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mic consciousness or mature approac h to life, would sustain If you are uncomfort able with an answer th at the Taro t has
them thro ugh difficult times. given , you can eithe r wait twenty-four hours before asking it
again or tr y using a different spread. A different spread may give
A not he r revelation co incid ing with spiritual develop ment is you more in -depth information. But playing with th e cards to
that you realize the re is virtually nothing superna tural abo ut test them or because you do not like the answer th ey have
fortune-celling. It is a perfectly natu ral pursuit because it is in ac- given you is fruit less, unwise, and a virtu al exercise in futi lity.
cordance with nat ural cosmic law.
Plus remember th e effect emot ions have on th e reading.
A closing though t: The Magicia n, th e first card in th e deck, A nx iet y and agita tion are obstructions. If you have a stro ng
is in my opinion th e depict ion of th is classic metaph ysical emotiona l investment in a matt er, tty meditating for several
maxim. His righ t hand is raised toward th e heavens (as above) minutes to ca lm th e mind . A deep meditation is centering and
as he draws power down and passes it th rough h is left hand, opens the psychi c cha nnels.
which points to th e eart h (so below). He lives in harmony with Ca n I read Tarot cards for myself? T h is is a personal mailer. I
th ink th e issue of an emotiona l investment is an even stronger
cosmic law by balancing th e elements (earth , water, air, and obstacle when atte mpting to read for oneself. Dion Fortune
fire ) as represented by th e symbols on th e table before h im. agrees: "It is well known th at no seer can skry for h imself in any
mailer in which he h imself is int imat ely conce rned."
If I shuffle the cards again, will I get th e same answe r? Th is is
someth ing men frequent ly ask me; th ey like testing th e cards. I fi nd it very difficult to be objective with myself when con-
But remember my previous explanation; it reall y isn't th e cards cerned about a specific situation. My emotion s and wishful
anyway. While th e same cards may very well turn up over and thinking get in th e way of accepting th e answer th e Tarot cards
over again , I believe th e inform ation is not directl y coming give me. However, a friend of mine, who is an excellent reader,
from th e cards but, instead, from the psych ic int eraction with answers questions for herself all th e time and always gets accu-
the querent. T herefore playing with th e cards will cause noth - rate insights.
ing more th an disturbing confusion.
O n th e othe r hand, if I want to see what comes out and I am
Refer to th e 1 Ching or Book of Changes. The fourt h hexa- not look ing for anyth ing specific, I tend to get some amazing
gram, Youthful Folly, says: "At th e first oracle I inform h im. If he insight s. Unfortunately, at times I can only make sense our of
asks two or th ree times, it is importun ity. If he import unes, I th e readin g in ret rospect by looking back over th e notes of
give no information ." In othe r words, if you play with th e ora- which cards came up.
cle, the oracle will play with you .
Ce rta inly during th e learning ph ases, you should give your-
O nly in th e beginning, when you are learni ng to read th e
cards, should you be testing th em . After that period, they self readings. This is how you learn. But furth er down th e road,
should be treat ed with great respect.
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thi s may be anot he r exercise in futility. Again you are going to th em as tools for self-awareness only. They firmly believe th at,
have to experiment and find what works for you. Note raking if you tell a querent too much abo ut th e future, it becomes a
for thi s is invalu able, and remember the benefits of meditating! self-fulfiUing proph ecy. The querent will set it up for herself-
unconsciously, of course-and make absolutely no effort to ini-
H ow far int o th e future can you see with th e Tarot? There tiate the necessary cha nges in her life for self-improvement.
are spreads th at can cover a lifetime but personally I find th em
valueless. People can grow and chan ge, and time for th at Meanwhile, I have been talking about futu re-telling with
growth must be allowed. The classic Tarot maxim, the only thing Taro t cards. But sometimes just th e opposite happens. I briefly
constant in life is change. hints at how we can cha nge/contro l our mentioned th is in Cha pter 2. At times th ere is th e problem of
lives by th e cho ices we make. distinguishing between th e past, present, and future. Instead of
projecting into th e future , you may go backwards into th e past
To rephrase previously discussed concepts: while there may and pick up past issues very easily. This is because th e effects of
be some things th at are predestined or beyond our cont rol, not a past issue may still have a strong hold on th e querent and on
everythi ng is written in stone and, according to occultists, we th e emotional .'<lTiabIes. Remember, emotions exist on th e astral
can cont rol our lives. In more instanc es th an we'd like to ad- level and th e reader is picking up on emot ions. I also previously
mit, th e future is really det ermined by th e cho ices we make or mentioned th at when tappi ng int o othe r dim ensions our per-
how we choose to respond (not react) to th e cha llenges the ceptions of time and space are altered or tra nscended. The past,
universe presents to us. Metaph ysicians belie ve we ca n have present, and future are actua lly merged int o one stream of con -
free will by making conscious choices in life. sciousness. I admit this is really a wate red-down explana tion in
describing th e experience on th e sluuIowy plane. Agai n , I de-
T he ancient Ch inese clearly recognized th at the universe is fend th e inab ility to clearly do so beca use language or lack of
always in a state of flux, and based th e I Ching on th is proper lan guage is really th e problem. However, th is alte red
metaphysical observation. Hence the cha nging lines in th e perception is anothe r factor tha t adds to th e complication of
hexagra ms were developed to express various forms of transfe r- time and Tarot cards, and exp lains why th e di rection in wh ich
marions, and to give th e inquirer choices of how to effectively
deal with situations. th e reading goes may appear to be uncontrollable (i.e. going
App lying th is to any form of divination, th e inevitable pos- backward in time or forward in time) . I am pointing th is out so
sibility of ch ange and growth must be allowed for before long- when you begin readin g for others, you will not be surprised if
term predictions are made. Therefore I am comforta ble with an thi s happens. It is important to know what kind s of experiences
accu rate projecti on of abo ut six months to one year int o the fu- to expect. The fourth dimension is a peculiar realm !
ture with Tarot cards.
With so many Tarot decks to choose from. wh ich is th e best
An extra note: the re are some traditi onalists who refuse to to use? As you can see, I prefer th e Rider-Waite Tarot deck. I
use esoteric disciplines to foretell th e futu re, preferring to use
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think it is the easiest to work with , easiest to teach, and easiest I do, however. encourage students to sample othe r decks. af-
to learn . It is a very traditi onal deck that was developed around ter th ey have had some experience with the Rider-Waite deck.
th e early 1900s. The Rider-Waite Tarot deck is a creat ion of There are count less decks current ly on the market and more
th e combined efforts of Art hur Edward Waite and Pamela Co l- and more appearing yearly.
man Smith. Waite was a brilliant occultist with a deep under-
standing of the Tarot and its mystical symbolism. Sm ith was a H ow do you feel about Tarot cards for children? Many moons
brilliant and talented art ist. Both were members of the very fa- ago , when I began reading professiona lly, I was ada mant ly
mous O rder of The Go lden Dawn, a powerful occult organiz- against Tarot cards for ch ildren. 1 th ought it was totally inap-
ation, which no longer exists. Waite gave Ms. Smith specific propriate. However as I began ente rta ining at bar mitzvah s, the
instruction s for the drawings, and togethe r th ey developed a Tarot began increasing in popularity, and th ere were many re-
beautifu l, colorful, and alive deck of cards fi lled with rich mys- quests for readings for ch ildren by the chi ldren the mselves.
tical symbolism. This deck has been in print for almost one Alas, one must cha nge with th e times! Reluctantly one night I
hundred years, and is considered a classic among Tarot cards. tried an experiment . Sta rt ing with a new deck, I took about
one- th ird of th e cards out of the deck. This included all th e dif-
Several years ago, out of curiosity, I experimented with two ficulr cards. such as Death, The Tower, and man y of the Swords.
ot he r decks. O ne was designed by Aleister Crowley, the notori- (By th e way, when I read at parti es I use the min iatur e deck. It
ous and reputedly nefarious magician, who was also at one time is small and much easier to shuffle quickly.) The results were as-
tounding! It was a great night. T he ch ildren loved it and the
a member of The Go lden Dawn. Crowley's deck is laden with readin gs were light and fun. I saw pets. happy days at summer
heavy dark symbolism, and reflects his allegedly sinister person- camp, and vacations to foreign co untries. I co ntinue using my
ality. I used th is deck for one spread during a private consulta-
tion . I then expanded on the reading by switch ing back to the children's deck for young people up to fourteen years of age.
Rider-Waite deck and saw death in the cards, a story I recount As for your ch ild wanting ro learn how to read Tarot cards.
in Cha pter 6. I took it as an ominous portent, and never used
Crowley's deck again! th is is of course a person al matter for each parent . I would sug-
gest removin g, as I have done, th e heavy cards. I have also no-
Around th at time I also tried anorhe r deck. th e Astro- ticed that ch ildren are more sensitive to the imagery than
Mythological Ca rds designed by Marie Len ormand. Mlle. adults; perhaps because they are not yet programmed by ra-
Lenormand was a famous Tarot ca rd reader, counsel to the Em- tion al thinking and still in touch with man y of thei r int uitive
peror Napoleon, h is wife. Joseph ine, and many prominent aris- feelings. This is a good th ing in a way and could work towards
tocrats. Her accurate but unwelcome predictions so infuriated making them exce llent Tarot readers.
Napoleon th at , on two occasions, he threw her in prison ! Mlle.
Lenormand's cards are lovely bur they never clicked with me. I remember one thirteen -year-old boy looking at the 3 of
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Swords. "Yuch !" He remarked. "Th is looks awful!" An honesr in consciousness, wh ich also accounts for the increased interest
opin ion , out of th e mouth s of babes. in all New Age pursuits.
In anothe r instan ce, I was reading at a little children's Hal- As we started moving towards the new cent ury, many people
loween part y. I wore a witch 's hat and attempted to play a sort began experiencing other dimensi ons and perceiving a h igher
of Go-Fish Tarot with th e ch ildren , wh ile th rowing asrro-dice . consciousness. This will become even more pronounced over th e
There really isn't much you can tell tiny tots, and I had sug- next several years. In March 2003 th e planet U ranus moved into
gested to the mother that she ca ll a th eatri cal school and hire Pisces where it will remain until March 2011. Uranus is th e great
an actor to play a cha racter. It would have been a lot less ex- awakener and Pisces is th e psych ic sign, ruling intuition , feelings,
pensive. But th e mother want ed th e real McCoy. I read for some telepathy, mysticism, and spirituality. During th is time, psych ic
of th e nannies and othe r mot hers and tried to keep th e chi l- energy will be abundant ly tloating around, and psychic skills
dren busy. One little five-year-old girl became ent hralled with such as clairvoyance and telepathy will be easier to develop.
th e cards. Sh e went through th em one-by-one and fell in love From April 2011 to the end of [anuary 2026, Neptune will also
with the 9 of C ups (a wish granted) and th e 6 of C ups (chil- be rolling around in th e sign of Pisces, Neptune's natural ruler.
dren playing and gift-giving). So intense was her att raction to Thus th e increased awareness of ot he r realms and th e spiritual
th ese part icular cards, she wouldn 't give them back to me. activities associated with them will be on the rise during th at pe-
riod too. So th e next two and a half decades, hopefully, will be
"I like these!" she to ld me with glee. "I'm keeping them for marked by great advance ment in our spiritual evolution.
myself."
This is where Tarot ca rds come in. They make a perfect fit
It was amazing how a littl e ch ild, who could neith er read nor with the astrological trend of the co ming times; and thei r pop-
write, could int uitively connect with th e beaut iful symbolism ularity will become even more widespread as we move forward
of th ese two cards. Fortunatel y by th e end of th e part y, she lost into what might very well be th e Age of En lightenme nt .
inte rest and threw th em on th e couch , allowing for an easy re-
trieval. The Tarot raises spiritual awareness and fosters th e develop-
ment of intu ition; and, remember, the cards serve as focusing
What I have heard from some parents is that thei r ch ild tools for directing psychic energy! It is my deep conviction that
quickly becomes disench ant ed with th e cards because the in- th ese mysterious cards, laden with ancient esoteric symbols
st ructi ons are too hard to fi gure out. My instruct ions should be conveying eterna l wisdom , will play an int egral role in th e fu-
very easy for a chi ld to follow because my met hod is in tune tu re development of our spiritual growth. Tarot cards will be-
come universally recognized as invaluable instru ments that
with genuine childlikeness. illumin ate the path connecting us to our higher selves.
Why are Tarot ca rds becoming so popular? Fascination with Check out the eigh teenth card, The Moon. It represent s the
Tarot cards has endured for centuries, but th eir recent surge in psychic world and all irs infinite manifestations.
popularity definitely coincides with th e New Millennium sh ift
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Is it important to be fam iliar with th e histor y of th e Tarot th e symbo ls which make th at direct connection to th e high er
cards ' symbolism? Taro t cards were designed with symbols self. It is also important to remember th at th e cards were not
take n from many different ancient cultures. Perhaps this is why originally designed to be a fortune-telling device. Therefore th e
it is so difficult to att ribute their origins to one particular civi- hi storical background of th e symbo ls may not even be relevant
lizat io n . to th e divin ator y meanings. This int ellectual pursuit would
While the h istorical backgrou nd and details of th e esoteric lead to abject confusion. I give it a big thumbs down! If your cu-
meanings of each symbo l (as it relates to a part icular culture)
would be very int eresting, I think it defeats th e ent ire purpose riosiry gets th e best of you, I suggest you wait to study th e h is-
of th e cards. to ry of th e symbols only after havin g made th e intuitive
connection with the cards.
"The aim of .. . symbo ls .. . was to reach man 's high er cen-
ters [the higher self) , to transm it to him ideas inaccessible to Is it true th at a Tarot reading cannot be recorded on tap e?
th e inte llect. .. .n This is from P. D. Ous pensky's book In Search From my experience, it is impossible many times to record a
psych ic reading of any kind. I do qualify thi s by saying many
of the Mirocu!ot" . O uspensky is, of course, quoting George G ur- times , but not always. Psychic energy appears to have a ten -
den cy to int erfere with mechanical equipment. This has been
djieff, a controversial spiritual teacher of th e last cent ury. observed by parapsychology researchers during experiments
"Symbolism is th e language of th e subco nscious," says th e and by psychics when attempting to record a psychi c session.
T he reason why is not known. These energies are very subtle
late renowned Tarot reader Richard Ga rdner in his book T he and not SC ient ifi cally understood . Therefore we cannot predict
Tarot Speak>. "In the middle ages we communica ted far more by what th ey will do . Nevert he less, I have personally been witn ess
to this phen omen on .
symbols than we do now. Sh ops, for instance, inva riably used
signs, not written na mes, so th at in th ose days our minds would Th is first time was at a seance, and it was with my tape
have been more practiced in symbology th an now." (Cent uries recorder! It worked perfectly before th e seance . I tested it and
ago, most people did not read or write; thus, before read ing be- retested it, the n placed it in the cent er of the circl e. I had been
ca me widespread , symbols were used in everyday life. A tave rn warned by others that it would not record th e event, but I
displayed a mug of ale; an optician displayed a pair of glasses; or didn't believe it. Sure eno ugh , the machine did not pick up th e
a shoe maker displayed a shoe or boor.) Richard Ga rdner goes sounds of th e seance , except for some barely aud ible cha nt ing.
on to say, "This is a considerable loss to our intuition , which After th e seance, th e tape recorder worked perfectly again!
th inks and man ifests in symbols. . . ."
O the r incidents during my career include t wo cl ients com-
"Symbo ls ca n be though t of as psychic transmitters," writes plain ing to me th at th e readings th ey had recorded did not
Alfred Douglas in his book The Tarot. come out clearly on the tape. All they heard was a muffled blur.
By studying, thinking, and intellectualizing you are blocki ng
th e purpose of th e symbols and creating a barrier to the devel-
opment of the intuitive/psychic faculties. Keep in mind tha t it is
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Their rape recorders worked pe rfectly befo re th e consulta- lottery, you must fee! as if you have already won that
tions began . The clients tested them . But this is what can hap- $50,000,000. You must fee! as if it has already happened. Try th is
pen when an int ense psychic level is reached during a session . exe rcise. Pause for a few seconds. Then ask yo urself how you
wo uld feel if you had just found out you had won th e lottery.
Having been informed by other readers of the risks of What would you be thi nking ! You probably had a great feeling
recording a session, I had advised both of th ese individuals to of soaring joy. Then you started thi nking of all the thi ngs you'd
take notes instead of record . They both thought th at would be do with the mone y. This is the key to effective creat ive visuali-
too much of a task, and insisted on taping. Of course they were zat ion and making spells wo rk, The emotion must be the re. You
angr y with me when it didn't wo rk. Now I insisl clients take must maintain that emoti on constantly. Then it will rake root
notes o r record at their own risk. on the astral level, and eventually on the physicaljear rh plane.
Can spells be cast with Tarot ca rds? By arranging the ca rds in Try an other example. How would you fee! if Mr. Right said he
certa in combinations tha t pictorially suggest the desired situa- was in love with you and asked you to marty h im. You'd proba-
tion, it is theoret icall y possible to cast a spell with Tarot cards. bly have a wonderful warm feeling. It is that feeling that must
Th is is to be done in co njunc t ion with ot he r tools such as can- accompany a love spell in orde r for it to work . You must feel as
dies and/or incense, ce rtai n inca ntations, as well as strong in- if you are being loved by Mr. Right. This is a great occult secret!
tense creative visualizatio n. It is th e emo tio n th at sets th ings into mot ion. But performing
spells always comes with a price that is usually unexpected , be-
But the cards, candles, ince nse, inca ntations, and ot he r tools ca use you can inadvertently be unl eashing ene rgies that lead to
are really nothing more tha n props used to set th e frame of unforeseen consequences and un anticipat ed side-effects. Be
mind of th e subco nsc ious. These tools, in th emselves, do not careful what ym<wish for. ym<just might gel il. This is one of th e
inc rease the effect iveness of th e spell. The real key to cast ing down sides you must be aware of.
spells is rarely revealed in books.
