Aulruna said:
Interesting you should say that... I'm having a bit of the opposite effect. So far, I've only done "full" readings with the Lo Scarabeo (prior to IDS), three cards and up. It always went brilliantly. Now I've tried some one-card variations and it really was uphill work. Hmmmmm.
Thankfully I'm not bound to the small things
, I do full readings with lots of cards, too. Back in January I'd decided that I needed some kind of structure to keep Tarot going in these six months. Examining one-carders (done), two-carders (right now) and three-carders (still to come) seemed promising.
How do you draw them? Select them? By visual or structural criteria? And what is the goal of this exercise? Sorry, I'm a bit slow on the uptake today...
My wording was bad, sorry. I draw to cards and lay them out on opposing positions, like a two card spread where position one is A and position 2 is Z. Like passive-active, male-female, teacher-student, love-hate. The goal of this is getting to know the range of meanings of my deck, seeing how the cards react in different positions, how they influence each other, how they give contour to the question, take the question to unkown places, give it twists and spins. Say, I get the Devil (my preciousssssss ... ahem
) as positive. WTF? Or Danse Macabre as student and Three of Wands as teacher. Two of Wands as Keep and Six of Wands as Let Go. Or simply any contradicting cards that don't seem to make much sense at the beginning. Fascinating combinations.
Sometimes it's not so much about the position but about the visual effects. Similar elements the two cards have. That's more like storytelling, finding the common symbol upon which a story is built. I don't do these very often as they demand more time to actually write out the little episode.
Astraea Aurora