MaureenH
Allrightey, Moonbow*. Thank you for offering to help me practice. You mentioned that the exchange forum is where practice readings usually take place, but I do not have a subscription. You also mentioned that if I prefer to keep it private you'd be willing to pm. I'm okay with cracking myself open right here and I think some practice right here is fine and will make it easier for me to know where I posted as long as you're willing.
I had thought for a bit that I should try to keep my comments very concise. That is not how I seem to be approaching these cards, though. Thoughts, thoughts and more thoughts bubble up. So I think I'll just blather away because that will be a more accurate depiction of my process. I'll just assume nobody is forced to read this and so won't feel responsible if anyone finds it tedious or unworthy in any way.
In my last message to you I think I mentioned how asking about the future doesn't really seem to suit me. I find myself wondering why I am feeling blocked about that. It reminds me of my inclination not to pray for a particular result. I can see acting or working toward a result, but I never really wanted to ask for something specific in a prayer and I likewise don't really have any desire to ask for specific info about the future. I want to phrase my question in such a way that I leave room for the cards to speak to me instead of leading the witness. Maybe that includes future info. It doesn't feel like I'm afraid of the future, it feels more like I'm ready for whatever comes my way, negative or positive so I don't need to strong-arm it. So, after struggling for a few days about what question to ask that really felt like a question I wanted to ask I settled upon:
What questions does the Tarot have for me? Here's what it looks like:
The Wheel (The Chariot...........Judgement...........The World)
My initial reaction is I need to concsiously try to put my reaction into question form.
Since I'm just beginning, I am not able to really read this in a sentence but before I do anything I form these thoughts:
-Could it be that through discipline I have shifted my position on the wheel that has brought me some peace and fulfillment? If so, and if kind of feels that way, I should bask in this moment before I descend again.
-What date is Kenny Garrett in Cambridge? (horn in Judgement)
-Have I incorporated the armored charioteer in my life any more since a few weeks back when it showed up reversed? It doesn't really feel like it. What part of me is expressing him in such a way that he's not reversed today?
-Why am I not running in the Boston Marathon?
Look at all the circles in this spread. The wheel, the chariot wheels, the circle of clouds the mandorla, the haloes. I like the progression from the creatures on the wheel with the top monkey holding a sword in his right paw (is there a significance to hands....the charioteer holding the scepter(?) in his left and the Judgement angel having both its hands on the horn and the World woman holding a baton(?) in each hand?) and having wings that look like curtains, to the three honest and open people in the judgement card listening to the angel with wings blow the horn (maybe Wallace Roney or Arturo Sandoval). Can I see how this reflects my life? Yes, I can. What steps should I continue to take that will keep my life heading in the direction of what I love, the people in my life, music, etc., instead of mindless strife and warfare that is sometimes so easy to lapse into and much of what's being proffered by the world in the form of actual warfare and just the general ratrace I have pretty much seceded from?
How can I blend my Chrisitan roots (gd angel wings everywhere in these cards) with whatever direction I head into? Can I recognize how it's a strength for me? Yes (begrudingly).
Why am I not outside where the grass is turning green and sky is so blue?
Do I believe in angels yet? No. And I don't like the imagery, either. I like that the woman has no crown or halo and that she is buffered from the Christian symbols yet they are in her consciousness (comfort of the familiar?)or at least included somehow. Are her legs in the same position as the Hanged Man?
Why is that lion smiling in the World card while the bull looks seasick? Why does the bull have no halo?
Well, that's my first flush. If anything else occurs, I'll plunk it here.
I had thought for a bit that I should try to keep my comments very concise. That is not how I seem to be approaching these cards, though. Thoughts, thoughts and more thoughts bubble up. So I think I'll just blather away because that will be a more accurate depiction of my process. I'll just assume nobody is forced to read this and so won't feel responsible if anyone finds it tedious or unworthy in any way.
In my last message to you I think I mentioned how asking about the future doesn't really seem to suit me. I find myself wondering why I am feeling blocked about that. It reminds me of my inclination not to pray for a particular result. I can see acting or working toward a result, but I never really wanted to ask for something specific in a prayer and I likewise don't really have any desire to ask for specific info about the future. I want to phrase my question in such a way that I leave room for the cards to speak to me instead of leading the witness. Maybe that includes future info. It doesn't feel like I'm afraid of the future, it feels more like I'm ready for whatever comes my way, negative or positive so I don't need to strong-arm it. So, after struggling for a few days about what question to ask that really felt like a question I wanted to ask I settled upon:
What questions does the Tarot have for me? Here's what it looks like:
The Wheel (The Chariot...........Judgement...........The World)
My initial reaction is I need to concsiously try to put my reaction into question form.
Since I'm just beginning, I am not able to really read this in a sentence but before I do anything I form these thoughts:
-Could it be that through discipline I have shifted my position on the wheel that has brought me some peace and fulfillment? If so, and if kind of feels that way, I should bask in this moment before I descend again.
-What date is Kenny Garrett in Cambridge? (horn in Judgement)
-Have I incorporated the armored charioteer in my life any more since a few weeks back when it showed up reversed? It doesn't really feel like it. What part of me is expressing him in such a way that he's not reversed today?
-Why am I not running in the Boston Marathon?
Look at all the circles in this spread. The wheel, the chariot wheels, the circle of clouds the mandorla, the haloes. I like the progression from the creatures on the wheel with the top monkey holding a sword in his right paw (is there a significance to hands....the charioteer holding the scepter(?) in his left and the Judgement angel having both its hands on the horn and the World woman holding a baton(?) in each hand?) and having wings that look like curtains, to the three honest and open people in the judgement card listening to the angel with wings blow the horn (maybe Wallace Roney or Arturo Sandoval). Can I see how this reflects my life? Yes, I can. What steps should I continue to take that will keep my life heading in the direction of what I love, the people in my life, music, etc., instead of mindless strife and warfare that is sometimes so easy to lapse into and much of what's being proffered by the world in the form of actual warfare and just the general ratrace I have pretty much seceded from?
How can I blend my Chrisitan roots (gd angel wings everywhere in these cards) with whatever direction I head into? Can I recognize how it's a strength for me? Yes (begrudingly).
Why am I not outside where the grass is turning green and sky is so blue?
Do I believe in angels yet? No. And I don't like the imagery, either. I like that the woman has no crown or halo and that she is buffered from the Christian symbols yet they are in her consciousness (comfort of the familiar?)or at least included somehow. Are her legs in the same position as the Hanged Man?
Why is that lion smiling in the World card while the bull looks seasick? Why does the bull have no halo?
Well, that's my first flush. If anything else occurs, I'll plunk it here.
