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Upon waking, write what you remember of your dream in your journal. There is no need to make a coherent story line.

• Pick 3 objects (person, place, thing)
• Pick 3 actions

1. Draw a card for each an interpret the card as the bridge between the dream image and your waking life.
2. Pick one of the object card, either randomly or because of its importance.
3. Pick of the action cards
4. Shuffle the rest of the deck and draw a summary card.
5. Use these three cards to do a reading for yourself.

Dena’s Dream

I dreamed that Leisa had given me a baby duck to take care of. It was cute and fuzzy, and seemed very frail/thin. He didn’t seem like a normal duck though; he had almost the personality of a human. I said he seemed very sweet. She said she was going away for a couple of days, and wondered if I could take care of it. I said sure, and took it. I soon realized that I had not asked for any instructions for its care, nor did I have any place to safely keep it. I felt that he (it seemed male) needed a cage or small enclosure, because he might get trompled on in my home. I was having great anxiety about all of this. In the dream, I lived in a place I didn’t recognize, and both my Mom and Dustin (brother) lived there too. I was afraid they’d be careless and step on him. I put him in my room, and was contemplating putting out a sign that said “Don’t come in.” In the mean time, I gave him some water, and it was good to watch him drink. I reminded myself that I needed to feed and give him water, that I musn’t forget. I thought I might need to go get some duck food soon.

Then, abruptly, the scene changed and I had decided to go on a hiking/camping trip and take the duck with me. I was with a bunch of people, and we were going over some rough terrain. I kept the duck in a pouch close to my belly, inside my clothes. At one point, I bumped against something and was afraid I’d crushed him. I took him out, and he looked like his right eye was injured. I decided I’d better head home.

I was in the car, and the duck was running loose around the floorboards as I was driving. I knew something bad was going to happen, almost like it was inevitable: a hole in the floorboards appeared, and the duck fell through. I saw him tumble out the bottom, and knew he must have died. I felt horrible. I dreaded having to tell Leisa when she returned.

Leisa came back, and I met her at her house. I told her about the duck, and was direct and honest and told her everything. I was still frustrated that I had not had a cage for him, but I felt like it was my responsibility and I’d failed. Leisa was reassuring, said it was okay, although she did seem sad about the duck. I woke up, very relieved that it had all been a dream.

Leisa’s Dream

I just parked by car. I was attending a conference at a hotel a block away. The buildings for that block were joined on the ground floor so I entered the nearest one to get off the street. I was distracted and got on the first elevator that I saw and once inside I realized my error. This elevator would go up but the higher level wasn’t connected to the place I was staying. There was no way to reopen the doors without going to the top.

The inside of the elevator was strange. Very old fashioned with iron grating so you could see the floors going by. The interior was very small. There was barely enough room to stand in it front to back. It was wider than deep so I had to put my luggage to my right. There were only three buttons. 1 – 9 – 10. On the way up I saw empty dusty spaces. Near the top I witnessed a murder by gunshot that I wasn’t supposed to see of course.

When I reached the top I was able to press the buttons to go down without the doors opening but the bad guys knew I was there and wanted to intercept me.

I did dial 911 from my cell phone. There were some reception problems due to the elevator and at some point I was free falling in the elevator shaft and needed to catch back up to my phone. I did accomplish this, escape to a corner of the lobby to complete my call. I was battered, bloody and may have had broken bones but safe.

Dena DeCastro

A professional astrologer in the Portland area for several years, Dena has appeared on local radio shows, taught workshops, and given lectures on topics in Evolutionary Astrology. The evolutionary perspective is that our souls progress from lifetime to lifetime. The focus of Dena’s readings is upon your chart as the dynamic representation of your highest potential, and the guide toward achieving it. Dena hosts the podcast Evolutions of Astrology featuring interviews with astrologers and other readers, as well as discussing various topics of astrology and chart interpretation.

To subscribe to “Evolutions of Astrology” via iTunes, click here.

