Getting to know your cards..
Ouch I do feel that fulldeck's opinion could have been tempered a tad!
I'm no expert. I am more an intuitive psychic . Like feelings, empathic, visions, dreams, sometimes words spoken directly, picking up energy in situations ,places,objects, generally reading people is not a hobby but an instinct with me.! I'm never the less interested in the tarot and have been playing with using them for a short time. I do of course already have 3 tarot's and 2 oracle decks. And of course there are many on my wish list despite my minimal exposure! I don't seem to need the conduit in some situations, so I'm struggling with not letting the cards and their implied meanings and pictures be a distraction or confusion to my natural intuition. But when it comes to energy I believe it does indeed resonate in places and stay with some things. So often I get a feel about something from simply touching it, or stepping into a place. This would be a reason maybe for some people why they feel like ( somebody said earlier) they just need to put that deck down! Energy regardless of anyone's opinion -is for me very tangible. Look at how crystals and other gemstones pick up, react to, and absorb energy! They need to be cleansed often, the more negative energy you are around or exude the more often they need to be cleaned! You can see the actual physical change of color in them often! They obviously are known for their properties of influence in numerous areas, IE: they put out energy that effects things or bodies or minds around them! Energy I can feel strongly in some crystals enough to feel like a strong shaking! My girlfriend who is a very good craftswoman w/ the tarot finds it an issue also. She and many others I know, and much I have read, would indicate that sometimes a cleansing of sorts can be extremely helpful. I had a nasty person move out of my house and did a sage cleansing, with great intent! Most every one who walked in the house for weeks after that would comment immediately as to how different the house felt, lighter, happier, just better in some way! So energy - real and tangible! Understandably You want 'your 'readings ,' your ' messages from the deck or how ever you want to describe it ,to be clear and undisturbed. IE: not infused w/ the energy or feelings of the last user or even sometimes just the last person who touched them! A packer, the retail clerk, the artist, who knows? You might try a cleansing of what ever type most appeals to you. Its very much more about intention then the particular method you choose , put the 'energy', the idea ,will of thought seriously into a cleansing and it should be good to go!
The experiences I've witnessed w/ my more experienced tarot friends are not so different then that of grabbing a book your dying to have but finding that -time after time you can't quite pick it up and get it started. What most people do and or probably need to do is walk away from it for awhile . When the time is right you will pick it up and read it. I do not feel there are so many random events in the universe. You picked up the deck for a reason. Perhaps you are not in a place to read this deck as yet, but will come to this place later. Perhaps there is some other, totally escaping you , reason for it to be w/ you even if you never read w/ it? I had a gemstone I had to have, that I never really liked so much after I got it home; I never wanted it w/ the rest of my crystals. Later a friend had some issues and I immediately knew it was for her to have, and that I needed to be the one to give it to her. My girlfriend, very good w/ tarot, has a deck she absolutely loves. She has had the deck for many months, she will periodically get it out, handle it, enjoy the art etc. But still feels unable to read w/ them even for herself. Again I will say ( kind of for "fulldeck") she is a gifted reader. A "serious craftswomen". She feels deeply they are meant for her to have and use at some point, but that she is not in the right place herself in someway to be ready for them. Again I will say that as someone who does feel the energy of things- often to include energy left behind whether on an object or in a space, the energy of her deck is palpable. I have also read other threads where many people mention this particular deck in similar ways as to the energy, if not adamant energy, of the deck. So in a long way I'm saying study them, get to know them , enjoy them, whatever you want, or put them aside for now,( without anxiety about it! ) There is no mandate as to when you must be able to wield this deck! It's yours and it's all about you and what you make it about. So let it be a positive feeling and put them somewhere you feel OK about and know they are yours, and if and when you are ready for them, whatever that may take, they will be patiently and no doubt appreciatively waiting for your embrace! BF
