Reading Tarot
Mar. 9th, 2023 07:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo Ailz had promised to read Tarot for a couple of our elderly Quaker gents. I went along to assist. I don't like doing it but once I start I get drawn in and energised. The important thing- which requires a measure of self-control- not my strong suit- is to stay objective and hold back from offering "good advice".
A Tarot spread reflects the present moment in the querent's life. It doesn't predict, though it may indicate that- if things remain unchanged- such and such is a likely outcome. All Time being one Time, it may also foreshadow coming events- as they loom up- like rocks or icebergs- on a misty voyage...
There is no morality in Tarot- no judgement- no sense of one choice being better than another. All that interpretive work is up to the reader and the querent. Tarot just says "This is..."
Ailz chose to use the Mythic Tarot- which draws its imagery from Greek mythology. I find it easy to read because I marinated myself in Greek mythology as a kid.
A Tarot spread reflects the present moment in the querent's life. It doesn't predict, though it may indicate that- if things remain unchanged- such and such is a likely outcome. All Time being one Time, it may also foreshadow coming events- as they loom up- like rocks or icebergs- on a misty voyage...
There is no morality in Tarot- no judgement- no sense of one choice being better than another. All that interpretive work is up to the reader and the querent. Tarot just says "This is..."
Ailz chose to use the Mythic Tarot- which draws its imagery from Greek mythology. I find it easy to read because I marinated myself in Greek mythology as a kid.
