ravenest
Aahhh... I've just realised...
Ravenest, there's another way of doing a tarot reading which, to put it simply, is more interactive. The 'reader' offers a framework within which the querent can explore their own interpretation. As such, when the reader indicates that the card concerns matters of memory, a querent who has experienced childhood abuse may react accordingly. I would say its important that the reader isn't shocked by this response... and hence, why its important to explore the range of possible 'meanings'.
Yay! ... that is what I do - I offer the general 'framework' of a cards meaning and modulation and leave it up to .... wait a minute .... didn't I write all this before in that other post where people said ......
Like you, I would be appalled if a reader was to pronounce upon laying down the 6 of Cups... "Aaah... I see you were abused as a child"... or similar.
This is my very point !
But also its not that the person might say that (which would be bad enough ... I didnt even postulate that far myself ! ... but that interpretation or similar which is out of context with the card itself will colour any interpretation. If I saw that 'molester' energy in the 6 of cups, it would taint the 6 of cups if I inserted into the interpretation.
Its like I scoff at marriage ... a client gets a reading with the Lovers in it .... I scoff at it because personally I have a bad view on it. But it might be the best thing in the world for that person. My lOvers card looks very much like a marriage, I dont use that image in that way, anything I say is modified by the ACTUAL CARD MEANING.
The problem is minors with images .... abstract minors people see as the 6 of cups ... RW 6 of cups they see as anything THEY associate with that image.
By the cards (forget existential ... I meant that 'in and of itself', a meaning of its own NOT by a persons association ) 'essential meaning of itself ' by the fact that it is a 6 and a cup
And not 'Oh OH! Look out little girl ! (who has now become a dwarf ... who has a face like an old lady... and the guy with a silly hat ... and long sleeves, maybe he is hiding a knife in there ? ... and so on. )
But it will carry on ... I know some will keep doing that ... as many encourage a a card meaning in a reading to come from whatever arises regardless of number and suit.
Thank you ... you may all start throwing rocks now ... (fake beards are available to the left)
(oh I am in RW forum ... no rocks down here ... <ducks a flying dictionary> )