earthair
When I started reading it was with the Fergus Hall deck (way back in the day ) then for a while I thought all decks were TdM style ... Then I discovered that some people illustrated the minors *gasp* ... so I learnt RWS... which was a moment of calm stability at least ... then a deluge of decks ended up in my collection including the Thothy variety ... which I initially thought would be easy because they're just jazzed up TdM pips after all ...
[time passes]
...then I found AT, bought a whole lot more books and decks on all things GD and astrological....read lots of information, theories, and justifications ...now I feel like there are so many different ways of glomming different systems to tarot, (all of them lovely systems in their own right), that in the face of actually having to make a decision regarding which of about 20 paths is the best one to stick with...I now chose to reject them all and go back to square 1- TdM style decks for reading This is because they can't all be right, ergo most of them might actually be misguided or at the very least artificial.
I'm not saying I'll stop studying Thoth/GD/any other system which pops up on a deck, because Tarot is a fascinating deep subject, but I am, as of now going to stop trying to be able to read well with any and all of them.
Too much information becomes a burden after it reaches a certain critical mass, and I haven't even scratched the surface.
So I've come full circle and will probably now become fascinated by historical TdM Has this happened to anyone else?
[time passes]
...then I found AT, bought a whole lot more books and decks on all things GD and astrological....read lots of information, theories, and justifications ...now I feel like there are so many different ways of glomming different systems to tarot, (all of them lovely systems in their own right), that in the face of actually having to make a decision regarding which of about 20 paths is the best one to stick with...I now chose to reject them all and go back to square 1- TdM style decks for reading This is because they can't all be right, ergo most of them might actually be misguided or at the very least artificial.
I'm not saying I'll stop studying Thoth/GD/any other system which pops up on a deck, because Tarot is a fascinating deep subject, but I am, as of now going to stop trying to be able to read well with any and all of them.
Too much information becomes a burden after it reaches a certain critical mass, and I haven't even scratched the surface.
So I've come full circle and will probably now become fascinated by historical TdM Has this happened to anyone else?