THE HIDDEN TAROT

By Shane Hill

Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................1
Section one............................................................................................................................................1
The basics..........................................................................................................................................1
Counselling........................................................................................................................................1
The Source.............................................................................................................................................1
Information Where Is It From............................................................................................................1
The Synchronistic Universe...............................................................................................................1
Information how we receive it...........................................................................................................1
Knowing the Right Tools...................................................................................................................1
Reading for Yourself..........................................................................................................................1
Daily Readings..................................................................................................................................1
Symbols.............................................................................................................................................1
Shuffling............................................................................................................................................1
Cutting the deck.................................................................................................................................1
First Impressions...............................................................................................................................1
Last Impressions................................................................................................................................1
Cycles................................................................................................................................................1
The Mind...............................................................................................................................................1
Youre Mind Set................................................................................................................................1
You must learn then forget.................................................................................................................1
Value Elevation..................................................................................................................................1
Asking the Right Questions...............................................................................................................1
Experiment number one.........................................................................................................................1
Feeling your way...............................................................................................................................1
Experiment Number two.......................................................................................................................1
Asking the Right Questions...............................................................................................................1
Experiment Number three......................................................................................................................1
Tarot Cards........................................................................................................................................1
Hidden Symbols....................................................................................................................................1
The Symbols found in Tarot..............................................................................................................1

Introduction
OH no not another tarot book. Well rest easy I promise his book will not be like any other
tarot book you have read. It will take an ordinary back yard reading and turn it into a
powerful life changing experience.
The premise of what you are about to study is relatively simple, it is based on a professional
nine card spread, each position in the spread having relative meaning to the life of the client
or searcher. While the spread itself is deceptively simple the readings that can be derived
from it can go deeper than you might first imagine and can indeed be life changing,
This is why the spread and the information that goes with it are considered excellent tools for
counselling with the tarot.
Ever been to a psychic, spiritualist or tarot reader in need of real advice and solutions, only to
have the reader tell you nothing, or give some vague answer that applies to anything and
anyone, have you ever been that reader, wishing you could do more for your clients, actually
help and assist them, create new ways for the client to see things, do things and help them
find real solutions to lifes issues
Have you ever wanted your clients to return not just because you are offering guidance but
because that guidance actually has value changing lives, making a difference? Thats what
tarot reading should be about, not just getting a few dollars and making yourself feel good
and important because you have a deck of tarot.
If you really want to make a difference, and a full career of reading the tarot then this is the
best starting place. You will no longer be giving reading, you will be taking sessions with
clients, you will change lives, perceptions and the results people get, in relationships, career,
finances and a host of other areas. You will not be a reader, you will be a life counsellor, a
coach, a confidant, applying principles of psychotherapy psychology and other modalities
that will elevate you and your work from normal to exceptional
The books begins in three sections firstly the reading format, next the basics of counselling
and psychotherapy and thirdly applying that information to your readings in new ways.
Another motivation behind this book is an observation by most sceptics or critics that the
world of occult knowledge has not changed improved or evolved over the last few hundred
years, while there are other arguments both for and against this view, the best defense is to
show that it has changed. That there are new ideas coming out, this book and the material in it
is one of those changes, it brings in psychology and intuition is new ways and the modern
science of counselling, CBT, Gestalt Therapy and other modalities, over laying them onto
your readings applying them to your spreads in new ways and as a result creating new and
powerful ways of dealing, not only with the tarot, but with any reading services you may
offer.
This work is going to change the way you read the tarot, the way you do your spreads, your
levels of intuition and the depth you get from your readings. It will elevate you from the
casual amateur part time reader to a professional level, even if you never wish to go fully
professional your readings will change, if you are a professional it will leave your clients with

an astounding feeling of connection and results, results they can take away with them and
use,
In the book the examples given are based on a nine card spread, however with just a little
thought the methods can be adapted to any spread. Or overlaid onto other spreads such as the
Celtic spread or the any other professional spread.
The methods enable you to bring cognitive counselling into your readings, using such
approaches as Gestalt and CBT plus a few others.
There is no reason to use the system verbatim, it is a guide that enables you to improve your
readings dynamically, offer good advice and help with many of the personal issues that
clients come to readings for.

Section one
The basics
Counselling
The advantage of Tarot Counselling is that you can confidently offer a series of sessions, and
have the questioner or client return because they are getting good advice, people tend to talk
in confidence to random taxi drivers, hairdressers counsellor or tarot readers, normally
because of the nature of your average reading, many clients will not return, and the reader
can be unsure of asking them back, in many cases. If you offer something better, different and
effective you wont have to ask, your readings become part of the clients life journey and
they want to return without you having to ask.

Being Psychic
Being psychic is no different than anything else it takes practice. When I work in a tool shop I
am trained in three things three different jobs the fourth comes easy then the fifth I work out
all by myself.
As children we learn the rules of language we are given individual words which later, without
apparent training or instruction we manage to combine together to create sentences.
We learn this by observing and listening to others
Being psychic is no different it takes practice observation and just enough diligence to see it
through long enough to get some results. All this of course is made easier by the fact that you
are already psychic.
Every book on the subject every lecture Ive attended and every movie Ive seen all allude to
the fact that everybody is psychic we all have some innate abilities we appear to be born with
them.
Many books and internet sites have standard lists of things that might tell you whether or not
you are psychic like knowing when the phone is going to ring or thinking of friend and that
person contacts you out of the blue.
There may be a fundamental problem with this line of thinking that actually goes some way
to inhibiting your real psychic potential. Left alone these things are great but leaving them
implies that you dont want to or dont need to do any extra training. That you dont need to
grow and expand that you dont desire any advanced level of psychic or PSI abilities.
Im sure that you do if youve read more than two books on ESP or personal development
then there is a very good chance that you want to grow step out from the norm and develop
your abilities beyond potential and into something much more concrete.
This desire may be entirely personal you might not want to be the next Uri Geller or Doris
Stokes you may want nothing more than to know that what you are receiving is
fundamentally sound and not ambiguous. You may never want to amaze your friends at
parties you might want only to give correct and reassuring advice to loved ones but advice

they know they can rely on as correct. Information from a real extra sensory source and not
just glib sayings pulled from the air because it sounds appropriate at the time. Information
that is personal correct and means something to them.
Whatever your personal reason the point is and I cannot stress this enough, you need to train
and practice. Thats what this book is all about becoming a good accurate psychic.
Regardless of the tools you use be they Tarot cards tea leaves, psychometrics, chicken entrails
or pure readings this program is designed to make you a better psychic a deeper person and a
lot more accurate in your readings even predictions.
Whether you use this knowledge for personal peace and wellbeing or want to reach the
standard of a professional psychic is irrelevant
You will need to gather around you people circumstances and information that lends itself to
your improvement and development. Keep away from negative or skeptical influences. This
is not a cope out later we will deal with skeptics, but for the moment and the initial part of
your training try to keep positive things ideas and thoughts around yourself.

The Source
Information Where Is It From
Where does information come from the spirit world, the universal mind or consciousness, is
there a secret brotherhood of ascended master who pass on tidbits of knowledge to the
initiated? Perhaps one of a thousand possibilities ranging from aliens hovering over the earth
in invisible ships to psychic still living in Atlantis or Argosy have found their way to your
ears
Universal Concept of Preordination
In a nutshell all things are pre-ordained our life is mapped out by cosmic forces beyond our
control but it actually goes deeper than that.
This is the idea that everything in the universe works via a system a system that through
copious amounts of research understanding and science can be understood. By understanding
the rules of the universe one is able to predict with some degree of accuracy what might
happen next. For example you are standing on the side of the road and you see two cars
swerving toward each other. You as the observer can easily predict that the two vehicles will
hit and that somebody is going to be badly hurt.
You are able to make this prediction based on the science and observation. Your knowledge
of science tells you that influences like speed, gravity and inertia will result in a loud bang
along with a huge amount of mayhem for everybody involved. Not only that you can observe
the plainly obvious.
Astrology uses the same idea the universe is ordered, you cant break the cosmic rules 1 plus
2 will always equal 3 therefore if a certain planetary alignment is occurring then such and
such will be the result. (This is a basic description its all actually extremely complicated and
scientific but the basic idea is the same)

The Synchronistic Universe

This is the idea that there is a universal thread a form of energy that connects everything in
the universe to every other thing in the universe. Most standard forms of older style fortune
telling rely on this theory that everything in some way or other effects to some degree
everything else. For example your life and the way you live it along with the things you do
and the people you interact with will have some effect however small on the random fall of
your tea leaves or what you did last week will influence the order that your tarot cards will be
shuffled.

The Universal Trace Theory

The basic idea is that all things leave a trace of themselves. This can be viewed in a purely
scientific sense (the modern science of forensics) or in the higher psychic sense such as when
using psychometry. Everything you do everybody you meet everywhere you go and every
thought you have leaves a trace. Generally we think of this as a small minute infinitesimal
trace of energy, which can be picked up and translated by someone who is sensitive enough.
Information how we receive it
There are standard tried and true methods that Im sure many people will know or at least
know of
Many people unconsciously choose methods that directly relate to their personal belief
system concerning the origin of the information they receive.
How we receive information is not actually connected to where we believe it is coming from
for example a person who believes in the spirit world and communication with those who
have passed on to the nether plain will, more often than not use the tools of clairvoyance
clairaudience or clairsentience or a combination of all three.
Another individual lets say one who believes in pure PSI might use psychometric techniques
or psychic readings as their tool.
Further a psychic who prescribes to the universal concept of preordination might favor the
Tarot cards or astrology.

The Right Tools

There is an underlying fundamental problem with the nature of the work of many beginning
psychics. That knowing the true nature of the tools being used Telepathy for example is the
transference of thought from one mind to another by its very nature it implies two minds
working in unison or being temporarily connected or both tuned to the same channel.

You couldnt take a deck of cards turn them over and try to hope to tell what each card was
without looking by using the rules and principles of telepathy. Many a novice tries this.
Basically it boils down to trying to guess what the next card is it would be telepathy when
and if another person was viewing the cards and you tried to pick up on the thoughts of that
person.
Reading for Yourself
Many Tarot books and readers warn against reading for yourself. The common thread in this
argument is that it is difficult to be objective and that one tends to see what one wants to see
rather than what is really there. That is a real danger, however reading for yourself can be
most helpful, particular in seeing options that you might not have come to on your own. You
have to keep all possible meanings in mind when reading for yourself and then decide which
one fits best realistically, not hopefully. Reading for yourself can help you change the
outcome of a situation, by showing you where things are headed presently and what you can
do to change them.

Daily Readings
Try to read for myself every day. It gives me an idea of where the day is headed and how
things are going with me on an intellectual, physical and spiritual level.
Mind, Body, Spirit
Spread three cards from left to right, with the first representing my mental state, the second
my physical state and the third my spiritual state.
Past, Present, Future
Spread three cards from left to right with the first representing the recent past or events that
have lead up to the present, the second card representing today, and the third card
representing the near future. Sometimes readers use this spread in reference to a problem they
may be working on or a project or situation they are dealing with, whether at work or at
home. It is short and to the point. If you feel I need additional information, just deal more
cards on the cards to clarify the one that is giving me difficulty. For both spreads you should
also look at the undercurrent card.

Tarot Exercise
All readers have cards they dislike (some of them are fives).
This exercise helps one see the full potential in every card. Chose the 3 cards from the deck
you dislike the most. Now brainstorm and come up with five good or positive things about
each card. This is pretty difficult, but you might be surprised at the things you come up with.
The first few are fairly easy. In the Waite-Smith 5 of cups for example, there are still two cups
left standing, all is not lost; the person in the card has a warm cloak and good solid shoes,
which seems to say his physical needs are taken care of; there is "water under a bridge",
which suggests that whats done is done and that he should let go, pick up his two remaining
cups and get on with his life.
Symbols
Tarot relies heavily on symbolism. Esoteric decks, such as Thoth and to a lesser extent, the
Waite-Smith make use of every symbol on every card. This is why it is always recommend
you purchase the book written specifically for your deck if one is available. It will usually
explain the designer's use of symbolism in the deck. A dictionary of symbols is also an
excellent tool for discerning deeper meanings in the cards. It is especially useful for decks
which have no separate book available.
For an example where having the book enhances the interpretation, let's look at the six of
wands in "The Witches Tarot" The card shows a woman kneeling in a forest clearing with six
branches on the ground before her in two horizontal groups of three. If you look in the
booklet that comes with the deck you find "Illumination, realization of bigger things...", but if
you look in Reed's book "The Witches Tarot: The Witches Cabala Two" you read that the
branches are laid in the I-Ching hexagram Ch'ien Ch'ien. This gives you further insight into
what the designer was trying to convey. Using the Waite-Smith deck, let's examine the same
card. We see a man on a horse carrying a staff with a laurel wreath on top. If we look up
laurel in a dictionary of symbols we find "Triumph, victory", so even if did not have Waite's
book we could get an idea of what the card meant from the symbolism augmented by the
picture, which also suggests a triumphant march. If we were not sure of the type of wreath,
and looked up the word "wreath", we find "Glory, victory, supremacy..." which still conveys
the meaning. If you look in the bibliography of most modern Tarot books, you will probably
find at least one dictionary of symbols listed. They are especially useful for understanding
cards that you have difficulty with.

