> Tarot is reserved only for
> people with special powers...
false. Tarot is for all.
> and they - they have to train for months.
nonsense. anybody can make and use a Tarot
deck, and they don't have to be trained by
anyone. I recommend Plebeian standards of
course, in tune the number of your culture
(mine is English, 26) and your species
(mine is decadic -- 10^2 + Fool).
the Book of Thoth should not be the program
of some alien or imperialistic mind-invader,
any socio-occultic dominator. cultists are
promulgating their Thelemic standards as
we speak. Tarot marketeers are promoting
their preferred format and content for the
Tahutian Tablet or explaining how it is,
itself, but a facile toy to be played with by
psychic athletes and superheroic theurgists.
they know little of the Oracle Book and its
glories beyond fancy shmancy brainforces.
> The sad thing is that this approach is
> simply not TRUE!
agreed, then why do you bother to introduce
it? you think developing mutant superpowers
to manipulate puny arcane baubles such as
this once-game wannabe transcends literati-
worship by encouraging intuitive impulses
and apperceptions? could be.
> There is an Easy way to learn Tarot.
get the ones with the words written on the
cards so that
1 there is something easy to read
2 its meaning will be clear
even if the picture is contrived,
rotten, or completely unrelated
to the actual meaning of the
card in question. the Trumps
were part of a good trend. the
sybilline naming of every one
of their cartomancy deck's
members by key term is brilliant
and picked up on by occultists.
> When people try to read the cards,
> they usually buy these big books
no, usually they play around with a
deck and its LWB first and then look
online at less costly systemic expressions
(they may not all be as bookish as you).
> which contain hundreds of pages filled
> with information,
some of them (say, Eden Gray, or even
Waite), contain 100 or so barely written
on leaflets for memory's sake and a brief
description of history and lore and a
layout or two.
> and when they try to read they don't
> remember the cards meanings, they get
> confused - blame the cards for being
> inaccurate only to finally give up!
perhaps they aren't cut out for it.
maybe if the Book of Thoth were more
precisely and concisely constructed,
they would neither have confusion or
superciliousness to contend with.
> Don't let this happen to you!
spend more time considering how the
imagery matches up with the cards
and why, what the meaning and purpose
of the Thothbook might be, before
solidifying one's mind about a quite
specific instance of Tarotic artisanry.
you can do worse than to use index
stock paper and provide them with
numbers and letters, write all over
them the symbolism which seems to
be associated with your preferred
decks and how this stands up to
any proposed tasks for using it.
reading isn't everything after all.
> You can do your first reading
> within 1 hour.
you can do it in about 2 minutes.
readings only take a single card,
and they can be drawn quickly with
but a cut or shuffle and a selection.
> Tarot is not about learning from
> books,
it might be, especially if what is
in books pertains somehow to the
cards that one is going to use for
the reading or whatever else one
does with them. especially if the
cards *are* a book somehow.
> it's about connecting to your
> hidden inner powers.
some seem to have perceptive gifts.
> The powers that lie within us all.
hopeful. nothing supernatural.
> You just need to learn how to
> take the first step in this
> amazing new journey!
yes, playing with chiaroscuros,
blobby puzzles, encyclopediae of
symbolism, and tarotic artform.
don't let the psychics treat our
precious and refined instruments
of occult power like push-toys,
as if the content of the Oracle
might just as well be any old Yi,
or tomorrow's Ouijapoly features
rewards for telekinetically
controlling the dice to improve
one's position. the Book of Thoth
deserves more respect than to be
treated as just any old planchette.
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