hizgeorgiapeach
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For those of you here that use the Tarot, I have but one question, how does it work ?
I have read various articles on the subject ranging from hocus pocus to psychology, and am aware certain psychotherapists use it in their practice, so what is it a game of chance playing on superstition, or something other ?
Understand that any sort of magical paraphenalia is a Tool - one specifically used to create a certain psychological/spiritual mood, and in so doing open up emotional, mental and spiritual pathways in the mind. They are there to help us focus our spiritual energies on a desired goal. They do not create the focus - we ourselves do - they are simply a Visible reminder of which areas of our memory, emotions, or thoughts need to be dedicated To that focus for the duration of while we're working on something.
Cards, Runestones, and other types of divinatory tool remind us to focus our emotional and spiritual energies towards a brief - and usually a bit blurry - glimpse of the future, either our own or someone else's. They all use symbology to help us tap into our own subconscious, lending themselves to often effective means of piecing together the unconscious knowledge we have of likely consequences to strings of seemingly unrelated events. The tools of divination facilitate jumps in intuitive logic.
Many - if not most - believe that a deck "should not" be handled except by the person who is going to be specifically reading them. They are believed, as many other Tools of magic are believed, to absorb the .... Leaks.... excess.... of spiritual energies exuded by their owner/handler. All things, if handled frequently, will pick up the spiritual traces of those who have handled it - something which becomes a Focal Point picks up that much more of a trace. They become .... imbued, if you will..... with a sort of "resevoir" of energy which can then be tapped, along with the emotional/spiritual energy which is current within the body. Think of it sort of like drinking a spiritual red bull to give you that extra boost before doing something difficult.
My own belief - and practice - is that I am the only one who Routinely handles any of my various decks, though I will allow others to handle the deck briefly (like long enough to shuffle it) just prior to doing a reading for them. (I currently have 7 - ranging from a simple Rider Waithe deck to a Catpeople deck to a Daughters of the Moon round deck to a well done reproduction of a 15th century deck.) My favorite is a toss up between my Catpeople deck and my Daughters of the Moon deck - both have symbology that appeals to me. I learned with a Rider Waithe deck, because it's symbology is the most commonly used/easily interpreted/universal - and it was the first deck given to me.
< Message edited by hizgeorgiapeach -- 1/18/2009 11:50:51 AM >
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