Reading Tarot for yourself

[lenvdb64]

<< it says you can read the cards for anyone, including yourself>>

Yes - you can indeed do readings for yourself.
I find I get quite accurate readings.

Reading the Tarot is about divination - getting answers from your Soul, which is your Higher / Divine Self.

The closer your are to your SOUL , and the better the channel is, the more accurate the reading will be.

I do a reading for the Year ahead (1 card for each month) to help me gain insight into the year ahead. I normally do this End December or early January.

I do a 3 card reading once or twice a month to give me some insight into what is currently happening, or when I need to make crucial decisions like whether some job offers are sound or bound to end in disaster.

I have occasionally read for some of my friends as well. I do not charge or hope to make money from this.

I do not do the ouija board because I was told it only attracts entities from the lower astral planes. Why go there if I can get good answers and insights from my Divine Self?

[Black Sheep]

What are your thoughts on it? I have a deck of Tarot cards and in the guide book, it says you can read the cards for anyone, including yourself, but to make sure your not being bias when choosing a card, by which I mean reading it and deciding you don't like the message, so you choose one you do like. I thought that was fair. I read them for myself and I just chose the ones I was drawn to, turned them over to see what each one was, not swapping, no cheating and it was a positive reading.

I just wonder because Ouija boards get a bad name and sometimes Tarot do.

I've been reading tarot for my own fun since I was a teen, mostly for personal use as it's a bit voodoo-ish/fringe locally. Funny note; I remember when I first got it, the cashier told me off and scorned me for buying the "devil's toy." I was ridiculed by many a peer and adults how I was opening a doorway to evil. I better know what I'm dealing with, as I may not be able to handle the evil that is let in, or lot's of satan's influence talk. I've also been told similar of meditation, yoga, etc. All of which I also enjoy.

Now, as I've experienced, spirits are all around us, as in swimming in a sea of spiritness, there are many "doors of perception" most of which reside within each of us.

I personally found Tarot to function more as a connection to one's subconscious/inner-self rather than otherness/discarnent or hellish portals;0).

I do think/suspect it helps one get in tune with one's inner guidance system or practice becoming sensitive to one's intuition.

With regards to Ouija, I'm not sure how other's experience Ouija boards, but personally found them to be akin to tarot(including fear jargon/lore). Just push the placket around till you feel a pull to stop, tune out the physical, tune in the extra-senses, all good practice or training your sensitivity. But I grew up with spirits all around me, so I can't blame it on anything outside of myself or a tool, but I can understand the fear a person may hold in such regards.

But like some of the others, I think it's important for you to get a bit of practice reading for yourself before reading for others. Like honing a knife or tuning a guitar, it helps to play for yourself, train your ear to hear when the notes are off, then play for others.

[Pagandell]

[quote=ReSurrection]e all human and we all stumble,and Lord knows I stumble extremelly hard so nobody is perfect. Gods standards are very high and we are all sinfull so nobody is better or worse than the rest. As a Christian ( and especially someone who nearly was a satanist ) it says in the Bibble that God requires us to warn our fellow brethren about all our mistakes so we could keep each other from falling off So it wasnt critisizing when I said we one day will have to give divination up, it was just a friendly looking out for one another.]

Do you think it is fair for you to come on a forum about divination and preach like this
How would you feel if I came onto one of your threads and said how you lot used to burn pagans alive

Love and light.

[Kaimi]

Originally Posted by Pagandell

Do you think it is fair for you to come on a forum about divination and preach like this
How would you feel if I came onto one of your threads and said how you lot used to burn pagans alive

Love and light.

Its just a friendly reminder. ReSurrection has fulfilled his half on the contract this time. dusts his shoulders off work complete. I've got no such marching orders from on high. Hey Resurrection, can you help me with a Christianity question? If magic is specifically against the rules, then why is it priests can use it? I get that its a blessing from the lord. But how is it different exactly from me casting a spell or otherwise manipulating energy?

[Pagandell]

Originally Posted by Kaimi

Its just a friendly reminder. ReSurrection has fulfilled his half on the contract this time. dusts his shoulders off work complete. I've got no such marching orders from on high. Hey Resurrection, can you help me with a Christianity question? If magic is specifically against the rules, then why is it priests can use it? I get that its a blessing from the lord. But how is it different exactly from me casting a spell or otherwise manipulating energy?

I don't see it as manipulating energy, more like going with the flow

[Kaimi]

Originally Posted by Pagandell

I don't see it as manipulating energy, more like going with the flow

Fair to say. But a blessing bestowed is still is directed thing. It really depends what you are doing. For sample. A priest creates holy water by blessing the water. He invokes god and beeches for assistance. Witches do the same process in their spellwork. Reiki or other energy work, even shamanism has a magic component to it. Magic as defined by Scott Cunningham is the manipulation of energy to affect needed change. Its the best broad definition I have come by to this point. My question was why can priests ignore the bible they preach from but everyone else is damned?

And really it was to call attention to the fact that he/she is following mandate when the very establishment doesn't.

[Pagandell]

Originally Posted by Kaimi

Fair to say. But a blessing bestowed is still is directed thing. It really depends what you are doing. For sample. A priest creates holy water by blessing the water. He invokes god and beeches for assistance. Witches do the same process in their spellwork. Reiki or other energy work, even shamanism has a magic component to it. Magic as defined by Scott Cunningham is the manipulation of energy to affect needed change. Its the best broad definition I have come by to this point. My question was why can priests ignore the bible they preach from but everyone else is damned?And really it was to call attention to the fact that he/she is following mandate when the very establishment doesn't.

I know what your saying it's just the word manipulation to do with spiritual stuff
just seems to me not the right word to use

[Kaimi]

Originally Posted by Pagandell

I know what your saying it's just the word manipulation to do with spiritual stuff
just seems to me not the right word to use

understandable and logical. But any time you assert your will to flex you aura, cast a spell, or otherwise draw from one thing and direct to another is to manipulate. I could use other words to say the same thing, but it would just be synonymous with the word manipulate.

[Pagandell]

Originally Posted by Kaimi

understandable and logical. But any time you assert your will to flex you aura, cast a spell, or otherwise draw from one thing and direct to another is to manipulate. I could use other words to say the same thing, but it would just be synonymous with the word manipulate.

O'k I can get that but I think the main thing is I know what you are saying and hopefully thus you may understand me.

[Kaimi]

I would invite you to explain to me. I would like to say yes I understand, and I thought I did a few moments ago, but maybe I'm not so sure. You have my ear.