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The most complete reference to reading the cards and divining their wisdom! For centuries, people have used the tarot to help them gain access to spiritual knowledge and explore universal truths. You don’t have to be spiritually inclined to get something out of the tarot. Even the most hard-boiled materialist, with the assistance of The Knight, The Fool, the Lovers, the Hanged Man, and all the rest of the major and minor arcana, can achieve deep insights into their own true natures and the natures of others in their lives. Used properly, the tarot can reveal to us our deepest longings, help us to confront our fears, and allow us to recognize unspoken emotional and psychological obstacles to happiness. Come along on a fascinating journey as world-renowned spiritual teacher Amber Jayanti reveals the mysteries of the tarot and shows you how to tap into its uncanny power as a tool for personal exploration and growth. Discover how to use the tarot to: Reveal new options Get a new perspective on and re-envision your life Find hope, support, and encou ragement Increase mental and emotional clarity Reaffirm what you already know Connect more deeply with your intuition Explore universal truths Answer some of life’s biggest questions Tarot For Dummies explains how the tarot works, what it can and can’t do for you, and how to get the most out of it. And it guides you step-by-step through: Shopping for the right deck for you Handling the cards and interpreting spreads Preparing for a reading Finding spreads that are relevant to loved ones, friends, history, and special events Distinguishing the elements of a great reading Linking the tarot with astrology, numerology, the Qabalah and other sources of wisdom Do you long to see your life from a different perspective – to “see the big picture?” Let expert Amber Jayanti show you how to interpret the tarot and re-envision your life through this ancient, mystical system of pictures.

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Author:   Amber Jayanti
Publisher:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint:   For Dummies
Dimensions:   Width: 18.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780764553615

ISBN 10:   0764553615
Pages:   376
Publication Date:   01 August 2001
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1 About This Book 1 My Assumptions about You 2 How This Book is Organized 3 Part I: It’s All in How You See It 3 Part II: Pick a Card, Any Card: A Guided Tour Through the Tarot Deck 4 Part III: The Tarot and You: The ABCs of Tarot Reading (And Then Some) 4 Part IV: The Tarot and Her Family: Seeing Through Other Eyes 4 Part V: The Part of Tens 4 Icons Used in the Book 4 Where to Go From Here 5 Part I: It’s All in How You See It 7 Chapter 1: Making Friends with the Tarot 9 Introducing the Tarot 9 Harnessing the Power of Symbols 10 Becoming aware of archetypes 11 Picturing a new perspective 13 What Does Your Name Mean, Tarot? 16 Looking it up 17 Creating anagrams 17 Putting it all together 18 Chapter 2: Who Uses the Tarot and Why? 21 Gypsy Fortune-Tellers, Psychics, and Mystics 22 Gypsies: Beating a bad rap 22 Psychics: Getting specific about the future 23 Mystics: Communicating with divine spirits 23 Using the Tarot in the Health Professions 24 Therapists: Tapping into the unconscious mind 24 Substance abuse counselors: Connecting tarot with the 12 steps 25 Taking Tarot into the Fortune 500 26 Touching Students with the Tarot 26 Improving reading skills 26 Helping youngsters express their feelings 27 Appealing to All 28 Chapter 3: Let’s Go Shopping! 29 Strolling through Tarot Candy Land 29 Decks, decks, and more decks 30 Habla Español? Parlez Vous Francais? Sprechen Sie Deutsch? Parla Italiano? 