A Tarot flaw in divination?
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"Do what Thou Wilt!"
I have a question about the method used in divination. It seems to me to be a flaw that as you lay each card down within a spread, each position after the first is drawing from a more and more incomplete deck. In other words, its impossible to draw the same card (answer) twice. With the fool card already taken in position "what crosses you", you couldn't have it as a response then in "the outcome" as well. Shouldn't each position be able to draw from a complete deck, as you may do by drawing a single card at a time, noting, then replacing? Just always been curious about this and would be grateful for your opinion or explaination. Thank you!
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It sounds like your doing the Celtic Cross spread?
If you use the 'Opening of the Keys' spread, then you open up the possibility to count forward and backward over the same card multiple times. It's far too tricky a spread for me to explain if you arn't familiar with it, but there are some good web sites and videos online with examples. I still haven't mastered it, but it's definitely my prefered spread for anything beyond very simple answers and meditation.
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@Daegal said
"I have a question about the method used in divination. It seems to me to be a flaw that as you lay each card down within a spread, each position after the first is drawing from a more and more incomplete deck. In other words, its impossible to draw the same card (answer) twice. With the fool card already taken in position "what crosses you", you couldn't have it as a response then in "the outcome" as well. Shouldn't each position be able to draw from a complete deck, as you may do by drawing a single card at a time, noting, then replacing? Just always been curious about this and would be grateful for your opinion or explaination. Thank you!"
This seems to me an exact match for how life and the universe work. Each step particularizes the course of one's journey to some extent.
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@RhiH said
"It sounds like your doing the Celtic Cross spread?
If you use the 'Opening of the Keys' spread, then you open up the possibility to count forward and backward over the same card multiple times. It's far too tricky a spread for me to explain if you arn't familiar with it, but there are some good web sites and videos online with examples. I still haven't mastered it, but it's definitely my prefered spread for anything beyond very simple answers and meditation."
Thank you, yes I do about the opening, but I was simply using an example of one of the methods I saw as a problem. Although I will add that even in the counting, again its limited. A card couldn't be in all positions.
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@Jim Eshelman said
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@Daegal said
"I have a question about the method used in divination. It seems to me to be a flaw that as you lay each card down within a spread, each position after the first is drawing from a more and more incomplete deck. In other words, its impossible to draw the same card (answer) twice. With the fool card already taken in position "what crosses you", you couldn't have it as a response then in "the outcome" as well. Shouldn't each position be able to draw from a complete deck, as you may do by drawing a single card at a time, noting, then replacing? Just always been curious about this and would be grateful for your opinion or explaination. Thank you!"This seems to me an exact match for how life and the universe work. Each step particularizes the course of one's journey to some extent."
Thank you Jim. I think I understand. Do you mean that every choice or action taken excluded a whole set of other possibilities?
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Yes. (And opened others.)