cartouche readings

[greymare]

now, Ive been around a while and I have a bit of an attitude inregards to faiths etc. Also for a while to survive I did card readings. Mainly egyptian cartouche. Yes, I bought them from a conventional book store and started studying them. First I read a few friends their cards (for fun) then, funninly enoug I got confident to read a few clients. Sometimes my readings were more than accurate. eg. (i felt compelled to say, you will get a communicatio;n from overseas and everything will be ok) when I didnt know the person I was reading for was waiting on mail from a friend serving in the war. etc etc and they diid get a leter when they talked to me. (stuff llike that) after a few more ACCURATE incidents. I stopped altogether. regardless of what you might think. Its scary. can anyone else help. If you have read any of my other posts. you will kn;ow I am n;ot a great belever in God or the other stuff I feel maybe I can interpret the cards pretty well but I need some encouragement or advise.

[Nick the Pilot]

Greymare,

What is your goal? Do you want to keep giving readings? Do you want to improve the quality of reading you give?

[greymare]

Im not entirely sure. Sometimes its scary when you are really accurate. has anyone else felt like this??

[I, Brian]

Cards themselves don't have any inherent power - they are a tool, like a pair of glasses, that allows you to try and perceive things you may not have been aware of, just by focusing on the cards.

It's very much like intuition, when you get a strong feeling of some event or outcome in ordinary life - and you turn out to be right. There's no reason why you should be able to know such a thing, but at that moment, you're tuned into something bigger and more important.

I guess it is very important to only do those things you feel comfortable with, though - I remember years ago some friends played a trick by pretending there was a poltergeist in my flat, by rearranging the furniture when I was out.

It scared me because if true, it meant all the dark supernatural stuff that could leave you hiding under the covers as a child could also be true.

Since then, I've ended up on a big spiritual journey exploring the universe, and the only scary things I've ever found were other human beings.

So, sure, work within your comfort zone, and maybe try tapping into the universe a little more in daily life by listening out more for your intuition.

2c.

[greymare]

thanks brian

[Mirko]

Originally Posted by greymare

now, Ive been around a while and I have a bit of an attitude inregards to faiths etc. Also for a while to survive I did card readings. Mainly egyptian cartouche. Yes, I bought them from a conventional book store and started studying them. First I read a few friends their cards (for fun) then, funninly enoug I got confident to read a few clients. Sometimes my readings were more than accurate. eg. (i felt compelled to say, you will get a communicatio;n from overseas and everything will be ok) when I didnt know the person I was reading for was waiting on mail from a friend serving in the war. etc etc and they diid get a leter when they talked to me. (stuff llike that) after a few more ACCURATE incidents. I stopped altogether. regardless of what you might think. Its scary. can anyone else help. If you have read any of my other posts. you will kn;ow I am n;ot a great belever in God or the other stuff I feel maybe I can interpret the cards pretty well but I need some encouragement or advise.

yes these are typical problems most people who are good at reading cards face right from the start
you were lucky if you only saw good or ambiguous things
often predicting bad things that come true makes the other person angry at you, as if it is your fault
generally predicting any kind of future, good or bad, that comes true or not, regardless, tends to develop a dependent relationship between the two people, which can cause serious distress, especially to the reader, as these are usually persons of highly developed intuition and emotional sensitivity, and so such events can be traumatic for them
these things get complicated, and are why many card readers are reluctant to read to family, good friends or lovers

personally i would assume the best explanation for this is that the system of prefabricated archetypes and complex modules of standardized meaning can be used as a symbolic mechanism for analyzing probabilities by using intuition to connect the random points of proposed meaning and cross reference them with current experience or knowledge
so basically chance, but chance occurring in a structuralized system, one fabricated to be used intuitively to read meaning into random relations

still i have heard things, and from persons dear to me that i believe trustworthy, as well as from people who i dont know so well, suggesting these matters get much more complicated and life can get strange and unpleasant when dabbling with such things

if you believe youre good at what you can do, and decide that you will continue, it might be best to develop a set of personal rules and habits to distance yourself from the other person, to avoid unnecessary involvement and association with any possible problems the person might have
also some people might adopt or invent little personal rituals, to convince themselves no negative effects catch up with them, real or imaginary, or to regulate whatsoever energies or entities those persons might believe they are dealing with
this makes perfect sense from a psychological point of view

you definitely should not stop now you think youre getting results, simply because getting things right scares you
i mean, this is the actual point of the whole exercise is it not? To get things right, no?
the more you go into this, the more you open potentials to further develop as a person

if you are having trouble dealing with this new situation, why not attempt to develop a way of thinking that simplifies things, removes some of the perceived responsibility from your perceived position, if that is what burdens you
after all you are just the reader, most of the variables depend on the querant, and what he will do with his new information, even more than weather it should somehow turn to be true or not

also remember that, if you should decide to continue, and do things right, the actual prediction of the future, no matter how close you get it, or how completely you miss it, is less important
you are in fact preforming a completely different function, of which the actual predictions are but byproducts

but be careful, any which way

[greymare]

thanks Mirko, that was an old post of mine. I havent picked up those cards in a long time.............and i dont know if i ever will again......

[Alex P]

Why would that be?