T he othe r d rawback is that you can never co ntro l when th e
In answer to th e questi on How can I already know my future! spell will actually take effect or happen. As I have already ex-
I explain how everyth ing man ifests in the astra l world first and plained, let George take care of the timing. When ever it hap-
the n happens o n th e ph ysical plan e where we live. So in order pe ns, it ha ppens. I personally have never tried to cast a spell
to effectively cast a spe ll, regardless of which tools you use, th e with Tarot cards, but I kn ow of three expe rience s from ot he r
desired event must take plac e on th e astra l level first. A nd, how people . Based on what they told me, if it works, the re is a pr ice
is th at possible ? to be paid.
Keep in mind that emoti ons and feelings exist on the astra l Elizabeth was an English gal l met wh ile living in Spain . Af-
level. When performing any kind of ritual magick the feeling th at ter a vio lent incident, she co nfided in me how she had cast a
accompanies the desired situa t ion must be a part of the ritual. lo ve spell on h er Spa nish boyfriend. Fran cisco. (By the way,
For instance, if you are cast ing a spell to win $50,000,000 in th e
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love spells are the most commonly done and the most risky. my Span ish boyfriend. But havin g observed her predicament. [
This is an excellent example of how uncert a in th e outco me was too terrified to wear it.
can be.) Elizabeth had been livin g in Spain when she met Fran -
cisco. They went togethe r for awh ile; then . he broke up with This is a classic example of a spell th at worked like a charm.
her. Sad and despondent. she returned to England. still in love but with an added unim aginable twist. lr was definitely not hap-
with him .
pily ever after.
She decided to tum to rnagick, and arranged three Tarot
cards in a certa in order. The Lovers in th e middle to indicate A nother woman recounted to me how she cast a Tarot spell
th e desired situatio n. The Knight of Pentacles on one side. to on a man she had yearned to meet. Jane had a crush on an up-
represent Fran cisco. And the Q ueen of C ups on the othe r side and-co ming acto r. She used a grouping of four Tarot cards: The
to symbolize herself. A long with th at she had a special love Lovers. T he Sta r (to symbolize his rising star). th e 3 of Cups (to
ring designed. The setti ng was made of copper. the sto ne was symbolize meeting in a social situation) . and the 9 of Pentacles
green. G reen is the color of Venu s. the planet of love. The ring to represent herself. In the middle. she placed his photograph .
was made during a favorable time of the planet Venus. when
love aspects were harmonious. Co nstant ly wearin g th e mag- Togeth er with th at. she d id a candle burn ing ritual: a green
ickal ring. she meditated on the Tarot card arrangement for candle for love. a pin k cand le for passion. and a red candle for
severaI months. lot"making. She spent an intense week putting ene rgy into cast-
ing th is spell.
Then Francisco came to England to get her. Togethe r they
returned to Spai n and took up residen ce in a room ing house. Seven months passed and nothing happened. Remember.
Everythi ng was fine for a year and a half. Then Elizabeth acc i- things happen on thei r own time. All of sudden a doo r ope ned.
dent ally got pregnant. She wanted to go to England to h ave an She met someone who agreed to make the intr oduction . This
abortion. But Francisco. being a native of a strict Catho lic offer was also acco mpan ied by reliab le informat ion th at her
count ry. had strong objections to abort ion. He was also an al- dream lot"r had a serious drug problem. Sudden ly she saw him as
coho lic. O ne night in a drunk en rage. he beat Elizabeth beyond a dreadful nighnnare. This was not what she had expec ted.
recogniti on. She ca me running over to my apart ment and Wisely. she declined the invitation . But for months the reafter
stayed for a few days. Then she went back to Fran cisco, who she was consumed with anger. She had invested ene rgy and
beat her up again. Finally [ managed to get her on a plan e back time into this. on ly to be miserably disappointed. She vowed
to England . where she took care of th e matter. never to cast anot he r spell again.
Right before she got on the plane. she gave me the love rin g These stories have been about love spells-without a doubt.
suggesting it might help with the problems I was having with the most hazardous. The next story is about job security. Even a
spell like th at comes with a price.
[ met Betsy many years ago th rough out mutual interest in
Tarot cards. She knew a lot about th em. and one night we
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stayed up late giving eac h ot he r readings and excha nging infor- frequently feel ch illed or quite cold when giving readings, and
tra nce mediums have not iced th at th ere is a ch ill in the air
mat ion . when spirits are present. Even parapsych ologists have observed
and docu mented th is. When testing mediums and a manifesta-
Betsy had an exce llent job in a public relations firm. She had tion (o r spirit presence) is about 10 take place, th ere is an ex-
a large office. a good salary, and a substantial chunk of power. tremely no ticeable drop in temperature th at can also be
After five years with th e company, th ings began to sour. There measured. Although this is not scientifica lly understood, nor
was talk of a total reorganization and her job was on th e line. eve n a proven fact, it is a consis tent observation. Furth ermore,
according 10 occu ltists, all astra l world phenomena appea r to be
She th ought a Taro t spell would easily remedy th e problem. acco mpanied by lowered tempe ratures. Since reading Tarot
She selected several ca rds to portray the situatio n she wanted cards does invo lve gene rating psychi c energy, thi s cou ld be a
to maint ain . The Magician 10 represent the power she had; th e hypoth esis wh ich accounts for the bigcmUand th e necessiry of
10 of Pentacles 10 represent th e company and its conti nued a warm sha wl.
prosperity; th e Queen of Pentacles for her sign ificato r: and she
threw in th e 4 of Pentacles, th e Ace of Pentacles, and th e Ace Is it really bad luck to buy a Tarot deck for yourself and must
of Wands to complete th e storv, An ardent practitioner of pos- you wait for someone to give it to you as a l(ift! I have heard
itive th ink ing and creative visualization , she meditated on this thi s too, and I thi nk it is not h ing more than a silly superstition.
configuration every night and visualized herself sitt ing in her I have no idea where it came from. My belief is th at if you are
office with th e feeling th at everyth ing was all right . A nd so it drawn to Tarot cards, you sho uld be enjoying th em, regardless of
was for one year. whether you purchase the m yourself or receive th em as a gift.
Then everythi ng exploded. Her company merged with a I did not receive my cards as a gift. I was fascinated by th em
larger firm and a house-cleaning began. T he inevitable was un -
preventable and more brutal th an could possibly ever have been and bough t my first deck in 1967. Perhaps I was guided to do so.
imagined. Betsy was forced to find another job. She rold me she
learned a valuable lesson from thi s. There are some things in life Whatever, I can truth fullv say th is has never brought me any
you cannot control and at times it is bette r to let go of your de- bad luck; instead, the exact opposite ! Tarot ca rds have added
sire and trust in th e judgment of th e infinite intelligence. fulfillment and joy to my life. In all my years, I met only one
woman who to ld me she had received th e ca rds as a gift. She
Wh y do fortune-tellers wear shawls! A frivolous question I confessed to having no int erest in th em whatsoever, and th ey
am occas iona lly asked. usually by men. However, I have a seri- remained unused, stored in an attic.
o us answe r.
\Vh y do some people say Tarot ca rds are evil and th e devil's
Obviously th is style was taken from the G ypsies, who were work! Proh ibition against playing ca rds (including Tarrochi)
the first real Tarot farnme-teUers. But I have ano ther theory that
deserves some consideration. Man y psychi cs, includi ng myself,
10 2 THE 2- HOUR TAROT TUTOR ARE WE HAVING FUN YET? 103
became common in man y parts of Europe almost as soon as th e vil. "... a reversed pent agram, with rwo points upwards, is a
ca rds appeared on the scene (aro und th e mid-fourteenth cen- symbo l of the Devil and att racts sin iste r forces because it is up-
tury). The ca rds th emselves were not deemed bad but th ey were
used by man y people for gambling, and that was th ough t to be side down . .." writes Richard Ca vendish in h is book, The Black
immoral or th e dedI's world Ironi call y it was th e Church th at
initi ally banned th e cards, not th e Gra nd Inquisitors. Am. Although, I view thi s as an inn ocuous symbo l that has no
more power th an one chooses to give to it, rel igious opponents
When th e Inquisitions began around th e th irteent h cent ury,
about one hundred years prior to th e appearance of th e cards, of the occult have suggested to me that it really does have
occultism of any kind was branded as ev il and heret ical. How-
ever, Tarot cards were not lumped int o the occult category un - malevolent power. Th is small minority of ultra-right-wing fun -
til people started using them for fortune-telling. (This was most damentalists and evangelical Ch ristians actually believe th e de-
likely started by the Gypsies upon th eir arrival in Europe vil is a real externa l force, tempting everyone to do wrong.
around th e end of th e fou rteenth century or early fi fteent h Therefore, according to th ese fund amentalists, it is the in-
century.) The Ca tholic Church at one time banned Tarot verted pent agram (Jrecisely th at makes Taro t ca rds evil because
ca rds, but now no longer forbids th em. it is evidence that the devil, h imself, comes with the cards!
Nevertheless many rel igious fund amentalists, espec ially in I was stun ned by the idea. It's ludicrous. How can anyone se-
specific geograph ical local ities, still hold to th is ant iquated riously believe in this modem age of science th at a deck of
thi nking and vehemently condemn Tarot cards, astro logy, and cards made of paper and ink are bad because of a symbo l?
th e occult claiming th ese esoteric pursuits are th e work of !he The devil is traditionally defined as an abstrac t conce pt.
devil. These fundamentalists can be quit e fan at ical and aggres-
Richard Cavendish writes in The Black Am, "The Devil is a
sive. While readin g Tarot cards at a small co llege in Kentucky,
two students stood over me praying, insistin g I had devils in me. legacy of th e widespread hum an tend ency to attribute the ori-
(You can't make th is stuff up!) A not her college in the South re- gin of evil to non -human influen ces." T he th inking in our cur-
ce ived complaint s by a few students abo ut my appearance on rent times is th at putting blame on th e dev il is a conven ient
the campus, because it was th reatening to th eir religious be- excuse for avo iding personal responsibility for one's actions.
liefs. I went on with th e show, even though th e turnout was Yet , there are those who still strongly hold to what I call th e In-
small; and, fortunatel y, th ere was no heckling nor disrupti on . quisition menuility.
I have also been personally cha llenged with questions specif- Flip W ilson , a brilliant comedian who is no longer with us,
ically abo ut The Devil, the fi fteenth card in th e deck, because created a hil arious cha racter, G eraldine. A zany woman , she
of the inverted penta gram. This is said to be th e sign of th e de- blamed the devil for everyt h ing she did wrong.
"The dev il made me do it!" Flip Wilson would say in a h igh -
pitch ed voice. The audience would roar with laughter.
I have always looked at th e card of The Devil as the opposite
of The Lovers, th e sixt h card. To me, The Lovers suggests in-
104 THE 2 - HOUR TAROT TUTOR ARE WE HAVING FUN YET? 105
nocence. But The Devil suggests greed, jealousy, pride, and en- Ca n you pick stocks with Tarot cards ? Someone called me
slavement ro materialism; negatives indeed, but not Lucifer, from Chicago asking me ro do this. At th at time the stock mar-
h imself. ket was so volatile I would have rold everyone who asked me
th at question not ro even invest in srocks, no matt er how th ey
Eden G ray writes of thi s cont roversial card in A Complete were selected! (Even at the time of writin g thi s book, th e
Guide to the Taror, "T he re is no Devil excep t of man's own cre- volatility of th e stoc k market must be causing invesrors severe
ation, and here it is evident th at men are cha ined by th eir own heart burn.)
wrong choices." O ne can choose ro take the high road or th e low
road. However regardless of the volatility, even when there is a
strong bull market I would advise against th e use of Tarot cards
Returning to th e Inquisitions, as soon as th ey sta rted, occult for picking stoc ks or any investm ent, for tha t matt er. This is be-
secrets began disappearing. Perh aps th eir keepers decided ro cause of th e emot iona l sensitivity of Tarot cards. If one is anx-
take the m ro th eir graves out of fear or tightened up th e oral ious abo ut an investment (and who isn'r i) thi s can affect th e
tradition deliberately to make th ese secrets less available. Th is reading, making th e inte rpretation unclear.
may be what has caused our spiritual evoluti on ro lag so far be-
hind our materi al evolution . Now, more th an a th ousand years I was once asked ro give a reading abo ut th e perfornwnce of a
since th e first Inqui sitions were held, man y people are disillu- parti cular stoc k. It wasn 't doin g well and a gent leman wanted
sioned with institution alized religion and loo king ro New Age ro know if he should sell it. I asked him ro pick three cards. He
studies for spiritua l fulfillment. Thus, despit e th e critics' con- pulled th e Wheel of Fortune, The Tower, and 5 of Pentacles. It
demn ation, th e occult is no longer underground . didn't make sense. I asked him ro pick anothe r three cards for
clarificati on . He pulled The Sun, 3 of Swords, and 5 of C ups. I
Do you have to be psych ic to read Tarot cards? Let's clarify suggested the stoc k might suddenly go up, but th ere would be
one thing first. We are all born with psychi c ability. As people quick profi t taking and th en it would sudden ly go down again. I
grow up man y tend ro suppress th ese psych ic powers beca use we furth er suggested it would be a good idea to keep a close eye on
are taught ro trust on ly our reason and ro accept on ly informa- it and perh aps ro put a stop Umit on it. That means when a stock
tion th at is perceived through our fi ve senses. reach es a certa in price, going up or down, it is activated and
later auromatica lly executed (sold) at tha t price or even better.
Tarot ca rds h elp us ro get back in rouch with our inherent This gives th e investor down side protect ion . Two weeks later
psych ic ability. Most people will definit ely notic e an increase th e invesror ca lled ro tell me th at all of a sudden the stock be-
in th eir imuiril'flpsychic abilities after workin g with the Tarot gan to rise. When it reach ed th e price at which he had bought
for only a very sho rt time. Granted some will be more adept it, he sold immediately. App arently ot her investors had th e
th en ot he rs; but, nevertheless everyone has the ability ro a de- same strategy in mind. Quickly the price dropped even lower
gree.
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than it had been before. The investor did recoup his losses. but When reading Tarot cards. sho uld a glass of wate r be set on
did not make any money on the investment, even though he th e table to protec t against negat ive energies? This is a prac-
had held it for over a yea r and a half. t ice I have heard of but I've never actua lly seen anyone doing
it. The theor y is tha t th e water absorbs any negat ive ene rgies
T his was an unu sual experie nce with Tarot cards, and the that may be floating around or emitting from the querent, Wa-
emot ional stress of the que rent was clea rly visible in the cards. ter is the psychic element and symbolic of th e subco nscio us
A lthough my interpretati on was accurate , I st ill feel that Tarot mind. So th is may indeed have some validit y.
cards are an inappropriate too l for stoc k picking.
Personally, I think it is more important to drink water or
Man y inves tors are now using astro logy fo r this purpose and ot he r fl uids when readin g. Psych ic readings can be very dra in-
th ere is ind eed a lot of research into the stock IMrket and the ing and fluids may help kee p you r ene rgy up. So me peop le say
srars. However, while plan etary tra nsits can be very hel pful in th e fluids keep t he aura clear.
det erm in ing stock market trends, this sho uld never supersede
good old fashioned practical research into the fina nc ial co nd i- I do encourage you to try different techniques to sec what
t ion of the co mpany. works for you. The glass of wate r may very well be a useful ad-
junct to your Tarot readin gs. A not her suggest ion is to bum in-
Ca n you read for someone who is far away? Of course you can cense. The smoke is supposed to have a calming effect on the
read for someone who is not in your presence. What about all environment and t his makes it easier to cent er yo urself and
those psychic hotlines? And nowadays. peop le are giving read- tune in.
ings on the Int ernet. However th ere is one major problem with
this. Absentee readings, for man y Tarot readers and psych ics. can Do you have to believe in Tarot ca rds for th em wo rk? Indeed ,
be extremely dra ining and tirin g. Ce rta inly they are for me and belief is very powerful, but Tarot cards work wheth er o r not you
other professionals I know. A lth ough why is not understood. believe in them . However. it is pointless to tr y to learn to read
Taro t cards if you do not have an o pen mind . Your rational
A voic e is a vibration that can be picked up on . Nev ert heless mind and intu itive mind will fight with each othe r like cats and
I will give a Taro t ph one readi ng only to someo ne who is an es- dogs and littl e or no progress will be made. In orde r to interpret
tab lished client. I feel I have not made a psych ic connect ion the Tarot's symbo lism, you must develop a rapp ort with the
unl ess I have actually met with someone and given at least one cards. If you keep thinking that there is not h ing to them, you
person-to-person readi ng. But I will not read for a new client will never be able to make that connec t ion .
whom I have never seen . This is my personal style.
