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

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

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Page One

Being a Tarot Reader
Page Two

Points to Consider
When Dealing with a Layout

Ask yourself when looking at a layout ... is there a predominance of one (or two) suits in the reading? Is there a suit that is not represented at all? Are the cards in a suit strong ... or are they all blocked and corrupted? Do you have a lot of low numerical cards, a majority of "middle" numbers, a lot of high numbers ... or possibly "two ends of the spectrum" represented?

Points to Consider

The Celtic Cross Revisited

It's a standard feature in the repertoire of any Tarot reader who has ever picked up cards and opened the Little White Book of cheap paper and usually less than helpful meanings for the cards that comes packed with every deck -- a layout design for the Celtic Cross. It looks suitably weird and mysterious. A kind of circle with a line of cards beside it.

When I first discovered it ... some forty years ago, the directions for this thing were confusing and illogical, couched themselves in obscure snippets of nonsense. (This covers him, this crosses him, this crowns him, this lies beneath, these are his hopes and fears ...

The Celtic Cross Revisited

The Tarot
What It Can and Cannot Do

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Reading the
Book of Life
By
Rebecca BrentsA lot of mystery surrounds the Tarot and its uses. In fact, that applies to all the intuitive sciences and their mystical tools. The Tarot can have some almost miraculous applications. I bless the day I finally "cracked the code."

But there are also purposes it was never meant to accomplish ... and knowing those as part of the ground rules for using this mystifying portal into the intuitive wisdom of your subconscious mind seems only fair.

The "believers" in this wonderful occult discipline (as well as some of the more unsavory practitioners!!!) sometimes cause more problems than the scoffers and skeptics, and the misunderstandings that result can be serious.

A shocking amount of extremely unhelpful literature on the subject kept me in the dark for a lot of years on just what the Tarot offers ... and the ways it can add tremendous depth to the life of the sincere spiritual seeker.

The Tarot
What It Can and Cannot Do

The Journey Inward

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Integral Tarot (Integral Tarot: Decoding the Essence)
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Suzanne Wagner The decision to study the Tarot can stem from many reasons, all unique, some hard to explain. For me, there was a fascination with the future and the ability to see into it, beyond the shadow of the next moment, or tomorrow ... or next week. In that, I'm sure I'm not alone.

I actually tried to start my study of the Tarot back 40+ years ago, when I was in my teens. Maybe I was too young and unseasoned to understand the seriousness of this effort, or appreciate the intricacies of this art ... back then, but my efforts weren't helped one bit by the absolutely dreadful published texts that were available. They were contradictory. They made no sense. They were poorly written. They offered no cohesive or logical structure to use as a foundation for this project.

The Journey Inward

The Tarot
Start with the Basics

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Learning the Tarot: A Tarot Book for Beginners
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Joan Bunning Rods (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. Corrupted, weakened, or inverted Rods can display abuse of power, overweening ambition, confused personal direction, a lack of cooperation, weak will, vanity, timidity, and laziness.

The Tarot
Start with the Basics

What's in the Cards for 9/11

On September 11, 2001 we were sending out a free version of our "What's in the Cards?" Ezines in three separate documents. One for Life ... dealing with the overall theme of the day ahead and the immediate future. One for Love and the theme of upcoming human relationships. And one for Money ... and material, physical, health, and economic issues.

I remember being troubled by the appearance of these three cards at the time I drew them ... and so concerned about the disturbing atmosphere they carried that I almost reshuffled the deck to try again and see if something more "cheerful" came up. (I used to get complaints from people subscribed to the free ezines that they didn't want anything unhappy or "negative." That's one reason we stopped doing them. Gripes from people about free stuff wasn't something I wanted to deal with, frankly.)

What's in the Cards for 9/11

Clarifiers
When a Tarot Reading Needs
A Little Bit More

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.