Music Credits

• Opening Music: The Oracle Speaks by William Wilde Zeitler from Elegy for Atlantis
• Transitional Music: Goodbye by Beth Quist from Lucidity (Magnatune)
• Closing Music: Dream by Beth Quistt from Lucidity (Magnatune)

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Tarot Table Talk Podcast

Susan Gold

Genre: Spirituality
© Copyright 2007 Susan Gold. All rights reserved.

Eight of Cups by Ellen Lorenzi-Prince

The Moon gazes down on the land. How she loves the water, what she lacks in her heavenly home. How it draws her eyes.

In the landscape of her gaze a human walks alone. She does not see herself reflected in his eyes. She can feel the water in him and she pulls, but still he does not look up. Something else is drawing him.

The Moon drinks in the river through her eyes. The river knows her. The river reflects her in shards of glittering, dancing light.

But the human does not look. The mountain guides him. The stones measure his steps. The body of Earth, the Moon’s big sister, the beautiful one – this is all he sees.

Not that the Moon is jealous. Of course he would love her best. She is his mother, and he is so very small.

The Moon would be the Earth’s lover if she could. She pulls on Earth’s oceans, crashing water against hard stone, wanting to change her, wanting to touch her, to hold her as she herself is held. Rapt. Gazing endlessly into her beautiful beautiful blue.

But the Earth does love her, much more than the Moon knows. The movement, the power, the desire… this created the life that rose from the shallows. And all these little ones, all her children, are proof of that love. Offerings to her cool and brilliant sister.

The two great ones dance and strive and desire. And the little one walking feels something, but does not know how to give it a name. He believes something must be missing inside of him, to feel so great and terrible a longing. So he seeks, and the Earth gives, and the Moon gazes down.

Ellen wrote this during at BATS 2007 during the Writing with the Tarot Workshop. Visit this link for a write up of the exercise.

Writing with the Tarot

Have you ever wanted to write fiction or poetry, but been too intimidated to get started? Are you a writer who is blocked or seeks a new source of inspiration? Susan and Evelyn use tarot for written personal exploration, creative writing exercises and to cope with writers block. They are also committed to teaching writers, of all experience levels, how to do the same.

Personal Writing Exercise

Look through your deck and select a card for:

1. Where you are right now
2. Where you want to be

(In your Career, Studies, Process, Journey as a Writer, and in your relationship.) Use the cards to start writing about those two topics.

Creative Writing Exercise for Character Development

1. What a Character might want
2. What standing in the way of the character getting what he/she wants
3. Strategy for overcoming the obstacle.
4. Outcome, what might happen for the Character in the End

Susan Gold and Evelyn Pine

Susan Gold holds an M.A. in Creative Writing and is a published poet. She has taught writing and literature courses at the college level and currently teaches advanced high school courses in English and Mythology. She reads at parties and events and especially enjoys teaching tarot workshops in collaboration with Evelyn Pine and Carole Pierce. Susan is also a certified hypnotherapist and is exploring ways to combine her interests in tarot, writing, teaching, and hypnotherapy. Check out her website at www.magicians-table.com and also her blog and podcasts at tarot-table-talk.com.

Evelyn Jean Pine is the winner of the 2007 June Anne Baker Playwriting Commission. Her plays have been staged around the country and her short stories have appeared in Seventeen, Sassy, Inner Ear and Collage. A student of the San Francisco Institute of Magickal and Healing Arts, she has used the cards for inspiration and insight for more than 20 years. She is delighted to work with Susan Gold and the Magician’s Table to share the power of writing with the tarot.

• Tarot Table Talk Podcast
• Magician’s Table Site
• Table Talk Tarot Blog
• Writing and the Tarot

Another Tarot Table Talk Podcast: Writing with the Tarot #1

This is the third Tarot Table Talk Podcast and the first in a series that offers exercises to use the tarot for personal and creative writing. You can listen to Writing with the Tarot #1 here. This episode is an MP3 and is 31.1 MB. While the podcast itself lasts 22 minutes, this does not include writing time. Feel free to use your recorder’s pause button liberally and to take as long as you need for your written response to each prompt. You may choose to do all of the exercises in one sitting, or break them up over several writing sessions. You might even want to bring the recording to your writers’ group or tarot group.