Shuffling
To some this seems very elementary, in my opinion, there is no right or wrong way to shuffle.
The important thing is to be calm, keep your question in mind, and use whatever method you
normally use to mix the deck. Some readers feel Tarot cards should never be shuffled per se,
but rather mixed by holding the deck in one hand and pulling cards from various parts of the
deck and re-inserting them with the other over and over until you feel they are well mixed.
Personally I shuffle them like a poker deck, 3 or more times. Why 3? I don't know, it just
seems like a good minimum. I usually shuffle 4-5 times, but never less than 3. If the deck is
new, I shuffle at least 11 times. I read somewhere that statistically speaking, it takes 11
shuffles to get a 78 card deck in random order. One day when I'm really bored, Ill do the
math for myself and verify this. If you don't use reversals, you should be careful to keep the

cards all in the same direction. This is difficult with some decks, because it is impossible to
tell the direction from the back. Getting a few cards reversed is not a tragedy, just flip them
over. If you do like to use reversals, turn one pile of the deck over once or twice while
shuffling.

Cutting the deck

I have read many different ways to cut the deck. The only one I follow is to cut with your left
hand. I deal with my right hand, so I feel cutting with the left gives the deal some balance. I
also cut into 3 piles. The most common admonition is to cut with the left hand into 3 piles to
the left. It works for me, but I don't doubt some other method would work as well, this is just
the way I learned.
Large cards such as Thoth, Rohrig and Voyager present problems to those with smaller hands.
You can try shuffling them from the sides, vice the long way. You can also try swishing them
around on a table (make sure it is clean <G>), or on your bed. Like poker cards, Tarot cards
wear with time. I still have my first Motherpeace deck and while it is a little "thick", I have
not been able to bring myself to part with it. If you read for others though, you probably will
not make a good impression with a deck so worn and fat that it is difficult to shuffle. My old
friend is reserved for my personal use only.
Another question that comes up is whether to deal the cards face up or face down. I deal face
up, because I like to get a feel for the spread as a whole, but some people find it distracting.
They feel that they start forming impressions before they have the whole spread dealt.
Dealing face down avoids this. I think that we sometimes get too tied up in the ritual and
"doing things right" and forget that Tarot should be a relaxing, enlightening experience, vice a
nervous ordeal because we are trying to shuffle in a way we are not familiar with, trying to
remember the right way to cut, the proper invocation etc. Relax, get the cards well mixed and
read.

First Impressions
When laying down a spread, it is useful to take a few moments to look at the spread as a
whole, before reading individual cards. Is there a preponderance of one suit? Are there
several Major Arcana, or several Court Cards? These are indications that you should keep in
mind when doing the reading. They are often clues as to what is going on. For example, lets
say the question concerns ones love life. You throw the spread and see there are lots of
pentacles, but not a cup in sight. What does this mean? It could mean that material security is
a key issue in the relationship right then. It could also mean that the person should be
focusing on financial matters right now, rather than the relationship. Perhaps worrying about
the relationship has led to them doing poorly at work, or to spending more than they can
afford to keep the other person happy. Perhaps they are telling you that the issue is love, but
the thing that is really worrying them is money. Tarot sometimes tells us what we need to
know vice what we want to know. You might want to ask questions to explore these issues
during the reading.

Last Impressions
When I have finished interpreting each card in a spread, I like to sum up the reading. I just
review the overall reading, pointing out the key points we covered. I always try to leave a
reading on a high point. Even if the reading conveys bad news, I try to give the querent the
tools to change events, based on the reading. A reading should be empowering for the
querent, rather than a recital of things that may happen in the future. The key words are =may
happen=. We have the power to influence and change the future.
Tarot Exercise
Do the same exercise as yesterday, adding the threes and making a third column for the
future. Someone here in the forum once recommended that you do all readings aloud, even
those done for yourself. I think that is an excellent suggestion and recommend you do the
exercises aloud as well. It is one thing to recognize the meaning of a card in your mind and an
entirely different thing to articulate that meaning to another.
Reversals
In case you haven't noticed, I do not use reversals, however many people do. You can take a
book and learn it's interpretations of reversals or you can take an easier approach and chose
one of the methods of reading them listed below:
1. A block in the upright energy of the card
2. A delay
3. A subconscious wish or desire
4. A hidden or surreptitious energy
A weakened version of the upright meaning
The opposite of the upright meaning (this is the method most often seen in books, however
there are exceptions. Some cards have similar meanings whether upright or reversed. Refer to
the book for your deck when using this method to learn which cards it does not apply to).
There are many other methods for reading them as well. The use of reversals is not as
prevalent as it once was. Many newer beginner books do not include them at all, however you
must do what you feel most comfortable with. Arguments can be made for both sides. If you
decide not to use them, bear in mind that each card has a full spectrum of meanings. For

example, the three of cups can mean merriment and celebration, but carried to excess could
mean drunkenness, or excessive partying.
This is a reading method I learned from another reader. Whenever she does a reading, she
throws whatever spread she is going to use and then looks at the card left on the bottom of the
deck. She calls this card the undercurrent. The undercurrent is what underlies the question. It
is the atmosphere in which events are taking place. For example if the querent had a question
about a relationship and the 4 of pentacles was on the bottom of the deck, it could be
interpreted as someone in the relationship not wanting to let go.
Perhaps for financial reasons (very common), for selfish reasons, or for security reasons. It
could be an unconscious or unexpressed desire which the querent him/herself is not even
aware of. Depending on the rest of the cards thrown, letting go might be the best thing. I find
the concept useful and use it in my daily readings.
Centering
Most readers do some type of centering exercise before doing a reading. These exercises can
be elaborate or very simple. The method I use is in the latter category. Before doing a reading
I always shuffle the deck. While shuffling I ask God/Goddess to guide my words and allow
me to assist the querent (or myself). Some people like to create an atmosphere by lighting
candles, burning incense or doing a short meditation before reading. Whatever your belief
system, it is best to approach the cards from a feeling of calm, rather than in a harried,
distracted way. Pray, cast a circle, invoke the God/Goddess, meditate, do deep breathing
exercises, or do whatever it is you do to get in touch with your center.
Cycles
To me, nines represent the end of a cycle. An interesting idea involving cycles is the Year
card. Angeles Arriens first proposed this in her book "The Tarot Handbook". Mary Greer
describes it her book "Tarot for Yourself" and derived a similar system of her own in "Tarot
Constellations. James Wanless describes it in the booklet that comes with the Voyager deck.
I will be using his method here. Per Wanless, the year starts for you on your birthday. There
are two year cards for every year. One is the card that corresponds to your age. At birth you
are The Fool. At one you are The Magician. This cycle goes through 22 years and starts
again, so at ages 22, 44, and 66 you are The Fool. The other year card is calculated by adding
your birth date to the current year, then reduce, much like we did the personality and soul
cards. For my birthday, June 6th it would be 6 + 6 + 1995 = 2007 = 9,The Hermit.For me this
is a Star/Hermit year.

Being Psychic
So what kind or type of psychic are you, there are different modes of PSI there are those that
listen those that see and those that feel most of us seem to be subtle combinations of one or
two, the trick is to work out and understand just what it is you do to receive your information.
Keeping in mind that all information already exists, its how you tune into it that we are
concerned with here.
From a medium ship or spiritual point of view there are three main types to be aware of
clairvoyants clairsentients and clairaudients, the mediums who see hear or feel from the
purely psychic we have similar ideas telepaths, empaths or seers. As stated though most of us
either wittingly or unwittingly use combinations of these yet seem to favor one thats why a
seer for example may suddenly describe an emotion o that a part of the body has a specific
feeling or sensation during a reading.
It is rare however that a medium will display true psionics or visa versa that a psychic will
suddenly start receiving information from the spirit world. Regardless of the claims made by
a few who say they can or are doing this. We are talking about two opposing points of view.
This I why some of us have trouble with the term psychic medium, it doesnt make sense
similar to the term or expression army intelligence, the two words dont go together. They in
a way cancel each other out.
Yes I know Im going to get a truck load of argument about this and there is a chance that
even you dear reader as you peruse these words are having trouble with the concept and I
wouldnt blame you because the use of the label psychic medium is gaining ground it is in
fact becoming quite popular to label oneself as a psychic medium.
That doesnt make it right however crossing over from one realm to the next delineates your
power even though some of these people might be very accurate in their readings I think that
they would find themselves being even more so if they separated or tried to understand where
the information they are receiving is coming from. A true psychic would consciously or even
sub-consciously looks to the spirit world for answers is not doing himself or the spirit world
any justice. You are likely to become confused an loose detail flitting from one image to
another very fast like trying to read a book and watch television at the same time.
A telepath reads minds experience will show you whether or not you are a telepath or if this is
at least the main way you receive your information the detail will be mainly bout the persons
you are readings past and whats going on in the present about action and reactions and how
they felt about certain things. Telepaths who get images will be able to detail people quite
well. You might for example describe the physical appearance of a womans husband or
partner quite accurately. And yet get almost nothing of any significance about him as a
person.
This is because the person you are reading for lacks an understanding of the person as a
person they are not giving too much thought to that person all thy have is the picture and
thats what a telepath is picking up on.

Lets say you have a combination of empathic and telepathic skills and you favor
psychometry as your mode of reading. You take the object from the client and feel sadness
while getting a picture of what could be the persons husband, yet at the same time you feel;
that this person is perhaps too young or too old to actually be the husband.
Confusion (this happens more than you think it does) you might be using the wrong mode,
psychometry might not be for you, event thought you may like it very much and have a lot of
fun with it you might be using the wrong mode, try tarot or rune stones go to the chapter on
tools and re read you may simply be using the wrong tools.
Tools are an important part of the psychic and the mediums work you wouldnt expect a
plumber to undo a pipe with a hammer. By the same token why would somebody who
communicates with spirits use a tarot deck? Perhaps it is possible the medium is not actually
a medium but a reader or strong telepath with above average intuition and universal contact.
Tools such as tarot are primarily for universal contact readers they are intuitively in touch
with the cosmic flow of knowledge but have trouble translating this knowledge into English
remember English is what we speak the universe itself doesnt speak it it has its own emotive
language that goes beyond mere words. In fact the universe probably doesnt have too many
words to describe itself. The readers job or task is to translate that information into words
that we can all understand. Words like love, hate togetherness describe states of being that are
not fully described by words alone. In fact our simple words do not do such ideas justice at
all. We are extremely limited by our words and language.
So are you a universal contact reader do you have greater success when reading from objects
or systems that enable you to translate your feelings or images into words. Perhaps youre an
emotional reader an empath, empathic readers feel in two basic ways physically and
emotionally. If your body begins to feel the symptoms of some illness or disease you are
feeling or mimicking conditions that are within the body of the person you are doing the
reading for. Feelings such as sadness happiness or loneliness mean you are feeling the
emotions of the client and not just sympathizing with them by sharing their emotions.

The Mind
Ever notice how one sock will disappear when you arent thinking about it, yet if you think
about it and keep an eye on your socks nothing happens
Here is a new concept that you will need to get a mental handle on something that you will
have to own as information and use and apply to the way you think about the universe and the
mind.
Lets take a long hard look at telepathy
For years the best way to describe the process of telepathy or mind to mind communication
was to imagine the mind or the brain as a radio receiver transmitter.

