On tarot. (This is likely one of several posts musing on the topic.)
I am not skilled enough to "stack" a deck of cards even in a game of Go Fish, and yet... I keep giving readings that tell the person who has come to me asking for divination good advice mingled with what I wish I could say to them. I suppose that might be explained by the view that keeping a deck close to one's person to "charge it" lends the object some of one's energy in the manner that rubbing silk against amber builds an electric charge.
That wouldn't explain how my Rider-Waite deck is much more polite than the Wildwood, and how both of those are less optimistic than the one Cathy gave me with a kit a few years back. (I've lost that one's name; it's so overly cheery that I started calling it the Polyanna Tarot, and that name's stuck.) It also doesn't explain how the Wildwood in particular often seems to sarcastically sass at me when I'm using it for personal divination. (Single-card reading asking what I need to do in the next week resulted in an extremely direct "tie off loose ends and make a clean break with places and people you know aren't good for you".)
In light of that, I'm almost afraid to start writing up correspondences/reinterpretations of cards for a deck of my own. Bad enough I've got someone else's design telling me what I know but don't want to hear, my own voice coming back at me from a set of cards would be almost too much!
That wouldn't explain how my Rider-Waite deck is much more polite than the Wildwood, and how both of those are less optimistic than the one Cathy gave me with a kit a few years back. (I've lost that one's name; it's so overly cheery that I started calling it the Polyanna Tarot, and that name's stuck.) It also doesn't explain how the Wildwood in particular often seems to sarcastically sass at me when I'm using it for personal divination. (Single-card reading asking what I need to do in the next week resulted in an extremely direct "tie off loose ends and make a clean break with places and people you know aren't good for you".)
In light of that, I'm almost afraid to start writing up correspondences/reinterpretations of cards for a deck of my own. Bad enough I've got someone else's design telling me what I know but don't want to hear, my own voice coming back at me from a set of cards would be almost too much!