Alba Posted February 27, 2023 Posted February 27, 2023 The other day, I mistook my own fears as intuition. I decided on a situation after seeing the cards, as they stated some kind of fear. Reading on I realised that the rest of the cards talked about a different scenario. In the past I’ve had quite a few experiences where my intuition led me to do some unexplainable things, because it felt important, and they always have been. But after this experience I’m starting to wonder if I can’t separate my intuition from my feelings. Anyways have anyone else had this problem, and how did you learn to distinguish them?
DanielJUK Posted February 28, 2023 Posted February 28, 2023 Listening to your intuition is a skill, like reading tarot cards, learning to play the piano and others. It's really hard to ignore your fears and imagination talking and get to the intuition. I think it's also much harder on your own readings because you have to be unbiased when you might have many emotions. I don't think anyone can read for themselves when they feel strong emotions about the reading you are doing, from hope to fear to them all. - Why not get someone else you know to read for you when you feel high emotions about something? or pay for a reading with a professional. We cannot read for ourselves on everything I think. - Why not get a second opinion? When you get to 5 posts you can post your readings in our "your reading" section in each divination system. In tarot this section is called "personal tarot readings". You need to interpret the reading and work on it first though but we will give other ideas and opinions in exchange for feedback on them, if they helped or not? Read the instructions at the top of the sections if you want to do that and have gotten to 5 posts to access those areas. - Work on your intuition, find ways to get to the messages and past the noise of other stuff - Work on your reading by using ideas about the cards first. Use reference meanings to make a foundation or structure of the reading. Then try to add your intuitive reading over the top. You can see if a card really strays from those meanings but it might help ground your readings to use the 2 methods on them Just some ideas, we all get this from time to time but I think it's about learning to access the intuitive messages and trust them, get past the rest of the noise 🙂
Raggydoll Posted February 28, 2023 Posted February 28, 2023 For me, it book basically comes down to this: intuition is a nagging, knowing feeling in my gut. If there is dread or worry without the knowing, then that’s not intuition but rather my brain that is thinking ahead and contemplating all possible (and rather impossible) scenarios.
Alba Posted February 28, 2023 Author Posted February 28, 2023 DanielJUK I’ll definitely have others read for me, and getting second opinions here. I see the issue with our own bias getting in the way of objectivity, so readings for ourselves can be hard, or sometimes impossible. For now I’m finding it very useful. I haven’t really practiced my intuitive skills as much as I’ve gotten lessons (more than I care to admit) on the consequences of ignoring it. As a result I’ve become better in at least trusting my intuition. I’ll definitely look into more direct practice though.
Alba Posted February 28, 2023 Author Posted February 28, 2023 Raggydoll I do resonate with that nagging feeling of knowing. Sometimes, at least for me, some intense feeling comes along with it. And even though I usually know that my fears aren’t true, I guess this time it just caught me off guard and screamed in my face as I laid down the cards. I was originally doing an exercise when this happened, and my head wasn’t as clear or receptive as it should have been. Coming here and reflecting and learning I think has given me some insight into both myself and intuition in general.
DanielJUK Posted February 28, 2023 Posted February 28, 2023 One suggestion is we have reading circles each month where you exchange with other members. We have an intuitive exchange called ISG. You read one card (or sometimes 2 or a few of them). The twist is you can only look at the card picture and say what your intuition gets. You can't say water is emotions, this is that, it's only your intuition with nothing learnt. It's a challenge but fun! Keep a watch of our tarot circles area - https://www.thetarotforum.com/forums/forum/31-tarot-reading-circles/ ISG is the intuitive one and will post for March soon if you want to practice your intuition 🙂
trivialuvs Posted March 19, 2023 Posted March 19, 2023 I've struggled for a long time with that question - is it anxiety or is it intuition? I'm on the journey now of learning. I've been journaling practice readings, playing around with different spreads and stuff, then looking at them at a later time. Right now, I'm still now sure even after doing it for a while. I'll let you know as I get better. 🤷♀️ I do know that I am getting better at following my intuition, which has led me to facing some things my mind find scary.
Misterei Posted March 20, 2023 Posted March 20, 2023 (edited) I find meditation helps discern true intuition from Higher Mind vs. fears and anxieties from lower mind. Vedic science calls these two minds Budhi and Manas. It's a struggle for me and has been for years. As @DanielJUK mentioned ... if I'm too emotionally involved to be objective ... I get someone else to read for me. Otherwise, I often meditate before casting cards. To get myself in a blank neutral space that invites higher mind (Budhi) rather than manas mind. I'm not very good a silent meditation so I usually recite mantra. Edited March 20, 2023 by Misterei
trivialuvs Posted March 20, 2023 Posted March 20, 2023 20 minutes ago, Misterei said: I find meditation helps discern true intuition from Higher Mind vs. fears and anxieties from lower mind. Vedic science calls these two minds Budhi and Manas. It's a struggle for me and has been for years. As @DanielJUK mentioned ... if I'm too emotionally involved to be objective ... I get someone else to read for me. Otherwise, I often meditate before casting cards. To get myself in a blank neutral space that invites higher mind (Budhi) rather than manas mind. I'm not very good a silent meditation so I usually recite mantra. Do you have a specific mantra you use? I am not very good at silent meditation myself, so I put on some kind of instrumental music to help focus.
Misterei Posted March 20, 2023 Posted March 20, 2023 (edited) 17 minutes ago, trivialuvs said: Do you have a specific mantra you use? I am not very good at silent meditation myself, so I put on some kind of instrumental music to help focus. I'm a vedic astrologer ... so I do the planetary mantra for the day. For example today is Sunday so I did 108x Surya (sun) nama mantra. Tomorrow is monday, so I'll do Chandra (moon) nama mantra. Then I do 108x Ganesha. I often listen to mantras from youtubes. There are great Ganesha and Shiva mantras on there. Plus all the planetary ones. Om Mane Padme Hum is a nice buddhist mantra. I recite reps of Gayatri mantra whilst doing yoga asanas to time my holds. Gayatri is also good before tarot reading because it asks to go from darkness to light and from ignorance to wisdom. You can prolly find instructions for it on youtube. I recently began a major Mercury cycle (dasha) and it's been a rough transition. Wednesday, I'll start 17000 reps of Buddhi / mercury mantra in 17 days. So far I've done 19k Saturn in 19 days (last spring) and 16k Jupiter in 16 days (december 2022). These help when I have big issues or challenges. . Edited March 20, 2023 by Misterei
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