Last time we talked about identifying how we feel about individual cards so that we can eliminate biases. One card that is almost always "not liked" is the Hierophant. Maybe Kim Huggens' exploration of and exercises for this important card will help you not just make peace with the card but really value it. V The Hierophant Often depicted as a priest or person of religious authority, the Hierophant is not al- ways a well-received card by modern Tarot readers. Sadly, some people’s bad experiences of religious authority have tainted their view of this card, so it is wise to be aware of one’s own views when studying it. If the Magician is the Word of Power that

Giving relevant and useful readings is easier to do if we are not bogged down by our own biases. This exercise, from Your Tarot, Your Way, is a good way to start identifying your own blind spots. Once you've done that, you can work on healing your relationship to that archetype so you can see it more objectively. Love, Hate, Neutral Go through your Major Arcana cards and divide them into three piles: ones you love, ones you hate, and ones you are neutral toward. Do this quickly and without a lot of analysis; just go with your first reaction. Keeping the piles separate, shuffle each one, and randomly draw one card. So now you have one card from each pile. Get out your

Back in my early days of learning tarot, many readers used reversals consistently. But the last few decades ushered in an era where many readers do not use reversals or use them to indicate states of being, such as blocked energy. Many of the newer books do not include reversed meanings because the authors do not use them. If you are someone interested in a book that gives almost equal attention to the reversed meanings as the upright, you'll probably really enjoy Tarot Plain and Simple. Here's an example, using the High Priestess, a favorite of most readers.   2, The High Priestess Juno, The Papess, The Female Pope, La Sacerdotisa Upright: Intuitive

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by M.M. Meleen, co-author of the new Tarot Deciphered. It's perhaps an esoteric blind that tarot cards are referred to as "majors and "minors"—for it is the tarot minors that express the real power of tarot. The Majors provide the structure of the schema, but the Minors show these archetypal forces in action. In 2014, I began creating the 36 cards known as the "decanic1" Minor Arcana—the Twos through Tens—for the Tabula Mundi Tarot. (The black-and-white inked art became the Nox et Lux edition2.) By spring 2015 the line drawings had been swiftly completed. From the astral this idea was only waiting to be born: the deck re-envisioned