represents, what the green in the flame represents...etc.) yet that only adds more things to overwhelm me.
For those experienced Thoth users, what's a more manageable, paced way of approaching these cards in a reading? Because my current state of remembering every single thing I've read about them only serves to confuse me and the symbolism of the cards is often absolutely mute to me.
Here's an example of both the types of cards that I get, as well as my (perhaps flawed) method of interpreting them.
I asked a question about where things would go between a girl and I over the next few months. I drew the Princess of Wands.
The confusion automatically begins: is this representative of her? Me? The situation?
And then the attributions...this card is attributed to Cancer, Leo, and Virgo and it's Final Heh of Atziluth showing the manifestation of the will........ -_-
What I'm trying to say here is that when reading the cards in this deck I find so many layers of meaning that I end up confused. When I see a card ALL of these attributions explode in my head; astrological, qabalistic, elemental, divinatory meanings, things mentioned in the Book of Thoth.....then after having all of those things strike me at once, I become overwhelmed and I either end up with no meaning to the card at all (silent card) or I end up with a meaning that has nothing to do with my situation.
I've even started to study every minute symbol in the deck (in the above example I know what the alter represents, what the green in the flame represents...etc.) yet that only adds more things to overwhelm me.
For those experienced Thoth users, what's a more manageable, paced way of approaching these cards in a reading? Because my current state of remembering every single thing I've read about them only serves to confuse me and the symbolism of the cards is often absolutely mute to me.