April 4th, 2009 artsbook
It can be quite over-whelming starting with both upright and reversed meanings when you are new to Tarot, so it is usually best to learn the upright cards first until you have a firm understanding of the numerous dimensions and aspects involved in a card. To understand the many facets of that card in different positions and different spreads is also helpful. This allows you to add your own meaning to the card through your experience, rather than simply following the often dogmatic meanings from a Tarot card book.
Introducing reversed cards to your Tarot spreads can be extremely beneficial for a number of reasons. Firstly it increase the breadth and depth of your reading ability and opens your readings up to another seventy-six new meanings,. Secondly,using reversed cards can enlight when you feel you have learnt all you need to know already and open a new door to Tarot study. Lastly, most Tarot boards, such as the Tarot Certification Board, require readers to be able to read reversed cards in order to progress in certification and recognition.
There are a number of ways you can introduce reversed cards to your Tarot deck. You can shuffle first, then split the deck in two and turn one half upside-down. Until you are satisfied the cards are well reversed,continue doing this. You can also use this method to ensure that different cards get reversed for different readings when doing readings.
Allow your cards to naturally reverse themselves so you can take a more passive approach. For example,the client may accidentally place the cards back upside-down when a card may fall out and you place it back without checking it is the right way up. However, it will take a longer time for your cards to reversed themselves, and the same cards may stay reversed for a long time.
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April 3rd, 2009 artsbook
A Tarot Journal is a personal journal that contains your own notes about each Tarot card, readings you may have done, and spreads you have used or created yourself. A personal collection of all things is basic,Tarot can help you to study and develop your Tarot skills.
This journal's benefits are so enormous. Throughout the course of your Tarot study and journal writing,not only are you learning from texts and other standard resources,but you are also applying your own personal experience to the study of Tarot. Your own experience related on tarot increases your ability to develop depth and breadth of understanding the Tarot. Since the Tarot is a very personal tool ,it’s so priceless that taps into our conscious and subconscious. A true understanding of the Tarot cards will not stem from simply reading numerous texts, rather it will stem from gut instincts and personal intuition.
A Tarot Journal will help your ability to read the Tarot and also aid in your spiritual development. Each card holds a personal message that can be used for daily meditation. Each card can be seen as vital on any given day and can truly help us in finding out who we are and what our purpose is. In fact, understanding the Tarot can inspire us and take us to new levels if we allow it.
Of course, you will need to begin buy purchasing a Tarot Journal. Whether you opt for a cheap notebook, or an elaborate expensive journal is up to you. Some beautiful designs on the Internet and in New Age shops are sold by many people,or might even like to make your own. Find whatever you have time for and whatever suits you.
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March 28th, 2009 artsbook
My answer is positive "yes!!" Here’s why…..
If you are going to spend years of your life learning about the tarot cards, their levels of meaning, their differing interpretations, the working peculiarities of different layouts, you will spend many many hours in study. Of course many of this will be enlightening,fascinating and do great help to your own development. But some of it will be very hard work indeed.
Think of that the permutations on a theme with 78 cards, each with several layers of meaning, you will have to understand completely. Types of layout with its own quirks and oddities demanding that you comprehend its working thoroughly. Each layout having different placements for the cards, each of which will slightly alter its meaning.And of course you read one or more card positions against each other which is demanded by certain layouts …..starting to fetch the idea??
Next,if you'll read for people, you will also have to counsel them to a degree. You can’t go telling a person to alter every single aspect of their life without both relating to their personal needs, and giving them support. To outline important options for them, approach telling them difficult things carefully, help them to think of themselves as adequate and worthy human beings is what you need to do. So you will have to understand quite a bit about how people work and how they can get their needs fulfilled.
The work to invest in your psychic development is also you have to do. People WILL be able to read Tarot if he is willing to put in the dedicated study to understand decks and cards,. The difference between the good Tarot reader and the great Tarot reader is entirely dependent on their psychic ability.
To read Tarot is NOT a gift. It is a hard-earned and responsible skill. It takes years to reach the extent that you are able to read efficiently. At this point, you can see yourself as an expert. And you have every right to charge a fee for the service you perform like all other professionals who have trained in other areas!!
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March 26th, 2009 artsbook
This is an issue I have often wondered about so far as Tarot reading is concerned. To the extent where, later, they act out the details of the reading they have been given, how much power does the reader have to subconsciously affect the querent?
Under normal circumstances,The process of Tarot reading is a very intimate one, both parties are receptive and open at a psychic level. This being so, any information imparted during the reading period will infiltrate quite deeply into the mind of the querent. It is, therefore, possible that afterward the querent will behave in accordance with the reading given, thereby creating the events they were told would take place.
This would certainly be very influential when you do the sort of reading where you tell a person that they will undertake a course of action they had never previously contemplated. Most experienced tarot readers will have, on many occasions, predicted things in readings that the querent rejects as ‘something I have never even considered’. But of course they are bound to consider it once the idea is there aren’t they?
Looking back over my own experiences, I recall the querent who believed she wasn’t ‘clever enough’ to undertake extended study. Her reading indicated subsequent success ad dedicated work. Last year, She left University with degree in hand. She said that reading is the thing that really made her start seriously considering study…so…in this case,self-fulfilling prophecy.
A tarot reader’s words can surface in a querent’s mind at the most unlikely times. With unpredictable consequences. About what we say to our querents-they are, in some ways, at our mercy,we have a special obligation to be very thoughtful. Most specifically we need to be sure to temper every single reading we give with love, respect and compassion. Peoples’ lives can be changed literally by reading for them.
It means that to leave the querent feeling as positive and hopeful as possible ,we have a duty to attempt, no matter what we find in a reading.
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March 25th, 2009 artsbook
As a Tarot reader, I’ve used my cards to answer a lot of ‘outward looking’ questions – anything from locating stolen property to predicting real estate purchases. Of course, the Tarot are wonderful for answering this type of question, but they are also perfectly suited to answering 'inward looking' questions. In other words, they are useful for examining our motivations, thoughts and emotions. For someone like myself, interested in personal development, they are a veritable gold mine of information!
I first became aware of this when I was still in the learning stages with Tarot card books. I'd read that it is important to take note of any patterns we see in the cards, and of the interactions of the cards. As you know, it's often the case that an individual will repeatedly draw a certain card that acts as a 'significator' - a card that represents them in a spread. In my own case,while a friend might repeatedly draw the King of Wands, etc, the Queen of Swords most often came up.
But what, I wondered, could this tell me about myself? And how useful could this information be? Over time,I found more interesting answers.
When a Tarot spread indicated that others are seeing me as the Queen of Wands, for example, I can interpret this in a number of ways (by queuing on this Queen and the other cards involved). My confidence may intimidate Others or they may feel that I can be looked to for honest answers. If I'm seen as the Queen of Cups, they may think I'm a 'push-over' or see me as artistic. And if I am the Queen of Pentacles, there's a chance they feel I'm too materialistic or admire my parenting techniques. Knowing this,to open dialogue on common ground, depending on the situation, I can make the choice to use these interpretations to adjust my behavior.
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