I am sure this has been discussed a number of times - but kindly humour me.
I use reversals and I understand when people do not. However, for readings I requested recently, I had many cards which came back upright when I got them reversed in my own readings. For example, reading about the progress of a situation and getting the Fool upright and Fool RX are two different things. And this has confused me. Which 'version' is the most accurate, if used in the same position and read both upright and rx?
What about when you use reversals and a person prefers you to read the card upright. Doesn't that change the whole energy/vision/meaning of the reading?
Appreciate the thoughts and stories, if any!
No two readers read exactly alike, but the cards will come up to answer each reader in the way that THEY will understand best. Which could be vastly different from the way you understand the same card. Both versions could be right. What an upright card means to me could mean the same thing that a reversed one means to you.
Add to that that there are many different ways to do reversals (the one the turns the meaning into it's opposite is just one of many, not by far the only way). I have used at least 5 completely different methods of using reversals in my time, before settling in for the most part with my own individual method which I invented from scratch.
I think the best thing we can do as readers, but not always easy to do, is to accept whatever the reader sees in our cards and not try to superimpose our own meanings on what someone else sees. Their meanings are not identical to ours. And they are also likely running on intuition and our intuition can get foggy on issues we feel emotional on.
When another reader sees a card upright, it may mean to them what the reversed card means to you, and vice versa. I try not to compare. To just accept the reading as is.
It's the message that matters, not how it came up. IF, on the other hand their meaning that they got in the reading is the opposite of the meaning you saw that is more of an issue. Either one of you is off, OR the future has changed between the first reading and the second.
I don't read in person, but if I did and a querent prefered me to read upright...I would still read in the way that I know works best for me. My job is to do the best reading I can. If someone asks me to do someting that will handicap me in some way so my work is compromised I just won't do it.
We could discuss it and why they feel that way. But in the end I would tell them that my goal is the same as theirs to get them the best reading I can and this is how I read best. If they don't accept that, I don't think I would do the reading. If I were to tell someone what I need to read for them in the best way and they insisted I do something different that will leave them with a inferior reading....something is off there I would not read for that person. As the reader, that is our job to know what works best or us and to follow it.
I can personally read with or without reversals. but let's say I felt a particular question/reading would work better with them, I wouldn't budge on that.
If you are better at reading with reversals than not, it could change things. But no, in the end whichever method you choose, the answer will try to get to you in that format. Although yes, for me in the way I read, the answers have more depth with reversals. There are more things the cards could say.
Those are my beliefs.
Babs