This episode is co-hosted by Susan Gold and Evelyn Pine. To participate, it doesn’t matter how much or how little you know about writing or the tarot. It offers exercises that will help you get started on—or deepen—either journey.

In this episode

This episode begins with a warm-up writing exercise to help those who are new to the tarot to focus on the details of a card. The warm-up is followed by a self-reflective writing exercise inspired by each of the four suits of tarot. We conclude with a creative writing exercise that will generate ideas for setting, story, and character.

What you will need

To do the writing exercises, you will, of course, need a favorite writing instrument—pen, pencil, or even a computer, and a tarot deck. You can find a tarot deck at any book store—though we encourage you to support a new age or independent book store. A great independent online tarot store is The Tarot Garden.

There are thousands of decks out there, and you might want to first go to Aeclectic Tarot, which has reviews of decks and sample images from them. Whatever deck you choose, just make sure that every card is rich with scenes and imagery. If you are still having trouble selecting a deck, you might try the classic Rider-Waite deck or the Golden Tarot deck.

Once you’ve got your deck, pen and paper—or computer, find a place conducive for writing.

Click here for more Tarot Table Talk Podcasts

Music Credits

• Opening Music: The Oracle Speaks by William Wilde Zeitler from Elegy for Atlantis
• Transitional Music: Invocation by Ty Burhoe from Invocation (Magnatune)
• Closing Music: Longing by Ty Burhoe from Invocation (Magnatune)

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Bonnie Cehovet (Washington) is a Tarot Educator, a professional Tarot reader with over ten years experience, a Reiki Master/Teacher and a writer.

She currently has articles and reviews appearing in the World Tarot Network newsletter, and reviews appearing on the Meta Arts e-magazine site and on Aeclectic Tarot . Her website is The Crystal Gate – Tarot .

1. What are tele-classes?

2. What makes tele-classes a viable teaching venue?

3. What is the cost of a tele-class?

4. What kinds of classes are suitable for tele-classes?

5. What is your target student?

6. Where would you advertise a tele-class?

7. What information would you include in your advertising?

• class name
• instructor’s name
• venue
• length
• fee (be sure and note that for a tele-class the student also pays their own long distance phone bill)
• CEU’s (if applicable)
• Course Material: What the class will cover.
• What the student can expect to take away from the class.

8. How will you organize your class?

• Class Objectives
• What you will take away from this class.
• Introduction
• Main Class Material
• Summary

9. How will you present your class?

• Introduce yourself.
• Ask each person to introduce themselves. (On a tele-class it is fun to also tell people where you are from.)
• Ask your students what they hope to get out of the class.
• Begin presenting your subject. You can do the major portion as a lecture, but class participation is a lot more fun! Note: I like to include handouts whenever possible. They make great visual aids, and present a place for people to take notes.
• Encourage questions.
• Try and end the class on a high note … some kind of exercise or discussion.

Teleclass with Robert Place

This is the introduction to the class Hieroglyphs from the Soul with Robert Place. This class will be offered again on October 24th. Topics covered include the history of Tarot, how to read Tarot and why Robert doesn’t use reversals.

There is still time to register for the class later this month. In the class, you will learn a guideline for interpreting them called “The Seven Patterns”. These patterns include: linear, choice, meeting, central origin, central destination, the central problem and the central teacher.

• Date: Wednesday October 24th 2007
• Time: 6:00 – 8:00 PST
• Cost: $25

For more information and to register visit shop.tarotconnection.net

Music Credits

• Opening Music: The Oracle Speaks by William Wilde Zeitler from Elegy for Atlantis
• Transitional Music: Come When I Call by Emily Van Evera from My Lady Rich (Magnatune)
• Closing Music: And Is It Night by Emily Van Evera from My Lady Rich (Magnatune)

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Ramon Troubadour returns to his devastated home city of Carcassonne to rescue the holy Dame of the Cathars from the flames of the Inquisition. His famous voice and sense of humor help him make new allies in his quest to prevent a bloody crusade.

