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flexibeasti did some tarot readings for myself and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sacred_harlot earlier today. i'm still very much a novice in this regard; and although i'm interested in tarot for its own sake, i also want to use it to develop my intuition, since i'm such an intellectually-oriented person. Ironically, though, i'm getting the feeling that one has to intellectually know the cards and what they represent before one can really start using one's intuition to get a feeling about a spread. If that makes sense. :-) At the moment, i'm trying to interpret individual cards based of my knowledge of where they fit on the Tree of Life1, and then comparing my interpretation with Cannon Reed's booklet of suggested interpretations. It's a rather slow process, and means that i spend much more time on the details, rather than the 'big picture', of the spread; but i regard it as analagous as having to learn at least part of a language's vocabulary before being able to start making sense of sentences in that language. Time will tell whether that's the correct approach. :-)
1. At least in terms of Ellen Cannon Reed's correspondences, which in turn are mostly the same as the Golden Dawn's correspondences.
sacred_harlot earlier today. i'm still very much a novice in this regard; and although i'm interested in tarot for its own sake, i also want to use it to develop my intuition, since i'm such an intellectually-oriented person. Ironically, though, i'm getting the feeling that one has to intellectually know the cards and what they represent before one can really start using one's intuition to get a feeling about a spread. If that makes sense. :-) At the moment, i'm trying to interpret individual cards based of my knowledge of where they fit on the Tree of Life1, and then comparing my interpretation with Cannon Reed's booklet of suggested interpretations. It's a rather slow process, and means that i spend much more time on the details, rather than the 'big picture', of the spread; but i regard it as analagous as having to learn at least part of a language's vocabulary before being able to start making sense of sentences in that language. Time will tell whether that's the correct approach. :-)1. At least in terms of Ellen Cannon Reed's correspondences, which in turn are mostly the same as the Golden Dawn's correspondences.
