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Working with the Tarot for Self-awareness (Part One)

We may never know for certain why the Tarot was developed, but given that the focus of medieval society was spiritual, we can be fairly sure that it had a spiritual underpinning.
Today, however, most taroists see the Majors as a concise and powerful description of the journey into self-awareness. Each one represents not only a [...]

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Developing Your Own Tarot Reading Style

When first you start working with the tarot, your ‘reading style’ is probably not going to be uppermost in your mind. You’ll no doubt be concerned about the meanings and how on earth to remember them, or, if you’re an intuitive reader, whether you can trust your intuition and how you’ll find enough to say [...]

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Kat Black’s Golden Tarot – More like a Blog!

I have acquired a new tarot deck. Up to now I have only used The Intuitive Tarot, basically because I know it so well and it reads so easily for me, but having recently become fascinated by all things medieval (re-enactment, demonstrating medieval painting techniques, etc), I had a look at some medieval tarot – [...]

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Tarot Card Meanings: Origins

As an introduction to Tarot Card Meanings, let me start with what we know about the origins of the Tarot as a means of divination.
The origins of the cards themselves are shrouded in mystery, though they were first described in 1377. It is possible that at first they were merely used as a game (Tarocchi); [...]

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Tarot Spreads – The Celtic Cross

Readings are laid out in Tarot Spreads, which you can use to help focus your own intuiton. Positions such as ‘yourself at present’, past influences’, ‘hopes and fears’ all help to focus your own judgement. As you grow more confident, you can invent your own intuitive spreads, examples of which will be posted over the [...]

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Tarot Card Meanings – The Major Arcana

In our consideration of Tarot Card Meanings, the journey of the Major Arcana is the path of spiritual self-awareness, each card symbolising not only the choices we meet along the way, but also – deeper and wilder – the archetypes that underpin each stage, which can be seen as degrees of initiation. The earliest mystery [...]

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Tarot Spreads: Three by Three

With the Three by Three Spread, people often will place three cards down and read them as Past, Present, Future.
Alternatively you can – as I have done in the following illustration – use these three cards to identify what is going on in specific areas of the client’s life – sometimes it will be along [...]

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Tarot Card Meanings: The Magician

A sudden conscious awareness of your personal path in life; new initiatives, creative ideas. The directed application of will to manifest an idea or a dream. The ability to tread a difficult path with confidence. Awareness of personal values so that ethical choices can be made. The interrelationship of many different dimensions, and how these [...]

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Working with the Tarot for Intuitive Guidance and Self-Development (Part 1)

Intuition is a gift we all have. We are all capable of slipping into a reverie or dreamlike, meditative state; and it is in this state that we make connections with the tarot card meanings as represented by their images.
Some of us access our intuition easily and for some it takes practice.
In self-development work, using [...]

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Working with Tarot Card Meanings for Intuitive Guidance and Self-Development (Part 2) – Reversals

Last time we talked about identifying with a card, chosen either at random or by visual selection and being open to any sub conscious messages that card might suggest to you.
I talked about how it might be if I drew the Three of Rods and concentrated on what the design is saying to me. [...]

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