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Tarot and Current Affairs – pt.2
Dec 14th
THE VIEW FROM THE WINDOW
Every Wednesday I sit in the window at Watkins, waiting to give Tarot readings; watching people come & go, overhearing snippets of arcane conversations and reflecting on …
TAROT AND CURRENT EVENTS,
Part Two (Part One)
Now it’s worth taking a little time to discuss the selection of the Significator card. Really I just want to underline that you need to pick the card that fits to your eye, to your judgement, to your opinion. You may use the same deck as me and come up with a very different card because we each have our individual responses to the cards and to the person we’re selecting for. If with your cards and your eye the card for Nick Clegg is the Devil, or Temperance or the King of Wands then use it.
Here’s an example of my own process. This was another political reading to see whether Hilary Clinton or Barack Obama would win the nomination of the Democratic party to be the Presidential candidate. As Clinton was already a powerful and established figure she would have to be a queen. The card that represented her would have to be one demonstrating power an drive; that (for me) narrowed it down to either More >
Tarot and Current Affairs – pt.1
Sep 5th
THE VIEW FROM THE WINDOW. Every Wednesday I sit in the window at Watkins, waiting to give Tarot readings; watching people come & go, overhearing snippets of arcane conversations and reflecting… …ON TAROT AND CURRENT EVENTS.
Part One
As they say – making predictions is a chancy business, especially about the future!
Still I’d like explain a way of using Tarot to understand the flow of current events; or at least to understand some parts of them; a small bite at a time, so to speak. Like all good methods, the principles can be scribbled on the back of envelope.
First - have a genuine question, and - Two - do the reading on behalf of person who will be directly affected by the event in question.
Let’s expand on this a little. It’s important when dealing with current events that we have some direct connection to it. If I pick up Hello magazine and wonder where David Beckham is going for his holidays, it’s unlikely to be anything more than idle curiosity. But if I have a job in Travel advertising and could use this information, well that gives me a direct connection. That will generate some real energy and enable me to use, or rather More >
