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Natural Mystic Guide

Tarot Netivot Star of the Week Reading Sunday January 11 through Shabbat January 17, 2026

Feedback -- Questions and comments are welcome.   This reading gives us insight into energies that we can focus on during specific days of the upcoming week as well as throughout the entire week as a whole   This week's reading will use the Playful Heart Tarot by Kitten Chops..   Here are focal points for our meditation:   Sunday:          How Can I Express Generosity:                                            Person of Wands                                     'Storyteller'    
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Tarot Journey By Van

Minor Arcana Study: WHY ARE THEY SO DAMN DIFFICULT

Ok so back to the serious part.   After studying the four suits i decided to start with the Pentacles because who does not need money in this economy (it's a joke). But here i am trying to make sense of on sentence of one card. I decided to start with the Page, since i really enjoyed the energy.   But after reading a lot, SERIOUSLY, a lot of books and sites i'm still not getting the meaning of the Page of Pentacles. I got the youngfull energy part and the whole thing about be
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Tarot Journey By Van

What a year and what comes next

Hello guys!   It's Van here! I hope everything is fine!   2025 was a whole new adventure in my practice journey. I started my readings with my friends in college and boy we have some discussions to make lol.   So i have this friend and we became so closer this past year. She's incredible and funny, but has some serious stuff going around her ( i don't really feel comfortable sharing any private information about her, keep in mind) and we started the readings when sh
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Natural Mystic Guide

Tarot Netivot Star of the Week Reading Sunday January 4 through Shabbat January 10, 2026

Feedback -- Questions and comments are welcome.   This reading gives us insight into energies that we can focus on during specific days of the upcoming week as well as throughout the entire week as a whole   This week's reading will use the Ark Animal Tarot by Bernadette King, Art by Heidi Sutherlin.   Here are focal points for our meditation:   Sunday:          How Can I Express Generosity:                                            Seven of Pentacles                            
Natural Mystic Guide
Natural Mystic Guide

Tarot Astrology Capricorn 2025 Jewish & Western Hermetic Correspondences according to the Tarot Netivot system.

Feedback, comments and questions are welcome.   We entered the astrological month of Capricorn on December 22 of this week.   The bottom row, representing the Jewish calendar according to the Tarot Netivot system has already been featuring Major Arcana card XI Doreshet ‘The Seeker’ since December 21; and the Matriarch of Wands for the beginning of the week of the Full Moon December 31.   The Major Arcana card XV Babylon ‘The Devil’ represented the December Solstice
Natural Mystic Guide
Natural Mystic Guide

Tarot Netivot Star of the Week Reading Sunday December 28, 2025 - Shabbat January 3, 2026

Feedback -- Questions and comments are welcome.   This reading gives us insight into energies that we can focus on during specific days of the upcoming week as well as throughout the entire week as a whole   This week's reading will use the Oriens Tarot Deck by Ambisun.   Here are focal points for our meditation:   Sunday:          How Can I Express Generosity:                                             Six of Wands          Netzach                   'Victory'                  
Natural Mystic Guide
Natural Mystic Guide

Tarot Netivot Star of the Week Reading Sunday December 21 - Shabbat December 27, 2025

Feedback -- Questions and comments are welcome.   This reading gives us insight into energies that we can focus on during specific days of the upcoming week as well as throughout the entire week as a whole   This week's reading will use the Good Fortune Tarot by Barbara Moore illustrated by Jessica Roux.   Here are focal points for our meditation:   Sunday:          How Can I Express Generosity:                                             I                              Charsheta 
Natural Mystic Guide
Natural Mystic Guide

Rosh Chodesh Reading Tevet 5786

Feedback, Comments and Questions are welcome.   The Past Month, card No. 1 provides an opportunity to look back over the entire previous month with an eye to what theme(s) played out and what lessons were learned.  Cards 2 through 5 look at the energy for each of the four upcoming lunar weeks.  It's snapshot look at what to expect and what to look out for.  Developing an awareness of the phases of the moon is a great spiritual practice.  This is the Sacred Circle Tarot by Anna Franklin
Natural Mystic Guide
Natural Mystic Guide

