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    1. Tarot Journey By Van

      A blog by Vanyar13 in Member Blogs

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      Vanyar13

      Hello guys!

      Hope y'll are fine.

       

      So today i'm gonna talk about my first real Tarot reading, btw the journal was such a good tool to organize my brain and helped me focous on the questioning process itself. I used the three spreed as my first shot, i liked to use it for the simples questions (i only did three questions and i focused on making "safe questions"). I'm gonna transcript what i wrote in my journal, i think it'll be easier to visualize how i did it.

       

      • For the next three months, will i get a good job?
        • After made my first spreed, i tried to visualize my question once i started to pick my Arcanas. I got surprised but not upset. I got the moon, the lovers and the temperence. First of all i tried to make each card one interpretation, just to assimilate their major advices and the way i felt about them. 
        • The Moon: I get that as a sounding and understanding yes, i know this Arcana is really deep and speaks volumes about our inner voices and how we are truly feeling about so that's why for the second thought i was more like: "Yes, but do not get this as something that for sure it will happen, even though is, probably, a confident yes, the universe is unpredictable and almost everything change in the course of life."
        • The Lovers: Here it comes my problem with this Arcana reading, since i'm not thinking about love or such things, i felt confused on why this card was preseting it self. I tried to think on the other aspect of this Arcana, which means an a big decision might be coming a head.
        • The Temperence: In this last Arcana i tried to undestend the other two and the outcome that probably will happen in a mix with the Temperence, so in the end i figure it out that yes, in the next three months i highly will get a good job, but this will leads me to a decision that probably would be a life changing thing, something that will divide the way i'm living right now, but until this happen i need to have patience and when it happen i'll need to balance things out, even my decisions will take a time to reflect and to analyze if it's a good idea.

       

                                                                                                                                                              Position 3: The Temperence

                                                                                                                          Position 1: The Moon                                             Position 2: The Lovers

       

      The other two questions i'll be posting on the next week, i would like to analyze each one of my questions with patience.

      What y'all think of it? Did i make a good job or my reading is wrong? For the process of picking yup each Arcana i tried to mentally visualize my questions. I took a really good time making the spreed, then getting into the major aspects of the Arcana, i did not rush anything what made me feel confident over what i was reading, but right now i'm not really sure about it simply because i found The Moon such a difficult Arcana to read (this one is in my favourite hall) and comprehend what it's speakins in the reading. 

       

       

      Com Amor,

      Van

    2. If You Ask Me----

      A blog by Grizabella in Member Blogs

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      Grizabella

      There are two authors I've recommended in various places before that I definitely respect and appreciate.  I recently bought two of their most recent books and I'm very, very pleased with what I've learned and what they've proven by years of scientific research.  Yep, I said "scientific" as in double blind studies and all that true scientific proof requires.  We're legit, folks.  Let me tell you about the authors and these books and why I'm so thrilled to bring this to you all.

       

      First of all, Larry Dossey, MD is the author of a book called One Mind.  Quoting what's written on the back cover of the book:

       

      "In the 20th century, we were introduced ro several subdivisions of the mind: the conscious, subconscious, preconscious and so on.  But what we didn't know was that there was another level of consciousness, an all-encompassing, infinite dimension of shared intelligence: the One Mind. This universal consciousness connects all of us through space and time.

       

      Emerging studies have shown that the One Mind isn't just an idea; it's a reality. In this book, Larry Dossey shares compelling experiences and research that supports the One Mind concept, such as:

       

           Shared thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations wirh a distant individual

           Communication between humans and sentient nonhumans, such as pets

           Acquisition of previously unknown knowledge from a person who has died

           Hidden or lost objects found through mental means alone

           Direct contact with a transcendent domain through near-death experiences

       

      Rev. Wayne Muller, who I'm not familiar with, wrote this on the back of the book, too, but I want to include his comments as well:

       

      "The Buddha said: Isolation is the world's great misery.  In an increasingly complex world , we feel overwhelmed, discouraged, and more and more alone.  Dr. Larry Dossey, a gifted physician of the soul , relieves the agony of modern isolation. He reveals our deep connections to everything around us, to reassert our belonging with everything everywhere."

       

      This book is absolutely awesome.  Worth every penny you pay for it and then some, in my opinion.  I can't recommend it highly enough and I'm going to read it again----and probably again and again.  I hope many of you will, too.  I got mine on Amazon.

       

      The second book is by Dean Radin, PhD.  It's titled Real Magic and from the back of the book:

       

      "The chief scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences turns a critical eye toward such practices as telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and psychokinesis.  Are such powers really possible?  Science says yes." 

