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Tarot School 9 years, 4 months agoI am so stoked that this group exists! What do you folks think with regards to the whole right side up versus upside down thing… Do you read with cards reversed? Generally I have not gone in that direction because with my old deck I found that my reversed cards would stay that way for basically forever and it didn’t seem to have any randomness…[Read more]
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Oh, whoops… Just saw way down thread that people are already talking about this… Wish we could organize this a little better so that it’s easier to see what has been posted about without so much scrolling on my little phone.
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Yeah, it’s too bad there isn’t more ability to sort through old threads.
I don’t think this got mentioned in the older thread, but if you do want to read reversed cards, it helps to add reversing as an intentional step when you shuffle (like, at some point when you have the deck split, flip one half of it 180 degrees). This will keep things…[Read more]
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I end up getting reversals because I have little hands and am always dropping cards when I shuffle. I decided to not be careful about putting them back in the deck right side up. So …that’s my method of getting reversals…bad shuffling.
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That’s a good idea – to actively embrace the reversed cards, rather than thinking ‘agh no’ every time one turns up.
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Hi Lianne, I don’t do reversals (yet!) so I’ve been very careful about shuffling them. Some ways I’ve seen people do who work with reversals is that they place the cards in a heap in front and they just swish them around and then when they feel it’s done they just scoop them all together.
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That’s my favourite method of shuffling :D But I don’t do it very often..
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I guess my problem has been that once a card is upside down, it stays upside down for a long time and it always felt like I was trying to mix them up on purpose which felt unnatural. The pile and random swooshing method might be the solution to that, though!
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Hi Lianne, tarot for me personally is a way of bringing hope and optimism into my life and my friends’ lives, and so I was hesitant initially to work with inverted cards. But from the very first reading I did, I realized that an upside-down card doesn’t necessarily have to give it an opposite or negative meaning, as I had at first thought. For me,…[Read more]
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I like this interpretation of the reversal! I always got too caught up in the binary-ness of using reversed cards and I felt it took away from some of the subtleties of my readings. Your method seems like it actually ads more subtlety!
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I really like reading with reversed cards, but I think it depends on the deck your using, and it’s not always necessary ! There’s a really good introduction to it here: http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/card-meanings/reversed/introduction.shtml
Basically it says that reversed cards don’t always have to have the opposite meaning of the card drawn. It…[Read more]
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Tarot School 9 years, 4 months agoHi… I am new here…great group…! Is there some way or organising threads so we can follow them? Foe example one for deck recs, one for blogs etc?
Excuse my naivety.
My own blog is http://www.raggedpoet.com
Lots of Tarot. I also have:
Decks I recommend:
Totally in love with:
Silicon Dawn
Wild Unknown
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Welcome winter!
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I checked out your blog, Winter, and WOW. Your tarot journals are absolutely gorgeous!
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Thanks Alison…!
Yeah I agree Elisabeth… I am trying to find a way of keeping track!
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Tarot School 9 years, 4 months agoYou guys! I’m so happy and psyched! I just have to share.
This morning in my daily “temp. check” reading I got a really great reading.
Internal: The Tower
External: 9 of cups
Advice: Ace of cupsIt made sense to me at the time, and I had a gut feeling that it meant something about events today but was also kind of skeptical. The events that…[Read more]
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Tarot School 9 years, 4 months agoCan anyone recommend a book that deals mostly/only with Jungian archetypes and tarot? Thanks!
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I’m really interested in this as well!
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This is one of those things I’ve never got round to studying in depth, but when I initially looked into it a few years back the impression and advice I got was to read Jung himself. The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious is a collection of his essays on this topic.
I just took a look on the tarot forum I belong to and pinched this post…[Read more]
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Jung and Tarot by Sallie Nichols
It has mixed reviews, but it depends what you are looking for. There are some who argue that Jung and the Tarot have nothing to do with each other. I don’t subscribe to that opinion. The Tarot these days is very intertextual, if you look at the…[Read more]
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Thanks for the recommendations, everyone! I’m really excited about all of this, just trying to find some free time to take a closer look at it!
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Did you read this one yourself? Because I’d love to know your own review! The ones on Amazon look pretty promising, since I don’t know if I’m ready to just tackle Jung head-on yet or not.
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I haven’t read all of it, but it is mostly author driven, there is not a lot of actual Jung. I agree with Beth. The best way is to go straight to the source and then make your own decisions about how they go together. Another helpful book on archetypes and The Fools Journey, is Joseph Campbell’s Hero with a Thousand Faces…
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces is something I’ve been meaning to read for years… guess I should just finally pick up a copy!
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I just got Jung’s Synchronicity in the mail today, which is something Mary K Greer references a lot when she talks tarot + Jung. Will report back insights!
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Nice, I’m excited to hear about it!
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Yeah, I want to check out both Greer and Jung too!
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Tarot School 9 years, 4 months agoCan we talk about the six of swords?
