MareSaturni
Le Fanu said:...but when I lay out tarot cards, I feel like Im truly at home and Ive internalised the structure so well that (despite having masses still to learn) I feel like I swim within the system, rather than the jolting I get with Oracles, having to consult the book, remember the concept, wonder if Ive missed anything etc etc.
but with tarot I swim...
Well...i feel the same, and i think it's quite natural after so many years studying and learning to think inside the structure of the tarot. "Thinking Tarot" for me is natural, and like you, i swim...it flows, easily, because it's so ingrained in me.
But i remember when i started learning it, when i was 13 years old, it wasn't like that. 78 cards was too many things to remember, and i could only make sense of one card readings. Lol . I couldn't see the nuances...Sun was happy, Tower was sad and the rest was a big confusion! But eventually, it became more and more natural, as my skills improved...and i still have so much to learn...
I've been studying the PCO for one year (although i've known the system for two years, i don't consider the last one, because i simply abandoned both the tarot and the PCO)...it's very little compared to the many years i spent learning the tarot! So i don't expect to everything to flow so naturally when i'm using it. Yet.
Yet. But one day, it'll become natural too, i'm sure. If i only have the patience and the persistence needed, the same i needed when learning the tarot for the first time. The same i needed the first time i sat down and decided to read a long & complex text in English. I read it more than 10 times without fully understanding it. But then i read one more time. And one more time. And another...
The PCO is my "oracle of choice" and i really enjoy studying it. Just like the tarot