The Chakra Tarot Spread

The Chakra Tarot Spread

Here is a beautiful well thought out Tarot Spread based on the Chakra's, designed by  a dear friend and fellow Tarot Mentor, Tessa Sutton.
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Find your silent place, and using your crystals according to the colors represented, arrange your sacred space.

Starting from the base and working up, we have:

1. Root Chakra.
Reveals what you need to release from the past.

2. Sacral Chakra.
Reveals your hidden desires and dreams.

Death by Lorraine Candy

Death

I must let go what serves me not

Release my fears to chance

Embrace the change of me within

To grow, I must advance.

Trust, I will with fiery heart

In what I may not see

The Royal Elements - How the elements reveal the personalities of the Court Cards

The Royal Elements

Royal Elements very often become quite a quandary in a Tarot reading. Understanding the Court Cards relationships and their elements may assist you in understanding each Court Card's personality. By understanding the relationship held within the Court Card itself truly makes a huge difference, especially when identifying the relationships between the Court Card and neighboring cards in a spread. 

Court Cards and Elements

The Hermit by Lorraine Candy

The Hermit

I ascend the hill with staff on foot
the path behind me worn,
My lantern guides the way ahead
to where I’ll be reborn.

And alone I must, for my soul to heal
on a quest to seek the truth,
For under the ice a change has begun

About Cold Readings

Die Wahrsagerin
Michail Alexandrowitsch Wrubel (1895)

Very often a querent will contact me wanting a reading, but not really know what it is he/she actually wants to know. They have no direct question, no specific quandary; they just know that they want a reading. As a member of various Tarot forums, I have seen this situation to be many a Tarot Reader's nightmare; however, this should really not be the case.

Personally, I feel a cold reading is better for the querent who cannot isolate the actual issue they are experiencing. Not because I wish to "imply that I know more" (as seen in so many definitions of 'cold readings; such as definition below) no, that would be rather

Kabbalistic Introduction to Understanding and Three…

Kabbalistic Introduction to Understanding and Three…

 

As a reader, when a querent draws a “three”, I always ask how the three resonates with their understanding. Most querents, even my Hindu querents, reflect on the Holy Trinity and the spiritual aspects thereof.   

Understanding is found at the top (third) sphere in the Pillar of Mercy on the Kabalistic Tree of Life. This sphere is named Binah. According to the Kaballah there are three pillars one can travel in the Tree of Life, namely the Pillar of Severity, the Pillar of Balance, and the Pillar of Mercy. In order to grasp any means of understanding, one needs to travel up the Pillar of Severity.

The Pillar of Severity is made of three spheres. The
first sphere Hod is ruled by Mercury (planet of communication) and thereby refers to analysis – ensuring that we take the time to really contemplate what is most befitting for our circumstances and organize ourselves

Two simple methods to determine your Birth and Soul Card

Temperance: Tarot de Marseille

Determining your Birth Card and your Soul Card

One of the most exciting readings in Tarot is determining the querent’s Birth and Soul card (Soul card is also often known as the Shadow or Personality card) The Birth card can determine the individual aspects and characteristics of the querent. As you would use your date of birth to ascertain your Astrology sign, so too can you determine your own unique Tarot card. This card can assist you in gaining a deeper understanding of your strengths and weaknesses, thereby giving an accurate means to determine your true potential, as the Tarot will reveal where you are in your journey.

 

Here are two simple methods to help you determine your Birth and Soul Cards:

What to expect from your reading.

So you want to book a reading, but you've heard so many stories of Charlatans and Frauds, or even worse - heretics and worshiping that "other guy" - hmm, well, let's put the story straight. Here is the process of what I do and what I don't do, and what you can expect when contacting me for your reading.

When you mail me of your interest, I send you an email that gets tweaked here and there according to your gender and where you're residing. Basically, this is the sorting email. Just as you don't want a charlatan, this email helps me eliminate weirdo's too.

The Celtic Cross Spread. 6 Card Spread

I captured these incredible Celtic Crosses at a well hidden
graveyard just outside Sutherland, SA.  

The Celtic Cross, as one can imagine, is one of the oldest 'recorded' spreads.  Personally I absolutely love this spread as one can identify so much in it.  

Position 1 indicates the issue at hand.

Position 2 addresses that which crosses you.

Position 3 indicates the root of the issue

Position 3 indicates the root of the issue

V Wands

V  Wands

Creativity, totality, struggle.

Throughout the path taken along this journey, there has been strife, maybe even conflict.  V Wands is indicating a time of resolution, a means to end this animosity.  Nevertheless, in order to continue past this, it is essential to find totality in what it is you are striving for. As five symbolizes protection, as wands represent creativity, it is clear that there is no shortage of opinion or people wanting to assist, the question thus remains how to surpass the experience of animosity.  

V Hierophant

The Heirophant

The Hierophant is seated,  with calm serenity; she offers a papal salute from her right hand (conscious), and a triple cross staff in her left (subconscious).  The hierophant offers the spiritual wisdom that she has collected throughout her journey, to all that may be willing to receive.  Unlike the priestess, The Hierophant passes on all that she applies to her life, all that is beneficial, as an instrument of her Creator.

