Tarot Mentor

[EmpyreanKnight]

Does anybody here have a mentor/s who actually took you under their wings and taught you face-to-face all that they know about the Tarot? It can be an old relative or your parents even, if the gift has been passed down your family line for generations. It can be a close friend who happened to be an expert, or a Tarot luminary who saw your promise. It can be gratis or it may involve an exchange of resources, as long as you had a close and sincere bond with them while you were under their tutelage.

[EmpyreanKnight]

Tbh, I asked this question because, well, I was just curious how it would have been like to have honed your skill under the personal supervision of someone so wise and experienced. I learned by myself - through books (lots of them) and videos and by my online interactions with you guys as well. That's it. No regrets tho. ;)

[Raggydoll]

No, not unless you count your cards as being mentors (I really think they can take on that role). It was just me learning from books and later on - from the internet. However I do remember trying to mentor a friend at one point. It was really interesting and I believe I learned just as much as (or even more than) she did. So I certainly would recommend it.

[Jenessa]

No, not unless you count your cards as being mentors (I really think they can take on that role).

I couldn't agree with you more .. & by way of coincidence, when I recently got around to working thru a reading i'd taken well over a year ago, I noted that both the quint and shadow cards could be viewed in terms of their suggesting a 'mentor'.  & I also found that I learned alot in the course of interpreting the cards that came up, and found the combination of High Priestess & High Priest (Hierophant) to be especially enlightening.   

 

Tbh, I asked this question because, well, I was just curious how it would have been like to have honed your skill under the personal supervision of someone so wise and experienced. I learned by myself - through books (lots of them) and videos and by my online interactions with you guys as well. That's it. No regrets tho. ;)

 

It was just me learning from books and later on - from the internet.

Me too .. leastways I read alot on the subject before I ever went online .. & then lo & behold I "found" AT which was such a wonderful resource.

[katrinka]

Nope. I learned via "the long conversation" (old books by dead people, lol) and much later, communication via the net, but no mentor.

It would have been cool to have somebody sitting there telling me when I was screwing up/going off on a tangent, but OTOH, I'm such an autodidact that I don't know if I'd have even listened.

 

[EmpyreanKnight]

I guess it's just a bit sad that mentors aren't more of a thing. But that's how it is, and we just do with what we have. It doesn't mean we won't get real good with the cards because we're self-taught. And as katrinka said, some of us might actually prefer it that way. :)

[Ix Chel]

I have no mentor. All My Tarot knowledge is from books and Internet.

 

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[gregory]

I have no knowledge. But that's OK :D

 

Mentors. Hmmmm. I pick on people I hugely respect (a couple are here) and milk them for everything I can. I email Barbara Moore for information of all sorts from time to time, and if I COULD have any mentor I wanted, she'd be who I'd go for.

[Trogon]

I'm also in the "learned from books and the cards" club. And for the most part, it has done well for me. Though, TBH, I think that the old Aeclectic Tarot forums were a fair substitute for a single mentor, I think I learned the most from my time on there.

 

Interestingly enough, I was recently asked by a good on-line friend to mentor them. So, though I didn't have one, I've been asked to be one. Though he's in Europe, so it won't be a face-to-face mentoring exactly. Though we do have Skype, we both prefer (right now) to use it for text-based messages.

[Mi-Shell]

My maternal gran, Elizza used to read Tarot and crystal ball from around 1885 to 1956 when she passed. She learned from other elders in our Manoush Gypsy clan. My aunties and cousins learned from her and I learned from them.

Now I am currently teaching one younger friend and her teen daughter.

[katrinka]

I have no knowledge. But that's OK :D

 

Mentors. Hmmmm. I pick on people I hugely respect (a couple are here) and milk them for everything I can. I email Barbara Moore for information of all sorts from time to time, and if I COULD have any mentor I wanted, she'd be who I'd go for.

 

Yeah, I picked a lot of brains, too.

Partial mentors lol.

[Magickjack]

Would have been nice for someone to take me under their wing but I didnt' even know where to buy a deck.  A friend of mine wanted their cards read and bought me my first deck wrapped in black silk on a full moon and all that good stuff.  I was forced to teach myself.  LOL! 

