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Nov 16

2011

The Art of Choosing a Tarot Significator

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Significators play a powerful role in Tarot readings. Not only do they identify a certain person, place, or object, they can heighten the focus of the reader as well as the client when addressing the question at hand.

Choosing the best card to signify the main subject of ones question can be challenging. The following are some guidelines to identify which images of the Tarot will bring the greatest amount of focus to your readings.

People Significators
The most common reason a reader chooses a Significator is to identify a particular person. Typically, these cards are selected based on a persons birth or astrological sign. In a traditional Tarot deck, Rods/Wands indicate someone born under a fire sign (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius); Cups represent the water signs (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces); Swords identify air signs (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius); the earth signs (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn) are represented by Pentacles. The King of a suit will represent a man, and the Queen, a women. Knights will represent a teen or young adult, and Pages can be used when asking about children. For example, if the question concerns a water sign man (Cancer, Scorpio, or Pisces) you would select the King of Cups as their Significator.

Nov 16

2011

Scanning a Tarot Reading

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Usually when we scan an email or an article, we miss important information or significant details. When we use scanning in a tarot reading, as a single step in a multi-step process, it becomes a powerful tool that creates a framework for the message.

A tarot reading is a tapestry made up of many threads: the reader, the querent (the person asking the question), the question, the spread, the deck used, and, of course, the cards drawn in the reading. As readers, we know that a reading is synthesis of all these elements. From there, we usually approach the reading by interpreting individual cards in their positions in the spread, in relation to the question asked.

That approach is, to me, like putting the cart before the horse. I use scanning a reading in the same way that an artist uses a sketch. A light pencil sketch is a great way to get a sense of the composition of a piecehow to all the parts fit together to create a meaningful and coherent whole? Scanning creates a framework, gives focus, and provides useful information.

Nov 16

2011

Creating The Gaian Tarot

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The Gaian Tarot emerged from the fertile ground of the archetypal imagery of the tarot combined with my deep love for a small island in the Pacific Northwest.

This deck was a long time in the making. The seed for it was planted in the 1980s when I was working with the Motherpeace Tarot and comparing it to traditional decks like the Rider-Waite-Smith. I was drawing pen-and-ink Goddess portraits in those days, and was intrigued by the idea of creating a tarot deck. But the thought of making seventy-eight separate pieces of artwork was daunting. I worked consistently with the tarot as a teacher and reader until the late 1990s when I set it aside for several years. During that time I moved to a small, rural island and the focus of my spiritual practice changed.

I heard Starhawk say that the earth is our sacred text, like the Bible or the Torah or the Koran, and that most of us are illiterate in it. I took that to heart. I began to spend the bulk of my time outside, observing the place where I lived and practicing wilderness-awareness skills. Just like as I had thrown myself into Goddess studies and tarot studies earlier, I became immersed in studying the native plants, birds, and animals of my chosen home. I grew herbs, became involved in the local community, and built a straw bale house with my husband. Even though I had been walking the path of Goddess spirituality for many years, my practice and relationship with the Great Mystery (whom I call Mama Gaia) deepened. I began to seek wisdom directly from the woods, the beach, and the meadows, without the intermediary of books or human teachers.

Nov 16

2011

Tarot: Predictive Readings

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Tarot is constantly evolving, both the deck itself and the way we use the cards. Since the mid-1970s, readers started taking a psychological, New Age approach to the cards. Despite several decades of books, workshops, and "educating the public," most people think of tarot cards as a tool for predicting the future. That stereotype comes, as most stereotypes do, from a truth, however old and distorted. Lenormand cards, playing cards, and tarot cards, as well as crystal balls and tea leaves have had the grave responsibility of revealing our futures.

It is easy to see how the trend shifted. People who were interested in tarot, scholars and teachers, authors and practitioners, shared in the changing worldview. The future was not, as some once thought, set in stone, but was ours to create. We had power in our lives. This extreme took many forms; one that is distasteful to many is the idea that everything that happens to us is our own doing?it came to us because we desired it, whether it was wealth, love, disease, or other. This trend, I think, reached it peak when Rhonda Byrnes The Secret was released. The Law of Attraction became part of popular culture, and many people who knew nothing else of New Age subjects knew the basic premise of The Secret.

However, Americas economy tanked?badly?and has been deeply depressed for years. What many people have experienced in the past few years is that they actually cannot create whatever they want, and sometimes things happen in their lives over which they have no control.

Nov 16

2011

Free Tarot Card Readings Online 2011

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Tarot cards, sometimes called "the book of divination of the gypsies," are known traditionally as a deck of 78 cards with various pictures on them. They have been used for hundreds of years to reveal hidden truths about and foresee the future of the person receiving the card reading. Tarot card decks come in many varieties-one online tarot card encyclopedia lists 70 major varieties of tarot cards ranging from "Tarot of the Cat People" to "Halloween Tarot" to "Dali Universal Tarot" designed by the famous artist, Salvador Dali.

Psychic tarot readers, commonly utilize tarot cards as a tool, and never adhere to any kind of pre-defined meanings of the cards themselves. However, they prefer their particular spiritual guidance and intuition to deliver an exact and significant reading based on the cards arranged in a spread before them.

A decent, dependable and veteran clairvoyant can also be competent to pick up on the energies present when offering a tarot card reading, and can typically relay personalized messages from loved ones or even associates that have passed over. You will need to remember however, the particular energies or spirits, will in most cases only convey the information they would like to get across, and may not invariably answer the questions you desire to ask.

