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Outgrowing Foolisness

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Learning the Tarot: A Tarot Book for Beginners
By
Joan Bunning Like the human race itself, The Fool, the symbol of Man in the Tarot's Major Arcana, has evolved. From his early appearance in Tarot decks of the 1400's, clad in ridiculous clothes, wandering into possible danger with an entranced and disturbingly vacant stare, he (and sometimes SHE) graces more contemporary decks in modern dress ... and with a much more engaged and deliberate manner. It's a welcome change.

The Fool of old was more the Social Clown or Court Jester ... possibly half mad (and rendered that way by who knows what experiences), possibly protected by special arrangements with the King, who would let him speak his mind -- and even say outrageous and insulting things -- as long as he amused his audience while doing it.

In that way, he was perhaps the only person able -- let alone invited -- to be authentically, completely himself. It's a theme The Fool card carries to this day.

Outgrowing Foolishness

Conjuring The Fool

In most Tarot decks, The Fool is colorful, attention-grabbing ... yet at the same time, a worrisome figure. He looks like someone you might cross the street to avoid, if you saw him coming toward you on the sidewalk ... or a ways off down the road. He often looks appropriately homeless. He's dancing rather than walking. He sometimes plays a flute. It's not hard to imagine that he both sings and talks to himself. Like crazy people do.

He wears funny clothes and travels light. He is clearly a man on a journey. Maybe he has a fixed destination, maybe not. And where he came from ... who can tell? You might learn a thing or two if you stopped him and asked, waylaid him for a chat and asked him about the things he's seen. But you'd hesitate to do so. Even I would. He doesn't look especially dangerous, just a little looney. Looney enough to be ... well, upsetting. Worrisome was the word I used a while ago. It's a good word. It fits the man.

Conjuring The Fool

Tarot
Teacher and Treasure

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Tarot Tips (Special Topics in Tarot)
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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.

But in the end, the Tarot is still a tool, a channel to assist in gaining insight and self-improvement. As such, despite its many virtues, it also has limitations. In its design it can perform some things brilliantly, often with spooky accuracy and breath-taking insight. Yet, there are things it simply is not meant to do.

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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.

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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

Me and the Tarot
Sharing a Special History

I was young and wanted to know about the future. By young, I mean I was in my early teens -- and the future stretched mysterious and frightening before me, a misty, chilly place with a heart of darkness I didn't understand. I could feel it though. A chaotic turbulence rumbling like distant thunder. It was the dawn of the 1960s.

Television programs contained the simplicity and silliness of Ozzie and Harriet, Father Knows Best, Bonanza and Gunsmoke. Real life, dead ahead, contained much more sobering themes -- for the world and for me personally. In my bones, I knew it ... and wanted some warning, some preparation on what to expect.

Me and the Tarot
Sharing a Special History

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
No longer a dead-end street
Maybe never had to be -- Maybe never was

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Signe E. Echols, Robert Mueller, Sandra Thomson One of the best features of the Tarot as an occult tool is its versatility. It has many applications -- both time-honored and familiar ... and ones you discover or devise yourself. And the wonderful truth is ... they're all valid and useful -- if you create them carefully and then treat what you've fashioned, what you gain, and the wisdom of the Tarot itself with respect.

You can use the Tarot in a playful, light-hearted mood. You can use it for forecasting the probable future course on a topic of interest. You can use it for meditation and guided fantasy work. You can use it for journaling topics.

The Tarot -- No longer a dead-end street
Maybe never had to be --Maybe never was

The Tarot and the Nightly News

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

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 Art and Science of Tarot

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.

The Art and Science of Tarot

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

Reflections of Reality
The Tarot as a Divine Mirror

Interest in the Tarot, both as an intriguing occult tool and a facilitator for spiritual growth and psychological exploration, has been on the upswing for the past 20 years. Acceptance of it, and feelings about it, go through phases, though.

The Tarot is both durable and controversial, and like anything described by that dubious combination, its popularity rises, crests, and falls away -- through neglect, or familiarity, or changing fads, or repression. And yet, its spark of vitality is never completely snuffed. Students of the occult mysteries, and those with an abiding desire to know more about themselves, continue to resurrect it in their search for deeper meanings behind the oddly mundane (even comic) pictures and complex symbols. The abiding fascination is unmistakable.

Reflections of Reality
The Tarot as a Divine Mirror

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

Making the Tarot Your Best Friend

Learning to interpret the Tarot, and then working with it regularly, is one way many spiritual seekers establish (and maintain) their connection to the mystical world with its miraculous connections into the vast reservoirs of subconscious wisdom and the literal creation of physical reality. Each card's meaning, the concerns it represents, the images it suggests, the thoughts it can provoke in the mind of a reader, and the paths of inquiry it opens for the mystical student to explore are fascinating, multi-layered, rich with texture and nuance -- and full of profound, even life-altering, possibilities.

Making the Tarot Your Best Friend

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