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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.

Dealing with Death
When the Past Is not that Far Behind

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

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Professional Tarot: The Business of Reading, Consulting and Teaching
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Christine Jette 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.

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Reflections from a Reader's Table

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

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Spiritual Tarot: Seventy-Eight Paths to Personal Development
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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.

Best of all ... you can use it as a counselor and advisor, a way to help you talk to yourself. The same way you would with a human friend or psychologist. It's not far-fetched at all to call this practice ... using the Tarot for therapy. If you're not just too bat-guano crazy, this can work out very well -- and if you are, you may never know the difference.

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

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.

That's not unusual. I cringe more often than not when I see tarot card readers on television -- or in the movies. To be honest, I've seen more legitimate readings and interpretations I can agree with from card layouts shown in fictional stories -- quick flashes barely long enough to let a viewer recognize the cards arranged on the table -- than ones from supposedly real life readers on the news.

The Tarot and the Nightly News

The Art and Science of Tarot

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Tarot For All Seasons
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Christine Jette 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.

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The Tarot
One of Many Paths to Truth

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

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Living the Tarot
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Amber Jayanti 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.

Where I lived, a local woman had just gone through a much-publicized wait for a desperately needed heart. With time running out and her condition degrading by the hour but best news of all arrived. She received a donor heart, a new lease on life. Of course, there were smiles everywhere, and tremendous relief for her family.

Would I Go to a Tarot Reader?

The Defiant Ones
Reflections from a Reader's Table

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Taking the Tarot to Heart
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Mark McElroy 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.

He reminds me of a police detective who is sure he's nailed you for a crime that will put him in the headlines and put you away for life. The clenched jaw and thin line of his lips tells you (screams at you!!) that he's going to tell you absolutely nothing about himself.

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

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Discovering Your Self Through the Tarot: A Jungian Guide to Archetypes & Personality
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Rose Gwain 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.

Lessons like this are expensive. You pay for them all ... in many different kinds of currency -- most of which have nothing to do with cash. You pay in wasted effort and wasted time. You pay in disappointment, and confusion, and tears.

When finally you find the wisdom and courage to walk down a different street, instead of the same old well-known path, you may at last get a different result. Maybe you'll like it, maybe you won't. But at least you've got your hands on something else to work with.

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

What's in a Tarot Reading?

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Learning Tarot Reversals
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Joan Bunning 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?

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