ashwsh Posted January 25, 2019 Posted January 25, 2019 Hi, Few questions : Can I ask the same question to 2 different decks on the same day? Can I ask same question to 2 different readers on for a reading on the same day? Please suggest
stephanelli Posted January 25, 2019 Posted January 25, 2019 Personally...I wouldn't do either. Some readers don't like to read on questions that someone else has read on recently. To elaborate: I feel it is like fishing for the answer that you want to hear rather than the one you need to hear. Asking clarifying questions if you need to go deeper into something that came up in a reading I think is alright so long your question is changed to be about that part. Just my personal opinion.
ashwsh Posted January 25, 2019 Author Posted January 25, 2019 Thanks..exactly what i was thinking. should not be perceived as finding the answer one wAntS to hear :-)
Saturn Celeste Posted January 25, 2019 Posted January 25, 2019 To elaborate: I feel it is like fishing for the answer that you want to hear rather than the one you need to hear. Stephanelli is totally right!! It's why I don't read for myself, I can make anything fit and it might not be for my good. What you need to learn how to do is trust in your cards. You're using them so much you're making them tired. Give the cards and yourself a break once in awhile. ;)
ashwsh Posted January 25, 2019 Author Posted January 25, 2019 Thank you both.. stephanelli[/member] And Saturn Celeste[/member] . Saturn Celeste[/member] how much break should usually be given between readings, when I’m reading for someone else but same question.
stephanelli Posted January 25, 2019 Posted January 25, 2019 I don't repeat a question for someone unless something has significantly changed in the situation (or at least 6 months have gone past).
ashwsh Posted January 26, 2019 Author Posted January 26, 2019 stephanelli[/member] Good to know...Thank you! My friend has been asking me for a reading, I know she is quite a pest. She said she will keep asking again & again. I wanted to lay some rules in place before proceeding.
Grizabella Posted January 26, 2019 Posted January 26, 2019 Hi, Few questions : Can I ask the same question to 2 different decks on the same day? Can I ask same question to 2 different readers on for a reading on the same day? Please suggest Of course you can do that. You can do anything you want. But there's the question of whether you're going to get good, understandable information that way. I hesitate to accuse a sitter of just wanting to get the information they want to hear. I'm not omniscient so their reasons might be different than what I might imagine. At any rate, if asked to read on a certain matter, I just do the best I can to read the cards in front of me. :thumbsup:
Guest Night Shade Posted January 26, 2019 Posted January 26, 2019 Whenever I ask the same question twice in one day, it's just because the Tarot isn't telling me what I want to hear. I think it's best to accept what the first reading is telling you, even if it's not the message you wanted.
Grandma Posted January 26, 2019 Posted January 26, 2019 For me it depends on the type of question. I never ask yes or no, predictive, or third party questions and I have never understood why someone who asks those questions asks the same ones over and over. If they think some people will get it right and some will not, how do they know who is who, and why don't they just ask the people whose ability they trust? Are they taking a poll and will go with the answer that shows up the greatest number of times? Are they shopping around for the answer they really want? Can they really not wait until Tuesday to see if they get the job or the apartment or the date with the guy they met at the gym? However, there is a whole different kind of question that can be asked to many people with good results. For example, how should I deal with this stressful situation, or what important lesson can I learn from this recent challenge, or what is the best way to prepare for an upcoming event? With this sort of question, it can be helpful to get different perspectives - kind of like establishing a think tank. I won't ask the same question to more than one reader unless they know my reasoning and it's okay with them both, though. To me it's a matter of respect. It's a way of looking at the problem from different angles. It's the same principle that policy makers use when they gather interdisciplinary teams to evaluate situations. It's not that the lawyer has more to offer than the social worker or the city planner or the doctor - it's that no one knows everything that must be known in order to make good policy. A few times I've done a variation on this myself. I've done comparative spreads for the same question - not a whole new spread with a different deck, but taking a second deck and finding the same cards that I pulled when I asked my question and laying them out in the same spread.
TheLittleJackal Posted February 7, 2019 Posted February 7, 2019 There are two main situations in which I will ask the same question twice: When I want to seek advice from different sources before making a decision. When the first "answer" was utter gibberish. I'm still learning to figure out the "why"s of getting gibberish answers, so going to a second source can help me in that regard. Sometimes I'll get a straight answer and I'll just roll my eyes at the first deck. But sometimes it guides me towards realising what was throwing the first deck so far off, or towards what the meaning in the gibberish was. I do also sometimes ask a second time purely to confirm, but this is a "bad" habit from other divination methods where doing that is fairly standard.
Saturn Celeste Posted February 7, 2019 Posted February 7, 2019 I'm still learning to figure out the "why"s of getting gibberish answers, so going to a second source can help me in that regard. Sometimes I'll get a straight answer and I'll just roll my eyes at the first deck. But sometimes it guides me towards realising what was throwing the first deck so far off, or towards what the meaning in the gibberish was. The gibberish could be from the wording of the question. I know I've had to reword my questions to really bring it home to the cards. If I'm confused about the question, I can't expect my cards to NOT be confused! lol
Grizabella Posted February 7, 2019 Posted February 7, 2019 I thought I'd bring up another situation where I wouldn't read. When someone gets a reading from another reader but then comes to me and says, "My reader drew these cards for me and she (or he) said they mean x,y,z about this question. How would you read it?" I won't second guess the first reader. I'll do a whole new reading on the question with no problem, but I won't do a critique of the other reader by giving my own version of that particular spread or what it meant to the other reader. I think it's professional courtesy to respect other readers and what they see in a given spread of cards. It works slightly differently for all readers and it's not my place to criticize another reader even if I don't see the same thing they did in the same cards.
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