working with guides or going solo.

[closerwalking]

Starting this thread to explore the different ways folks approach reading tarot cards. The following is the way I approach Tarot readings. I work with guides, and the cool thing with the guides I work with, is that they require me to meet them as equal in the process. There is no hierarchy. These are the sort of guides I work rather than hierarchal based system of angels, goddesses, etc. I gain from their input as they can see what is happening from different perspective than me, so it enhances the whole reading. I am grateful for their help. We all play equal parts of importance. I learned this sort of teamwork when I worked in the medical field, and also through my use of the I Ching. We work together as a team, each of us a specialist in our field, and together we can accomplish much more than the individuals. I include the querent and their "guides" in this. It is fun and rewarding to include them in the readings. and outcome is much more helpful. esp. when someone comes with complex issue. Which for the most part, most are coming for issue that is important to them. I love working with my team, and they require me to do my equal part. I have to be on top of my game, alert, attuned. present. heightened awareness. I exercise my others senses, keep them primed, continually work at improving my skills, experiences and knowledge base. Continually evolving, as are my teammates. We all have access to this sort of guides. everyone who is alive, has access to this sort of help. greatly enhances our whole journey to invite them into our lives.

 

[re-pete-a]

It seems that this is a statement not a question ...

I'm glad that you've found a way to gain extra information that can assist others...I do agree that there are helpers available ...Though I'm cautious with spiritual input, especially regarding a querents personal physical problems...

To my mind ...
the only ones interested in such things are of lower frequencies and still attached to this earthly planes impressions...Therefore feeding the ego of whomever they deal with... Resulting in yours and theirs popularity or possession gain..

BUT THAT'S MY UNDERSTANDINGS....It's possible that I'm off the mark...but I'm comfortable with that understanding ...same as your comfortable with yours...

I'm keen to hear information that will enhance the spiritual growth of anybody through deeper understandings of what's ailing or blocking their upward path... That doesn't win friends or influence too many at all...especially the ego orientated ...

But hey...it's a big world and there's plenty of room for many different outlooks... and who knows ...You just may be correct and I, very wrong...

In the end we're all deadded and the automatic processes take over... and If we're still aware after that ...then we'll know ...perhaps...

 

[Alta]

Moderator note:

I do need to point out that this is a tarot section of the forums, so comments should be directed towards using guides with respect to tarot. Guides in general would be Spirituality.

Thanks,
Alta
Moderator

 

[re-pete-a]

OOPSIES...

I can't go to that section...



Getting back on topic ...

All takes on any of the cards drawn are influenced by unseen forces...The general understanding is that the unseen rules the seen...

Information in memory is unseen and really does account for much ...but impressions and influences are the realm of helpers...

Hence when facing an interpretation of a laid out draw of cards a whole circus erupts... what it feeds is dependent on the readers constitutional preferences ...

 

[closerwalking]

the reason I started this is that I am curious as to how others experience this? In reading other posts on different spreads, am seeing referrals differentiating between those who work with Guides and those who go solo. So what way do you approach tarot reading and what led you to approach them this way? Is this what you were taught? I was taught via I Ching about the presence of Sage Presence, which I experience. but did not know about until I worked with I Ching. I found this such a rewarding experience, that I look for it in Tarot. and am finding it. so how about the others, how does the way you learn about Tarot influence the way you use it? Does tarot teach this or are most people taught to use tarot solo?

 

[re-pete-a]

For me , Tarot was an after effect of personal experiences...though I did get readings from others prior to doing it myself...I never dreamed that I would be able to do it myself...

 

[Laurelle]

I allow myself to see things that aren't there (mainly rainbow colors and golden light and golden people/entites), but I've blocked out the spirits/ghosts. I don't work with spirits or ghosts, especially when reading.

I ask for the light that exists in everyone and everything to help guide me, but this is coming from within me and above me and everywhere that creation has touched.

I do not know about Sage presence.

I feel that there is a trinity connected between my soul, the querents soul and the divine source. I use this trinity in my quest to communicate with people on their soul path/life paths. You're soul is equipped with it's own path, but the soul forgets when they come into the dense earth field. So it's up to me to read what their soul already knows. I don't need any spirit to help me with that because the querent has that information in them. I just read that.

I picked up a deck of tarot cards when I was a teenager. I was already very aware that I was psychic, so it helped me learn to be more precise in my readings. I was already aware that being psychic was different than being a medium and I had made up my mind that I only wanted to focus on one of them.

 

[closerwalking]

I come from native american heritage. so I do not think of this in terms of mediums or psychic. Rather I come from an inner knowing that everything alive has consciousness. I have had mountains, insects, birds, trees, rooted beings, 4 legged, mother earth, etc. speak with me, my whole life.
I never heard of the Sage until I began to work with I Ching. I did not know any such presence either. but before I began working with I Ching, I had experiences reading certain books that suddenly became living words. ie, awareness that something alive was communicating with me through it. Then when I Ching came into my life, I met the Sage presence that I Ching Oracle teaches one about. a beautiful presence, and very rewarding, enriching experience. Realizing that if I had been born in China, I would have known about this presence early on. So when Tarot came into my life, I was already primed in a sense to approach it as multidimensional tool. Rather than just cards. So I see this more as approaching tarot cards as multidimensional tools.

 

[closerwalking]

I generally do not work with ghosts or spirits either. but one time I had a querent who wanted to connect with her deceased grandmother's spirit. I felt the presence of her grandmother show up, a very beautiful presence. but when the querent stated her intention for the reading, the grandmother spirit left and the querent's father showed up instead. This querent had already made her mind up and just wanted validation for her goals. and the Grandmother spirit who was very highly developed presence left. as her services were not needed and the father came forward, as he wanted his daughter to know he was still there for her. I'm talking about Invisible realm that I know from my native american roots. beyond ghosts, spirits. angels etc. Rather that this world, this earth is multidimensional, we are multidimensional beings, and I am finding that Tarot is means to communicate with other dimensions.

 

[ravenest]

the reason I started this is that I am curious as to how others experience this? In reading other posts on different spreads, am seeing referrals differentiating between those who work with Guides and those who go solo. So what way do you approach tarot reading and what led you to approach them this way? Is this what you were taught? I was taught via I Ching about the presence of Sage Presence, which I experience. but did not know about until I worked with I Ching. I found this such a rewarding experience, that I look for it in Tarot. and am finding it. so how about the others, how does the way you learn about Tarot influence the way you use it? Does tarot teach this or are most people taught to use tarot solo?

Much of what you talk about I experience, but in a different way and in a different tradition. I have a lot of respect (and involvement) in 'indigenous spirituality' and the associated 'outlook' (I suppose most would call this ' animism' ) , but it is more than that, it is a quiet 'alien' way of thought and consideration of what the nature of reality is (compared to the present modern, divided, dualist paradigm). In this area , I get my contacts, messages and guidance through the 'omens' of nature and it's processes.

With Tarot it is a different process, for me Tarot seems too 'mechanical', and in a way 'self-referential' for the above. Its more to do with a system I perceive contained within Tarot and how the images, symbolism and structure 'appeal' to my 'unconscious' , providing a 'symbolic language' so as I can further understand that system and apply it to my life and journey. For me, it is more like a system of 'psychology' that is related to Hermetics.