The mind of the sender transmitted while the other brain acted as a receiver and much talk
was muttered about just being able to tune in to the brains or minds of others and how on
occasion we were able to do this accidentally or how after years of knowing somebody such
as a wife or husband or lifelong friend we were able to tune in to their frequency on certain
occasions of high stress or danger. There are volumes written about t such things and
anecdotal evidence in the form of stories ad tall tales of people seeing or receiving
information from others as a car crashed or a boat sunk.
I call this emotional content but more on this later
There are problems with the idea of viewing the mind as a radio type receiver sensing device
even a highly advanced biological one firstly it separates your mind from mine, it implies
some sort of gulf or space between us, that our minds are not connected and special
techniques or considerations must be made to read or feel each others thoughts.
Secondly it goes against the majority of universal occult or cosmic teachings. The idea has
always been prevalent that there is a universal mind stuff that permeates the universe that fills
every pore every gap every place in the cosmos the universe or even the multi-verse
depending on where you stand on such things.
So if this is true why are our minds be separated? The new view you will need to take on
board is that we are not radios but part of a vast computer network our minds are all
connected all of the time. Just as computers are in a network.
The idea of radio transmitters and senders has persisted for a long time, admittedly there were
no computers around when it was developed and first used as a description.
Rethink it starting now, there is no turning on or off, there is no tuning in or out, you are
always connected to every other mind soul and being on the planet all you have to do is
accept this and things will begin to change in the way you do telepathy experiments and in
your results. You are already indelibly connected to the mind you are attempting to read like a
computer in a network or if you expand the idea like computers all over the world that can
talk to each other through the internet.
Computers talk to each other in things called protocols bits of programming and the like that
enable them to chat and share information so instead of trying to receiver or end try
readjusting your vocabulary and share information this may change the way you attempt to
perform or experiment with telepathy psychometrics and even spiritualism.
In the human mind these protocols are basically hidden from us, perhaps evolution has taught
us that being able to read all minds all the time is a dangerous and difficult thing that some
thoughts are best left alone kept private.
Over the years I and others have made certain observations that could very well be the
protocols that enable you to read the feeling of others and with some practice their thoughts
one of these is what I call emotional content.
If a thought or idea has emotional content then it becomes more than a thought. Almost
everyone who was ever interested in the occult, mind powers, spirits ESP or anything even
remotely connected to these things has at one time or another sat down with friend and said
hey lets try it

One person thinks of a number or draws a picture or selects a playing card and the other
person tries to receive it, draw it, or guess the card this usually fails to work, we give up and
do not pursue the idea any further generally we leave it to the more talented like Geller or
Stokes and are content to watch and be amazed. Yet think for a moment about all the stories
youve heard about all the times that something akin to extra sensory feelings did work for
you. Did those things and times have emotional content for you?
One of the common examples of telepathy or extra knowledge is phone calls and letters
sometimes we know who is on the other end of the phone or who a letter is from but why?
Who was the call from? Was it an old friend that as soon as you heard there voice you blurted
out hey I was just thinking about you. Thats emotional content, a playing card hasnt got it
but a call from your wife who is really pissed off because your late for dinner has. There are
other examples too ever noticed how you can sense that your partner is upset mot only from
micro expressions and body language and because you know youve done something to upset
them but also because of that extra knowing that sneaking inner feeling that all is not right
because it has emotional content, anger fear and being emotionally hurt are powerful
activators and carriers of emotional content.
Here is another important factor, lack of preparation, if I sit you down and tell you to guess
the card Im thinking of, you are mentally preparing you are trying by mental force to read
my mind or guess at what Im thinking yet when an old friend calls that you have been
wondering about its natural you werent expecting it even though that person was on your
mind the last thing you were thinking of was the phone or receiving a letter from them. No
predetermined mind action no thought about how it should go or what the results might be it
just happened without any interference from you. Basically without thinking about it, or
perhaps by not thinking about it the universe just went on its merry way and things happened.
In short this means not to worry about it and psychic stuff begins to occur all around you as
soon as you set your mind to it and try to test it use it or manipulate it; it begins to fade
becoming ambiguous and completely un-testable. So there has to be some mind jump
necessary to make all this information work for you and improve your control over the
psychic or intuitive part of your awareness more on this later.
Ive known many people who say that synchronicity works around them all the time that
whenever they go to the city they always know where the parking spaces are or they can feel
every time the phone rings who is on the other end yet as soon as we try to quantify it get a
handle on it count I or study it, it vanishes into thin air.
For years this annoyed the hell out of me. Supposedly powerful or extra ordinary spiritualists
and psychics when called upon to demonstrate or offer proof failed miserably. This is when I
discovered that my own awareness suffered the same fate. Your going to have to develop or
train yourself to think about not thinking about the results of any tests you do in this book.
The trick is to let the mind go free and do its own work with out being concerned with the
results. Does this and the results will come, the hard part in all this is that you do actually
become concerned with the results you are going to keep a diary and records of all the tests
and experiments that you do. You are possibly going to work with a partner who will also be
concerned with whats going on. you will need to readjust your mind set to allow the universe
to do the work for you while you sit back as the observer and record the results unbiased and

mentally disconnected. Yet at the same time adding emotional content to those same
experiments sounds hard doesnt it, and it is yet I think youll find the journey and the
training exercises well worth the effort as your personal results will surly improve and in
some cases rather dramatically.

The Skills
Youre Mind Set
Through this book I will be asking you to learn certain skills and try out new abilities to do
this successfully and to apply this to what we learned in the last chapter you are first going to
have to get a handle on the type of mind set you need to develop for this type of training. As I
said before for many people this is something of a mental jump a quantum leap.

You Must Learn Then Forget.

Like any other skill or ability that you learn it must become sub mental that is partly
unconscious and partly conscious like driving a car or reading a book once you know how to
do it you forget the process and allow it to just happen. The process or technique once learned
and understood must fade from your mind and you just operate in the new way or apply the
new information without thinking about it.
Thats easy to read yet hard to apply, primarily because we are dealing with something of the
mind an Ill be asking you to apply things like wish thought and emotional content and value
appropriation as techniques these take thought an physical mental energy to apply so allowing
them to just flow wont be easy but thats what youll have to do.
Think about how you learnt to read (I know you can read because you are reading this) first
we learn individual letters and sounds then words then sentences and now when you read the
thought process behind the skill of reading does not become apparent the last thing you think
about is the form or creation of the individual word all you really go KNOW the word.
The primary skills are still there so that if you come across a new word you can learn it yet
once learned the word becomes part of the inner core of your mind you never have to think
about a word you just know what it is.
The same applies to driving a skill that if done wrongly or done in a way that negates or
ignores the dangers of the road can get you in trouble and yet you drive without seeming
awareness of either your driving actions or the dangers. To signal a corner your finger flips
the indicator without any conscious thought your awareness of the road tells you just how
much pressure to apply to the brake when the car in front of you slows down. Your foot does
this automatically. You dont have to think about it years of training and driving experience
just takes over.
This is what you will allow yourself to do once a technique is learned or a concept grasped let
go and allow it to do its work.

Value Elevation
In each of my courses I teach students the importance of adding value to the things they are
trying to read such as psychometric readings I explain it thusly
Lets suppose you are at home reading a book or watching TV a car pull into your drive way
you get up to investigate, see who it is and after analyzing the situation your mind settles and
forgets. What if you hear the constant pat of a ball hitting the wall outside?
You go out look around and see someone playing hand ball against the wall you settle back
relax into the book or TV show and forget that is until you hear the sound of breaking glass.
Suddenly the sound has and elevated value it becomes important.
In effect this is what you will be asking your mind to do when dealing with the psychic or
spiritual world you will be asking your inner perception to place certain values on things that
you are trying to deal with, read or understand.
Asking the Right Questions
So often in the world of the psyche we ask either the wrong questions or no questions at all as
you are going to see re-thinking the way you ask a question or asking a totally different
question can instantly change your mind set the way you see things and just as quickly the
results.

Experiment number one

Feeling your way
This first test is deceptively simple yet will teach you a lot and help you progress once you
understand the concepts involved.
It is a tracing experiment tracing involves the universal belief that everything leaves a trace of
itself somewhere somehow.
The whole science of forensics is based on this concept that every criminal leaves behind
some trace of himself (or herself).
The skill you will use in this experiment is best thought of as psychometry the reading of
such traces

Experiment Number two

Asking the Right Questions
Heres another way we can change our mind set make ourselves pay more attention to whats
going on around us and as a result elevate the awareness we have. Try asking different
questions.
The following experiment forces us to do just that ask the right question Take two pens
crayons or other writing things that are exactly the same except for the color. For example
two pencils or even chalks from the same box, make sure they are the same the only
difference should be the color.
Now hold one look at it feel it and zone out to it for a few seconds and say mentally this is
red or blue or what ever color it is try to know the color on more than one level. Try to feel it.
Now turn your back, your partner or learning buddy hands you one of the two colors while
you back is turned and hides the other. Turn around and try to guess what color you have
been given. Sounds easy and because we are only dealing with two colors you should be right
at least 50 percent of the time.
So now add a color turn your back and again try to guess which color you have been handed.
By rights you should guess correctly about 33 percent of the time. So now add another color
and keep adding colors until you are dealing with ten to twelve different colors.
Anything above five pencils and your guessing will become just that guesses and you will be
wrong more often than you are right unless you re think the question instead of asking what
color is this try asking do I know this object.
Remember at the beginning of this experiment or exercise we only dealt with one individual
colored object lets assume that it was a red crayon as we added colors we added to the
difficulty of the exercise. Yet we had only left our tracing or thoughts on the one object the
red crayon it is the only one that has depth and meaning for us, so why would we be dealing
with the others.

In this exercise try to do nothing more than to separate your chosen crayon from the others,
ask do I know this object dont ask is this red or is this blue or green, ask instead ask is this
my red crayon or do I know this object. So instead of trying to determine ten objects all you
are looking for is a feeling or a memory that you know this one object out of all the others.
So if you have ten pencils you are only trying to determine which s yours. Asking a different
question not only causes you to think in a different way but also gives you different answers
do I know this color will give you some feeling of recognition, no matter how small or finite
that feeling seems follow it we are after all dealing with small minute traces left on the pencil
by your intense attention to it at the beginning of the test.
You should practice doing this with all manner of things, leave traces on any group of similar
objects and try to determine which one you had.

Experiment Number three

Tarot Cards
This next test is the same as the one above yet advances to a whole new level, we are going to
ask the question as before yet we are going to add new elements to our abilities as we
progress.
Separate the cards into suits now try to determine the suits separately from each other. Take
one suit hold each card individually saying this is a cup or sword depending on the suit you
choose. Now mix the whole deck together again and feel your way through attempting to
separate your chosen suit from all the others.

Hidden Symbols
The Symbols found in Tarot
Symbol meanings of Tarot are essential to our interpretational process. Indeed, symbols
themselves serve as messages from our higher selves and the Universe.
Then we must consider secondary symbols when you look a the card your mind tends to see
it at face value, the three of pentacles for example it may be years before you notice the
bench and place any significance on it as having meaning. These
secondary symbols make up what some people refer to as the secret
meanings within the tarot.
One of the reasons the Tarot is such an effective divining tool is the
cards deal with the subconscious symbols and their meanings.
The Tarot is a symbolic oracle, and as such, it is vital for us to
recognize and understand its symbol meanings to assure a wellrounded reading of the cards.
Common Tarot symbols and their meanings have been included in
this lesson for your growth, development and deeper understanding
of the Tarot reading craft.
As you read the cards, you will notice certain symbols will catch
your attention more-so than others. This is no accident.
When we gravitate toward specific features in a card, this is your
intuition bringing to light important issues. When this happens, consider some of the symbol
meanings provided below in conjunction with your reading. This will provide more clarity
and insight to your overall reading.
Remember, symbol meanings are subject to your own perception. To clarify, if a symbol
means something specific to you, then this is the meaning you should assign to that symbol.
These pages simply offer a foundation of meanings to work with.
Opening the Tarot Door
"If our minds are glorious mansions,
and our spirits are the surrounding landscape,
then the Tarot is a doorway
revealing a wide realm of ever-increasing
beauty, insight, and mystical experience."
--Avia Venefica
Important Note: The symbols selected for the creation of these pages were taken from the
traditional Rider-Waite Tarot deck. Other deck renditions may not display the same symbols
as the Rider-Waite. For example, the Angel symbol is shown on the Rider-Waite "Wheel"
card, but is not shown on the Morgan-Greer rendition.

Angel: Angels in the Tarot system are symbolic of divine messages. They are messengers of
important information. In a reading , their appearance indicates a message (relating to the
card) may be coming to the querent in the form of inspiration, divine intervention, or subtlety.
Angels also symbolize higher thought and ideals.
Lovers / Wheel / Temperance / Judgment / Queen of Swords
Ankh: The ankh symbolic meaning deals with immortality and balance. It is a common
Egyptian symbol whose meaning is "life." Geometrically, the loop on top represents the sun
rising above the horizon represented by the horizontal line. This captures both immortality
(the sun shall always rise) and balance (the horizon is female, the sun is male in symbolism).
Emperor
Arch: Arches are symbolic of openings, passage-ways, and initiations. In a reading, the arch
is a symbol of a new direction for the querent. This new opening or path is indicated by the
card.
3 of Pentacles / 10 of Pentacles / 4 of Wands
Armor: The symbolic meanings of armor deal with protection, preparation, and strength.
Most Tarot deck renditions depict all the knights in full armor (knights typically represents
action and strength). The armor indicates a need to protect ourselves when engaging in
activities referenced in a reading.
Emperor / Chariot / Death / Knight of Swords / Knight of Pentacles / Knight of Cups / Knight
of Wands / 4 of Swords
Bench: The bench is symbolic of taking a moment to examine the details. In a reading,
benches indicate the querent needs to sit back, relax, and take some time to examine or savor
the situations expressed in the card layout.
3 of Pentacles / 8 of Pentacles / 2 of Swords / 9 of Cups
Bird: The symbol meanings of the bird deals with higher thoughts and matters of the spirit.
They are creatures of the air, so they symbolize higher ideals. They also represent freedom
and ascencion. When the bird symbol pops out at us during a reading it is a message that we
are rising to a higher level, that we need to free ourselves from bondage and we must make
our hearts light.
Wheel / Star / World
Blindfold: As one would guess, blindfolds deal with our inability to see things clearly. They
represent unwillingness to face the truth, inability to accept the facts, or a sign that something
is being hidden from us. In a reading blindfolds are a sign that we need to be honest with
ourselves, do more research, and/or get a different perspective
2 of Swords / 8 of Swords
Boat: Boats are a sign there are some pressing thoughts rumbling within the subconscious.
These thoughts will have a tendancy to put us in motion, and this is another symbolic trait of
the boat. Boats deal with deeper thoughts and the motion (to action) these thoughts produce.
In a reading boats may also indicate travel, or movement in a different direction (usually after
much thought and deliberation).
6 of Swords

