ashwsh Posted August 16, 2019 Posted August 16, 2019 I keep my tarot decks in a box, and when I take them out I usually get to see the last card at the bottom of the deck. Somehow I always feel that last card always has a message for me. Does anybody have any such experiences?
Eamane Posted August 16, 2019 Posted August 16, 2019 I do feel that sometimes when I do readings (for me or others). The shadow card can reflect the energy of the reading or some aspect about the querent that's not so clear. Whenever I feel like looking at it I do! I've seen people that do a whole separate reading just with the cards at the bottoms, but that's sort of confusing to me... One cards tends to say a lot!
Grandma Posted August 16, 2019 Posted August 16, 2019 I always put my cards back in a very specific order after each reading. There is a recent thread about this and I seem to be in the minority, but that's what I do. Therefore the last card in my decks is always the King of Pentacles and its placement at the bottom of the deck is irrelevant to the reading at hand. Once the cards are shuffled, cut, re-stacked and drawn, though, I sometimes pull the card at the bottom of the deck to use as a base card, but only if I have decided ahead of time to do so. From past discussions of base cards I know that they can be used in different ways, and that it's important to always use them in the way that is standard to the individual reader, or if the reader uses them differently at different times, to decide before the reading which way the base card will be used in this reading. For me, the base card represents or sometimes clarifies the underlying theme, or base, of the reading. Note that this is not the same as using clarifiers, which I never do. The cards in the spread tell everything needed, and the base card is one of them. 53 minutes ago, Eamane said: Whenever I feel like looking at it I do! Is this something you decide ahead of time, Eamane, or do you do it after reading the original cards in the spread? If the latter, that is the opposite of what I have come to believe is way to do it, but that doesn't mean that I think it's wrong. Could you explain how and when you decide, and why? I'm always looking to learn something new and sometimes I change my own practice when I do!
Eamane Posted August 16, 2019 Posted August 16, 2019 13 minutes ago, Grandma said: Is this something you decide ahead of time, Eamane, or do you do it after reading the original cards in the spread? If the latter, that is the opposite of what I have come to believe is way to do it, but that doesn't mean that I think it's wrong. Could you explain how and when you decide, and why? I'm always looking to learn something new and sometimes I change my own practice when I do! Actually, the only thing I decide is the spread. Once the shuffling is done and the spread is laid, I "decide" to look at the shadow card. If I feel the "need" I look at it and interpret it first. Then I go over the rest of the spread. It's something I started doing quite organically actually, I didn't even know it had a name. Sometimes my intuition tells me I need that information to wrap up the reading; sometimes It's just not relevant.
alyce Posted August 17, 2019 Posted August 17, 2019 The base card of a reading, I find, is often very illuminating. It represents the underlying energy or "spirit" of a reading. So in an exceptionally plain-talking reading the base card might be A/Pentacles, or if the deck is new, moody, and unwilling to share its secrets, the card might be 4/Cups. An initially harsh-seeming reading might be tempered by the compassionate angel of Temperance; or ordinary-seeming advice might be underlined by the looming Devil to alert you to your limiting thinking or limiting spread, with which you have needlessly boxed yourself into a corner.
Raggydoll Posted August 17, 2019 Posted August 17, 2019 @Grandma I think that for intuitive readers it would really beat the purpose if one decided on a set permanent way of doing things, that sort of limits the influence ones intuition can have in every unique reading. Of course you could decide - intuitively- before you lay out the cards if you’re going to look at the base card or not. I don’t. Because I want to have my mind as quiet and open when I perform readings so that I can be guided or receive information that is beyond the cards (that part wouldn’t necessarily be included in an intuitive reading though, it’s more what I’d like to call psychic readings. And yes - I do feel that there’s a difference between the two, but that’s beyond this particular topic 😊). Anyway, I sometimes experience a nudge to include the base cards, just like I am sometimes nudged to create more spread positions as the reading is taking place. Like you, I don’t ever use clarifiers but I sometimes use “tell me more-cards” ☺️ They come to play when my intuition instructs me that there is more to the story or that the cards (or the spirits/guides, depending on ones world views) wishes to share something more/else.
ilweran Posted August 17, 2019 Posted August 17, 2019 12 hours ago, Eamane said: I've seen people that do a whole separate reading just with the cards at the bottoms, but that's sort of confusing to me... One cards tends to say a lot! I did this accidently a few weeks ago. Did a reading, it went ok, wasn't really 'sparking' anything. Picked up the deck, saw the card on the bottom and just felt "aha, there you are", placed it with the reading, saw the next card and thought that it made sense to have that one as well, then the next one... Not sure I'd make a habit of doing it, but at that moment it made sense.
Eamane Posted August 17, 2019 Posted August 17, 2019 I think that's different @ilweran. Sometimes our intuition calls us to do certain things, and that's fine. It happens for a reason, you are suppossed to get that information. Perhaps you won't make a bit of it, but you'll know WHEN to do it.
zedekiel Posted August 17, 2019 Posted August 17, 2019 On 8/16/2019 at 10:23 PM, ashwsh said: Somehow I always feel that last card always has a message for me. Does anybody have any such experiences? On 8/16/2019 at 10:34 PM, Eamane said: I do feel that sometimes when I do readings (for me or others). The shadow card can reflect the energy of the reading or some aspect about the querent that's not so clear. Whenever I feel like looking at it I do! This happens to me and I do this too! I don't often as an active clarifying measure, moreso just as a bonus clarifier if something compels me to look. But I think I'd like to try actively looking at the shadow card as a "tell me more" card like @Raggydoll said, because I sometimes will do a whole other "tell me more" draw, but actively choosing to use the shadow card in this way seems useful!
Saturn Celeste Posted August 18, 2019 Posted August 18, 2019 On 8/16/2019 at 4:23 PM, ashwsh said: I always feel that last card always has a message for me. Sorry but I don't. Very rarely do I ever draw a clarfier, I don't believe in using them nor do I read the bottom card or this extra card or that extra card or shadow cards! I put my intention into my cards for a reading and the cards I draw is the message I am to interpret. I am only the messenger of the cards so what they say in front of me, is the reading itself. I don't need any other cards to muddle the original question.
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