Yes/No queries

[Lula Jing]

The sun'll come out
Tomorrow
Bet your bottom dollar
That tomorrow
There'll be sun!

I wanted to know the outcome of something... basically Yes or No.

So I asked: what will be the answer from them tomorrow?

As I shuffled I flipped a few cards over in my head... thinking if I see one of these the answer will be Yes.

So I started flipping through them in my mind...

The Sun, 6 Wands, 4 Wands, 2 Cups, 3 Cups, 9 Cups, 10 Cups, 9 pentacles. Any one of these babies.

I'm sure some clever person can tell me the odds.

So you can imagine my reaction when I drew The Sun... my first choice! Pretty good I thought. Fluke? I'll let you know tomorrow.

Does anyone else do this... think of a card or number of cards then if they see that card or cards in the spread then it confirms the reading? I do this quite a lot and sometimes Tarot really does amaze me by turning up the cards I was thinking of.

I wonder how this works though? Especially during the shuffling process as you think those thoughts. What is going on for your shuffle to answer your mind in such a private and unique way?

[Middy1452]

Nice! Not done this consciously I don't think, but I have sometimes had a card pop up in my head and it appears. Or had a jumper, put it back, only for it to appear in the reading. Not the same I know, but Tarot never ceases to amaze me and that its beauty IMHO.

Middy

[Lula Jing]

Hi Middy, those things have happened for me too, or *plop* the jumpers are in fact the reading. This happened to me the other day when two cards fell on the floor during the shuffle (and I'm not one of these fancy shufflers) so it surprised me and I had to smile when I saw them because they answered my query right there.

I think sometimes we can pore over a reading, extracting every nuance, when sometimes the answer is more obvious and perhaps staring us in the face. I want to be able to recognise those moments more readily and with confidence. Takes a bit of practice though and I'm still at it!

I suppose in my example the cards had become my own - telling me what I would understand to be a Yes confirmation, given that Yes/No is rarely it... rarely the end of the conversation with the cards. Had I done a reading I would probably have tried to read more into it whereas I was just looking for a quick nod or shake of the head.

[Lula Jing]

Hehe I just got the news - it was Yes!

[DownwardSpiral]

Originally Posted by Lula Jing

Does anyone else do this... think of a card or number of cards then if they see that card or cards in the spread then it confirms the reading? I do this quite a lot and sometimes Tarot really does amaze me by turning up the cards I was thinking of.

I wonder how this works though? Especially during the shuffling process as you think those thoughts. What is going on for your shuffle to answer your mind in such a private and unique way?

Just curious......did you just specifically pick the sun as yes and if it didn't show in your draw of cards the answer was no? Or was there another card specifically for no?

How does it work? Like any other card reading. I did numerous readings for my daughter when she was pregnant using the lenormand cards and every time the heart would show up right next (and on the left) of the charged card. And we knew right away what it meant.
You need to have more faith that however you shuffle/cut/draw your cards....the right cards will find a way into the reading. I remember doing another reading and two cards fell out while I was shuffling so I included them in my reading. They weren't a part of the cards I drew but they were in fact very significant to the reading. They (the cards) found a way into the reading.

Edited to add: LOL I forgot to ask.......have your answers been for the most part accurate using this method?

[Lula Jing]

Originally Posted by DownwardSpiral

Just curious......did you just specifically pick the sun as yes and if it didn't show in your draw of cards the answer was no? Or was there another card specifically for no?

The Sun was the first card that flashed to mind that would signify Yes if I drew it. But there were other cards that I would have also accepted as Yes (listed in my first post).

As for No, I didn't have any in mind but I was thinking that a card other than the Yes ones I had thought of would indicate why not, rather than no per se. Whereas to me it's more obvious why the others are Yes if that makes sense.

Sun = joy, happiness, summer, being in the spotlight, childlike glee - but also a direct reference to a previous reading in which Sun appeared. Therefore Sun was the best and biggest Yes I could have received in the circumstances.

How does it work? Like any other card reading.

Ha ha, I did wonder about that.

You need to have more faith that however you shuffle/cut/draw your cards....the right cards will find a way into the reading.

I agree, and I do have faith that this will happen. I wasn't trying to influence the cards in any way or impose my will, but I was trying to affirm something in my own mind that would signify (to me) a yes or no response with just one card.

I remember doing another reading and two cards fell out while I was shuffling so I included them in my reading. They weren't a part of the cards I drew but they were in fact very significant to the reading. They (the cards) found a way into the reading.

Hehe, I love jumpers. I'm a careful shuffler so ALWAYS take note of the jumpers.

Edited to add: LOL I forgot to ask.......have your answers been for the most part accurate using this method?

Yes, even when it was something I didn't want to see. For example, I may have thought to myself whilst shuffling... "if that pesky Page Swords comes in I'll know for sure why my ears are burning..." etc.

[SunChariot]

Originally Posted by Lula Jing

The sun'll come out
Tomorrow
Bet your bottom dollar
That tomorrow
There'll be sun!

I wanted to know the outcome of something... basically Yes or No.

So I asked: what will be the answer from them tomorrow?

As I shuffled I flipped a few cards over in my head... thinking if I see one of these the answer will be Yes.

So I started flipping through them in my mind...

The Sun, 6 Wands, 4 Wands, 2 Cups, 3 Cups, 9 Cups, 10 Cups, 9 pentacles. Any one of these babies.

