Hello sun children and merry meet :)
How are you doing thes days and I hope all of you are doing great. I hope you have a peaceful celebration with the Easter, if you celebrate it.
Today's blogpost are reposting a post I did before Christmas/Yule and I want to post it again :)
As
a tarot reader you hear a lot of myths about tarot from a lot people. I
want to burst some of these myths - Some of these have I heard myself
and others I came across on the internet.
1. Tarot can "see" the future?
-well, no.. you can't see the future. There is some people who are more intuitive than others and use their gift. Like i have said throughout in this blog post, You are the boss over your destiny, nothing is set in stone and you have a free will.
2. Tarot can reveal someones feelings
- Only if this was true... you can not see someone feelings in the cards.
3. The cards is powerful?
-
No, the cards do not have powers at all. Tarot is only 78 cards of
paper which happend to have pretty art on them. The beholder of the
power is YOU. You have the power to do the changes in your life, the
cards can't do that for you.
On the other side you can have powerful tarot reading through the messages - because you get messages that you need to hear.
4. You can only use a tarot deck that has been given to you?
-No,
no, no this is an old folklore that says you can't buy you own decks.
In these days, you can buy you own decks, you can borrow decks, you can
gift a deck if you like :)
I can understand why myths like
this comes from because way back in the day Tarot was very expensive
and it for those with money and power who could afford tarot decks. I
don't remember who said it, but when Visconti family had their Tarot
deck made due to the marriage between Maria Visconti and Franscisco
Szorfa, the tarot was given as a party gift. Price of a Tarot in those
days was equal to a Ipad is today
5. Tarot is witch craft/it is magickal/devil's work?
-And
again no.. there is people who say this to scare people and unfortunaly
some of you are easily scared. Some witches uses tarot cards (not every
one who reads tarot are witches!), Tarot decks is not magickal before
the owner says it is (see question #3), and the devil is not real (in my
opinion).
There are people who want you to believe that
the church banned the Tarot because it is "evil". The church was
against alot of card plays and dices an all that good stuff because it
was seen as gambling. Anything like this you can win money off was seen
as a bad thing.
6. You have be a psychic to be tarot reader?
-
No, everyone can learn how to read cards. It is all about remember the
cards meaning. You don't have to be a spiritual person either. There are
people wo are psychic readers and who are very intuitive. I am not a
psychic reader.
7. You are doomed on what the cards says?
-
No, We human have something called free will and nothing is set in
stones. And you are arein charge og your own destiny. On every
actions/choices we make throughout the day always have a consequence..
good or bad. If you come across a reader which gives you a reader and
he/she tells you the reading is set in stone... Lose their respect and
walk away.
8. You have to wrap the cards in silk?
-
It is YOUR deck(s) so you want with them, if you want wrap them up with
silk, go ahead.. you can even have them in bags out of cloth if you
like, nylon, wooden box or the box they came in... or you can store them
like they is on the shelf.
9. You shall not give yourself a reading?
-Why
not? When your are a beginner, you have to start somewhere.. it is
natrual to start with youself.. daily draw and such. I know it can be
difficult and it is easy to lay a new spread if you are not agreeing
with the cards. It is easy to reshuffle till you find those cards which
tells you what you want to hear.
10. There are only one way to read the card?
-If
this was true it would be so simple to learn the cards. Another thing
would be that it would be extremly boring if there was only one way to
read the cards. It is like if you have been to one reader then you have
to all readers...
11. You are the only one who can touch the cards?
- No. this is false. However there
are readers who prefer that the client don't touch the cards.. You may
have readers who want to include the client in this reading... then you
may have the clients who don't want to be included by touching the
cards.
12. Death means that someone is going to die?
- Most often
this is not true.. Death means change, transformation, one door closes
and another door opens.. very very rarly it mean someone is going to
die.That has happend to me once in all of the years of tarot reading.
14. You have to do a ritual before you do a reading?
-no,
You do what feel natrual to you, If you want to light some tea ligt,
burn some inscense, use a tablecloth that Great grandmother used the she
had the family over for sunder dinners.. You do what represent you.
15. Tarot is always right?
-I wish this was so true sometimes because it would mean that I would have been millionaire by now ;)
16. The age of tarot?
-Tarot has been rumored to be as old as the pyramids and connected to
Egypt but there is no solid fact for that. This rumor seems to have
begun along with the first mention of Tarot as a mystical tool by
Antoine Court de Gebelin. De Gebelin was a French occultist who linked
Tarot to ancient Egypt in his book published in 1781. Many other major
influences in Tarot also followed de Gebelin. This included names like
Eliphas Levi, Arthur Edward Waite and even Aleister Crowley. There
simply is no factual basis to this thought. There is evidence of cards
being used for divination as early as 1540 in a book called The Oracles
of Francesco Marcolino da Forli. And Casanova noted in his infamous
diary that his Russian mistress often did divination with a deck of
playing cards.
What we do know is that the first deck can be traced to Italy in
the
15th century. Between 1410 and 1430 in Milan, Ferrera or Bologna. This
first deck was when an artist added trump cards, "carte de trionfi" or
"triumph cards"
featuring faces of the Visconti and Sforza families as a wedding gift.
This answer is taken from tarot myths by Arwen Lynch and you can find
the post
here.
17. Pregnant women shall NOT have a reading
-False,
but I do understand that might be a stressful setting while you are
pregnant and the tarot reader should be concerned and so calm and
relaxed as possible so the mother to be is not stressed, is the mother
stressed so will the child.
18. Every reversed cards are negative?
- No, negative cards isn't always negative or positive cards isn't always positive - up right or reversed
19. You can not trust anyone who read tarot
-why not?
20. The cards are dangerous, you can "lose you marbles"
-
I have heard this few years ago, but no. I was talking to someone and
he told me that his sister (or sister-in-law) was to a tarot reader and
she wasn't the same afterwards and she needed serious help by the
proffesionals... I am so tempted to let the bitch in me come out and say
that she had lost her marbles long before she visited a tarot reader.
Blessed be and merry see,
Susann
Todays challenge is about decks you want to work more with. I am doing two blogs in one because they goes together,
