Jesse's Journey: Reading the Tarot, Living the Life
Making sense of life by consulting the cards! By Jesse Katen
These multiple possible interpretations offered by reversals simply enrich and deepen the vocabulary of card meanings that you can use to construct a coherent narrative for the querent. I read reversals because I feel they give greater depth, nuance, and clarity to the reading.
Sometimes, we need an external object—and something as beautiful as a deck of Tarot cards is ideal—in which to see beauty and wisdom and whatever the two of them can synthesize together.
Just as having the faculty of language can make abstract concepts more “real” (if we can talk about them, we can do something about them!), the Tarot provides an amazingly versatile and limitless vocabulary for understanding the human experience.
It is in the interaction between the internal and the external, between the old and the new, between convention and chaos, that we find our realities and our selves. This is why I find ballet and the Tarot to be fundamentally akin and why I find myself so enigmatically and profoundly drawn to each.
Jesse's Journey: Reading the Tarot, Living the Life 