Another month of TdM readings is upon us! Sign ups for November are open until November 7th and I do hope you will consider joining us. We are various levels of TdM Reading skill from, just learning to near expert, and welcome TdM lovers in all phases of development. The circle has room to grow.
This month I thought we could continue our experiment of reading in a cartomantic line, using visual clues like line-of-sight and the stories the images tell. I feel like I need to define with greater precision what it is to read a line in the cartomantic style. And I am going to start by stating what it is not. Reading in a line is not your standard three card spread. This form of reading will not have the customary “body, mind, spirit’ or “past, present, future” sort of position assignment. Instead, the goal is to read the cards all together. In doing so, we hope to discover a clear, unified message.
The message of the cartomantic line can be a sentence, a story, or even just a single word. Or, it might be something else entirely. Sometimes it will come from the tarot's optical language and sometime's it might come the tarot's numerical and symbolic structure. Sometimes we read from the center outward. Sometimes we read from the outer cards to the central cards. When reading five card lines, we may use the first three cards as how the situation developed, the last three as an indicator of where the situation is going and draw an additional card as guidance. If there are characters in the cards, we might look at what they are doing with their hands, the directions they are looking and what they tell us within the context of the question.
This process seems least intimidating for those who are just starting although it may be fun to add “challenge” levels later for those who are interested. Please feel to ask questions if any of this is not clear.
We will remain with majors only. Who’s in?
Victoria
