When working with another, accept whatever the person says at face value, as if it were a small gem. If you feel the person is resisting something, that's okay. That person may not be ready to look at it right now or it will come out at a later point in the reading. (查看原文)
Reader: What should the person in the Five of Cups do next?
Querent: Think about what's been lost.
Reader: No! It's time to stop doing that. You need to pick up the two remaining cups and move on.
Well, the querent just learned, yet again, how disappointingly wrong he is, how he should hang his head in shame (as depicted on the card). This reader, insensitive to the querent, merely looked for a quick fix. What if grieving or contemplating the loss was the best thing the querent could do? This tarot reader negated such a possibility because of a generalized assumption about what the card "should" mean and what would correct a "problem."
It's often assumed that the answers are in the cards and that we, as readers, should point them out. But whose answers? And what if there are no answe... (查看原文)
Tarot readings are based, at least in part, on the assumption that meaning will enable you to predict and control the future, in order to enhance and protect you. To some extent it may do so, but only temporarily. The situation, if not seen for what it is, will come back in the same or different guise. Ultimately, a reading offers the ability to consciously participate in whatever is happening. The alternative, to turn away, will only create more issues and more pain. A reading can be a messenger from the soul, helping you greet whatever frightens or disturbs you. It helps you see how you hold back from the experience and try to escape it. Such escape is the basis of addictions and habits, created originally to protect you but which become limitations, shutting down the spontaneity of the ... (查看原文)
作者: Mary K. Greer isbn: 0738707848 书名: Mary K. Greer's 21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card 页数: 336 定价: USD 17.95 出版社: Llewellyn Publications 装帧: Paperback 出版年: 2006-05-01
