Tarot Correspondences by T. Susan Chang In her book Tarot Correspondences, Chang helps readers use everything they know about tarot to create their own keywords for the numbers Ace - 10 for the Minor Arcana. This is a useful exercise, one I encourage my own students to do. However, focusing on the logic and intellectual robustness of a naming numbers system can pull interpretations into the abstract. Chang presents a practice to help keep those keywords grounded in your mind, making your readings more useful and easily applied to real life. Try it! Keywords Once you’ve come up with ten keywords, see if you can trace a story when you follow them from one to ten. Here’s

Tarot Inspired Life by Jaymi Elford These days, most readers don't so much focus on narrow meanings for each card as they do on methodology. In Tarot Inspired Life, Elford discusses four ways to approach interpreting a card. Each method may bring something different to the forefront. Used in combination, they can create a well-rounded reading and fulfilling experience for both the reader and the querent. Have fun trying the methods described in this excerpt: Four Ways to Read a Card You’ve unlocked kernels of meaning from within each tarot card, so now it’s time to dive a bit deeper and learn how to apply those meanings in readings. Synthesizing all the parts of the

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Michael Smith, author of Base-12 Numerology: Discover Your Life Path Through Nature's Most Powerful Number. I'm the author of Base-12 Numerology: Discover Your Life Path Through Nature's Most Powerful Number. This poem uses the metaphor of a voyage at sea to explain the base-12 numerology cycle, perhaps a comforting message for how adrift we all feel lately. 0: The voyage of Numerology begins at the zero of potential Where any forecast is possible from clear to torrential. Thus how hopeful or fearful your departure to sea Is how fair or foul the weather likely will be. 1:Upon leaving safe port you embody the one, Of new

Tarot Beyond the Basics by Anthony Louis   We humans have been known, at times, to take ourselves just a little seriously. We can take our tarot seriously, too. Which we should, of course. But tarot is about balance and there are times when tarot gives us something we don't expect. Please enjoy this excerpt from Louis' Tarot Beyond the Basics. Tarot Sarcasm Not only can tarot cards potentially represent the opposite of their accepted meanings, but at times the tarot even seems to employ sarcasm. For example, one day my wife phoned to say that a restaurant near her office was offering for take-out one of my favorite dishes, stuffed peppers. Because this establishment