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A Deeper Look at the Progressed Moon and Saturn Cycles
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Posted by: Makarios on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 04:00 PM
81 Reads
By Amy Herring
The phrase "planetary cycle" refers to a planet’s relationship to itself as it moves from its location at the time of your birth around the entire chart, returning to its original birth placement as it moves across the sky. When comparing transiting planet A to natal planet B, such as transiting Jupiter conjuncting natal Mars, any two people will experience that aspect at completely different times in their life, perhaps one at 3 years old and another at 8 years old. One person may experience Pluto conjunct the Sun at age 21 where another person might never experience that aspect. It all depends on where the differing planets started to begin with.
But a planetary cycle, comparing moving planet A to natal planet A (a planet’s relationship to itself) will always happen at roughly the same age for everyone. No one experiences their Saturn return at age 35, for example, because it is the reality of celestial mechanics that Saturn will find itself returning to the place it was twenty-nine and a half years ago regardless of where it started. No matter when we are born, we will experience Saturn’s return at the same age as our parents did, as our grandparents did, and as our neighbor, friend, teacher, child will. Therefore, they are powerful trackers of overall human development.
This principle can be taken a step further to compare two planetary cycles to each other and recognize their resonance with each other because of a similar length of cycle. One example is the progressed lunar cycle and the Saturn cycle. The progressed moon takes about twenty-eight years to make it all the way around the natal chart and return to its original location, while transiting Saturn takes about twenty-nine and a half years to return. They pace each other throughout our entire lives and especially closely during the first thirty years of life.
Read the complete article: Llewellyn Journal
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Tarot as the Greatest of the Old Grimoires
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Posted by: Makarios on Tuesday, July 20, 2010 - 12:00 PM
193 Reads
By Frater Barrabbas
<Snip> In our present time of the post-modern era, the fad of using and incorporating grimoires from the middle ages and the renaissance is supremely popular. It is probably one of the hottest topics around, and numerous newly translated versions of these manuscripts are being published at a rapid pace, revealing previously obscure and unknown arcane grimoires to the adoring eyes of occult afficionados. But this fad has overlooked probably one of the greatest grimoires of all time, a stupendous collection of occult lore and a powerful system of symbology all in one concise work, which I might add, is still very relevant today. What book is that, you ask? Is it some new version of the Greater Key of Solomon, the Lemegeton, the Grimoirum Verum, Agrippa’s Four Books of Occult Philosophy, or perhaps a book that no one has even heard of yet? No, it is the Tarot, also known as the Devil’s Picture Book!
At this point in the discussion I hear the sounds of gasps, startled disagreement, perhaps someone spewing out their coke, looks of disbelief, and outraged and mocking voices, seeming to say in unison - “How the hell can that be? The Tarot is a divination tool, not a grimoire! (You dolt!)” Yet I beg to differ and I have several occultists, including Lon Milo DuQuette and Aleister Crowley (the beast himself) at my back. After everything quiets down to some nearly inaudible grumbling, I continue with my discussion, although the pressure is on me to quickly prove my point - otherwise, I will be left to lecture to no one but myself. So I continue, and this is the basic point of my argument.
Read the complete article: Talking About Ritual Magick
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Play with Your Cards
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Posted by: Makarios on Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - 04:00 PM
143 Reads
By Barbara Moore
Most people have heard that tarot decks were originally used to play a trick-taking card game called tarrochi. While the game is still played, particularly in Europe, tarot cards are more often used for other purposes, primarily doing readings. Some readers and some people who have readings approach the experience with a sense of play and drama, with a kind of “for entertainment only” style, the way one might read a newspaper horoscope or a fortune cookie fortune. Those of us who take our tarot a bit more seriously know that it is more than entertainment. We understand the wisdom, advice, and guidance we can receive from the cards. We treat our cards with care, ask our questions with a sincere heart, and interpret our readings with reverence. We carefully consider the symbols pictured, listen intently to our inner voice, and apply all we’ve learned about each card. We follow personal rules and find comfort in the ritual of shuffling, cutting, and laying the cards. We are very serious.
