T. Susan Chang - Tarot Correspondences: Ancient Secrets for Everyday Readers

Llewellyn Publications

Woodbury, Minnesota

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Tarot Correspondences: Ancient Secrets for Everyday Readers 2018 by T. Susan Chang.

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First e-book edition 2018

E-book ISBN: 9780738755762

Book design by Bob Gaul
Mystical Tarot Deck on cover Lo Scarabeo

Cover design by Kevin R. Brown

Editing by Laura Kurtz
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Tarot Decks Used:
Animal Totem Tarot 2016 by Leeza Robertson and Eugene Smith, Llewellyn Publications
Dame Fortunes Wheel Tarot 2009, Lo Scarabeo
Mystical Tarot 2017 by Luigi Costa, Lo Scarabeo
Pictorial Key Tarot 1910 by Arthur Edward Waite
Steampunk Tarot 2012 by Barbara Moore and Aly Fell, Llewellyn Publications
Tabula Mundi 2014 by M.M. Meleen
Tarot de Marseille 2016 by Camoin and Jodorowsky, Lo Scarabeo

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Contents

: Correspondence Tables

Correspondences for the 22 Major Arcana

• Correspondences for the 4 Suits

• Correspondences for the 40 Numeric Minor Arcana (Ace10)

• Correspondences for the 16 Court Cards

• : The Readers Guide to Using Correspondences

  One : Head in the Clouds, Mud on Your Boots!

  Two : The sign of life eternal is writ on earth and sky.

  Three : A Tale of Ten Great Mysteries

  Four : Climbing the Tree of Unknowable Fruit

  Five : Interpretation, Creation, Magic

  Six : The Power of the Pen

  Seven : So Mote It Be!

  : Individual Card Tables

Acknowledgments

When I picked up my first Rider Waite deck in 1997, I was simply intrigued and curious like anyone else. I had no idea that over the next two decades, tarot would go from being a pastime to an obsession to a belief system to a way of life. For the most part I conducted my tarot life under the radar until 2015, when I stumbled into the global tarot community on Facebook. Since then, many readers across the world have shared their company, their conversation, and the joy of tarot with me.

First and foremost I would like to thank my friend, near-neighbor, and collaborator, Mel Meleen. Tarot Correspondences has an esoteric twin in the Fortunes Wheelhouse podcast, which Mel and I launched and hosted during the writing of this book. Fortunes Wheelhouse has helped to fuel and inspire this book, and works as a card-by-card audio companion to much of the material explored herein. I am indebted to Mel for her friendship and conversation, and the answers to many last-minute frantic questions on technical points in this book that no one else would comprehend. My thanks go also to our podcast listeners and the Fortunes Wheelhouse Academy Facebook group for their encouragement, patronage, and fellowship.

Peter (Spiffo) Stuart, accomplice on the opposite side of the world, virtually held my hand as I found my way into the tarot community and a life hijacked by the cards. The Department of Akashic Records has your number, my friend.

Thanks to Marcus Katzs Tarot Professionals Facebook group and the Tarot Readers Development and Study Group (among others) Ive enjoyed the fellowship and encouragement of many online tarot friends around the world, among them Jason Colmer, Djamila Zon, Michael Bridge- Dickson, and Sasha Bekier. Ted Myatt is an unflagging source of bright ideas and experimental practices.

Inspirit Crystals in Northampton, Massachusetts, where I read cards weekly, has offered a congenial environment for the practical application of my studiesas well as an enviably stocked bookshelf where I could conduct research when business was slow. Bud, Barry, Emily, Asherah, Rosie, Don, Drew, et. al.thank you for welcoming me into the Inspirit family. And Josh Berkowitz, thank you for lending a helping hand as I crashed, grasping for purchase and scratched by twigs, through the ineffable branches of the Tree of Life.

My thanks also go to the customers of Tarotista on Etsy, whose enthusiastic support for my Arcana Cases has helped to underwrite these esoteric adventures.

A number of tarot luminaries have lighted my way. Wald and Ruth Amberstone helped get me started in tarot way back in 1996, at the Tarot School in New York. Rachel Pollack, both in print and in delightful person, has been a source of inspiration and entertainment. In the final stages of this books composition, Christine Payne-Towler defeated a host of email gremlins to share her astro-alpha-numeric tour de force with me.

The astrologer Chris Warnock shared his incisive observations with me over the course of several absorbing conversations on the subject of divination. And the astrologer Austin Coppock generously shared his insights on the relationship between tarot, decans, and much more.

At Llewellyn I would like to offer one million thank-yous to editor and tarot diva Barbara Moore, whose clarity and kindness have been a beacon in the construction of this book. I cant thank her enough for getting what I was trying to do with this book from the first tentative email pitch. Nanette Stearns and Bob Gaul have tackled the complex production challenges posed by this book with deftness and grace. Special thanks go to production editor Laura Kurtz, who deserves an alchemically transmuted gold medal for wrangling innumerable tables crawling with glyph text. And publicist Vanessa Wright helped walk this blinking and bespectacled book into the light of day.

Thank you to the many local friends who have put up with hours of tarot sermons and practice sessionsparticularly Mark Nickels, Ivy Mabius, and the members of the on-again, off-again Tarot of the Valley group.

Above all, thank you to my familyRandy, Noah, and Zoefor putting up with me and my eight jobsand all the morning chanting. The house may not be clean, but it is certainly thoroughly banished!

Introduction

Using Tarot Correspondences
in Everyday Tarot

If youre reading this book, chances are youre a tarot reader. Maybe youve been reading for decades, or maybe you just picked up your first deck. In either case, you are a traveler on a lifelong journey working with the cards. And for one reason or another you have a hunch that a strong, wonky dose of esoteric knowledge is going to help you become a better reader. Enter the correspondencesa paradise of neatly organized data points for your inner nerd/witch/wizard/systems fanatic.