Village Witch
Absolutely that helps! Thank you!!
Positions in the Grand Tableau
Absolutely that helps! Thank you!!
Izzydunne
Chanah:
If you will go to page 4 of this section of the forum, and go to the bottom of the page you will see the thread I started called: "How I read the GT."
If you will go to page 4 of this section of the forum, and go to the bottom of the page you will see the thread I started called: "How I read the GT."
Risingsign
Izzydunne:
In your How I Read the GT you mention: "The cards that are in close proximity to the major players are the most important". Is that not much the same as Chanah's: "Most readers... determine how strong the effect of a card will be on the person by how close it is to the person card" (or other major players)?
In your How I Read the GT you mention: "The cards that are in close proximity to the major players are the most important". Is that not much the same as Chanah's: "Most readers... determine how strong the effect of a card will be on the person by how close it is to the person card" (or other major players)?
Tag_jorrit
Thank you for your post Chanah. I have been slow at transitioning from the left/past right/future and linear methods of reading the GT to the distance methods that are beginning to make more sense. More practice needed here. 
Izzydunne
Rising sign:
No it is not the same. Cards near the major players are the most important. However, the way I interpret them is not the near/far method.
In addition, I don't divide the GT into left/right, past/present/future either.
No it is not the same. Cards near the major players are the most important. However, the way I interpret them is not the near/far method.
In addition, I don't divide the GT into left/right, past/present/future either.
Risingsign
Thank you, Izzydunne. Is it fair to say that, while Chanah has emphasised the proximity aspect of near/far reading, you see the distinction in terms of the different meanings applied to certain cards when they fall close to or far away from a card?
Izzydunne
Rising sign:
If I understand you correctly, what you just described is a restated near/far approach. That is not how it do it.
Think of a line of 3 or 4 cards telling a story. No matter how the story begins, or progresses, it is the end (final card) that matters most.
Before I go any further.........please be aware that I am not saying that my approach is:" the best, most authentic, what my relatives taught me, or the only way to do it."
I use the approach that makes it the easiest for me to see what the Divine (through the cards) is trying to tell me. Not too many rules to get in the way, and just enough rules so that the entire thing hangs together in a clear and elegant manner.
If I understand you correctly, what you just described is a restated near/far approach. That is not how it do it.
Think of a line of 3 or 4 cards telling a story. No matter how the story begins, or progresses, it is the end (final card) that matters most.
Before I go any further.........please be aware that I am not saying that my approach is:" the best, most authentic, what my relatives taught me, or the only way to do it."
I use the approach that makes it the easiest for me to see what the Divine (through the cards) is trying to tell me. Not too many rules to get in the way, and just enough rules so that the entire thing hangs together in a clear and elegant manner.
Risingsign
Yes, I was trying to pinpoint which aspect/s of near/far you don't use.
So, for you, "close proximity" is important in as much as those cards will naturally fall in the horizontal and vertical lines "containing" the key cards (Man, Woman, Ring, etc.).
Sorry to seem nitpicky, but I felt since I was bothered to ask in the first place I ought to endeavor to understand your answer.
