Does anyone else have these issues?

[Margaret]

I’ve had the same deck of cards for over 20 years. I’ve always pulled them out in times of crisis. I believe I can read them fairly well, but sometimes when I do a reading on myself I get confusion. For example, with a relationship problem I pull the lovers in the present. Well, I’m not sure if that means he’s cheating or we will have a new fresh beginning. I can interpret it either way and nothing pulls me to either answer. I think I have a bit spark of intuition, but maybe no real psychic ability. Does anyone else have this issue when reading themselves?

Discussion

[Voodooyogurtcustard]

Reading for yourself is notoriously difficult because you have a personal attachment to the question in hand. You know the meanings of cards can change depending on placement of them and surrounding cards, and you are so intellectually & emotionally invested in the situation, you can’t objectively see any other meaning than the one you want to. You can reason that something definitely must mean X instead of intuiting possibly X, Y, or Z because of what you want to see. If you were reading for another, you’d have less emotion involved, you aren’t as influenced by what they want or the outcome. Same as some people won’t do readings for a close friend or someone you know really well, you already know so much, you can’t help but filter the reading through your own perspectives & knowledge of the situation; You know deep down the answers you want to see, and those you don’t, so remaining detached whilst you read is extremely hard, that’s why readers usually seek out other readers when it comes to themselves.

[mothsyrup]

Sometimes it feels easier to be honest with other people rather than with myself, I don’t know if that can be helped. I do think it is telling if you say, I only pull them out in times of crisis – any thing you do only in times of crisis, like only callung a friend when yoy need help, can create wishy-washy feelings about it. So I try to do the “one card a day” with tarot. 🙂