Jean-François Champollion tried something new. He broke away from the thought patterns that had stalled other scholars for hundreds of years translating Egyptian hieroglyphic text. The answer was right before everyone's eyes, but their expectations kept them from seeing it.
With his new approach, he matched some characters about royal birthday celebrations to the corresponding Greek text. He proved hieroglyphs are more phonetic than Egyptologists had previously thought. That was a pivotal Rosetta Stone moment.
I'm not saying Champollion consulted the tarot to make this leap. I'm saying a new perspective was required, and that is the tarot's specialty. It busts the stagnation of a habitual viewpoint.
The best general tarot question is a blind-spot question:
The client asked, "What am I not seeing about ___________?"
LA MAISON DIEU, LEMOND, LESTOILLE are dealt from Flornoy's Noblet.
Recapitulation.
Two people fall from a tower. Those two people become the two jars in the woman's hands. The central image shows the woman looking forward and surrounded by a wreath and other beings. The cards suggest a person replaying their involvement in a discovery or a disruption, often a simultaneous occurrence.
Had others observed? Was another close? Was it you who found the water? Do you accept or deny this?
Your question suggests you do not see your involvement, but the cards suggest that you can. Are you responsible for or deserve credit for this situation, if only privately, for your own peace, understanding, or recapitulation?
The water will pour from the vessels. Is it you? Should it be you alone? Should it be shared? Credit or responsibility?
So, here we have the reading—a new way of looking at it. 'New' is achieved by the shuffle's randomness and another factor: A third party performs the reading. The tarot, the shuffle, and the reader together assure a high probability that the process will offer a fresh perspective, if not radically, subtly, to the client. That's how you see what is in the blind-spot —turn your head.
If the client can map the analogy of what happened to the Tower and its people regarding their concern as they transit through the World to the Star's cups, the formerly unseen has an opportunity to arise.
"What am I not seeing about _______?" may be the question behind all tarot questions. Anything we can see, we already work with it directly. However, we go to the tarot when other options fail us. We think there must be an answer if only we could see it, and often when we do, we realize it was there waiting to be seen. It's on you!
