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yeah sometimes i do read the bottom card too but more often i found out the card there dont relate at all to the question.
Lionheart said:I visited a lady in Sydney a couple of times, her accuracy was excellent in her tarot readings. She'd ask me to shuffle the cards and split the deck 3 ways. I would do this and she would then turn the 3 piles over and read where I cut the cards, she said that these cards gave her an indication of what is around me now, at this very moment.
catlin said:I let querents shuffle and cut the cards and I have a look at the bottom cards as well.
Sometimes they give interesting information for the reading, especially when querent does not mention the question to you. Sometimes these cards give information of the shadow of a reading, eg what querent does not want to see.
I use it to give me more info on the querent's question. It always gives me a look at where their head is at the time.LixiPixi said:Hi all - I have two questions:
1. I've been wondering about this alot lately. I've read that the bottom/shadow/base card of a deck can be significant to a reading. After reading through this thread, I think I finally have an understanding of it's purpose, 1) to teach the hidden meaning of the reading, or 2) to reveal something the querent is ignoring or not wanting to admit. Is this an accurate way of looking at it? And in determining the use of those cards, do you actually think about which of those methods you'd like answered before, during, after the shuffle?
LP~
Yes, both of those. And sometimes I (and others) look on it as the 'teacher card', or 'advice to the reader'. Look on it as an aside, or side comment to the reading.LixiPixi said:1. I've been wondering about this alot lately. I've read that the bottom/shadow/base card of a deck can be significant to a reading. After reading through this thread, I think I finally have an understanding of it's purpose, 1) to teach the hidden meaning of the reading, or 2) to reveal something the querent is ignoring or not wanting to admit. Is this an accurate way of looking at it? And in determining the use of those cards, do you actually think about which of those methods you'd like answered before, during, after the shuffle?
'quin' or 'quint' are used as shortened forms for quintessessence.2. I've also seen just yesterday that someone mentioned the "quin" card. What is that one exactly?