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This is really for anyone but I am particularly interested in feedback from people who do their own tarot blogs.
To be clear, I have only returned to the art very recently (the past few months) and even then (more than a decade and a half ago) my experience with the tarot was fairly limited. I read for nearly a decade but as a teenager and my study on the subject was not exactly thorough. Also, my experience was mostly with RW style decks and I am now mostly focused on Marseilles. While in many ways I am relearning / learning everything my basic knowledge of the tarot was way more than someone with absolutely no background on the subject.
Anyway, while I have found some number of really useful resources on the internet but one thing that I've noted is the innate bias in every single writer (this is also true in regards to books). This isn't bad that we're all approaching this thing from different points of view but I don't think that anyone who has researched the topic (I would imagine this includes, most or all of the people reading this) would disagree that while any given writer of Tarot stuffs may have valuable insights to add to your approach, we as readers need to translate that into something that works with our own approach. My point here isn't that I'm above bias but rather that I just imagine that my own views can be yet an other valuable resource for people to mine for gems.
The fact that I can see the value in it and combined with my own inclinations (as an educator with some (very little) writing experience and basic functional knowledge of design) makes it almost a no brainier that I should make a tarot blog but my issue is mostly when. While I think I may have some insights to share already, I realize I am still in the very early stages of my development as a tarologist. All the while my background disqualifies me from writing from the perspective of an entirely new explorer of the mobile cathedral. That said, I also acknowledge that this is a subject that we are eternally students of so there's never going to be a time when I would say “I have mastered the tarot, it is now time to transmit this knowledge”. So my issue is how to I gauge my readiness to write seriously on the matter? I feel fairly certain now is not the time but I can imagine that time being within the next year.
Besides the basic urge to share insights and opinions, I'm not going to lie and pretend that it's my only motivation. While I don't have high expectations a secondary motivation is the possibility of receiving decks for review for said blog. I don't expect that this would even in the best case a regular thing but the potentiality of it at all is kinda exciting to me. One thing I am very eager to do is study differences / similarities between decks. Sure, money is a little bit of an issue (special education doesn't pay much) but more than that exactly, the ability to study and compare decks that I might not typically think to put on my “to buy” list seems valuable to me in a different way than making a list of decks I want and getting them (which I will be doing regardless of any potential blog stuff). I have preferences and interests in certain decks which I am bound to buy but I am also open minded enough to realize I may gain some unexpected insight in decks that wouldn't make it to the top of my to buy list.
To be clear, I have only returned to the art very recently (the past few months) and even then (more than a decade and a half ago) my experience with the tarot was fairly limited. I read for nearly a decade but as a teenager and my study on the subject was not exactly thorough. Also, my experience was mostly with RW style decks and I am now mostly focused on Marseilles. While in many ways I am relearning / learning everything my basic knowledge of the tarot was way more than someone with absolutely no background on the subject.
Anyway, while I have found some number of really useful resources on the internet but one thing that I've noted is the innate bias in every single writer (this is also true in regards to books). This isn't bad that we're all approaching this thing from different points of view but I don't think that anyone who has researched the topic (I would imagine this includes, most or all of the people reading this) would disagree that while any given writer of Tarot stuffs may have valuable insights to add to your approach, we as readers need to translate that into something that works with our own approach. My point here isn't that I'm above bias but rather that I just imagine that my own views can be yet an other valuable resource for people to mine for gems.
The fact that I can see the value in it and combined with my own inclinations (as an educator with some (very little) writing experience and basic functional knowledge of design) makes it almost a no brainier that I should make a tarot blog but my issue is mostly when. While I think I may have some insights to share already, I realize I am still in the very early stages of my development as a tarologist. All the while my background disqualifies me from writing from the perspective of an entirely new explorer of the mobile cathedral. That said, I also acknowledge that this is a subject that we are eternally students of so there's never going to be a time when I would say “I have mastered the tarot, it is now time to transmit this knowledge”. So my issue is how to I gauge my readiness to write seriously on the matter? I feel fairly certain now is not the time but I can imagine that time being within the next year.
Besides the basic urge to share insights and opinions, I'm not going to lie and pretend that it's my only motivation. While I don't have high expectations a secondary motivation is the possibility of receiving decks for review for said blog. I don't expect that this would even in the best case a regular thing but the potentiality of it at all is kinda exciting to me. One thing I am very eager to do is study differences / similarities between decks. Sure, money is a little bit of an issue (special education doesn't pay much) but more than that exactly, the ability to study and compare decks that I might not typically think to put on my “to buy” list seems valuable to me in a different way than making a list of decks I want and getting them (which I will be doing regardless of any potential blog stuff). I have preferences and interests in certain decks which I am bound to buy but I am also open minded enough to realize I may gain some unexpected insight in decks that wouldn't make it to the top of my to buy list.