Greetings

[borderless]

Hello everyone! Still learning my way around here, but it feels welcoming.
 

I've always been curious about the occult, esoteric, also general spirituality, philosophy, psychology. But I'd been disinterested in Tarot, despite a few chances or channels to get into it, it had been passing me by.
 

Until about a year ago when I woke up one morning, randomly struck by the idea of diving into it, not recalling any external nudge or influence. Just an uncalled-for urge to grasp the concept, get a physical deck, and give myself some help, even though I barely knew anything about Tarot. I still ponder that morning and have no idea how exactly that came about, but I've fully embraced it.
(Almost a year ago is when I registered here too lol, but haven't been active that much yet.)
 

I've acquired a few decks and apps since, read about the matter a bit, and I try to keep up studying, both theory and practice, although I'm not as nerdy and consistent as I'd like. I feel I'm past the beginner phase, but also that I haven't moved a lot from it, often alternating between overestimating and underestimating my current state of knowledge and intuition 😅 
I mostly practice reading for myself, and ocassionally with or for a friend who's been into Tarot somewhat longer than I have, it's a nice mutual dynamic.
 

I look forward to hearing different thoughts and experiences around here, and learning, practicing, connecting more. This place seems like a nice aid. Cheers!

[JoyousGirl]

 @borderless  Just get stuck in, start anywhere. The learning journey with Tarot never ends - you'll learn a bunch of other methods too along the way. 

 

I recommend joining the reading circles. And there's lots of interesting topics to expand your vision.

 

See you around the boards. 

[DanielJUK]

Welcome to the community @borderless  Glad you have found us here and decided to post 😀

 

I think in my view, it's a good idea to learn the basic foundation of tarot, the structure, the cards. Why are they in that position in the structure? What is the basic idea about that card?

After that you are free to do what you want, like try you ideas with different decks but most of all use them. After learning the theory, using them for different people really helps you learn. I think I learnt so much from actual readings and what I discovered on the way. There are times when you feel like you are not progressing at all but then something comes along! You can also go off on specific paths, learn other tarot systems or oracles or cartomancy, so you can add to your knowledge.

 

Like @JoyousGirl said, when you get to 5 posts on the forum, you can practice reading with others here. You can only see those sections after 5 posts. You can offer readings to members for feedback in return to help learn and also we have monthly exchange circles where you are paired with a random member.

[joy]

Hello @borderless welcome to the TT&M Family

[borderless]

Thank you all for the kind welcome and advice 

Yeah, I'm certainly not expecting the learning and discovering process to be some structured program that could be completed at a set time, it sure never really is.
While I might lack a bit of old-school discipline, I think patience and long-term mindset could be my strengths with Tarot as an interest.

I think I've grasped the foundational ideas behind each card so far, although things like rote memorization never worked for me. I've indeed rather focused on understanding, reasoning, and contextualizing each card, allowing everything to (still) solidify over time through practice and organic repetition. At this point I might need to pay more attention eg. particularly to the more detailed elemental and astrological correspondences, but I'm working on that.

I purposely chose RWS as my first and so far main and dominant base right from the start. But I’ve also been exploring TdM and have found use in testing that route, slowly taking a bit from that system as well. Extremely curious about Thoth too, but I definitely don't want to bite off more than I can chew for now, so I'll save that one (and potentially some other systems and traditions) for future endeavors.

 Will continue to browse the boards and try to take part ✌️

 

23 hours ago, JoyousGirl said:

I recommend joining the reading circles. And there's lots of interesting topics to expand your vision.

18 hours ago, DanielJUK said:

when you get to 5 posts on the forum, you can practice reading with others here. You can only see those sections after 5 posts. You can offer readings to members for feedback in return to help learn and also we have monthly exchange circles where you are paired with a random member.

Oh really great to know about these, I'll be checking them out in due time.