berrieh
The Dreamer said:Most of my future questions are a matter of looking for alternate possibilities contingent upon my own various possibilities for action. I've never thought of it as looking for “the future” as though it were some already-existent only-one-possible-thing. I am both the readee and the diviner in those instances.
I completely get what you're saying here... I do this a TON for myself as well. Jobs and apartments especially... I have never been disappointed in a roommate or apartment, and I think that's because of Tarot, which is very helpful in making choices. I think it's a very empowering method of reading. Of course, you can never know total accuracy because you can't walk every single path, but I think you can get the gist.
The Dreamer said:The importance of those issues should not be negated in any way, but do they really point to the main issue, which is – for those who do care about accuracy, rather than declare it a non-issue or stumbling block on the road to more important or more real issues- what are the personal standards for accuracy (because this is a personal matter, not a collective one- each reading, each reader, each seeker- and that can't be averaged out)- and how would one judge whether that personal standard was being met in those particular cases. And what would be possible ways to go about trying to create that kind of situation in any given act of divination.
People misuse all sorts of things and concepts, it does not automatically follow that all such things should not exist, or that they should be ignored as if they did not.
Sometimes people really do just want to understand stuff. It doesn't always have to be excessively and overgeneralizedly tied to red flag nefarious sounding terms like “ego” (which I am convinced no human could survive without, incidentally).
Wow, yes, this is exactly how I feel about the question of accuracy. Your post really resonates with me---and I wanted to note that when I asked the question, I didn't mean to leave out self-divination. It doesn't really matter who we read for---accuracy still plays a role. I like to read for myself, but I couldn't just read for myself because I like reading a lot and I'd get sick of myself.
I don't know how we find 'accuracy' entirely, but I know I strive for it. Is that ego? Possibly. We're all egoistic creatures, because-as far as I know-we're all human. That's what humanity is to me; it's the spirit trapped in ego.
And when did ego become a dirty word? We all have egos. They aren't going away. We can't really overcome them in this life. All we can do is understand how they affect us.
But that is getting away from the point, of course, which is essentially, "How do you measure Tarot?"
That would have been the best way for me to phrase the question. But then, it would have been cries of, "You can't" and "Why would you try?" (The answer to the latter being that I don't believe anything worthwhile can't be measured---though not wholly and totally---in some way. We can see love in a person's eyes or their tangible actions, so why can't we measure magic as well? The Bible uses images of earthly miracles in it for a reason; tangible things resonate with us in a way that the intangible just never will.)
So, I am always looking for new ways to measure. If that's ego, then I'm guilty of ego. But I'm okay with that. I try to be respectful of people, and my Sitters are no exception. But I'll always have an ego, so long as I'm human. Wishing it away is as pointless and dangerous as wishing your lungs away, in my opinion. We were given egos for a reason.