Brick Wall: Seen in the sun card, the brick wall is a symbol that you have been holding
yourself back or positive events have been prevented from flowing forth due to negative or
incorrect thinking. When we see the brick wall it is a message that we must be in a state of
allowing in order for the good (sun energy) to shine upon us. It also indicates that we mustn't
hold ourselves back or sell ourselves short.
Sun
Bridge: Bridges take us from one point to another, and therefore they symbolically represent
resources or help available to us. In a reading bridges remind us that the ways and means to
accomplish something is always available to us. In the five of cups the bridge represents
moving from a place of grief or regret on to another phase of life.
5 of Cups
Bull: The Bull is a symbol of power, royalty, stability, force and potence. When we see the
bull amongst the cards in a reading we know we are dealing with some powerful forces. It is
shown in the World & Wheel card because the bull (Taurus) is one of the fixed signs of the
zodiac. The bull (and Taurus) also carries symbolic meanings of resistence to change, being
stubborn and inflexible.
Wheel / World / King of Pentacles
Butterfly: A universal symbol for transformation. Butterflies are shown on the queen and king
of sword cards, and typically indicate a change in the thoughts of the querent, or someone
close in the querent's life. Butterflies go through several changes and transformation before
they develop into their final state of beauty. They are a symbol that we as human do the same
thing to reach our end goal and to obtain a better way of thought and living.
Queen of Swords / King of Swords
Caduceus: Varied in its meaning, the Caduceus symbol meanings deal with balance, health,
duality (union of opposites), proper moral conduct, protection and cosmic energy. Seen on the
two of cups, the caduceus bodes well for new partnerships, and serves as a message that with
honor and respect to balance, new relationships shall be fruitful. It may also indicate the
querent is joining forces with another party in order to facilitate
healing.
2 of Cups
Castle: Castle symbol meanings deal with goals. Castles are physical
reprsentations of our need to build (block by block) upon a strong
foundation in order to obtain our goals. Castles may also deal with
sheltering ourselves or limiting ourselves from reaching our goals.
They are also a symbol of obtaining our desires.
Chariot / Ace of Wands / 4 of Wands / 9 of Pentacles / 8 of Swords / 5 of Cups / 7 of Cups
Cat: Cats deal with watchfulness, awareness, and perception. Shown on the queen of rods
card, the cat is a message that there are energies at work that we may not be aware of, but we
can certainly tap into. Cats are also a symbol of psychic ability. In a reading, the queen and
her cat will make a point that the querent must keep his/her poise (keep your wits about you)
and be aware of all sides to the story in the situation relating to the card reading.
Queen of Wands
Chains: As one might imagine, the symbolic meaning of chains deals with restriction,
bondage, conflict, and slavery. Featured in the devil card of the Tarot deck, chains are a

message that we may be in a situation where we have become a slave to our thoughts, vices,
or to others. It indicates there is restriction or addiction revolving around the situation noted
in the reading. Devil
Children: Children represent promise, hope, fresh starts, new beginnings, new ideas, and a
fresh way at looking at the world. Children are full of promise for the future and as such they
are a symbol of this promise. When they show up on the cards in a reading it could mean the
beginning of a new venture, the promise of a new beginning, or it could literally mean
children are on their way (new births/adoptions).
Sun / 6 of Cups / 10 of Cups / 6 of Swords / 10 of Pentacles
City/Village: Cities and villages represent centers or gatherings of people, thoughts, energy
and ideas. They are a symbol of the culmination of a group that meets for a common goal.
They also symbolize protection, harmony, and team-work. When you notice the
cities/villages in a reading it indicates a group effort is required, or the querent must tap into
some energy centers or thought centers to accomplish what he/she must.
4 of Pentacles / 6 of Pentacles / 10 of Pentacles / King of Pentacles / 7 of Swords / 6 of Cups
Clouds: Clouds hold the symbol meaning of revelation. Consider out of the mists of our
deepest thoughts suddenly an epiphany comes, a bright idea comes out from nowhere - this is
the basic cloud symbol meaning. Depending on the card, clouds can also symbolize
confusion or clouded judgment. Primarily, clouds represent higher thought and messages
from the divine.
Lovers / Wheel / Tower / Judgment / World / Ace of Swords / 3 of Swords / 5 of Swords /
Page of Swords / King of Swords / Ace of Cups / 4 of Cups / 7 of Cups / Ace of Wands / Ace
of Pentacles
Dog: Man (and woman's) best friend - symbol meanings of the dog deals with fidelity,
honesty, loyalty, and truth. When the dog symbol pops out at us, we might aks ourselves one
of the following questions: 1) Where are our loyalties? 2) In what are we putting our faith? 3)
Are being true to ourselves? The dog in our cards is also a good indication that we're on the
right track as they are symbolic of stability and righteousness.
Moon / Fool / 10 of Pentacles
Dove: The dove is a common spiritual icon with symbol meanings indicating hope, purity,
aspiration, and ascension. In Greco-Roman mythology, the dove is a sacred creature to
Aphrodite/Venus, and therefore is a powerful symbol of love. Featured on the ace of cups, it
is a promising symbol. Note the dove (in the Rider-Waite version) is pointing down - this is a
message: "whatever goes up, must come down." In other words, fly high, but ground yourself
first.
Ace of Cups
Falcon: Throughout culture and myth the falcon symbol meanings have pertained to higher
vision, superiority, and rising above the mundane. A common sun symbol among many
cultures, the falcon also symbolizes potency, vibrancy and power. When Falcon catches our
attention on the nine of pentacles, we are prompted to consider if we are living our lives inline with our vision. Are we living at our highest potential? The falcon asks us to fly high and
blaze the sky with our own brilliance.
9 of Pentacles

Fire: Fire is a symbol of both creative and destructive power. Among its many cultural
symbol meanings are: energy, transformation, passion, ambition, inspiration and power. In
many faiths fire is a symbol representing a test of faith or the measure of one's purity. This
very well may be the case in the two cards fire is featured in (Devil & Tower).
Devil / Tower
Fish: It is no coincidence that the fish is featured on all the cups court cards because fish
symbol meanings deal with emotion, intuition and creativity. When considering the fish
symbol meaning, we must first recognize the nature of the water in which it lives: in motion,
unpredictable, and representative of the subconscious (see Water symbol meanings). The fish
is a symbol of prolific abundance if we have the wherewithal to harness our own passion
responsibly.
Page of Cups / Knight of Cups / Queen of Cups / King of Cups
Flag: When we consider the cards on which the flag is featured (Death, Sun & Judgment) we
get a good concept of its symbol meanings. The flag is an announcement to change something has shifted and a flag makes the world aware of this shift. It is a bright, bold
obvious sign that a new day is dawning. This is not about subtle shifts - the flag is about "inyour-face" transformation; an event to announce to all who will hear.
Death / Sun / Judgment
Flowers: As we would guess, flowers possess symbol meanings of joy, beauty, growth,
sensitivity and unfolding. They are predominant features on the six of cups and four of rods,
but they are seen sprinkled throughout many deck renditions (see also the Sunflower symbol
meanings entry). Flowers are all about opening up and receiving the light of love, joy and
compassion into our lives. They remind us of the better things in life, the good times, the
sweet smell of success, and the beauty that surrounds us if only we open up to its presence.
6 of Cups / 4 of Wands
Globes: Often depicted as the world, globes possess symbol meanings of totality - both
cosmic and physical. When the globe catches our attention on a card, it is an indication that
achievement is imminent; we have the whole world "at our fingertips." It is also a symbol of
comprehension, getting the idea - or grasping the "bigger picture." The globe is also a
geometric aspect of the circle which deals with infinity, completion, cycles, and again totality.
Emperor / 2 of Wands
Grapes/Grapevines: Symbol meanings of grapes and grapevines deal with fertility,
abundance, transformation and blessing. Considered the fruit of the earth in both pagan and
Christian circles, the grape is rich in symbolism. Bunches of grapes have long been depicted
in funerary art and are symbols of redemption. Grapes and grapevines are also found in
Greco-Roman art as symbols of hospitality, bounty and symbolic of youthfulness. All of these
attributes come into play when we see these power-packed fruits in the cards.
7 of Pentacles / 9 of Pentacles / 10 of Pentacles / King of Pentacles / 3 of Cups / 4 of Wands
Hammer: A hammer, or the act of hammering is a sign of getting the point across, or getting
the job done. The hammer is also a symbol of force, action, masculinity, and creativity.
Typically drawn in matters of vocation, when the hammer catches our eye in a reading it may
indicate that we need to get the job done and done well. It may also mean we need to hammer
out the details relating to work or a project.

3 of Pentacles / 8 of Pentacles
Hand: Power, domination, protection these are primary symbol meanings relating to the hand.
Hands are historically seen as points of transmission, meaning we give and receive from
hands (energetically and physically). It's no accident that the powerful ace cards are all
depicted with a hand holding the suit symbol. This is a clear message of force and power
relating to the indicated suit. It is also a reminder that we are able to both give and receive
those attributes pertaining to the referring suit.
Ace of Pentacles / Ace of Rods / Ace of Swords / Ace of Cups
Heart: As one would assume, the heart has long been as symbol of love, joy, and affection.
The heart is also a symbol of truth, courage and conscience. The symbolic heart is the center
of existence - physically speaking it pumps out life to the rest of the body. When we note the
heart in our readings we must be mindful of our own center, and what is at the center of our
focus. We may also ask what we love most - that which is positive or negative.
Empress / 3 of Swords
Hoe: Yes, this is a tool, and as such its sybmolism deals with work, resourcefulness,
accomplishment. But the hoe is also a message telling us we can make our way easier by
using the resources (tools) that are available to us. The hoe is also connected to the old adage
"what we sew so shall we reap." When the hoe pops out at us in the cards (7 of pentacles) we
might do well to consider what kind of sewing we are doing and how we are utilizing our
resources (are we doing things the hard way, or should we recruit some help).
7 of Pentacles
Horn: Much like the flagsymbol meanings, the horn is also a symbol of announcement, only
more forceful. Horns symbolize a joyous, boisterous, victorious, triumphant announcement.
They signal all within ear-shot that something has happened or is about to happen soon.
Horns announce both victory and oncoming attack - keep this in mind when the horn comes
to your attention on the Judgment card.
Judgment
Horse: Featured on all the knight cards of the Tarot, the horse symbol meanings deal with
strength, motion, action, and vitality. Linked in many ancient traditions with the four
elements (fire, water, earth, air) the horse is also a strong spiritual symbol and an emblem of
incorporating all the elements to maintain an equal, powerful balance with all things in the
universe. This is evident in the "either/or" nature of the knights. In a more mundane sense, the
horse is predisposition to have a charging nature. In a reading, this gives us pause to consider
where we are charging to and why.
Death / Sun / Knight of Pentacles / Knight of Swords / Knight of Cups / Knight of Wands / 6
of Wands
House: In houses we live, die, play, cry, grow, hide, dream, the list goes on. As such, they are
symbols of our deepest secrets and the tenderest parts of our hearts. House symbol meanings
also deal with protection and the value that we feel we must guard against theft. When houses
jump up to our vision in a reading it may be a sign that our security is threatened, or it may
convey the opposite, and we should not be concerned with safety and we are already
protected.
2 of Cups / 6 of Cups / 10 of Cups / 2 of Wands / 8 of Wands / 10 of Wands