I'm sure some clever person can tell me the odds.

So you can imagine my reaction when I drew The Sun... my first choice! Pretty good I thought. Fluke? I'll let you know tomorrow.

Does anyone else do this... think of a card or number of cards then if they see that card or cards in the spread then it confirms the reading? I do this quite a lot and sometimes Tarot really does amaze me by turning up the cards I was thinking of.

I wonder how this works though? Especially during the shuffling process as you think those thoughts. What is going on for your shuffle to answer your mind in such a private and unique way?

I actually never thought of that before, but I wish I had. ...thinking of some cards in yoeru head and if they come up in means yes. I found that a wonderful method, Really quite brilliant.

Nest as for the odds of it happening and how it works. My strong beleif, that I beleive completely, and I have said this a lot because it is the truth for me, is..... "Odds" do not apply when it coimes to Tarot or divination. The odds of something happening only applies when ti comes to random events....to something that is happening randomly with no real purpose. Eg if you just randonly flip a set of dice a hundred times what are the odds of one number comong up more than any other.

Tarot it not random so the idea of what are the odds of certain cards coming up does not apply. Tarot is an intelligent system. It works because we are asking questions of somethign that KNOWS that answers and is willing to tell us them in the way that will make sense to us. Opinions on exactly what that is vary, but when we ask we are being answersed by a source that understands what we asked, how we asked it, and what the answer is and is willing to communicate that ot us.

If you ask for the answer to come up through that method, those select cards, the source you are asking will umderstand your request and if the asnwer is yes and it wants to tell you yes, then it will send those cards.

The thing is that you are cimmunicating with an intellegnet source. It is just like if I were sitting there before you. And I knew the answer to your question and I knew it was yes,. And you closed your eyes and asked to me put one of a choice of ten cards before you if the answer was yes. I wuold then pick one of those cards and place it riight there where you needed to see it, before you.

What are the chances or odds of that happehing? If I wanted to answer you and you asked me to choose one of those cards to mean yes. And the answer was in fact yes. I would place one of those cards before you. The odds of that happening are literally 100%,. If that is the answer, one of those cards is what I would give you, period,

Tarot is the same. You are not just randomly throwing dice. Wen you read you are asking a question of an intelligence that wants to answer you. So again if the answer was yes, the chances of one of those cards coming up is literally 100%.

Odds do no apply to Tarot, they only apply to random events. Tarot is not random, it is a communication with that something that knows the answers and wants to tell you. I think we get so used to thinking scientifically in our society, odds and all, that we can forget for a time howt o think spiritaullay. My view anyway is that Tarot is more of a spiritual thing than a scientific one.

Babs

[Lula Jing]

Thanks Babs, I read every word and found what you had to say so interesting.

Yes, I agree Tarot doesn't work based on odds or probability or anything like that, but sometimes, when the process amazes me, I sometimes think of it in more rational terms. This might be because I apply logic to many other areas of my life. Like wow, what were the chances of that happening? My rational, logical brain wants to fathom it, rather than just shrugging my shoulders and thinking well yes, of course.

Even though I have been reading with cards for several years I still wonder how the heck it works. Some people find it scary, spooky, or even frightening, but I do not. And that is because I've never had bad advice. Always what's best for me. How that happens I don't really know, but I guess that is part of the fascination for me.

[SunChariot]

How Tarot works is eternally fascianting to me too, as how ti works is related to how life works and the myesteries that are life itself. Since no one can know for sure, it is always this fascinaging mystery.

I have heard people also say that readings are "scary accurate"cand I think that fear comes from having their view of reality challenged. If you believe you know what life is and that part of what you know about life is that these things cannot possibley work and you are sure of that, then suddenly you see them REALLY working....that can feel scary to some. When you are sure you know what reality it and what is real and possible and what is not, then to be confronted with the proof that you are wrong...scary to some.

To me I woulld think it is A LOT less scary to know that I live in a world where help and answers are availble to help me life my best life anytime I ask, than in a world where you are all on your own fumbling around. If you know what I mean. Forknowledge can be a wonderful fhing. As is the knowing that you are not alone and life itself, that knows all the answers is willing to help you anytime you just ask.

Me too, my answers have always been full of light and love and Tarot has just been this beautiful eternally positive thing in my life. Not that we always hear what we want to. Of course sometimes we don't get the answer we want. But somehow the cards can always tell me why it is for the best and the reasoning for that.

And just to add in begore I go, you sound very fascinating yourlsef, Loved what you wrote in your profile.

Babs

[Lula Jing]

Originally Posted by SunChariot

To me I woulld think it is A LOT less scary to know that I live in a world where help and answers are availble to help me life my best life anytime I ask, than in a world where you are all on your own fumbling around.

Amen to that!

Tarot has just been this beautiful eternally positive thing in my life. Not that we always hear what we want to.

Agreed! I can't imagine not having a deck of cards somewhere in the house. I don't carry them around though. I don't tend to refer to them during the working day. Saying that, this reminds me, I must get hold of a Bright Ideas deck...

And just to add in begore I go, you sound very fascinating yourlsef, Loved what you wrote in your profile.

Hehe, just an ordinary person with a big imagination! I used to love writing stories in my school days. And Star Wars was THE film (or should I say movie?) of my youth.