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What Was In the Cards for 9/11On 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.)
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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.
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.
The Tarot
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Joan Bunning 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
Start with the BasicsRods (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 Journey Inward
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Rose Gwain 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.
I have always been especially good at self-directed study ... but the Tarot, fascinated as I was with it, was a welter of confusion and nonsense, infuriating in the mumbo-jumbo of trash and silliness I found in the books I tried to read. I gave up and became an astrologer instead. At least in that occult discipline, I found material I could catalogue, organize, and understand.
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Amber Jayanti At its most superficial level, the Tarot contains cards which when randomly selected with a question, problem or request in mind and laid out in a pre-arranged pattern will tell a story to someone who knows how to "read" the cards.
The text of the story is usually a blend of what the reader knows intellectually about the meaning associated with each of the cards ... the energy and tiny piece of the grand story of life that card depicts, and the intuitive messages the reader receives as he or she contemplates the situation, question, or problem being examined.
These intuitive messages come through feelings and "flashes" the reader will experience as he or she merges with the situation and "experiences" the atmosphere there. (Ok, maybe that sounds a little spooky, but I really don't have another, better way to describe it.)
These can be associations made through seeing the card images. Ideas sparked by the presence of several cards side by side. They can be "pictures" that appear in the reader's mind through a process akin to remote viewing. They can arise from places as nebulous and hard to define as whispers in the wind.
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Ruth Ann Amberstone, Wald Amberstone The Tarot is a powerful aid in helping a reader access the contents of his or her subconscious mind ... which is itself a tantalizing asset, with exceptional access into possibilities of the future, the realm of things not yet visible, and the levels of creation where reality and time as we know them are being formed.No wonder the Tarot is considered mysterious, magic, mystical, and miraculous. It is a tool with extraordinary dimensions, made more compelling by the depth and discernment of the mind using it. That's where the magic really happens ... which explains why some readers are consistently better than others, and why even the great ones can sometimes have an off day.
The One Card Daily Tarot Reading
Let me start by saying that I'm a great believer in journals and written notes. I recommend applications using them in almost all my teaching on tarot reading and other subjects, including keeping lists, doing dialogues, brainstorming on paper, flow-writing intervals and other specific exercises.
With that bias in mind, be advised I will suggest at the end of this article on doing one card daily Tarot readings that you keep at least a temporary collection of notes as part of the work you do in this experience in order to gain the most possible from your efforts in learning to read the Tarot. This will help to both keep track of your results and to educate you in the principles of Tarot reading being used and accessed here.
That Dreadful Moment
When the Cards Just Don't Make SenseEvery 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.
When the Cards Just Don't Make Sense
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When a Tarot Reading Doesn't Seem
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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?
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When a Tarot Reading Doesn't Seem
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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 ...
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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.
How to Choose a Tarot Deck
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Stuart R. Kaplan "What deck should I buy to learn the Tarot? Which Tarot do you suggest?" Students enrolling in my classes ask this question. People who purchase my books and visitors to the site write to ask for directions.
In a way I was surprised to find this was a problem. It really never was for me. But Life constantly reminds me people are different ... and not everyone approaches a decision the way I do. In fact, now that the Tarot is enjoying new popularity, choosing an appropriate deck is more of a problem than it used to be when choices were limited. The profusion of beautiful new decks can offer a novice student or beginning reader an overwhelming confusion of choices.
Clarifiers
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."
Elements of the Tarot
Cups
Cups correspond to the Water element in Astrology and other esoteric disciplines. They represent emotions, feelings, mystical spirituality, one's inner states and moods, artistic and creative pursuits, one's sense of satisfaction and happiness, and orientation towards love and connections through relationships.
Water Element in the Tarot
Swords
The suit of Swords in the Tarot correspond to the Air element in Astrology and other esoteric disciplines. They represent mental energy, intellect, beliefs, opinions, thoughts, philosophical viewpoints, ethics, analysis and reasoning. By reputation, swords are associated with problems, challenges, upsetting and unhappy situations, reflecting the possibility that many of our difficulties, dilemmas and crises originate (and perhaps exist almost wholly) in the perspectives and attitudes of our conscious mind.
