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sjm1986:

--- Quote from: Love2lovenj on January 11, 2019, 11:53:23 PM ---Ok when your learning the tarot the first listing is the standard correlation between the signs and the cards.  All that other stuff is way over my head.  Just wanted to know if there were other common cards for each sign that highly used.

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That's the problem though is that there is no "standard". Even each deck will have variations. They could all be Rider Waite but even from one artist to the next, it'll be a different interpretation. Since you're first learning, it might help to just decide what you want them to mean. Either by how they "feel" to you, or by your write up on this post. It's completely your own thing. The universe will show you things according to your own understanding, for the most part. It's kind of like how in different countries and different continents, people have seen various apparitions or they have a different religious symbol for certain things but the concept that these apparitions and symbols convey is the exact same thing. The universe or God gives them the symbol how they would understand it. Example is the Christian cross. 2000 years ago and also during the age of the empire, it was literally a torture device. People were usually hung on them upside down but they hung Jesus right side up so he'd die slower. If you were to show a symbol of a cross to anyone in that time, it would go over very differently than it does now. But if you tried to explain to them why it was a symbol of hope and protection to you, you'd need to pretty much tell them the entire Bible to get the message across in the way you interpret it.

It's the same thing with the cards. Their meant to be messages and you can pre define to the universe that these are your interpretations of each card. As things progress, you'll vary your interpretations and things will start to feel a certain way instead of just being a "code" of sorts. My mother read Tarot but she was so amazing, she could read anything. I mean anything. The weirdest thing was a computer keyboard. Her eyes would scan it and letters would pop out to her. She read playing cards and tea leaves and all sorts of things. There's no standard set up for how to read a computer keyboard lol. So she would just associate certain things with certain ideas and it didn't make sense to anyone else because it didn't have to. She taught me how to make my own deck when I was a kid and I still have it, although it doesn't really give me any useful information anymore lol. But that deck was actually very accurate. I used it for yes/no and I used it to figure out what I was getting for Christmas. I also used it to see what I'd be when I grew up. I used "ideas" on each card like "fun", "school", "music", "puppy", "kitty", etc. and BTW, puppy and kitty felt different to me so they would be read differently by someone else I'm sure. Anyway, that deck worked for me. So to make it as simple as possible to start out, you can just say this is what these cards mean to me right now. And see how it turns out. If it doesn't make sense, you can come back here and ask others what they think and you can get all sorts of new possibilities about it and one of them might feel more correct.

Mon:
That was an interesting read.


--- Quote from: sjm1986 on January 12, 2019, 12:43:26 AM ---
--- Quote from: Love2lovenj on January 11, 2019, 11:53:23 PM ---Ok when your learning the tarot the first listing is the standard correlation between the signs and the cards.  All that other stuff is way over my head.  Just wanted to know if there were other common cards for each sign that highly used.

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That's the problem though is that there is no "standard". Even each deck will have variations. They could all be Rider Waite but even from one artist to the next, it'll be a different interpretation. Since you're first learning, it might help to just decide what you want them to mean. Either by how they "feel" to you, or by your write up on this post. It's completely your own thing. The universe will show you things according to your own understanding, for the most part. It's kind of like how in different countries and different continents, people have seen various apparitions or they have a different religious symbol for certain things but the concept that these apparitions and symbols convey is the exact same thing. The universe or God gives them the symbol how they would understand it. Example is the Christian cross. 2000 years ago and also during the age of the empire, it was literally a torture device. People were usually hung on them upside down but they hung Jesus right side up so he'd die slower. If you were to show a symbol of a cross to anyone in that time, it would go over very differently than it does now. But if you tried to explain to them why it was a symbol of hope and protection to you, you'd need to pretty much tell them the entire Bible to get the message across in the way you interpret it.

It's the same thing with the cards. Their meant to be messages and you can pre define to the universe that these are your interpretations of each card. As things progress, you'll vary your interpretations and things will start to feel a certain way instead of just being a "code" of sorts. My mother read Tarot but she was so amazing, she could read anything. I mean anything. The weirdest thing was a computer keyboard. Her eyes would scan it and letters would pop out to her. She read playing cards and tea leaves and all sorts of things. There's no standard set up for how to read a computer keyboard lol. So she would just associate certain things with certain ideas and it didn't make sense to anyone else because it didn't have to. She taught me how to make my own deck when I was a kid and I still have it, although it doesn't really give me any useful information anymore lol. But that deck was actually very accurate. I used it for yes/no and I used it to figure out what I was getting for Christmas. I also used it to see what I'd be when I grew up. I used "ideas" on each card like "fun", "school", "music", "puppy", "kitty", etc. and BTW, puppy and kitty felt different to me so they would be read differently by someone else I'm sure. Anyway, that deck worked for me. So to make it as simple as possible to start out, you can just say this is what these cards mean to me right now. And see how it turns out. If it doesn't make sense, you can come back here and ask others what they think and you can get all sorts of new possibilities about it and one of them might feel more correct.

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