gorgeousbutterfly said:
can i just avoid all the meanings , (well not all) of the thoth and go with my own? what if i don't think of the numerology the same way as he does? i feel everytime i try reading my way i feel guilty. i feel the deck was made for serious users who do serious study of kabbala and all that. i find that stuff so boring to read and hard to understand. i just want to do it my way!!
Yes you can. And I'm with Nevada too. I know how you feel too. I used to think that too, that it was a serious deck that needed to be studied. I never study any deck, I read intuitively, but someone I had gotten it into my head that this deck required it.
For me anyway, I was wrong. I had two books on it, I read them and I hated the book meanings and what they said about the cards. So much so that I could not read with the cards at all. I tried to trade them away actually but was not able to.
Suddenly a few weeks ago I had a reading to do and I really felt that it had to be my Thoth deck. I had not used it in a year and a half and never successfully. But I somehow really felt inside it had to be that deck.
So I pulled it out, and did one of my habitual intuitive readings...just feeling what things meant...not paying any attention at all to what they are SUPPOSED to mean. And it was an amazing reading. Everything clicked perfectly, one of my best readings in a long time.
So I discovered, at least for me, that this is the only way the deck really works for me. And the imagery is very intuitive too, it speaks volumes if you stop and listen.
Babs
And PS, if you find something in Tarot boring, it's a good sign that that thing is not part of your path. Tarot is to be enjoyed.