Tarot by Mysti
previously by bluemoon:- would you be so kind as to explain what is meant by ill-aspected or poorly aspected? Is that reversed? Or is it appearing in a spread with what Joan Bunning calls "opposing cards"?* Or something else? [/quote] I agree with Happy's response
About Joan Bunning's theory of "opposing cards", yes that would be one way of determining how the cards are aspected in relationship to each other
In her system, some cards support and validate each others energies and some weaken or block each others energies
I did take Joans Course last year, but I don't use her system of opposing cards
One of the things I use is the system of elements to determine that, along with pairs, positions, and other little signals
For instance: Fire needs Air to burn, Air fans the Fire and makes it burn more brightly
therefore they are compatible and strengthen each other
Water drowns Fire, Fire turns Water to steam
therefore they weaken or block each other
Earth contains water, Water replenishes Earth
therefore they are compatible
and some even say neutral
Fire Scorches Earth, Earth smothers Fire
therefore they are incompatible and weaken each other
Air and Earth are Neutral
(I learned this system from a woman who read Tarot and tealeaves when I was a young woman, and it always stuck in my mind
) There are other elemental systems
not just this one
There are other issues as well
Like are the suits balanced or not? Are there a lot of Majors? Are there no Majors? Is any element not represented? Are their pairs and triplets, or even four of a number card? I think we all come upon what works for us, and we learn to see it in our spreads
Sometimes it just jumps out at us
For a little more information, go [url=http://www.nodntap.net/tarot/eds/elemental_spheres.shtml]here
[/url] Unless he's changed something, his system and the one I learned are not quite the same
but it gives you an idea of how it works
You can probably find many sites with information of the elemental aspects by doing a google search
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