TarotCharioteer
I'm sorry if there's already a thread about this, or if it's been covered anywhere in the forums- trust me, I've tried numerous, numerous different searches looking for this, without luck. If anyone can direct me to a prior discussion about this, please do so
I was looking for some advice on the "alternative method" spread from Arthur Waite's (Pictorial) Key to the Tarot. In the book(let), he provides us with two spreads: the famous Celtic Cross and the second one, from the chapter entitled "An Alternative Method of Reading the Tarot Cards". It actually consists of two elements, the first of which is the in the chapter I've already listed. The second part is covered in the chapter "The Method of Reading by Means of Thirty-Five Cards" and I've got that covered already. My question is about the first part...
...namely, after following the directions listed and ending up with the six lines of seven cards each, how does one interpret the spread? All Waite seems to instruct is to go through and quickly read each card one by one, starting from the top right all the day way down to the last card on the bottom left...and then do it all over again, but in more depth.
I'm confused, lol! It seems so direction-less and all-over-the-place, and I actually have a spread laid out in front of me, but cannot for the life of me work out a coherent reading from those directions. I've gone through & said my keywords for each card, then gone through & said deeper meanings for each...but it doesn't make sense to me in term of an actual reading.
Like, how would we apply this to a question? Or even a general reading? This is even more open-ended to me than the Opening of the Key Spread, because with that one, at least there are directions as to how to actually read the cards (i.e., elemental dignities, card counting and card pairing) that can be worked out into a "story", but Waite doesn't instruct us to do any of those!
I'd greatly appreciate any help on this, or any advice on how you've worked out a system to make sense of this first part of the "Alternative Method" of Waite's
Thank you so much in advance, fellow Tarot peeps!
I was looking for some advice on the "alternative method" spread from Arthur Waite's (Pictorial) Key to the Tarot. In the book(let), he provides us with two spreads: the famous Celtic Cross and the second one, from the chapter entitled "An Alternative Method of Reading the Tarot Cards". It actually consists of two elements, the first of which is the in the chapter I've already listed. The second part is covered in the chapter "The Method of Reading by Means of Thirty-Five Cards" and I've got that covered already. My question is about the first part...
...namely, after following the directions listed and ending up with the six lines of seven cards each, how does one interpret the spread? All Waite seems to instruct is to go through and quickly read each card one by one, starting from the top right all the day way down to the last card on the bottom left...and then do it all over again, but in more depth.
I'm confused, lol! It seems so direction-less and all-over-the-place, and I actually have a spread laid out in front of me, but cannot for the life of me work out a coherent reading from those directions. I've gone through & said my keywords for each card, then gone through & said deeper meanings for each...but it doesn't make sense to me in term of an actual reading.
Like, how would we apply this to a question? Or even a general reading? This is even more open-ended to me than the Opening of the Key Spread, because with that one, at least there are directions as to how to actually read the cards (i.e., elemental dignities, card counting and card pairing) that can be worked out into a "story", but Waite doesn't instruct us to do any of those!
I'd greatly appreciate any help on this, or any advice on how you've worked out a system to make sense of this first part of the "Alternative Method" of Waite's
Thank you so much in advance, fellow Tarot peeps!