TdM Exchange August 2012 - Sign up here!

le_charior

Sign up closed!

Reading Partners:
Rhoswen + Sherryl
nisaba + Trevtrin
Lumen + EllieP
Wendywu + Sulis
Polyhymnia + jhernandez
pacificwaters + Flavio
Est + le_charior

A new month (well, not so new anymore) - a new TdM exchange!

Timeline:
- Sign up closed on Sunday, August 12th
- Reading partners assigned on Monday, August 13th
- Reading and feedback to be completed by Sunday, September 9th

Spreads:
Anybody wants to propose a thread? Everybody wants to use what they feel like? Do you feel spread-y this month or freeform-y? I'll just leave the links from the last months in here, and you tell me what you feel like doing, ok? :)
- Fibonacci spread (Posts 8 and 9)
- Compass spread
- Tirage en Croix
- Dynamic Hexagramme spread
- Comte de Mellet spread
- Chronata's spread

Decks:
The TdM Exchange is a friendly and fun place to share and develop our reading skills with Tarot de Marseille decks, other historic decks with non-scenic pips and Tarot de Marseille inspired modern decks. If you aren't sure if you have a deck that is suited, just ask. If you decide to read with a deck that your sitter does not have, please post pictures of the cards you drew so everybody can follow.

Pips reading methods:
There are a lot of different reading methods of the Tarot de Marseille and especially the pips. These are all equally welcome and all ok. If you don't know where to start, check the forum index (especially the thread on "Reading Methods" - and don't be shy or scared by the non-scenic pips, just jump on right in!) In order to make this a fruitful learning experience for the reader, the sitter and everybody following the exchange, please take the time to explain what method you are using for the pips. Links to threads here on the forum explaining the method or single cards are most welcome.

Please share the process of your reading, not only the results. And please take the time and effort (as most people do anyway) to write more than a line on each card. Tell your partner what your interpretation is based on, what you saw, what brought you to the conclusions. The more detail, the more everybody will learn!

Feedback:
Please make your feedback as detailled as possible so your reading partner can benefit from it. It's not so much about what you saw in the cards your partner drew for you (even if you can include this as well of course), but more about how you can relate to the reading you got. Don't hesitate to ask questions, to go into a discussion, a back and forth of feedback and feedback on feedback.

No-show/Problems:
If anybody has a problem completing their reading or feedback, please please please get in touch with your reading partner and myself. It's not nice to be left hanging in an exchange - and whoever is NOT completing an exchange he or she signed up for (and especially fails to communicate about it) will not be allowed to sign up again until it is completed - and in worst case even risks a two months ban from all reading exchanges.

(Of course the Reading Exchange Posting Guidelines apply for this exchange as well - and there are some good tips for feedback etc in that post!)

Happy exchanging! :) Looking forward to it!

lc
 

Rhoswen

As a newbie to TdM readings, I'd like to try the Tirage en Croix. YMMV.
 

le_charior

Hello Rhoswen, welcome to the exchange!

I really like the Tirage en Croix - I had a great exchange here with it once where I learned tons of new things. Sometimes I feel a spread challenges you more than "just" doing three cards - but on the other hand a spread where the meanings are too fixed is not very compatible with my style of Tarot reading... the Tirage en Croix gives a framework for interpretation, but still has enough freedom for intuitive, story-telling kind of readings. For me personally!

What do you other people think? Sign up and share! :)
 

Lumen

Hi Le_Charior,

Please, add me to August exchange round. Thanks.
 

Wendywu

Hiya - sign me up please :)
 

nisaba

Thank you - I'm in.

I'm very happy with the Comte de Mellet spread - it seems to do wondrous readings for me, and I don't really get a chance to use it anywhere else.
 

le_charior

Hello Lumen, Wendywu & nisaba! Good to have you back on the exchange!

nisaba - this is one of my favorites, too! I keep one deck with majors and minors separated ready to do it most of the time!
 

Polyhymnia

yes pls :) sign me up
 

pacificwaters

I am in as well..

Until now I have never used any particular spread for reading with the TdM. Just went with the flow and created a spread for the the question that struck me at that particular time...!!
 

le_charior

welcome in, you too!

I do three - five cards most of the time, but sometimes I really enjoy the framing of a spread - especially when it still gives you a certain freedom in positions and meanings.