For the diviners here, I'm curious as to how you got started. Was there a significant experience you had that made you interested? I'm sure s couple of you have some good stories.
No significant experience, per se. I moved in with some room mates. They did tarot and I got a deck from then. I really didn't use it much and they didn't really explain the mechanics of how or why and I only got a limited personal interpretation of the meanings (not even the archetypes).
Nonetheless I started bumbling through it, doing scattered readings on myself, mostly not understanding anything what so ever for several years. Over this time I learned the (quantum) mechanics of how and why tarot (and scrying/divining in general) works. At least now I had little reason to doubt the veracity of what I was reading, even if it still made little or no sense.
As I learned more about esotercisim, the elements, what they meant, symbolized, and how they felt (on an energy level) and what they governed and how, astrology, myth, lore, I started getting more insight into really what was being represented. I started to actually be able to work with them and understand some of what I was seeing. Because sheer amount of information that is possible to be represented in them I personally feel even calling my self a tarot adept is not modest enough.
Furthermore due to my QM insight, I could also use them in other ways than in just their traditional use by temporarily casting/laying out a new framework or archetypes upon them and reading it. I do this somewhat often for questions either, beyond (my knowing of) the classic system or for one's that do not fit will within it well (yes/no, numerical, etc.).
Fundamentally the way I see reality is probability waves. Scrying allows me to cast my will unto it, beyond the veil of knowingness, into the universal intelligence. Through this I am able get information back according to the system I cast it out with. But there is so much more to it, this probabilistic underpinning of reality supports all magic. Every corpuscle of reality is just waiting for consciousness to nudge, effect, or take direct control of it. Our purpose as mystics is to awaken to this in it's full glory, in all aspects and ways, to become intimately joined in consciousness union with all.
NewHelp 2016-01-30 20:30:00 No.114
I started out of curiosity mostly... but i cant remember the exact reason. Is even funny since divination has become a thing that occupies a part of my toughs every day, ever since.
When i started with Tarot, i only tried using a part of de Deck (only Major Arcana), To my surprise i got creepily accurate result my first readings, wich ofcurse got me more hooked up to the practice.
After a while i started using the rest of the deck, reading books, doing reversals and different spreads. Again i have had my ups and downs with divination.... Most of the time i get good or decent results, but some times i get exceptional readings.
The exceptional readings dont feel at all like the rest, i get a feeling that i actually know what i am talking about (not just interpreting) and soon i would get lost in the cards and in my words. They always tell the truth in a creepily accurate manner.
again the more i learn the harder it gets, but i wil keep practicing anyways :)
khru !/49HvHXCOk 2016-01-30 20:45:22 No.118
My sister and a friend of hers had a tarot deck. I was interested then (years and years ago).
Never did anything though. A few months ago, I moved to a yoga retreat center, got an oracle card reading from a person who I'd be friends with later,
[found out psychic phenomena were real when someone called me out on doing something negative, then my life got flip-turned upside down, I was in space/astral a lot (though I didn't see it) and totally ungrounded a lot, drawn out of my body because of someone's dislike from me until I psychically told her to stop/moved the energy to the heart center]
played with her deck, ordered my own later.
Got along well with the person who disliked me later on, channeled her angels/guides to give her a reading, though I didn't have m/any doubt lingering, that would have dispelled them as I felt the guidance of feeling "unable" (could have forced it) to pick up cards that I shouldn't, and guided to pick up ones I should.
Found out that doing that is draining... energetically?
I don't know what I do now, lol.
I just sort of focus on a person's energy signature, [not always consciously] ask for higher self to guide the reading.
khru !/49HvHXCOk 2016-01-30 20:47:29 No.119
I interpret based on intuition/what makes sense.
It tends to work out ok. I am pretty new, not sure what to do to get better other than read more and figure out energy (which I wasn't able to feel well until about a month ish ago when I got reiki attuned, and am still up and down about it/unaware of what different vibes mean, even if I can sense them)
Alright, well those who came here with me from the other place might know my story, but I'll tell it anyway.
I used to be engaged to the most gifted tarot reader I've ever met. She never bothered to study or practice, but she could see the future with three cards, falling into some sort of trance by staring at them, and she just talked for like ten minutes, all pure truth.
Now, when we were splitting up, I decided to reverse-engineer it. You see, I've been into occult things for about 13 years now, and horizontal psionic transfer was one of my latest projects at the time. The whole point of this was to make her abilities likewise mine.
So, I did what any good occultist would do: I reverse-engineered her divination so I could have it too.
Now, around the time this happened, I happened to run into someone amazing, whose mere voice cause great occult gains in me. She made me feel like a god, you see, but that's an entirely different story. The fact of the matter is that there was some alchemy when the three energies combined, and it caused some voices to be heard in my mind.
One spoke most strongly: I called him “The Crazy,” for he was created from wild energy. When he spoke, he sounded exactly like me, but he always spoke accurately. Well, I listened to this demon I created on my own, and I learned much of divination therefore.
It drove me mad. I heard the incessant chatter and screaming of multiple voices speaking simultaneously. Just...talkingtalkingtalking, and nothing made any sense at all, until such time that the barrier would fall.
