Starling
Yes, I love the story analogy.
Here is something else. Most of us aren't noticeably psychic. Most of us need something to hang our intuition on. Most of us need something to get us talking until our intuition or our sub-conscious or whatever it is that we use when we look at the cards and get meaning for our lives starts working. That something is the meanings we get out of beginner's books and web sites. That something is the techniques we learn from books like Mary Greer's Tarot for Yourself and her 21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card. Or from suggestions we find here at Aeclectic and other web sites.
You need to get your mouth open and you need to start talking (or writing) or nothing is going to come out. You need some place to begin.
And then there is the more advanced reading that we start doing as we continue to learn. The kind we do once we are beyond keyword memorization. It provides a depth to the meanings we get from our cards that wouldn't be there if we were just winging it.
So reading books puts a solid floor under intuition and adds layers and depth to what our intuition discovers. And maybe we wouldn't even have intuition about a card or a reading without the book reading we are also doing.
Here is something else. Most of us aren't noticeably psychic. Most of us need something to hang our intuition on. Most of us need something to get us talking until our intuition or our sub-conscious or whatever it is that we use when we look at the cards and get meaning for our lives starts working. That something is the meanings we get out of beginner's books and web sites. That something is the techniques we learn from books like Mary Greer's Tarot for Yourself and her 21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card. Or from suggestions we find here at Aeclectic and other web sites.
You need to get your mouth open and you need to start talking (or writing) or nothing is going to come out. You need some place to begin.
And then there is the more advanced reading that we start doing as we continue to learn. The kind we do once we are beyond keyword memorization. It provides a depth to the meanings we get from our cards that wouldn't be there if we were just winging it.
So reading books puts a solid floor under intuition and adds layers and depth to what our intuition discovers. And maybe we wouldn't even have intuition about a card or a reading without the book reading we are also doing.