But there is something about cards that is closely associated with games. Beyond the natural connection of card games like rummy, Go Fish, and poker, board games also use cards, like Monopoly® or Cranium®. And of course there are collectable card games, such as Magic: The Gathering. In addition to the actual mechanics of game play, there is a more philosophical connection. Because cards are shuffled in most card games, there is always an element of chance and randomness. The players do not know exactly what tools they will receive, but whatever they are dealt, they have to play to the best of their ability in order to achieve their objective (which is usually to win the game). With a tarot reading, we are dealt a certain hand, only we call it a spread or a reading. We are given information and thus empowered, we are free to do what we wish.
In game play, players often have the opportunity to discard cards they don’t and to draw new cards, although they often don’t know what they will get. Because there are so many parallels between game play and tarot readings, maybe we can experiment, carry some more ideas forward from games to readings, just to see what happens. This idea intrigues me, because I confess, there are many times when I’ve laid out the cards and my hands immediately want to move things around, as if I were playing some sort of cosmic solitaire. And why shouldn’t we? We do have the power to change our actions, our thoughts, and even outcomes. Do it within the context of a reading first, to see if you like the results. If not, try again until you come up with a favorable action plan.
Read the complete article: Llewellyn Journal
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The Hats We Wear in Tarot
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Posted by: Makarios on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 04:00 PM
270 Reads
Looking through a typical tarot deck, you find that human characters in the cards are distinguished by many different kinds of headwear. Tarot artists are limited by how much detail they can fit into such small illustrations, but by drawing people with different hats, crowns, helmets, and other head coverings, they concisely convey information about the individual portrayed. Tied in with the symbolic conflation of hat, head, and mind, headgear says something about different states of consciousness or ego states. Because we use hats metonymically to describe the roles we play, (as when we speak of a person who “is wearing many hats”), if you are doing a tarot spread for yourself, cards portraying a variety of hats can indicate different personas that you’ve been trying on, or your need to be many things to many people. As head coverings also signal social status, the headgear in tarot illustrations can also say something about an individual’s linking to the larger society. In addition, headwear can take on special meaning in certain contexts in a layout. For example, the “crowns you” position in the Celtic Cross layout reveals conscious directions, so a crowned figure is likely to be auspicious in this position. However, in this position, the Tower card, (which often portrays the crown of a tower being struck by lightning and/or crowned figures plunging to doom), could warn of a mindset that leads to danger.
Following is a run-down of some of the insights we can pull out of card illustrations featuring headgear:
The Fool often wears a jester’s cap, and in some decks, other characters may also sport such caps. For example, in Ciro Marchetti’s Legacy of the Divine tarot, characters in The Wheel of Fortune and the Two of Pentacles also wear jester caps. If you did a reading in which multiple figures in jester caps turned up, you might be concerned about group stupidity or mass delusion. Jester’s caps have an association with magic, however, as clowning has traditional shamanic functions in deflecting sorcery and evil spirits, and for similar reasons, bells are often sewn to shamans’ costumes, as to jesters’ costumes, to disperse negative vibrations. (If you have a cap-and-bells, you could shake it as a protective gesture when you are plagued by memories of having done something foolish—or to remind you not to do it again.) Sometimes the Fool is portrayed differently, as in the Rider-Waite-Smith [RWS] deck, illustrated by Pamela Coleman Smith; here, the Fool wears what seems to be a simple green cap or a garland of green leaves, signifying youth and innocence.
Read the complete article: Llewellyn Worldwide
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A Tarot Exercise For Beginners
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Posted by: Makarios on Monday, April 05, 2010 - 12:00 PM
389 Reads
By Rowan Pendragon
Learning to read tarot can be an intimidating prospect, especially for someone who is really new to the idea of tarot. 78 cards with deep meanings and many images and symbols on each card can seem like something that you might never get a handle on. It can be a lot easier than you may think, but it’s important to keep in mind from the very beginning that the truly great tarot readers spend their whole lives studying and working with the tarot. It’s not just a matter of memorizing upright and reversed meanings for 78 cards and then you’re done. It truly is a lifelong mystical path all on it’s own that can add a great deal to the path of a Wiccan or Pagan.
