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Tarot-reading is one of the oldest esoteric practices. Lore has it that the art of reading tarot cards has existed for over 600 years. Yet tarot is more popular than ever in our modern society because the cards speak to our most instinctual and primal selves through their stories, meanings, and symbols.
In The Tarot Companion, best-selling tarot author Liz Dean reveals the messages and mystery of the cards from the Major to Minor Arcana, as well as how to cleanse and shuffle your deck. This beautiful and accessible little volume lets you quickly and accurately use the cards to reveal an inner truth, gain insight into a pressing question, or divine what may unfold in your life.
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LIZ DEAN
author of The Art of Tarot and The Golden Tarot
Tarot is a system of archetypes, a picture-book of the human condition, reflecting our states of mind and stages of life. Over the past six hundred years, people have consulted the cards for religious instruction, spiritual insight, self-knowledge, and divining the future. The ancient symbols we see on the cards are designed to stimulate our intuition, connecting us with our higher selves or our divine or spiritual aspect.
INCREASED SELF-AWARENESS: Tarot gives you space to focus on yourself.
ENHANCED CREATIVITY: A tarot reading can offer a different perspective on a problem and innovative ways forward.
BETTER-HONED INTUITION AND PSYCHIC ABILITY: Tarot helps you see probable future events and influences.
A WAY TO EMPOWER OTHERS TO FIND THEIR SPIRITUAL PATH.
Anyone can learn to work with tarot and can benefit greatly from its insights; all you need is an open mind and a willingness to trust the impressions you sense during a reading.
Myriad versions and styles of tarot decks have been created through the years. The tarot deck shown throughout this book is the Universal Waite, an enhanced Rider-Waite deck. The original Rider-Waite was devised by A. E. Waite and published by Rider, London. It is considered the most influential contemporary deck and has inspired many variants. The deck should properly be known as the Rider-Waite Smith, to honor the illustrator, Pamela Colman Smith.
Tarot cards, like people, draw in energy. Its important not to let others touch your cards casually; they hold your energies and intentions, and are personal to you. Here are ways to attune to your new deck, cleanse the cards before a reading session, and protect them when you are not using them.
The process of connecting with your cards is called attuning. The more connected you feel to your cards, the more accurate, insightful, and inspiring your readings can be.
Before you begin reading a new deck of tarot cards, attune to them for exactly seven days by sleeping with your cards under your pillow. Look at the cards daily and touch them so your energy becomes imprinted upon them. Some readers attune to their cards through visualization. Try this:
Hold your cards in your right hand.
Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and visualize light pouring down through the crown of your head, third-eye chakra, throat, and heart, then down your right arm, into your right hand, and into the cards.
Imagine your cards filling with pure light. If you work with spirit guides or angels, ask them to come close and to help and protect you during the reading.
Open your eyes when you are ready.
When you take out your cards, clear away any old energy as follows:
Hold the cards in one hand and fan them out.
Gently blow on the card edges. You can do this in one breath.
Put the cards back in a neat pile, still holding them in one hand, and then knock firmly once on the top of the deck. It is ready to use.
Your cards hold your energy imprint. Cards may pick up extraneous or negative energy from people and spaces, which can affect your readings. So when you are not using your cards, protect them from the environment, both physically and energetically. Keep them wrapped in a cloth of a dark color, such as deep purple cotton or silk, and in a tarot bag or a box.
First, find a peaceful space you feel relaxed and comfortable in. Make sure your space has a flat, clean surface you can lay your cards on. Most readers put down a reading cloth first to protect the cards both physically, as well as energetically, from direct contact with the surface youre working on. The reading cloth is usually the silk cloth you wrap your cards in when theyre not in use, but any piece of fabric you like will do.
After youve cleansed the deck, shuffle the cards for a few moments. Relax and allow your feelings and questions to surface. To choose the cards for a reading, you can either use the fan method or cut the deck. The fan method is best when you want just a few cards for a reading, while cutting the deck suits more elaborate layouts that need lots of cards, such as the Celtic Cross.
WHEN READING FOR YOURSELF: Spread all the cards facedown in a fan shape. Choose the cards one by one with just your left hand (known as the hand of fate), from anywhere in the fan, and place them in front of you, still facedown, following the spread layout you have chosen.
WHEN READING FOR ANOTHER PERSON: Have the person shuffle the deck. Take the deck from the recipient and fan out the cards for him or her. Ask the recipient to choose the cards from the fan with his or her left hand and pass them to you so you can lay them out, keeping the cards facedown.
WHEN READING FOR YOURSELF: Cut the deck twice with your left hand so you have three piles facedown on the table. Choose one pile to become the top of the deck and gather up the other two piles underneath it. Lay out the cards according to the spread you have chosen by dealing the cards from the top of the deck and placing them facedown in front of you.
WHEN READING FOR ANOTHER PERSON: Ask the recipient to shuffle the cards. Have the recipient split the deck into three piles using his or her left hand and then choose one pile. Gather up the remaining two piles for the person and place their chosen pile on top. Then you lay out the cards.
When turning over the cards, always flip them sidewaysfrom left to rightnot from top to bottom or vice versa, or you may be turning the card upside down. Doing so can give it a different meaning.
Consider the cards before you look up their meaning; think about what aspect of a card you are drawn to first. This is your internal guidance directing you to the most relevant meaning of the card for your reading. This also means that the cards can offer a varying significance each time you look at them. Similarly, when you read for other people, you will find that you dont give a card the same interpretation for every person who gets that card in a readingyou are personalizing the reading according to your intuition.
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