TAROT SCAM

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Please be aware of a rather nasty scam in London involving people who call themselves tarot readers. They will offer a very cheap reading (around £10), probably giving some accurate information, but then will say you’ve been cursed by someone. They’ll offer to lift the curse and say prayers for your wellbeing – if you pay for it. The price I was told about for this ‘service’ was £350!!

As a professional tarot reader, I wouldn’t usually deal with curse-lifting, though I would certainly be able to see from the cards whether there actually was some dark energy around. Lifting a (real) curse would be carried out by a reputable ritual magician, and would never cost that much – at most it would be around £50-£75 for a session.

The person I heard this from was sure it was a scam, but was naturally still a little concerned, so she came along for a reading to double-check. She was a lovely, outgoing woman who looked like she would have a very successful, creative life. She took a Deva card to see what the higher levels around her were, and was very happy when she got the Archangel Michael: the warrior angel, he would be all the protection she needed!

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Tarot Conference

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The Tarot Association of the British Isles is having their 10th Anniversary Conference in Birmingham, England, on the 23rd and 24th July. Cilla Conway will be doing the opening talk on how to read with tarot and oracle decks simultaneously, Emma Sunerton Burl will provide a workshop called ‘Intuition with the Thoth’, which will be a workshop exploring a meditation technique to access the information contained within a Thoth card. John Matthews will talk about the Wildwood Tarot, Mary Collins draws both strands of her highly successful career together to demonstrate how to make your Tarot business as successful as possible, and finally Emma Sunerton-Burl provides a second workshop to explore key counselling skills that will lift your Tarot skills to new levels. Places are still available, if you’d like to attend. Check out the Conference link...

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Predictions…

Like everyone else, I’ve been watching the news recently with interest. At the moment attention is split primarily between Japan and Libya, so I decided to draw some cards about the situation. First, Libya: Asking about the outcome for the Libyans – Eight of Discs. That looks fairly good to me – the card of [...]

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What Makes a Bad Tarot Reader?

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The Tarocchi Players

This very early fresco by Agostino da Vaprio (born around 1457, possibly in Pavia) shows five obviously well-born (and slightly overdressed) members of the nobility playing Tarocchi, an early card game. The shape and size of these cards show them to be tarot cards (though whether they included what we called the Majors or not [...]

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Oracles vs Tarot

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The Art of Tarot

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Tarot workshop

Following their successful Foundations of Tarot last year, Hilde Liesens and Cilla Conway are running A Journey through the Major Arcana on the 21st August 2010. They will look at the origins, myths, history and lore of the tarot, while guided visualisations allow you to vividly experience the myths and archetypes of the Major Arcana [...]

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Does the Tarot deal in Polarities?

My experience has been that the tarot does not deal in polarities. It makes no value judgments about right or wrong. Although it suggests ways through the various dilemmas of life, it has no agenda. You can move on or stay where you are; you can be enlightened or at the beginning of your journey; [...]

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Strange thing, intuition

The way intuition works is weird. It is definitely like something other that kicks in. Normally with tarot you work with a low-level intuition – i.e., the base meanings are mostly the same but in each reading they may change slightly; you get a slightly different sense of what the card may mean to this [...]

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