jdev said:
Om Namah Sivaya!
I've read here and there on the forums that it's not good to do lots of readings a day. But I'm new! Can you advise me on how to work with my cards for long periods each day and it be productive? I know I can study them, symbology, colors, etc., but I want an element of the magic to the learning, too. After all, that's why I bought them! I just don't feel it's conducive to make up questions I don't really care about to see what the cards say, and I don't know if it's possible, but I don't want to abuse the cards! There's got to be a way to have my hands on my cards hours at a time without doing readings. Help!
Ever Hers,
Jagadeesh
I don't believe there is anything in Tarot that it can be generally said is not good to do. Tarot is a very personal thing. What works well for one person willl not for another and vice versa.
My rule of thumb is to follow your heart and do what calls to you. If YOU want to do many readings a day, do them. It may not be right for the next person, but if you feel called to do it then it is right for you.
Do what feels fun and exciting to learn, follow your heart and you can't go wrong. You may learn a few things through trial and error. But then again there is no way to avoid that anyway.
You cannot "abuse" the cards. They are painted cardboard, they have no feelings or reactions of any kind. The thing is though, or course, that they answers do not come from the cards. They come to us through the cards, In the same way that when we are talking on the telephone it is not the telephone that is giving us the message. There is somone on the other end talking to us through the telephone.
While we can't abuse the telephone through usage exceot throwing it at the wall and breaking it...The telephone does not care how often we use it or even how we use it.
But there is something there on the other end that is wise and sending us answers and that source, to me, whatever you feel that is is to be respected. If you disrespect it can shut down and stop answering. As in of you repeatedly ask the same question over and over....it will just get bored with answering and shut down and stop communicating...Just as you would in effect if someone kept asking you the identical question over and over and over. Like if someone kept asking you if the sky is blue today every 5 minutes...on and on. Just as you'd soon stop feeling like answering,. the source behind the answers reacts in the same way if we keep asking teh same things over again.
But you can ask differnt questions each time and that tends to work just fine. There is no right or wrong to Tarot. It's finding what's right for you. If you feel the need to read ofter, follow that feeling.
Babs