moderndayruth
vision777 said:I wanted to know about this because i read somewhere that people must be grounded before doing a reading. i figure if a person has a mental disorder could that effect the reading ? i would like to say thanks for all the information everybody provided here.
Thanks for the reply vision777. I think that everything a reader is influences the reading - i believe that one's life experience colors and flavors the way they interpret the cards, so does the language they speak - for example, English is far more optimistic than Slavic languages and the language itself somehow predisposes you to give an encouraging reading ( while my mother tongue, Serbian, has some innate fatalism in it).
I believe that being absolutely grounded ("mentally and emotionally stable" acc. to Merriam-Webster dictionary) is far more rare than believed - that is (probably) outside Tibet and its retreats and monasteries.
"Normal" people - normal as in what is most often encountered - we are often emotionally excited and uncalm and wasn't it so, i doubt anyone would reach for a deck of cards in the first place...
For what i know, as long as one's moods and feelings don't obstruct their work and interpersonal relationships, they (fluctuating feeling and moods) are included in the definition of what's human.
So, yeah, unless someone is hitting the table - as in the example given earlier in this thread or behaving in some other very odd way- i think they are (/you are/ i am) fine enough to do a reading.
ETA for typo