Tarot Netivot Star of the Week Reading Sunday December 14 -- Shabbat December 20, 2025

Feedback -- Questions and comments are welcome.   This reading gives us insight into energies that we can focus on during specific days of the upcoming week as well as throughout the entire week as a whole   This week's reading will use the Motherpeace Tarot deck by Vicki Noble.   Here are focal points for our meditation:   Sunday:          How Can I Express Generosity:                                             XI                         Gevirah                      'Justice'  
Natural Mystic Guide
Natural Mystic Guide

Tarot Netivot Star of the Week Reading Sunday December 7 -- Shabbat December 13, 2025

Feedback -- Questions and comments are welcome.   This reading gives us insight into energies that we can focus on during specific days of the upcoming week as well as throughout the entire week as a whole   This week's reading will use the Tarot Illuminati by Kim Huggens and Erik C. Eunne.   Here are focal points for our meditation:   Sunday:          How Can I Express Generosity:                                             Five of Wands                  
Natural Mystic Guide
Natural Mystic Guide

Tarot Netivot Star of the Week Reading Sunday 11.30 -- Shabbat 12.6.25

Feedback -- Questions and comments are welcome.   This reading gives us insight into energies that we can focus on during specific days of the upcoming week as well as throughout the entire week as a whole   This week's reading will use the Guardian of the Night deck by MJ Cullinane.   Here are focal points for our meditation:   Sunday:          How Can I Express Generosity:                                             Ace of Wands                          
Natural Mystic Guide
Natural Mystic Guide

Tarot Netivot Star of the Week Reading Sunday November 23 - Shabbat November 29, 2025

Feedback -- Questions and comments are welcome.   This reading gives us insight into energies that we can focus on during specific days of the upcoming week as well as throughout the entire week as a whole   This week's reading will use the Ark Animal Tarot by Bernadette King.   Here are focal points for our meditation:   Sunday:          How Can I Express Generosity:                                         
Natural Mystic Guide
Natural Mystic Guide

Tarot Netivot Star of the Week Reading November 16 - Shabbat November 22, 2025

Feedback -- Questions and comments are welcome.   This reading gives us insight into energies that we can focus on during specific days of the upcoming week as well as throughout the entire week as a whole   This week's reading will use the Inner Child Cards by Isha Lerner and Mark Lerner; illustrated by Christopher Guilfoil.   Here are focal points for our meditation:   Sunday:          How Can I Express Generosity:                                       
Natural Mystic Guide
The taxonomy of decks of cards

The cradle of tarot (So many decks 2)

By the time playing card decks had become prevalent in Europe, the Kingdom of Sicily was the Korea of its time: There were two political entities claiming to be the real Kingdom of Sicily. This reminds us, that there was no unified Italy at the time. The old kingdom of Sicily split in 1282, and it wasn't until 1816 the two claimants reunited into one kingdom, the strangely named Kingdom of the two Sicilies.    North of these two rivalling southern countries, the Papal States (Holy See)
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If You Ask Me----

More Gold Foil

I've been browsing the gold foil decks on Amazon. To my surprise I found that there are lots of them but they're all called Gold Foil so I just figured they were all the same.  I was wrong.  I've now ordered three more decks, all different patterns and trimmed with all different borders and backs.  These are spectacular decks so of course I'm collecting them now.  I can't help myself.  They're so mesmerizing that it's almost like they're alive.     The cards are very slippery so you ha
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  • Grizabella in Tarot
Barley's Take on Tarot . . . etc.

