MacMorrighan
Hey guys, I have been a Witch for almost 20 years, and during that time I have been meticulously forging my own unique Path drawn from quantum physics, folk-lore, Celtic and Indo-European Studies (at an academic level, I might add!). However, in that time, while I have been immersed in scholarship (indeed, I consider myself a freelance scholar!), I have utterly ignored learning a divinatory system; so, I am hoping to focus on doing so with the Tarot, as I have long-been fascinated by the symbolism involved (as I was writing about Astrology I came upon a book by Aleister Crowley that explained *why* The Chariot is associated with Cancer....I've been curious about that for years!). However, when I approach something new, I like to do so methodologically or structurally. (This is also my approach as musician.) All to often, over the past several years, at least in my own general community, I have observed readers merely parroting the interpretations from the Rider-Waite-Smith "little white book of uselessness" as one acquaintance recently described it. LOL! That would seem to give very one-dimensional or cookie cutter-like readings from my point of view. I am hoping to learn a deeper significance to the cards and their Mysteries. At the moment I am reading Connoly's "Tarot: Handbook for the Apprentice", but I am interested in looking for some other "classic" or "traditional" books on learning this system of divination, including tarot journaling. Incidentally, now that I think about it, one of my early stumbling blocks was reading the Celtic Cross spread as it seems somewhat convoluted.
All my best,
Wade
All my best,
Wade