dawntarot
I do hope I'm posting this in the right thread and that what I'm about to say won't be considered too OT. Please advise me if necessary mods!!
This past week I decided I wanted to learn how to read with playing cards (cartomancy). Ever since that decision I have been dreaming every night about doing cartomancy readings, which I have never done with tarot even though I've been working with it for years! I decided this partly so that I could read at any time and any place without contention (religious family etc), partly because I felt it might enhance my tarot readings too by sharpening my intuition.
This morning I was pondering the "red is good/black is bad" thing as I was finding it a difficult concept to grasp, given that with the tarot suits I view them all as neutral (I use pip decks). Suddenly the whoooole thing clicked into place and the following table of correspondences emerged:
Spades - Swords - Air - Masc. - Neg
Hearts - Cups - Water - Fem. - Pos
Clubs - Batons - Fire - Masc. - Neg
Diams. - Coins - Earth - Fem. - Pos
Masculine or black cards are bad because air and fire are destructive forces.
Feminine or red cards are good because water and earth are creative forces.
It seems terribly obvious I know but for me this is a major breakthrough - and I understand the tarot better as a result of it as well.
Are there others on here who read playing cards? I'm going through the indexed posts but most of them stop at 2008 or so.
This is also my first post over here in Oracles. Hello!
Dawn
This past week I decided I wanted to learn how to read with playing cards (cartomancy). Ever since that decision I have been dreaming every night about doing cartomancy readings, which I have never done with tarot even though I've been working with it for years! I decided this partly so that I could read at any time and any place without contention (religious family etc), partly because I felt it might enhance my tarot readings too by sharpening my intuition.
This morning I was pondering the "red is good/black is bad" thing as I was finding it a difficult concept to grasp, given that with the tarot suits I view them all as neutral (I use pip decks). Suddenly the whoooole thing clicked into place and the following table of correspondences emerged:
Spades - Swords - Air - Masc. - Neg
Hearts - Cups - Water - Fem. - Pos
Clubs - Batons - Fire - Masc. - Neg
Diams. - Coins - Earth - Fem. - Pos
Masculine or black cards are bad because air and fire are destructive forces.
Feminine or red cards are good because water and earth are creative forces.
It seems terribly obvious I know but for me this is a major breakthrough - and I understand the tarot better as a result of it as well.
Are there others on here who read playing cards? I'm going through the indexed posts but most of them stop at 2008 or so.
This is also my first post over here in Oracles. Hello!
Dawn