Tarot
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THE IMPORTANCE OF HISTORICAL CONTEXT THE “FLIGHT TO EGYPT” Does it make sense to say that historical context matters when trying to understand something? Let me offer a joke (because sometimes comedy teaches what argument can’t). A teacher asked her Sunday School class to draw a picture of a Bible story. One child held up…
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REAL-TIME POSITIONING VS. MAP DATABASE BEING FOUND As suggested in the Quick Start guide, people’s usual interaction with Tarot is to bring it questions, in search of answers. In this respect, Tarot is just like Apple Maps, Google Maps, Waze (or whatever GPS navigation system you use) in showing us where we are and suggesting…
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A PLACE TO BEGIN, OR BEGIN AGAIN This chapter offers a way to begin reading Tarot that is simple, grounded, and immediately usable. You do not need prior knowledge, special gifts, or belief in anything supernatural. What you do need is a willingness to slow down, to listen, and to take responsibility for how you…
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THE WISDOM OF KNOWING YOU DON’T KNOW Most people come to Tarot with a question. Sometimes it’s a practical question: What should I do about this job? This relationship? This decision? Sometimes it’s an emotional question: Why am I stuck? Why do I keep repeating this pattern? Sometimes it’s a spiritual question: What is life…
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Lucille Clifton gave us one of the most honest New Year poems in American literature. Many of us feel its truth in our bones. The poem begins: I am running into a new yearand the old years blow backlike a windthat I catch in my hair… From the first breath, Clifton names a fundamental reality…
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