Having produced Tarot School No. 1, I think that it ended up not nearly user friendly enough.
I posted the spread, pointed out the card we were focusing on, and then threw out a number of questions.
Over the next two days, I explained the spread, half at a time. I posted these explanations in the comments. In a third long comment, a day following, I wrote about my own answers to the questions made in the post.
Sometime after that, I posted a modified spread to help our imaginary querent with her quest.
I continue to think that the concept is great. I can’t think of a more solid way to learn the Tarot.
But, I made the whole thing far too complicated!
I’ll post the next Tarot School soon, but in what I hope will be a much more user friendly way. The first post will be a question, spread, and focus card, as before, but I’ll give my interpretation of the spread, and answers to the questions about the card in context in separate posts. Shorter, discrete posts that can be read easily instead of having to dig through the comments.
As before, I’ll present a modified spread when the occasion demands.
I envision these trickling out slowly, over the course of a week or so.
But all of it will be broken up into segments, instead of one seemingly never ending post and comment section.
I hope that will be a heck of a lot more user friendly.
If you followed Tarot School No. 1, are there other changes you would like to see that would make it more valuable to you? Please just let me know, and I’ll see what I can do.
Thanks for joining me on this journey, I hope that you find value in it.
Tarot School No. 1 was interesting but definitely a jump in the deep end.
At least one of your readers is almost comfortable in the wading pool.
- Why do we use tarot cards?
- How many are there and what do they represent?
- Why aren’t there more, or fewer?
- Is a spread laid out by a systematic plan or random shuffle? Why?
- How does a spread relate to a querent’s query? Why?
I know next to nothing about the topic, just enough to know I’d like to learn more.
Thanks for giving us a start!
Just a thought. What would be a way that could be involve every reader into the symbolism of the Taroh? The Fools journey. Something I've not done myself, just heard about. It's performed by laying out the entire deck out in the order and pattern of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. The Fool, is the only card left, which is used the ascend the tree of life and the reasons are given with each move upwards.