Little Baron
I am just wondering how many people have actually done this?
I have been studying, playing and reading tarot for about ten years.
And sometimes, I think I have learnt nothing at all. Well, of course that is not true. I could probably go on 'You Bet' and identify many hundreds of decks, from one card. But as for reading them, I have never been that confident about merging cards interpretations and giving confident readings.
I have felt like this before. I took a break. I went back. It has made little difference.
The Victorian Romantic was my last chance, I thought, but it did not stir anything in me when I got it - even after persistance. I felt nothing for it, even though I could see and respected the hard work and vision that went into it. It was just not for me. There is still a possibility that the Sheridan Douglas could be my very last stab at tarot, but I have decided to put off working with it for a couple of months.
There seems to be a new tarot deck born every minute. And I think that this in itself is dampening my enthusiasm for it all. The 'Jane Austen's' and 'UFO's' are taking tarot to a place that I don't want to be. Of course, I don't have to go there. But it is just another nail in my tarot coffin. I came from a place where I didn't even realise there was more than one deck. Now, they are flinging past my ears at a rapid pace. And I don't like what I see most of the time. We all like different things and I respect that and your choices. Maybe it is too much tarot. Too much choice. Too much interferance.
So I am now considering taking off my tarot hat and moving on. Not a million miles away. I have found playing cards and they excite me in the same way that tarot once did. They are mysterious. They talk and they move. They can scare me and reassure me.
So I am trying my best to get better aquainted with them. I ordered Deborah Leigh's book today for deeper reading. Because I want to go deeper and further. I want to adapt them and use them well.
What I am asking is this. Did you ever feel this way? Did you down your tarot tools and find an alternative, never to return? The I-Ching? Playing Cards? A specific oracle?
What provoked the change? How are things different now?
Really interested to find out from you all. My feelings seem so final, but I realise now that this has been coming on for some time. I have been posting in threads about tarot far less. And my readings have not felt particularly inspiring. The decks I have been interested in (The Enochian, Voodoo, Buddha) have moved far enough away from tarot that I don't even consider all of them to be 'tarot'. I think they were major hints.
What do you think?
LB
I have been studying, playing and reading tarot for about ten years.
And sometimes, I think I have learnt nothing at all. Well, of course that is not true. I could probably go on 'You Bet' and identify many hundreds of decks, from one card. But as for reading them, I have never been that confident about merging cards interpretations and giving confident readings.
I have felt like this before. I took a break. I went back. It has made little difference.
The Victorian Romantic was my last chance, I thought, but it did not stir anything in me when I got it - even after persistance. I felt nothing for it, even though I could see and respected the hard work and vision that went into it. It was just not for me. There is still a possibility that the Sheridan Douglas could be my very last stab at tarot, but I have decided to put off working with it for a couple of months.
There seems to be a new tarot deck born every minute. And I think that this in itself is dampening my enthusiasm for it all. The 'Jane Austen's' and 'UFO's' are taking tarot to a place that I don't want to be. Of course, I don't have to go there. But it is just another nail in my tarot coffin. I came from a place where I didn't even realise there was more than one deck. Now, they are flinging past my ears at a rapid pace. And I don't like what I see most of the time. We all like different things and I respect that and your choices. Maybe it is too much tarot. Too much choice. Too much interferance.
So I am now considering taking off my tarot hat and moving on. Not a million miles away. I have found playing cards and they excite me in the same way that tarot once did. They are mysterious. They talk and they move. They can scare me and reassure me.
So I am trying my best to get better aquainted with them. I ordered Deborah Leigh's book today for deeper reading. Because I want to go deeper and further. I want to adapt them and use them well.
What I am asking is this. Did you ever feel this way? Did you down your tarot tools and find an alternative, never to return? The I-Ching? Playing Cards? A specific oracle?
What provoked the change? How are things different now?
Really interested to find out from you all. My feelings seem so final, but I realise now that this has been coming on for some time. I have been posting in threads about tarot far less. And my readings have not felt particularly inspiring. The decks I have been interested in (The Enochian, Voodoo, Buddha) have moved far enough away from tarot that I don't even consider all of them to be 'tarot'. I think they were major hints.
What do you think?
LB