Ice: Ice symbol meanings deal with isolation, patience, waiting, distance, and objection. Ice is
used in the Tarot to convey a feeling of separation. It is also used to portray a time of deep
contemplation or a process of growth that is not perceived until much later (cycle of season)
for example, spring is only evident after the thaw.
Fool / Hermit / Tower / Judgment /
Keys: Keys unlock things, and as such, they represent knowledge, intellect, and uncovering
things that are hidden from us. The keys of the Hierophant card symbolize the keys to
spiritual knowledge, and wisdom. The ancient Greeks depicted keys as symbols for
knowledge and life. When these keys catch our attention we may need to ask if we are
locking up our potential, or if we feel something is being locked away from us.
Hierophant
Lantern: The lantern carries with it all the symbol meanings that deal with light - it is the
vehicle for intelligence, truth, and illumination. In Hinduism and Buddhism a lamp is a
symbol of life. Lamps also serve as a devotional symbol and embody the spirit of virtue, faith
and vigilance (lighting a candle in memory, as well as lighting the way through the darkest
hour). When the lantern of the Hermit shines brightly to our awareness it is a symbol of
clarity coming through and life revealing precious gifts to us. Hermit
Lemniscate: The lemniscate (also known as the infinity symbol) is a geometrical
represetation of the endless and eternal nature of energy. Energy cannot be created or
destroyed, it simply continues on forever in motion. The symbol meanings of this emblem
serve to remind us of the infinite nature of our spirit, as well as our thoughts. When this
symbol comes to our attention it may be a message that we should consider the consequences
of our thoughts and deeds - the effects of which can be infinite.
Magician / Strength / World / 2 of Pentacles
Lightning: Typically the symbol meanings of lightning deal with
instant and divine intervention. Lightning is a major message from a
higher source, a message for the observer to wake up and pay
attention to his/her surroundings. Lightning was viewed as a creative
spark to the Native Americans as it signified the winking
Thunderbird. Linked with both fire and water, lightning is also
viewed as both creator and destroyer in many cultures. When the lightning bolt in the Tower
card flashes at you, perhaps it is a message to pay attention to what creative or destructive
forces are at work in your life.
Tower
Lily: The lily has symbol meanings of purity, innocence and fertility. Also, lily symbolism
deals with vulnerability, and the freedom to be ourselves, as well as allowing others to be as
they are too. The lily is also a symbolic flower of health and provision. In a reading, the lily
can signal growth, development, and a quality of innocence in our lives. Depending on the
surrounding cards, the lily may also indicate new relationships and births.
Magician / Temperance / Ace of Pentacles
Lion: Signifying one of the four fixed signs of the zodiac, lion symbol meanings deal with
strength, courage, royalty, and protection. Much like lightning, the lion is viewed as both
savior and destroyer in ancient cultural myth. The lion is a bit of a paradox - while standing
as a symbol of spiritual valor it is also a symbol for the beastly needs of the flesh. When the

lion roars at us in the cards we are encouraged to consider the level of our courage. Are we
seated in faith or flesh? Are we protecting others or ourselves? Are we being strong or just
stubborn?
Strength / Wheel / World / 2 of Cups / Queen of Wands / King of Wands
Lizard: With symbol meanings of renewal, vision, enlightenment, and rebirth, the lizard
makes its appearance on the male court cards in the suit of rods. The lizard (or salamander in
some renditions) suns itself on these cards to signify the importance of vision in the midst of
action. In fact, in ancient times (particularly in alchemical lore), it was believed that the lizard
renewed its sight by looking into the sun. A symbol of demure perspective in the face of
monumental physical force - the lizard is a tiny reminder that big results come from small,
conscious efforts.
Page of Wands / Knight of Wands / King of Wands
Lobster: Also depicted as a crab or crayfish in other deck renditions, the lobster symbol
meanings deal with cycles, regeneration, and protection. These creatures are lunar symbols;
they cast off their shells for new onces, and this is where the rebirth/cycling association plays
its part. The protective symbolizm is evident in the hard spiney exo-skeleton found with these
creatures. When the Lobster in the Moon card crawls into our consciousness we're reminded
of the cyclical nature in our lives and what protection we may need for the path on which we
embark.
Moon
Moon: The moon symbol meanings deal with cycles, time, psychic power, reflection, and
emerging from one phase into another. Consider the power of the moon - able to influence
oceans, and affect the realm of nature in strong subtle ways. Also a symbol of feminity, the
moon is a sign of the softer, intuitive side of all of us. When the moon lights up on our
readings, it is a prompting to consider our level of awareness. The moon asks us if we
listening to our intuition and what are we allowing to influence our direction in life.
Priestess / Chariot / Moon / Page of Swords / 8 of Cups / 2 of Swords
Mountains: Seen on many of the cards, mountain symbol meanings deal with triumph,
challenge, attainment, and realization. Mountains also represent timelessness and an
endurance that is infinite. When those mountains peak out of the cards into our attention, we
may consider the vastness of our universe, and contemplate our place within it. We may also
want to consider the heights to which we are climbing, and what the realization of our goals
may mean for us and those around us.
Emperor / Lovers / Strength / Judgment / Fool / Page of Pentacles / Queen of Pentacles / 8 of
Swords / 10 of Swords / 8 of Cups / Knight of Cups / Ace of Rods / 2 of Wands / 3 of Wands /
7 of Wands / Page of Wands / Knight of Wands
Ocean: Ocean symbol meanings deal with infinite possibilities. Consider the ocean, and you
will be considering the essence of vastness, mystery, and depth. It seems in exhaustible and
the holder of wonderous things unseen. When the oceans in the cards crash their waves
against our consciousness, it is time to pay homage to the great divine - meaning we should
recognize the burgeoning power around us, the animating force that runs through us - the
expansive and expressive nature of the universe. In other words, we must acknowledge that
there may be other (higher) powers at work in our lives and it may be time to release our
control in order to allow these powers to open up incredible opportunities to us.
2 of Pentacles / 5 of Swords / 6 of Swords / 10 of Swords / Page of Cups / Queen of Cups /
King of Cups / 2 of Wands / 3 of Wands

Path: As you may imagine, path symbol meanings deal with direction as well as the path we
choose to travel in any phase of our life (family, career, love, spirituality, etc.). Paths remind
us that journeys of a lifetime begin with one small step. Paths in our reading are indicative of
beginnings, endings, and the steps we take in-between that create the life we are living. When
paths wind their way in our readings, we must consider these things, and question the
intention and sincerity of the steps we are taking upon each of our paths. We must also reevaluate the commitments we've made to our life path.
Temperance / Moon / Ace of Pentacles
Pillars: Pillar symbol meanings are all about balance. Typically, the focal point of the card is
planted staunchly betwix two towering pillars - this is a visual indication that the figurehead
of this card has chosen middle-ground. When the pillars tower over our readings, it is time to
consider matters of diplomacy, balance, tact, and strategy. It is a sign that going between may
be more adventageous than taking the proverbial high road or low road. Rather than seeing
things as left or right, black or white, perhaps we can consider a middle road - a third option
with a new and different perspective.
Priestess / Hierophant / Justice / Moon / 3 of Pentacles
Pitcher: The pitcher is vessel, and as such, we are keenly interested in the contents. As a
vessel, the pitcher symbol meanings deal with what we are holding in our lives...what does
our heart hold? Our minds? Even our bodies? Depicted in the Star card, we see the clean,
clear waters pouring forth - a sign that we must be pure vessels in order to expand, express,
and put forth purity. When the pitcher makes itself prominent in your readings, grab it by the
handle, and begin to contemplate what kind of vessel you are - what are you holding, and are
the conents coming out of you as pure as they can be?
Star
Plowed Fields: "As we sew, so shall we reap." This is the prime symbol meaning behind the
plowed fields we see in the cards. When these fields come in contact with our intuition in a
reading, we should be mindful that what we do and how we do it is pivotal to our harvest. If
we're lazy and sloppy (rushing through as the Knight of Pentacles is want to do) with planting
our seeds we will be disappointed with the results. However, if we invest the time to plant,
nurture, and grow our rows, we will be rewarded with abundance. Plowed fields are also a
symbol of time - it takes time to reap our rewards, we must allow for germination, and
patience is required as we wait it out for the results we are expecting from our labors.
Page of Pentacles / Knight of Pentacles / 10 of Wands
Pomegranates: Pomegranate symbol meanings deal with abundance, fertility, lusciousness,
generosity and union. Used in many cultures as a symbol of marraige, fertility, and love, the
pomegranate with its leathery outer skin and its juicy, sweet interior is a symbol of
encompassing bliss, reminiscent of passion and luxury. It is also a strongly feminine symbol,
and is associated with female sexuality. When visions of pomegranates dance in our heads
during a reading it is time to consider the power of our divine feminine side. The
pomegranate is also a message for us to tap into the luxurious side of life - recognize the
richness, abundance and wonder that surrounds us at every turn. It is also a sign of union with
the divine as well as union with others.
Priestess / Empress

Rabbit: Reflexive, tentative and fast, rabbits symbol meanings deal with decisive action
tempered with good judgment. Rabbits are close to the earth, and therefore are very
grounding symbols. As social creatures, rabbits also remind us of the importance of friends
and family. When the rabbit in the Queen of Pentacles card hops into our awareness it is a
good time to consider look before we leap and excercise good judgement as the Queen does.
Also, it is a good sign to gather friends and family about us - get in touch with our grounding
roots.
Queen of Pentacles
Rain: Traditionally, rain has held symbol meanings of cleansing as well as fecundity (ancient
cultures honored the rain for its ability to provide life to crops). In the case of the three of
swords, we can take this symbol meaning as one of clearing, and washing away the old in
order to accept the new. The imagery of card is oppressive, as it should be for all its
indications - when we see the rain falling in this card it is a reminder that rain washes away
the dirt, storms DO pass, and we are left with more fertile soil for planting (figuratively
speaking) at the end of the storm.
3 of Swords
Ram: Featured prominently in most decks, the head of the ram has symbol meanings of
determination, action, initiative, and leadership. The ram is also a symbol of Aries, which is
the astral ruler of the Emperor. Aries is the first sign of the Zodiac, further reinforcing
attributes of leadership, authority, and other forefather-type characteristics. When the ram
butts our attention, it is a sign to take responsibility, get up, take action, and get motivated to
accomplish our goals.
Emperor / Queen of Pentacles
Ropes: As we would guess, rope symbol meanings deal with binding, confinement or
restriction. When we think of ropes, we often think of knots, and being all tied up in them. In
the case of the Hanged Man however, the rope is a utility - it serves as a necessity in order to
pull away from our internal knots. When we are tied up, we are forced into a state of nonaction and this is precisely the answer to our problems. The more we struggle with the ties
that bind, often the tighter they become.
Hanged Man
Rose: A long-standing symbol of purity, promise, and beauty. The rose symbol meanings deal
with the promise of new beginnings and hope. We must also take the thorns into
consideration - with the promise of new hope, we may have to endure a few stinging thorns
(painful ordeals) along the way. Overall, the rose is a poignant symbol of the beauty that is
ready to unfold within each of our hearts, and a reminder that we must take the opportunity to
savor the beauty around us.
Fool /Magician / Strength / Death / 2 of Wands
Scale: As one would guess, scale symbol meanings deal with of equality and balance. It is a
perfect visual measure when something is "out of whack." The scale in all its precision shows
us which part of our life is out of balance - when the scale is tipped more to one side we
know we need to take some corrective action.
Justice / 6 of Pentacles
Scroll: The scroll symbol meanings deal with knowledge that is carried down from era to era.
Scrolls are symbols of ancient wisdom and sacred knowledge - usually of a secretive nature.
When the scroll flashes at you in a reading it is time to get in touch with the facts that are

hidden - get to the source of knowledge and educate yourself about what is going on in the
situation pertaining to the reading.
High Priestess
Shield: Shield symbol meanings deal with defense, protection and covering up. Featured in
the Empress card, the shield is an unlikely symbol for a card exhibiting virtues of love and
abundance. However, even in the midst of the most happy and abundant times the shield is a
message for us to protect ourselves from over-indulgence and is a signal for us to make
preparations to shield or protect that which we value most (family, friends, future, etc.).
Empress
Ship: Yes, of course ship symbol meanings deal with travel and journey's. However a
commonly overlooked factor is the medium upon which they said - water - it deals with the
deeper levels of the psyche and the subconscious. When Ships sail across your vision in a
reading, take into consideration where your thoughts (psyche) are traveling - what kind of
baggage (cargo) are you carrying around, and are you charting (navigating) out the best
course for your thoughts and emotions?
Death / 2 of Pentacles / King of Cups / 3 of Wands
Snail: Snail symbol meanings deal with steady footing (snails being psuedo pods which
actually means "false feet"), and stability. Snails carry their homes upon their backs which is
symbolic of carrying our security in our hearts (security and happiness in this case is an
inside job). Not only sure of foot snails are also symbols of slow (but steady) progress.
Featured in the 9 of Pentacles, we understand that stability and success do not appear
overnight. Rather, success usually comes at a snail's pace.
9 of Pentacles
Snake: Snake symbol meanings deal with renewal, rebirth and development primarily
because they shed their skin during each cycle in growth. Snakes are also cold-blooded which
means they depend on their environment for their body temperature. This is a symbolic
message that we must be adaptive, flexible and adjust as best we can to our circumstances.
When the snake slithers across the cards into our consciousness way may need to ask
ourselves if we need to shed a part of ourselves to allow further growth, or perhaps we need
to be a little more flexible in situations at work or home.
Magician / Lovers / Wheel of Fortune / 7 of Cups
Snow: Featured on the 5 of Pentacles, we can derive from this imagery that snow symbol
meanings deal with being "out in the cold," isolation, and exposure to harsh conditions.
However, anyone who has stepped outside just after a fresh snow can tell you the beauty is
stunning. Clean, crystally, and quiet. These are also symbolic qualities of snow. When the
flakes fall on your eyes in a reading, keep in mind the snow is needed in order to have spring
flowers. Also remember that tribulation is a matter of perspective - we can either see the
snow as isolation or we can see it as a fresh clean blanket - waiting for us to make a few snow
angels in it.
5 of Pentacles
Sphinx: Symbolic meaning of the sphinx deals with guardianship and protection of the
secrets of life. Long considered to be a tyrant in myth , the sphinx was said to incessanty
provoke passersby with riddles; only those who could answer their riddles were allowed
entrance into the gates they guard. The sphinx's physical construct (part man part beast) is
also symbolic of the senses. When the sphinx paws its way into our attention in a reading we