O n the o the r han d, if you want to have a Tarot read ing-no,
Man y Tarot card readers have great success with absentee you definitely don't have to believe in th em. Your read ing can
readings. This is another issue you are going to have to expe ri- still be very accurate! I encount er th is many ti mes with men .
ment with. Meditating on th e querent before th e readi ng, ab-
sentee or in person , is quite hel pful with th e tune-in . They rarely believe in th e intuitive arts. However I have read for
108 THE 2 - HOUR TAROT TUTOR ARE WE HAVING FUN YET? 109
many staunch disbe lievers at parti es and, ult imately, they have are now more uncertain and ch aot ic than eve r in OU f human
had to concede th at the read ing was totally insightful. Some of hi story, and people are growing unhappier by th e day, I have
th em even became believers! fou nd it necessary to carefully screen all new inq uiries for a
Taro t card reading. Often th eir expectations are tot ally unreal-
Wh en can I become a professional Tarot ca rd reader? Hold istic .
your horses! No rush! T hese thi ngs take time. Besides, being a
psychic [Tarot card reader) is an endless , glamourless, thankless Reading at psych ic fairs and fund -raisers are great ways to
learn . (By th e way, a psychic fair is great tra ining ground . The
job; bur somebody has w do it. Ac tually th at was a line made fa- pressure is on and you have to learn {as") A long with that, I
recommend gett ing several years of life experience under your
mous by Dragnet's Detec tive Joe Friday. He used to say, "You belt to en ha nce th e perception of your Tarot ca rd read ings,
know th at being a policeman is an endless, glarnourless, thank- conti nue reading spiritual literature, and bone -up on basic psy-
less job th at 's gotta' be done." I've revamped it to describe what c ho logy.
it's really like when you hang out your sh ingle. It's not at all
what you'd expec t. A lthough a practice could supplement your income, in to -
day's economy you will never be able to earn enough to live
People come to you with a myriad of problems. Troubled and comforta bly unless giving several sessions a day. But thi s ca n
d istraught, th ey look for comfort and understand ing and often cause a severe emotiona l drain and quickly lead to complete
want only to vent about a problem . At times you may feel more bum-oul. Furthermore if th e pressure is on to pay th e bills and
like an inexpen sive psychiatri st. The release of emot ion defi- thi s is th e sole source of revenu e, you may be inclined to com-
nitely has a healing effect, and being a good listener is a part of promise qualit y for quant ity.
the job. Knowing the future th en becomes incidental.
If you are still interested in an unconventi onal job thaI's
Future-telling is very easy. Dealing with complex human got!ll' be done, tr y tak ing out an ad in a small local paper or a
emotions is a huge cha llenge; and that is reall y what a profes- schoo l newspaper. Business cards can be printed up at a neigh -
sional Tarot card reader does. It is an overwhelming responsi- borhood printer, with your phone number on ly, or else people
bility. I was totally unprep ared. will be stopping by with out an appo int ment demanding instant
readings.
O ther times you may feel like a whipping boy because you
will also be consulted by people with extre mely deep-roo ted Always be tactful, gent le, sensitive, and non judgmen ral,
anger issues. In thi s case, you cannot be of any service. Vent ing Neve r tell anyone what to do! Never give advice. Point out th e
I allow but no fighting with th e psych ic. Fighting should be choices th at can be made and encourage people to make posi-
done with a psych iatr ist. tive cha nges in th eir lives.
O n occas ion I have suggested a th erapist, clergyman, physi- You will hear people's most int imate and persona l secrets;
cian, or even an accou nt ant be consulted. When one's life is to- hence, th e consulta tion and what is heard during it are to tally
tally out of cont rol, a psych ic should not be consulted. As times
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confident ial. The querent's privacy is 10 be completely re- deck. Plus I find th at by doing th is one or two suits may pre-
spected. dominate (even after th e querent has shuffled well ) and th is
hel ps 10 zero in on the matters at h and .
A Tarot card reading should be a spiritual healing. Afrer-
wards the querent sho uld feel optimistic about facing life's cha l- If you do more tha n one spread for a querent, it is not neces-
len ges. sary to repeat this separating procedure for each spread. Once
in th e beginning is enough. After th at , the que renr's vibes will
A N Y MORE H ELPFU L HINT S ? be in the cards.
• Here is one I got di rectly from Rich ard Gard ner. He was For those of you who read at part ies and special events, as I
the famous Tarot expe rt in England. I had th e honor of con- do, th is procedure is much too time-consumin g to do for each
sulting him in London during the summer of 1971. Sadly, it was person. So I suggest doing th is only for private, in -depth read-
during the writing of thi s book that I learned he had passed on . ings.
But Richa rd Ga rdne r's Tarot inspiration will live forever. Al-
though he told me this persona lly, it is also mentioned in his • Take not e of th e predominat ing suits in a spread. This is
book The Tarot Speaks. usually indicat ive of th e main theme of the reading. Severa l
C ups, th e issue is love or relationships; C ups and Swords, love
Before beginning a reading, separate th e cards into piles of and stress; Pentacles and Wands, money and work.
th eir respect ive suits. The easiest way 10 do thi s is to make
five different piles: one for Pentacles, one for C ups, one for • Lnok at the cards and say what you see. Say what you see, not
Wand s, one for Swords, and one for th e Major Trump s. It is what you thi nk. No thinking allowed ! In th e introduction 10 Eu-
nor necessary to put them int o nu merica l order, just separat- gen Herrigel's Zen in the Art of Archery, Daisetz T. Suzuki says:
ing th e suits is eno ugh. Join th e piles by placin g th e Major "As soon as we reflect , deliberate and conce ptualize, th e origi-
Trumps on th e bot tom, the Pentacles on top of that. th en th e nal uncon sciousness is lost and a thought interferes." In ot he r
C ups, th e Wands, and then the Swords. This is the order in words, thinking interferes and by doing so one can lose the con-
which the elements symbolized by the suits fall: 1-earth/Pent a- nection 10 th e subconscious mind. That is why I urge you to be
c1es; 2-water/Cups; 3- firel Wands; 4- air /Swords. However sponta neous. Let it flow. Look at the pictures and say what
some people feel th at th e Major Trumps sho uld be placed on comes 10 your mind .
top of th e pile after the Swords. Again. your persona l style.
Suzuki also talks about childlikeness. "Childlikeness has 10 be
The purpose of this separatio n is so that the new querent restored. . . ." Be childlike when look ing at th e symbols. A llow
will not pick up anyth ing from th e previous queren t (i.e. , the them 10 play on your subconscio us mind. Make up a story about
what you see. You will be surprised at how accurate you are.
previous querent's good or bad luck). This literall y clears the
When you look at th e ent ire spread, if an impression
112 THE 2 - HOUR TAROT TUTOR ARE WE HAVIN G FUN YET? 113
bounces up off th e cards, go with it-even if it seems illogical. with what you see or feel. O ne excep tio n, however, is if th e
Wh en you transcend logic, you automat ically ta p into your in- querent's eyebrows are raised high on her foreh ead; maybe th en
tuition . Go with what you feel. you should reorient your readin g.
• If th e reading seems vague and uncle ar, focus on the tan- • Always keep an open mind when you look int o someone's
gible positions: th e future, home, th e outco me. Then build on
th at . If you still see confusion, be frank with the querent, She cards. You never know what you'll see. NeWTjudge a book by its
C"''CT. Things aTen 't always what they seem to be. Don't be sur-
could have many things happening in her life and actua lly be
prised by anyth ing.
confused abo ut issues. Ask her to reshuffle th e cards. If con fu-
sion still continues, wait twenty-four hours. Then do ano the r • Experim ent. Try different spreads and different tech -
reading. niques. See what works for you. Put your style and persona lity
int o your method.
• If you get stuck, cover a ca rd with your hand, close your
eyes, clear your mind , take a deep breath, and relax. Go with • A nd another reminder: Take dated notes of th e cards th at
th e impressions th at immedi ately come to your mind . come up in th e readings.
• Always trust what you see in th e cards, even if th e querent Wh at if I have more ques tions ? If you have more questions,
disagrees. I cannot count th e man y times I have made a predic- my web site is www.wilmacarroll.com.My e-mail address is
tion and the querent would swear it was an impossibility. In a [email protected] . I will endeavor to answer all in-
few days, weeks, or months, I'd get a call telling me it happened qu iries.
exactly as I had said. Always go with what you see or feel.
If you feel you arc not connecting, continue to follow your in -
tuiti on, regardless. Years ago, I used to work at parti es for so-
ph isticated Park Avenu e socialites, ladies who lunch . I
remember my cron ies and I would th ink we were not connect -
ing because th ey (the socialites) would stare at us blankly, giv-
ing us absolutely no facial feedback. (This was th e face-lift
crowd. ) O nce I complained to th e hostess abo ut th e lack of re-
action from her guests. Her answer: "They th ink th ey're above
it. They're raving about th e readings!"
The moral of th is sto ry is, regardless of lack of feedback, go
IV
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T H E L EGACY O F POLLY'S T EA R OO M
Man y years ago, I used to visit an elderly European woman who
read in a Philadelphi a tea room. The Countess, as she was
known, had lived a life th at rivaled the drama of a Verdi opera
combine d with th e excite menr of a James Bond film. She had
been a spy dur ing World War Il, had seen a close friend killed
by th e ene my. and claimed her mother had helped found the
famed L'Institute de Metaph ysiques in Paris.
High ly spiritual and a powerful c1airvoyanr , the Counress
used playing cards, not Tarot cards. I would watch her closely as
she skillfully laid out th e cards in the Seven Triplets Spread.
Her accuracy and her insigh t were my inspiration.
Although th is spread was designed for reading with playing
cards, I have adapted it for the Tarot. This is a slightly more ad-
vanced exercise. It teaches how more derailed information can
be gleaned from a spread by using more cards. reading sunounding
116 THE 2- HOUR TAROT TUTOR u.... ....
canis and noting the predominatin g suit or suits. It also prepares u u.... ....
you for the more complex spreads. The Seven Triplets Spread
uses twen ty-one cards in groups of threes (See Diagram 4.1). u u.... ....
s:
I . Sh uffle and cut th e cards as usual and then lay th em out
faceup following Diagram 4.1. Make one pile at a time of ...,
thr ee cards going from left to right. Pay attention to the cards
DIAGR..... 4 .1
as you lay them OU I! Now is !he lime to start gelling your nose oUl
of the book and in to these cards. Snoen T" pkts or Snoen Sisten Spread
1. Take a quick not e of th e predominating suit or suits in
the spread, if any.
) . Focus on th e center or middle card of each pile.
4. After a quick focus on the cente r card , note th e cards sur-
rounding the center card, th e card to the right of th e cente r
card, and the card to the left of the cente r card . These add
to the interpretation.
5. The surrounding cards can be interpreted as influences
around th e center card or actual events or people. They add
more informati on . This is very similar to the first exercise,
the E-Z Three Ca rd Spread. Each card adds a bit of informa-
tion to the interpretation .
When looking at the th ree cards, note if there is a symbol
in one card, that reminds you of a symbol in th e ot he r card.
Look for a similar theme in each card, then link th em. It's
like playing connect thedots .
6. If one of the surrounding cards appears to be more out-
standing than th e center card, go with your intuition and fo-
cus on what hi ts you as the stro ngest. Go with what pulls you
118 THE 2 - HOUR TAROT TUTOR THE SEVEN TRIPLETS OR THE SEVEN SISTERS SPREAD 119
in immediatel y. If only two of th e cards strike you, giving readin g was given to Peggy. A young woman of twenty-six years,
clear information , go with th at and disregard th e ot her card. she was already on her way up th e corporat e ladder.
7. Let your imagination play with th e images. Th is gener-
Lay th e cards out accordingly, th en follow along with th e in-
ates th e intuition. Look at the cards and say what you see; and terpretat ion .
incorporate th at with the trade secret: Look at the ~ pic-
Pik I-From left to right-8 of Pentacles, The Star, 2 of
ture(s) . Pentacles.
Let's look at a sample pile (See Diagram 4.2). The 3 of
Wands, The World, th e 6 of Swords. The World is th e cente r Pile 2-From left to right-4 of Wands, Death, 10 of Penta-
cles.
card, so the focus could be travel. The 3 of Wands to the left
could be business at a dista nce . The 6 of Swords to th e righ t Pile J-From left to right-6 of Cups, The Hanged Man, 10
could be travel by boat or by air (Swords are symbolic of th e air of Wands.
element). Tying it all togethe r, distant travel for business by Pile 4-From left to right- 7 of Pentacles, Ace of Pentacles,
boat or air over water (an airplane flying over water) . Th is is 6 of Pentacles.
one of th e many possible interpreta tions . It is ult imatel y up to
yOUT intuition. Pile 5-From left 10 right-Queen of Swords, Th e Empress,
Knight of Swords.
Let's look at a sample of an ent ire Seven S isters Spread. This
Pile 6-From left to right-The Tower, Wheel of Fortune,
DI AGRAM 4 .2 The Fool.
Sampk Pik of Snen Tripku Spread Pile 7-From left to right- 6 of Wands, Judgement, 8 of
Wands.
Now for th e int erp retation . A quick overview of th e cards
shows all th e suits are represented. There does not appear to be
one suit in parti cular th at predomina tes. This immediately says
th at th ere may be several themes going on here.
Return ing to Pile I: I find The Star in the middle is the fo-
cus. T hi s could mean recognition; the 8 of Pentacles, work or
recogn ition in work; th e 2 of Pentacles, a littl e more mon ey
comes with the recognition. This could be int erpreted as a pro-
moti on in work, with an increase in salary.
Moving to Pile 2: I am following my intu ition on thi s one,
connec ting the dots. The first pile spoke of a promot ion . T he 4
120 THE 2- HOUR TAROT TUTOR THE SEVEN TRIPLETS OR THE SEVEN SISTERS SPREAD 12\
of Wands could be an office. But th e Death card says it's new, sigh ts. She had gotte n a promotion with a substantial inc rease
and the 10 of Pentacles adds a plwh fl avor to it. With a promo· in salary. Th is also came with a new office. Not a come r office,
tion , logically, can come a new and nice r office. but two doors down from one. That brought her closer to the
corporate power structure. She also had an upcomi ng meetin g
Looking at Pile 3: This looks like an ent irely different th eme with a financial advisor in order to do some long. term financial
to me. T he 6 of C ups is a friend, but the 10 of Wands is heavy plannin g.
responsibility. The Hanged Man is a martyr. My inte rpretation
is th at a friend of Peggy's cries excessively on her shoulder. Peggy admitted to feelin g taken advantage of by a childhood
Peggy may feel overburdened and taken advanta ge of in th is friend who constant ly cried on her sho ulder. And a recent ar-
friendship. gument with her mother had been unsettl ing. Peggy feared an.
othe r confrontatio n.
On to Pile 4: The Pen tacles are, obviously, money. My int u-
ition tells me th is relates to the very first th eme (Pile 1) about Wh en she returned to her office, th ere were mound s of ca n.
getting a raise. My interpretati on is th at Peggy is contemplat- tracts on her desk awaiting her approval. Peggy called me to
ing making some investments per the 7 of Pentacles. The Ace complain vehe ment ly about that. She was angry because it was
of Pentacles indicates perha ps real estate investments or long. accurate. Sometimes you actually get blamed for accuracy! Be.
term secure investments. The 6 of Pent acles shows she is talk- ing a psychic isa rlumk1ess job. . . .
ing to someone abou t financial advice.
Later that even ing Peggy called again. Sh e had forgotten
Down to Pile 5: T his looks like anot her very d ifferent abou t a lott ery ticket purchased early th at day, a risk practkal
the me. The Empress in the ce nter hits me strongly as Peggy never before had taken. She won $ 1OO!
Peggy's mother. The Knight of Swords te lls of an argument
with her moth er. The Queen of Swords adds to th e descrip-
tion of th e moth er, wh ich is difficult. Peggy heartil y agreed.
Ove r to Pile 6: The Wh eel of Fortu ne pulls me in first. The
Tower indica tes the unexpected. The Fool can indica te risky
busiru?ss. I am uncertain how to concretely interpret th is. But I
feel it augurs someth ing lucky and unexpected . That is as far 1
can see with th is pile. Nevert heless I so:y what I see, even if it is
symbolically speaking and not necessarily specific ; event ually it
will make sense.
At the bottom is Pile 7: I predict a lot of paperwork and meso
sages awaiting Peggy when she gets back to her office.
At the conclusi on of the reading, Peggy confirmed the in-
v
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SUpBR HIgHWAY
ADVANCED S PREADS A N D LlTILE E XTRAS
"I need more informati on !" cried Ronnie.
A h igh school senior, Ronnie began reading Tarot cards in
her sophomore year. Working only with the basic Ce ltic Cross
Spread, she frequent ly gave readings ro her friends. having
earned a reputation for incredible accuracy.
As she prepared to parti cipate in a fundraiser for her class
graduation parry, Ronnie told me she want ed to get more infor-
mat ion from th e cards.
Indeed lots of extra information can be seen in the advanced
spreads. There are hundreds of soph isticated and unusual
spreads th at have survived the ages. Remember, wh ich ones
you use depend on your data needs, time constraints, and per-
sonal taste. Here are several I have collected over th e years.
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THE AD VANCED CELT IC CROSS SPREAD D-. rI_O.
I. Shuffle and cut the cards as usual. Then lay them out in rI-O. D!- , D D_.
the tradi tional Celtic Cross Spread.
D_. rIO-.
a. Go to Position 6 which represents the future (before you) _.
and place anot her card to th e righ t of th e card th at is already DIAGRAM 5 .1
there. Go to Position 7 (you ) and place anothe r card ro the rIO
Advanced Celtic Cl'OSS Spf'ead -,
right of the card in th at position. Do the same with Position 8
ing by look ing at th e cards. no matter how irrationa l. go with it.
