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- From: bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre)
- Newsgroups: alt.divination
- Subject: Re: Just a question
- Message-ID: <74357@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 21:26:55 GMT
- References: <1992Nov11.094316.5910@news.unomaha.edu>
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- phoenix@cwis.unomaha.edu (Shannon Chris Saltzman) writes:
- |I would like to know how tarot cards are supposed to work.
- |Are they supposedly driven by the same elements said to cause
- |other things to happen ie fate?
-
- Here is one explanation that I like to believe sometimes. I don't
- claim that everyone should believe it.
-
- Each of the 78 cards symbolizes one or more things. The things might
- be people, places, choices, qualities, or some combination. The
- symbols are not easily expressed in words. They are deeper and more
- subtle than that.
-
- By considering the symbols in relation to each other, and in relation
- to the situation of the asker, the reader can intuitively formulate
- one or more hypotheses about the situation and perhaps even strategies
- to deal with the situation. This intuition can be a very powerful tool
- to helping the asker find possibilities, answers, and peace of mind.
-
- For example, if I saw "lovers" and "page of pentacles" and "page of
- wands", I might guess that the asker is at a point of choice (one
- meaning of lovers) and that the choice is related to passion, desire
- or love (another meaning of lovers) and that the choice s/he has to
- make is between two people -- one of whom is represented by each page.
-
- Naturally, the asker was appropriately flabbergasted when I asked if
- he/she had slept with this other person yet.
-
- By talking a bit with the asker, I was able to determine who the
- people were, and talk to the asker about the nature of the choice.
-
- What I have found most interesting about Tarot readings is how rarely
- the reading is as simple as it seems. By thinking more about the
- reading, I saw the choice the asker was facing as not only applying to
- his/her love/sex life, but also his/her work life -- about which the
- asker was also very passionate -- the pages represented two career
- choices the person was facing, as well. Indeed, those two career
- choices were in real life partially conveyed by the two people s/he
- was choosing between.
-
- Naturally, there were more cards in the reading, and they added a
- whole lot more information to the situation -- by the time we were
- through, the reading took over an hour and touched on a lot of issues
- in the asker's life.
-
- You could wonder just how much the actual order of the cards matters.
- You don't have to believe that the cards are dealt by anything other
- than chance to make this work. You can probably find enough meanings
- in the symbols to make almost any spread meaningful for almost any
- question. It's the power of intuition that fuels the reading.
-
- Be that as it may, when an ex- of mine, completely skeptical, "played"
- with a deck for a few hours, and in over a dozen readings identified
- the page of cups as me, every single time, you got to wonder a bit.
-
- bill coderre,
- page of cups
-