The Reversed Seven of Wands: "Kneecapping" the Enemy

AUTHOR'S NOTE: When upright, the 7 of Wands represents "Valour" or extraordinary courage in the face of daunting odds. This is clearly reflected in the Waite-Smith version, which shows a harried warrior being set upon by six adversaries who have crowded him into a corner. At that moment in time he has yet to give an inch even though his prospects appear to be dim.   But all is not lost. He is holding the "moral high ground" as well as the tactical advantage (as any reading of US Civil
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Barley's Take on Tarot . . . etc.

Digging Deeper: Creative Consulting vs. Counseling

Here is another essay on the subject of professional tarot reading.   AUTHOR’S NOTE: While all tarot reading for other people is advisory in nature, some professional diviners possess the qualifications and credentials to counsel their clients in a therapeutic way, while those who don’t should be careful to remain within the bounds of informal “consulting.” I may bring decades of life experience, philosophical study and tarot practice to the table, but I lack the official certification to
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Barley's Take on Tarot . . . etc.

Force Over Form: Leveraging the Elements

AUTHOR'S NOTE: "Leveraging" is the act of pressing one's advantage in ways that optimize the benefit in practical terms; it's the concept behind the Biblical proverb of "moving mountains" with simple conviction and affirmation (aka "faith" but I don't subscribe to that concept, preferring to say that I'm a "man of certainty"). Here I will attempt to explain how it can be applied to our interaction with the elemental correspondences in tarot reading.   This act of will entails bri
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Barley's Take on Tarot . . . etc.

The "Spiritual Tribunal" Astral Contact Spread

Here is one for the spiritual mystics and pendulum users to play around with.   AUTHOR'S NOTE: All of the spirit-contact methods I'm aware of assume that we're going to encounter precisely the entity we're seeking (ancestor, god-form, elemental figure, spirit guide, etc.) whenever we ask. But I've never been convinced that disembodied beings are lurking at the threshold of the Astral Plane, just waiting for us to reach out, nor are they necessarily sympathetic.   Here I'm postul
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Natural Mystic Guide

Tarot Netivot Star of the Week Reading Sunday October 12 - Shabbat October 18, 2025

Feedback -- Questions and comments are welcome.   This reading gives us insight into energies that we can focus on during specific days of the upcoming week as well as throughout the entire week as a whole   This week's reading will use Whispers of The Tao by Dr. Ric Neo.   Here are focal points for our meditation:   Sunday:          How Can I Express Generosity:                                             Four of Cups                                     
Natural Mystic Guide
Barley's Take on Tarot . . . etc.

Sensible Divination: Oh, My Stars and Cards!

This one goes a little farther afield. It's mostly for the astrologers here.   Those of a certain age will remember Bullwinkle Moose exclaiming “Oh, my stars and garters!” whenever something surprised him, and I certainly resemble that remark (chronologically if not semantically since a certain rude three-letter acronym now replaces such quaint language).   AUTHOR’S NOTE: When I began my esoteric journey as an astrologer in 1970, I was trained to see the birth chart as a stat
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Barley's Take on Tarot . . . etc.

The "Pattern-Reader" Prevails!

Here is an admittedly biased discussion of professional reading style.   AUTHOR’S NOTE: As I approach the end of my re-reading of Paul Fenton-Smith’s Tarot Master-Class, I came across his view of the four types of professional tarot reader: the Mystic who endeavors to channel guidance from a spiritual source; the Nurturer who “just wants to help” and the Pattern-Reader who adopts a more deductive style when examining the cards in a spread, presuming that there is a message hidden in their
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Barley's Take on Tarot . . . etc.

Here's Looking at You! - Gaze as a Directional Indicator

AUTHOR'S NOTE: The concept of facing, gaze or regard has a long history of use with the Tarot de Marseille, although fans of more modern decks tend to disregard it.   Here is a spread that applies the facing and orientation of one of the 16 court cards to choose which of four 3-card sets becomes the reading scenario. It's important to select a deck in which the court cards exhibit a distinct regard that doesn't look straight out of the scene.   The standard RWS works we
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