(h ome. friends. and environment) and position 10 (culmina- In fact. by now you are probably learning to feel the cards. Go
tion) . with th e feeling.
) . Rerum again to Position 6 and place anot he r ca rd ro the Some Tarot readers suggest that you build the th ree groups
right of the two cards already there, You now have th ree cards of cards for every position in the spread. Personally. I do not
in th at position . Repeat the same procedure in Positions 7. 8. like this procedu re. I think it is easier ro pur the emphasis on
and 10 (See Diagram 5. 1). the more tangible positions. However. feel free to experiment
and see what works for you.
You now have the Ce ltic C ross Sp read with a rouch of th e
Seven Sisters Spread.
Int erpret th e cards in th e groups of thr ee by focusing on the
cente r card first (or whichever card strikes you as the
stro ngest). th en th e two surrounding cards. Project what you
see in those cards into the positions in which they fall. Keep in
mind. the cards th emselves ultimately transcend th e positions
in which they fall. If you have difficulty remembering th e
meanings of the spreads' positions. focus only on the cards.
Here again. the same rules of interpretation apply: Look at the
cards and Sll'J what )'Ollsee. Try ro go for the OI!eTaU picture(s). Be
spontaneous. Do not get caugh t up in thinking. If you get a feel.
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THE HOROSCOPE SPREAD
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The Horoscope Spread is actually based on th e astro logical
horoscope. The positions in this spread correspond with the in- ~! ~! G !
terpretations of th e houses of the horoscope. The houses of the
horoscope represent areas of life. ~! GJ!
Starting from the left side going counte rclockwise, make a ~! C:Ol 1
circle with twelve cards (See Diagram 5.2). Place a 13th card in GJ!
the cente r of th e spread. ~
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Interpret the ca rds in the context of th e meanings of the y
h ouses in which th ey fall. These mean ings could fill a book.
Here, I am giving you very conc ise explana tions with sample N ~..
interpretat ions. For more in-depth analyses, a book on basic as-
trology is useful. .a
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FIRST HOUSE-The personality of the que rent, the envi ron- s~ ~
ment or how others see the querent , appearance or image tha t i-
is projected to th e world, th e beginn ing of a matt er. For exam-
pie, the 5 of Wand s in th is position may mean th e querent is
competi tive or ath letic, or others see the queren t as manip ula-
tive. The Page of Swords in th is position may mean the querent
has a bad temper or is impulsive.
SECOND HOUSE-Money, possessions, earn ing power, financial
affairs, values, and the querenr's sense of self-worth. The 9 of
Pent acles in th is posit ion may mean th e querent has expensive
tastes, or is a high-maint enan ce woman.
THIRD HOUSE- Neighbors, neighborhoods, relat ives, siblings,
day. to-day activities, communica tions, short journeys, meso
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sages. phone calls. and gossip. The 7 of Swords in th is position racles in thi s position may mean talk ing to someone about bor-
may mean a thi ef or robberies in th e neighborh ood. rowing money. The 6 of C ups in th is house may mean a rela-
FOURl11 HOUSE-Home. family. father. the end of th e matter. tionsh ip based on mutually sha red values.
The 8 of Pentacles in thi s position may mean repair work being
done in th e home. NINTH HOUSE-Education. travel. long distance journ eys. for-
eign count ries. legal matters. law. science. psychology. publish-
FIFTH HOUSE-Romance. love affairs.ch ildren. pregnancy. vaca- ing. horses. the clergy. th e church or religious institutions.
tions, games and amusements, self..expression, creativity, artistic grandchildren. in-laws. higher mind activ ities (spiritu ality. ph i-
ability. investments. gambling. speculation. and cats. The Her- losophy. religion) . The Sun in thi s position may mean educa-
mit in th is position may mean looking for love (in all the wrong tion gives the querent a feeling of confidence. In astrology. the
places). The High Priestess here may mean a secret lover. sun symbolizes th e ego. Remember. when falling in any posi-
tion in this spread. The Sun (and/or T he Moon ) intensifies rhe
SIXTH HOUSE- Health. work. pets (except cats) . employees. significance. For th e querent, perhaps educat ion and the ego
tenants. servants. uncles. aunts. The Moon in th is position may are in some way intertwined. This is where rhe querent sh ines!
mean a healt h condition or upset stomach caused by stress. In
astrology the moon symbolizes emotional needs. In the Horo- TENl11 HOUSE-Career. profession . fame. reputation. em-
scope Spread. The Moon (and/or The Sun) intensifies th e posi- ployer. judges. moth er. The Star in thi s position may mean
tion in which it falls. Therefore. th is could mean that the health tecognition in career. The Ace of Cu ps in this house may mean
and emot iona l state of the querent are in some way intertwined. a message about a new job opportun ity.
SEVENl11 HOUSE-Partners (personal and/or profession al). ELEVENl11 HOUSE-Friend s. acquaintances. groups of people.
spouse, marriage, business contac ts, cl ients. open enemies, clubs. organ izations. stepch ildren. foster ch ildren. adopted
agents. grandparents. outcome of legal matters. legal advice. ch ildren. money from career. hopes and wishes. The 4 of
lawyers. The Kn ight of Swords in this position may mean an Wands in th is position may mean visiting the home of friends.
argumentative spouse or client or an argument with a partner. The World falling he re may mean a friend who is a foreigner.
The 4 of C ups falling her e may mean a fanUIS y relationsh ip.
TWELFrn HOUSE--Secret enemies . hidden dangers. the sub-
EIGHl11 HOUSE-Man ne r of death. sex. taxes. other people's conscious. confine ment (prisons. hospitals. mental institu-
money. credit . insurance. partn er's money. inheritances. wills. tions) . restrict ions. self-undoing. seclusion. beh ind-the-scenes
surgery. values. spiritual rebirth. psych otherapy. The 6 of Pen - manipulat ion . The 8 of Swords in thi s position may mean im-
pr isonme n t.
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THE CENTER CARDtrHE THI RTEENTH CARD IN THE MIDDLE- Eighth Howe- 5 of Cups
Ninth Ho"se--{lueen of Pentacles
T his card ca n have a very general interpret ation. It can be read Ten rh How e-The Chariot
as the outco me of th e situation , the ca rd that ties everythi ng Elewnth Howe- 5 of Pentacles
toge the r, or it merely adds more information to the read ing. To Twelfrh Howe- 7 of Swords
get the most out of it, look ar the card and say what you see. Center CardfT'he 13rh Card in rhe Middle- 2 of Cups
The Horoscope Sp read gives an enormous amount of infor- W ith the ca rds in front of you, not e how Lauren interpreted
rhe Horoscope pread. Start ing at the First House, follow along
mat ion. While I have been preach ing how non-formulaic a seque ntially aro und the circle.
Taro t ca rd read ing is, with this spread you are going to go ca rd- FiTS[ House-Knigh t of Pentacles-s-A man was arou nd Mar i-
by-card, position-by-position. Because these positions are so anne. In ot he r word s, a man was in the picrure.
sign ificant, this spread may tend to be a little formu laic. Never-
theless the same rules of in ruition still apply here as well. If you Second HOItSe-8 of C ups--Ma rianne was clearly tu rni ng
ger a feeling from the ooeraU picture!s), go with it! And, remem - away from someth ing. But th is was the house of money, and
ber to look at the cards and say whar you see. Plus anothe r re- Cups represent emotion. However th e Second House also te lls
abo ut one's values. Lauren's interpretatio n was qu ire astute . She
minder fo r interpretative purposes is tha t The Sun and/or The concluded th at Marianne was turning away fro m some th ing
Moo n falling in this spread intensifies the importance of the
house in wh ich it falls. that was emotionally empty and unfulfilling. A t th e time, Lauren
Let's look at a sample of the Horoscope Spread . Lauren gave had no idea what she was talking abo ut, Thar happens man y
this read ing to her neigh bor Marianne. Lauren could tell that tim es when giv ing a read ing. You are read ing symbols and they
Marianne was upset abo ut some th ing. After the read ing, she don' t make sense. Go with what you see, and that is exac tly
und erstood why. Lay the ca rds o ut accord ingly in the appro pri- what Lauren d id.
ate positio ns. Remember, focu s on the ca rds as you lay them out
and the n follow along with the interpretat ion . Third HOItSe-Ace of Swords-s-A n e- mail awaited Mari -
FiTSr Howe-Knighr of Pentacles anne. The T hird House symbolizes co mmun icat ions.
Second How e-S of Cups
Third Howe-Ace of Swords Fourth H OILSe- The Lovers-c-Love comes to Marianne's
Fourth How e-The lovers
Fifth Howe-6 of Cups house. S ilently Lauren th ought to herself, this read ing was get-
Sixth Howe-The World ting very int eresti ng and definitely had some th ing to do with a
Sn>enth How e-7 of Cups love prob lem ; although at th at mo ment Lauren had no idea
where it was going. She proceeded by look ing at th e ca rds and
saying what she saw.
Fifth House-6 of C ups--The ca rd of friendship in the
132 THE 2- HOUR TAROT TUTOR THE INFORMATION SUPER HIGHWAY 133
house of romance. Lauren had no idea how 10 int erpret th is. So computers, and advanc ing careerwise. T hat aspect of her life
she simply stated wha t she was seeing, a friendship and ro- was working well.
mance.
However, she did have serious emotiona l conflicts because of
Sixth House-The World-Here again, Lauren isn't sure
what it means, so she reads it as she sees it: travel and work. a perplexing relationsh ip matter. Her best friend's boyfriend had
been pursuing her. In fact , he frequent ly stopped by Mariann e's
Setoenth House- 7 of Cups-Confusion in a relationsh ip.
house and constant ly e-rnailed her. But Marianne wanted 10 be
Eighth House- 5 of C ups-Lauren is uncert ain how 10 inter- loyal 10 her best friend. She though t th e loss of her friend
pret th is card in the conte xt of the mean ing of th e Eight h would bring more pain th an th e gain of her best friend's
House. This is the most complex astrological house because it boyfrien d .
deals with deep transformation. Lauren goes with her int uition,
looks at th e card and says what she sees. There is an emotional Marianne confessed 10 havin g an att ract ion 10 thi s guy, but
loss. grappled with th e loyalty issue. At orhe r times she vacillated
and was uncert ain if th e friendsh ip was even worth it, regard.
Ninth House-Queen of Pentacles-Lauren tells Marianne less of th e boyfriend issue. She confided 10 Lauren th at she and
she will learn new thi ngs about computers. The Ni nth House th e boyfriend had gone out three times and sneaked off 10 out-
deals with learning and educatio n. of-the- way places so as not 10 be noticed.
Tenth House-The Cha rior-Marianne is moving forward Lauren predicted th at Marianne would ultimately have a
with her career. While this is a positive indication for Mari- clandestine relationshi p with thi s guy. She did . It lasted for sev-
anne's career, because of the othe r cards in the spread, Lauren eral months, unbekn ownst 10 Marianne's best friend, then qui-
knows all is not well. etly fizzled our.
Elel.'e1lth House- 5 of Pentacles-T his is the house of The Horoscope Spread can also be used to answer a specific
friends. Lauren suggests th at Mariann e may feel th at a friend- question. In astrology, this is known as harary I15trology. It is a
sh ip has no value.
highl y specialized tech n ique. A chart is drawn up 10 answer a
Twelfth House- 7 of Swords-T h is really throws Lauren off. specific question based on the time it is asked (of the hour) .
The Twelfth House is the house of h idden or secret matters. When applying thi s technique 10 th e (Tarot) Horoscope
The card indicates somethi ng sneaky. Lauren tactfully says Spread, each house will give information relating 10 the ques-
what she sees. tion. O r you can refer solely 10 the houses that pertain directly
to th e question and disregard the ot hers.
The Cen ter Cardrrhe 13th Card in the Middle- 2 of Cups-
The best example is a specific question about love, which th is
Lauren sums up the readin g by stating there is a romantic rela-
tionship in progress! spread is part icularly effective in answering. To ask if you will
h ave a relat ionsh ip with a certai n individual or the status of a
Aft erwards Marianne confirmed what was going on. She had curren t relationship, refer 10 th e First House {you or your env i-
just started a job in a travel agency, was learning a lot about
134 THE 2 -HOUR TAROT TUTOR ~~ j&
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ronrnent) , Fifth House (the house of romance) and/or th e Sev -
ent h House (th e house of relationships).
To be even more precise, identify th e intended's significator
first, For insta nce, if you are interested in a dark-haired man,
twenty-two years old, select th e Knight of Pentacles. However,
keep it in the deck. Then pose the question clearly. WiU I have a
romance (or relationship) with this pen on! Shuffle, cut, and th en
deal out the spread . If the Knight of Pentacles (or the desired
ind ividual's sign ificaror) appears in th e First House, he is defi-
n itely aro und you and on th e scene; in th e Fifth House or the
Seventh House is also confirmation someth ing is h appening. In
the Fourrh House, he is in you r home. In the Sixth House,
maybe he works with you. In the Eleventh House, he is a friend
and nothing much will happen beyond th at .
If you want more infonnation from the Horoscope Spread,
th e following is an adva nced version . It can also be used to an -
swer a specific question, while add ing more details.
THE ADVANCED HOROSCOPE SPREAD
The Advanced Horoscope Spread involves groups of th ree as
previously learned. Beginni ng with the basic Horoscope Spread
of one card for each position, rerum ro th e first card in th e First
House. Starr again at th e first card and lay ano the r card down to
th e right of th e filS! card and cont inue doi ng so in each posi-
tion . Go aro und the spread for a th ird time, ending with th ree
cards in each position including th e cente r/middle position (See
Diagram 5.3) . This is th e Advanced Horoscope Spread. It is th e
Horoscope Spread with a taste of th e Seven Sisters Spread.
The same rules of interpretation apply. Focus on th e middle
136 THE 2 - HOUR TAROT TUTOR sDDDDD
card or the most outstanding in the pile. Look ar the card.! and ThefollowWtC Month
say what you see. Be spontaneous. Remember, your fu1! hunch is Po......
usually your best! Past or Immed'-te Past
Wh en asking a specific question with thi s spread, it will give DIAGRAM 5.4
more in-depth information th an th e basic Horoscope Spread. Fiee- By.Fiw (Month. By-Monl hj SpmJd
FIVE-BY-FIVE (MONTH-BY-MONTH) SPREAD
The Five-By-Five Spread is presented with th e compliments of
Lynn M. Buess, author of The Tamt and Transformation. I have
renamed it the Month-By-Month Spread. This is excellent for
f uture-telling. Begin by shuffl ing and cutting th e cards as usual.
Sta rting at th e left, place five cards in a row going from left ro
righ t .
Above that row, going from left 10 right, lay down anot her
five cards in a row. Cont inue th is th ree more times makin g a 10-
131 of fi ve rows of five cards each (See Diagram 5.4). By the
way, these direct ions can be altered 10 go from right 10 left if
th at suits you as a reader
The bottom row describes th e past or immediate past. The
next 10 th e bottom row is th e present. The row above th at, th e
middle row, is the following month. The fourth row is the next
month after that. And the fifth row projects three 10 five
mont hs thereafter,
The focus can be the cente r ca rd of each row with th e sur-
round ing cards adding more information. If th e center card
does not strike you as th e most significant , go with what you feel
or what grabs your attent ion first. Another tip: interpret th e
cards th at clearly resonate with you. If some do not make sense,
skip over th em. Do not pause 10 th ink. Be sponta neo us. These
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spreads are more complex because you are dealing wirh more many friends, and though t about living togethe r some time
cards. But all of these symbols will be bouncing and wakin g up down the road.
your imuitilJelpsychic faculties. Say what comes to your mind in-
stant ly. This allows for th e flow of energy to easily cont in ue. Row Three: This represents the following mont h, which
would be November. Here Noah is literally projecting into th e
Let's look at a sample of the Pive-By-Pive/Monrh-By-Monrh future. He tells Ross that h is old girlfriend will unexpectedly
Spread. Noah, fresh out of college and ne wly employed at a pop up on the scene. The Lovers next to Death, which is next
public relations firm, gave th is read ing in October 200 1 to his to The Tower. Ross's react ion was that th is would be impossi-
roomm ate, Ross. Lay th e cards out acco rdingly and follow ble, insisting it would never happen.
along with th e int erpretation . Pay close att ent ion to th e derails
in th e cards. What you see in the cards is really more importa nt T his is where bein g a psychi c becomes frustrating. If a quer-
than what you see in the book! ent knows what will not happen in the future, then th e querent
should know what wiUhappen in the future and should not be
Row One-3 of Pentacles, 5 of Wands, 8 of Pentacles, The consulting a psych ic. Furthermore when a querent starts to dis-
Magician, and 10 of Pentacl es. agree, it can shut off the psych ic flow. Int ense conce ntration is
needed, and th e reader should avoid an emotiona l reaction.
Rotv Two- 3 of C ups, 2 of Cups, 9 of C ups, 6 of C ups, and Noah kept his focus. To h im th e message was clear and correct.
4 of Wand s.
He also advised Ross, who was by now in complete den ial
Row T hret'-Th e Lovers, Death, Th e Tower, Page of Swords, about th is forecast, tha t Lisa would find out and be furious.
and Knight of Swords. Noah remain ed tactful and gent le and conti nued the read ing.