34 Deciding on Your First Deck 34 Choosing a classic 34 Following your eyes, hands, and heart 35 Shopping for Your Deck 36 Hitting the bookstores 36 Cataloging 36 Surfing the Net 37 Chapter 4: History and Mystery: Where Does the Tarot Come From? 39 Place by Place 39 Stringing the Theories Together 43 Taroting through Time 43 Decks of antiquity 44 Twelfth century 45 Fourteenth century 45 Fifteenth century 45 Sixteenth century 47 Seventeenth century 47 Eighteenth century 47 Nineteenth century 48 Twentieth century 48 Looking at the Tarot Today 50 Chapter 5: The Tarot and the Mystery School Tradition 51 Demystifying the Mystery School 52 The mystery school experience 52 Open and closed mystery schools 52 Mystery school guidelines 53 Looking for a Mystery School? 54 Connecting with Qabalah 54 Linking the Tarot and the Mystery School 55 Making the Historical Connection 56 The tarot’s tie to the mysteries 56 The tarot and the Qabalah 57 Part II: Pick a Card, Any Card: A Guided Tour Through the Tarot Deck 59 Chapter 6: A Magic Mirror: Preparing for the Tarot’s Possibilities 61 Getting Ready to Read 62 Reconciling positives and negatives 62 Amber’s approach to interpreting 62 Recognizing the role of memory 63 Wrestling with the Meaning of Reversals 64 Interpreting in black and white 65 Shifting into neutral 66 Guidelines for interpreting reversals 66 Differences between Tarot Decks 68 Justice before Strength 68 Strength before Justice 68 Limbo land 69 Chapter 7: Hitting the Big Time: The 22 Major Arcana Cards 71 Defining the Major Arcana 72 Preparing to read major arcana cards 73 Pulling the race card 74 Touring the Cards 74 Chapter 8: Certainly Not the Minor Leagues: The Minor Arcana Number Cards 99 Suit Yourself 100 Place Your Order Here! 100 Ordering the minor arcana by density 101 Ordering the minor arcana by direction 101 Connecting the Suits with Four Magic Letters 102 Amber’s New Car: The Four Suits in Action! 103 Ha Ha Ha Ha! Linking the Humors and Suits 104 Putting It All Together 105 Interpreting the Minor Arcana 106 Chapter 9: A Magic Kingdom: The 16 Court or Royalty Cards 147 Naming the Court Cards 147 Bringing the Court Cards to Life 148 Royal occupations 149 Stages of life 149 A balancing act 150 Filling in the Gaps 151 Introducing the Court 151 Part III: The Tarot and You: The ABCs of Tarot Reading (And Then Some) 169 Chapter 10: Experiencing the Tarot 171 Finding Your Soul and Personality Cards 172 Determining your soul card 173 Identifying your personality card 174 Having the same soul and personality card 175 A special case: Totaling 19 175 Finding Your Card for the Year 176 The Card for Today 177 Finding today’s general card 177 Pinpointing today’s personal card 178 Cards that Correspond to Weeks and Months 179 Week by week 179 Month by month 179 Cards for Special Occasions 179 Studying History with the Tarot 180 Locating Your Personal Court Card 181 Connecting a Court Card with Your Personal Development for the Year 182 Chapter 11: Handling, Mixing, and Interpreting the Cards 185 Special Handling Required 185 Storing, wrapping, and protecting 186 Setting your intention 186 Requesting divine protection 188 Adopting orphans and retiring older cards 189 But I Can’t Shuffle! 190 Why, When, and Where? 190 Asking Questions and Getting Answers 191 When Will I Meet the Love of My Life? Win the Lottery? Become Enlightened? 193 Predicting probabilities 193 Trusting in divine time 194 Comparing Tarot Reading with Tarot Consultation 194 Chapter 12: Going Deeper: Meditating with the Tarot 197 Exploring Color and Sound 198 Meditating with color 198 Tuning in 201 Tasting the Tarot 203 Composing Affirmations 204 Becoming a Beautiful Dreamer 205 Meditating through Writing 207 The Best Form of Meditation 207 Chapter 13: Tarot Spreads Aren’t for Sandwiches! 