<snip> All you’ll need is a large notebook or journal, ideally with 2 pages for each card in your deck, and then of course your deck of cards. Begin by placing a title on each page, or every other page, for each card in your deck. So you’ll have a pages titled “0- The Fool”, “1 – The Magician” and then others like “Ace of Wands”, “2 of Wands”, all the way through your 78 cards. If you have pages left over at the back you can designate some of these pages for specific kinds of notes along the way by doing things like titling pages “Relationship Spreads” and writing down details on relationship related spreads that you enjoy using, or a section titled “Daily Cards” where you can track daily card pulls (which we’ll talk about in a moment). In the end you should have a book that almost serves as a tarot specific Book of Shadows almost. You can also opt to do this as a general, overall book, or you can do what I do and make a new one for each new deck that you start working with. Since different decks will give you different messages and impressions this is a great way to get to know each new deck you start working with and how to really keep track of what you’re doing with your cards. If you decide to work with books for multiple decks I highly recommend using a large three ring binder so that you can keep the notes for more than one deck in a single place, something that just makes finding your notes and information easier as time goes on and your practice grows.
Read the complete article: Within the Sacred Mists
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The New and the News in Your Tarot Reading
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Posted by: Makarios on Monday, March 22, 2010 - 12:00 PM
401 Reads
By Janina Renee
Curiosity is a great cure-all because it generates energy and enthusiasm. Even if you don’t have much control over your present circumstances, you can nevertheless indulge your curiosity with simple tarot readings. The following is a “card search” technique that gives you something to look forward to.
As you shuffle your deck, pose the request, “Please show me the next new thing in my life, and the next piece of news coming in.” Or, more simply, “What’s new, and what’s news?” When you have shuffled and cut your deck in your preferred manner, place your deck face up, with the pictures showing. (I find that card search readings are easier when you place the deck face up and start from there, although this is the opposite of what you might normally do in a Tarot reading.) Starting from the top, go through your deck until you come to the first Ace and the first Page. As you come across them, pull the Ace and the Page, as well as the cards which flank them on either side.
The Ace tells you of the next new matter to manifest in your life, while the Page deals with significant information coming in to you, and can also tell you something about what kind of messenger will be involved. The flanking cards provide additional information on the nature of the new matters and news coming your way. As for the particulars of layout and interpretation, it doesn’t matter whether the Ace or the Page comes up first. If you encounter several Aces before you get to a Page, or several Pages before you get to an Ace, just concern yourself with the first Page and the first Ace for the purposes of this simple reading. The news that the Page represents and the new matter that the Ace represents do not have to be related to each other. However, if your Ace and Page are of the same suit, the concerns of that suit are doubly emphasized, and they are likely to be connected. Also, if the Ace and the Page come up fairly close together, say within five cards apart, the news to be received and the new situation are likely connected; in this case, you would also look at the cards between them.
Read the complete article: Llewellyn Journal
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The Hats We Wear in Tarot
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Posted by: Copperwoman on Friday, March 12, 2010 - 05:00 PM
446 Reads
 Looking through a typical tarot deck, you find that human characters in the cards are distinguished by many different kinds of headwear. Tarot artists are limited by how much detail they can fit into such small illustrations, but by drawing people with different hats, crowns, helmets, and other head coverings, they concisely convey information about the individual portrayed. Tied in with the symbolic conflation of hat, head, and mind, headgear says something about different states of consciousness or ego states. Because we use hats metonymically to describe the roles we play, (as when we speak of a person who “is wearing many hats”), if you are doing a tarot spread for yourself, cards portraying a variety of hats can indicate different personas that you’ve been trying on, or your need to be many things to many people.
As head coverings also signal social status, the headgear in tarot illustrations can also say something about an individual’s linking to the larger society. In addition, headwear can take on special meaning in certain contexts in a layout. For example, the “crowns you” position in the Celtic Cross layout reveals conscious directions, so a crowned figure is likely to be auspicious in this position. However, in this position, the Tower card, (which often portrays the crown of a tower being struck by lightning and/or crowned figures plunging to doom), could warn of a mindset that leads to danger.
