ITT, I need volunteers. ASK ME ANYTHING!

[Freeky]

So I need volunteers to practice reading tarot for. Also, tips on doing this would be nice, too.

[Telarus]

I'd recommend reading Camden Benares' "Common Sense Tarot". He was a friend of RAW and Greg and Kerry and also wrote "Zen without Zen Masters" which is half a great book about zen, and half a weird book about 'Kerista'-like polyamory theory and sexual revolution propaganda (Kerista was Brother Jedd's sect that invested computerized databases as a technology...yeah invented it... to keep the 'who-sleeping-in-who's-cabin' list on an easy and constant rotation (sex was optional, rotating sleeping arraignment was not optional)).

[Suu]

Lizzie is the woman to ask. She actually does Tarot for her job.

[Shai Hulud]

You should probably learn some cold reading techniques.  Also a little history couldn't hurt, for instance did you know that the "priestess" trump card is based on medieval Cathar (languedoc French peasant) Christianity, which was similar to gnosticism and admitted female priests?  It is still called "the Papess" in Italian tarot decks, I believe.  Little bits of info like that will probably help.

May I ask what you are learning about it for (business/pleasure)?  It will probably help inform the advice if we know your objective.  Also, do you genuinely believe in divination?

[Freeky]

It's for both business and pleasure, and I kind of believe in it.

I just figured the easiest way to learn is do it. It's usually how I learn things.

[Shai Hulud]

That's good, particularly if it's for business purposes it is better that it is not motivated by sheer cynicism.  Conversely, I think the "kind of" is important too.  When you're talking about predicting to future, whether it's tarot or meteorology, I think a little humility is always a good thing.   

I just figured the easiest way to learn is do it. It's usually how I learn things.

I agree, I think this is the only way to go.  Practice, practice, practice.

If you're interested in fortune telling, there are a lot of interesting routes besides tarot.  The I Ching is an interesting one.   Also, Cicero wrote an interesting book about classical divinatory practices.  I wonder if people still read sheep's livers or the flights of birds?

[Salty]

My advice:
Choose a starting place. I suggest starting with Trumps.
Take one trump card each day, look at it, keep it with you, try to pick out as many details as you can, see what makes you identify with it. Writing this stuff down doesn't hurt either.
One card a day.
Read as many different books as you can, a good idea when learning any subject. Take what makes sense to you, try to understand what doesn't, reject the bullshit.

No rush.

[Dysnomia]

Follow your intuition.  Obviously the cards have certain meanings.  But say I pull a card that is traditionally symbolic of marriage.  This could be an actual marriage, or it could be a marriage of ideas, or it could even potentially be a REALLY close friendship.  If you look at a card, and have a thought pop into your head about it.  Follow that.   

Also, sometimes a card has a reversed meaning.  Even if it isn't reversed.  So if you pull something, but are really feeling something else, go with it.

BTW you can do readings on me whenever you want.   

[Requia ☣]

Pull a card, describe what the card means in the vaguest possible terms, let the mark decide what it means.

[Triple Zero]

So I need volunteers to practice reading tarot for. Also, tips on doing this would be nice, too.

OOH OOH I VOLUNTEER


start with an easy question.

ask the cards for me about .. ehm, this afternoon?



ok, now pick some cards and Law of Fives the fuck out of it! GO

[Triple Zero]

I'm getting the Niine of SEE HOW WELL HE HANDLES SCISSORS AFTER YOU SUPERGLUE HIS FINGERS TO THE WALL.

I think that means, you should gently try to talk him out of it.

[Jenne]

Bella and SPS do this for $, so asking them techniques seems a good way to go.  And Lys has been doing it for profit, too.  I think there's a thread somewhere out of Apple Talk with some recent tarot discussion, as well.

My own experience:  just get to know your deck.  Get to know the feeling of it, play with it often.   The suits are pretty important in terms of their general meaning, but the specificity of what each card means according to the cheat-booklet that comes with it, well, not so much (this is what SPS meant by intuition).

Good luck, Freeky, and you can do a reading on me for finanical/job stuff if you want and pm me the results!

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

Bella and SPS do this for $, so asking them techniques seems a good way to go.  And Lys has been doing it for profit, too.  I think there's a thread somewhere out of Apple Talk with some recent tarot discussion, as well.

My own experience:  just get to know your deck.  Get to know the feeling of it, play with it often.   The suits are pretty important in terms of their general meaning, but the specificity of what each card means according to the cheat-booklet that comes with it, well, not so much (this is what SPS meant by intuition).

Good luck, Freeky, and you can do a reading on me for finanical/job stuff if you want and pm me the results!

THIS!

[Dysnomia]

Freeky if you send me a PM I could tell you about where I do readings for teh monay.  It's fairly easy to set up, and it's a great way to make some extra cash.  Bella makes her full living off of it I believe. 

[BabylonHoruv]

My question for you.  How are things looking for my wife's project?

Feel free to post the cards you pulled in thread and your reading of them.