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I think there can be no one answer to that question. But I use dream imagery as an example. In our dreams some of the symbols are universal, some are personal. Even the universal ones mean different things to different people, depending on our background or culture or personal experience. So only the dreamer is truly capable of interpreting their own dream, identifying the answers that "click" -- as Jung put it. I've also read that mediums develop a kind of language of images that helps them communicate with spirit, that it's not the spirit creating the images so much as reflecting what they need to from the medium's unconscious in order to communicate through him. From this I gather that there's a meeting of psychic and unconscious in our psyches, or some kind of universal psychic cauldron we're all connected to, a place where these constructs aren't necessary, where we can meet one another and communicate, but in order to bring those communications into consciousness our minds must dress them in our personal symbolic language.Scion said:You read with it because it works but then you come back and say that it works for a reason. Do you seriously believe that someone gets as deep or meaningful a reading out of a system by faffing their way through it? Ignoring the system and pretending ignorance imparts some kind of mastery is bizarre. But that's abstract again...
Let me ask another baseline question: what makes a GD deck work and how can it be made to work better?
A GD deck can certainly use symbolic language that I understand without me understanding or agreeing with the deck creator's reasoning behind it. Or, if I'm more in touch with my unconscious, as I think many Tarot readers are, I can make a conscious decision to let my unconscious use certain symbols in certain ways, or dress the communication in my own symbols as necessary, as one would have to do with, say, toothpick readings.
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