This card came up in a reading the other day and I really couldn’t figure it out. It seems very elusive and the meaning in my Pollack book is vague. Intuitively I see the people in the boat leaving their life to find something new. The boatman has a wand, not an oar which speaks of the new beginning energy…[Read more]
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This is what always trips me up in readings — whether to follow my intuition or to find a book to interpret it for me. In this case though, I definitely agree with your feeling that they are packing up and going for a new beginning, probably leaving something that was not so great behind them. And I feel like it’s both unpleasant and hopeful.…[Read more]
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“hopeful because of the future.” So, maybe that’s the meaning of the baby.
Ideally, I feel like I’d like to be able to read mainly intuitively but with the knowledge of traditional meaning in my mind to rely on if needed or to back up my intuition. If I had that I think I’d go with intuition if there was a conflict between the two.
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For me, the key imagery in this card is the water – the waves behind the boat are rough, but the water ahead is smooth. The passengers are still carrying swords with them, the mental struggles they’ve accumulated so far. But they’re headed for a calmer shore, or at least could do so, depending on how they steer the boat.
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Yeah…I can see that. Thanks!
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I agree, the water is so significant. The journey the passenger is making is over the water – they are traversing their emotions.
For me this is about *allowing* yourself to be carried away, it’s about surrender and accepting help.
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“this is about *allowing* yourself to be carried away, itβs about surrender and accepting help.” I love that! Thanks!
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Can we have a conversation like this for every card? Because this one is amazing to go back and read. Everyone added something really insightful. I’m serious.. let’s do this for every card…
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Alison, I was thinking the same thing. It would be really cool if we could regularly talk about a specific card.
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Maybe we can just choose a day of the week and go through the deck, card by card? Would that sound good?
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Sounds good to me! You want to kick it off?
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Oh, I forgot to add – this version from the Shadowscapes Tarot by Stephanie Law really moves me:
http://www.shadowscapes.com/Tarot/cards.php?suit=3&card=5
– again it has that thing of being unconsciously helped, lifted over your cares, taken away from them. Very different from the RWS image where the swords are right there in the boat!-
Wow! That is really beautiful! I’m def. going to look at that deck.
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It’s stunning. I’m not one for fairies and pastels at all and brushed this deck off when I first came across it (just via the website). But I kept ending up back there and as I looked deeper into the images I really realised how clever and soulful they are.
I particularly love The Magician, and also this one, the Two of…[Read more]
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I’m really not one for fairies and pastels either! The Tarot of the Magical Forest is about as close to that as I’ve ever gotten and I think I was drawn to that by the slightly bizarre quality it has. I really like the Shadowscapes.
The two of wands is really great. There is a lot of dynamic energy in all the cards I’ve looked at. That 6…[Read more]
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I have had whole years of Six of Swords energy… I actually call it the Airport card, because it has that kind of feel… hello and goodbye or goodbye and hello, joy and sadness, and yes it is very much an emotional card for the suit of air. I think I get this card a lot because I tend to dwell a lot on the past, my head is turned to face back…[Read more]
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Tarot School 9 years, 4 months agoI just stumbled onto an interesting idea, a daily three card spread to help learn the tarot.
You separate out the Major, Minor and court cards into three piles. Suffle each pile and draw one card from each pile. The goal is to learn the deck at a faster rate than a one card draw. Think I’ll give it a go. What do y’all think? Do you have a…[Read more]
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I don’t have a specific one for learning, but I like to do pretty basic spreads of 3-6 cards (depending on which spread I’m using) a few times a week. Then I read up on whatever cards I get that I don’t know, and also end up reading up on nearby cards just out of curiosity. Like if I get the 2 of Swords, I often end up reading the Ace and 3 and…[Read more]
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When I was first learning, I did Celtic Cross spreads a lot, because that’s the spread I knew, and I don’t think it was the best for that, actually. You see a lot of cards each time, but the spread positions can feel sort of vague. Practicing was always a big chunk of time because there were so many cards and position meanings to deal with.
Three…[Read more]
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I’m glad you said that about the Celtic Cross not being the best for learning. I felt the same way when I first picked up Tarot years ago. I felt like I wasn’t really getting anywhere because, as you said, it felt really vague. Plus, I felt like pretty much every reading I was coming up with the same vague interpretation. The group here has…[Read more]
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I agree 100% about the Celtic Cross. I did the exact same thing when I started tarot and it’s what so many people do when learning tarot – y’know, it’s the ‘classic spread’, all the books have it, it’s supposed to ‘answer any question’. Plus there’s often this idea that more cards = more insight, more knowledge, more learning. I disagree. The…[Read more]
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I would do three card spreads. I’m also currently going through Tarot for Yourself by Mary K. Greer so that’s getting me pretty solid exercise. Also, I have Biddy Tarot’s Tarot Foundation that’s broken down in 31-Days. I do recommend doing daily spreads than the card-a-day. Mostly because studying cards in context with other cards helps us to…[Read more]
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The Greer book sounds really interesting. I’m going to check that one out! Thanks for sharing.
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Elisabeth, i love this idea! i’m going to use it when i get my Wild Unknown cards, which i just ordered today! SO excited.
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