Basic Tarot Lessons in November 2012

The tarot is a fascinating tool and on my course you can learn basic tarot skills in just 2 weeks!

Date	Course Content
20 November 12	Introduction to the tarot, the history of tarot, the role of the tarot reader, the journey of the major arcarna
23 November 12	The minor arcarna and the court cards, soul paths and personality types in the tarot
25 November 12	The suits, the relevance of astrology, numerology and colours in the tarot
27 November 12	Different spreads, getting the question right
30 November 12	Tricky scenarios and reversed cards
2 December 12	Tarot practice readings and discussions, tarot ethics

All classes will be from 7.00 pm - 8.30 pm and held at Mark Barkers, 20 North Concourse, Beaumaris.  This includes file, handouts, homework and tarot journalling + ongoing tarot help and advice if necessary. 

Price: $50 a lesson or $290 for the whole course if paid in advance.

If you are interested in learning the tarot please call me on 0425 206325 as soon as possible to secure your place.

Your Soul Path & Personality Archetypes in The Tarot

The Fool from the Tarot Illuminati

The tarot is complex once you start studying it.  It incorporates many sources, including astrology, the kaballah and numerology to name but a few.  The number of each card has significant importance, i.e. the fives are all about change and the nines show it's time for a reassessment.  Aces are new beginnings and tens are the end of a cycle.

To work out your personality (what you have to learn this lifetime) add the numbers in your date of birth together, i.e:

My birth date: 10th February 1972

10 + 02 + 1972 = 1984

1 + 9 + 8 + 4 = 22

So my card (22) is 'The Fool' in the Tarot.  

Now you can think about what lessons you have learnt from your archetype.  'The Fool' lessons I have learned so far:-

1. To journey to new and unchartered territories by emmigrating to Australia from England.

2. To plunge into new experiences, develop myself and be open to adventure by world travel, contracting, working at events, exhibitions and markets. 

3. Taking a ‘leap of faith’ and trusting success by starting new business and having children. 

4. Living a carefree life, not worrying about tomorrow: my party hard years when I had no responsibilities and a disposable income!

5. Following my heart no matter how impulsive by choosing spiritual, new age jobs which go against the grain with most of my traditional or scientific friends and family.

6. Having courage and taking risks.  In the early 2000's I went backpacking on my own.  Also, as a teenager, I tested the boundaries as I became an independent adult.  This was risky at times but I approached it with a child-like innocence and a blind faith that all would be OK.

If your personality number is only one digit, your personality is the same as your soul path.  If there are two numbers, add them together to work out your soul path.  This path the spiritual essence you lead in all lifetimes, your inner wisdom and teacher, i.e:

My numbers are  2 + 2 = 4, so my card is 4 and the Emporer. 

A soul path of 'The Emporer' means you are a natural born leader.  Psychologists believe some people are born with a "business gene" that gives them a curious personality and entrepreneurial spirit.  These people are risk takers, but if they grow up in the wrong environment it can lead them into some dangerous situations.  Imagine having that spirit if you were living in a criminal underworld.  Look out, here comes trouble!

Emporer souls have a controlling ability, they are decisive and authoritative. They instinctively know how to get to the top. 

Emporers live according to the rules, but also like making their own rules. They aren't afraid to make decisions for others, who may respect them for it and allow it. They can be defensive of their territory.

Emporers have to learn to control their temper and respect others' opinions.  They also need to learn to be disciplined.  Someone once told me that people on the Emporer soul path have the hardest time, but I put it down to being the toughest!

Once you know which soul path you are on, spend some time looking at your soul card, noticing how you feel and react to this card.

The Emporer from the Tarot Iluminati

Creating a Personal Wishlist

In 2007 I read a book called ‘The Secret’ by Rhonda Byrne, which is about the law of attraction and how positive thinking can change your life for the better.  

‘The Secret’ has advice from entrepreneurs, millionaires, famous stars and other successful or happy people.  It reveals their insights into achieving health, wealth and happiness on an adundant scale.  Bring it on I thought!

One of the exercises in the book was to create a vision board, which is like a personal wish list.  It’s a board on which you paste a collage of words, pictures, newspaper cuttings and anything else you want to bring into your life.  The idea is to surround yourself with all these life changing images, to start manifesting them.  A lot of it is about focus.

Without having much to lose, I began to tear pictures out of magazines or print words off the internet.  There were random items like ‘having some sort of social life’ to a picture of a woman sitting at a candlelit table reading the cards.  At the time, I wasn’t doing many readings at all as I had just moved house and had a small baby with another on the way.  Would you believe it, the SAME day, I got a call from someone asking me to do 10 readings for a hen party!  I nearly dropped the telephone.

When I look at this vision board today, I realise I have manifested every single wish (except one, but I’m working on it) and my social life is alive and kicking! 

If you ever feel stuck in a rutt or find yourself wishing for life to be different, why not try this exercise?  Here’s how to make the magical, mystery vision board:-

• Go through magazines, pictures or the internet cutting out any images, words, phrases or photos that are appealing or attractive, no matter how impossible it seems.
• Arrange the pictures and words on a board.  If you feel like being creative add as much colour or extra glitz as you like.  The more pleasing to the eye the board is, the better as you will be looking at it regularly.
• Put the board somewhere you will see it a lot, like the office, bathroom wall or fridge door.
• Every time you catch of glimpse of the board, visualize having all these things in your life and imagine how good it feels.

Most importantly, if you get an opportunity to do one of the wishes on your vision board, accept it gratefully and do it!  Don’t put it off as this will block the abundance coming your way. 

And P.S. be careful what you wish for, because it might well happen!