that's my question. what exactly am i missing out on? i guess it would be useful to get some readings from people firmly grounded in the thoth in order to understand that. maybe i'll post that in the exchanges, see what happens ...
Unfortunately, the folks who read the Thoth as it was meant to be read ie using all of the aforementioned attributions etc, don't tend to read on the forum, and I also note they don't tend to assist any of the members who post readings for help even when the reading is with the Thoth deck. I have always been curious about how a reading would look/work when one uses all that there is to learn/know about the Thoth and Thelema. I know some who use it quite often, but they too use it in a more intuitive way, gregory comes to mind, and she is no slouch at reading cards.
This sort of debate comes up quite often in Lenormand discussions, there are those who use a solid, traditional structure for reading those cards and others who do it with a bit more free wheeling intuition with less structure. I think the sitters are the ones who should have perhaps the last word on how useful a reading was for them and their question.
In real life, all of the readers I know who use Thoth do it with the infamous Angeles Arrien book!! Please, everyone, don't have your heads all explode at once! It will be a huge mess !! I think if you are using Duquette as a reference you are at least doing it more justice than if you used Arrien's book.
I do think it would be enormously helpful to see more reading threads involving those who use Thoth in its entirety. We could all see how well it works, how clear the answers are to the question at hand and why it is truly necessary to use it in this particular fashion in order to give the best reading possible. The icing on the cake would be that anyone reading the threads would get better educated about this deck and it's system, and how to use it
effectively in a reading.
PS I do not moderate in this forum, my post is meant to be that of a regular member.