       

      To quote just a little from his first page, he says "this is about REAL magic" and he says "Real magic falls into three categories......"  The first category he calls "force of will"and he says it's associated with spell-casting and other techniques meant to intentionally influence events or actions. 

       

      The second one he calls "divination" and it's associated with Tarot reading mirror-gazing and other practices.

       

      The third one he calls "theurgy" and it involves evoking and communicating with spirits.  

       

      a

    3. Aeclectic Skeptic-Theurge

      A blog by niomi in Member Blogs

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      niomi
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      Hi all, I'm new. I found this forum looking for an alternative to a forum where I used to study.


      I learned from learntarot.com at first, with a random crappy Lo Scarabeo deck from a mall. I made my first informed choice of deck, Clive Barret's Ancient Egyptian, from Aeclectic Tarot reviews & studied with the posters there. This is what I typically use to read for others. I like my Ancient Egyptian for combining and playing with both RWS and Thoth traditions. I'm not much fond of RWS itself but I can appreciate its influences in other decks and its clones too; I just don't think the og RWS inspires me.

      I have also enjoyed Hermetic Tarot and Robin Wood which I gave to a friend (but I wouldn't mind acquiring it again sometime). Ultimately I got into Thoth. My best unexpectedly good deck is the Game of Thrones Tarot. I have also enjoyed using cards virtually with Orphalese where my favorite deck to use is Neon Moon.

       

      This is a pretty consumerist entry. I have a personal relationship with the cards but I'm not great at writing it. I'm not much a neo-pagan at my roots. But thru my study of Tarot and it's connected materials, numerology, astrology, etc, I have appreciated and appropriated some neo-pagan practices. These communities have welcomed me (mostly 😉 ) I would usually describe myself as an atheist but at my most mystical I might try to describe as a kind of psychedelic Jungian techno-animist.

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      What's The Postman Bringing? Part 2

      It came a couple days ago and I like it very much. Size comparison. Standard RWS on the left, Pam's Original Art Only Tarot Poker Size on the right: I picked The Sun as an example of how she worked on the art to remove text and numerals, and fit the cards to poker dimensions. (Personally I don't mind losing the fabled "oh ****" line, but I know some are attached to it, so r.i.p. to the squiggle.) I don't think the editing is perfect, perhaps there's an over-reliance on the clone tool but I will not quibble. I think it's done well enough to not be distracting. I LOVE the size, the poker dimensions, and the borderlessness. They look so good next to each other in a reading. The horizon lines flow from one card to another and it's just really nice. I also really like the colors, they're bright but not garish like some RWS decks, you know the ones I mean. And there aren't any orange people! I could kiss it on the mouth for that. Sorry my pics are not the sharpest.
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      Finally, the first reading!

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      Atu X - The Wheel of Fortune

      A different angle into the nature of Horus might be found in Crowley's commentary on Liber AL II:8, which tangentially touches upon the symbolism of Atu X - Fortune and Atu XVI - The Tower. (see the Book of Thoth, p.91 for the connection between these two cards.) "So long as one remains "one's self", one is overwhelmed by the Universe" is another way of saying one is bound to the Wheel and subject to Fate so long as one identifies "one's self" with the individual egoic personality. But "destroy the sense of self, and every event is equally an expression of one's Will," is an affirmation of the True Self at the centre of the Wheel. No matter the circumstances, one's True Self finds authentic expression through those circumstances rather than identifying self with circumstance, which is what the ego habitually does. As a result of this shift in perspective the hand of Fate that spins the Wheel is now realized as one's own. The "Annihilation of the Ego in the Abyss is the condition of emancipating the true Self." The annihilation of the ego is depicted on Atu XVI - The Tower, which Crowley subtitled WAR. This "war" is primarily an inner struggle to emancipate the True Self from the false ego-self that oppresses and restricts it. The "god" of this struggle is symbolically represented in Liber AL vel Legis as Ra Hoor Khuit, whose "war and vengeance" are a campaign aimed at the emancipation of his twin brother, the silent True Self - Harpocrates. These "gods" are us and the battle ground is the self. But to the extent that we fail to tackle this inner struggle for self-transformation, we tend to direct it outwards into the world and manifest War in our lives. Instead of combating the enemy within, we seek it outside of ourselves and consequently remain unchanged within. The martial force of self-transformation instead appears as a rising tide of anger and violence in the world, mistakenly directed at other people. Instead of dedicating our own life-blood to the Great Work, we seek a "sacrificial scapegoat" to blame the ills of the world upon. All the while the root cause of the problem remains the same and may, as a result, have to suffer self inflicted karma in the form of the "direful judgments of Ra Hoor Khuit!."
      - Aeon418 replied to Aeon418's topic in Thoth


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