Read the complete article: Llewellyn
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February 28 Full Moon
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Posted by: Copperwoman on Sunday, February 28, 2010 - 09:00 AM
446 Reads
By Archie Dunlop
The Full Moon in now upon us, as you'll notice if you look up a the night sky. The white disk is rapidly forming, and on February 28 at 4.38 pm GMT the Full Moon will be exact. That's 11.38 am in New York, 8.38 am in Los Angeles, 6.38 pm in Athens, 10.08 pm in Mumbai.
As far as the February 28 Full Moon is concerned, it's in the tenth degree of Virgo. To be precise, the Sun is at 9 degrees 59 minutes Pisces and the Moon is at 9 degrees 59 minutes Virgo.
When you've got a Pisces-Virgo Full Moon there's a often a dichotomy between chaos and order. We try our best to sort out our lives, and create a nice routine for ourselves, but circumstances beyond our control threaten to sweep away our hard work. There's also a danger of massive hypocrisy. People who claim to have their lives in order, who condemn other people's sloppiness, are perhaps hiding a guilty secret. We then get the symbol of a house that's immaculate, with clean white carpets, that's built on a rotten, stinking sewer, that's about to explode.
Read the complete article: Ezine Articles
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Tarot Council & Intel Circles
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Posted by: Makarios on Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - 02:00 PM
449 Reads
By Mary K. Greer
Recently, at PantheaCon, a huge pagan conference in San Jose, California, I led a “Tarot Intel Circle” with around a hundred people and was asked by several participants to provide information so they could do it themselves. There are two forms of this process: the “Intel Circle” that can be done with any number of people from a dozen to over a hundred, and the “Tarot Council Circle” that works best with around 6 to 16 people. Each person in either circle gets to be both a Questioner and a Respondent. At most workshops the participants range from those who’ve never read a tarot card to professional readers and everything in between. Everyone gets something out of it, and it often provides a huge kick-start to one’s intuitive abilities—opening a door and switching something on in the psyche. It’s a good process to use at the beginning of a tarot course.
The Questioner usually focuses on one issue or situation about which they want to gather information, although they can change the issue at any time they wish. In both Circles it is helpful to begin by asking, “What do I most need to look at around _(insert issue)_?“ It can be as specific as, “around the problem with the person at work who is driving me crazy” or as general as “around my life purpose.” As the process continues, Questioners can keep asking the same question or reframe it to focus on different aspects of the issue.
Read the complete article: Mary K Greers Tarot Blog
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Oswald Wirth’s Tarot Spread
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Posted by: Makarios on Saturday, February 13, 2010 - 02:00 PM
446 Reads
By Mary K. Greer
Here’s a classic ”reclaimed spread” in the form of a five-card-cross that is most often found in French and continental Tarot books. The version I offer here is from Oswald Wirth’s Tarot of the Magicians, (originally Le Tarot, des imagiers du moyen-age, 1926). Wirth claims to have learned it from his teachers, Stanislas de Guaita and Joséphin Péladan (famous 19th century French occultists). It uses only the Major Arcana. Note that the card layout itself will probably be familiar as it has been adapted to many different kinds of readings, some of them focusing on the four elements or directions with the fifth-essence/situation/resolution in the center. The original spread is quite different.
What’s great about the Oswald Wirth version is that it’s based on the premise that your case is being considered in a court of law with the result being advice or direction for achieving success. The Major Arcana cards that turn up are characters in the resulting courtroom drama and should be seen as acting in a manner aligned with the card and presenting its unique attitudes and perspectives. Ham it up; imagine a scene from your favorite legal-eagle TV show.
Ask a specific question, and using only the Major Arcana, shuffle and cut. Then, taking cards from the top of the deck (see alternate technique below), place them in the positions indicated.
