The implied motion in a cards figures, symbolism, imagery, and figures, that guide interpretation. Anyone else experience this when giving a reading?

[Britt]

So I wonder if anyone else experiences this, I have the general meanings of the tarot card meanings, and can apply that knowledge in my message. I have found though at times, and this can be a strange phenomenon if you’ve ever experienced it, that a story of sorts about the symbols or figures within the card will spring to mind about what that figure is about to do once it’s no longer stationary, like a cinematic that helps me know what message my cards are trying to give to the person I’m giving the reading too. 

[katrinka]

No.
Random stuff that pops into your head isn't important, despite what the bogus websites du jour may say. Our function is to translate the cards.

[Raggydoll]

What strikes me as important here is that you check the accuracy of those type of interpretations/inputs, and that you evaluate it over time. I don’t think it’s a bad thing to use your intuition, just make sure it really is your intuition and not your imagination that is at play. Especially if you’re a beginner. What I have found myself is that sometimes my intuition tells me things that isn’t directly implied in the cards, but it never tells me anything that is contradicted by the cards. It’s an important distinction to make. I know from experience that my intuitive inputs tend to be relevant, so I do incorporate it into my readings and I feel that it adds another dimension to them 🙂

[katrinka]

5 minutes ago, Raggydoll said:

What I have found myself is that sometimes my intuition tells me things that isn’t directly implied in the cards, but it never tells me anything that is contradicted by the cards.

This.

The cards are the foundation. Stay with them.

[frankie]

When doing a reading, no. I agree with what Raggydoll and katrinka said above, too. I do like to play and study my cards on their own, and it can be fun to look at the images carefully, imagine stepping into the scenes depicted, research the iconography, the folklore, anything that helps me build a reservoir of background information to deepen my knowledge of the cards. But anything I learn from my studies has to add to and not stray from what are the cards' essential meanings. In a reading, what matters is what the cards say; it's a system that works as is.

[katrinka]

4 minutes ago, frankie said:

But anything I learn from my studies has to add to and not stray from what are the cards' essential meanings. In a reading, what matters is what the cards say; it's a system that works as is.

Also this.
You're either reading cards, or you're making stuff up.
For accuracy's sake, it's better to read cards.

Edited February 18, 2022 by katrinka

[DanielJUK]

Some people do see the cards as stories, with actions going on. I have read other people's experiences of seeing the cards like that. If you do see them like a cinematic film and if it works for you as a technique. see it works well for your reading method. Like @Raggydoll suggested, test it out.

[gregory]

It's not THAT much different from looking at which way heads are looking/figures are facing and so on, is it ?

 

Says something different to me than

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[Raggydoll]

1 hour ago, gregory said:

It's not THAT much different from looking at which way heads are looking/figures are facing and so on, is it ?

 

Says something different to me than

:

Absolutely, that’s something i would definitely  pay attention to. It is what adds to the overall impression. I think card interactions are really good ways of quickly pinpointing the dynamics of the situation! (Love that visual example by the way!) 

[katrinka]

Yes, facing directions are part of the cartomantic method. Figures look at or away from each other, or they head in various directions. But you're looking at what they're doing. What they're "about to do" may well be guesswork.

[Raggydoll]

2 hours ago, katrinka said:

Yes, facing directions are part of the cartomantic method. Figures look at or away from each other, or they head in various directions. But you're looking at what they're doing. What they're "about to do" may well be guesswork.

This is a good point and it all ties into the importance of focusing on the question. What’s going on in the cards in front of you is the answer to the question asked; to focus or speculate on what the figures in the card might be doing next is to lose track of the of the question and the direct message of the cards in the here and now. 

[gregory]

It's hard to believe the fool isn't going to keep going in the same direction. Just saying...

[stephanelli]

On 2/18/2022 at 7:35 PM, Britt said:

So I wonder if anyone else experiences this, I have the general meanings of the tarot card meanings, and can apply that knowledge in my message. I have found though at times, and this can be a strange phenomenon if you’ve ever experienced it, that a story of sorts about the symbols or figures within the card will spring to mind about what that figure is about to do once it’s no longer stationary, like a cinematic that helps me know what message my cards are trying to give to the person I’m giving the reading too. 

Actually yes, I've experienced this on a couple of occasions.  I sometimes do readings where I am a question and just draw 3 cards and see what I get, no spread positions.  It's in these readings I get this happening (but not in every reading).

 

It is really important as others have said to test the accuracy of it.  Write the story down if you can, then come back to it after you've interpreted the rest of the reading - what does it add to the message?  I find it usually highlights an aspect of one of the cards that is a really important part of the message.

 

But as others have said, it should add to the cards message, never contradict it.  If it isn't adding to the reading them it may just be your imagination firing up creatively (I've also had that happen before in a reading too, but the story just didn't make sense to that reading, but it did make sense later that day when I got some creative materials out.  It was no help to the reading and was entirely my imagination firing up and giving me an idea for some creating.)