Grizabella
My version of intuitive reading is to first consider the rote meaning of the cards and look at how the cards interact together and then I use my intuition. (I call it "intuition" for lack of a better word)
Referring back to what someone asked when she wondered if she could be pregnant, let's suppose that a woman asked me that and my Bonefire Queen of Pentacles appeared. On that card, there's a woman serving up some sort of pie with rabbit ears sticking out of it. Many years ago when pregnancy tests hadn't been developed, they'd inject some of a woman's urine into a rabbit and then if she was pregnant, the poor rabbit would die. If she wan't pregnant, then the bunny lived. Since people were prudish back then, they thought saying "pregnant" was rude, so they'd just say the rabbit died when telling somebody they were pregnant. A woman would often make a candle-lit intimate dinner the day the results came in and then break the news to her husband before telling anyone else.
The Queen of Pentacles has always been "Earth Mama" to me. Very down-to-earth, making ends meet very wisely, gardening, cookie baking type woman. So for the rabbit ears sticking out of a pie, to me this would indicate a pregnancy. Not in every case, mind you, but if the question came up as to whether someone was pregnant.
I came back to add that all of these things when reading the cards hopefully answer the question about when and how I personally read and how intuition figures in. It takes much longer to describe it than to actually do it. This will usually all transpire in just a few minutes, if not just seconds, when I see the cards that have come out in a reading.
I don't strictly read intuitively because my method didn't develop well that way, so knowing the traditional card meanings and the intention of the deck creator if there's a book, will also play a part first of all, and then within that framework, and mindful of the sitter's questions, I get the message. I usually don't read for myself.
Referring back to what someone asked when she wondered if she could be pregnant, let's suppose that a woman asked me that and my Bonefire Queen of Pentacles appeared. On that card, there's a woman serving up some sort of pie with rabbit ears sticking out of it. Many years ago when pregnancy tests hadn't been developed, they'd inject some of a woman's urine into a rabbit and then if she was pregnant, the poor rabbit would die. If she wan't pregnant, then the bunny lived. Since people were prudish back then, they thought saying "pregnant" was rude, so they'd just say the rabbit died when telling somebody they were pregnant. A woman would often make a candle-lit intimate dinner the day the results came in and then break the news to her husband before telling anyone else.
The Queen of Pentacles has always been "Earth Mama" to me. Very down-to-earth, making ends meet very wisely, gardening, cookie baking type woman. So for the rabbit ears sticking out of a pie, to me this would indicate a pregnancy. Not in every case, mind you, but if the question came up as to whether someone was pregnant.
I came back to add that all of these things when reading the cards hopefully answer the question about when and how I personally read and how intuition figures in. It takes much longer to describe it than to actually do it. This will usually all transpire in just a few minutes, if not just seconds, when I see the cards that have come out in a reading.
I don't strictly read intuitively because my method didn't develop well that way, so knowing the traditional card meanings and the intention of the deck creator if there's a book, will also play a part first of all, and then within that framework, and mindful of the sitter's questions, I get the message. I usually don't read for myself.