[Alta]

I learned huge amount from the AT forum.  Also many gave me advice over the years, both on and off the internet.  One deeply intuitive reader over the years has taught me to look at the cards in surprising ways.

[EmpyreanKnight]

10 commenters and only 1 had a literal mentor. I guess that's how it really is like right now.

[Albadawn]

The internet taught me everything I know, more or less! Another AT student here. :)

[Raggydoll]

I think things might be different in the French (Marseille) tradition. Just thinking about Yoav Ben Dov and Jodorowsky. And I can imagine it being different in the Romany tradition as well. But this is all guesswork based on a few stories that I've heard.

[Alta]

10 commenters and only 1 had a literal mentor. I guess that's how it really is like right now.

Unless it is a personal friend, a mentor needs to be paid.  It is big time and energy cost to the mentor.  Most people are not willing to pay.

[sandrang123]

I didn't have a mentor for tarot and learned on my own, but I've had other spiritual mentors. When I was in my early 20s, I met a very spiritual man (who was very old), and he helped me work with crystals and meditation. He also cast a Mayan chart for me, and was quick to point out that I needed mentorship because I had the ability to see the past, present, and future (so would need help differentiating what channeled info was what). I also was fortunate enough to have a mentor for astrology and natal readings. That said, yes, I paid her for her time and classes. To some degree, my own reader (who works with guides) is also a mentor, in that sometimes when I get channeled information, I almost hear it in Diane's voice! Then I'm like, okay...my guides are speaking through her voice so that I know it's them.

[CharlotteK]

No mentor here either. I learned with Joan Bunning, Biddy Tarot and lots of help from knowledgable folks at AT.

 

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[EmpyreanKnight]

10 commenters and only 1 had a literal mentor. I guess that's how it really is like right now.

Unless it is a personal friend, a mentor needs to be paid.  It is big time and energy cost to the mentor.  Most people are not willing to pay.

 

I know this. That's why I wrote the exchange of resources bit in the initial post. It's just that I noticed that most people learn the Tarot solitarily now, mostly through self-study or through online interactions, which is just another brand of alone, really.

[~D~]

No mentor here either. I learned with Joan Bunning, Biddy Tarot and lots of help from knowledgable folks at AT.

 

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AT was great  !!! I totally agree with you :)

You could post a reading, and several folks would show up to hash it out...

super helpful!

[katrinka]

I do know some people who were mentored. Being mentored is tough, they get on your case, call you out, and make you work hard. Remember that mean old teacher in first grade? Like that.

It's not like learning on AT where there is a rule that people can't correct anyone, it's not even like learning at other places where they can, but you can log off awhile or go interact with someone "nicer".

You can learn without being mentored. It takes longer, and you have to be scrupulously honest with yourself when it starts to look like you have your ladder against the wrong wall, but it's doable.

It's a lot of work either way.

[gregory]

I do know some people who were mentored. Being mentored is tough, they get on your case, call you out, and make you work hard. Remember that mean old teacher in first grade? Like that.

It's not like learning on AT where there is a rule that people can't correct anyone

PARDON ?  :o

[Guest]

I have a mentor, but rarely do we discuss tarot cards in and of themselves anymore, they are but tools that are a part of that communication process...since I am always drawing them we probably end up discussing tarot more than most relationships of this sort would. but what we are really teach/learning are the concepts and structures of experience that is expressed with the cards.

 

There is an art in and of itself in finding a teacher. One must become very focused and grounded before a worthy teacher will present themselves to you.  I would say it took about fifteen years of hard work and studies before I was found.

 

 

 

 

Mentors are not drill sargents in the marine corp. They are all different, the one you find/finds you is the one you need. The personality of your teacher is the personality that you require to take your next steps

 

The AT forum was not a mentor. I found it to be a very negative environment, and that is coming from someone that has a teacher. I was very relieved to see it close, all those really good people that want to learn that belonged there were suddenly forced to leave all the trolls and powerful negative personalities that found their homes there. Best thing to happen for Occult studies on the internet in a long time, maybe since the Splendor Solis was digitized, IMHO.

 

 

 

 

[NenaLaMorena]

I would love to have one

 

 

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