sapienza, I'm sorry to hear that you're struggling with the Alchemical. I really do understand where you're coming from, as I thought long and hard about this for a while before I started the original thread, considering if I wanted to really work through just the sort of tough patches you're experiencing. And I do. I honestly think that once you're through this patch, you'll find a whole new level of understanding of your deck.
Course, then there's the next rough patch . . .
. . . hence the thread. I hope that knowing we're here to help gives you a bit of a pick-me-up, and that you've had some success with your readings tonight. Here's to you!
oak_woman - no worries at all. Yeah, I did the spread today, and I must somewhat retract what I said before, or at least clarify it. It's not the spread's fault
it's my failings as a reader. I did finish it, and I saw a lot of links in it that I didn't expect (although I should have
) and I think the reading came out well, and my sitter's quick f/b as soon as I PM'd her reinforces that. I'll update on the relative success of the reading as more f/b becomes available
.
See, in the absence of instructions on how to lay the spread out, I simply put the cards out in a 4 x 3 grid, with three rows of four cards. This meant that cards 1 and 5, 2 and 3, 4 and 8, 5 and 6 were the same suits, and that was meaningful. I got a lot out of the spread, and I think I will do it again, but it took me a total of five hours or so, including typing, and covered almost five pages of paper handwritten, so it's not one that'll be an "all the time" spread!
It did work out nicely, though
and I'm proud of myself.
I hope that the sitter resonates with it, because of late I've been seriously doubting my ability as a reader, especially after some of the
ordinary feedback I got from my last few reading threads. I've been wondering if I'm pushing myself far enough, if I'm getting anything meaningful or helpful from the cards, or if I'm just rehashing "book meanings". I don't know. I hate self-doubt - and it occurs to me so rarely that when it does strike, I have no idea of how to cope with it!
Ugh. I sound like my own personal pity-party. Shutting up now.
\m/ Kat