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"As I read Joe's works, I once again marvel at how modern science merges with or echoes ancient mysticism. The 'triangle' to which he refers is known as 'making the sign of the Ing rune' and has very, very old roots, the earliest rune scripts themselves getting pushed back by archeology now to about 600 BCE. His whole thesis, as with that of his excellent book on the same topic (Rejuvenation) seems to me to be asking the reader to enhance and enlarge his (sounding Freudian here...) Life Wish. Slate's view of the hands as antennae of the spirit is beautiful! It is quite true. In almost all healing traditions, a healer, prior to being able to work purely from Intention, ...
Significators play a powerful role in Tarot readings. Not only do they identify a certain person, place, or object, they can heighten the focus of the reader as well as the client when addressing the question at hand. Choosing the best card to signify the main subject of one's question can be challenging. The following are some guidelines to identify which images of the Tarot will bring the greatest amount of focus to your readings. People SignificatorsThe most common reason a reader chooses a Significator is to identify a particular person. Typically, these cards are selected based on a person's birth or astrological sign. In a traditional Tarot deck, Rods/Wands indicate someone born ...
I can still remember doing my first Tarot reading. I had just bought a Tarot deck, and after carefully studying the little white book that came with it, I figured I was ready to do a reading for myself. But although the question I had in mind was a simple one, that reading took hours to do. You see, the only spread I knew was the Celtic Cross, which was briefly described in that little book, and I was overwhelmed by it. The ten-card Celtic Cross is an excellent spread, but it's complex and it's not always the best one for a reading, as I soon found out. Fortunately, I quickly discovered that there were books filled with other Tarot spreads; ones specifically tailored for a variety of ...
Focus may be defined as an event, object, or person that occupies the center of one's attention. It is a primary concept and an essential skill in both divination and magick. It is also needed to effectively perform scrying and dowsing. The ability to focus is a requirement for any basic individual scrying session, but it is also a tool that must be mastered for long-term scrying accuracy and personal improvement in the divinatory arts. Over the course of developing the original techniques of scrying and dowsing presented in my latest book, The Art of Scrying and Dowsing, I was able to greatly improve my ability to focus. In this short article, I would like to introduce some ideas that ...
