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This reading gives us insight into specific energies that we can focus on during specific days of the upcoming week as well as throughout the entire week as a whole.
Today’s reading will use the Tarot de St Croix, by Lisa de St Croix.
Here are focal points for our meditation:f
Sunday: How Can I Express Generosity? Seven of WandsI 'Namaste' Tend orchids. Menu.
Monday: How Can I Set the Emotional Tone for My Week? Ten of Pentacles 'Legacy' Estate Planning.
Tuesday: What Do I Want to Manifest? Seven of Pentacles 'Evaluation' Lightning Dream Process graphic.Wednesday: What Wisdom is Coming to Me? Three of Swords 'Peacemaker' Study tournament rules.
Thursday: What do I Want to Develop? Two of Wands 'Commitment' Dream Incubation
Friday: How Can I Connect with Romance, Friends and Nature? Matriarch of Cups 'Inspiration' Gold Set
Shabbat: How Can I Rest? VIII Yachatz 'Breakthrough' Complete Tarot Time Board.
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I will return to the tarot deck of Bologna later on, when I have assembled my mind and my health decently, but just a note to myself here:
Until 1725, Bolognese tarot had two female Popes (no Empress) and two male Popes (no Emperor), and a long succession of Popes had no reason to comment on this stylistic choice, until 1725. The Popesses and the Popes were replaced with four Moors, since exotification of foreigners was apparently all nice and dandy at the time. Bologna, boasting the world's oldest university, was located within the Papal States at the time (long before the unification of Italy), so the Papal administration had a say on what was allowed to be printed.
Another note to myself: Take a closer look at revolutionary French decks without Empress, Emperor, Kings, Queens and Jacks.
Another note to myself: Compare the Paris pattern and the Rouen pattern!!!
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Guided Visualization
Guided visualization is interesting tool. There are seminars people do this with Tarot and it can be very interesting at times. However, there is one more interesting thing that the old Orders used to do some time ago. That is, we "guide" the visualization 40-50% of the way and we let the other 60-50% develop by themselves.
So for example, we decide to walk the path of Severity to Mercy, Gevurah to Chesed that is sometimes shown as Justice(other ways to view it as well). We imagine we step through the card for example and we observe, allowing what we need to change to change. Lets say we end up in a very big courtroom corridor with lawyers and prosecutors rushing in to work on cases in the smaller rooms on the sides, with a marble black and white floors and giant statue in front of us similar to the artwork on the deck we use.
Or maybe in an old kingsroom where the King had to decide a case between his ministers, so a very different setting and one that is solely decided by one, although again based on purely human decision of what is appropriate and what isn't.
If we could allow these setting to show up by itself that is even nicer, but even if we decide to choose it or base it exactly on the cards, after we are there the important factor is to act like in the real world, there is some part of this that comes from us, what we think and see, how we feel etc. and that we can choose, but to be able to let go and not control what happens outside. Someone may come to talk with us, or some event may happen that shows us what we need to know. Some of the rooms may call to us and lead elsewhere etc.
That was called "working with the paths". We can see the Tree of Life as reflecting the processes around us and based on what we have problems with we can walk the paths there to understand it fully, deeply and balance it out. And again, while guided visualization is very interesting, its important to allow big part of what we see to come in spontaneous and not controlled way, as that is a more direct and powerful way of divination.
Similar to I Ching/Yi Jing where we have text for some active lines and the idea if we have more then one active we have to make the text ourselves, one can say we have some Images on the cards as a guide in what direction we may want to start, but the actual images we divine based on can come in a more free and unbiased way.
There are schools relate dto Kabbalah that work a lot with that, there are rules to it. For example if one sees a dark place they don't want to go in, they should go in imagining they are protected. And other stuff like that, more info in some topic somewhere around the forums. But even if one does it without rules in a more free form can still be very beneficial for understanding stuff, in my humble view. : )
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Hosting an Intro to Tarot at my local library
An excellent idea to get the 'hands-on' dynamic going right away! What kind of reaction did cards like The Devil, Death, etc get?- Chariot replied to FindYourSovereignty's topic in Tarot Talk & Technique -
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Local Cartomancy Traditions
The same thing happened to me, I've been making a spreadsheet of authors that use similar piquet systems like Minetta's, but now realise most of the dates are off 😂 LOL they didn't even try to hide it There used to be an Instagram account a couple of years back that listed all of the symbols and what they meant in Sicilian culture. But they deleted all those images and only keep recent ones on there, because apparently information doesn't need to be archived anymore? 🤣 Here's what's in my notes from various places: • Ace of Cups is a pagan amphora(sp?) for weddings • 2 of Cups is often referred to as Pisces/Fish, but never why. The closest explanation was similar to the Lenormand fish. But I can't say how accurate that is. • 3 of Cups is the home/around the home. • 4 of Cups shows a man and wife in a duel, it can mean marital or political conflict. • 5 of Cups I think is an incense burner? This card is one that varies in meaning depending on the author. I think traditionally it represents ego and narcissism (maybe due to an anti-church stance, much like the Tarocco Siciliano?), but some have it down as good news and fulfillment (feels modern to me). • 6 of Cups is the future. • 7 of Cups is a "castagnara" or chestnut picker, known also as the "little woman". • 2 of Coins is Ferdinandus II (the fact there's two is apparently in reference to the Palici Twins and/or Dioscuri). • 3 of Coins is the Trinacria on the coins themselves, the man is apparently the "little man" in search of the lady on the 7 of Cups. • 5 of Coins is the Chariot that was depicted on their coins of the time. Also it's apparently a reference to Garibaldi? Though I'm not sure if that's only older decks. • Ace of Swords is a snake/dragon which is the remnants of the Portuguese/Spanish influence. I can't remember what the building is. But usually this card is negative. It's also often called 'the door knocker' meaning something that will arrive very soon. • 2 of Swords with the dog I'm assuming is fidelity. • 3 of Swords is apparently a serving chalice, but poisoned. (Vs the unpoisoned one in 7 of Batons) • 4 of Swords is the same dog by a grave/the 7 of Coins. • 5 of Swords is delayed/blocked news • Ace of Batons is the male appendage • 2 of Batons the ribbons represent a union or bond. If you cover the base of the 2 Batons you get a heart too, so shows affection/love. • 3 of Batons is infidelity/sex (turn it upside down and might see why 😉). • 7 of Batons is a chalice for drinking/celebrating. This card is usually the end of a dispute.0- akiva replied to Raggydoll's topic in Cartomancy -
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Hosting an Intro to Tarot at my local library
I would mention almost in passing that there are three traditions and leave it at that. I am guessing your hands-on activity will be with the Waite/Smith, so focus on that and how to use it. Myth-busting is a good one, as you want them to go away with the "right" ideas. I went to one of these things once - admittedly for those who already read - and every chair had a card on it, face down. Participants were asked to turn it over when directed and see what they thought it meant - then exchange the card with someone else and repeat, then compare notes as a pair. Even among seasoned readers, it was very interesting.0- gregory replied to FindYourSovereignty's topic in Tarot Talk & Technique
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