Row Four-Knight of Pen tacles, The Devil, Knight of Wands, Row Four: This represents the month following November,
5 of Cups, and Qu een of Cups. which would be December. Noah was still predicti ng. He told
Ross th at to furth er complicate mat ters, Lisa's old boyfriend
Row Fil·e-B of Wand s, The Herm it, The World , 6 of would return. Ross will have a jealous and angry react ion . He
Swords, and 8 of Cups. will be crushed by th ese tum of events. He will try to win back
Lisa's affection by giving her a n ice gift (Q ueen of Cu ps). It is
This is Noah's interprerat ion . December, time for Ch ristmas presents. By now, Ross's face had
Row One:Th is was the very recent past. Noah saw th at Ross drained of blood. Noah had made a genui ne psychic connec-
had a job th at gave h im a lot of power. The job centered tion. He proceeded .
around exercising. Ross had , in fact, gotten a new job the pre-
vious month as th e man ager of an exclusive h ealth club . Row FilJe: This represents three to five months after Decem-
Row Ttoo : This was th e present, in the month of October. ber. Noah's focus was on the cente r ca rd in thi s row, The
Ross had a girlfriend he very much ca red for. Lisa brought him World. His predicti on : Ross would be so disillusioned with love
a lot of joy and happiness. They sha red common interests, had he would rake off and travel far away in search of advent ure.
140 THE 2 - HOUR TAROT TUTOR THE INFORMATION SUPER HIGHWAY 141
Noah told me Ross sat th ere sta ring in motionl ess d isbelief. month is applied to th e middle row of cards. It will give you
The next few mont hs revealed how clairvoyant Noah's reading added inform ati on of what th e querent may expec t in th at
really was. This was how th e even ts transpired. mont h. Do the same for th e following persona l month, apply-
ing it to th e fourth row of cards (the fourth row from th e bot-
In November, Ross's old girlfriend joined th e health club rom) . For the fifth row, which is three to five months int o th e
where he worked . They were seen talk ing together and some- future, you may h ave to feel which personal month coming up
one told Lisa. She went int o a rage. In Decembe r, Lisa's old will h ave th e most impact on th e querent . Here is where int u-
boyfriend got in touch with her. He said he missed her. Ross ition comes in handy. If th is is too difficul t, simply stick to ap-
could understand th at because Lisa was a wonderful lady and he plying th e person al months to th e first three or four rows or
did not want to lose her. He seethed with jealousy, just as Noah only th e ones which are easy to int erpret . Never spend time
predicted, and bough t Lisa an expensive Ch ristmas gift in an belabo ring something you can't figure out. Move on , cont inu-
atte mpt to impress her. It didn 't work. Obviously, she was no ing with spontaneity.
longer in the picture. Meanwhile, let 's chec k out Ross's personal vibes to see how
they can be factored int o thi s reading. The calendar year when
By mid-February, Ross was not a happy camper. He began th is reading was given was 200\. The month was October.
mumblin g about join ing th e Fore ign Legion . Instead, he quit Ross's birthday is February 3.
hi s job and headed for Alaska.
Here's a quick refresher for finding the personal month. Calcu-
These kinds of clear psychi c experiences are very possible late the uni,.".sal year by addi ng th e digits of th e current calen-
with Tarot cards. Noah looked at the ca rds and responded to dar year or, in thi s case, th e year in which th e readin g was given
his sponta neous feelings. In that way, he accu rately projec ted (2001) . 2 + 0 + 0 + 1 = 3. The uni"",sal year is a 3. Always reduce
int o th e future. to a single digit, if necessary! Ca lculate the querent's personal year
by adding his birth month and birth day to the uni"",sal year.
The timing of events can be effect ively det ermined in th is Ross's birth month is February (2) . His birth day is th e th ird (3)
spread by calculating the querent's num erological persona l of February. The un iversal year is a 3. 2 + 3 + 3 = 8. Ross's per-
months, and inte rpreting th e meaning of th ose vibra tions in sonal year is an 8. Always reduce to a single digit, whenever neces-
the context of th e cards that fall in a particular row. sary. Calculate his personal month by adding his personal year to
th e current calendar month. The reading was given in th e month
Once you have obta ined the que rent's current personal of October (0) . 8 + 1 + 0 = 9. Always reduce to a single digit , if
month, backtrack or count back by one num ber. This will give necessary. In Oc rober 2001, Ross was in a 9 personal month.
you th e que rent 's previous month 's vibra tion or the last per-
sona l month. Apply th e querent's last personal month to the To recap: In 200 1 Ross was in an 8 personal year. In October
bottom row of th e spread, which represents the past or imme- (2001) , he was in a 9 personal month.
dia te past. Apply th e queren r's current persona l month ro th e
row abo ve, represent ing th e que rent 's immed iate situation.
The numerological vibration for the querent's next personal
14 2 THE 2 - HOUR TAROT TUTOR THE INFORMATION SUPER HIGHWAY 14 3
Let's start with the bottom row, which represents the imme- great job. A 9 year can also ind icate globe-trott ing. Ross took
diate past. Since the reading was given in October (when Ross off in February 2002, an "II persona l mon th, a time of stress.
was in a 9 personal month), the previous month, would be Sep- You could easily say, per these vibes, Ross was running away.
tember. Ross was in an 8 personal month. However, since he
was also in an 8 personal year, the re is a double u,hammy of the Again, intuition and experience will make interpreting the
strong 8 vibrati on . It fits perfectly! In Sep tember, Ross had numerological vibrati ons very easy. Start observing your per-
landed a great job. It paid well (8 is mon ey); gave h im some sonal vibrations and those of your friends and family. You will
power (8 is power, leadership, and executive ability); and, inter- be amazed by th e insights you get !
estingly enough, 8 is the nu mber of physical exercise.
ONE-YEAR SPREAD
The second row represents the present, the month when th e
read ing is given. For Ross, it was a 9 personal mont h . 9 is the Th is is an excellent spread that gives you a quick overview of
number of romance, candle light, and music. The ca rds tell of an entire year. It consists of twelve cards (plus a significator).
th e happiness with h is girlfriend. However, 9 is also the number Each card represen ts a month in the year. It is excep tionally ef-
fective when incorpora ting th e querent's personal months into
of endi ngs. This sho uld have sent a red flag up in Noah's mind . the interpretat ion, and it is very apropos at the beginning of
th e New Year. It can still be used at any time, but it always be-
The next row, th e th ird, indicating the following month , gins with th e current calendar month. So, if you give th is read-
Novembe r, speaks of things TO come. Ross moved into a I per- ing in August, th at month would mark the beginning of th e
sona l month, a time of new beginn ings. Th is is where observa- spread. In othe r words, the fi rst position or fi rst ca rd of thi s
tion of num erological vibrations gives you the experience to spread would be read as August. The second posit ion or second
interpret these subtle nu ances. For Ross, it meant the beginning card would be September, and so on.
of the end or th e beginning of madness. Anoth er clue is th at he
was movin g into a 9 personal year in 2002, a time of endings. Aesthe tically, the pattern of th is spread docs requ ire a sign i-
G iven th at , th e trouble with Lisa was probably inevitab le. Yet ficaror, Choose one that you view as representative of th e quer-
it began in November. ent . Place it in the middle (Sec Diagram 5.5) . Then, starting at
the top towards the left. while moving downward, diagona lly
Going to the fourth row, December, Ross was in an "II per- towards the right, lay out six ca rds. Follow the same procedure,
sonal month, a time of stress. Ross had lost the woman he start ing at the top towards the right. Lay out six cards moving
loved. downward, diagon ally towards the left. You should now have a
cross with th e significator in the middle. The first card is read as
T he last row ind icated the next few months. However, by Janu ary or the current calendar month; the second card is read
th is time, Ross was in a completely different personal year vi-
bration, th e endi ng vibe, 9. And, that is certa in ly what h ap-
pened . (Remember a personal year can indi cate major life
tra nsitions.) Ross's relationship had ended , and he ended his
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[] c:J as February or the next month. After reading that diagonal row,
[]c:J start at the top of the othe r d iagonal row and read that card as
the sevent h month all the way down to th e last card, which is
8 the last month or December.
GO
G c:J Let's look at a sample of this spread, while also incorporating
the querenr's persona l months. This readin g was given to
G c:J Joshua, a graduate of a prestigious midwestern university.
Joshua had graduated three years earlier with a degree in politi-
DIAGRAM 5 .5 cal science. After college, he and two friends migrated to Col-
orado, attempting to open a restaurant. It was a dismal failure;
Qn<. Y tUf S~rt<u1 so, with h is tail between his legs, Josh returned to h is home-
town of Jacksonvi lle, Florida, to be close to h is large family. At
th e time of thi s reading he was managing a trend y Ca jun
restaurant.
Josh's birthday is July 22. The readin g was given in 1999.
Here's anothe r formula refresher for finding the personal
month. C alculate th e uni" ,rsa/ year by adding the digits of the
current calendar year. Always reduce to a single digit! Ca lculate
the querent 's personal year by adding h is birth month and birth
day to th e uni,.".sa/ year. Always reduce to a single digit! Ca lculate
h is personal month by adding his personal year to the current cal-
endar month. Always reduce to a single digit!
\ At the beginning of the New Year ( 1999), Josh had ente red
a 3 personal year. Based on th at information, by backtracking, I
easily calculated th at the previous year (the entire calendar year
of 1998) he was in an 11/1 persona l year, mean ing it was stress-
ful. (It always helps to take not e of where someone is coming
from, because th at helps to understand where one is going.
This is how basic num erology h elps to ground a psychic/Taror
reading!) A 3 personal year is much lighter and easier going.
Since the reading was given to him in very early January, the
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fi rst ca rd represents the month of Januar y. It is also a 4 person al man working. 4 is th e number of work . I to ld joshua he would
month for Josh . be hard at work in this month. Se e how easily it fits!
Lay th e ca rds out accordingly, noticing th e details in th e pic- Position 2-a 5 perso nal month: The Worl d is obviously long
tu res. Try first to read th is spread without look ing in th e boo k.
This will give you the oppo rtu n ity to gradua lly start easing your distance travel. The 5 may also ind icate travel , as well as the un-
nose our of the boo k. Then follow along with my interpretation expected. I informed Josh ua that he would probably take an un-
and co mpa re that with your int erp ret ati on. Remember, these expected vacation in Febru ary. Of course he d isagreed.
interpret ati ons are not written in sto ne ; so don't be d isa p-
po int ed if you co me up with someth ing d ifferent from what I Position 3-a 6 person al month : T he 3 of C ups loo ks like a
am suggest ing. festiv e event. 6 is th e n umber of family. A festive family func-
tion. I pred ict ed there would be a joyous family par ty.
Sign ificator- Kni gh t of C ups (I dee med th is ca rd as befit-
ting of Joshu a because he has blond hair a nd blu e eyes.) Position 4- a 7 perso na l month: The 4 of Swo rds looks as if
someone is sleeping or tak in g a long rest. A 7 personal mo nth ,
po' ition I-Januar y-8 of Pentacles. in general, ind icat es th e tim e to rest and restore ene rgy, When
Po.•ition 2-Februar y- The World. this vibrat ion is in effect , ma ny peo ple do not eve n feel like go-
po, it ion 3-March-3 of C ups. ing o ut. Instead they stay hom e and ta ke frequent naps . Or th ey
Po, ition 4- April-4 of Swords. sit and sta re at the television, wit hout eve n paying attent ion to
po, ition 5-May-Wheel of Fortune. what they are watching. This is a heavy thinking time. I sug-
Po,ition 6-June--2 of Cups. gested in A pril Josh would have to slow down , rest up, and
Poslnon 7-July- The Lovers.
po,ition 8-August-5 of C ups. recharge his baltery .
po,ition 9-September-7 of Wands.
po,ition lO-October-7 of Cups. Position 5-an 8 personal month: The W heel of Fortu ne is
Po,ition II - N ovember-IO of Wand s. luck. 8 is money. C learly, this look ed like luck with money.
po'ition 12-December-6 of Swords.
Position 6-'1 9 persona l month: T he 2 of C ups is a relat ion -
Here is the interpretati on. I am look in g at th e ca rds, and in- sh ip; but , 9 is a ti me of end ings. And that is exactly what it
terpreting eac h ca rd as o ne month of the year, But this tim e the loo ked like-the ending of a relat ionsh ip. I eased int o this one
numerological vibra tion of the q ueren t's perso na l month is go- because it is sens it ive. However Joshu a d id co n fide that the re-
ing to be wov en into making th e pred icti on. lati onship with h is girlfriend was d icey and a breakup would
not surprise him.
Position I- a 4 person al month: The 8 of Pentacl es shows a
Position 7-a I perso na l month: The Lovers is a Major
Trump card. That ind icates some thi ng immed iate. I is the t ime
of new begin ni ngs. Upon see ing th is, I advised Joshua th at all
was not lost. Imm ed iately following the break-up, a new sum-
mer rom ance would quickly heat up July.
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"nPosirion B-an personal mont h: The figure in th e 5 of year he would have no ch oice bur lo sort our all the work and
ca reer issues.
Cups does nor look happy. Three cups arc overturned . So me-
thing is spilled our or lost, And, an I \7 personal month can be I heard from Joshua about eigh tee n months lat er. Here's how
ir all played out,
stressful. This card may ind icate disappointment. Plus, it follows
He did work very hard during th e month of Janu ar y. He
The Lovers. My intuition told me lo stay with th e love th eme. was so exhausted th at he impulsively rook a vaca tion in Feb-
ruary, just to ch ill our. In March hi s cousin got married. There
I predict ed a souring of th e sizzling summer love slOry. was a big wedding, and family mem bers from several states
flew in to 'm end. Indeed family was th e main eve nt of th at
Posirion 9-a 3 personal month: The 7 of Wand s speaks of month . By April, Josh was wiped our again. H e used down -
power struggles, Bur 3 is th e vibration of friends. Perhaps th ere rime lo sleep. In May, his boss th e restau rant owne r gave
will be power struggles wirh friends. Joshu a a hug e increase in salary. Bur, in June , Joshu a's girl-
friend ended th eir relation shi p. In July, however, he mer a
Position IO-a 4 persona l month: The 7 of C ups shows beautifu l redh ead and fell in love instantly. O ne month later
someo ne who can' t make up hi s mind . As 4 is th e number of (August), h e co ncluded , "Sh e was tran sparent, I could sec
work, I advi sed Joshu a that Octo ber would probab ly be a rime right through her." He realized bea uty was on ly skin-dee p.
of confusion and indecisiven ess regard ing work and ca reer Whar a disappoinrmenr! As Septe mber rolled arou nd, Joshua
matt ers. had some conflicts with what he descr ibed as conrrolling
friends . In October he ad mitted lO h imself h e was co nfused
Position II - a 5 personal month: This guy is ca rrying a about job mailers. Maybe th e restaurant business wasn't
heavy load. The 10 of Wand s speaks of being laden down wirh where he sho uld be. It didn't matter, beca use in November he
was h it wirh eve n more responsibili ry. H is boss was openi ng
responsibil ity, Add th e 5 for a dose of expecr !he unexpected. It ano the r restaurant. Th is man tru ste d Joshua and wanted hi m
was, in my estimation , an unexpected overload of burdens relat - to ove rsee the entire new operation! As the holid ay season
got going in Dece mbe r, Joshua decided lO take a sho rt car
ing lO work. Therefore, in Novem ber, Josh co uld expect an un- journey, abou t two hou rs west of Jacksonville, lo vislt h is
expected addition of duti es on th e job. brother, sister-in -law, and twin nieces. As he had moved into
a 4 person al year by the rime I heard from h im; he to ld me he
Posirion 12- a 6 personal month: The 6 of Swords can be an was unhapp y man agin g a restau rant, and was ind eed raking a
airplane trip or a sho rte r trip by car along a highway. Since serious look at his caree r dir ection.
Joshua was in a 6 persona l month, which usually means home
or near by related. my intu ition told me he was going to travel, This spread is quick and very easy. Try ir. You'll like ir!
bur nor roo far. A nd , most likely, it would be a tr ip having lo do
with family. My prediction was that in December (twelve
months from th e reading) Joshu a would rake a car tr ip lo visit
famil y.
Sin ce I knew from num ero logy th at Joshu a was moving into
a 4 personal year th e following year (after the Tarot cards' read-
ing had expired ), I added lo my prediction s that in th e next
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THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE SPREAD th e future or immediare future. Incorporating the querent's nu-
merological personal months (or personal days) th is spread also
This spread comes from the famed British Tarot autho r th e late adds to the effectiveness and speed y access of information .
Richard G ardner. as presented in h is boo k The Tarot Speaks. It THE THREE CA RD SPREAD (REAL Q UICK
PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE)
is a sho rter and q uicke r version of the Five-By-Five (Month-
By-Month ) Spread. This is a real quick past. present. and futu re. It is a sophisticated
' ","sion of the E-Z Three Card Sp read. Going from left to right.
St art ing at the left. lay down five cards in a row going from lay down three cards. The fi rst card on the left ind icat es th e
left to right. A bove that row. going from left to right . lay down past. The card in the middle represents the present and/or the
ano the r five cards in a row. Do th is for one othe r row. You now querent. The card on the right stand s for the futur e.
have three rows of cards with five cards in eac h row.
YES O R N O Q UESTIONS (MY PET PEEVES)
The bottom row represen ts the past or immediate past. The
middl e row is the present. The to p row is th e futur e o r immed i- I have already mentioned how difficu lt these q uest ions arc to
ate futur e. The middle card for each row can be used as th e fo- answer. Firstly. remember th e two prerequisites for the most
cus of the issues affecting th e queren t, and you can apply the taxin g of all Tarot feats: a clear q uest ion and a calm mind .
numerological perso na l months to th ese rows also. Sta te the q uest ion clearly and in eigh t words or less. And med-
itate to calm yo ur mind. Emotiona l anguish interferes with psy-
THE Q UICK PAST, PRESENT, ch ic reception.
