Tarot by HH
Originally by anjo:- I never said the court cards were not important; I believe them to be very important indeed
[/quote] What you said was Well, I was also sick and tired of the court cards, couldn't figure them out, etc
Then one day I had a "revelation": I simply took out the court cards out of all my decks, so now I never read with court cards
[/quote] anjo wrote::- I also believe that tarot is very much based on intuition
There are many tarot readers that look at Thoth and feel
strange, so they avoid bying it, prefering other decks.I simply followed my intuition in this case
[/quote] Many more of us read what Crowley has to say about his deck and base our understanding there
.my experience tells me that to tap into our intuition with the tarot we need more than a deck of cards
I started studying the court cards at the same I studied the minor arcana; however, even though I fully understand their meaning, whenever I saw those cards I was stuck,[/quote] However, that is NOT a fault in the construct of the deck
I didn't know what to say, looked like there was a wall there
I stopped reading with court cards, feeling much better
I don't say it is the best method (far from me having that pretention) but it's the one that works for me
Obviously I'm not saying I will [b]never[/b] do reading with court cards, but for now I love reading without them
And I feel that reading without them is the right thing for me, at least for the time present (of course I understand this doesn't aplly to everybody, that would be ridiculous)
With or without the court cards, the cards will always speak to me, as long as I want (and they want :D ) and as long as I respect them, and I don't see the removal of courts as a disrespect, because it is something that can be reversed (I can always come back to them later)[/quote] Your expereince is different than is mine
I have not found much of anything about the tarot that has not required dedicated study
If I was to build a bridge across the arroyo that runs in front of my house I would not leave out the struts and say that I can come back and add them later
.like the court cards the struts of the bridge are part and parcel of the whole, to leave them out weakens the structure and creates a false sense of understanding and security
My intuition is honed by my intellectual understandings, not necessarily the other way around
How do you concretely and succinctly define tarot?
It's in the cards! HH
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