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- From: blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.)
- Subject: Re: Tarot
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 13:13:46 GMT
- Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
- References: <1992Nov18.032636.26442@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov18.032636.26442@samba.oit.unc.edu> Stephen.Pflugfelder@launchpad.unc.edu (Stephen Pflugfelder) writes:
- >I am new to this group and I just have one question. I have tried to
- >read cards in the past and they have been accurate, but is there a
- >way to read the cards without memorizing all 78 meanings?
-
- In brief, not really. But don't give up hope yet :)
- There are plenty of books and other materials on the subject, in fact I'm sure
- people around here wouldn't mind assisting either. There is even a deck out,
- if I'm not mistaken, that has the meanings on it (and I'm not talking about the
- Thoth, which also has 'definitions' on each card, this one is rider-waite
- style, if I remember right).
- To be honest, the 'meanings' behind an individual card aren't too hard to get
- down- they start to fall into nice patterns- the major arcana can even be seen
- as a story of a humans journey through life to the afterworld, but there is
- plenty of source material about this out already.
- Yet another option is to not use a regular deck- I personally use the 'Secret
- Dakini Oracle'- its a bunch of pictoral images based on the regular tarot
- cards and Eastern Indian religions, specifically the Dakinis. Anyways, these
- cards have collages of pictures, as opposed to the usual pictures that one
- finds on a regular deck. I find it easier to then assign my own meanings to
- the cards based on their actual meaning, plus what I feel about the card. That
- individiualizes the deck to me. Many people do the same with their own decks.
- You establish a 'rapport' as it were. When you see, say, the 2 of disks, and
- look at the (standard) picture, do you see a juggler? Change? A representation
- of Infinity? Somebodies 2 cents worth?
- Whatever >you< see in that card, that is what that card should be defined for
- you to be. For beginners, it seems well to 'go with the interpetations' from
- either the material included with your deck, or from other printed sources,
- until you get a good feel for the cards, and what they mean and stand for in
- particular circumstantces.
- Good luck and happy reading!
- r.
-