One day, I heard all the voices become silent simultaneously, and I heard a single one speak poetry. I followed it, and I thereafter began reading.
There's my story.
wow. That's amazing.
I don't want to go too crazy (I accept that we're all crazy though), but I'd like to get to that sort of degree of skill.
Though divination is not one of my few callings, I'd like to be a wizard for fun and being or knowing an oracle sounds fun.
My background is in direct magic, whose explanation of divination is that it is essentially numbers being crunched by the unconscious mind, and the tool is like a GUI to help the diviner interact with those calculations made in the unconscious.
So, my task was to get my own unconscious to learn the formulas from hers. What I did was create a construct somewhat akin to a Packet Sniffer application and ran it while she read a few times to collect the information. After I got the construct to copy the calculations, I wrote them into a section in my unconscious mind I partitioned off for energy data analysis, and I reconstructed the formulas there, then wrote them into my unconscious.
After I did that, I was able to make sense of a spread for the first time. The rest was just circumstance and madness, I suppose.
I would say that I have an underdeveloped sense of fear and overdeveloped sense of curiosity.
Khru 2016-02-18 05:17:24 No.308
the story, again, awesome. not to mention new ideas for me to try out in the future when i'm more advanced.
>I would say that I have an underdeveloped sense of fear and overdeveloped sense of curiosity.
(:
I don't know that I have an underdeveloped fear, but a (hopefully) healthy disregard for my ego/life/sanity. Not that I seek out insanity or drugs; I'm content with going about as fast as Spirit lets me when it knows I want to speed up
surrealrain 2016-03-01 22:30:35 No.357
When I turned 19, I had a strong urge to use tarot cards. I am still 19. When I received the cards, I opened them up and asked my guides to protect me. As soon as I touched the deck, this intense energy filled the room. The energy moved inside of me, and I felt really happy the rest of the day. Since then, I have seen multiple orbs including one light blue orb that said my name, I have seen an apparition of a man with medium length blonde hair and a tan leather vest walk by a doorway, I have seen black Crescent shapes in my peripheral vision, and when I walk towards them my hair stands up and I feel static.
Really, touching the tarot cards seemed to unlock a psychic gift and make me more sensitive to the spirit word. I used to always hear random clips of conversations deep in my mind, but now they tend to be close to full sentences. Like one voice asked me "Can I talk to you for a moment?" I spoke out loud and said "yes," but nothing seemed to happen. I did see a "disturbance" by the door next to me though. Almost like the light was blocked out for a second.
I've also had numerous sleep paralysis episodes, and I have had a few OBEs. I have also seen a dark shape move across a hallway from the corner of my eye. Hopefully this board can help me. This gift seems amazing. Anyway, this is how I started to really get interested in tarot.
I started reading cards when I was 13, in middle school.
I was on a family vacation in Montreal and I bought a set of cards. I still have them today. I still use them each day, over 40 years later.
I seldom do readings for friends and only if I really know and trust them.
My wife is a witch, we married late in life. We are solemates.
One our first real roadtrip weekend we went to New Orleans. We had our cards read by an old woman in the square by the Cafe du Monde.
She told us we were made for each other. She was right.
>My wife is a witch, we married late in life. We are solemates.
>One our first real roadtrip weekend we went to New Orleans. We had our cards read by an old woman in the square by the Cafe du Monde.
>She told us we were made for each other. She was right.
(:
That's sweet.
Recently picked up my first deck (Rider-Waite) and I read somewhere, it may have even been somewhere on this board, that it is suggested to get your deck 'blessed' before use but with no mention of any specific methods of doing so. Can anyone elaborate? Thanks.
2017-01-20 19:40:25 No.591
I guess I was intrigued from my first prophetic dream when I was 12. I haven't had too many of those (though they seem to be making a comeback right now), but I found out it kinda runs in my family. My aunt has it a lot worse, she gets a visit from my deceased grandfather in her dreams every time a family friend or relative is about to die, and apparently said grandfather also had prophetic dreams, though I don't know the details.
After that, I learned that my other aunt would read the tarot and I was a little sceptical until I actually got a reading from her.
For the longest time I wasn't all that interested in getting a deck of my own, but then I all of a sudden got interested about 6-7 months ago and I've been practising ever since. I'm terrible at doing readings for people I haven't personally met, but pretty good overall. I guess you could say I'm just now getting started.
2017-01-21 01:51:24 No.592
Apologies, I clearly posted this question in the wrong thread. I hastily read the title as "How To Get Started." I'll find the appropriate place for my question.
But since I'm here, while I haven't started yet (still in the process of studying each card and researching some of the history) I was drawn to the Tarot when I saw someone doing a reading in the corner of a restaurant one day. I was immediately intrigued.
I'll show myself out now
Hermetic_Magician !!PrsZ2DusdQ 2017-01-29 19:23:06 No.599
I started reading the tarot because I started studying occultism. This was meant to be initially a way to delve deeper into spiritual subjects only. Since I started practicing more eventually people started having interest in me doing readings for them IRL. I then started doing readings for imageboards and that is how it all ended up.