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This Podcast Episode has been archived.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.

Gate Cards: Tarot Realizations by Bill Vincent

I am always intrigued by the concept of gate cards. Gate cards, as they are referred to in Rachael Pollack’s book Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom are cards that lend themselves more easily than others to the process of active visualization, or entering the card in your mind. This type of exercise can provide deeper levels of meaning within the cards, and your relationship to them. My initial impressions of Tarot was that every card is a gate card, and I still believe that is true. However, some cards do make this easier with their stunning scenes and multiple levels of meaning. To quote Rachael in 78 degrees, They all share certain characteristics: complex, often contradictory meanings, and a myth-like strangeness which no allegorical interpretation can completely penetrate. Rachael talks about several specific cards being gate cards. (read full post)

Professional Tarot Practice

James Wells joins me to explore what it means to be a tarot reader including the following topics:

• What is a tarot professional?
• What is professionalism
• ethical considerations

This is part one of a two part series.

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

Tarot Dancing by Ginny Hunt

Carol gave me the Three of Cups yesterday because I was such a mess on Friday. And then do you know what happened? I went dancing! I received an invitation last night to go out and see my favorite local band and danced my booty off. This is one of the things I really love about tarot, the layers of meanings in the cards, from the literal to the metaphorical. While Carol’s intention of giving me that card was clearly a way of expressing her friendship and support to me, little did she (or I, for that matter) know that it was a literal prediction, or prescription perhaps, to remedy my state of mind.
There is a dance we do among the meanings when we look at a card, a mental and emotional dance that, as a tarot beginner, feels awkward and out-of synch at first, but which becomes easier and more fluid the longer we work with the cards. I remember becoming very frustrated with the dance when I first started learning the card meanings because there seemed to be so many different choices, how was I to know which one to choose? I could look at the Three of Cups and see, literally, a get-together with women friends, or metaphorically a supportive environment, feeling at one with humanity, friendship, or caring. As I stumbled through the dance steps of tarot reading, I would become frustrated and wonder how I was ever going to actually read these cards. This was a new dance and I felt so out of step with the music. In fact, I couldn’t even hear the music at first. (read the full post)

Hermit’s Journey with Bonnie Cehovet – Relationship Resources

Welcome to the Hermit’s Journey! This is Bonnie Cehovet, and I would like to thank each of you for joining me on my journey. Relationship and finances are two of the biggest areas that readers receive queries about. I can tend to roll my eyes and shake my head when I get too many relationship readings in a row. In thinking about this, I realized that there are some wonderful resources out there that readers can use to recharge their batteries when it comes to love and romance. Today I am going to be talking about a few of the resources available- books, decks, and perhaps a spread or two that specifically address the areas of love, romance, and relationship.

… As readers, we can open up the scope of our readings, and offer our clients tools for healing, and tools for empowering themselves and their relationships. Scans and reviews of the following decks and books can be found on Aeclectic Tarot

Books:

• Daniels, Kooch N. & Victor Daniels. “Tarot D’Amour“. Weiser Books. 2003. ISBN #1-57863-292-7.
• Fairchild, Gail. “Choice Centered Relating and the Tarot“. Samuel Weiser, Inc. 2000. ISBN # 1-57863-143-2.
• Jette, Christine. “Tarot For The Healing Heart“. Llewellyn Publications. 2001. ISBN #0-7387-004306. Visit Finding the Muse
• McElroy, Mark. “Taking The Tarot to Heart“. Llewellyn Publications. 2005, ISBN #0-7387-053605. Visit Made by Mark
• Waldherr, Kris. “The Lovers Path”. Henry M. Abrams.2005. ISBN #0-8109-5785-6. Visit Art & Words

Decks:

• Ma Padma Diva. “The Osho Zen Tarot“. St. Martins Press. ISBN #0312117337. Osho Zen On-Line Readings
• Mahony, Karen & Alex Ukolov. “The Baroque Bohemian Cats Tarot“. Magic Realist Press. ISBN #0954500725. Bohemian Cats Website
• Sweikhardt, Karen. “Tarot of a Moon Garden“. U.S. Games Systems. ISBN #1572810955
• Waldherr, Kris. “The Lovers Path Tarot“. U.S. Games Systems. ISBN #1572814683. Lovers Path On-Line Reading
• Zerner, Amy & Monte Farber. “The Enchanted Tarot“. St. Martin’s Press. ISBN #0312050798 Visit the Enchanted World

Music Credits

Opening Music: time release by the Droney Tones.

Hermits Journey Music: Dark Moon by Suzanne Teng from Enchanted Wind (www.magnatune.com)

Tranistion Music: Lunarsheen by Clair Fitch from Ambiancellist (www.magnatune.com)

Closing Music: Ambiancellist by Clair Fitch from Ambiancellist (www.magnatune.com)

Archived

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

This week we’ll look at several spreads focusing on love & relationships.

