card slippage

[PrincessKLS]

Okay so I know that when dealing tarot cards and one slips out, it's supposed to be read but what if you have a whole small deck slip out?

I had that problem today but I have experience shuffling playing and tarot cards so I don't understand.

[TheWomanMonster]

If I have a larger chunk of cards slip out (a quarter of the deck or more) I'll do the same reading with those cards after I finish the first reading.

Or if it is just a few cards that fall at once I interpret that pile for whatever position they were to fall in.

However if I have cards fall from the deck off the table or reading surface I ignore those cards for the reading I am in the process of doing.

[PrincessKLS]

Oh okay interesting. But what would cause such a huge slippage?

[TheWomanMonster]

Oh okay interesting. But what would cause such a huge slippage?

what causes the right cards to be selected in the first place?
depends on your view...

[LadyCelt]

that tends to happen when I think or talk about something. It can be like an extra reading or another reading. Sometimes it is an error, but when it doesn't feel like it, it usually isn't a coincidence they fall.

[PrincessKLS]

On the topic of divination forms, what do you guys think of runes?

[TheWomanMonster]

On the topic of divination forms, what do you guys think of runes?

I find my runes are a wonderful and reliable method of divination.
(made them myself).

but they do take some getting used to.

[Shatril]

anything that falls out of my deck and onto the floor, I just assume isn't to be part of the reading. If one or two fall out on the table I put them as the first positions of the reading. If I drop half the deck, well I pick them up again and consider myself clumsy for a moment.

:rollingla

:hugz: Shatril

[WolfPup522]

anything that falls out of my deck and onto the floor, I just assume isn't to be part of the reading. If one or two fall out on the table I put them as the first positions of the reading. If I drop half the deck, well I pick them up again and consider myself clumsy for a moment.

:rollingla

:hugz: Shatril

That's pretty much what I was going to say! :yayah: I'd had one particular deck for almost 15 years. It's my favorite deck and I use it often. The cards are a little bigger than normal, so even after so much time, I still tend to get clumsy with them. When some fall out of the deck, I really just use my intuition to decide if I'm supposed to read them or if it was just me being clumsy.

[PrincessKLS]

Okay interesting. I was trying to give someone a tarot reading last night and for reason it didn't work out.

[aranarose]

My fingers get stiff and fumble the cards at times. I don't view it as a sign, I just pick the cards up, put them back in the deck, and shuffle again. If the cards are supposed to be read, they'll come up in the spread.

[1111]

Like Aranarose, if I feel it was me, then I don't pay attention. If it needs to be read--then I just know.

I do many times take into account the card at the bottom of the deck if I need additonal information and find that helpful.

[Zephyrstorm]

For myself, if one or two cards fall from the deck during shuffling and the like, then I set them aside, and read them as... something of a footnote to the spread itself.
But I take into consideration whether my hands are achy and stiff, if the cards are slick, and all that, and if its too many cards, I don't do that.

I've referred to those cards that fall as jumpers - and usually I find them to be useful. Mostly they're just things that are on the peripheral that are affecting the question.
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and sometimes, you just aren't feeling up to a reading - you and they aren't meshing well, you just aren't feeling insightful, etc. Everyone has bad nights - when readings just don't quite work the way that they usually do. A friend of mine took a break from her cards for several months, and only recently started up again - not saying that is always a solution, but I think its important to know when you can do a good reading and when you can't for one reason or another.