MandMaud
After much trial and error, I've learned to assign a weight and a rank to the cards logically that sits well with my intuitive impressions, and now I don't have to work so hard.
Can you elaborate, Amanda, what do you mean by weight n rank? I take it you mean more than the numbers on the cards. Are you talking about a (personal) hierarchy they're in, different from the standard sequence?
Pamuya -- that conscious-subconscious-superconscious thing is in Tarot for Yourself, or a concept very like it. I know because it's my second Tarot book and I got to that bit this morning! It is probably elsewhere as well.
Girl Archer -- I learnt a lot of crochet from YouTube but until now hadn't thought of using it for Tarot - thanx!
And tarotbear -- I like your Rosetta Stone thought! I've been a learner of languages all my life. One of the most helpful Tarot ideas for me so far has been that the cards are the words, the spreads the sentence - the syntax I can work out for myself once I got that Tarot-as-a-language thing from wherever I first saw it.
Ghost271 -- I started that by myself, picking a card or cards to fit a situation. Or thinking of people I know and matching each to a card... not necessarily a Court. (What's he acting like today? Four of Cups!)
The value of AT for me personally is seeing how many different approaches there are, and the freedom that gives to try them out and to find out what fits me and what doesn't. I've also learnt here how long it takes (like a language, again, or playing an instrument) - and reassuringly that Tarot people share some characteristics which I share too.
Hi Biddy by the way! {waving}
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