i didn't write, publish, or include a guide book, but it feels very important. i still don't really know what *my* tarot practice is like so i don't know how i could possibly help someone else learn their first steps... or maybe that's ok? maybe i am going to write a very beginnerish little book with starting points that mostly says "hey i dunno you just gotta figure it out"

i'm not a book learner, that's for sure. i learn by doing! i guess i could write tht in my book.

i think i am not yet satisfied with the deck. some cards, like the eight of cups, are really good and have really good interpretive space. but others, like i think the ten of coins, are a bit more iffy to me. i know what they're supposed to say but i am unconvinced that they're saying them.

i guess what i mean to say by saying that is how the hell do i write a guidebook when i am like 75% on the cards instead of 100%??? it's a necessity, i think i need to figure out a process by which i'll write the guide book rather than trying to figure out what i should write.

intermediary steps.

I've never done a tarot reading, only gotten one from a friend once; so I talked to them a little about how they started.
They said:

one source is not enough to understand ,because personal interpretation is the most important ig
...
so it's a trial and error, intuition and understanding are the only way to learn

I think for me, given that, and seeing the questions you already have in your lookup tool, it would be the most useful to have something that would 'hold my hand', at least for the first reading - maybe some series of prompts or questions that could give me the courage or momentum, and a little bit of literacy, to start forming my own interpretations

i guess what i mean to say by saying that is how the hell do i write a guidebook when i am like 75% on the cards instead of 100%??? it's a necessity, i think i need to figure out a process by which i'll write the guide book rather than trying to figure out what i should write.


intermediary steps.

I think I've struggled with this or something similar a lot writing my term papers this year loll
But also just with any creative work. With these papers, I've been wondering how to explain some phenomena that I'm not sure I have the ability, or all the information, to interpret to the point that I have a conclusion. In general I hit a lot of snags in the creative process by trying to tie up every loose end along the way before reaching the conclusion, and it tends to mean nothing is ever finished..

So just thinking about personal interpretation, and what helps me in this situation...
What are you worried will result from getting to the end (writing the guidebook) before working out all the details of the cards?
If you just go ahead and write it, or try to write something, could that reveal if you're really missing that 25%?

It might turn out you never needed it. or, asking yourself what you need to know to use the deck could help you figure out what's missing.
Also I was thinking, the art of the cards is obviously part of the interpretive space - so the way you're reading the ones you aren't satisfied with isn't necessarily the way someone else will. something interesting can come out of them, even if your visual reading of them doesn't match what they're "supposed" to say.. maybe? I might not know enough about the tradition of tarot and how they're made to say

anywho. Good luck! I'm really interested to see the full deck.