Newsgroups: alt.magick
From: petelev@convex.com (Pete Levinthal)
Subject: Tarot card study
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1993 13:07:32 GMT

> As to Yi Jing, I have no info.  As to Tarot, the following is always
> helpful: ...
> 2) Study your deck till you can picture precisely each card

I have found that reading "blind" has yielded practical results.  In
other words, I shuffle and use a new deck without ever looking (with
my eyes) at the cards. I find this method tends to disconnect the
conscious from the "whatever" that's "picking" the cards.  This is the
opposite of the approach cited above.  Each to their own of course,
but my feeling is that by studying the cards in advance you rob them
of their "free will" by meeting them before the proper time.  It also
strikes me as a highly analytical approach for a non-analytical
pursuit...

Peace....
Pete