Deborah Lipp - Tarot Interactions: Become More Intuitive, Psychic & Skilled at Reading Cards

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Tarot Interactions: Become More Intuitive, Psychic & Skilled at Reading Cards 2015 by Deborah Lipp.

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E-book ISBN: 9780738746210

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Cover illustration by Elisabeth Alba

Editing by Andrea Neff

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Lipp, Deborah, 1961

Tarot interactions : become more intuitive, psychic, and skilled at reading cards / by Deborah Lipp. First Edition.

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To Melissa Payne

Thank you for changing my life.

Thanks and Acknowledgments

Thanks first to my parents, and my paternal grandparents, who played endless games with me and taught me that cards feel good in my hands.

Thanks to Susan, my first tarot teacher, and Lorraine, another gifted teacher.

Thanks to every tarot reader with whom Ive ever had an in-depth or ever-so-brief discussion about the cards. Youve all made a difference. Im afraid to name names here, because I know Ive forgotten bunches of them, but I can at least mention Isaac Bonewits, Arthur Lipp-Bonewits, Nybor, Robin Wood, and Tzipora Katz. My tarot students have made a difference as well, including William Seligman, Orien LaPlante, and Barbara Giacalone.

Thanks to Eden Gray, my companion all these years.

Thanks to my tarot clients who allowed their readings to be used in this book. You are anonymous but not forgotten.

A huge thank you to my editor, Elysia Gallo, who made this a much better book despite my best efforts to stop her.

Contents

List of

: Interaction with the Psyche

: Interaction with Other Disciplines

: Interaction with Pattern

: Interactions with Layout and Position

: Interactions Between and Among Cards

: Interaction with Language

: Interaction with the Querent

: Interaction with Experimentation and Play

Illustrations and Chart

Chart:

Introduction

I met my friend Susan in 1982. At that time, my life was rather dramatically in flux. I had just left my first husband, moved in with my mom, and changed jobs. I was twenty-one years old and it seemed like Id already lived a lifetime.

When we first met, Susan pulled out her tarot cards and gave me a reading. I had questions about my ex-husband, and we identified one of the cards in the reading as him. She then took this card, moved it to the center of the layout, shuffled the rest of the cards, and did another readingon him. Then she handed me the deck and said, Now you read me. Id never read before, but I was aided by the fact that this was Aleister Crowleys Thoth deck, and almost every card has a keyword of some kind on it. While most decks give you the names of the majors (Death, the Sun, and so on), this one labels (for example) the Two of Swords as Peace, the Five of Cups as Disappointment, and the Six of Wands as Victory. It was a little like having a cheat sheet, and I dove right in. Thus a lifetime of tarot reading began.

I come from a card-playing family. We started with all the little-kid gamesGo Fish, War, Michigan Rummybut quickly progressed to more interesting fare like Hearts, Gin Rummy, Oh Hell, and Double Solitaire. Cards feel natural in my hands, and shuffling relaxes me. As soon as I touched the tarot cards, I knew these were for me.

I didnt stick with the Thoth deck. I admired Lady Frieda Harriss artwork more than I loved it, and the sense of chaotic movement in the cards didnt appeal to me. I acquired a Rider-Waite deck (often known today as Waite-Smith, the most popular deck in the world) and a secondhand copy of Mastering the Tarot (1973) by Eden Gray, a book I still recommend.

My first goal was to get off book, as they say in theater. I worked daily to memorize the card meanings, flipping through the deck like flashcards until I had a few words for each card, both upright and reversed. Mastering the Tarot is an ideal book for this purpose, giving pithy, concise, yet deep meanings.

While memorizing, I was also reading the cards, first by flipping through the book for the meaning of every card, then by checking the book only when I got stuck. I read for myself and my sister, who was seventeen and game, and for any friends who were interested. Susan and I continued to read for each other, and I continued to learn from her and study on my own. By the time I was twenty-five, I was reading professionally, and Ive done so ever since. I taught my first class in tarot around 1993, and some of my former students are today professional readers.