Nemia
I'd say - if you read with the RWS, interpret the RWS. Once you start keeping in your head all the different interpretations of other decks, it only confuses you. There are different takes on the Fool - that's a good topic for study. But when you're doing a reading, read the cards in front of you.
Only if you decide to take out another deck and compare the cards to find new nuances, other interpretations really play a role.
I teach art history and have one iron principle: I NEVER speak about a work of art that I don't have in front of me (or projected on the wall). No matter how well I know it or how well the students know it. In order to speak about a picture without mis-reading, mis-remembering or mis-interpreting it, you need it before your eyes.
IMO the same is true for tarot cards in a reading. If I want to understand the messages the cards give me, it's best to have them before me. Only then, the card itself can speak, and not my memories or ideas of it.
Only if you decide to take out another deck and compare the cards to find new nuances, other interpretations really play a role.
I teach art history and have one iron principle: I NEVER speak about a work of art that I don't have in front of me (or projected on the wall). No matter how well I know it or how well the students know it. In order to speak about a picture without mis-reading, mis-remembering or mis-interpreting it, you need it before your eyes.
IMO the same is true for tarot cards in a reading. If I want to understand the messages the cards give me, it's best to have them before me. Only then, the card itself can speak, and not my memories or ideas of it.