3ill.yazi
Yep, he seems to be kicking things back into action a bit.
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Anyone read Dusty White's Advanced Tarot Secrets?
redqueen888
dusty's book
Thanks to 3ill, I am investigating this too. I think a study group would be a big help as well. I will not do another write the story exercise, or the symbol one either...it drags me down and makes me worry more about the "correct" interpretation of the cards.
The second book is excellent. There is a study group here on AT for those using the first book.
Thanks to 3ill, I am investigating this too. I think a study group would be a big help as well. I will not do another write the story exercise, or the symbol one either...it drags me down and makes me worry more about the "correct" interpretation of the cards.
Michael Sternbach
First off, I haven't read the book to the end yet. Second, I have read enough to say that I like it - good and innovative information in-there.
However, as C. G. Jung emphasized in "Man and His Symbols", there is a difference between a symbol and a sign. The latter has a clear cut meaning, it's simply some kind of short language. The former is more elusive but at the same time ridger in its psychological conotations. As someone who is using Tarot primarily for reflection of psychological and psychospiritual states, I wonder if Dusty's down-to-earth approach doesn't tend to limit the cards' scope in those terms.
Opinions, anybody?
However, as C. G. Jung emphasized in "Man and His Symbols", there is a difference between a symbol and a sign. The latter has a clear cut meaning, it's simply some kind of short language. The former is more elusive but at the same time ridger in its psychological conotations. As someone who is using Tarot primarily for reflection of psychological and psychospiritual states, I wonder if Dusty's down-to-earth approach doesn't tend to limit the cards' scope in those terms.
Opinions, anybody?
ana luisa
First off, I haven't read the book to the end yet. Second, I have read enough to say that I like it - good and innovative information in-there.
However, as C. G. Jung emphasized in "Man and His Symbols", there is a difference between a symbol and a sign. The latter has a clear cut meaning, it's simply some kind of short language. The former is more elusive but at the same time ridger in its psychological conotations. As someone who is using Tarot primarily for reflection of psychological and psychospiritual states, I wonder if Dusty's down-to-earth approach doesn't tend to limit the cards' scope in those terms.
Opinions, anybody?
I know what you mean. The thing is, it seems that we keep getting the extreme poles all the time. You either end up with a reader who goes all the way to the spiritual search talk or the businessman who wants to know the figures of the stock market. I understand that what Dusty is trying to do is bring Tarot to the "real practical"realm for 2 reasons: people often want concrete pragmatic solutions/answers and he coaches people who look for that (makes a living helping them as a reader). I may have gotten it wrong though...
If you like the more fluid and spiritual approach, try reading some of Enrique Enriquez writings on how to read the Marseilles. He only uses this deck (which I personally dislike) but his way of reading is quite unique. Here are some links kindly posted for me by minotaur:
http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=99758
http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=100136
http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=100540
http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=100904
http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=101322
http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=101788
Michael Sternbach
I know what you mean. The thing is, it seems that we keep getting the extreme poles all the time. You either end up with a reader who goes all the way to the spiritual search talk or the businessman who wants to know the figures of the stock market. I understand that what Dusty is trying to do is bring Tarot to the "real practical"realm for 2 reasons: people often want concrete pragmatic solutions/answers and he coaches people who look for that (makes a living helping them as a reader). I may have gotten it wrong though...
If you like the more fluid and spiritual approach, try reading some of Enrique Enriquez writings on how to read the Marseilles. He only uses this deck (which I personally dislike) but his way of reading is quite unique. Here are some links kindly posted for me by minotaur:
http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=99758
http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=100136
http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=100540
http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=100904
http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=101322
http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=101788
I hadn't heard of Enriquez before. Thanks for the links.
I may be emphasizing the 'inner side' although I don't neglect that Tarot can be a great tool for arriving at practical solutions. Actually, the two are closely interconnected with each other. But probably the only time that people are ready to pay 1000 bucks or so for a reading (as the book proposes) is when they are confident that they will make much more money than that by what they're being told. I think the reader would basically have to give up general counselling practice and mostly limit themselves to being a special kind of business adviser using Tarot cards - in fact, rather in the way of fortune telling.
The contrast between the two approaches also, to a degree, resembles the different ways that astrology is being applied. Some astrologers focus on psychological aspects, others (i.e. 'traditional' ones) are more interested in foretelling external events.
