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This is a great exercise to do to get to know your Mary El Tarot deck. give it a try.
JadoreHauteCouture said:Take your Mary-el deck and take out 40 cards - numbers 1 to 10 from each suit. Lay all cards next to each other in order and meditate... Let the cards talk to you... The point of this exercise is to get to know the minor arcana cards. Dont focus on each card individually but study each row and column as well. See the connections, read cards from left to right like a story. Notice the links between the cards, see which rows and columns have human figures, animals, or landscapes in them and wonder why. Notice the colors and shapes. Imagine these cards are a book in foreign language and you have to fill in all the gaps to create the story.
example how the spread should look like:
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See the evolution from Aces to 10s and back. I even once read that in Mary-el the minor arcana doesnt start at Ace but it starts at 6 and then goes to both Ace and Ten which represent 2 extremes.
You can stare at your cards for 5 minutes, an hour or just keep it around your house for a week and study it when you have the time... Its up to you.. Whichever suits you best. You can already start with this part now even though you dont have your partner assigned yet.
The point is not to get to know all the cards as individual substances in the reading but also to know their story, their connection, to know the bigger picture behind them during the reading. Simply said, to delve more into the whole Mary-el system and philosophy, not just studying each card on its own...