Welcome to my lair

I've had blogs off and on over the years, but nothing I've ever really kept up or held onto. However, on this early Tuesday morn, I cannot sleep, so I thought I would try my hand at it once more.

One of my interests is Tarot, and for a number of reasons. 1) I like the cards. I have a Gilded Tarot deck that is absolutely gorgeous, but of course, I am in search of the perfect dragon tarot deck. Why use cards you don't enjoy looking at? 2) It's instructional. I don't believe it's necessarily magic, or fortune telling. What I do believe is that it's a tool that helps you think about things in perhaps a different way than you have been. It's a focus, and a guide. But I'm no expert so feel free to think I'm full of it. 3) I enjoy it. As with the appearance of the cards, if you don't enjoy them you probably shouldn't be using them.

So, why do I bring this up? I've been working on my tarot skills this evening after a goodly amount of time away from the cards. I decided to try out a single card reading. It turned into 3 single card readings, so I guess it would technically be a 3 card reading at this point. I had a subject, the next step, and the obstacle. It's stuck in my mind. I'll not share it here, but I keep a journal of my readings and I wrote it all there. The journal is just for me, a way to keep track of what I read and what actually transpires. Again, it's not so much prediction as it is keeping track of my thought processes at the time, the choices as I see them before me, and the outcomes of those choices. The actual exercise I was working on is intuitive readings, which is fantastic for me because I'm not an expert in the "actual" meanings of the cards. With intuitive readings, it's what the reader gets out of the individual card. My other attempts at readings have been complicated spreads using the traditional meanings, and to be perfectly frank, I don't think I was very good at it. This intuitive reading, though, feels real. I shall practice this more and see if I continue to feel this way about the readings, or if this is a fluke.