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New Worlds Spring/Summer 2013 Issue
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Term: Sim
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Sim, Valerie: Valerie received her first deck of Tarot cards 32 years ago and began studying astrology in 1973. Both have continued to be passions for her over the years and have led to the authorship of her own Tarot and astrological teaching materials, with which she has been an online teacher for the past year and a half.is a Certified Tarot Grand Master (CTGM) and also the Listowner of a popular Tarot email list, Comparative Tarot, populated by over eleven hundred Tarot students, readers, teachers, authors and artists.
Valerie named and was the first to publicly write and teach about the Comparative Tarot Method. Her book about the Comparative Tarot method and ways to keep Tarot fun and exciting, Tarot Outside the Box, is available now through Llewellyn Publications. She also wrote the pamphlet, or "little white book," for the Lo Scarabeo Comparative Tarot Deck, is the Editor for both Tarot Reflections and The ATA Quarterly, and is a frequent reviewer for Tarot Passages.
Also See: Valerie Sim
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A simple yet powerful deck of twenty-two cards provides a bridge between our conscious minds and all the facets of the Divine that reside within all of us. Striking art enhanced by textured gold foil make these cards handheld treasures that ...
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3%Over the last century or so, several theories have arisen on the origin of the runes, each having a strong body of supporters at different times. The nineteenth-century Danish rune scholar L. F. A. WimmerM, struck by the obvious similarity between ...
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The ultimate goal of ritual magic is fulfillment.
As is true with most ultimates, it is seldom, if ever, reached. The degree to
which it is approached signifies the success or failure of the practice of
magic in the life of an individual. When ...
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3%The Tarot is a deck of cards that is primarily used to foretell the future. Forecasting the future, however, is only a superficial use of the massive powers of the Tarot. The Tarot is a very powerful tool that allows you to look deep inside your ...
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2%The runes are a set of symbols that concisely embody the most potent magical system of the ancient world. Because rune magic was rarely described in written records, persecution by the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages succeeded in obliterating ...
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2%According to ancient Celtic beliefs, three main realms co-exist: an Underworld associated with the past, an earthly realm of the middle world associated with manifested reality, and an Upperworld associated with potential reality and all possible ...
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2%Loulou Prince is the medsen fey (leaf doctor/herbalist and shaman) for a Haitian community of around 1,500 people who live in the vicinity of Jacmel, a small town close to the border with the Dominican Republic. In his daily practice, he deals with ...
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2%Just as your birth chart shows where the planets were when you were born, at any moment another chart can be created. The planets in a chart for a particular moment are called transits. As the planets move through the zodiac, they interact with ...
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2%A chakra is a spinning vortex of energy created within ourselves by the interpenetration of consciousness and the physical body. Through this combination, chakras become centers of activity for the reception, assimilation and transmission of life ...
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If you have a penchant for Princesses, both real and literary, you’ll quickly bond with this unusual and lovely deck. Princesses, being, after all, human women, allow us to connect on a personal level with the power captured in each ...
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2%Ritual is the medium through which the art of magic is practiced. It consists of an action or series of actions, which may be entirely mental, or mental and physical, by which the power of magic is released and directed towards the fulfillment of a ...
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"The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew…it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82)
Have you lived before?
The answer to that question is yes. As a human soul you have lived before; many of us have even experienced many lifetimes... read this article
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