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The first cards I read were Tarot. There's a certain complexity to them, you
need to look into the traditions and study a bit. So when I found Lenormand, I assumed it was the same way. I went looking for people to "teach" me and eventually ended up at a forum. (Not this one! Another one, with a "No Tarot decks!" rule, at that time. Oracle decks only. I made a few good friends there that I still talk with, but we have all left.)
It was all a sham. There are people in the reading community, as well as in the pagan community and the psychic/spiritual community in general, who will proclaim themselves "experts" and go looking for disciples. Maybe they just have a forum, maybe they offer a course, maybe they write books (ever notice how many really stupid books are out nowadays? ) - not to teach, but to aggrandize themselves. A lot of them don't even know anything to begin with. Follow them, if you must. They will try to keep you in newbie status forever. You will never surpass them (well, not according to them, anyway.) If you leave, they'll get in a big snit. Because your job (according to them) has only been to prop up their big fake ego-tower all along, not to actually learn anything. Just be a nice little sheep and follow along and keep telling them publicly how wonderful they are - maybe write a testimonial.
LOL!
Different methods are fun to look at, you can get ideas from them, you can find things you like to use at one time or another. But it is a mistake to look at them as some kind of superior knowledge. People in different areas naturally develop some different lines of thought, different ways of doing the same thing. Sometimes you want Italian food, sometimes Mexican, sometimes something else.
PJ Lenormand is universal. The Germans have a tradition, but the Brazilians can correspond the images to Orishas and Exu spirits! Everyone has some associations with dogs, trees, houses. You should not be "taught" to read! Let it come from the inside. That's all, just think for yourself. Don't let anybody tell you that you have to memorise their opinions.
need to look into the traditions and study a bit. So when I found Lenormand, I assumed it was the same way. I went looking for people to "teach" me and eventually ended up at a forum. (Not this one! Another one, with a "No Tarot decks!" rule, at that time. Oracle decks only. I made a few good friends there that I still talk with, but we have all left.)
It was all a sham. There are people in the reading community, as well as in the pagan community and the psychic/spiritual community in general, who will proclaim themselves "experts" and go looking for disciples. Maybe they just have a forum, maybe they offer a course, maybe they write books (ever notice how many really stupid books are out nowadays? ) - not to teach, but to aggrandize themselves. A lot of them don't even know anything to begin with. Follow them, if you must. They will try to keep you in newbie status forever. You will never surpass them (well, not according to them, anyway.) If you leave, they'll get in a big snit. Because your job (according to them) has only been to prop up their big fake ego-tower all along, not to actually learn anything. Just be a nice little sheep and follow along and keep telling them publicly how wonderful they are - maybe write a testimonial.
LOL!
Different methods are fun to look at, you can get ideas from them, you can find things you like to use at one time or another. But it is a mistake to look at them as some kind of superior knowledge. People in different areas naturally develop some different lines of thought, different ways of doing the same thing. Sometimes you want Italian food, sometimes Mexican, sometimes something else.
PJ Lenormand is universal. The Germans have a tradition, but the Brazilians can correspond the images to Orishas and Exu spirits! Everyone has some associations with dogs, trees, houses. You should not be "taught" to read! Let it come from the inside. That's all, just think for yourself. Don't let anybody tell you that you have to memorise their opinions.