(image from the beautiful artwork of Ciro Marchetti,and taken from his web site:
of which I very much do have my eye on this deck, that I am sure I will get soon, LOL)
Creating connection through the cards
I chose this topic because it
felt interesting to me, and not something you hear about every day. It
felt like a good topic to me. But when I started to really look at it,
there are so many different ways to connect and types of connections
it's just hard to know where to start. :-)
I guess a good place to start is to say
that of course the reader themselves develops a special kind of
connection with their cards/decks. It takes place on many levels.
Pretty much on all levels. The reader is using the cards to connect to
wherever they believe the answers come from. The connection is made
through the cards. And it strengthens and deepens the longer they use
the cards. Being a Tarot reader also creates a deeper and deeper
connection to your intuition, which is an amazing thing when it starts
to really open up.
Although opinions differ on where the answers in readings actually do
come from, and no one knows for sure, the fact that they do come at all
is pretty miraculous in and of itself. And to be able to connect to that
at will, is even more so.
This connection take place on many levels. There is a physical
connection, the touch of the cards and then the way we receive the info
and answers. Some see the answers before them, some hear them, some even
smell them...There is an emotional part of this connection as we need
to use of feelings and intuition to sense what the cards are saying,
There is a mental connection at times, as we know certain things about
how Tarot and the deck we are using work for us personally. And even for
some Tarot can be a connection to the spiritual.
Although readers can connect though the cards to
something powerful and knowledgeable in life, and that in itself IS
amazing, there are other ways of connecting through the cards as well.
There is of course, the connection between the reader and the querent
(person asking the question). The act of having a reading done by a
qualified reader creates that connection between these two people
through the cards.
Ideally this becomes a connection of trust, empathy, caring, honestly,
helpfulness, unselfishness and everything else that a good reading can
and should be. A sense of working together towards a common goal
But besides all this there are many other ways of creating connection
through the cards by the kind of questions we choose to ask.
Tarot IS, after all, a system that can answer any question at all
that we ask of it. I have never seen a question of any type that the
cards could not answer. I have, very rarely though,
seen the cards tell me that they do not want to answer as it is not in
the best interest of the querent to know the answer to the question they
asked. But I have never seen them be unable to answer any type of
question at all.
And that means all we need to do is to
think of what we need to know to build that connection we want to
create (in any area or aspect of our lives) and the cards can tell us.
The cards can be very good at helping to analyse dreams, for example.
There are a number of ways to do that. I tend to take all the symbols of
the dream one by one and ask what they symbolize and what they are
trying to tell us. And then a few cards for the overall message of the
dream. Using the cards to analyse dreams can connect you more to who you
are inside. And help you see and understand things you did not know
where there.
The cards can be used as a tool to connect to life itself more. That is
actually one of my favourite kinds of questions. I love to ask the
questions about how life works, what it means, what it means to be human
being living in the times we are in, about destiny...They create a
deeper understanding of ourselves and the world around us. I think we
all have our questions about life at times. Often I even ask what IS our
connection to life, to the others around us....and/or how to deepen it.
:-)
Then we come to the relationship questions that are so popular in
Tarot. They seem to be one of the most common questions asked of
Tarot readers. Of course the relationships in our lives are right up
there with the most important parts of life. And Tarot does well at
helping understand the others in our lives better, at telling us how to
eliminate blocks between two people, at telling you HOW to get closer to
someone.
Coming next month: More Tarot superstitions
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