The crowned one
I have been pondering this quite a bit lately. I was reading an older journal of mine and it has so much "new age" fluff in it I actually offended myself a couple of times by how "off" my interpretations were compared to my mindset now but I have to admit enjoyed my naive enthusiasms and blind trust in both myself and those authors I was just shy of plagiarizing in my old journal.(There is tonnes of great new age idea's out there but I seemed to gyrate towards the fluffy stuff back then
Where do you get your meanings from? Waite? De Mellet? Mathers? Golden Dawn? Case? Who do you draw you inspiration from? The foundation, groundwork or base's of your readings? If it is someone new age ( to more or lesser degree's) like Pollack, Ricklef or Greer do you know where they derived thier cards foundations from? I would think it would be important to find out.
Even if you are a Intuitive reader you can not just pull meanings out of the air, thats just random and makes no sense as tarot cards, once we leave the game behind, evolved as a system and was slowly molded into many systems (with many add-ons, some ridiculous in my opinion some quite good). I feel you must have a foundation of knowledge you work from that with practice, success's and the growth of confidence will give you the ability to read intuitively successfully. Tarot is a system that requires study before intuition can play a leading role.
The more I read, and the farther I take tarot back in time the more I feel I need to revamp my whole tarot iconology, meanings and interpretations. I think I might have missed a good part of what tarot is because I did not understand its history and Phoenix like rising into the world fortune telling.
All that just to ask: where do your meaning come from?
Where do you get your meanings from? Waite? De Mellet? Mathers? Golden Dawn? Case? Who do you draw you inspiration from? The foundation, groundwork or base's of your readings? If it is someone new age ( to more or lesser degree's) like Pollack, Ricklef or Greer do you know where they derived thier cards foundations from? I would think it would be important to find out.
Even if you are a Intuitive reader you can not just pull meanings out of the air, thats just random and makes no sense as tarot cards, once we leave the game behind, evolved as a system and was slowly molded into many systems (with many add-ons, some ridiculous in my opinion some quite good). I feel you must have a foundation of knowledge you work from that with practice, success's and the growth of confidence will give you the ability to read intuitively successfully. Tarot is a system that requires study before intuition can play a leading role.
The more I read, and the farther I take tarot back in time the more I feel I need to revamp my whole tarot iconology, meanings and interpretations. I think I might have missed a good part of what tarot is because I did not understand its history and Phoenix like rising into the world fortune telling.
All that just to ask: where do your meaning come from?