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[Storm]

Forgive all my inquiries. I am learning the cards, meanings and such but as for posing questions and interpreting them in different positions I feel like I don't quite get it. But I am trying. Let say someone says..I want a general reading for the next month or two..about relationships, Jobs and family stuff. How do you pose the question to the cards. And if you are using, say, the celtic cross. How do you know what cards apply to what aspect of the card? Or do you look at each card in terms of each aspect, and come up with three diff interpretations?
I am sooooooooo confuseled

[Zaniah]

Readings always come down to intuition for me. Whichever interpretation feels right for that particular reading is what sticks. As for posing the question... I just keep the topic in my head during shuffling.
As for reading for someone else, I have them shuffle with their topic in mind but cut and lay out the cards myself.

Hope I'm helpful!

[motherwisdom]

Greetings to you Storm

I would have to agree with Zaniah, Intuition has alot to do with it, but first take one step at a time. Remember that the cards are telling a story about the person that you are doing the reading for. When I do a reading for someone, I normally will do a seven card spread in the shape of a pryamid. I feel that I get more energy from that shape. Let your intuition take over. What type of feeling are you getting from the lay out? Is it going towards more of the family issue, or job concerns etc. You can do it. The more you practice the layouts the more you will be in tune with want you want.

I hope this helps out somewhat

Good Journey

MotherWisdom

[Storm]

Well I dunno. Everything I have read..and I am tired of reading and want to do...talks about the way to pose questions.

Rather than say "are my boyfriend and I going to stay together"
say "what do I need to do to make this relationship work and be strong?"

You are saying just think in your head..this girl wants to know about the future of her relationship. Right?

Well that's the way I would do it but all this talk about posing the proper questions and posing them properly...well I understand that but the mechanics aren't quite clicking..translating the problem, situation, into the proper question format.

[Dagda Moon~Lily]

Originally posted by Storm
Forgive all my inquiries. I am learning the cards, meanings and such but as for posing questions and interpreting them in different positions I feel like I don't quite get it. But I am trying. Let say someone says..I want a general reading for the next month or two..about relationships, Jobs and family stuff. How do you pose the question to the cards. And if you are using, say, the celtic cross. How do you know what cards apply to what aspect of the card? Or do you look at each card in terms of each aspect, and come up with three diff interpretations?
I am sooooooooo confuseled

In the CC spread, the first two cards (covers and crosses) will tell you the subject of the reading. Say you get a Pentacles for Covers and a Sword for crosses....money problems. Of course it gets more refined than that pending on which Pentacle and which Sword....but you get the idea. ;) From there, the cards just tell a story....each card building on the previous and the next one.



~D

[Witchy Cowgirl]

I've tried doing general readings and I don't really like them. They just seem too....well....general. The first general reading I did was blah. I really got nothing from the reading. The cards just seemed to lay there. That was probably only like my 3rd or 4th reading - and the 1st and only one I've done with my querent present. I've gained some experience since then and the last general reading was much better as far as the results....but it taught me a valuable lesson about Tarot as well.

I'd say it'd be best -espically as a beginner- to narrow the question down. Get your querent to come up with one question. Or narrow it down for them. That will also make it easier to you to pharse the question in your mind. You can always do another reading later for the other issues.:) Just more practice. :)

But if you are gonna do a general reading I'd say you should follow the advise Dagda gave....if you using a Celtic Cross lay-out. Those first two cards should tell you which direction the reading is taking.

Please, ask more questions! It's good for you and its good for me too to try and answer those questions.:D

[singer]

Hi Storm,

I think I know a little bit about this part;

<snip>"Well that's the way I would do it but all this talk about posing the proper questions and posing them properly...well I understand that but the mechanics aren't quite clicking..translating the problem, situation, into the proper question format."<snip>

There is an ethical problem with what tarot readers refer to as "third party" readings. You are only reading for the querant.... not for other people in the querant's life (third parties).

So if someone says their question is "is my boyfriend cheating on me?" you need to re-phrase their question so that it isn't about the third party (the boyfriend), but about them instead.

You would probably re-phrase it to something just like your earlier example. Something like "what does this person need to know about their relationship". It wouldn't even be too much of a stretch to fine tune it to something like "what does this person need to know about their relationship with (name the specific person)", because you are still centering the question on the querant and not on the third party.

You could even fine tune it further... but I generally find that framing a question in terms of what a querant *needs* to know about any given situation is usually enough to provide unbiased guidance.

At this point it is important to let the querant know that you are reading the question as you have rephrased it... and let them know *how* you are rephrasing it (in case they have any objections or additions), and *why* you are rephrasing it... this gets them centered back into what they need to know, and out of what is going on with someone else.

There is a whole section on the ethics of tarot readings at the American Tarot Association's web-site... and you could browse around there if you wanted to...

I think their address is http://www.ata-tarot.com/

Anyway.... if you have done with reading only and you are eager to do... then dive right in... experience is the best teacher anyway. Find out what works for you.

I hope this was a little help...

singer

[Storm]

Singer, yes that help much. Thanks and I will check out the site.
Storm