Significator cards

[Dawn]

Do you use significator cards in your readings for the board? If yes, how do you choose them? If no, why not? Personally, I haven't been using them, but I'm wondering if I should or not.

[Pam]

I have never used them. I don't like picking a card that "looks like" the querent (there are no people of color in the cards) and I don't like pulling any of the cards out to be unavailable to the rest of the reading.

Never used them, never missed them :) That is just how I personally do it, I know others feel they are meaningful for them.

[PsyQuestor]

I have never done this. I see it in instructions all the time, but I just never felt comfortable picking out a card to represent the person before the reading. After doing a spread I do look at the cards before interpreting the layout and decide if any of the cards represent the querant. Then I decide how to proceed with my interpretation.

[Stephanie]

I have never done this either. Though, there is a good reason why. My cards are very gender neutral. If you were looking at them without the titles below, you would never know you are dealing with a male or female. The people in my cards also have empty eye sockets...(the eyes are white). So, there are no eyebrows, or lashes as an indicator.

[Jeannie]

When I was first learning, I used them for myself and family memebers - since I know them. I learned that I could not pick one for someone online. On occasion I "felt" drawn to a particular for someone, but I ususally do not use them anymore, even for family or myself. I do have certain cards that I use to represent myself and my family, but I do not use them as seeker (signifier) cards anymore. I found that I don't need them and like Pam said, it limits the cards available to the reading. Depending on the reading, I may see certain cards representing a particular person.

[Theophilia]

Do you use significator cards in your readings for the board? If yes, how do you choose them? If no, why not? Personally, I haven't been using them, but I'm wondering if I should or not.

I don't use then, either, but in my spreads the first card acts as a significator card. If a card "jumps out" I wouldn't put it in the spread, I'd put it aside and see what it had to tell me. The thing is, I guess, that people and the way we know them and what is significant at any one moment is so changeable.

I believe a lot of what happens in all sorts of divination is that someone who is very gifted has a technique that works for them and so, wanting control where there is none, others want to do it the way they do. Or, they think what works for them will work for others.

Do what draws you, is my motto. And if the idea of significator cards does, then you should be using them. And if not....

Hey, speaking of varieties of techniques, has anyone done the numerology/tarot relationship chart?

Theo-

[PsyQuestor]

I have tried to do the numerology / tarot relationship Theo, but I could not make much sense of it in that particular reading. I've had readings where the number 3 came up several times (3 cup, 3 pentacle and 3 sword) so I've wondered about it.

[Pam]

don't use then, either, but in my spreads the first card acts as a significator card. Same here - that's another reason why I don't pick a significator, because at least one position in most spreads represents the querent, or thier situation or attitude.


Hey, speaking of varieties of techniques, has anyone done the numerology/tarot relationship chart? I was taught to always include the numerlogy of the card in the interpretation, but I don't think this is what you mean.

LOL, what DO you mean? :)

[Theophilia]

I was taught to always include the numerlogy of the card in the interpretation, but I don't think this is what you mean.

LOL, what DO you mean? :)

It's a mystery to me, most of the time, believe me.

This time though... I have this chart I made from something in one of the books where I did the numerological symbology of the card numbers. I also have a chart I copied and colored about the relationship of astrological signs and the suits and what colors are represented.

It was all too complicated for me, I just wondered if anyone here found any of this added stuff useful. I have all this, but I never use it.

Personally, I find the basic interpretations of the plain cards overwhelming for this middle-aged brain.

T-

[Jude]

I have used a significactor card only once -- when I was doing a reading on myself. It was the first Tarot reading I ever did.

I didn't choose the significator card that looked like me at all, although it was mentioned that many people do. Instead, I chose a card based on the thoughts, feelings, and impressions I got when looking at the card. I chose a card I felt I could identify with, one that I felt resonated with me or represented me.

In fact, the card has neither a male nor a female on it.

[Dawn]

Thanks for all the feedback everyone! :love:

I just never saw much sense in it either...seemed to me like "wasting" a card just to hold a space. And then there was trying to figure out which card to use for each person...oy! Differing opinions on that everywhere I looked. I think I'll just stick to reading without the significator.