Everyone wants it, but how do we get it? Keep it? Deal with the pain it can cause? What are our illusions about it, and what is our truth?

What exactly is this mysterious, wild and wonderful thing called love? Come today and see what you can find out!

Relationship can be any intimate or passionate connection; a lover, partner, child, friend or spirit. Ethics may be tested in reading for someone who is not there.

This episode was recorded live on February 4th 2007 at the Portland Tarot Study Group

Ellen Lorenzi-Prince is a talented artist and poet. Her tarot decks are the Tarot of the Crone and Pandora’s Tarot.

• Visit Her Website: Crone Ways
  And Read an Interview with Ellen from ATA’s Reflections
• Interview at Crystal Gate
• Energy Spread at Tarot Passages

Music Credits

• Opening Music: time release by the Droney Tones.
• Transition Music: Toccata No 6 in F major by Jeni Melia from the Lost Art of Wooing (Magnatune)
• Closing Music: A dream by Jeni Melia from the Lost Art of Wooing (Magnatune)

Archived

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

Relationship Readings

A relationship reading is the most requested type of reading. My Guest James Ricklef proposes that as a reader we must know one’s self to be able to provide the most helpful reading possible.

There are many ways of approaching a relationships reading. Two really interesting aspects to ponder are “what does love mean to me” and “what is the foundation of my relationship”.

James Ricklef is a Certified Tarot Master — a Tarot reader, lecturer, and writer. For many years now, he has been a recurring workshop presenter at the annual Los Angeles Tarot Symposium (LATS). He has also been a featured speaker at the New York Tarot Reader’s Studio (an annual three-day event) and at the annual San Francisco Bay Area Tarot Symposium (BATS). James is the author of the award-winning book “Tarot Tells the Tale” and of a book about Tarot spreads titled “Tarot — Get the Whole Story”.

• Visit James’ Website
• Read his Haiku Poetry
• Café Press, Zazzle products and Books (including a poster with the Lovers and the rest of the Major Arcana)
• Tarot Affirmations Booklet
• Author Bio at Llewellyn
• Review of Tarot Tells the Tale at Tainted Tarot
  
• Ways to Practice Reading Tarot Cards by James Ricklef
• Tarot & Your Spiritual Path:The Wheel of Fortune Written by James Ricklef

El Diablo by Ginny Hunt

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell ~Oscar Wilde

There are three Major Arcana cards that routinely tend to provoke quite the freakout: Death (dun dun dun!), The Tower (a rather unwelcome shock), and The Devil. He’s usually depicted in very grotesque form and it’s a natural response to recoil from such nasties. Case in point, here is an image from a very early deck, the Visconti-Sforza, the first “official” tarot card deck made in the mid-fifteenth century. It’s pretty typical devil symbolism what with the goat horns and bat wings, dragon-scaled belly, malevolent face, etc., but what is more disturbing about this card are the children. Good God, will someone not save the children? Actually, I don’t think they’re both supposed to be children, per se, as the female figure has breasts, but the male figure is clearly a boy. And they’ve spouted horns, so apparently they’re becoming that which both lures and repels them. Tied loosely, they seem captivated, willing slaves. The young woman looks freakishly like a Stepford Wife and the devil is obviously the Puppet Master. These kinds of images make one wonder what could possibly be so appealing about the gruesome dude that one would stay, willingly, bound.

Tarot Realizations by Bill Vincent

I’d like to take a few moments to talk about my favorite aspect of Tarot, the one thing that keeps me completely dedicated to the cards. Yes, they can be used for divination and can be used lightheartedly or seriously, depending on the situation. They are fun to work with, and fun to collect. But really, the most fascinating thing about Tarot, to me, has to be the symbolism. We are surrounded every day with symbols. You can’t even escape them if you were to move far away from our modern world, because symbols appear in nature as well as in our materialistic world. Symbols captivate us, they catch our eye and we subconsciously notice them, sometimes without even being aware that they are impacting us. Even colors by themselves are symbols that have multiple associations and meanings. (read full post)

Hermit’s Journey with Bonnie Cehovet – Symbolism of the Magician

Let’s continue our journey through the symbols of the Magician. There are two sides to every card. To paraphrase Sandra Thomson from “The Heart of the Tarot”, the Magician can be a sacred magician, or he can mesmerize us with illusion and then disappear (in a puff of smoke). The extensive imagery in this card tells us a lot about this gentleman.

This is a very powerful card to have appear in a reading. It indicates that the Seeker has these tools at his or her command, and needs to make best use of them. It is very important to dialogue with the Seeker when giving a reading, to get their impression of the multitude of symbols within this card … to see what draws their eye, and what place this might have in their life.