Clarifiers
When a Tarot Reading Needs
A Little Bit More

Dealing with Death
When the Past Is not that Far Behind

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A Magical Course in Tarot: Reading the Cards in a Whole New Way
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Michele Morgan, Rebecca Richards The year's end is in sight. What was once the far horizon comes closer each day. Once again, we've passed through the awesome, redoubtable season of Scorpio with its associations of death, closure, endings ... and change. The calendar says it's Sagittarius energy driving life's wheel now.

But today, it doesn't feel like Scorpio's bony hand has loosened its grip at all. As if the recent events of death and endings in my life haven't moved into the past by more than a few degrees, but instead have settled in like an unwelcome squatter (I just can't bring myself to use the word "guest") and made arrangements to become the new permanent landscape of my world.

Dealing with Death
When the Past Is not that Far Behind

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That Dreadful Moment
When the Cards Just Don't Make Sense

Every Tarot reader knows that wonderful feeling when a reading layout is crystal clear and the cards talk back to you as coherently as if you were holding a conversation with another person ... better than that, a wise and trusted friend. Those moments are so special I usually spend extra time with my cards when "everything clicks" ... asking all manner of questions, both personal and abstract. It's one of the most nourishing experiences I know.

Every Tarot reader also knows the other side of the coin ... when the cards don't seem to answer the question, when the answer that appears to be there doesn't make any sense, when you've asked about one thing, but something else entirely is showing up on that table in front of you. If you're new to reading cards, don't get discouraged when this happens to you. It happens to everyone.

That Dreadful Moment
When the Cards Just Don't Make Sense

The Tarot -- Not Always in Good Hands
Reflections from a Reader's Table

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Mary K. Greer's 21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card
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Mary K. Greer There are probably as many ways to read Tarot cards as there are readers. And the lack of standards -- and consistency -- bothers me. In fact, the fact that this bothers me ... bothers me. I can't think of many other things in my life about which I feel such ambivalence -- and affection, all wrapped in a single issue.

There are as many ways to paint a picture or write a song as there are artists and composers. I've dabbled in both those fields, and yet I'm fine with that fact. I relish the creative variety. I wouldn't change the degree of freedom in those fields for anything. That's the essence of its magic.

But something about reading the Tarot is different. Maybe it's because credulous people rely on it sometimes for very important decisions and information ... and the potential for harm if a reader "gets it wrong" for whatever reason ... seems so high -- to me.

I'm not sure I would trust my serious health decisions to someone with no credentials to practice medicine, no body of work on display to show his competence, whose only virtues were his willingness to take my appointment -- and the recommendation of a friend of a friend of a friend to put me at his door in the first place.

The Tarot -- Not Always in Good Hands
Reflections from a Reader's Table

Roads Taken ... and Not Taken
Along the Mystic's Path ... and the Tarot Trail

Everything that is part of your life inevitably shapes your life. Tonight I find that an interesting statement. On the one hand, it sounds odd to admit -- or proclaim -- that even small, careless decisions can have surprising, far-reaching consequences. And yet, on the other hand, it's so obvious. Wonderful stories and great dramas have been composed around the amazing -- and sometimes tragic -- results that ripple out from a simple gesture ... or a careless moment.

The road taken creates experience and history. The road not taken seals itself shut behind you -- and yet its possibilities can shimmer for a lifetime in your dreams, your fantasies, the movies of your imagination ... its secrets as intriguing as unopened gifts and letters.

Roads Taken and Not Taken
Along the Mystic's Path ... and the Tarot Trail

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The Tarot and the Nightly News

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Tarot Theory and Practice
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Ly de Angeles There was a segment on the news tonight about how in this recession -- and grossly uncertain economy -- psychics are doing a booming business. Interesting. And news to me. The several minutes of story showed a very well-fed fellow with a silly-looking mustache and goatee talking on a cell phone while supposedly "reading" the cards for someone on the other end. The table in front of him was covered with cards overlapping each other in an array like no layout I ever saw before. Frankly, the whole piece gave me the shivers.

The Tarot and the Nightly News

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