Tarots: adjunct to lessons
My Love Affair with the Tarots
The Question of Responsibility, Accountability and the Massaging the Ego
Once the Tarot student has developed an ease with understanding and being able to communicate the symbols of the cards, he/she/they might want to try doing a “reading” for another.
And we should not forget, a reading can be done for oneself.
If I didn’t make it clear before, I want to do so now, that I do not use Tarot cards for fortune-telling. This might cross a few readers’ eyes. Why read a person’s cards if we’re not foretelling their future?
What I am doing when I read another’s cards is exactly what I’m doing when I read my own Tarots. I am reading a book (remember that I referred to the cards in another post as the Book of the Tarots), or I like to think I’m creating a poem from the “alphabet” of the cards. The Book or poem exists in a moment in time and space. It is the now of the reading.
At any moment in time, I am standing, sitting, lying, kneeling on the thin skin of this Earth, hurtling through space at some 67,000 miles per hour in her circuit around the sun. It’s enough of a miracle to me that I’m not flying off into a separate space. I suppose science tells us it is gravity that glues…
