pasara
I have noticed on several threads when discussing the meaning of a card, what comes up eventually is that whatever the person sees in the card is correct. While I do believe in an intuitive approach to reading, and certainly that if something just jumps out at someone in a reading it is valid for that reading, it seems to me that this can be taken to such a degree that it gets confused with the idea of anything goes.
Is there not a common basis of understanding, a basic core language from which we begin. What is there to discuss if a card can have an infinite number of individualized meaning? Where is the line for people?
It seems to me that reading Tarot is like learning a language, and while we can work with language to communicate in an infinite number of creative ways, there is something fundamental which allows us to understand one another. If the word "chair" means something to sit on for me, but means "dog" for you and "run" for someone else, how could we really communicate? If we are going to read psychically, then why bother with the cards at all?
Another question: if anything someone decides a card to mean it means, then how would that person know they were not just seeing what they want to see?
I don't have the answers, but wonder where the line is. Your thoughts??
Is there not a common basis of understanding, a basic core language from which we begin. What is there to discuss if a card can have an infinite number of individualized meaning? Where is the line for people?
It seems to me that reading Tarot is like learning a language, and while we can work with language to communicate in an infinite number of creative ways, there is something fundamental which allows us to understand one another. If the word "chair" means something to sit on for me, but means "dog" for you and "run" for someone else, how could we really communicate? If we are going to read psychically, then why bother with the cards at all?
Another question: if anything someone decides a card to mean it means, then how would that person know they were not just seeing what they want to see?
I don't have the answers, but wonder where the line is. Your thoughts??