AND FUTURE SPREAD
For th e most challenging of all divi nations. 1 recommen d th e
T h is is anothe r variat ion of the Past. Present. and Future Horseshoe Spread and/or th e Quick Yes or No. There arc two
Sp read th at 1 devel oped. I ca ll it the Quick Past. Present . and methods of int erpretat ion for each of th ese spreads. One is a for-
Future Spread. It can be used whe n you arc in a big hurry. 1fre-
quently used this spread when work ing in Long Islan d discos. mula techniqu e; th e ot he r is an intetpreullive technique. The in-
where speed was essent ial.
tetprerative technique is very helpful for those occasiona l indirect
Starti ng at th e left. lay down three cards in a row going from responses; because even when th e prerequisites are met . there are
left to right . Above that row. going from left to right. lay down times when the cards refuse to yield a direct answer to th e in-
quiry. (A s we proceed. you shall see what I rnean.)
three cards. Do this for one ot he r row. You now have three rows
of only th ree cards each. The bottom row represen ts the past or
immediate past. The middle row is the present . The top row is
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For both techniques I have provided sample readings, and [J
for each sample I sha ll pose th e same exact que ry. It is th e most
D3
common ly asked and th e most difficult to answer. WiU he caIl?
26
Co median Jerry Seinfeld boils th e answer down to a simple
miscommunication between the gend ers. "When a woman says 17
she 'll call, she means thar day , she 'll call. When a man says he'll DIAGRAM ~ .6
call, he means in h is Ufetirne, he'll call:'
Tbe Iformfw< 5"rec.,1
Unfort unately th e ca rds frequently reflect this vagueness. To
add to the complication. this popu lar inquiry is usually accom- In this spread th e inverted cards play an important role. A
panied by extremely h igh levels of high anxiety. This furt he r card th at is right -side-up is a yes. It is given a value of one
emphasizes th e importan ce of a tranquil psych e before attempt- point . A n inve rted card is a no. It is not given a value point.
ing to tac kle this most vexin g of all questio ns. The mid&e card is given a value point of two if it is right- side-
up; if invert ed, no points. Quick addition of th e va lue points of
THE HORSESHOE SPREAD all seven cards gives an instant yes or no answer. Five to eight
points is a yes. Three point s or less is a no. Four points indicate
* THE FORMULA TECHNIQUE th ere is no answer to the question at th is time.
This is based on a Yes or No Spread as presented by Lynn M. Let's look at some examples. Three cards are invert ed ; four
Buess in his book T he Taror and Tmnsformarion. I have added cards are upright (including th e two-point center card). That's
my persona l fl avor to th is spread by putt ing it in the sha pe of a five points . This is a yes answer.
horseshoe. (T he Horseshoe Spread is a Tarot standard with
many variations to it.)
Formulate a clear question before shuffl ing is begun. After the
question has been presented, th e cards are sh uffled and cut as
usual. Or. instead of having the querent shuffle th e ca rds, you
can spread or fan them out in a straigh t line (facedown) and in-
struct the querent to pick seven cards, handing them to you
one at a time as she goes along. Many people like th is met hod
because they feci involved in th e selec tio n of th eir fares.
Starting to rhe left , deal out (or place) seven ca rds while
making the shape of a horseshoe (See Diagram 5.6).
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Five cards are inve rted. One card and th e cente r card (two Strength (in vert ed ), 9 of Pentacles, 3 of Cups, Q ueen of Cups
point s) arc right-sid e-up: three points. This is a no answer. (invert ed ), and Knight of C ups. Pull the correspondi ng cards
from your deck and follow along.
Now here is a brain twister. T hree cards arc inverted (in-
cludi ng the two point middle card). T he remain ing four cards Sta rti ng with the [onnula technique, I calculated the points.
are right-side-up: four points. W hat's th e answer! There isn' t Only three cards were inverted. The remain ing cards, including
an y. T he cosmos has deemed this quest ion to be una nswerable th e two-point center card, were tight-side-up. This added up to
at this time. five points, a yes. My prediction was that Anthony would call.
* THE INTE RPRETATI VE TECH NIQUE Using the interpretative technique. I could dig up more infor-
mation. Follow along. Position I- The Past. The Sun : Some-
Regardless of th e answer given by the fonnula (point count) th ing recently past made Felicia happy and optimistic. Sh e met
technique. you can still dig deeper for more information by in- Anthony. Position 2- T he Present, 4 of Pentacles (inv erted) :
terpreting the cards' positions. From left to right, the positions She was trying to contro l her overexuberance , Position 3-T he
indicate : (l) the past; (2 ) the present; (3 ) th e immediate fu- Immed iate Future. Strengt h (inverted) : She will be using all
ture. The cente r or middle card (4) represents the querent her will power to resist th e urge to ca ll him. Position 4- T he
and/o r what th e question is all abo ut; (5) th e attitude of an- Q uerent and/o r What th e Question Is A ll About. 9 of Penta-
ot he r person; (6) an obstacle (if a positive card. thi s is reinforc- cles: Fel icia had been dressing up each day before going out, in
ing); and (7) the outco me. case she ran into Anthon y. Position 5- The Attitude of An-
othe r Person. 3 of C ups: I suggested Anthon y liked to part y.
This meth od is highl y subjective, and th e messages will not Position 6-A n O bstacle, Q ueen of C ups (in vert ed) : It looked
always be clear, cut-and-dry. Relat e th e cards to the question as if Anthon y could have had anothe r lady on his mind. Posi-
that is asked, and allow your intuitive/psychic [acuIties to facto r tion 7- The O utco me, Knight of Cups: T his was th e phone
int o th e int erpret ation . call from Ant hon y.
Let's look at sample readings using both the [!mnula and in- Aft er th e reading Felicia to ld me Anthony was known as a
terpretive techn iques for th e eterna l question : Will he call! part y ani mal; and. he had recently been jilted by a girl he really
liked . However, two days later he called.
Felicia had met Anthon y at a party ten days ago. He had
promised ro call but Felicia was growing doubtfu l. She want ed Here's anothe r example. G wen had been int erested in a guy
to know if there was any hope. named Juan. He had asked for her num ber. But one mon th had
passed , and Juan had not ca lled. Distraught, she came to see me
She clearly stated the question , WiU An thony caUl She th en on th e day of a full moon. She clearly sta ted the question, Will
sh uffled and cut th e deck. I dealt out seven cards following th e
Horseshoe Spread: The Sun, 4 of Pentacles (inve rted ). he call! T hen I spread the cards out and instructed he r to pick
seven and hand t hem to me as she went along.
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This is th e order in which th e cards were pulled : 7 of Swords, n ight at about eleven o'cloc k, she bumped into him in a conve-
8 of words (inverte d ), The Hanged Man, 9 of Swords (in - nience store. He told her he had lost her phone num ber, and
verted), 7 of Cups (invert ed ), The Tower, and Kn ight of
Wands (inverted) . Arrange your cards accordingly and follow asked for it again. G wen fell for that baloney th at 's as old as the
along. h ills and wrot e it down for h im. Of course, Juan never called
Using th e fonnufa technique for th e Horseshoe Spread, th e th at time eithe r, demonstrat ing that he was leading her on and
int erpretat ion was as follows. Fou r cards were inverted, includ - most likely made a habit out of pract icing deception .
ing th e two-poi nt center card, leaving only three cards right -
side-up. That totals to th ree, a neb'!tive. I infonned G wen th at Th is is an excellent example of how life th rows curve balls
Juan wou ld not call. th at are reflect ed in the cards, but very difficult to discern.
While the di rect answer to th e question was not what G wen
G wen pressed me for deta ils. I was able to acco mmodate her was looking for, the re was a message coming th rough. Indeed,
by using th e inrerpreultive technique. th e ca rds were telling someth ing indirectl y, but not specifica lly.
This is one of th e most fascinating aspects of Tarot cards. Al-
Position I-The Past, 7 of Swords: Something sneaky or de-
ceptive had h appened in th e very recent past. Perh aps Juan had ways look at the cards. It may on ly be in ret rospect th at the mes-
never really int ended to ca ll G wen, but instead was leading her
on. Position 2- The Present, 8 of Swo rds (inve rted) : G wen sage becomes clear. This is why it is important ro take dated
was uncerta in about what to do. 1suggested she may have even notes. In th at way you will become more cogn izant of how th e
felt th is deception, but had been unable to admit it to herself. cards really talk.
Position 3- The Immediate Future, The Hanged Man : G wen
would soon begin to feel ta ken adva ntage of. Position 4- The Let's look at ano the r sample. Kendra had had a huge argu-
Quercnt and/or What the Question Is All A bout, 9 of Swords ment with her bovfnend, Doug. T he y both said nasty and hurt-
(inv erted ): G wen was quite distressed over this situation. Posi- ful th ings to each ot her. Kendra wondered if Doug would ever
tion 5- The A tti tude of A nothe r Person, 7 of Cups (in- call her again.
verted): It appears as if Juan may, in fact , be an untruthful
individual. Position 6-A n O bstacle, T he Tower: There would Sh e clearly asked th e question , shuffled, and cut. 1dealt out
be an unexpected tum of events . Position 7- T he Outcome, seven cards in the shape of a horseshoe. 5 of Swords (inverted),
Knight of Wands (inverted): Alt hough I finnly believed Juan
would not call, he was still in the picture, but 1could no t be cer- 3 of Swords (inverted) , 2 of Swords, 7 of Wands, 5 of C ups, IO
tain exactl y how. And thi s is what 1 told G wen , too.
of Swords (inverted), and Judgement (invert ed) . Se t th is
Here's what happened. Two months passed and Juan never spread up with your cards and follow a long.
called. G wen had completely forgotten about h im. Then one
Using th e fonnula technique, four cards were invert ed and
thre e ca rds were right -side-up (including th e two point center
card) . That was only a IOtaI of four points. In ot he r words,
th ere was no an swer at th is time. Perhaps because the emo-
tion al investment in this question was too grea t: or perhaps it
was the universe 's way of telling Kend ra th ere was a spiritual
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lesson 10 be learned from th is experience and th e outcome de- head by suggesting this. I wanted her to come to this realization
pended upon how she chose to respond 10 th is situation. In for h erself.
othe r words, it was not simply a matter of Kendra wanting Doug
10 call her. Someth ing else was going on here. Remember, the During the brief intermission of my pause, Kendra began
messages are always coming thro ugh , albeit cryptically. talking. Sh e admitte d to having deliberately pressed Doug's
butt ons just 10 get a reaction out of h im; on ly she hadn't real-
Using th e interpretati,,, tech nique for this readin g, I easily ized how badly she was really hurting hi m. Since I had said he
obtained more information. Without even looking at the cards' was not going 10 call her, she quietly asked me if she should call
positions, a quick overview told me there was a lot of turmoil him to apologize. I advised her th at I thought the last card,
and stress. A breakdown was quite revealin g. Position I-The Judgement, was saying just th at.
Past, 5 of Swords (invert ed ): There had recentl y been a bitter
argument . Position 2- T he Present , 3 of Swords (in vert ed ): For Kendra, th is was a lesson in personal growth. She
T here was a lot of pain and anguish. Position 3- T he Immedi- learn ed that for everyth ing you do in life there is a price 10 be
ate Future, 2 of Swords: T here was indecisiveness about what 10 pa id. And responsibility must be taken for our actions. It was
do. Position 4- The Qu erent and/or Wh at the Quest ion Is All th e Tarot cards that aided in vividly bringing thi s irrevocable
Abo ut, 7 of Wands: This card clued me in. It represented cosmic law to her awareness.
Kendra. She appeared 10 be quite controlling in this situation,
and perh aps control issues were a part of what the question was all A QU ICK YES OR NO
about. Position 5- The Att itude of Another Person, 5 of C ups:
This definitely represent ed Doug. He felt quit e wounded be- * THE FORMULA TECHNIQUE
cause of th is fierce fight. Position 6-An O bstacle, 10 of Swords
(inverted) : 1sensed th is related again to Doug, who was also de- This spread is from Mastering the Tarot by Eden Grav, Pose th e
pressed. Position 7- The O utcome, Judgement (invert ed) : question clearly before anyth ing else is begun. The cards are
This looked like a phone call, but not from Doug. Instead it then shuffl ed and cut as usual or fanned out to be selected by
looked as if Ken dra would call hi m. the querent . Deal out three cards or ask th e querent to pick
three cards, hand ing them to you in the order in which they are
At this point I paused, because I got the pictllre. I had an intu - pulled. Lay them out side-by-side, going left to right. T he an-
itive flash . It appeared 10 me as if Kendra had initiated this bru- swer is determ ined by how many ca rds are right-side-up or in-
tal bat tle. Because of her controlling nature (7 of Wands), she verted. A ll three cards righ t-side-up, a definit e yes. Three cards
refused to accept responsibility for a situation she h erself had inverted, a defini te no. Two cards right-side-up, a qualified yes.
created and wanted Doug to call h er. That is, sh e wanted to Two cards inverted, a qualified no. Qualified, in th is case, means
make Doug call her. However she sho uld have been calling there are mod ifying influen ces affecting the matt er, such as re-
Doug 10 apologize. But, I did not want to put ideas into her strictions. O r, perhaps the matt er is subject to certai n condi-
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tions being met before it can effect ively transpire. I told you, a very long time. Seeds were being planted. There was more go-
life is not always cleat, cut-and-dry! ing on here th an just a phone call. I told th is to Jennife r.
* TH E INTERPRETATI VE TECHNIQUE Let's incorporate the T hree Ca rd Spread (Real Quick Past,
Present, and Future) into th is interpretation . The Z of Cups,
By readin g (feeling) the three ca rds th at come up in th is spread th e immediate past- a relat ionship appea red to be blooming.
and relat ing them to the question that is being asked , they can Ace of Cu ps, th e immediate present, indica ted a phone meso
be inte rpreted in th e conte xt of th e query, You can even weave sage is current ly waiting. This middle card can also be inter-
the Three Ca rd Spread (Real Quick Past, Present, and Future) preted as th e querent. jennifer is happy and optimistic. The 7
into th e interpretative technique for extra information. Use your of Pentacles, th e immediate future, suggested th at th e seeds for
intuitive/psychic faculties freely with th is spread. You will be a long-term situat ion were being planted.
amazed at th e insights you'll have!
When Jennifer got back to her room , his message awaited
Let's look at sample readings for thi s spread using both the her. They went together for several years, th en married. Russ
form ula and interpretive techniques for th at eterna l question: want ed to get th rough med school first. They are still a very
WiU he call! happy couple!
Jennifer had met Russ a few days ago. Russ was a star at hlete, Here's anot he r example. Gra ce wanted to know if Phil
in med school, and quit e handsome. Jennifer was chewing her would call. Phil was a cha rismatic guy, who atte nded a college
fingernails to the quick wondering if Russ would get in touch about one-a nd-a-ha lf hours away from G race. A friend had
with her. She asked the question, WiU Russ caUl I spread the deck tried to fix th em up, and gave Ph il G race's number.
out, facedown. She picked thr ee cards and handed them to me as
she went along. I placed them down, going from left to right. Grace clearly asked th e question. I spread the cards out face-
down . She picked three and handed them to me as she went
The Z of Cups, Ace of C ups and 7 of Pent acles were all along. Go ing from left to right , I placed them down. T he 6 of
right -side-up. I told Jennifer, Russ would definitely call. Swords, Temperance, and The Lovers were all inverted. I ad-
vised Grace th at Phil would definitely not call.
By looking at the ind ividual cards, more information could
be obta ined. T he Z of Cups definitely meant a relat ionsh ip. 1 was still able to get more information for G race by lookin g
Love was in the air! The Ace of Cups suggests ha ppy emotions at th e overall picturel s), In this instance I was working totally
and the predominating suit of Cups told me that somet hing on intuition . Focusing on th e cards, I d idn't like what I saw.
was going to happen soon, maybe in one day or one week. But Based on th e feeling 1was getting, Phil appea red to be unstable
the 7 of Pentacles said that something wo uld also be around for in relationships. Grace confided tha t he was reputed to go from
one girlfriend to the next. I told Grace she shou ld be glad she
would never hear from h im. However, The Lovers did come up
16 2 THE 2 -HOUR TAROT TUTOR THE INFORMATION SUPER HIGHWAY 163
in the spread. although inverted. I felt as if it was signaling an h ave felt good about himself and uncomfortable about talking
important message. There may be ano ther opport un ity. Grace to Keisha at thi s time. This was basic psvchologv , I saw Dwayne
informed me that another guy had indeed been asking her out. as th e King of C ups. a man fl oating on the ocean. Perh aps
But she h ad been putting him off. hoping that Phil would call. Dwayne was driftin g along in life. going wherever the tide was
After the reading. Gra ce decided to forget about Phil and ac- taking him . The 7 of Wands (invert ed) looked like a message.
cept a date with the other prospect . This is yet another exam- But Wand s could have meant months down the road. So [ told
ple of h ow th e direct message may be unfavorab le but an Keisha th at if Dwayne gets himself together and plants his feet
indirect message is coming through. which is sign ificant. on th e ground. she would hear from him within a few months.
