Ffortiwn
Having observed the psychic potential in my nine-year-old, and noting her fascination with my Tarot practice and philosophies etc., I decided that for her recent birthday she'd be old enough for a starter deck. I spent a bit of time reading a bunch of decks-for-children threads here and gleaned a lot of great wisdom, and decided that the Inner Child deck would be a good choice.
Now we're facing a bit of a problem which I did not think through very well, before. Since my own personal deck is Thoth and my mind is very, very oriented towards that system, I am having a heck of a time helping my daughter with her questions about her new deck. She is not nearly at the reading level to find use for the companion guide on her own. My difficulty is that I am forced to dig into her guide for each and every question she has as they come up in various settings, and since we don't carry it around with us all the time I'm forced to delay my responses in many cases, which creates some unnecessary mystery and potential frustration for her in her Tarot learning process. Plus the deck she saw first and fell in love with was Thoth, and Inner Child, while absolutely wonderful, does not appear to grab her in quite the same way (so far).
So I'm wondering how problematic it might be, if I were to give her a Thoth deck now? I realize the symbolism is quite advanced in many cases, but the imagery is so rich and often intuitive, and my own grasp is pretty good.
The alternative is, I will have to take much more time out to study the Inner Child system than I had planned to, and among other problems this has the potential of slowing and interfering with my own personal education with the Tarot. I'd much prefer to stick with one system in this phase of the learning process.
Thoughts?
Not trying to sound cynical but I'm pretty sure there will be very few "go for it!" responses here...
Now we're facing a bit of a problem which I did not think through very well, before. Since my own personal deck is Thoth and my mind is very, very oriented towards that system, I am having a heck of a time helping my daughter with her questions about her new deck. She is not nearly at the reading level to find use for the companion guide on her own. My difficulty is that I am forced to dig into her guide for each and every question she has as they come up in various settings, and since we don't carry it around with us all the time I'm forced to delay my responses in many cases, which creates some unnecessary mystery and potential frustration for her in her Tarot learning process. Plus the deck she saw first and fell in love with was Thoth, and Inner Child, while absolutely wonderful, does not appear to grab her in quite the same way (so far).
So I'm wondering how problematic it might be, if I were to give her a Thoth deck now? I realize the symbolism is quite advanced in many cases, but the imagery is so rich and often intuitive, and my own grasp is pretty good.
The alternative is, I will have to take much more time out to study the Inner Child system than I had planned to, and among other problems this has the potential of slowing and interfering with my own personal education with the Tarot. I'd much prefer to stick with one system in this phase of the learning process.
Thoughts?
Not trying to sound cynical but I'm pretty sure there will be very few "go for it!" responses here...