Barleywine
I'm more in the Ronald Reagan school of "Trust but verify," which is what he told Mikhail Gorbachev on nuclear disarmament. In tarot terms, Joseph Maxwell said it best:
"Harnessing the restless steeds of the intuition and making them do their work properly is the seer's principal difficulty. To do this, it is necessary to form a picture of how the sitter's thoughts and feelings affect him, or her, in order of importance and intensity.
". . . the best method is to inspect the spread of cards and then, in the way taught by experience and inspiration, give a general outline of the probabilities. Specific orientation occurs when observation of the sitter shows some matter of importance has been touched. This is an essential procedure because the variety and complexity of ideas stemming from each arcanum are immense. Moreover, the general sense of the reading, or part of a reading, will have an overall connotation that gives it relevance; without knowing what this connotation is, the cartomant, however gifted, may be in the dark.
"Intuition is a good guide, but in the interests of making a full and helpful divination, it is necessary to verify with the enquirer at each step if the intuition is taking the right path."
He makes perfect sense according to my own experience, which is why I choose not to operate in a vacuum.
"Harnessing the restless steeds of the intuition and making them do their work properly is the seer's principal difficulty. To do this, it is necessary to form a picture of how the sitter's thoughts and feelings affect him, or her, in order of importance and intensity.
". . . the best method is to inspect the spread of cards and then, in the way taught by experience and inspiration, give a general outline of the probabilities. Specific orientation occurs when observation of the sitter shows some matter of importance has been touched. This is an essential procedure because the variety and complexity of ideas stemming from each arcanum are immense. Moreover, the general sense of the reading, or part of a reading, will have an overall connotation that gives it relevance; without knowing what this connotation is, the cartomant, however gifted, may be in the dark.
"Intuition is a good guide, but in the interests of making a full and helpful divination, it is necessary to verify with the enquirer at each step if the intuition is taking the right path."
He makes perfect sense according to my own experience, which is why I choose not to operate in a vacuum.