NorthernTigress
Terminology:
When there was a Study Group created for the Transparent Tarot, there was a lot of discussion on terminology. There seemed to be a word and/or abbreviation for everything.
I'm not sure if we need to get quite so complicated this time. For the Transparent Tarot, there was a lot of talk about Reversed Images (flipped up and down) and Mirror Images (flipped right to left). This isn't really relevant for a round deck, in my opinion. But we could talk about it, if anyone is interested.
When I was doing readings with the T-O, I started naturally developing my own language, just as I was naturally developing my own reading style.
I call a grouping of cards on top of each other a Stack. I know, not very romantic. A T-O "spread" can be one Stack, or several Stacks.
The visual image produced by looking at all the cards in a Stack together I call a Blended Image. (The Transparent Tarot Study Group called it a Composite Image, I think.)
When there are too many cards in a Stack and it becomes hard to see/interpret, I call it Muddled. (The T-T Group called it Jumbled.)
The T-T Study Group also had specific terms for cards that were combined in other ways that just as a Stack. Film Strip(FS): Cards only partially combined, more side-by-side. Freeform Image(FI): spreading out cards semi-randomly so that they only partially overlap. Please let me know whether you think these would be useful for discussion.
If anyone disagrees with this basic terminology, or has ideas of their own, please let me know.
Techniques:
The ideal number of cards for one stack, without using a Light Box to backlight the image, seems to be 3-4. I did an experiment where I made a Stack of all the cards for each direction, to see if they were readable. In most cases, all 10 cards together were very Muddled. For the most part, half of a Direction (5 cards) was still reasonably readable. In my experiment, the most cards I had in a Stack that was still readable was 7, for the Sun, Moon and Planet cards from the Above direction.
It seems to me that the T-O can use familiar spreads with only minor modification, by combining spread positions into stacks. When I did my New Deck Interview, by FireRaven, I did the first three questions as one Stack, and the next three questions as a second Stack. It worked very well.
I personally have not found an easy way to shuffle the T-O. If anyone has discovered a good shuffling technique, please, please, please let me know!
When there was a Study Group created for the Transparent Tarot, there was a lot of discussion on terminology. There seemed to be a word and/or abbreviation for everything.
I'm not sure if we need to get quite so complicated this time. For the Transparent Tarot, there was a lot of talk about Reversed Images (flipped up and down) and Mirror Images (flipped right to left). This isn't really relevant for a round deck, in my opinion. But we could talk about it, if anyone is interested.
When I was doing readings with the T-O, I started naturally developing my own language, just as I was naturally developing my own reading style.
I call a grouping of cards on top of each other a Stack. I know, not very romantic. A T-O "spread" can be one Stack, or several Stacks.
The visual image produced by looking at all the cards in a Stack together I call a Blended Image. (The Transparent Tarot Study Group called it a Composite Image, I think.)
When there are too many cards in a Stack and it becomes hard to see/interpret, I call it Muddled. (The T-T Group called it Jumbled.)
The T-T Study Group also had specific terms for cards that were combined in other ways that just as a Stack. Film Strip(FS): Cards only partially combined, more side-by-side. Freeform Image(FI): spreading out cards semi-randomly so that they only partially overlap. Please let me know whether you think these would be useful for discussion.
If anyone disagrees with this basic terminology, or has ideas of their own, please let me know.
Techniques:
The ideal number of cards for one stack, without using a Light Box to backlight the image, seems to be 3-4. I did an experiment where I made a Stack of all the cards for each direction, to see if they were readable. In most cases, all 10 cards together were very Muddled. For the most part, half of a Direction (5 cards) was still reasonably readable. In my experiment, the most cards I had in a Stack that was still readable was 7, for the Sun, Moon and Planet cards from the Above direction.
It seems to me that the T-O can use familiar spreads with only minor modification, by combining spread positions into stacks. When I did my New Deck Interview, by FireRaven, I did the first three questions as one Stack, and the next three questions as a second Stack. It worked very well.
I personally have not found an easy way to shuffle the T-O. If anyone has discovered a good shuffling technique, please, please, please let me know!