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	Being a Tarot Reader Page Two The Experience and Responsibility Of Reading Tarot Cards
Astrology, Tarot, and Self Improvement for the New Age.

Being a Tarot Reader
Page Two
The Experience and Responsibility
Of Reading Tarot Cards

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Being a Tarot Reader
Page Two

The Tarot
One of Many Paths to Truth

Something that bothers me about the Tarot is that it seems so awash in passionate controversy ... and I'm not talking about the debate between those who find value in this wonderful occult instrument and those who see it as literally the left hand of the Devil. That kind of philosophical split I could handle. Either the cards are right for you or they aren't. I'm not out to persuade anyone who needs to be converted or convinced. That argument doesn't interest me. Life is too short to grapple for even thirty seconds on that kind of crusade. There are many paths to enlightenment and truth and the Tarot may or may not be part of any individual's path.

The Tarot
One of Many Paths to Truth

Would I Go to a Tarot Reader?

Sometimes I am astonished at my own blindness. I hope the fact that I note this from time to time indicates wisdom and seasoning, maturity and experience ... and not that I can be dumber than your average rock. Years ago, on an airplane, I sat next to a woman who was a nurse in the heart transplant unit of a big hospital specializing in that surgery back when it was a lot more radical and rare than it is now.

Would I Go to a Tarot Reader?

The Defiant Ones
Reflections from a Reader's Table

This is almost always a man. He arrives at your table, sits down, leans back, folds his arms, and glares at you with anger and suspicion. Whether he's dressed in a business suit or casual clothes, he is also wrapped in a blend of contempt and wariness, flavored with a sad self-ridicule, all of it layered around him so thick you could probably feel the texture -- if he let you reach out to him and touch. If he let you get that close.

The Defiant Ones
Reflections from a Reader's Table

To See With Your Own Eyes
When the Tarot Reveals
A Whole New Picture of You

Yes, the Tarot can be used to answer questions. It can even, to an eerie extent, be used to forecast the future -- perhaps because we humans are so predictable, so habit-bound, so likely to follow the same paths to the same dreary conclusions ... and then berate ourselves for making the same old mistakes over and over again. Psychologists sometimes call this "the familiar spot." You wind up in it over and over again. You've been here before -- over and over again. You say you'd do anything to stay out of it.

To See With Your Own Eyes
When the Tarot Reveals
A Whole New Picture of You

What's in a Tarot Reading?

A Tarot reading is actually like a puzzle that tells a story. The images on the cards in the layout -- and each card's symbolic meaning -- present elements of the story to the mind of the reader. The positions of the various cards in the layout tell the reader what part each specific element plays in the developing drama. They form a meaningful pattern -- much the same as the different ingredients in a recipe form a finished entrée, salad, or dessert.

What's in a Tarot Reading?

The Tarot ... And Little Bits of Magic
The Versatility of This Terrific Tool

Some people -- ok, some readers I've seen at work, sat beside at demonstrations and psychic fairs, and listened to as they explain the workings of the Tarot to "the uninitiated" -- seem absolutely captivated by the spooky potential of these 78 pieces of cardboard.

I'm sorry, but there's a feeling of "showmanship" in that behavior -- the same kind that surrounds magicians of every stripe -- all the way from David Copperfield in the performance of his wonderful magic to the cheesy carnival performer pulling fake flowers out of a top hat. They're putting on a show -- and there's a tongue-in-cheek cynicism, a not-quite-concealed smirk behind their performance. If you're a mark who can be drawn in and impressed with that kind of skit -- well, I suppose it's a free country.

The Tarot ... And Little Bits of Magic
The Versatility of This Terrific Tool
by Ruby Tuesday

Clients Aren't the Only Ones with Questions
When Clients Hand ME
a Learning Experience

Life is full of questions. And people love to give and listen to advice. "How would you handle this?" can be both a plea for sympathy and a request for insight. Maybe in equal measures. Hearing someone advise us to follow a course that is already our instinct -- or our deepest desire in welcoming an opportunity -- or our judgment about what inevitably needs to happen in order to deal with a problem is reassuring.

Clients Aren't the Only Ones with Questions
When Clients Hand ME
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Asking the Right Question
Getting the Best Answers
from Your Tarot Reading

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Suzanne Wagner There's kind of an old half-joke philosophical saying that states ... sometimes getting the right answer means asking the right question. That's true in life and it's doubly true in working with the Tarot. A Tarot reading is a reflection of life, a tool for handling life, a living breathing instrument that thrives on the energy of life, and if you treat it with respect, and communicate with it as it is best designed to understand ... and answer back, the Tarot can be as reliable and intelligent a counselor as any human friend.

Asking the Right Question
Getting the Best Answers from Your Tarot Reading

Why Learn the Tarot?

Why learn the Tarot? It's a fair question. But there can be several reasons why people ask me this. They wonder why someone who looks and sounds as sane and sensible as I do in "real life" would spend time learning (and teaching and advising and making money from) something which sounds so foolish, frivolous, and illogical on the surface -- or as far as their often very limited information goes.

Why Learn the Tarot?

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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Page Two

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