209 How Tarot Spreads Work 210 Starting small 210 Preparing your intention 211 Seeing into the magic mirrors 212 Interpreting a spread’s meaning 213 Spreading the cards: From A to Z 214 Taking Precautions When You Read for Others 215 The Touchstone Spread 216 Pulling a Touchstone card 217 Sample spread 217 Amber’s All-Purpose Tarot Spread 218 Laying out the cards 218 Sample spread 221 Between Extremes Spread 224 Laying out the cards 224 Sample spread 225 Psychological Spread 226 Laying out the cards 227 Sample spread 227 Astrological Spread 229 Picking cards 229 Sample spread 230 Relationship Spread 231 Laying out the cards 231 Sample spread 234 The Chakra Spread 236 The chakras 236 Laying out the cards 238 Sample spread 238 Tarot Games 241 For you 241 For two 242 For any number of you 242 Getting a Professional Tarot Reading 242 Finding a reader 243 Interviewing 243 Show me the money! 243 Chapter 14: Help Wanted! 245 Thinking About Going Pro? 245 Quitting Your Day Job 246 Becoming a master of all trades 246 Seeking professional opportunities 247 Spreading the word 248 Getting paid 249 Setting up shop 250 Working for tarot hotlines 250 Buyer Beware: The Limits of Tarot Certification 251 Part IV: The Tarot and Her Family: Seeing Through Other Eyes 253 Chapter 15: Connecting the Tarot to the Qabalistic Tree of Life 255 Diagramming Your Spiritual Journey 256 Fruits of the Tree 256 Thirty-two paths 257 Branching out 261 The Minor Arcana and the Tree of Life 262 Tapping into the Qabalistic Intelligences 263 Decoding the Qabalistic Tree of Life 266 Linking the Tree of Life to Your Chakras 268 Chapter 16: Connecting the Tarot to Astrology and Numerology 271 Linking Signs, Planets, Luminaries, and the Major Arcana 272 Zodiac signs and the major arcana 272 Planets, luminaries, and the major arcana 276 Wheeling through the Zodiac and the Tarot’s Number Cards 278 Dividing the zodiac pie 278 Finding your number card 279 Matching the Court Cards to the Zodiac 282 Reslicing the zodiac pie 282 Finding your court card 283 Running the Numbers 285 Numbering the major arcana 286 Adding up the minor arcana and court cards 289 Chapter 17: Connecting the Tarot to Alchemy and Your Life Journey 291 The Elements of Alchemy 292 The Refiner’s Fire 292 Breaking Down and Building Up 293 Traveling from Childhood to Old Sage 295 On being a child 296 On being an adolescent 297 On being an adult 298 On being an elder or sage 299 Part V: The Part of Tens 301 Chapter 18: Top Ten Tarot Misconceptions 303 The Tarot is a Form of Devil Worship (If I Use It, I’ll Go to Hell!) 303 The Tarot is a Religion 304 You Must be Psychic to Work with the Tarot 304 The Purpose of a Tarot Reading is to Find Out About Your Future 304 The Future is Set in Stone 305 Dear Tarot Reader, Please Fix Me! 305 Your Wife’s Having an Affair 305 Curses and Love Spells 306 Reversed Means the Opposite 306 My Life’s This Way Because 306 A Few Extras 307 The tarot is dangerous 307 Each tarot card has a specific, predetermined meaning (how boring!) 307 A tarot reading a day can keep the doctor away 307 Who needs investment counseling? 308 The tarot has no practical use 308 Chapter 19: The Ten Cards Most Likely to Cause a Freak-Out 309 The Tower 310 The Nine of Swords 311 Death 311 Three of Swords 312 The Devil 312 Five of Pentacles 313 The Eight of Swords 313 The Ten of Swords 314 The Hanged Man 314 The Hierophant 315 Appendix: Seeking Additional Resources 317 Books 317 Comic Books 317 Electronic Media 318 Teachers and Schools 318 Correspondence Courses 319 Community Programs 319 Institutes 320 Tarot Organizations 320 Index 321

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Amber Jayanti, founder of the Santa Cruz School for Tarot & Qabalah Study, is a practical mystic who has been living, studying, and teaching these subjects for over 30 years.

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