Pro Series, Tarot Stories
Thinking Out of the Box; The Box is Language
Part of language is categorizing and making distinctions. No way around that, that is what language is for: To express a specific and limited thought in the real physical world.
Comes the time we want to grow out of the box, there are no ‘Exit’ arrows painted on the floor. Consciousness is glued to the … uh, ‘conscious,’ physical mind; and the ‘out of the box’ area is everything else – the subconscious being that first step out.
Unhinging your thinking from the categorizations you began to collect when you were around two years old is a good exit tool: It is not theoretical or fuzzy, and is not attached to somebody else’s beliefs, philosophy or religion.
A way to do this as a physical exercise would be ideal, yes?
I found it. The tool is a set of illustrations that are attached to ideas which we can express in our known language, ideas that are also comfortable to our current mental software.
The subconscious experiences and thinks in pictures, you know. And it looks over the shoulder of the conscious operations all day being exposed to our language.
This is our first step out of the box. As you know, first grade leads to University eventually if you pay your dues.
You guessed it, didn’t you? That tool is Rider Waite Tarot.
Tarot Stories
Torina the Terrible
What Was in it for Him?
Everyone wondered how this sweet-natured good-looking man put up with Torina the Terrible. Torina owned this huge clubhouse on the golf course with its restaurant and bar, spa and the works. She reminded me of Catherine the Great – same looks, same bombastic overbearing personality, and the voice of a drill sergeant, to complete the picture.
How she humiliated him. He was required to be present fawning on her every evening at the casino, at the restaurant, everywhere. She called him a gigolo, she called him her boy … what didn’t she call him? He was always all dressed up for these nightly appearances.
One day I got to ask him how he endured Monster Lady … and why. She was not in any of the questions he wanted to know about. He wanted only to know about hi golf game, whether he would ever get good enough to be a pro golfer. He already knew: He was almost.
This man lived for golf. Golf was his love, his only love. Here he could play on a pro level course all day – yes, all day out there doing what he loved best. Practicing his game to his heart’s content. Did Torina know he was cheating on her with the iron in his hand?
Perhaps we should occasionally ask ourselves ‘What’s in it for him or her or them?’
Pro Series, Tarot Stories, Tarot Verbatim
Why Psychic Predictions that are True Sometimes Make No Sense
Truth makes no sense
Sometimes the story line delivered to you is correct but has a hole in it. Things you consider major deciding factors aren’t from ‘out there’s’ perspective. A Seventh Generation Texas Debutante was told, in answer to a question about whether she would see Boyfriend that she wanted to be engaged to, in a week, who had broken up with her: You will have a confrontation with him on the street, and you will holler at him. This Southern Young Lady was aghast: Never would she have a confrontation on the street. She asked several times. Same answer.
She called in a few days, seething. ‘Well, I had that confrontation. You didn’t TELL me he would be engaged to a Vietnamese hooker two days after he left me!!
Verbatim Tarot had told her what she would holler at Chad, in answer to her question. We did not think to ask why.
Tarot Stories, Tarot Verbatim
Here is one of my very early clients. I learned something from her story, and pass it on to you.
Older lady seeks Prince Charming, only Soul Mates Need Apply. Single and available, she was: Put capitals on that. Yes, she sought The One like a hunter seeks a trophy bull, the one with the big antlers. She wanted to know when, where, how she would find him, wanted to know what kind of life he was living, what he was doing now. She persisted, in the absence of the trophy bull, for almost three years, with regular Tarot inquiries – reading after reading. I actually felt guilty at the way she was spending her money on Verbatim Tarot and me!
Tarot represented Prince Charming with the Knight of Cups, a card that means your boyfriend, an agreeable affectionate fellow, a nice guy who makes the first move in a romance. I called this card The Warm Puppy for her.
At some points in her Tarot readings, the Warm Puppy could be more than one person. That was clear. But the characteristics of the man were the same, unwaveringly. As she asked what was going on in Warm Puppy’s life, we cataloged a change of jobs to self-employment, divorce, moving to another town, financial ups and downs, the death of his mother, and an illness that persisted and was resolved. All the while, every once in a while, that dratted announcement came up that he could be more than one person!
She met a promising dude. “Is this the Warm Puppy?” YES!
Everything was going well. So smoothly, no hitches. Just like the Tarot had described it would. As she dated the man, she asked him questions about his life story, and paid attention to when these events he told her about happened.
It’s all in the details
Well, this lady took notes. Let me tell you she took notes! – in detail! She was a detail oriented dame anyway, you know? She took out her notes and compared them to all those Verbatim Tarot readings, which she had also put dates on.
