Grizabella
Shucks, I haven't ever done that. I just shuffle, cut and deal off the top. My cards are just tools, and there's nothing about them that would make me feel any sort of energy emanating from them. As nisaba said, they're my own cards and my significator is the Queen of Wands. I've chosen the Bonefire Queen of Wands as my avatar here on AT. This deck is a dear favorite of mine, but even so, no zings or tingles or anything from it or any other deck I own.
The human mind is a very powerful thing. I have this one toe that, if I even think about that toe, it will start burning like crazy. Never fails! I have nerve damage in my legs and feet and without medication, my feet swell and burn, with extra wicked burning in that one toe in the past. That toe has taught me that we can imagine things happening and they will happen as a result of the power of suggestion, but I don't want to encourage my wacky nervous system to do any tingling or burning or zinging so I couldn't feel trusting of it if I were to decide that's how I'd choose cards.
I'm with Alyssa---the less "woo" the better. But that's the wonderful thing about using the cards. They work without needing a bunch of rituals and other stuff that sometimes gets mixed up in people's minds as what makes the cards work. The most beautiful mystery of all is what happens when a Tarot deck is in the hands of its owner/user. I've described it before as "a Tarot deck is just a pile of pretty cards and I'm just an old lady, but when the deck and I get together, then we become something else." The same is true for every person who puts in the time and effort to use them.
The human mind is a very powerful thing. I have this one toe that, if I even think about that toe, it will start burning like crazy. Never fails! I have nerve damage in my legs and feet and without medication, my feet swell and burn, with extra wicked burning in that one toe in the past. That toe has taught me that we can imagine things happening and they will happen as a result of the power of suggestion, but I don't want to encourage my wacky nervous system to do any tingling or burning or zinging so I couldn't feel trusting of it if I were to decide that's how I'd choose cards.
I'm with Alyssa---the less "woo" the better. But that's the wonderful thing about using the cards. They work without needing a bunch of rituals and other stuff that sometimes gets mixed up in people's minds as what makes the cards work. The most beautiful mystery of all is what happens when a Tarot deck is in the hands of its owner/user. I've described it before as "a Tarot deck is just a pile of pretty cards and I'm just an old lady, but when the deck and I get together, then we become something else." The same is true for every person who puts in the time and effort to use them.
It was very disappointing.