Only the Dame knows the secret of the holy relic of Montségur. A king will go to war for the relic. A dying pope will kill for it.

Helped by a nameless one-eyed knight, a fighting damsel, a witch and a circus of colorful entertainers on dancing horses, Ramon must stand against a terrifying army led by Death incarnate, complete with archetypal scythe.

Based on the true history of the Inquisition and the legend of the Tarot, The Last Troubadour assembles a magnificent cast right out of the Tarot deck: the Fool, the Magician, The Emperor, The Pope, Death and even The Devil. Don’t miss this tale of knightly valor, Tarot symbolism, tragic history and exciting quests.

1980’s Book Trailer by Kam Wai Yu

New Book Trailer by Kam Wai Yu

Derek Armstrong

So, is this a clever gimmick? Just an author who thought one day, Hey, this hasn’t been done before? Does he even own a Tarot deck?I did not undertake The Last Troubadour lightly. The entire trilogy was a journey of some 18 years. Carcassonne and the south of France are my old haunts, where I explored the history in depth. An important history.

Nor is Tarot a passing fancy for me. My first deck was a Pixie, bought with part-timer earnings after school back in 1972. I’m obviously much older now, and I still have my Pixie, and some 112 other decks. Current favorites include Thoth (bought in 1974), Kat Black’s Golden, Place’s Buddha Tarot, Carol Herzer’s Illuminated, and a dozen others. I actually almost always have a deck in my pocket.

Why do I weave the mystical and legend with history? Well, why not? It’s fun, isn’t it? But more important, it’s a way of conveying important events that is entertaining and at the same time “real.” What better way for me to personally explore Tarot cards and archetypes and to convey some of what I’ve learned. The journey of the Fool is my favorite aspect of Tarot. It’s actually the plotline of all great epic fiction.

So, one day, two decades ago, I meditated on the FOOL in my very old Pixie (Rider Waite Smith) deck and he came to life. He became Ramon Troubadour. His journey became a novel-journey through the tarot major arcana. I actually named him Ramon, after researching Doctor Illuminatus, otherwise known as Ramon Lull, author of 320 books written at the time of my novel (the thirteenth century). He even had a character in his most famous book, Blanquerna, name Ramon the Fool. Wow.

All of my books have Tarot themes in them, some dark, some light. The Game, my hit thriller features a humorous “fool” character in the always-joking Alban Bane character. He was so popular, fans demanded a sequel, which comes out spring 08 as MADicine. This series is a blend of satire, comedy and thriller – bloody fun, quite literally.

The Last Troubadour and the other two books of the series, The Last Quest and The Last Stand, are “dripping with Tarot themes.” Most of the early fans are tarot-enthusiasts. Nevara, my Magician character, is my “fictional” inventor of Tarot. Each character is a major arcane archetype. And, of course, the epic journey is the archetypal journey of the Fool. To which, I added real history, substantial satire (targeting in particular the latest craze for Holy Grail themes), comedy and adventure – shaken not stirred.

Next year, with any good fortune, you’ll start to see these characters in Troubadour-style imagery as famed artist Kam Wai Yu illustrates the Troubadour Tarot, a dream of mine. I hope you’ll take the journey with me.

Best,

Derek Armstrong,

Author, Tarot card collector, novelist, fool.

www.lasttroubadour.com

Books

Music Credits

Opening Music: The Oracle Speaks by William Wilde Zeitler from Elegy for Atlantis

Closing Music: Sante Marie viergene by Briddes Roune from Lenten is come (Magnatune)

Closing Music: When the nichtegale singes by Briddes Roune from Lenten is come (Magnatune)

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