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Off-Center
When a Tarot Reading Doesn't Seem
to Address the Question
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Michele Morgan, Rebecca Richards
As a student ... and as a novice reader, this phenomenon was the most puzzling, discouraging and infuriating part of the process for me to deal with. It does happen this way sometimes ... and only through keeping written records of my own questions and experiences through the years -- along with the Tarot's responses, even at their most obscure and baffling was I able to see the pattern of what seems to be happening here.
So, what's going on when a Tarot reading seems to miss the mark, or worse, not address the question at all. What's the "message" when you ask about money ... and the reading comes back full of cups or Major Arcana, and none of the cards address wealth and finances?
Off-Center
When a Tarot Reading Doesn't Seem
to Address the Question

Clarifiers
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Mary K. Greer's 21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card
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Mary K. Greer
A clarification card offers "one last little bit" of information about the overall theme and direction of a reading. It is used to focus, condense, and solidify the direction of information that might otherwise be ambiguous, confusing, or open to more than one interpretation.
It will often provide a piece of wise advice about how to approach or work with the energy of a reading's message. It will often also distill the theme of a reading down to its basic essentials, and provide information on "What's really happening here."
Clarifiers

The Tarot through Time
A Puzzling Past ... A Contemporary Tool
Who created the Tarot ... and when ... and why? You can find a lot of answers to that question. Some silly. Some hotly contested. Some, no doubt, utterly wrong. Somewhere in the mish-mash, probably, lie the few grains of knowledge and truth we still have about those answers. It strikes me as ironic that the Tarot itself is a tool for divining answers ... and is itself shrouded in such mystery. Fitting, somehow.
The Tarot through Time
A Puzzling Past ... A Contemporary Tool

The History and Mystery of the Tarot
Much of the early history of the Tarot remains unclear and is often controversial. Stories associated with the origins of the Tarot are often fanciful, romantic ... and wrong -- or at least unprovable.
In my travels I've seen the usual references to gypsies ... which the Tarot's pop culture reputation certainly keeps alive. But I've also seen speculation about possible origins in ancient Egypt ... or in the help-me-keep-my-sanity project of a snowbound monk, trapped and alone in the Italian Alps.
The History and Mystery of the Tarot

The Tarot
Start with the Basics
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Interpreting Tarot
Reading the
Book of Life
By
Rebecca BrentsRods (which correspond to the suit of Clubs) -- and depending on the specific Tarot are also depicted and named as staves, wands, batons, and scepters. Rods focus on issues of personal ambition, professional goals, public reputation, individual vision and destiny, matters of self-confidence, courage, charisma, pride, and initiative.
The Tarot -- Start with the Basics

The Tarot
Where Do You Begin?
First of all, the Tarot is broken into two (or arguably three) different sections.
The Major Arcana of the Tarot contains the archetypal symbols (vast transpersonal and spiritual patterns that underlie and support human growth, behavior, perspectives and experience) that are found in the lore and religious underpinnings of every known culture.
The Major Arcana tells the story of the Fool's Journey ... or the Hero's Journey ... from his moment of embarking on life's grand adventure through the stages of initiation and evolution that will lead him finally to a pinnacle of success and wisdom ... from which he may begin the process again at a more sophistical level of knowledge and with more complex challenges on the path he travels.
The Tarot
Where Do You Begin?

What Is the Tarot?
This is a very complex question -- whose answer is often controversial. I will keep this answer brief, simple and factually correct, but I invite those who are interested in more information on the history of the Tarot to research it either in libraries or online yourself.
What Is the Tarot?

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