Michael Sternbach
Hi Barleywine,
I very much agree with your approach to evaluating the cards in a spread. Hard and fast rules regarding isolated factors (i.e. elemental dignities) just don't work for me. After all, there is so much more to take into account! Trying to figure it all out analytically would be tedious; so I let my intuition (synthesizing thinking) provide me with the answer.
By the way, that's also how I read a horoscope chart; I initially take the planets' dignities, elemental positions, house positions etc into consideration, of course, but I never draw my conclusions in a mechanical fashion. That, for instance, Mercury in his fall and detriment in Pisces can belong to an ingenious thinker demonstrates that one needs to look at a chart in broad terms. I have spurred certain more rationalistic practitioners into disagreement by Statements like these, but I believe that having a good intuition is key - both in astrology and Tarot reading.
I very much agree with your approach to evaluating the cards in a spread. Hard and fast rules regarding isolated factors (i.e. elemental dignities) just don't work for me. After all, there is so much more to take into account! Trying to figure it all out analytically would be tedious; so I let my intuition (synthesizing thinking) provide me with the answer.
By the way, that's also how I read a horoscope chart; I initially take the planets' dignities, elemental positions, house positions etc into consideration, of course, but I never draw my conclusions in a mechanical fashion. That, for instance, Mercury in his fall and detriment in Pisces can belong to an ingenious thinker demonstrates that one needs to look at a chart in broad terms. I have spurred certain more rationalistic practitioners into disagreement by Statements like these, but I believe that having a good intuition is key - both in astrology and Tarot reading.