18:29 Mar 24 2020
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A couple times LordMogy has looked up cards I have posted to add other things he's learned from different interpretations on various websites out there. There are different ways to look at things, but at the root, there are the same truths. How we reconcile those truths with our questions and choose to look at the scenario can foster a very different reading depending on how one views things in general.
In the world of Tarot, personalities are just as vast as in any other circle. Just because a person reads and collects cards, it doesn't mean you can introduce them to another friend of yours who does the same and expect them to have much of anything else in common. Sometimes the differences aren't that wide, but I am just putting that out there so people realize it's a big old community with diverse thought.
In this community, there are people who hate certain decks, say certain decks shouldn't be used at all, or even fear of some. Many people despise the Rider Waite imagery because of it's deep Judeo-Christian influence and symbology. I don't mind that, but at times in my life certain cards just seemed too scary. Even though I know the Death card doesn't necessarily mean anyone is going to die- no one wants the Grim Reaper to pop up. I mean, not most people, lol...
With that card in mind, many deck creators have put out different cards that depict the end/change/new beginning in other ways that are less jarring to see pop up in a reading. While that is good for a lot of people, traditionalists can find it to be unhealthy to sugar-coat. Many people think you need to see hard things in order to get your shit together. Whereas anxiety-ridden type people want to use cards to get through their challenges without being triggered further. Like the good Libra I am, I fall in between these schools of thought. I have darker decks and lighter decks. I pick different ones depending on my mood.
Furthermore, people just view certain cards differently. It's not uncommon hear someone say, "I don't read it that way." I was just recently talking to a friend on Facebook about pulling The Tower card in a one card reading asking, "Is everything going to be okay" in regards to what's happening in the world right now. I mentioned how seeing that imagery freaked me out for a moment, until I remembered that it's just a shakeup and an opportunity for anew. A breaking down and a rebuilding- very much like the Death card. I mean, they can be interpreted the very same way depending on what the question is. The idea of The Tower for her gives no room for anything good to come of it, she stated, "I view the DEATH card as a shake up and a new beginning. The Tower is just... unmitigated screaming of no more wire hangers. While on fire. And falling into the bog of eternal stench. Lol" I personally refuse to read Tarot in that way. Not for me, and not for anyone else (If I were to read for other people, which I don't). I believe that we need to know we are all in control of our lives, that we can choose to make the changes necessary to turn the wheels of life in the direction we need them to go. So any perceived negative card is always going to show me what that challenge brings to my life in a positive sense. I can see it in Death, The Tower, the Ten of Swords, the Five of Pentacles, you name it. You shouldn't read your cards or have them read by someone else and feel at the end, "I'm fucked." We all know if our lives are going through a slump, and we may not want to hear that something we want isn't going to work out- but what we *need* to know is that we don't have to stay there... and that disappointment doesn't mean that's what life is period without change.
Shit's being disrupted here. Maybe it's downright falling apart. But people are resilient. We REBUILD.
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