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Episode 24: The Art of the Powerful Question with James Wells

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This Podcast Episode has been archived. It is available for purchase at shop.tarotconnection.net in the Year One Archive mp3 DVD.

Strategic, open-ended questions,
whether in tarot or in life,
act as gateways to greater wisdom.
— James Wells

James Wells is a Toronto-based Tarot consultant with an international clientele. Since age 12, he has lived, worked and played with the Tarot and its rich symbolism. James is also a Reiki Master, publisher of The Six-Rayed Star, musician, explorer of divination systems, weaver of rituals, and workshop facilitator. His job as a Worker of Oracles is to create sacred space for constructive feedback and soul work – a place where dreams, goals, imagination, intuition and magick, have full sway so that you can enjoy insight, support and healing. James can be reached at workeroforacles@yahoo.ca
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Hey! Teacher! Leave Those Kids Alone! by Ginny Hunt

There are few aficionados of tarot that don’t struggle some with this guy. The Pope. Later decks dubbed him The Hierophant in order to jazz him up and make him less Roman Catholic-centered and more esoteric, associating him more with the Greek mystery religions as one who guides initiates in sacred mysteries. However, in many of the later decks where he’s The Hierophant there’s no mistaking it, this guy is The Pope. The Holy See. Hence the common kneejerk flinching many experience when this card appears. Some of the more New Age tarot decks have tried to soften this character and have renamed him and redesigned him, often smiling and less severe, to counter these reactions, but…sigh…he’s still so terribly rigid, I think I may always respond with a bit of ambivalence with this one. (more …)

Hermit’s Journey with Bonnie Cehovet – Symbols

What constitutes a symbol and what part do symbols play in our lives? We are surrounded by symbols on a daily basis. The stop sign at the corner, team logos (ardent NBA fan here), corporate logos, symbols for the signs of the zodiac that accompany the horoscopes in the daily paper, even the food that we eat. Comfort food exists in all cultures. Symbols are a way of communicating. They are a way of expressing an idea or representing an object. Symbols can be historic in nature in that they remind us of a certain time period. Or they can be archetypal in nature in that people from different cultures will see the symbol as the same thing. …

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  • Opening Music: time release by the Droney Tones. Time Release
  • 78 Notes Music: A Life Worth Living by Royalty Free Music
  • Hermits Journey Music: Dark Moon by Suzanne Teng from Enchanted Wind (Magnatune) Get Music
  • Closing Music: Clouds across the Darkness by Suzanne Teng from Mystic Journey (www.magnatune.com) Steamy River

    • Episode 23: Reversals: Backwards and Forwards

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    Roger Tobin discusses reversals in Tarot, which is a topic open to a great amount of interpretation. Going from historical usage through modern interpretations, There are a number of ways to use and look at reversals, coupled with a number of questions for readers to consider in order to develop their own philosophy for using reversals.

    Roger Tobin is a Professional Tarot Reader from Portland, Oregon. He was introduced to the Tarot in the late 1980s but started serious study and practice in 2002 after encouragement from his family. He is a member of The American Tarot Association and reads for both of their Networks. Roger is also a Mentor for new readers as well as an active community volunteer. He enjoys both studying and teaching of topics in Tarot, and helps lead the Portland Tarot Study group. You can find out more about his reading practice at his website Sylvan Creek Tarot.

    Reversals Class with Teresa Michelsen (Portland, OR 2005)

    • Seeing the good, bad, and neutral attributes of every card
    • A survey of ways to use reversals, from traditional to modern to highly individual
    • Obstacles and challenges
    • Unhelpful influences (special discussion of court cards here)
    • Hidden, deceptive, and unrealized factors
    • Extreme or unbalanced energies
    • Internal vs. external Special or assigned meanings
    • Entire reversed readings

    Teresa Michelsen is a tarot reader and instructor with more than 25 years of experience reading tarot. She is well-known on the tarot e-mail lists under her reading name of Thrysse, and has published many articles on tarot on the worldwide web and in ATA publications. Teresa is the author of Designing Your Own Tarot Spreads and the Complete Tarot Reader.

    Complete Tarot Reader: Everything You Need to Know from Start to Finish Designing Your Own Tarot Spreads (Special Topics in Tarot)

      Shake Rattle and Roll by Ginny Hunt

      … The main thing about the Tower is it signals the disruption and even destruction of things that you thought were solid. The more comfortable we become in our castles, the more complacent we become, the less connected we are from others and from what is really important in our lives. We begin to believe the illusions of safety and security that we’ve built and start taking some very valuable things for granted. A Tower moment, though rarely welcome, unless it’s happening to someone you dislike very much, brings into sharp and sudden focus those things we thought indestructible and safe, and subsequently presumed too much upon. … Read the Entire Post

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    Episode 22: Gaian Tarot with Joanna Powell Colbert

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    The Gaian Tarot celebrates the living Earth and those who seek to live in harmony with Her.

