Well let me introduce both myself and the purpose of this blog...
My name is Ed and I am a young twenty-something year old with an interest in the Tarot. I have had an interest in the Tarot for a long time. It was not long ago that I bought the Original Rider Waite deck with pictures drawn by Pamela Colman Smith from a Waterstones book shop in the city where I used to go to university.
My fascination with the Tarot has gone as far back as secondary school. I had bought a pack meant for Pagans. It was a silly pack in my eyes but I wished to learn for myself the means by which I could interpret the symbols that each card presented. I took these cards in to school and tried to have readings with my friends. Most of them thought I was silly for having an interest in the Tarot but it cannot be denied that they are a fun and fascinating way to explore your inner world, your subjective self.
Although I hold no supernatural belief in the Tarot I hold this practice up high as a great way to improve your life in many ways. I am sick and tired of these snobby, upturned nosed sceptics who look down on the Tarot as something that should be riduculed as primitive ignorant nonsense. In the age of the Richard Dawkins copy cats many people with a desire to learn Tarot cards are seen as silly.I believe that Tarot has great worth in making your life better, not only as a form of therapy but as DIY help kit to make yourself a better person.
Recently I attempted to give a reading to my mother. I interpreted the cards as best as I could and afterwards she told me that she felt much better. This is significant. I do not wish to overgeneralise but we live in an age in which if people feel down and under the weather or they are not happy they either take drugs of one kind when they do not suffer from anything clinical or they pay a therapist to listen to them for an hour or so.
I see the Tarot as both a form of therapy but also as a way to invoke self reflection about your life so that you may both improve yourself and therefore improve things around you and create positive change in life.
What people really need for therapy is imagination, a love of storytelling (who doesn't like storytelling, we are only human after all) and an open mind.
I have made this blog as a way to communicate my journey through the land of the Tarot, to post my readings and to present my ideas on this subject that will stimulate those that wish to learn more about this art form.
I have another blog if you wish to read this also,
www.edastill.blogspot.com
Over and Out for now.
ED
