Yurikome
Sorry, didn't know whether to put this here or in Talking Tarot.
Anyway, to the point.
I recently sauntered into a Polish tarot forum to check things out and maybe find some fellow readers in my whereabouts, when I came to an interesting topic.
Interesting is putting it lightly as mostly I was baffled and didn't know what I felt more like doing: laughing my pants off or crying in despair.
There seems to be a wide-spread view that you should pick your deck's Guardian, from the first three cards: the Fool, the Magician and the High Priestess. This way you choose which of the spirits will be guiding your readings and residing over your deck.
Now, I've often before heard people referring to their deck as only a means to contact their spirit guide, but I assume this is not what they had in mind.
There are rules (people in Poland are very authoritarian about their views, even in - one would think - such a fluid and subjective area of esoteric workings) to follow, too, but I didn't read much into them, except for the first one: if the guardian card is the first thing you pull out in a reading - you should stop the reading.
You can imagine why I didn't want to read the rest. What, so I devise a spread for someone, and the first position is titled "how does X see me?" and it's impossible for X to see someone as the Magician, if that's the deck's guardian?
The level or ridiculousness is astounding, unless I'm being too close minded to actually see the use in this.
Has anyone of this more cosmopolitan forum heard anything like this? Do you use it? Why? How does it help your readings?
Where did this come from? (Some of the myths out in the tarot world do actually make sense, but this?).
I would have asked around there, but judging from the other topics (Should I bless my deck with holy water? Yes, yes you should, Satan won't possess you then!) their idea of research is pretty vague.
(hope I'm not offending anyone...)
Anyway, to the point.
I recently sauntered into a Polish tarot forum to check things out and maybe find some fellow readers in my whereabouts, when I came to an interesting topic.
Interesting is putting it lightly as mostly I was baffled and didn't know what I felt more like doing: laughing my pants off or crying in despair.
There seems to be a wide-spread view that you should pick your deck's Guardian, from the first three cards: the Fool, the Magician and the High Priestess. This way you choose which of the spirits will be guiding your readings and residing over your deck.
Now, I've often before heard people referring to their deck as only a means to contact their spirit guide, but I assume this is not what they had in mind.
There are rules (people in Poland are very authoritarian about their views, even in - one would think - such a fluid and subjective area of esoteric workings) to follow, too, but I didn't read much into them, except for the first one: if the guardian card is the first thing you pull out in a reading - you should stop the reading.
You can imagine why I didn't want to read the rest. What, so I devise a spread for someone, and the first position is titled "how does X see me?" and it's impossible for X to see someone as the Magician, if that's the deck's guardian?
The level or ridiculousness is astounding, unless I'm being too close minded to actually see the use in this.
Has anyone of this more cosmopolitan forum heard anything like this? Do you use it? Why? How does it help your readings?
Where did this come from? (Some of the myths out in the tarot world do actually make sense, but this?).
I would have asked around there, but judging from the other topics (Should I bless my deck with holy water? Yes, yes you should, Satan won't possess you then!) their idea of research is pretty vague.
(hope I'm not offending anyone...)