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	Reading Tarot Cards Page Two More Tarot Articles, Thoughts and Tales From Time Spent with the Tarot
Astrology, Tarot, and Self Improvement for the New Age.

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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

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 Art and Science of Tarot

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Integral Tarot (Integral Tarot: Decoding the Essence)
By
Suzanne Wagner The study of Tarot ... the use of Tarot as a tool for advice, reflection and self-examination ... is not so much science as art. Ok, even that statement needs more explanation to make it true.

For a long time science and art were seen as separate. One dealt in logic, empirical proofs, experiments, hypotheses, hard data and firm conclusions. This was science; the analytical territory of the left brain. Science gained respect, standing, devotees ... and plenty of people willing to stake important valuables on its findings.

In science you could prove things and formulate laws -- on paper, in mathematical formulae and equations. You could construct models, replicate results. Someone else could follow your work -- copy your recipe -- and get the same outcome. You could often support the results of science with the experience of your physical senses. Often, indeed, seeing was believing. Science, with all its various disciplines, had a lot going for it.

The Art and Science of Tarot

The Tarot
One of Many Paths to Truth

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Learning the Tarot: A Tarot Book for Beginners
By
Joan Bunning 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

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?

Off-Center
When a Tarot Reading Doesn't Seem
to Address the Question

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By
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

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

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Mary K. Greer's 21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card
By
Mary K. Greer 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

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

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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