Nemia
The cards are only ink and paper. So are books. Ink and paper can be powerful tools because they transport ideas and images. And ideas and images DO have energy. We react to them powerfully, we are moved by them, we change and grow because ink and paper feed change and growth.
The artist's vision manifests in the cards - if that's not a transfer of energy, I don't know what else is. It's not the same level of energy an original Rembrandt with its fingerprints in the oil colour gives because it's reproductions, but we still get a strong message and react to it. Tarot decks are not neutral. We react as individuals, like some decks, dislike others.
And as reader and owner, I build a relationship with a deck. I get to know a deck, I remember earlier readings, the cards become more and more familiar. That's my energy at work.
Isn't it strange the way places change when we get them better? Remember the first time you entered that huge library or university, and everything looked strange? and how easily you navigate it now? It's the same with a new deck. The surprising becomes well-known, and that's our own energy at work, interacting with a deck.
I also believe that as humans, we have the tendency to anthropomorphize the things around us. I certainly do. I talk to everything around me when I'm alone, not only my cats and plants. Well maybe I'm weird? But humans have a tendency to project their own feelings.
If I like someone and he doesn't like me, I feel hurt because I expected to be liked in return. If someone whom I dislike dislikes me too, it doesn't touch me. I think we need these "communicating vessels" of emotional energies to read our surroundings and survive, so it's a strong trait IMO.
So when I like a tarot deck, I imagine it likes me in return. And I react to that liking and create a perpetuum mobile - a relationship.
I think creating our own energetic surroundings is one of the nicest things about being human.
So I voted 3.
The artist's vision manifests in the cards - if that's not a transfer of energy, I don't know what else is. It's not the same level of energy an original Rembrandt with its fingerprints in the oil colour gives because it's reproductions, but we still get a strong message and react to it. Tarot decks are not neutral. We react as individuals, like some decks, dislike others.
And as reader and owner, I build a relationship with a deck. I get to know a deck, I remember earlier readings, the cards become more and more familiar. That's my energy at work.
Isn't it strange the way places change when we get them better? Remember the first time you entered that huge library or university, and everything looked strange? and how easily you navigate it now? It's the same with a new deck. The surprising becomes well-known, and that's our own energy at work, interacting with a deck.
I also believe that as humans, we have the tendency to anthropomorphize the things around us. I certainly do. I talk to everything around me when I'm alone, not only my cats and plants. Well maybe I'm weird? But humans have a tendency to project their own feelings.
If I like someone and he doesn't like me, I feel hurt because I expected to be liked in return. If someone whom I dislike dislikes me too, it doesn't touch me. I think we need these "communicating vessels" of emotional energies to read our surroundings and survive, so it's a strong trait IMO.
So when I like a tarot deck, I imagine it likes me in return. And I react to that liking and create a perpetuum mobile - a relationship.
I think creating our own energetic surroundings is one of the nicest things about being human.
So I voted 3.