Music Credits

• Opening Music: time release by the Droney Tones.
• 78 Notes Music: Steamy River by Rhonda Lorence from Winter Moon (Magnatune)
• Hermits Journey: Dark Moon by Suzanne Teng from Enchanted Wind (Magnatune)
• Transition Music: Toccata No 6 in F major by Jeni Melia from the Lost Art of Wooing (Magnatune)
• Closing Music: I’m in Love by Yongen from Moonrise (Magnatune)

Archived

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

Relationships with the Cards and a Journey

My guest this week is Rachel Pollack. We discuss tarot as a relationship between you the reader and the cards. Rachel leads a guided journey into the energy of the Fool card. This episode should not be listened to while driving or using heaving machinery! The induction Rachel provides is designed to put you in to a state of relaxation and an altered state of consciousness.

Rachel Pollack

is a poet, an award-winning novelist, an authority on the modern interpretation of Tarot cards, and a Tarot card artist. Her novel Godmother Night won the 1997 World Fantasy Award and was described by Kirkus Reviews as “a magical exploration of the deepest roots of life and death.” Her earlier novel, Unquenchable Fire, won Britain’s Arthur C. Clarke Award, and was described by The New York Review of Science Fiction as “not only the best fantasy of the year, possibly the best of the decade, and the best feminist novel of the decade.”

She has published thirteen books on Tarot, including 78 Degrees of Wisdom considered a modern classic and the Bible of Tarot reading. She also has written on other non-fiction subjects, including The Body of the Goddess, which traces the origin and development of religion in the human body and nature. Her Shining Tribe Tarot, designed and drawn by Rachel herself, draws on tribal and prehistoric images from six continents and 50,000 years. She has had several shows of her artwork, both Tarot and other images. Her books have been published in thirteen languages. She has taught classes and workshops in Europe, North America, and Australia. Rachel grew up in Poughkeepsie, the setting for Unquenchable Fire. After nineteen years living in Europe, she returned, in 1990, to live in the Hudson Valley.

Rachel’s most recent book, Seeker, won the COVR Award for best book on divination at the 2006 International New Age Trade Show.

• Rachel Pollack – the Shining Tribe
  
• Rachel’s Blog
• Book List
  

Rachel’s Teaching Schedule

• Tarot Intensive: Cups, Feb. 10, Feb. 17, Feb. 24, March 3. Held at the Starr Library, Rhinebeck, NY. For information email: Rhinebeckia@hvc.rr.com
• Tarot Intensive: Swords, March 10, March 17, March 24, March 31. Held at the Starr Library, Rhinebeck, NY. For information email: Rhinebeckia@hvc.rr.com
• Readers Studio, April 20-22, New York City, . Rachel will be co-leading breakfast discussions with Tarot creator Johanna Gargiulo-Sherman.
• Green Hermeticism Conference, May 18-20–Rachel will speak on the Eleusinian Mysteries at the Green Hermeticism Conference in New Lebanon, NY. More information at www.sulukacademy.org.
• Becoming A Tarot Reader, June 10-15–co-taught with Mary K. Greer, at the Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY. This is Rachel’s 18th year teaching with Mary at Omega!
• The Inner Truth of Tarot, June 15-17– co-taught with Mary K. Greer, at the Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY.
• Literary reading for the anthology Interfictions, June 20–KGB Bar in New York City, on E.4th St., west of 2n d Ave. Rachel will read from her story, “Burning Beard: the Dreams and Visions of Joseph ben Jacob, Lord Viceroy of Egypt.”
• Residency at Goddard College, VT, June 25-July 3–to begin the semester for the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. For more information on getting an MFA at Goddard (and studying with Rachel), write Rachel@Rachelpollack.com, or go to www.goddard.edu
• Tarot Association of the British Isles annual conference, July 6-8–Bristol, England.
• Wisconsin Tarot Conference, July 13-15
• Between The Worlds Interfaith Magickal Conference, Nov. 9-11–Wilmington Delaware.

Music Credits

• Opening Music: time release by the Droney Tones.
• Incidental Music: I am by Anyma from volume 1 made available through GarageBand.com
• Closing Music: Voices from the ether by Ascian from the EP Deception made availible through GarageBand.com

Archived

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

This journey is part of Episode 29 and has been released separately for you listening convenience. Rachel leads a guided journey into the energy of the Fool card.

Note: This episode should not be listened to while driving or using heaving machinery! The induction Rachel provides is designed to put you in to a state of relaxation and an altered state of consciousness.

Music Credits

• Music: I am by Anyma from volume 1 made available through GarageBand.com