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Signings and talks in June
May 7th
June 7, 2012, at 6.30pm – John Matthews and Wil Kinghan – The Lost Tarot of Nostradamus – Launch
Michel de Nostredame, sixteenth-century French apothecary and seer, was the most famous visionary of them all. In 1994, in the Italian National Library in Rome, a manuscript believed to be by the man himself was discovered along with 80 mysterious paintings drawing heavily on the symbolism of the tarot. John Matthews and Wil Kinghan realized the implications of this work and, after much research, now bring it to fruition. For the first time, the astounding power of the prophecies is married to the predictive imagery of the tarot. Fresh translations from the original quatrains add another dimension to the readings making this, without question, the ultimate oracle from the primary prognosticator. Come along on the 7th June to Watkins Bookshop at 6.30pm and hear all about this amazing discovery as well as getting your own signed copy.
June 20, 2012, at 6.00pm – Dr. Robert Forman – Enlightment Ain’t What It’s Cracked Up To Be
What if you spent years of your life seeking spiritual enlightenment, but were looking in the wrong place? Dr Robert Forman shows lucidly how traditional spiritual ideas are giving More >
Valentine’s Day Tarot Readings at Watkins
Feb 2nd
TUESDAY 14TH FEB VALENTINE’S DAY TAROT
2012 is a very special year. First and foremost for the romantics among us, of course, it’s a leap year – the February 29th folk tradition goes that women may propose marriage – so it’s also the perfect month to propose to your partner, no matter what gender.
However, if you aren’t absolutely certain you’d like to get down on one knee (yet), or if you’d like to reveal the consequences what might occur if you do take that earnest chance to court the one you love, why not come down to Watkins Books have a special Lovers tarot reading this Valentine’s Day?
Our tarot reader Cilla will be here to read for both singles & couples for all your pulse-fluttering and blush-inducing questions.
Cilla uses the Tarot deck she designed many years ago to look at all the current issues in your life – career, family, money and especially *Love* – and in combination her Devas of Creation oracle deck which depict cosmic energies, to look at the higher-level energies surrounding you.
Her in-depth readings are compassionate, insightful, and powerful, so why not treat yourself or your loved one – come and cast light on those knotty problems of More >
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 >
How to Get What You Want from Tarot – Step 4
May 1st
Step 4: Interpretation
Part 4 of a short series on Self-Guidance through Tarot. See part 3.
Now at last we come to the big one – Interpretation. Up till now the process has been an inward journey, but now we come to the outward face of a Tarot reading, the visible side. This is what people tend to think Tarot is all about, but of course it depends on the inner clarifications we have worked through already.
Now at this point it’s likely that we dive into – or try to recollect – the various meanings and interpretations found in books, articles and the little pamphlets that come with our decks. And/or we strive to connect to any ‘psychic powers’ or ‘intuitive faculties” we may have developed. To my mind though, these are auxiliary powers that come second to simply reading what is in front of us; they may help, but can’t replace, direct insight. To misquote Bob Dylan – You don’t have to be psychic, or read a book, to know which way the wind blows!
The art to interpretation is to retranslate your original question in terms of the Tarot card you’ve drawn; or, if a multiple card layout, in terms mostly More >
How to Get What You Want from Tarot – Step 3
May 1st
Step 3: Divinatory State of Mind
Part 3 of a short series on Self-Guidance through Tarot. See part 2.
So, we have clarified our intention and, by limiting the number of factors we have to juggle, limited stress and anxiety. Now we must move on to the “divinatory frame of mind”, which we might as well call a “meditative state of mind.” Obviously when we read for ourselves the subject is likely to be “charged”; at the very least it disturbs our peace, otherwise why bother to do a reading about it?
So how can we get into our peaceful, meditative, divinatory state of mind whilst concentrating on something that disturbs us?
Luckily the answer is simple; it’s to do with putting aside only a little more than usual of our personal baggage. This is something we do every day a thousand times; we put our troubles to one side automatically over and over again. When we buy a bus ticket or a bottle of water, when we meet a casual acquaintance on the street, or call the plumber, or answer the telephone we don’t vent our negativity outwards. Instead for the time we’re engaged in these practical events we put our problems on More >
