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Sat, 24 Dec 2005 00:14:44 +0000

Tarot Card Readings: Reading within Meaning, part 1

Sat, 24 Dec 2005 00:14:43 +0000

Tarot card readings work within defined spaces. Tarot card readers usually lay out their cards on a cloth specifically designed for the purpose.

It helps provide a structure, spatially and visually; it adds to the mystique of the occasion, not as a way of mystifying, but as a way of separating one reality from another. Honouring.

What do you honour most in your life?

So what is reading within meaning, mean?

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Tarot Card Readings: the five of wands

Sun, 13 Nov 2005 19:34:05 +0000

The tarot card the five of wands in the DruidCraft tarot shows five young men all pushing and competing against each other with long thin poles like staffs.

It's a picture of a kind of mad dance, with no-one really getting anywhere. Elsewhere in the tarot card a lone chicken pecks at the ground, nonchalantly eating.

What are we to make of this tarot card?

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Tarot Card Readings: the Five of Cups

Sun, 13 Nov 2005 06:41:58 +0000

The five's in the tarot usually denote conflict and challenge. Not major challenge, but challenge nonetheless. With the five of cups, we usually see a lone figure either standing or lying down. Three or four cups often have been knocked over or have fallen down. Only one or two are upright.

There's a sense here of thoughts about what might have been, or what has been present in the past.

In the druidCraft Tarot a hooded figure in a robe looks out on to a pond or lake. The merry dance of life beckons but seems distant. The person's body language is ambivalent; does it suggest interest and curiosity, or that kind of tired laziness and self pity that can get in the way of really enjoying the day?

The tarot card calls us to be aware, to tidy up our lives, to turn and look for what is there rather than what might have been. And when we look at the five of cups in the DruidCraft tarot, the two remaining cups are upright on a large flat rock, the colours of which in a certain light - as I type this - remind me of amazonite. It's a place of review, and also punch and virtue.

All the best
Keith MacNider
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Tarot Card Readings: Lightening Light

Tue, 01 Nov 2005 07:13:22 +0000

I've just got hold of a copy of a book by Ellen Meloy called The Anthropology of Turquoise : Meditations on Landscape, Art & Spirit. It's a momentous, beautiful book. Even the title is rapturous.

It made me think: what if we took that type of meditative understanding, that richness of verse into a study of the tarot, indeed, any divinatory system. I've claimed before here that these systems are often poetic, that they call us into the light of understanding through many and subtle ways.

So what if today each of us took on allowing for rapture in our lives, for that dance of enchantment with the quality of light flowing like a flecible beam through each of the tarot cards? Not only tarot as a work of art, but understanding as a piece of art. How would that look?

All the best
Keith MacNider
Get Your Own Personal Tarot Reading: http://www.infinitytarot.com/tarot-reading.html

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Tarot Card Readings :Soul Mates & Tarot Cards, part 2

Thu, 06 Oct 2005 17:37:21 +0000

Soul mate.

We all have our own views as to what that might mean.

For me, it suggests something of mystery, presence, a presence in a person and between two people which has them feel connected at a deep level; fellow travellers, as it were, across and within life and time. Somewhere in that is a yes-ness to life and being with that person, no matter what.

And for me that might mean a friendship or a relationship.

So how would that quality appear in a tarot card reading?

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Tarot Card Readings: Soul Mates and Tarot cards, part 1

Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:20:41 +0000

What gives meaning to meaning?

Sounds tautological, and yet it invites some perusal.

How do we experience our lives? What is it that is valuable to us? How do we experience meaning?

Tarot card readings reveal the network of our relationships, not only with other people, but with ourselves.

Thomas Attig reminds us: we derive meaning from our experiences; from our connections; from our sense of purpose in life. And these may show in all sorts of areas.

The beauty of tarot card readings is that they can show up precisely where and in what areas those meanings will appear.

For instance, many of us are vitally interested in the possibility of a soul mate being in our lives. And we'd run through in our minds what a soul mate might look like for us, or how they might act in their lives, how they would be, how they would relate to us.

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Tarot Card Readings: the four swords and sides of decisions

Mon, 12 Sep 2005 23:17:32 +0000

With the Four of Swords in the DruidCraft tarot we enter again the world of decision-making, of coming to grips with the way we think, how we go about the cognitive landscapes of our lives.

Fours suggest order, structure, the building props of existence.

Often in today's world people feel they are leading busier and busier lives. Many feel on edge, and are quick to temper.

In this tarot card, which depicts a man leaning back against the immense roots and trunk of a tree, we are encouraged to take some time out, to dwell awhile.

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Tarot Card Readings:Relearning the World

Mon, 12 Sep 2005 09:06:53 +0000

Thomas Attig wrote in his The Way We Grieve, that the bereaved are faced with the task of relearning the world. It's a poignant reflection at this time of the year when the events of September 11th so dramatically bring to the fore the pain of loss, and the pain of loss in a world suddenly so different.

So what in the tarot can help us re-learn the world, as Attig put it?

What comes to mind firstly is the major Arcana tarot card, the Wheel of Fortune.

(It's also a card which, aptly, synchronistically, emerged out of a shuffling of cards that I did whilst thinking of Attig's phrase).

How DO we handle change? What type of change? Change in one area of life more than another? How do we recognize change? Is change, transformation? Revolution? Reaction?

It will differ for each of us, depending on the circumstances of our lives.

The Wheel of Fortune, turns, and keeps on turning. Seasons come and go. We are born, we live, we die. The old gives way to the new, and the new, in turn, becomes old.

But re-learning the world, that's a powerful phrase, an opening into action, in a way, as well as a description of an activity.

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Tarot Card Readings: Mirrors and Fours

Wed, 07 Sep 2005 00:21:22 +0000

It's often suggested tarot cards are like mirrors for each of us. They mirror what's happening and they reveal to us sides of our characters we might not ordinarily be so aware of.

Let's see how this might appear in the four of wands in the DruidCraft tarot.

It's a deck of tarot cards I keep finding myself drawn to; it's the sense of the green, the Celtic sight, the visionary shamanism of older ways.

Wands express the element of fire.

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Tarot Card Readings: the four of Cups

Sat, 13 Aug 2005 02:04:34 +0000

In the DruidCraft Tarot the four of cups enjoins us: take a look around us, see what's there, what nurtures us, what abounds about us.

Otherwise we get caught in the spell of the discontented, wondering what could be and might be but not taking too much action to have what we want to happen actually come into being.

There's so much greenery here!

The tree's gnarled ways both suggest the vibrancy of nature, and its enchantment, an enchantment which, on the balance of this tarot card, may have us entrapped too.[READ MORE] [COMMENT]