Ly De Angeles - Tarot Theory and Practice: A Revolutionary Approach to How the Tarot Works

Ly de Angeles is a tarot consultant with a local, national, and international clientele. She has taught tarot and similar subjects for many years. Her reputation for uncanny and startling accuracy has spread by word of mouth rather than advertising. She is high priestess of the coven of Wildwood Gate, whose members are spread around the world, and she has been involved in the occult arts and sciences since being introduced to them when she was a young girl. She lives in Australia. Her other books published by Llewellyn include Witchcraft: Theory and Practice, When I See the Wild God, and novels The Quickening and The Shining Isle.

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FROM LLEWELLYN PUBLICATIONS

Witchcraft: Theory and Practice

When I See the Wild God

The Quickening

The Shining Isle

FROM WILDWOODGATE

The Feast of Flesh and Spirit

Genesis: Legend of Future Past

FROM UNITY/PRISM, UK

The Way of the Goddess

The Way of Merlyn

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Part Two-Tarot, the Living Tradition

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Part Three-Practicing Your Craft

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I have been interpreting Tarot for thirty years and teaching it for twenty.

Realizing that there are a plethora of books available on the subject has meant that I have neglected giving you my own teaching technique, not wanting to add simply one more stick onto the pile.

But it's time. This is the book I have always said I would/ could never write. I learned these techniques, initially, through an oral tradition and over the years that is also how I have taught it, and I have needed to become sufficiently competent as a writer to attempt this!

I teach what are called Walking the Web-Tarot Collectives on average every six months, with never more than ten students in each class, who train intensively for eight hours a day, one day a week for ten weeks, always with copious homework. While many have gone on to become competent readers, there are also many who decided it was too big a risk to their personal lives and were simply pleased to have acquired the metaphysical knowledge and understanding.

Some of you will become accomplished in this art, but many of you will not, as not everyone can become a Tarot reader. That's okay, because it's better to learn as much as you can, do the training and experiment, but also to be comfortable with yourself if it doesn't end up being your thing.

When Tarot becomes aware of you and you change in accordance with its nature (and never the other way around) you become Tarot. This process begins with the realization that nothing is separate-that everything is a unique expression of the Whole that is life, the universe, and everything-is the ultimate, ultimate liberation!

Part One will focus primarily on breaking down traditional understandings of such things as time, matter, and energy, how prophecy works, the laws of cause and effect, and certain imperative understandings such as language and literality; the implications of divination to the practitioner and the public; responsibility, and objectivity. There are a few exercises in this section.

Part Two discusses the Tree of Life and its relationship to life-both macrocosmically and microcosmically-and, as the glyph of this system is used as the central theme of a client consultation, this deeper knowledge is integral.

You will then progress to the relationship between the Tree of Life, Astrology, and Tarot until we arrive at the information on the Major Arcana and the Soul's Journey. From there you will gain a definitive understanding of all the cards, and the keywords necessary for interpretation.

Part Three is your practice workshop and Part Four is a guide to going professional.

I have broken the work down into units so that you can take your time studying. There are twelve altogether. You can progress as slowly or as quickly as you choose, but these twelve units represent a symbolic twelve-month training process.

It is advisable to purchase your pack of Tarot cards before you begin the program as you will be using the deck throughout our time together. We won't be using the cards initially, but it is good to familiarize yourself with the images and find the box or make the bag that you will keep them in to keep them away from others' hands (most necessary).