Nov 16

2011

Tarot Reading and Card Meanings

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Tarot cards are a highly symbolic deck of cards consisting of 22 Major Arcana cards, and 56 Minor Arcana cards. Arcana mean secrets or mysteries, which is why the ability to decipher the symbols is half the gift of the translator. There are also Minor Arcana suits which consist of 4 court cards including the king, queen, knight and page in addition to 10 numbered cards. The card reader usually places them upside down and asks the person receiving the reading to pick cards for a "spread", which is a pre-selected pattern of how the cards will be laid out. A spread can be a quick yes or no pattern, a three ace spread, a Celtic spread or any number of other popular ones. After they are laid out the questioner turns over the appropriate number of cards for the spread and then the diviner, or card reader, deciphers them to expose the very mysteries the cards represent.

Each different card in tarot reading represents different traits, which are combined to give summary of events that have already happened, events that are happening and events to come. A tarot card reader precisely interprets the cards and works through symbolism. It takes time for a card reader to gain a strong influence on the cards, the longer he or she uses then the stronger the influence he or she has on the cards. A tight bond is created between the cards and their reader.

All you need to do is learn how and where you can look if you are gonna find the correct tarot card reading specialist. Most probably, you're going to discovered that the kind of tarot card specialist that can provide you their own services at no cost are will be falling within one of two categories. The primary group is a beginner tarot card reader who is trying to test out and improve their tarot card reading abilities. The second is usually a tarot card reading professional who's been practicing the art of reading tarot cards for several years. Giving a free tarot reading online, these two different types of tarot card readers have something to gain.

Nov 16

2011

Free Tarot Reading Love – Get the Most Out Of the Reading

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There are various problems in human life related to their existence and living. One of such problems is related to love life and people of almost all age groups suffer from this problem in one way or another. Free tarot reading love can help many people get a peek into the future and learn about the realities of their love life. There are many factors that work behind making your life good and comfortable. Happiness comes only after that. There is a typical strength and power in love and relationships that can turn out and make us the best people that we can be. The opposite is also true.

If you concentrate on your life you will feel that love was the strongest feeling that was within you right from the tender age. In fact immediately after a child starts understanding things and his surroundings, love starts developing as the strongest emotion. Love can be of different types and all aspects of life teach us a lot. The intense feeling results in lots of expectations and the negative and positive feeling is the outcome of this emotion. Love can be at times very obvious and natural thing in the world while on the other hand it can turn out to be the most complicated and overwhelming issue too.

Nov 16

2011

Online Free Tarot Card Readings are Real

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The time has gone when people used to visit the tarot card readers personally, today one can get the tarot card reading on a phone call or just by going online. There are plenty of websites that provide online free tarot card reading.

All you have to do now is to just surf the web and find out the websites which are dealing in this business to get an online tarot card reading.Online tarot card readings are generally free, they never cost you a penny. One must be able to make the most of the reading when going for it.

Knowing the future by online tarot card reading is quite in these days. Also online tarot card predictions are accurate as the websites presenting these readings are maintained by tarot card reading specialists.Most websites that offer psychic services will give a profile and evaluations from the individual readers so that you are able to make a much better choice.

Nov 16

2011

The Ever-Changing Zodiac: What Does it Mean For You?

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Turning on the news at the begaining of the New Year has been always interesting, to say the least. Most often, astrology and horoscopes never make the headlines, but this year, things have been a little different. You may have heard about the recent rumors and buzz that you're suddenly not the sign of the zodiac that you have always been associated with and feel connected to. Do not worry, though, because you are still the zodiac sign you have always been, but there is a reason everyone is concerned and nervous. It all has to do with a little-known, neglected astrological sign called Ophiuchus.

Ophiuchus, a thirteenth constellation that has suddenly taken hold of the media recently, is the zodiac sign based off of the Greek god of healing, Asclepius. This particular sign falls between Scorpio and Sagittarius and is the sign of the Serpent Holder. The myth of Asclepius was that he helped a few baby snakes as a young man in Greece who then licked his ears so clean that he could hear the words of every creature on earth, making him the greatest healer to ever live and making him a god who valued serpents. For those who fall under this smaller sign, they have the attributes of being an interpreter, being lucky and a seeker of peace, and often have a desire to help others in either medicine or another civil profession.

Ophiuchus has been there since the Babylonian era when the zodiac was first officially nailed down, as it were, but we've never given it any notice because the Babylonians aligned their zodiac along where the sun fell in relation to the constellations. The window for Ophiuchus is only seven days, so therefore was not included.

Nov 16

2011

Go Positive with Tarot Cards

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People seek for tarot card readings in order to have their questions answered. They tend to have this hope that with the help and assistance of these cards people can make a quite difference in their lives. There is nothing wrong with this even a lot of people at the same time are sceptics about things in relation to astrology.

Psychic predictions can be done in many forms. Some of the earliest psychic predictions were performed by fortune teller, astrologers, and astronomers who spent lifetimes trying to understand the mysteries of the stars. Astrology is still very popular today, though it has changed a lot from what it once was. Today modern psychics use tools like crystals and tarot cards.

The tarot cards reflects the present moment, but can refer to past issues or experiences as well as help show us possibilities for the future.