Adding th e Three Ca rd Spread to th e interpretation. th ere These cards fit easily int o th e Three Card Spread. The 6 of
Pentacles. the past: Dwayne had to borrow money. The King of
is more informat ion th at can be drawn . Remember. all th e cards Cups. th e present: Dwayne is presently floating aimlessly. This
position ca n also be interpreted as the querent . Dwayne is
are inverted. The 6 of Swords. th e immediate past: Phil was not strongly on Keisha's mind. The 7 of Wand s (inverted) , the fu-
near Grace. but at some distan ce atte nding anot he r college. ture. indicated th ere will be a message.
Temperan ce. th e presen t: A situat ion that was not going to
cha nge. As the qucrcru , G race was trying to balance far time. Five months later he sent her a letter. snail-mail. While th is
Keep in mind . I'm feeling here and in intuitive/psychic mode. The was not a phone call. it was nevertheless a communication.
Lovers, th e future. showed that there was indeed anothe r guy But. maybe not exac tly what Keisha had in mind . And. remem-
ber. [ said it was qualified. This is anothe r example of how
calling. things play out much differently th an our imagined expecta-
Let's look at ano ther example. Keisha and Dwayne dated on
tion s.
and off for a while. Then th ey drifted apart. It h ad been more Here is anothe r example. Alex. who was qu ite a cha rmer,
than six months since Keisha had seen him .
had been flirtin g around with Rach el and had asked for he r
Keisha formulated the question. Will Dwayne call? I spread num ber. O ne month had passed an d she had not heard from
him .
the cards out face down. Keisha picked three cards and handed
them to me one by one: th e 6 of Pentacles. King of Cups and Rachel asked the question , Will Alex call? She picked three
the 7 of Wands (Invert ed) . O ne card was invert ed, th e othe r cards and hand ed them to me one by one: th e 6 of Cu ps. the
two were right -side-up. The answer was a qualified yes. That Ace of Swords (inverted) , and the Page of Wand s (Invert ed) .
meant Dwayne probably would call if certa in cond itions were O ne card was right -side-up; the ot he r two were inverted. The
met. O r, the call was subject to restrictions. But, th at was answer was a qualified no. But what did th at mean ?
vague. 1 had to dig deeper to give Keisha more information;
and, here. again. my intuition was going to be the guide. 1 dug deeper and looked at the indi vidual cards. It certa inly
looked like a message to me. I told Rachel th e on ly percepti on
The 6 of Pent acles said th at maybe Dwayne had had to bor-
row money. If he was having financi al problems. he may not
164 THE 2- HOUR TAROT TUTOR r][J LDD___...1r' IDD_. rrD]-]__[[..J.J.
-.
I could get was that he most likely would not call her, but I did
see someth ing abou t a message or phone call. I had no idea -- -,
wha t that meant. This, however, was what my intuition was
telling me. DIAGRAM 5. 7
Using a quick ana lysis of th e Three Card Spread, th e cards Wilma Carroll', rarty SjJT'ud
did not fit so neatl y. Nevertheless, somethi ng could be seen.
The 6 of Cups, the past: Rachel had given A lex her number.
The Ace of Swords (inverted) , the present and the q ueren t:
Rachel was anxious about a message. The Page of Wands (in -
verted), th e future: There would be a phone <=.,11.
About two weeks passed. One day the phone rang. Rachel
answered it. A man's voice asked to speak to Patricia, Rachel's
gorgeous roommate. It was Alex!
Indeed th ere was a phone call but not the one Rach el had
hoped for. This is an excellent exa mple of how th e universe
th rows us curve balls which are man y times impossible to
adroitly ca rch.
I must reemphasize that you will have to experiment with
these spreads to see what works for you. A lways interpret the
cards in th e contex t of th e question being asked. Since you are
working in intuitive/psychic mode, everyth ing may not fit ex-
actly. T his is Tarot card read ing, not mathe matics!
If you arc uncerta in about th e message trying to come
through , it's okay to say so. But always remember to look ar the
carris and say whar you see.
WILMA CA RRO LL' S PARTY SPREAD
Here is an extra added bonus. This is a spread I developed my-
self (See Diagram 5.7) . In fact , as you become more comfort-
166 THE 2 - HOUR TAROT TUTOR VI
able with the cards, you may also find yourself guided to develop TH E ULT IMATE QU E ST IO
your own spread. You may find yourse lf. one day, unconsciously "Do You E VER GET A NY G REAT R EVELATI ONS ?"
laying the cards out in a virtually un ique spread of your very
own creat ion . Man y Tarot card readers do th is. I
This one came to me qui te naturally. It was the result of •
reading at hundreds of parties, special eve nts, and colleges-- "You 're all wrong! " he sna pped.
where tim e is of the essence. "No dear. She 's right!" hi s wife sho t back. "You' re very accu-
rate!" She turned to me.
Start with th e Advanced Celtic C tOSS Sp read. Aft er read ing "I don't believe in this stuff!" he growled. G erald was a re-
th e cards in th at spread, with out picki ng the m up, continue r tired hi gh-rank ing naval officer. I was readin g at h is neph ew's
with a quic k and short variation of th e Seve n Siste rs Spread .
Deal th e next th ree cards from th e top of the unused deck and I bar mitzvah . 1sat there and kept my mouth shut as h usband and
th row th em (in th at group of th ree) anywhe re on top of th e wife slugged it out. 1 had witn essed th is scene man y ti mes be-
Ad vanced Celtic C ross Sp read or randomly aro und th e spread. fore. Men disagree with me, no matter how accurate I am, while
There is no formal position ing with these extra cards. Read th eir wives confi rm everythi ng I am saying! In fact when I first
that group of th ree cards as you would in the Seven Sisters starte d reading at parties, I wouldn't read for a man unless h is
Spread. Continue this random throw two or th ree times, or even wife was sitt ing th ere with him. Now, with nearly four decades
four times more, as lon g as you feel you have an intuitive co n- of experience under my belt, I am bette r prepared to handl e
necti on . If you are getting noth ing from the group of three th is situatio n. This is also aided by the somewhat chang ing
ca rds. try using on ly two cards. Experiment and see what works New Millennium mentalit y. In othe r words, men are not quite
for you. as skeptical. But th ey are , tiUnot true believers.
"A ll righ t," mumbled Gerald, "you're accurate."
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16 8 THE 2 - HOUR TAROT TUTOR THE ULTIMATE QUESTION 16 9
He was impressed. The Tarot cards had correctly described * '" '"
an important upcoming meeting and th e costly repa ir work be-
ing done in h is kitchen. In typical male style, however, he re- Picture this! It was my second professional read ing. Amanda, an
mained adamant ly unyielding in his skepticism. attractive redh ead, was a referral from my jim professional
client. I vividly remembered Aman da from junior h igh schoo l.
"You still haven 't convinced me th ere's anything to th is." Popular and well liked by everyone, she had been known for
Gerald glared at me for several seconds, th en slowly leveled a her wry sense of hu mor. My friends and I used to tell her she
sly look. A devilish grin spread across h is face. I braced myself would make a great stand-up comic, but unfortunately that was
for what was coming. I knew exactly what he was going to say. not th e rout e she had taken . Rushin g into marriage right after
" Do you ever get any great revelat ions?" he snic kered with a high schoo l, she was now left to raise two ch ildren on he r own.
wngue-in-cheek att itude. Her ex-husband was nowhere to be found and, of course, nei-
ther were th e ch ild support payment s. So Aman da worked full
Gerald could not resist asking what I call the ultimate ques- time as a salesperson in a departm ent sto re.
rion. It is occasiona lly asked by men, but always accompan ied
As we sat in my study on a freezing Febru ar y even ing, sip-
with a not iceably facet ious undert on e. Yet it is a question for ping hot tea to keep us warm , I began doing th e Five-By-Five
which I have a very serious answer. Yes! Absolut ely! I ca n hon - (Month-By-Month) Spread. In the row representing rhe pres-
estly tell you th at dur ing my thi rty-seven years of experience ent was The Empress, righ t smack in th e middl e. I knew th e
with Tarot ca rds, I have had many great , fascinating, and unbe- focus was a mother. I do not remember the surrounding ca rds,
lievable re,,, lations! but in the row above were man y Major Trump ca rds: T h e
Star, Temperance, The Moon , and Judgement . T hat meant
In thi s anecdotal cha pter I recount the deta ils of man y of even ts were immi nent. When I began reading this spread, my
th ese incredible experiences. And it is deliberately placed near mind went blank . Amanda later told me th at I put my hand
the end of th e book, as I did not want anyone to be influen ced over th e cards and sat there hemming and hawing for about five
by my particular style of interpretation . So when I tell you minutes.
wh ich cards came up in a part icular readin g, keep in mind , this
is my way uf seeing th ings and definitel y not th e on ly way to sec Finally I said, "When the time comes to let your mother go,
th ings. Certa in ly by now you have had some of your own pro- do so knowing she will always be with you in spirit and guiding
found revelations with Tarot cards.
you ."
Because these sto ries span a period of more than three de-
cades, I am not able to remember all the cards th at appeared in • I had no idea why I was saying th is. It didn 't make any sense
each spread, But, I do remember (in most instances) at least to me, but my intuition was telling me someth ing and th e
three or four, and that sho uld give you an idea of how I ca me to words seemed to fall from my mouth. Amanda then told me her
th ese well-founded conclusions.
170 THE 2 - HOUR TAROT TUTOR THE ULTIMATE QUESTION 171
moth er was dying of cance r. She was not expected to live more "It didn't matter how long you had been waiting or how far
tha n th ree days. Ch ills ran up and down my spine. Three days you had driven. If th ere was a long line of cars wait ing outside
later her mother passed away. her house, it didn't matter. She would run out int o th e street
and scream that she was tired and had to stop. You would have
Wh at a way to start a career! Leadin g off with th e most sen- to reschedule!" a forme r client told me.
sitive, serious, and taboo issue of all! Months later Amand a
told me the reading had comforted her, and she could actually Mrs. D. would crack an egg into a cup and the n stir it with
feel her moth er's presence in spirit, guiding her as she reared her her fi nger. She would th en look at the egg and ask, "00 you
chi ldren. want to hear everyth ing!" If you said, "yes," she wou ld tell you
aU, even about serious illness and approach ing death.
But thi s was not at all comfort ing to me. I went on to see
One time Mrs. D. told a man h is wife would have an affair.
death in the cards two more times! And she did. He was so angered he returned to the Egg Lady
and beat her up. (So you see, I'm not the only one to have dif-
The second time occurred when I was reading at a d isco- ficu lties reading for men. Fortunately, my experiences have not
th eque on Long Island. I was still new as a professional reader, been th at scvere.) After th at she refused to read for any man
on ly six months into my career. The manager and the owne r of but ult imately agreed to accept five gent lemen whom she
the club sat down for readings. Bob, the manager, was no
stranger to psychic readin gs. He had been a regular clie nt of deemed were special. Eventu ally I read for three of th e chosen
Long Island's famous Egg Lady,a Scottish woman , ren owned for few.
her phe nomenal readin gs using eggs !
As I commenced the readin g with Bob, I remember th ink ing
The Egg L.~dy had died about one-and-a- half years before I th at th e Egg Ladv was a tough act to follow. Yet despite my in-
moved to Long Island , so I never had the privilege of meet ing experience , my performance was to get rave reviews, altho ugh
her. But l learned all about he r from her clients, man y of whom somewhat delayed.
I inherit ed. They all regaled me with stories of her amazing
clairvoyance and eccent ric beha vior. I went on to tell Bob about anothe r business he had, a travel
agency. I also menti oned some real estate deals in which he was
Mrs. D. lived in a co mforta ble house in Suffolk Count y, 10'
involved. In th e position of the home, using the Ad van ced
cared in th e middle of Long Island . She had come to the
Un ited States after marrying an Am erican serviceman she had Celtic C ross Spread, I saw the 9 of Swords, the 6 of Swords,
met during World War 11. He died years ea rlier, and she fully and th e Qu een of Wands. That is all I remember.
earned her living {and a decent one at th at} reading eggs.
My prediction was as follows: "A woman will be leaving your
Ge tti ng an appoint ment with her was no easy task, th e wait life, someone close to you like a sister." Again 1 had no idea
sometimes being a good six months! People would drive several what thi s meant. It was a strangely cryptic statement , but once
hours from as far away as Pennsylvan ia to see her, and as soon again th e words sort of fell out of my mouth. My int uition was
as she was tired, she would stop. guiding me.
172 THE 2- HOUR TAROT TUTOR THE ULTIMATE QUESTION 173
At the end of th e reading Bob looked at the owner of the querenr's subconscious mind. She had no idea that someone
club , who had been listening intent ly. "Interesting, isn't it?" close to her was about to die.
commented Bob. They both exchanged nods. It wasn't until
two years later that the sto ry unraveled. A pleasant woman with graying hair sat before me as I did
th e Adva nced Celtic C ross Spread followed by the Adv anced
Meanwhil e I had moved into Manhattan and lost touch Horoscope Spread. Beverly had been referred to me by her
with th e people at th e disco. By a strange twist of fate I was in- neighbor, who was a regular client .
vited back to read on a Sa turday night in June. The club now
h ad new owners, but Bob remained as the mana ger. He greeted "I've always been curious about thi s," she told me. "But I
me warmly at th e door and I inquired about his wife. I had spo- never got around to doing it."
ken to her and his sister a couple of times on th e phon e. They
had been th inking of booking appoint ments with me for pri- I was going around the houses in th e Ad vanced Horoscope
vate consultati ons but we never could coordinate the times. Sp read when I stopped at the Ninth House. I read th e cards:
Justice, Ace of Pentacles, and IO of Pentacles. I told Beverly
"My wife died ," he said. she and her husband would be talking to a lawyer and/or an ac-
"I'm so sorry!" I gasped. I was stunned and very conce rned counta nt about real estate matters. This was consistent with
and conti n ued extending my condolences. "What happened ?" what appea red to be th e entire th eme of the reading. Beverly
and her husband would come into some money, sell their home
"She died of a congeni ta l heart disease. You predicted it." and buy a new one some distance away. Beverly kept insisting
that she could not relate to a th ing I was saying. I kept insisting
Instantly I went on the defensive. "I never predict death!" I she take not es because it would all make sense sooner or late r.
screamed in a pani cky voice. "It would be une th ical." (Th is is a good example of how you must always trust what you
see in the cards, even if th e querent disagrees. When you proj-
He then reminded me of th e readin g when 1 told him a ect into the future man y times people canno t relate to what
woman would be leavin g his life. His wife had been ill for a long you are saying because it seems so remote or impossible. The
time, and th ey bot h knew she did not have long to live. My
cryptic message made sense. And in spite of my policy of never querent may start arguing with you. Do not get into an argu-
predicting death, th e ca rds had their own un ique way of con-
veying the message symbolically. This was th e second time I had ment. But stick to what you see in the cardst)
inadvert ently predicted deat h. Sudden ly I realized I had accident ally skipped over the
With the first two pred ictions the querents both knew tha t Eighth House. (It was really not an acc ident. Nothing ever hap-
someone close to them would soon die. I was read ing, or pens by accident, accor ding to occultists. But, on a subcon-
pulling, this information directl y from th eir conscious mind s. scious level I must have known someth ing was up.) I didn't
However, the thi rd time I saw death in the cards the reading want Beverly to think I was careless so I didn't say anything.
was more dramatic. This time I pulled th e information from the Instead. I qu ietl y backt racked to th e Eigh th House and picked
174 THE 2 -HOUR TAROT TUTOR THE ULTIMATE QUESTION 17 5
up th e cards. (The Eighth House deals with taxes, inheri- ried and as pretty as a piclllrc; she was impatiently awaiting the
tan ces, othe r people's mone y, insurance, sex, and death or results of the pregnan cy test. In those days it took two weeks to
man ner of death. It is th e most difficu lt lO understand of all get the results. Home testing kits had not yet been developed . I
the houses in the h oroscope because it deals with tran sforma- told her I definitely saw a baby being born. Two weeks later,
t ion.) The Empress was surrounded by Deat h and th e 10 of four of her friends came in for readings and confirmed the test
Swords. Some Tarot experts th ink the 10 of Swords is the was positive!
worst card in the deck. And, as I have said in C ha pter J
th e Death card does not mean ph ysical death. When it falls in When Jocelyn came to me for a reading I saw The Empress,
th e Eighth House, however, its sign ificance may have lO be The Sun. and the Queen of C ups, all indications of a preg-
recon sidered. nancy. Sin ce thi s was th e first consultation I had ever had with
her, and didn't know her at all, I gently eased into what I
"Is your mother still alive?" I asked. viewed as a pot entially sensitive issue. I did not want to blurt
"Oh, no!" she said. "My mot her died years ago." OUl, "I think you're pregnant!" As it turned out , Elizabe th, a
Wh at I never thoug ht lO ask was, "Is your mother-in-law still successful interior designer with her own business, already had
alive j'Two days late r Beverly's moth er-in -law died sudden ly of a little girl and want ed to have ano ther ch ild event ually but
a stroke. She was in her late eigh ties and in good health . Her didn't know when.
death came as a shoc k lO everyone. Her house had been willed
lO Beverly and her husband. They sold it, plus th eir 0 \\11 house. "l think you're pregnant now." I informed her.
and bought a much nicer one far away. Of course they had to She immediately purchased a home pregnancy test and re-
talk lO a lawyer and an accountant. This was one of the most tu rned a few weeks later with the good news. She was pregnant !
incredible experiences I have ever had with Tarot cards. "And it's a good th ing you told me," she laughed. "I was get-
Not all of my read ings have been so dra matic . I have had ting ready to go on vacati on and eat, drink , and be merry!" A
light, pleasant, and even funny experiences with the Tarot. year later she ret urned with her darling baby boy!