are called to answer a riddle - using all of our senses and determing the secrets that may be
holding us back.
Chariot / Wheel of Fortune
Staff: Here we are recognizing staff's found in the cards that are specifically used for support
by the archetypes in the cards. With this parameter in mind, staff symbol meanings deal with
support, stability, direction, and single-ness of purpose. The staff is also a symbolic
representation of the numeral one, and as such is carries a meaning of new beginnings, firstattempts, and again, single-mindedness in thought as well as deed.
Magician / Emperor / Chariot / Hermit / 8 of Cups
Stained Glass: Stained glass is symbolic of perception and how our vision (mental, phsyical
and spiritual) can change according to our perception and beliefs. The art of staining glass
reaches back to ancient alchemy when certain compounds (i.e.: antimony windows) were
mixed with glass to bring about transformational effects upon the viewer. When you seem to
be looking through the stained glass windows of your reading, it's a sign to begin getting
honest about your perception of the situation. Are you seeing things clearly, or looking at
things through "rose colored glasses?"
5 of Pentacles / 4 of Swords
Star: As long as we have been able to look up at the stars, we have been looking to them for
illumination, direction and guidance. Thus the star symbol meanings deal with shedding light
on our lives, offering us navigation when we need it, and providing consistency when our
lives seem to be topsy-turvey. When the stars in the cards featured below wink at us in a
reading you know it is time to look to a higher source for direction, and realize the starry light
within our hearts can also illuminate our way.
Empress / Chariot / Star
Sun: So much is dependent upon the existence of the sun, its symbolic meanings are endless.
Primarily, the sun is a symbol of expansion, growth, energy, and creativity. When the sun
shines upon your consciousness in a reading, pay attention to its position in the sky (setting,
mid-day, or rising) as its position is also symbolic. Rising the sun is a symbol of new
beginings, setting indicates and ending or transition and mid-day indicates going full force in
creative endeavors.
Death / Temperance / Sun / Fool
Sunflower: If you've ever observed this happy flower, you've noticed that its head always
looks to the sun. This is the message of the sunflower "always look to the light" for the
answers and guidance you seek. When the sunflower nods at us in a reading it is time to look
away from the dark (negativity) and look to the light (positive) side of things. It sounds
cliche, but keeping on the "sunny side" as the sunflower does assures a more sunny
disposition.
Sun / Queen of Wands
Tomb: Tomb symbol meanings deal with laying to rest the thoughts and things that no longer
serve us. When we see the tomb in our readings we must not misunderstand the message.
This symbol has very little to do with physical death. Rather, it deals with coming out of
poorly suited mind-sets and freeing ourselves from tomb-like belief systems. Often this
period of "coming out" occur after much time of stagnation - another facet of the tomb -

where we are once interred or encased for a time, we evolve from our tomb into a new phase
of understanding.
Judgment / 4 of Swords
Triangle: In Ancient Egypt the Triangle was seen as a symbol of intelligence and indicated
the capacity for love. The Buddhists utilze this geometric pattern in the Sri Yantra mandala as
a tool to invoke the energy of love. The triangle also deals with the love represented in the
mother, father, child union as well as the holy trinity. Additionally, this symbol has long been
recognized as a sign of balance and creativity.
Temerpance
Wall: See also "brick wall" in the symbol meanings (A-C) page. Simply put, walls deal with
separating one area from another. When we have a need to keep one area of our lives separate
from another, the walls in the cards show themselves to us in a reading. Take a close look at
the context of the "wall cards" in relation to the rest of the reading - what are the cards
indicating you separate? Walls also deal with the need for privacy, this may be another
consideration in your reading.
King of Pentacles / 2 of Wands
Waterfall: Water is a symbol of emotion and the subconscious. Therefore, waterfalls deal with
the constant running and flowing movement of our emotions and the stirring movements of
our deeper minds. Observing the nature of waterfalls, we see they typically move at such a
rushing speed that they tend to take everything with them in their path - rocks, trees, any
debris in the midst of a waterfall is subject to its pull. This is symbolic that we must not let
our emotions run away from us. Further, the waterfall leads to a plummeting drop and a
crashing end against jagged rocks. This is a lesson that when we are not in control of our
emotions and thoughts then they control us - potentially leading us down a rocky demise.
High Priestess / Empress / Queen of Swords
Wolf: The wolf is a symbol of our primal urges and bears its teeth at our every attempt to be
conventional. As a member of the canine family, the wolf is also a symbol of loyalty and
intelligence. When the wolf comes howling out of the cards in a reading, it is time to re-focus
on our core desires and compare them with our loyalties. Simply put - are we being true to
our core self or are we trying to "fit in" or measure up with the image we feel we must sustain
in the societal view.
Moon / Wheel of Fortune
Wreath: Typically wreaths of laurel are depicted on the various feature cards (listed below).
Wreaths of this type have long been a symbol of victory ever since the first ancient games
upon mount Olympus where the victor was crowned in laurels (hence the term "resting on his
laurels" comes when one relies on his/her credentials rather than further drive/action). A
sweet smelling laurel wreath is also a symbol of protection, peace and purification and is
associated with the god Apollo. It is a message that the favor of the Gods is upon us, and that
we shall be the victor in this stage of our lives.
Fool / World / 6 of Wands / 7 of Cups
Angel: Lovers / Wheel / Temperance / Judgment / Queen of Swords

In the Tarot and other occult or oracle systems Angels are symbolic of universal
communication. of higher thought and ideals They are messengers of essential or
inspirational information. We all receive that universal wisdom at times a collection of
unrelated occurrences or signs that seem to mean something. We dont know if these
messages are from god actual angels the universal principle or from the subconscious which
tends to notice everything that is going on around us.
What we do know is that we notice these signs or clues and attempt to translate and
understand them, often when this happens we ask what does it mean and how many times
have you heard someone say the universe is trying to give me a message here or the forces
are trying to tell me something
During In a reading, and relating to the position or fall of the card there may a message
coming to the client, this could be a real message such as a letter email or phone call or the
message may be as above in the form of some inspirational idea, some divine intervention, it
might even be in a subtlety that is not immediately recognized by the client or even the
reader. The idea here is to be aware and to start looking around and reflecting at what is going
on.
Adding this information into a reading will again expand the meaning and effectiveness of
your readings like numbers or colors you are adding new deeper elements in the following
example the judgment card falls in money and finances in our nine card spread.
We are going to combine all that we have learned thus far into this part of the reading you
should remember that this will be done for any card in any position. Color the numbers the
image and the symbols within the card although I will assume that in this case your intuition
and psychic side has noticed (or you have been drawn to the angel in this card
You have already checked up on the base meaning of the card itself from your existing tarot
books or this course as a guide, you will be adding more detail by expanding outward into the
symbols numbers and colors of the card
You may have noticed the other symbols such as the water or the tomb the trumpet and the
Red Cross, yet it is the angel that stands out to you
You notice the amount of blue refer to your color information (something you will only need
to do at the beginning soon you will just KNOW all the colors) and comment on this, you
then recall that the number twenty (from your higher number chart) has certain values so you
talk about these.
Now the angel appeals to you and there seems to be a message of some kind headed toward
the client, at a fundamental level this may mean a message is coming about some type of
inheritance or perhaps the passing on of another person, in this case it will most likely be in
the form of a phone call.
And because this card is twentieth in the tarot or two the client may find themselves being the
diplomat, in this situation being the one called upon to unite all parties involved to be the ,
enduring PEACEMAKER.
Naturally this is only one way of doing the reading there are as many different interpretations
as there are clients your understanding of the client or reading through intuition will guide
you in the right direction

A different client may give you an entirely different FEELING during the reading the
message for the client may be about a business plan that comes to fruition this plan having
overseas connections of some kind.
Again in this reading you have not really noticed or FELT the other symbols in the card.

Section two

The Nine Card Spread1

The clients shuffles and preparation
The Travel Position 2
The Health Position 2
The Education Position
3
The Career Position 3
The Social Position 3
The Ambitions Position
4
The Finances Position 4
Beginning shapes
4
Chapter 2
Squares
1
Triangles
1
Cubes 2
Pyramids
2

The Nine Card Spread

TRAVEL
Internal growth
Travel

HEALTH
Physical
Mental
spiritual

EDUCATION
To learn
To teach

SOCIAL

THE CLIENT
CAREER

ABILITIES
Existing skills some of
which are unused

MONEY

DREAMS

ASPIRATIONS

Triangles
1. TRAVEL
2. HEALTH
3. SOCIAL

Dual cards or pairs

When two cards appear in a spread the combination has meaning. It doesnt matter what
spread or system you employ in your readings, intuition will lead you to know or feel if the
meaning related to the past present or the future, usually the left is more toward the past,
while the right represents the future and the closer the cards are together the more we need to
look at the present.
While the premise may be simple it can take a lifetime of study and experience to master
these combinations and place them in relationship to the areas of your clients life. There are
seven areas that the combinations may fall into. These are Travel. Health, Education, Sex,
Relationships, Ambitions and Money, each of these areas carries different energies beliefs and
information with them.
In any spread of more than two cards you are going to have a full reading based simply on
your intuition and the cards that fall with the magician.
This is volume one in a series of books designed to break down the nine card system and
allow you to give very powerful even life changing readings. Thats said however the
information is applicable to any spread you may use.
The information in these pages is also very applicable to other decks or oracle cards as most
of them have a magician or a card that represents the magician.
With triangles we are reading a group of cards or the symbols within the group and how they
are connected to each other for example depending on what appears or falls in the travel
position there may be an effect on either the health positions the social positions or in some
cases both.
The need to travel overseas or away may affect other people in the clients life. Or our growth
as a person will have an effect on our health.
1. TRAVEL fool
2. HEALTH eight of wands
3. SOCIAL queen of wands
Lets say the cards fall as above when reading the triangle I may assume that the clients
journey through life is about to change or reach some sort of peak due to the fact that the fool
has appeared here I can tell from the eight of wands that there are some physical barriers to
overcome before this can be achieved and that these changes will almost certainly have some
effect on an important female such as a mother or older sister or older female friend.
This method will take some practice dont be a afraid of it however as it is an important way
to read or intuitively receive more information.

Squares

Third Level Of The Nine Card Spread

POSITION 1
POSITION 2
Heart of the Matter
Opposing Factor
Present Environment (Outer)
Factor for Change
Present Environment (Inner)
Secondary Factor
Primary Factor
Reinforcing Factor
POSITION 4
POSITION 5
Past
Attitudes and Beliefs
Receding Influence
Conscious Influence
Resolved Factor
Goal or Purpose
Quality to Let Go
Alternate Future
POSITION 7
POSITION 8
You as You Are
Outside Environment
You as You Could Be
Another's Point of View
You as You Present Yourself
Another's Expectations
You as You See Yourself
You as Others See You
POSITION 10
Outcome (Overall)
Outcome (Inner State)
Outcome (Actions)
Outcome (Effects)

POSITION 3
Root Cause
Unconscious Influence
Deeper Meaning
Unknown Factor
POSITION 6
Future
Approaching Influence
Unresolved Factor
Quality to Embrace
POSITION 9
Guidance
Key Factor
Hopes and Fears
Overlooked Factor

THE SEVEN QUESTIONS

Our lives are divided by time energy and areas of interest to us, as humans we tend to
separate ourselves and spread our energy and time throughout these areas, unfortunately some
get more than others and we may lack things or direction in areas we may even feel through
our perception that an area of life is Ok, when in fact we are compensating for it through
another,
In the nine card spread the first seven cards deal with those areas, the cards that fall in those
positions can be very helpful in determining whats going on in the clients life.

TRAVEL

HEALTH

EDUCATION

SEX
Interpersonal
relationships

THE
CLIENTS
CARD
AND
CAREER

Social
relationships

AMBITIONS

MONEY

DREAMS

Another way of thinking about this is to assume that as humans moving through life there are
seven areas of concern that we are most apt to ask questions about. At times we want to know
about relationships, at others times we want to know what the future holds with our careers,
we become concerned about money or material possessions at one stage of life and later we
tend to let that go.
We will first deal with the cards individually as they fall in each of the positions, keeping
mind that this book deals only with the magician, and as there is only one magician in a deck
of tarot the meaning will be individual to the position it falls and to the client. Your intuition
is going to play a big part in determining the direction or flow of your reading.
To begin have the client mix the deck while they do this ask them to focus on an area of life
they may be concerned with, or on a question they have, and to keep this to themselves as
you do not want to be influenced by any information you may have or your feelings on a
matter.
Now ask the client to divide the deck into three piles anyway they wish. Either by cutting
three piles or dealing the cards down one at a time. It doesnt matter how the three piles are
achieved as long as you have three roughly equal stacks of cards.
Ask the client to place them back into one pile in any order they desire.
Now deal the cards face down, from the top of the deck onto the table in a three by three
formation, dealing out
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Dealing the last card position 5 last placing it in the center of the spread, deal this last card
face up. The last card (dealt in position five) represents the client, or something about them.
With their life being spread out around them.
After shuffling or mixing the cards and returning them to a single pile you have placed nine
cards on the table, in a three by three pattern eight of them are face down, the center card is
face up, to begin your reading turn over the first card the travel position.
The following sections deal with the magician card falling in the prime positions.
Prime positions are not to be confused with the reading as a full once you have the rime
positions we add levels and other cards to complete the reading.
The prime positions are
Travel
Health
Education
Relationships
Ambitions
Money

Travel The magician is the first card down.

