Table of Contents
List of Illustrations and Chart xxi
Introduction 1
What Are Tarot Interactions? … 3
What Kinds of Cards Work with This Book?… 3
Who This Book Is For… 4
1 Interaction with the Psyche 7
Becoming Psychic… 7
The Three Tools of Any Psychic Skill… 9
Meditation 9
Self-Knowledge 12
Trust 13
How Tarot Helps in Interaction with the Psyche… 14
Memorization as Intermediary 14
Tarot Gets You Past Social Barriers 15
Ancient Power of the Tarot 16
Three Phases to Becoming a More Psychic Reader… 16
Phase 1 Let Go and Let Cards 16
Phase 2 Interact with the Cards 17
Phase 3 Interact with Your Voice 23
Speed 24
Confusion 26
Exercises… 28
Exercise 1 Meditation 28
Exercise 2 Journal 29
Exercise 3 Speed Reading 29
2 Interaction with Other Disciplines 31
Esoteric Disciplines… 31
Kabbalah 32
Astrology 33
Other Esoteric Arts 34
Cultural Disciplines… 34
Other Disciplines… 35
Exercises… 36
Pathworking Exercise 1 36
PathworkingExercise 2 37
Pathworking Exercise 3 37
Herbalism Exercise 38
Omen Exercise 40
Dream-Induction Exercise 41
Writing Exercise 42
3 Interaction with Pattern 45
Do the Math… 45
Suit Patterns 47
Sample Reading: Dominant Suits 49
Read the Pattern as If It's Another Card 50
Ask Yourself How This Pattern Applies To This Reading 50
Absence Is As Important As Presence 51
The Context Of The Pattern 52
Reversals 53
Major Arcana… 57
Number Patterns… 58
Aces-Keyword "Beginning" 59
Twos-Keywords "Duality" and "Balance" 59
Threes-Keywords "Outcome" and "Flux" 59
Fours-Keyword "Possession" 60
Fives-Keyword "Change" 60
Sixes-Keyword "Journey" 60
Sevens-Keyword "Willpower" 61
Eights-Keyword "Progress" 61
Nines-Keyword "Fulfillment" 61
Tens-Keyword "Completion" 62
Presence of People… 63
Sample Reading: Court Cards… 64
Other Patterns… 65
Homework… 67
Journal 67
Distribution 67
Patterns 67
Homework Questions 67
Oracle Card Homework 68
Homework Answers 68
Exercise… 69
4 Interactions with Layout and Position 71
Types of Layouts… 71
Full-Life Layouts 72
Snapshot Layouts 73
Past-Present-Future Layout 73
How A Card Changes In A Position 74
Changing The Time Sequence 77
Influences Layout 78
Sample Reading: Influences Layout 79
Exercise: Relating Cards to One Another 82
Celtic Cross Layout 83
Decision Layouts 88
Yes/No Layout 89
Reading in Sequence 90
Vitruvian Man Layout 94
Sample Vitruvian Man Reading 97
Expanding Upon a Layout… 104
Dropping Cards 104
Adding a Three-Card Fan of Past-Present-Future 105
Making a Card a Significator 107
Expanding the Planned Layout 107
Expanded Celtic Cross Layout 108
Designing Your Own Layout… 110
Homework… 111
Homework Questions 111
Homework Answers 112
Exercises… 113
Exercise 1 Past-Present-Future 113
Exercise 2 Create a Layout 114
5 Interactions Between and Among Cards 117
Two-Card Interactions… 117
Reading Paired Cards: The Professor 119
Reading Paired Cards: The Dancer 120
Whole Layout Interactions… 120
Whole Layout: The Dancer 123
Whole Layout: House of Sorrows 126
Cards Determining Other Cards… 132
An Echo, a Change of Direction 133
Homework: Studying Movement in Art… 139
Homework Questions 139
Homework Answers 139
Exercise: Reading Card Interactions… 140
Questions 142
My Thoughts 142
The Querent's Response 143
Questions 143
My Thoughts 144
The Querent's Response 145
6 Interaction with Language 147
The Grammar of Tarot… 147
Tarot Words and Sentences… 148
Sample Grammatical Reading: A New Job 149
The Tarot Subject… 153
Sample Reading: Another Person's Reading 155
Subject/Object… 157
Storytelling… 158
Homework: Sentence Structure… 160
Homework Questions 160
Homework Answers 161
Homework: Subject/Object… 163
Homework Questions 163
Homework Answers 163
Exercises… 164
Exercise: Sentence Structure 164
Exercise: Subject/Object 165
Exercise: Lonely Love Life Revisited 165
Questions 165
My Thoughts 166
The Querent's Response 168
7 Interaction with the Querent 169
Types of Querents… 169
Establishing a Connection… 170
Reading for Yourself… 172
Reading for Friends and Family… 173
Regular Clients… 175
How Much to Charge 176
Reading for Strangers… 178
Ask Questions!… 179
When Not to Ask Questions 180
Sample Reading: A Crucial Question 181
Difficult Querents… 185
Querents Who Test and Lie 185
Querents Who Want What They Want 186
Translators and Interpreters 187
Psychic Blocks 187
Homework… 188
Homework Questions 188
Homework Answers 188
Exercises… 189
Exercise: Charging for Readings 189
Exercise: Being Your Own Querent 190
8 Interaction with Experimentation and Play 193
Tarot Experiments… 193
Laying Cards on Things 194
Following Cards 194
Using Specific Cards for Guidance 195
Using Indicators on Cards 197
Finding A Missing Person 198
Tarot Affirmations 200
A Tarot Wedding 201
Exercise: Another List 202
Exercise: What Else? 202
Tarot Games… 202
Tarot Telephone 203
How to Play 203
Why It's a Good Game 203
Tarot Bluff 204
How to Play 204
Why It's a Good Game 204
Zener Tarot 205
How to Play 205
Why It's a Good Game 206
Keyword Tarot 206
How to Play 207
Why It's a Good Game 208
Conclusion 209
Appendix A Card Meanings 211
Appendix B Patterns 239
Appendix C Recommended Reading 243
Bibliography 249
Art Credits 251