Air Element in the Tarot
Pentacles
Pentacles correspond to the Earth element in Astrology and other esoteric disciplines. They represent what is tangible, physical, material, solid, dependable, concrete and "real." They are concerned with the material world, business and commerce, possessions and physical resources, property, wealth, education and training, profit and loss, giving and receiving, earning and spending, buying and selling.
Earth Element in the Tarot
Meandering through the Major Arcana
Tarot Articles by Rebecca BrentsThe Emperor / The Tower
The Emperor
Taking Charge of Your Life
What The Emperor Card Means in a Layout
What The Emperor Card Reversed
Means in a Layout
Your Place in the Major ArcanaThe Tower
When You Need a New Perspective
What The Tower Card Means in a Layout
What The Tower Card Reversed
Means in a Layout
Your Place in the Major Arcana
The Empress / The Hierophant
The Hierophant
The Hierophant Card in the Tarot
The Bastion of Tradition
What The Hierophant Means in a Layout
What The Hierophant Reversed
Means in a Layout
Your Place in the Major ArcanaThe Empress
Eve Still Lives in Eden
What The Empress Card Means in a Layout
What The Empress Card Reversed
Means in a Layout
Your Place in the Major Arcana
The Magician / The Lovers
The Magician
The Magician Card in the Tarot
When Words Become Reality
What The Magician Card Means in a Layout
What the Magician Card Reversed
Means in a Layout
Your Place in the Major ArcanaThe Lovers
Life and the Power of Choice
The Attraction of Opposites
What The Lovers Card Reversed
Your Place in the Major Arcana
The High Priestess / The Chariot
The High Priestess
The High Priestess Card in the Tarot
Walking Between Two Worlds
What the High Priestess Card Means in a Layout
What the High Priestess Card Reversed
Means in a Layout
The Chariot
When Life is "In the Groove"
What the Chariot Card Means in a Layout
What the Chariot Card Reversed
Means in a Layout
Strength / The Sun
Strength
Power When You Need It
What the Strength Card Means in a Layout
What the Strength Card Reversed
Means in a LayoutThe Sun
Greeting a New Dawn
What The Sun Card Means in a Layout
What The Sun Card Reversed
Means in a Layout
Scorpio / Pluto
Death
The Climate of Change in the Major Arcana
What the Death Card Means in a Layout
What the Death Card Reversed Means in a Layout
Your Place in the Major ArcanaJudgment
The Judgment Card in the Tarot
Death's Companion
What the Judgment Card Means in a Tarot Layout
What the Judgment Card Reversed
Means in a Tarot Layout
Your Place in the Major Arcana
Sagittarius / Jupiter
Temperance
The Temperance Card in the Tarot
Finding a Place of Peace
What the Temperance Card Means in a Tarot Layout
What the Temperance Card Reversed
Means in a Tarot Layout
Your Place in the Major ArcanaThe Wheel of Fortune
The Wheel of Fortune Card in the Tarot
The Ups and Downs of Life
What the Wheel of Fortune Card
Means in a Tarot Layout
What the Wheel of Fortune Card Reversed
Means in a Tarot Layout
Your Place in the Major Arcana
Capricorn / Saturn
The Devil
Coming to Terms with Your Choices
What The Devil Card Means in a Tarot Layout
What The Devil Card Reversed
Means in a Tarot LayoutMeeting the Devil You Know
The Focus in the Storm of Transition
Card 15 in the Tarot's Major Arcana
Your Place in the Major ArcanaThe World
Reaching Your Destination
What The World Card Means in a Tarot Layout
What The World Card Reversed
Means in a Tarot Layout
Your Place in the Major Arcana
The Fool
The Mirror of Man in the Tarot
What The Fool Card Means in a Layout
What The Fool Card Reversed
Means in a Layout
Seeing Life Through
The Eyes of The Fool
Your Place in the Major ArcanaThe Star
Ingenuity's Spark
What the Star Card Means in a Layout
What the Star Card Reversed
Means in a Layout
Your Place in the Major Arcana
The Hanged Man / The Moon
Making Progress by Suspending Judgment
What The Hanged Man Card Means in a Layout
What The Hanged Man Card
Reversed Means in a Layout
The Mystique and the Mystery
What The Moon Card Means in a Layout
What The Moon Card Reversed
Means in a Layout
Astrology and Tarot
The Correspondence of Astrology Symbolism to Tarot Cards in the Major Arcana
Life's Code in the Stars ... and the Cards
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