We travel in several different ways and we travel via different methods throughout our lives,
we can pack our bags and go on holiday, we travel through various stages of life and we grow
through learning and education in short each of us travels through our lives, in fact it is this
movement that lets us know that we are alive. Things that are alive generally tend to move in
some way.
The magician card falling here can denote several things, one that there is some barrier to
movement or travel, or that things are going well. It will depend on what other cards come
out and where your intuition leads you, we can for example move location or house, change
areas, change jobs, and even change families in todays society. Whatever it is, the magician
denotes something unknown and possible a lack of resources.

Health The magician is the second card down.

PERSONAL ENERGIES
There are six basic energies that we need to both express and fulfil in our lives if we are to be
complete humans. If these energies are not directed in the right way, they will find a way to
reach fulfilment. Often this is redirected into areas that are negative unhealthy and wistful. An
example might be the gambler who only gambles when he feels that he has no control in his
life, at home he is emasculated at work he has no control. In fact for most of his life he feels a
lack of control. However when he is at the casino or sitting in front of a poker machine, he
feels as wrong as it may be, that he at least has control here. That he gets to push the button,
he chooses the numbers that will determine his fate win or lose, he feels as if he has some
control over the events. This of course is just a feeling. It conflicts with reality and in some
cases, such as addiction it can end up being destructive and life destroying. Yet he feels or has
a sense of control.
Another common example is the male or female, who moves from
one promiscuous sexual situation to the next,, the need for
connection drives them from one bad or dangerous situation to
another then another, because at some stage this person feels
connected perhaps even loved, these feelings because they are not
real quickly degenerate, thus the individual again seeks the next
fulfilling relationship. Sex and love become intertwined,
Energies or drivers are not like motivations, we might be motivated
to make money, yet driven by a fear of being poor and destitute, or
driven by our fathers words, dont be lazy son these six energies
might be better thought of as drivers. You will not be motivated by
them, yet without them you may be driven to act and behave in ways
that are not beneficial to your life coals. And here is another
important thing, , as you begin to find balance and these energies
begin to work for you rather than against you , a very interesting side effect often occurs, and
that is e find purpose. Many clients tell me that they know they have a purpose in life. They
just cant see what that purpose is. Bring balance to these six basic human needs or energies
will help you to clarify and discover your purpose, discover what it is that the universe has in
store for you...
The human psyche is designed in such a way that if our fundamental needs are not met we
will find something that fills the gap, and that something will be the nearest thing to the
needed feeling that we can find.

The Energy of Connection

We all need to belong somewhere Love is the need for connection with other people and the
desire to love and be loved. Everybody needs to be able to express
love, to both give and receive love, be it from friends family or
spouses. Without it we will seek it in all the wrong places. This may
be a fundamental reason behind the popularity of some cults and
religious movements as they seem to offer love and connection (in
the initial stages anyway) many disconnected young males find
themselves being drawn toward street gangs in an effort to belong,
and many young girls will make life changing mistakes just to
belong, To gain that sense of giving and receiving love.
We need to love or to feel connected to other people in order to
thrive. Infants who are deprived of contact with other human beings
will die just from the lack of human touch. People often use words
like togetherness, passion, unity, warmth, tenderness and desire to
describe their need for love and connection.

Education The magician is the third card down.

Growth Energy
Ever wonder why older people go back to school. We have an innate need to constantly
develop intellectually, emotionally, physically and spiritually.
We are in a state of continuous growth even though many do not
always realize it, have a look at what youre doing right now reading
and learning, growing. When we stop growing, we in essence die.
We develop emotionally with each life experience that we have; we
develop and grow intellectually every day with each exposure to new
knowledge practically; we all aspire spiritually as we contemplate
the universe around us and our place in that universe. If we dont
grow we can become stagnant and have a feeling of being blocked or
held back. Then we will tend to try and find that feeling, fulfil that
need as with the other energies we will through lack of knowledge
fill that void with the wrong things, with anything that doesnt make
us feel stagnant. To be complete we need to be constantly moving
learning and changing we need growth

Energy through Significance

Personal power through significance is the need to feel important, needed and wanted, to
have a place in the world and for that place to be worthwhile. Our sense of significance is
most often validated by comparing ourselves and our
accomplishments or failures to somebody else. We need personal
pride in what we have achieved, and that pride is usually based on
some evaluation by other people. Did you know one of the biggest
causes of feeling rejected, is actually a lack of feeling significant or
needed that you are worthwhile, that you dont reach someone elses
standards. It is this need to feel significant that drives us to be
competitive, to improve our performance at work and is also a major
clue with people who are perfectionists. Those who feel they can
never achieve enough. Whats really driving them is the need to feel
of value or significant.

Career The magician is the fourth card down.

Energy of certainty Variety and Uncertainty
Just as we need to grow and we need a certain amount of certainty in our lives, we also need
stimulus and change. We need to be confident that things are going
to work out, that the sun will come up each morning and that we can
trust our friends. At the same time our lives are incomplete (read
boring) unless we experience varying degrees of sensory stimulation.
As developing humans we need both emotional and physical
challenges in order to stretch our range of development. Without this
stimulus we can often feel an undefined and vague sense of fear, not
knowing what tomorrow may bring is negative uncertainty
instability. Experiencing suspense or surprise however is positive
uncertainty this is one reason the entertainment industry is so popular
it fulfils this innate need we all have. We need change with some
amount of conflict and crisis; this may help you to understand why
soap operas are addictive to some people, what they lack in real life
is supplied by these TV shows.

Relationships the magician is the sixth card down.

Energy in Contribution
Each of us, whether we admit it or not need to go beyond the narrow scope of our own needs
and give freely to others without expectation of reward or
compensation. I will often see people look vaguely into space and
wonder what they are contributing to the world at large or indeed to
their own small part of the world. What is the world at large
contributing to your life and what are you contributing to the world?
Many people feel the need to donate to charities, or involve
themselves in other work to fulfil this need. This energy is what
makes our life meaningful, and there is a sense of meaningless
without it that (in extreme cases has led to suicide) will have us
aimlessly wandering around looking for something to do, or
directing that meaning into the wrong areas, a good example of this
is somebody who has a really misinformed view about what money
is and how it works, they will draw meaning of life from money, not
what that money enables them to contribute. Do you feel you are
making a difference and giving back? If not, have a look at the contributions you are making.

Money The magician is the seventh card down.

Creative Energy
As humans we need to be creative, it is a fundamental part of our nature, whether it be
creating a new business, artwork or writing or designing that new
train diorama we need to creative, without it we will fell incomplete
and purposeless as a race we would not have survived unless some of
us were creative enough to turn a stick into a weapon
To the body there is little difference in the sensations of gratification
and creativity, both give a sensation of wellbeing and purpose, that
something worthwhile has occurred, the problem is that gratification,
especially instant gratification is temporary fading very quickly, we
need to seek it again almost straight away, while creativity lasts, if
we create something from a macram hanging thingy, to writing a
book or painting a picture we receive a feeling of both worth and
satisfaction.
And we are involved in the process of creation; it takes time,
dedication and focus to create anything. even drawing a sketch on a
piece of paper takes more of your mental processing and faculties, than going out and finding
various forms of instant gratification, even if at the time it seems like your putting in effort,
you should consider the results and the outcome of what you are achieving.

Ambition The magician is the eighth card down.

WHAT ARE LIMITING BELIEFS?
We each have beliefs about the world and the way it works. Our experiences through life
have ingrained within us deep-rooted ideas about what is, or is not, what is possible what is
not possible; what and who we are, or are not, and what we are capable of doing, and what is
beyond our reach
Through this process we are going to examine some of the beliefs
you have retained from your own childhood?
Some of these ideas may be valid; such as eating properly, washing
your hands after going to the toilet, not talking to strangers and
working hard for the boss, other beliefs may be wildly off the mark,
like ATM cards are unending sources of money, Ill never be rich, or
overweight people are jolly. These ideas
may have been inherited from a family
member or picked up through and reinforced
through feeling good and comfortable after
sweet and fatty foods, all this occurred
before we were old enough to examine them
subjectively. Either way, our beliefs can
affect our decisions and choices, whether or not we realize it.
You know as an adult in your logical mind that credit cards are not
magical money making devices, however as a child watching your
mother use one to pay for the shopping you may have ,even for a
short time, believed or wished that they were, after all your mother
handed over the card and everything was taken care of. This simple
erroneous belief may be affecting you now in adult life and could be
partly responsible for your dept. or savings problems now.
Even though you dont believe that credit cards are magical there are times when without
knowing it you are acting as if it they were true, handing over the credit card when you know
you shouldnt.
Our beliefs are conclusions we have drawn based on our experiences as children. If we grow
up in a warm, nurturing and supportive family we will have very different beliefs than if we
grow up in a painful, shaming and abusive family.
Dad comes home at least twice a week complaining about the foreman at work and what an
A-hole he is, years later, you dont like foreman at any of your jobs and youre not even
really sure why you dont like them, all you know is they are as a rule all A-holes
One constant is, at the time we chose any belief, no matter what that belief may be, it made
sense at the time. It was originally designed to protect or benefit us in some way, therefore no
belief is unintelligent, or bad, or even wrong. Beliefs serve a purpose and sometimes our lives
change so much that old beliefs become a mismatch for our lives as we change.
The problem is sometimes beliefs developed as children don't always serve us well as adults.
We have changed our situation has changed yet our deeper beliefs have not changed with us.
As children we may truly believe that credit cards are magical money producing devices.
That bosses are evil that you can have super powers that mum or dad will protect you that
you never have to do anything alone. It makes perfect sense at the time to believe this, some
of the adults around you may have even supported or reinforced these beliefs by the way they
acted and the things they did.
As adults however these values are seriously dated, even dangerous beliefs such as bosses
are always hard to get on with, is not going to make your working life very comfortable,

holding onto the belief that Saving money is for boring nerds is detrimental to creating the
kind of life we really want. Most of us have probably worked through beliefs like these.
Other beliefs are much more subtle than this and lay beneath more obvious ones.
Perhaps as a child you did believe that credit cards were enchanted money producing bits of
plastic, and while you have grown up and no longer believe that, you do as an adult you have
a persistent problem with being in debt. Cant balance the books, always robbing Peter to pay
Paul, are basically not responsible with money. We might then look below this for a belief
about fear of responsibility. Something like, "Responsible people are boring." and under that
might be "Boring people are lonely."
This program will help you to clear or smash through the belief that boring people are
lonely, I cant do anything alone, I hate being overweight but its how I am destined to
be Im not smart enough not pretty enough I come from the wrong background. This
allows you the freedom to begin being more responsible. You would begin noticing yourself
make wiser choices about paying bills, eating working saving Spending your money more
wisely and so on. Or simply aligning your life habits, viewing success more positively and
taking that first step forward

THE SYMPTOMS
HOW TO IDENTIFY LIMITING BELIEFS
Another way of telling or determining that you are being held back by your own limiting
belief or Santa clauses is to have a very honest look at yourself and why you do things the
way you do them, then of course we all know people who
continually engage in self-destructive behavior. Friends, relatives,
children and work colleges who do things that run against their own
best interests? If you or someone you know continues to employ
troublesome behavior even though it consistently leads to a state of
utter misery? Then there is a very good chance that some limiting
belief or fear is holding you back not allowing you to move forward.
In other words (and be honest with yourself here) if you are repeating
bad behavior even though you know its bad and self-destructive.
The person who always dates the same type of loser or cheater we all
know the type of person she is more often than not very intelligent
even excellent at work dresses well seems as they say to have it all
together, yet somehow she always seems to end up with "dead-beat"
guys? Then there is the lonesome fellow who always seems to pick
partners that cheat on him he is the veritable cuckold. Both these
people appear to repeat this pattern over and over again despite any advice or common sense.
Then there are those talented and industrious people we all know, those that you know if they
could only break the mold, shift the pattern, would be millionaires based on their talent alone
perhaps you or someone you know is a singer and artist a standup comedian or someone you
know would be successful in their own business, you know this because they are always
talking about it. Yet when it comes to doing something about it they can never get the first
foot out the door.
While unemployed friends take it easy living the high life," you are
industriously hard working, paying living bills, yet always Struggling
to make ends meet. Finally, you begin to question the wisdom of your
behavior and start to visualize a new job a stepping stone to greater
things or running your business part time just to get things going, Ill
build up from there you say to yourself. Or you say Ive had enough
of this person in my life I need to move on so you dump him or her,
only to replace them with a "clone a look-a-like". You end up in the
exact same job in the same industry only in a different location with a
foreman, or manager you despise even more than the last, you see
your new relationship heading down the same path as before and you
begin to feel lost, lonely and not a little afraid.
To everyone else your friends and family and possibly your therapist, the warning signs are
fairly obvious, youve done it again you however are oblivious to them.
Have you been telling yourself the same story over and over again, have you been promising
yourself for the last ten years that you will lose 20 pounds, to no avail? Yet somehow you find
that you are never able to adhere to a fitness program. Have you been promising yourself that
youll get fit, find a better job, go back to school, do a course, start that radio show, write a
book, make that film, or anything else, for a very long time now?
You know intrinsically that you can do the things you want to do, you keep telling yourself
that you can, but thats as far as you get, telling yourself, You don't like the way you look,
youre not happy with your savings, you keep telling yourself that tomorrow you will start
but tomorrow never seems to come. You don't like the way you feel. So you keep saying Ill