And they lined up perfectly: All the times of the change of jobs, the self-employment, the divorce, the move to another state, the financial status, the mother’s demise, and his illness and its cure lined up with what he told her. So Verbatim Tarot had been tracking this one person even as it said there were other potential mates.
Remember the characteristics stayed the same even as Tarot said there were more than one of these potential soul mates? But she found the one the Tarot tracked when she asked what was happening in Warm Puppy’s life?
Who you are and where you are determine the exact individual you meet. If you simultaneously occupied ten different cities as who you are now, ten different jobs, ten different addresses and lives, those lives would follow the same or very similar pattern because of who you are – probably similar to the way traced twins have parallel lives. You would find ten different love interests, all of whom would have characteristics in common that are a product of who is attracted to the kind of person you are!
This is what this client taught me: Who we are determines who we are going to be with. You meet the person who interlocks with what is happening in your story. Put that in your pipe and smoke it!
Handsome Herd Bull and His Ladies
Tarot Stories, Tarot Verbatim
Analytical Tarot Makes Her Her Own Person
Nine of Pentacles
Some cultures encourage a tribal consciousness that is foreign to the American woman’s mentality. These gals tend to think of themselves not as individuals but as family and community members. They honor taboos instinctually. They do not have their own money and are not honored.
A determined lady overcomes family programming step by step. It doesn’t matter where the lady was born; it is the family and community culture that forges the mindset. Several individuals, each from a different culture, have presented with this mindset and have become ‘someone else’ over many Tarot Verbatim readings. Each of them through accurate Tarot business advice has money of her own.
Listening is the largest part of analytical psychic work. Listening not only for the question but for whom it is coming from. Listening so as to frame the response to go in the same angle the question came out. The Rider-Waite Tarot makes that last part easier; somehow Verbatim Tarot honors a person’s level of tolerance as well as style of comprehension. Digestible answers a person can trust.
One such lady frequently recounted having to do burdensome things for others ‘because they are family.’ When I got around to casually inquiring ‘Would he or she do that for you?’ her quick reply ‘Of course not.’ led me to ask why, and let it drop. A few times. ‘If you are family to them, aren’t they family to you?’ prompted the famous ‘That’s different.’ response. ‘How is that different?’ should always sound both rhetorical and quizzical, never challenging.
I was so proud of her when … well, because I hollered at her … she drove at night in a Nova Scotian style icy blizzard some distance to her dead father’s house, a house she feared being in even in daytime when he was alive – a haunted rat-infested abode – to retrieve the Will from the safe, take it to Kinko’s to copy, and put the copy in the safe so her scheming sibling would not be able to forge it. Tarot analysis told of the forgery in detail. My idea about what to do, yes.
The angels were proud of her when she executed the plan perfectly – right up to the straight face when she was presented the copy of the Will by the same sister who would have forged it. Right up to the telephone conversation with Mr. Senior Partner when Mr. Junior Partner would not cut her the inheritance check, the telephone conversation in which she innocently speculated ‘I don’t understand why Mr. Junior Partner doesn’t put that check in the mail; he must know I could serve him with a Writ of Bodily Attachment.’ Lawyers don’t know about this scary law I learned about in Court Reporting U – a law that would have Mr. Senior Partner dragged physically before a judge to explain why he had not done what he was supposed to.
My brave client’s abusive husband was aghast when, on a Saturday morning before the postman arrives at their home, the six-figure check … stamp still wet … was in the box. This mob dude knew ‘she would never get that money’ and here her check was a result of only her one phone call!
That check was a turning point in her life. Partly because of the promptings of analytical Tarot advice, she was on her way to being her own full-fledged self despite her early training. Well, she never looked back. Many hard-to-believe adventures later, she is a warrior spirit with a heart of indigo. She grew into her own spiritual mastery. She can and does handle things that would scare the heck out of me.
Buddies Hanging Out Together
Tarot Stories, Tarot Verbatim
Well, hello there!
Tarot Accuracy in Business Advice when Office Politics are in Crisis
Two different clients, both senior staff, telephoned several times for Tarot analysis over the same two-month-or-so period about the same scenario: a ‘problem child’ employee who had to go, and it wasn’t going to be easy. Each problem child had backing – had influence enough that removal would be like removing a tick. One business place requesting advice was a resort and the other a treatment center.
A group of employees gathered around the speaker phone with my client to participate in the analysis of the business. That is how frustrated coworkers were with this prima donna.
