Tarot Tips: Memorizing Tarot Card Meanings -- Right or Wrong?
Published: Fri, 02/01/19
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http://TarotSchool.com ISSN: 1529-0565 Vol. 11 #2 / February 1, 2019
In this Issue: - Welcome
- Tarot Tip: Memorizing Tarot Card Meanings – Right or Wrong?
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MEMORIZING CARD MEANINGS:
RIGHT OR WRONG? In spite of the numerous techniques for learning tarot card meanings, there is a growing opposition to memorizing them. Is it really beneficial to not bother with committing meanings to memory? Does dismissing traditional card meanings actually shortchange the tarot learning experience? Would not memorizing meanings be a helpful springboard in the short term for developing significant personal interpretations? Before throwing the baby out with the bath water on either approach to learning card meanings, let’s take a look at the importance of human memory in the learning process. Memory as a process is associated with and essential to learning. It comes in two basic forms, long-term and short-term. Long term memory depends on information that is continuously repeated and reviewed, increasing the likelihood of it being retained long-term. The more one memorizes this way the more one can learn over time. In contrast, short-term or working memory works best for short-term recall and would not be an efficient way to process a large quantity of information such as 78 complex tarot card meanings. Short-term memory has a limited capacity to store information. If you look through a tarot deck once, it is virtually impossible to describe the cards in detail. But when you look at the cards over a long period of time, you’ll be able to commit the images to long-term memory, and thus be able to recall what you learned about the card. Those of you who came of age before the invention of smart phones had to remember telephone numbers. As a matter of fact, there was a time when people remembered more than 8 or 9 seven-digit phone numbers. Nowadays, since calling someone just means touching their names on a LCD screen, the days of remembering a person’s telephone number are fading. Will remembering what The Sun card means share the same fate? Now let’s talk about intuition. In some camps, it is believed that memorizing card meanings inhibits intuitive guidance during a reading. What is rarely considered in these camps is the understanding that what we call intuition is the process of accessing information that we have stored subconsciously in the symbolic form that gives card imagery its meaning. Tarot is like a unique language, and anyone who has ever studied a foreign language knows that you have to commit its sounds and glyphs to memory to learn, understand, and eventually become fluent in it. The practice of memorizing card meanings is by itself neither right nor wrong. Its value depends on the individual, and their ability to store information, recall it from memory, and absorb and utilize it. Exercise: Take your favorite tarot deck and quietly shuffle without looking at the cards. With eyes closed, choose one card from your deck and place it with the backside of the card facing up. Put the rest of the deck on the table for later. Take your dominant hand and place it a few inches above the card. Keep your hand hovering for 30 to 60 seconds (or longer) until you begin to receive psychic impressions. Open your eyes. Before turning the card over, jot down your perceptions, interpretations or meanings. Turn the card over and look at the card for about 30 seconds and quickly write down any other perceptions from viewing the card. Next, pick up two or three of your favorite tarot books and look up the interpretations or meanings given by the book’s author for the card you chose. Note any similarity or difference in interpretations or meanings. If you have previously read these books, was any meaning you came up with in this exercise close to what was in the book? Put this card aside, and repeat the exercise with another card. Continue in this way until you have done the exercise with every card in the deck. It will take time, but your effort and patience will be amply rewarded. 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I'm working on the layout now, so please check the link below for all the details and let me know asap. ✨🔮✨ Ruth Ann http://tarotschool.com/RS19/advertising.html Diviner's Corner GUIDES –– TEACHERS OF ALL REALMS ![]() A highly evolved teacher offering guidance, advice, psychic information or other inaccessible knowledge has long been associated with the etheric realm or with disembodied beings. These guides are thought to have a vibration or awareness above the physical realm, whose presence can be perceived by those who have a highly developed sensory awareness such as psychic or clairvoyant abilities. Guides are disembodied spiritual entities who offer assistance in healing and protection, act as gatekeepers between realms, teach lessons, and help in other kinds of spiritual development. Guides communicate directly or indirectly through visions, dreams, impressions, symbols or channeling. People on individual spiritual paths can connect with their personal guides through meditation, prayer, visualization exercises or by seeking omens. In some cases, groups or communities have guides devoted to specific purposes or causes. In almost all cases of spiritual guides, there is a perspective that these intelligences or beings have existed on earth at one time and have evolved past the present human experience and have agreed to help those in this realm evolve to the next stage of their existence. Resources: • Gabby Bernstein's recent blog post has some great tips for getting to know your own spirit guides! 10 Simple and Beautiful Ways to Connect with Your Spirit Guides • Type "Spirit Guides" into the Pinterest search bar for tons more great resources! We’d love your suggestion or submissions for this column! If you have an idea or would love to contribute, please contact us at [email protected]. Best Practices for Professional Readers LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! By Gina Thies www.tarotadvisor.com / www.facebook.com/tarotreaders www.tarotcoupling.com / www.oraclesoup.org Choosing the right location for your small business will be one of the most important decisions you’ll make as a business owner. Also, knowing when to branch out or relocate will be something to come to terms with, too. The locale from which you operate can make or break your business success. More often than not, as a sole proprietor, you’ll work from a home-based locale, and through an e-business or website rather than from a traditional brick and mortar location. Yet some tarot professionals want or need to keep their business and personal lives separate, and so they choose to have and operate from an office away from home. What is right for you is what is right for you. The first thing to consider is where you live and to research any local ordinances or regulations regarding the type of work that you do such as fortune-telling laws. You’ll need to decide what your business type is or will be. For example, will you be only providing readings or will you want to expand into retail, offering items for sale, etc.? Then you’ll need to find out where you’d best serve your clientele. The character of the neighborhood or the community in which you will operate is as important as your personal preference. Your clients’ access to you and their transportation may need to be considered, but not so much if you are providing reading services by phone or video. If many of your clients are already coming to you from within a 10 mile radius of your location, why would you move 30 miles away because the rent is cheaper? Would it make sense to move to a location where the locals and the community could support your business financially rather than a deteriorating neighborhood? Is it better for you in terms of your taxes to maintain a home office? What about your future expansion? You’ll want to think about location for your potential growth or other services you might offer in the future. If you are considering a storefront or office outside or your home or already have an office space and want to move, consider how well the next place you rent meets important needs such as great parking and great traffic, both vehicular and pedestrian. You’ll also want to be in a location where there are compatible businesses such as yoga studios, specialty boutiques and art districts. When planning to choose a location, pick an area that resonates with who you are and visit and talk to other business owners in the same area about trends and the pros and cons of investing in the area as a tenant. Cool Tarot Storage Solution HAMMER & NAIL WOODWORKS ![]() The ultimate in luxury tarot storage! ![]() Forest Hills, New York
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