Annette, for instan ce. Wh en she came to me for a reading I saw Working with th e Advan ced Horoscope Spre ad, I was read-
The Sun, The Empress. and th e 6 of Cu ps in the position rep- ing for Sasha, a stylish and elegant young woman from Brook-
resenting yOIl in th e Ad van ced Celtic C ross Spread. I predicted lyn. In the first house was th e Queen of Cups, 9 of Pentacles,
a baby bein g born. but since she looked about eighteen years of and Queen of Wands.
age and much too young to be havin g a baby, I thought it might "You're surrounded by women," I told her. "You do some-
be a sister who would have the baby and Annette would be the th ing lo make them beautiful. Are you in th e cosmetics busi-
one caring for it. Annette blushed a deep red and then confided n ess]"
"I own a h air salon ," she told me.
th at she had come for th e reading to see if she was pregnant . The 7 of Wands, 5 of Swords and Justice fell in the Ni nt h
House. In th e Tent h House was the 10 of Wands, 9 of Swords,
Twenty -eight years old (a young looking twenty- eight), mar-
176 THE 2- HOUR TAROT TUTOR THE ULTIMATE QUESTION 177
and 5 of Pentacles. In the Se venth House was th e Kn ight of that it is easy to sec th at the re will be rough road ahead, but,
how a situat ion will actually conclude-and in whose favor-is
Swords, 8 of Wands, and 6 of Wand s. impossible many times to determine. I have staunch ly disagreed
with my colleagues on this because I think by digging deeper,
This look ed like a power struggle with a judge or a lawyer you can get some idea which way the t ide will tum. Perh aps not
over a legal matter that would have an affect on her business. all th e specifics but many indications of the aftermath o r the
There was also a lot of pape rwork or papers to be signed , Sasha
had no idea what I was ta lking abou t. She insisted she was not co nditions following the rocky road can definitely be ascer -
invo lved in any legal disp ute and had no reason to talk to an at-
torney. But the cards were clea r. I was telling it exac tly as I saw ta ined .
it! If there were no legal issues at that mom ent, th ey were cer-
tain to co me up soon. I remembered initially telli ng Sasha there would be a favor-
A few weeks later asha ph oned. She had bee n called up for ab le o utcome to a legal matter. Since this was a spontaneous re-
jury duty ! She was expec ted to serve for two weeks. sponse, uni nflue nced by any concrete knowledge of a legal
matt er, it was an accurate psych ic insight. The cards had also
"But I run my own business!" she screamed. "1 can't be gone told of a lot of aggravation and stress before th is matter was set-
tled. Accord ing to Sasha , that part of th e prediction was al-
for two weeks."
Sasha had already gone before a judge and asked to be per- ready occ urring. 1 felt confident in assuring he r she wo uld be
man ently exc used from this most inconvenient civ il service. granted a len gthy postpone ment. And, she was. She called me
They had a heated argument and power struggle. The judge in- severa l weeks late r to tell me, with relief, she had been given a
sisted she had no chance what soever of gett ing out of jury duty. year-and-a- ha lf deferment.
She had h ired a lawyer to help her. And, while frantically wor -
rying about her business, th ere were a lo t of letters (paperw ork) S ince the quere nt had no idea that a noti ce for jury dut y was
going back and forth . co ming, thi s was a genuine psychi c project ion and an exce llent
example of how strong psych ic en ergy can interfere with me-
I reminded her of the reading and my predic tion. T hi s was cha nica l equipment.
exactly what 1had seen in the cards. Sasha rem embe red what I
had said; but, nevertheless th ere was ano the r co mplicat ion . It was early in my career, abo ut one year, when I learned a
She had taped the session. The tape recorder had work ed per- cardina l rule abo ut reading Tarot ca rds. You never kn ow what
fectly when we began . However when she went home and tr ied you 'll see when you look into someone 's cards. Things aren't al-
to replay it, all she heard was a blurred noise. ways what !hey seem to be.
Meanwhile, Sasha wanted to kn ow what the outco me would It was picture perfect: Mommy, Daddy and a nine-month -old
be. This is one of the toughest cha llenges with any form of div- baby son. They looked like th e most ordinary up-and-com ing
middl e class family out for a Friday eve ning dinner. I was read -
ination . Trying to int ercept the Uni""",al Mind can be a frus- ing in a Long Island restaurant when the cha rming coup le in-
vited me over to their table to read for Daddy.
trat ing task. Astrologers defend this pe rplexity by explaining
178 THE 2- HOUR TAROT TUTOR THE ULTIMATE QUESTION 179
The Tower, ju stice, 8 o f Sword s, 3 of Swords, and 5 of Pen- position of culminalion, I saw The Lovers and The High Priest-
tacles fell in the spread. I spoke of resm cnons, serious legal and ess. It was three days before a full moon. Secrets co me out on
financial probl ems. I was interpreting th e symbo ls and nor able th e full moon. Amy was also in a 7 pe rson al year. Any relation-
to directl y relate them to any spec ific situation, Th is frequently shi p started in that year usua lly has a serious obs tac le, ano the r
happens when you ale tr ying ro int erp ret some th ing that is nOI person . I find man y women in a 7 pe rsonal year will unknow-
even in your framework o f thinkin g. Therefore I had no idea ingly or kn owingly gel involved with a marr ied man . If il is un -
what I was saying when I spoke abo ut resrricnons, although it kn owing, imagin e th e jarring reali ty check when I tell th em .
ce rta in ly did nor look good. Such was the case with A my. She had rold me she had just
sta rted seeing this man .
Aft er th e read ing, Dad dy, who appealed to be the perfect
hu sband and fathe r, unabashed ly rold me he was in big trouble "I think he is also seei ng someo ne else," I gent ly rold her.
for embezzling and was faci ng a possible th ree years' imprison - "No , he's nOI!" she sna pped at me defensively.
ment ! Fortunately th e ou tco me did nOI look so grim. I adv ised I stuck 10 my guns. The Lovers next ro The High Priest ess
h im he might have to pay a heftv fine and be ab le to get OUI of were eno ugh confirma t ion for me. The High Priestess was the
prison lime. sec ret. Next to The Lovers , it meant a secret love or secret
abo ut love. Three days before the full moo n and Amy's 7 per-
Shoc ked and sha ken by this unwholesom e predi cam ent, I sona l year rold me my predi cti on was an ind isputable fact,
remain ed tact ful, non-jud gmental, and maintain ed a pro fes- Amy ca lled me IWO weeks later.
sional demeanor. Then I made a qu ick exit srage lefl. "H e was see ing someo ne else! That blank ity, blankity,
S.O.B.! Blah ! Blah ! Blah!" Am y was furious.
You will sec a lot of things when reading Tarot ca rds. Get T hen she turned her ange r o n me.
ready ! "How did you know ? How did you know ?"
"I'm a psychi c," I ca lmly sta ted. "That's my job ."
Now this is a srory of how I used my kn owledge of astro logy This is what I mean abo ut <'Cllling. It is ver y d raining on a
and num erology co mbine d with Tarot ca rds 10 come up with a
nor-so-welcome insight. O ne icy January weekend I was working psych ic when a client docs this. Being a psychic is a thankless
at a birthday party in Hoboken, New Jersey. Am y was an entre- job. . . .
preneurial young wom an who worked in sales, ea rn ing quite a
substant ial living. Her friends were delightful, and even the Here is ano the r example of how I used my kn owledge of as-
men were enjoyi ng my readings unnl th e football game sta rted, lrol ogy and numerology with Tarot ca rds to make an int erest ing
At that po int, they all gathe red aro und th e television in the predi ct ion. I was using th e Advanced Celt ic Cross Spread, as a
living room, leaving th e women and me alone in the large din- woman inqui red about her boyfriend. She had nor seen him for
ing roo m. Amy was the last ro have a reading. She had wailed quite a while. The Magician, The Hie rophant, the 4 of Wands,
until all of her guests h ad had a lum . the 6 of C ups, the 3 of Pentacles, and th e Knight of Wands ap-
Oo ing the Advanced Celt ic C ross Spr ead, at the top , in the
180 THE 2 - HOUR TAROT TUTOR THE ULTIMATE QUESTION 18 1
peared in the spread, l told he r h e was in New Jersey (the Knight Jad yn burst out laughing, "Mall in is disorganized. You got
of Wands faced left, poinr ing west of New York, which is New it!" T h is is a good example of how you literally have to say
Jersey) with religious people (The Hierophant), who were also what you see. My instant impression was that of disorganizarion.
h is friends (6 of C ups). They were helping h im get th ings under And it actually played directly inro a correct interpretati on .
control (The Magician ). Numerologically, she was in a 5 per-
sonal day which brings unexpected happenings. Astrologica lly, I asked Mallin to reshuffle the cards, while noting he was in
Venus was going retr ograde, which brings old looes back on th e
scene. (This is advanced astrology but something you will natu- a 5 personal yea r. This means expect the unexpected. Viewing the
rally absorb by osmosis. Another planetary phe nomenon known new spread, in th e position of the home, was th e 4 of Wands, 10
as Mercury retrograde is a term becoming very mainstream
nowadays. Th is you will also pick-up via osmosis.) I added that of C ups, and the 10 of Pentacles. In the position representing
she might hear from h im tha t even ing. She then informed me the que renr (you) was The Tower. In September Mallin wou ld
that he had a drink ing problem, and she thought he had gone to be in a 5 personal monr h as well as a 5 personal year, a double
a monastery in New Jersey where the monks were kind to him
and would help h im to deal with his alcoho lism. whammy of expecr the unexpected.
That even ing he showed up at th e restaurant where she "You' re going to move in Sep tembe r," I informed him .
worked. He had, in fact, been with th e monks in New Jersey. "But we just moved inro thi s house a few monrhs ago!"
sh rieked the birthday girl. "I don 't wanr to move again !"
I was working at a forti eth birthday partv in Forest Hills, Once more, I stuck to my guns while husband and wife kept
New York, It is a magn ifi cenr neighbor hood with stately old insisting they would not be moving in the nea r future. Several
homes, and th e party actually took place in a large Victoria n months later, Jadyn called to invi te me to work at thei r son's
house. bar mitzvah .
"I must tell you th is," [aclvn's voice bubbled with cn thusi-
I had read for th e hostess, [aclyn, who was also the birthday asrn, "In September, Mallin suddenly decided he couldn't stand
girl. T he lasr person to be read was her husband, Mallin. They th at house; so we moved to ano the r on ly a few blocks away. We
were a lovely couple, each with their own thr iving businesses, were really impressed with your predic tion; although we both
and th ey had two young sons. disagreed, you didn't waver at all."
The moral of this story is, always call it as you sec it.
Mallin shuffled the cards. I dealt out the Advanced Celtic One time I was read ing at a corpora te Ch ristmas party, I told
C ross Spread. one of th e hostesses she would have a problem with her car.
T he Knight of Swords fell next to the Knight of Penrades. Af-
"It's so confusing!" I gulped. "There is so much disorganiz- ter th e part y she went to her car which was parked on the
ation." I couldn't make any sense out of it. None of the ca rds street. It had a big denr in it!
connected with each ot he r and with my expe rience, I sho uld Inrerestingly enough, car problems are fairly easy to pick up
have been able to have seen someth ing in th is spread. on. The Kn igh t of Swords falling near The C ha riot (svmbolu-
18 2 THE 2 -HOUR TAROT TUTOR THE ULTIMATE QUESTION 183
ing a vehicle} or ano the r knight is a sure ind ication of this. peered visit to Philadelph ia and met a lawyer who soon became
Case in point. the readin g I gave a student at a small midwest- her business advisor and friend .
ern college.
Using th e Adv anced Horoscope Spread for a querent, the 5
I had been imported to a small college in a small town (out - of Swords. th e Q ueen of Wands, and the Ace of Wands came
side of O maha . Nebraska) with a populatio n of on ly seven up in the Eigh th House. Th is looked like a difficulty with an in-
thousand. In that neck of the woods. th e students h ad never surance matter but it wou ld be resolved. A few days later my
seen anythi ng like a real-life for tune-reller, and the advisor client got into a squabble about an insurance matt er (5 of
wanted to expose th em to many aspects of th e real uurId. It was Swords in the Eighth House of other people's money) . A pleas-
a very recepti ve crowd. ant , fair-minded woman (Q ueen of Wands) sided with my
client. With in one month (Ace of Wands) payment of the
One student in particu lar caught my eye. He was an older money due was received.
student with a fascina ting multicolored nec ktie. I gave h im a
very upbeat forecast. except for my closing statement. The While atte nd ing a college conference one October. I gave a
Knight of Swords fell next to The Chariot. read ing to a coed from an exclusive school near Philadelph ia.
The Knight of Swords, King of Swords. Ace of Swords, The
"You are going to have trouble with a car," I affirmed. Magician , and th e Queen of Wands came up in the spread. I
A few weeks later. I received a th ought ful lert er from the told her she would have a problem with a car and an autho rity
student. He complimented me on the accu rate read ing and figure, a cryptic message. However, here again I was read ing th e
said I had converted him to a true believer. However, he had symbo ls.
been certa in th at my forecast about a ca r problem would never
come to pass beca use he had recent ly purch ased a brand -new Months later the committee brought me in for the Spring
Saturn , well-known for reliability. That afte rnoo n he was driv- Fling. The student couldn't wait to tell me what had happen ed.
ing on the high way towards O maha when a car from behind
plowed int o him . He knew instantly that was th e ca r problem. It was early one evening when her boss, the student activities
I wrote back expressing my sorrow about th e car and th anking
him for be ing so gracio us as to give me th e much appreciated director, asked her to run an errand for th e committee.
feedb ack . "She told me to take her car," said the coed . "T he n I acci-
Another time I told a client she would rake an unexpected
trip and meet a lawyer who would become her friend and busi- dentally parked in a no-pa rking zone. I hadn't realized it. I just
ness partner. Justice, The World, and the 2 of Cups fell in the parked and ran the errand. Wh en I returned to th e car. a cop
Ninth House of the Ad vanced Horoscope Spread. The Tower was standing there writi ng a ticket. I got into a big fight with
was in the Third House. A few days later she made an unex- him . You also told me I had a bad temper. Then the cop wanted
to see the car registration. Wh en he saw it wasn't my car, he
thought I'd stolen it. I told him I had permission to use it. But
he didn' t believe me and called my boss. Wh at a mess!"
184 THE 2 - HOUR TAROT TUTO R THE ULTIMATE QUESTION 18 5
It was a Tuesday evening. I had just given myself a man icure what she would have to do. But it was the validation of the fre-
when the phone tang. Gingerly I picked up th e receiver so as quent dream in the Tarot card, The Moon, th at gave the lovely
not to smudge the wet fingernails. It was a friend calling. She lady th e most reassuring insight and the stre ngt h to trust the
want ed to refer a woman from out of town to me. messages from her own subconscious mind .
"She wants to talk to a psych ic," my friend told me. "Can Decembe r 13, 1994. TV Tokyo was interviewing psychi cs in
you see her right awayI" various inte rnation al cities for a variet y show. I was the desig-
nared hirler for The Big Apple, New York C ity, th e greatest city
"Yes," I said. But I secret ly worr ied about ruin ing my perfect in th e world !
manicu re.
Several Japan ese technicians swarmed about my midsize
It was a need less concern because by the time th e referral New York C ity studio apart ment. Speakin g in Japanese, which
and her husband arrived at my apartme nt , my nails were dry is nor my second language, they swiftly tan around pulling our
and I was able to work dexterously with the cards. They were a plugs, hooking up ligh ts, and litera lly lak ing over my humble
stun ning couple. A beautiful Southe rn belle and hand some dwellin g.
husband, both ch icly dressed; th ey made Barbie and Ken look
plain . "You unp lugged the VC R!" I gasped. I had want ed to ca tch
them before they pulled OUI thaI plug. VC Rs are so complicated
I commenced with the reading, start ing with the Advanced to program. But it was too late.
Celtic C ross Spread. The first card th at came up was The
Moon . To furthe r add to the confusion, th e young Japanese report er
hardl y spoke English. Wh en it was lights, camera, action, he
"Your dreams are telling you someth ing," I report ed. asked me in a thi ck accent, "What do you see for [apan ?"
The woman immediately told me she had been having a re-
curring dream that disturbed her. That's why she want ed the I had never before been asked to give a reading for a coun try,
co nsultat ion . I was curious about wha t the cards would say. I spread th em out
This is an excellent example of inswnt [ocus . I had immedi- on my desk facedown. "Pick th ree,' I instruct ed him .
ately locked into psych ic mode and made a connec tion with
the first card th at was placed down. I had threaded th e needle! One-by-on e, he hand ed me three ca rds, The World , The
And, the recurring dream was the whole key to the reading. Tower and th e 10 of Swords. The message was clear and terri -
St ill, I cont inued laying out th e cards. The Queen of fying .
Swords, 7 of C ups, 7 of Swords, and 9 of Wands came up. I sug-
gested the re was lot of jealousy around her from othe r women. "An eart hquake," I whispered . "I see an eart hquake."
It was not surprising because th e lady was so gorgeous! She was January 17, 1995. A devastating eart hquake hit the populous
aware of problems with three women in her office. Sh e was also Japan ese city of Kobe. The cards had predicted it. This was one
in the position to terminate th em and thought that was exactly of th e most unusual revelat ions I h ad ever seen them yield. It
clear ly illustrates their unfathomable power.
For the record, th is interview never aired in the Un ited
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