Meditation:

The joy of receiving wonderful feedback.

Since a ridiculously young age I have been intrigued by the Tarot, the Bible and Theology of a whole. When at first I started to study the Tarot, I was simply enthralled by how it links to the Bible, the Kaballah, astrology and basically every realm conceivable!   Since reading for a profession, I must admit that the Tarot never fails to amaze me.  With much prayer, meditation and focus before each reading the cards reveal precisely what is needed to grant the querent the peace of mind to breath again. No, I am not a fortune teller, but rather just an instrument here to help you find clarity regarding the underlying issues pertaining to your specific circumstances.  

I The Magician

The Magician

Most importantly it is essential to delve into numerology, as One represents unity, the number of our Creator.

The magician is not some person with a funny hat, waving a wand around, shouting 'abracadabra'!  No, the magician is you, you as part of this universe, you as part of this creation, and you with the ability to utilize that, which God has created in order to recreate your own circumstances.  Your unison with your Creator.  

XVIII The Moon

 

XVIII The Moon

The moon card represents the reflection on past lives pertaining to confusion, cyclic patterns, emergence, emotion, influencing dynamics intense self-reflection, and perplexity.

As the moon has no light of her own, she reflects the light off the sun.  The moon influences the tides and the seasons; thereby she also influences us as humans, being 80% water.  The bible speaks of the New Moon as a marking of the Sabbath in Ezekiel 46, 'and on the day of the New Moon it shall be opened' 

IX The Hermit

The Hermit

IX The Hermit represents a time of aloneness. Albeit the hermit is slow footed, he is most certainly sure footed, as each stride he takes is taken with certainty.  The Hermit understands the concept that every of his actions is followed by subsequent consequences.  He acts with deliberation with everything he does, thinks, and utters.  Having chosen a path of seclusion, the hermit has distanced himself from the strife of the outside world, allowing himself to bond with his Creator, and thereby follow his path to enlightenment.

XI Strength

Strength

The Strength card depicts a lady with a lion, the lion is subdued, but not by mere physical force, yet rather by love and compassion.  So too are we able to restrain the largest of strife through understanding, patience and tolerance. Courage, Balance, Patience and Understanding. As courage and strength are often confused with physicality and brutality, the strength card represents inner strength, compassion and understanding of circumstances, so by which to overcome hardship and strife. 

Numerology:  As VIII represents infinity, eternity, and success, so this Major Arcana signifies a means of permanent overcoming, and triumph.

XII The Hanged Man

XII The Hanged Man

A New Vision.Yield. Suspend. Surrender. Sacrifice. Non-Action. Submission. 

Albeit that the idea of a ‘hanged-man’ does not at first sprout a delightful image to one, it is important to consider what it is we are looking at.  Firstly this card depicts exactly what need be done, i.e.: hang around before leaping.  It also shows a man in the yoga stance.  By him being suspended and upside down, the hangman represents that though things may seem upside down, you are still capable of finding the inner peace to strengthen you, thereby enabling yourself freedom. 

XIII Death

XIII Death:  

Transformation, rejuvenation, restoration

As repeating old cycles will not aid you to achieve your true destiny, what is required is for these cycles to end in order for one to achieve one's destiny.  Hence, 'Death' represents something passing in order for something new to begin, allowing us to begin a fresh rejuvenating beginning.  As a fire rejuvenates a mountain, so too does 'Death' rejuvenate our being, allowing us as' Human Beings' to 'be human', not treadmills of society.

Death represents the monumental changes, which represents the ending to the treadmill effect, as signified by Jesus Christ seen experiencing His crucifixion and resurrection.  Christ’s death does not represent death, but rather his death represents eternal life; that is to say a fuller life with purpose.

XIV Temperance

Temperance

The Temperance card, XIV relates to alchemy, balance, connection, chemistry, fluidity, growth, healing,  and integration. As we have journeyed along our path, we have experienced cycles of spiritual growth, and cycles of spiritual drought.  The temperance card brings us to where we are now; representing that which is necessary in order for us to head further along our journey, thereby balancing our spiritual needs. 

As water represents our emotional traits and our spiritual yearnings, it is clear that the temperance card aids us with spiritual nurturing.  The river of crystal clear water signifies the natural source which to turn to, God, as the angel represents the 'messenger of god' delivering water to your soul.

Meditation:

II The high priestess.

The High Priestess

The High Priestess is a woman directly in touch with God, one who carries Truth, Vision, and Knowledge, thereby translating this knowledge into wisdom to all that may seek.  The High Priestess is merely an instrument of God, connected to His flow of energy, which makes her available to all who seek.  The High Priestess represents the ‘unseen forces’ (Roman 8), hence when one draws her card, it is an indication of listening to the Inner Voice, and remembering that nobody can separate us from our Creator.  The High Priestess is there to remind us of unconditional love available to us at all times, through all the Ages, irrespective of religious outrages.  Leave your ego, and find inner serenity within your inner voice.