    It is an evocative and powerful tool for accessing inner guidance. The imagery of the deck combines multicultural Goddesses and other numinous beings with the mysteries of the natural world. Each image features birds, animals, plants, trees, rocks, constellations and other aspects of nature that amplify the meaning of the card.

    With its structure rooted in Tarot tradition, the Gaian Tarot is the perfect deck for those who honor Gaia, the earth, as a living, sentient being and who practice an earth-centered spirituality. (from GaianTarot.com)

    My guest is Pacific North West artist and author Joanna Powell Colbert. Her art has appeared in print publications for 20 years. She has published essays on mythology and nature spirituality. Joanna also has a web design business called JPC Web Design.

    Download the Gaian Tarot Spread (by James Wells)

    Hermit’s Journey with Bonnie Cehovet: Gaian Tarot Review

    The Gaian Tarot is an earth-honoring deck in progress. It was created for pagans and others who honor Gaia, the earth, as a living being and who practice an earth-centered spirituality.Available as a majors-only set while the minors are being completed.

    The Tarot Court: Be Thou a Knight by Ginny Hunt

    Part three of a five part series exploring the tarot court.

    … Knights, like all court cards, are not necessarily literally young 20-something men. They can be male or female, young or old. It is this exuberant, youthful, get-there-or-die-trying characteristic that is found in all of us, given the right circumstances, that the knights are portraying. Though their energy is admirable, they tend to have that egocentric tendency that younger men have, complete with a distinct sense of invincibility. This makes them short sighted and impulsive, and a bit too sure that they are right. They also possess, with the exception of the Knight of Pentacles, a distinct lack of “sticktoitiveness.” (The Knight of Pentacles has a bit too much of that, he’s not easily swayed from anything he sets his mind to, which can be a problem at times, too.) You can depend on the Knights for the short term, but rarely for the long term. Their immaturity is displayed by their bravado and rash tempers, their lack of thinking things through, and an inability to pace themselves in a realistic fashion… (more …) Individual Posts: Knight of Swords, Knight of Cups, Knight of Wands, Knight of Pentacles.

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    Episode 21: The Fools Journey, Pages and Greek Myths

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    Hermit’s Journey with Bonnie Cehovet – Major Arcana Pod Cast

    The Major Arcana act together to form a journey of individuation. This journey can be seen as one of individual archetypes, with the Fool interacting with each of the archetypes. Another way of viewing this journey is to see it as a Triumphal procession, with a natural division at the Wheel of Fortune into an 11/11 sequence. We can also choose to view this journey as a progression, with each card building on the cards before it, and containing the wisdom gained from all of these experiences. The Fool, representing the individual taking the journey, stands above the cards. Cards I-VII represent consciousness and the growth of personality; cards VIII-XIV represent our subconscious, and a very inward search; cards XV-XXI represent our superconscious, and the development of spiritual awareness.

    The Tarot Court Series: Pages by Ginny Hunt

    Part two of a five part series exploring the tarot court. To understand the meaning of the Pages in tarot, I think a little smattering of history is in order. Tarot cards were created in the middle ages when everyone understood what was meant when someone was a “Page.”A castle Page was a boy of a nobleman or a vassal who, if he did not already reside in the castle, was sent to his lord’s castle to live for the duration of his training. That is, until he became a knight. Lest the romance of it all soften this image, the knight was a soldier. He was trained for war. Thus, very young children were conscripted into training away from their families into a program so comprehensive that as they grew into young men, they would be fully prepared to serve their lord unto death, no questions. (more …) Individual Posts: The Tarot Pages, The Page of Swords, The Page of Cups, The Page of Wands, The Page of Pentacles

    Old Greek Stories by James Baldwin. Read by Rob Sheehe

    (From the Preface)

    Perhaps no other stories have ever been told so often or listened to with so much pleasure as the classic tales of ancient Greece. For many ages they have been a source of delight to young people and old, to the ignorant and the learned, to all who love to hear about and contemplate things mysterious, beautiful, and grand. They have become so incorporated into our language and thought, and so interwoven with our literature, that we could not do away with them now if we would. They are a portion of our heritage from the distant past, and they form perhaps as important a part of our intellectual life as they did of that of the people among whom they originated.

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