Questions for the Verbatim Tarot were mainly about who was aligned in what way with whom, which senior player backed what other senior person’s view, as well as what move the target individual would make to retain his or her position. Predictions were that each culprit would exit with not much drama, not much sequella.
Tarot Verbatim analysis for business can deconstruct a complex social situation accurately and in detail step by step over days. Both these situations were office politics gone malignant.
In both of the stories, the Tarot tracked things spot-on, identified winning strategy, and was correct about the outcome. I felt like a bystander at a wreck, directing traffic. All’s well that ends well.
Tarot Stories, Tarot Verbatim
Lost in Space
Marilyn is a runway model, a lady so charming and gracious that her exes know her other exes support her and each still continues to do so. This usually charming gracious lady, right now is spitting nails. “Never will I see Stacy again.” Stacy is her clairvoyant psychic of many years.
You know when you write something perfect and it goes bye-bye? – how you just can’t get back in that original groove. Her love letter did that. Yes, it was gone. Gone, and Stacy told her it was in an airplane going ’round and ’round, caught in the seat. Marilyn had been nowhere near any airplane. “I’ll never talk to Stacy again.”
It’s two weeks later, and Marilyn is telling me “I found the letter in my house. Stacy is so wrong.”
I am learning Verbatim Tarot from Tarot itself at the time Marilyn is educating me about her experience with her friend. I am curious as to exactly what transpired between Marilyn and Stacy because I have encountered Tarot Verbatim describing situations in quirky ways that, if you thought about it, were accurate.
Marilyn says the letter was on the dresser she remembered it being on – that it had fallen but never made it all the way to the floor: It had lodged in the unfinished back of the furniture.
“Stacy saw exactly what happened,” I told my disbelieving friend. Ask her: what she saw was the letter suspended in the air, which doesn’t make sense, so she deduced the airplane to make sense of what she saw. How well I knew that ‘I CAN’T TELL HER THAT!’ feeling. It will get you every time! The letter was suspended in mid-air all right. The letter was caught, all right.
The point at which the input from the psychic subconscious process ceases to be raw – whether the message is Tarot or is channeling vision or sound – is akin to the point your vehicle gets off the interstate highway and makes that turn onto common city streets. You are no longer flying instinctually with minimal interference from your surroundings. You have to watch out for traffic now. Now you have to apply the common logic of daily life to the insubstantial intuitive process.
The psychic, by Tarot or any other means, is also an interpreter. Being a reader is two jobs. It is a two-step process to give another person the information he seeks in a reading.
Part One is the raw material, is the intuitive input or the psychic vision. That’s the fun part. It has its own degree and kind of relevancy and accuracy. You will deliver this as literally as possible to avoid interfering in the message. Part Two is the interpretation, is the part that shows. It is just as important as the intuitive part is. What that Tarot spread says, and how you express what it says, are equally important.
You, the psychic reader, apply the meaning of the intuitive pictures or sound or whatever to the real-life question; and you express that in the language the questioner will understand and accept. As in any interpreted conversation, you are talking to that specific person, and it is your business to get the thought into that person’s head and heart.
Ideally, logic and intuition blend seamlessly into the final product.
Four Card Spreads, Tarot Stories, Tarot Verbatim
Chasing
Two of Pentacles
Knight of Wands, Three of Wands, Eight of Pentacles
Knight of Wands – to pursue
Three of Wands – continuing
Eight of Pentacles – doing the same thing over and over, like a routine
Two of Pentacles – around and around
The question behind your Daily Spread messages is “Tell the people who come to this blog about their day, what is happening to them.” The cards above made one of the first ‘Daily Spread’ messages when Stef and I were birthing this Tarot Verbatim blog. I, Emily looked at it and said “I CAN’T PUT THAT IN THERE!” So I did another one.
When I told Stef about the spread that said “going around in circles over and over again chasing forever,” she laughed a lot. She said, “I have noticed that these spreads match what my cats are doing.” (Stef rescues cats and cares for them like kings.) “And here’s this gray kitten: He has been CHASING HIS TAIL all day without letup with great energy, and I’ll bet he will be doing that tomorrow as well.” (which did happen!)
I thought about this. At the time I lay down these cards, guess who was the main person going to the blog looking at it? – because it wasn’t fully up yet, and only a few people had been told about it. Well, Stef, of course.
SO the cards were describing what was happening in HER life. Accurately. Those cats are her life, are what is happening in her house.
This echoes another story that happened when I was teaching myself the Tarot, which turned out to be Tarot Verbatim, way back in 1980. I will tell you that story in a few days.
