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Recycling Memories: Reading Tarot
In the same way that we collect skills and we collect pictures of 'the way things are' as we serve our time on the third planet from the sun, we also collect personal scenes imbued with one emotion or the other. These memories are strung together in our personal...
READING PICTURE LANGUAGE IS 5,000 YEARS OLD
The Chinese alphabet is a shortened form of another alphabet that is more like pictures, and it, in turn, is a shortened form of an ancient alphabet that was pictures. The Egyptian alphabet is the same situation: Its original alphabet was pictures, which has been...
Tarot Mentoring
You are your own spirit guide with Tarot Verbatimâ„¢ because Rider Waite Tarot is a data bank from mass consciousness that you access with your subconscious, and Tarot Verbatim is the Rosetta Stone, the interpreter, that creates a bridge from your subconscious to your...
YOUR VERY FIRST QUESTIONS ARE ASSIGNING MEANINGS
I could write a book, and that's what you need here. Your first questions create meanings for individual cards, meanings that are embedded. If all you ask about is love and money, all your meanings apply to those things and don't function well when you ask general...
The Hanged Man
Hanged Man reflects at least three myths that appear in different world cultures about the protagonist (main character) getting psychic perception and spiritual abilities from the gods in exchange for sacrificing a body part or function and hanging themselves...
REVERSALS
Since each card has a large spectrum of meanings, when you are expert enough to know a few hundred for each card, your Tarot responses are detailed and nuanced enough without reversals. Different readers have different applications of their reversals, and some readers...
What deck should I begin my Tarot work with?
Rider Waite is the original. It accesses mass consciousness by virtue of the fact an esoteric society spent many years developing it and used it only for themselves: did not publish it; it was stolen by Mr. Waite. The major cards reflect esoteric principles; the minor...
I quit clarifiers.
I quit clarifiers. . If something isn't clear, while the same question is being read, I lay a fresh card--or several cards if several cards are not clear-- and read that. . The most frequent cause of not being able to read, once you are proficient at reading, is: You...
Position names or cards modifying one another?
I observe two general methods of reading: position names and the cards modifying one another. Letting the cards blend, letting them modify one another, frees you from having to use designated position names. The disadvantage of designated position names (spreads in...
ABOUT SUPPORT CARDS, AN ALERT
The distinction between cards that (intrinsically) mean a particular thing and cards that merely support that particular thing can be important. I call those 'support cards' for that subject. We find this out in practice, those of us who are avid about our Tarot,...