Read the complete article: Mary K Greers Tarot Blog
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Year of the Tiger
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Posted by: Copperwoman on Thursday, February 11, 2010 - 01:00 PM
529 Reads
 by Alexandra Hansen
Feb. 14 marks the start of the Chinese New Year, the year of the metal tiger (Imlek). What significance does the tiger have for the fate of the New Year?
Headstrong, dangerous, and at times rash, the tiger endows a year with uncertainty and danger, according to the Chinese zodiac. Consisting of 12 animal signs (rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig), and five elements (metal, water, wood, fire and earth), each combination occurs every 60 years.
The last year of the metal tiger, February 1950 to February 1951, was tumultuous. The Korean War began, Senator Joseph McCarthy started his “witch-hunt” for communists, and US president Truman ordered the construction of the hydrogen bomb. According to Chinese mythology, metal does not go well with the tiger. In other words, 2010 will not be a quiet or peaceful year.
Read the complete article: Jakarta Post
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Using Tarot for Motivation and Focus
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Posted by: Copperwoman on Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 01:00 PM
550 Reads
by Leslie Fulger
If your lacking luster and enthusiasm in your life perhaps you need a little pick me up. Well, what's that got to do with Tarot you may be asking. To answer that question in short, everything! The associations, symbology, influences and energies within the Tarot cards can be utilized to help enhance your life in many different ways. This is especially true if you're seeking to find your true self; but also where meditation is concerned, it is very valuable.
The Tarot can help you regain focus, provide clarity and insight, as well as, motivation towards accomplishing your goals and dreams. Depending on what topic you are seeking to inquire about will determine which cards you pull for this exercise. Below are the options available using this technique...
Read the complete article: Bella
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Oldest Cartomancy Meanings in English
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Posted by: Makarios on Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - 08:00 AM
507 Reads
By Mary K. Greer
Dr. Flamstead’s and Mr. Patridge’s New Fortune-Book containing . . . Their new-invented method of knowing one’s fortune by a pack of cards appears to be the oldest book with instructions on fortune-telling-with-cards in the English language. The first edition seems to be from 1729—well before Etteilla wrote his 1770 book on “cartonomancie” and contains a “lot” style method of divination in which the card chosen leads to a verse based on your choice of a set question. However we know from the 1730 play Jack the Gyant-Killer that multi-card spreads with meanings for each card were already current in England. (Thanks as always to Ross Caldwell for additional information and corrections.)
The book was then republished as Patridge and Flamsted’s new and well Experienced Fortune Book, delivered to the world from the Astrologer’s Office in Greenwich Park, for the benefit of all young men, maids, wives, and widows. Who, by drawing Cards according to the direction of this Book, may know whether Life shall be long or short; whether they shall have the person desired; and every lawful question whatsoever. The signification of Moles in any part of the body; and the interpretation of Dreams, as they relate to good or bad fortune (circa 1750-70?). Along with the change in author spelling there was a major change in the technique portrayed. For the first time we have instructions for a one-card spread and individual meanings given for each card.
Read the complete article: Mary K Greers Tarot Blog
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The Dollhouse Oracle
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Posted by: Copperwoman on Sunday, January 10, 2010 - 01:00 PM
531 Reads
by Janina Renée
Miniature objects play a role in the material culture of magic and divination, because they can signify material goods as well as other things—including intangible qualities—that we’d like to manifest in our lives. Perhaps the best known miniature is the dollhouse, which intrigues both children and adults. A dollhouse can also be used in magic and divination, because not only does it convey the charm of the miniature, it also shares the symbolism of the house, and the house and its chambers provide metaphors for different states of being. As such a symbolic structure, a dollhouse can serve as the basis of a tarot layout, in which the cards are inserted into its miniature rooms, and then interpreted in the context of the rooms’ different metaphorical associations. Likewise, tarot cards selected to convey special images can be placed in different rooms as a form of tarot magic.
Read the complete article: Llewellyn
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Klair Klarity and her team from “The Klair Witch Project – Future Proofing Your Business” -specialise in helping businesses see what lies ahead. However Pro Witch’s projections are not calculated in spread sheets, nor do they rely on electronic data base systems - rather they use what Klaire refers to as more traditional tools. 