go to the gym. You are concerned about health risks, so you tell yourself that giving up
smoking or exercising would be the best thing right now but something stops you from
successfully taking that first step.
You are chronically late with your bills. Are you constantly robbing Peter to pay Paul and
somehow convincing yourself that it will be Ok that your only a week or a month late, each
time this happens do you promise yourself that it wont happen again?. Yet that never
happens. Something gets in your way? You continue to create this unpleasant anxiety
producing state of affairs? The saddest part is that you actually know youre doing it.
You have trouble saying "no". Is it difficult for you to be assertive (not aggressive) and say
no"? You end up fulfilling the needs or in some cases the demands and requests of others as
your own needs are delayed or go unfulfilled altogether. Which of our little Santa clauses is it
that stops you from developing a healthy sense of entitlement?
Do you procrastinate? Is it your habit to put things off, this behaviour makes you unhappy,
yet you can't seem to organize yourself to get things started. Believe it or not procrastination
is a very big sign that you may be protecting yourself from something more on this later for
the moment ask yourself (again be honest) What is really interfering with your capacity to get
things done now?
You have difficulty effectively setting and achieving life goals. You know that your life isn't
going the way that you had planned or visualized. Your career goals are sort of concrete yet
vague at the same time you are going with the flow and that flow doesnt always flow the
way you would like.
Your love life is actually sad and you spent at least twenty minutes each day wishing it was
better that they would change, or that you had the Moxie to leave, yet you can't seem to
figure out what you want and how to go about pursuing it. Then you realize, even though
youve heard a thousand times, read it in numerous motivational books, seen it on TV and
heard it from friends that you never actually taken the time to sit down and write out your
goals.

Dreams and Reality the magician is the last card down.

THAT VOICE YOU HEAR
We have fairly well established that when we talk to ourselves, we are talking ourselves out
of things, usually really good ideas; we may have talked ourselves
out of success, business or relationships. Yet we dont just talk to
ourselves, we also listen, and most of the time, that voice we hear is
not ours. That voice is a shadow, an echo of past voices, our parents,
teachers, friends and society at large, everything we have heard
echoes and bounces around in our heads until needed.
We get our doing and communicating models from our parents, how
we communicate with the world usually develops at an early age
from our opposite sex parent and how to do things in the world
comes from our same sex parent. As a small girl the first males that
you may have communicated with was your father or the person that
took on the fatherhood role in your life, for the rest of your life you
have been using that model, developed as a child, to talk to and
communicate with all the males in your life.
In other words, you have been talking to all men as if they were your
father, then expecting at a subconscious level, them to react the same way your father would
have. When they dont you become displaced. Things dont seem right, or it may feel that
they dont understand you, or that you are not being listened to, all because you are not
getting the reactions and responses you expect.
The same is true for males. As small boys, from infancy your mother instilled in you a way of
communicating with all females. Later in life, when that communication model is so
ingrained and natural for you , that you dont see it, its just the way you are, there can be
problems when talking to women, because some of them dont react or converse, back to you
the way you internally expect them to, like your Mum would.
At the same time we get our doing or operating model from the same sex parent, whether we
like it or not, to a very large degree we become our parents. Girls learn to behave and operate
the same way their mothers do, while boys learn what to do in the world and how to react to
things from their fathers. Cast your mind back to any argument or debate that your parents
might have had, you will have learned from your you opposite sex parent how to
communicate in the argument, what to say , how to say it, then what to do about that
argument, how to react from your same sex parent. If you are female and you saw your father
raise his voice at certain points, that is what you will do, and if after the argument your mum
stormed out of the room or shut herself away in a shell. To a very large degree That is what
you will do,.
Later in life we become so used to this, so good at it we dont always check to see if this is
the best way of doing things, the most productive way, or of dealing with the world and
communicating our ideas and needs that we fall into the trap of repeating this behaviour over
and over again. It becomes out normal way of operating.
At the same time we are listening internally to all the things our parents said, after all, what
was the first word that most of us understood as children, the first word we were able to react
to, NO, the first word that had any real meaning for us was a negative. The word NO
there may be the constant echo of the word NO that rears itself in most situations that either
or both of your parents may have disagreed with. The sad part is we dont realize we are
doing this it becomes natural for us.
Next we listen to other members of our family and our friends, there may be an uncle or aunt
that we admired or felt love from as a child, there may also be some who we felt less than
love from, yet we still listen to the echoes, the shadows of their voices, their opinions and

ways of doing things, anyone who had any emotional contact with us, has a lasting effect on
us through to adulthood. So much of the time we feel that we are operating under our own
will, having our own opinions, we are not. We are simply echoing the views and opinions we
learned from others. These others include teachers, keep in mind that much of the education
system is designed to tell us, what to think not how to think.
Different part of us can learn things at different times, in different ways, at different speeds.
We each made up of many parts, no this doesnt mean we are schizophrenic, it means, there
are different parts of us in the drivers seat at different times. We are different in various
situations that we find ourselves in.
You may be a mother a father yet you are also a son or daughter, you can be a friend a
confidant, a worker, a manager a tradesman, a cook a house cleaner, a wife a husband along
with a variety of other things, such as counsellor to your friends, nurse to your children and
lover to your partner. You are all of them, yet not at the same time.
When you arrive at your parents house, regardless of your age or circumstances, most of us
click into son or daughter mode, and yet later when we arrive back home, we click into
husband or wife mode or mother or father, each situation or circumstances, allows a different
part of us to step into the drivers seat of our personality, we are different with our friends
than we are with our parents.
Then depending on who and where we are and what part is driving us, we may be listening to
different stories, believing different truths and operating, acting in different ways. And often
these different ways can be in conflict with what is best for us. One part of us may want
success in a certain area of life, while at the same another part of us, wants and believes that
something entirely different is best for us.
A good example of this is the man who believes that road rage is stupid, public displays of
anger are unproductive, embarrassing and only cause stress and concern, which is true. He
also believes that being on time for work is really good, he earns more money, the boss
respects him, and at the end of the day he feels that he has put in a good effort, even sleeps
better at night, which is also true.
Then one day he finds himself stuck in traffic and may be late for work, next thing he knows
he is feeling disjointed, angry at the other drivers for holding him up, and could, given the
right circumstances end up exhibiting road rage.
Both his beliefs where true, being on time for work, and road rage is for idiots, yet they could
not both be true in the same place. Many parents exhibit similar behaviour when it comes to
children, a part of them has one truth, another part, another truth, both of which are true, yet
given the right time and place these truths can be in conflict with each other, different parts
are listening to different messages. Its Ok for the kids to act in a certain way, but its bad
parenting if somebody else allows their kids to do the same. But the way you do it is always
different. It was Ok in my day, but my kids will learn better values.
Different parts of us listens to different echoes or shadows of what we have been told at
various points in our live, the child within you has different values and beliefs than the adult
the parent or the worker. The part of you that wants to be successful in business may have
different values beliefs and listen to different memories than the part of you that wants to be a
good wife or husband, there is an internal conflict within must of us that is easier to avoid
altogether than confront and deal with.
So what do you do about it? Firstly become aware that you might be listening to voices from
the past, listening to voices that are not yours, become aware of the difference between when
you talk to yourself and when you listen, talking to ourselves involves an internal dialogue, at
other times we sit or wander mentally almost in contemplation, thats when we are listening,
and we are listening to our feelings, more than to words.

Listening may involve vague emotions such as guilt, we want something, like success in
business or a certain amount in the bank, part of us is prepared to save, work extra hours, and
put money in the bank and become self-disciplined enough not to spend any unnecessary
money until we reach our goal. Yet for some weird reason we feel guilt, there is no real
reason for it, it is simply there, that vague feeling that if I save money Im actually hording
and being nasty and somebody else might miss out,, this is when we are listening, with our
feelings, to those voices from the past, the voices that told us that it is wrong to be rich, that
having money is not spiritual, that rich people step on others peoples toes and are generally
not nice,,
We might feel that it is time to leave a disastrous relationship we talk to ourselves about it,
decide to leave, then fear steps in, the fear of being alone, fear that the other partner may not
like it, fall into depression blame you and possibly even get violent. These feelings are not
expressed in words as much as they are in feeling emotions and vague sensations, hence we
stop, we stay where we are much longer than we should, we are listening not to our own
voices, but to those of the past.
So train yourself to become aware of the internal feelings of difference, between when you
talk to yourself and when you listen.

Where do you spend most of your time?

Letting go of the past
A question I often ask my clients is, where do you spend most of
your time, in the past, the present or the future? If you were to really
think about it, which of these occupies your thoughts the most, do
you dwell in the past, going over old mistakes, wishing that you had
done it better or not at all. Do you regret things you di, or didnt do?
Are you hopeful of the future, how much time do you spend planning
what you will do when and if you win lotto, or are you cognizant of
the present what youre doing right now and the choices you are
making in the now.
There is very little we can do about the past (except in some cases
apologize) the future is uncertain; we can make rough predictions but
that is all. Realistically all you have is right now, this moment in
time, you are certain about NOW and nothing else, and what you do
now determines the type of future you will have.
If I walk up to a person and slap them in the face I am guaranteeing
a type of future, a future where I will get slapped back or have other nasty things happen to
me. If on the other hand if I am nice helpful and thoughtful, then I am guaranteeing a
different future on that will benefit both me and other people.
If I chose to do things now that are productive and will get me closer to my dreams then I am
projecting those actions into the future and the chances of me reaching those goals are getter.
If I chose to do nothing or to let my fears and natural procrastination get the better of me,
then that is the future I am heading toward.
Everything you do now creates a possible future, this is like a superpower once you
understand it and apply it to your life

Self Awareness
Do You Really Know What You Want? Ever Had That Feeling You Were Destined For
Greater Things But Just Cant See What Those Greater Things Are

*Self Honesty Empathy Open-Ness

Dishonesty, Insensitivity, Tunnel Vision
It Cant Be Done
The World Is Flat So Get Used To It
*I Understand Where I Am Coming From
Try Walking In Someone Else Shoes For A Mile.

Self Esteem
Do You Think You Can Do It?
Self Depreciation, Self Doubt, Self Consciousness
*Self Confidence, Self Respect Self Worth,
Ever Thought Id Rather Be Someone Else.
* I Like Myself

Self-Control
Do You Have The Self Control To See This Through After All Its Your Dream So Who Would
You Be Letting Down If You Didnt Do What Needed To Be Done.
Irresponsibly, Leaving Things To Chance, Not Making A Decision
*Self Determination Volition, Choice
It Happens To Me
*I Make It Happen
*Life Is Like A Do It Yourself Project

Self Motivation
Fear Compulsion Inhibition
*Desire for Change Excited By Change, The Urge To Change
I Have To, I Cant
*I Want To, I Can,

Self Expectancy
What Do You Expect Of Yourself?
Pessimism, Despair, Cynicism
*Optimism, Enthusiasm, Hope
With My Luck It Just Had To Fail
*Good Today Better Tomorrow If Nothing Else This Stuff Up Has
Taught Me How Not To Stuff Up Again Ive Learned From It.

Self Image
Dark Images, Worry, Neurosis
*Synthetic Experience, Creativity, Visualization
Im Average
*Im Changing

Self Direction
Aimless, Non Specific, Wandering
*Goal Seeking, Purpose Orientated, Cybernetic
I Just Cant Decide
*I Have A Game Plan

Self Discipline
Repetitive Errors, Inconsistency, Discouragement
*Achievement, Drill, Practice, Simulation
Im In The Habit Of Losing
* Practice Winning Mentally

Self Dimension
Are You Aware Of Your Three Dimensional Position In Time And Space
Shallowness, Ego Based, Superficial
*Total Person, Humanist, Visionary
Do Unto Others Before They Can Do It To You
*I Am In Harmony With Nature Spirit And Life When You Win I
Win When We Win Nature Wins

Self Projection
Do You Project Yourself Into The Future? Not day Dreaming But Projecting
Aloof, Unfriendly Unkempt
*Personable, Supportive, Impressive
Dont Tell Me About Your Facts, Ive Already Made My Mind Up
*Tell Me More About Your Needs Dreams And Desires
How You Walk Talk Look And Listen Is How You Are.

THE CARDS
The Magician in the Tarot and Magick
The symbolic images of the Magician in the Tarot decks explain the essence of magick and
the required attitude of its practicioners
This card has the number 1, because it is the card of beginnings and everything you need for
a good start: self-confidence, creativity, determination, willpower, self-control, skill, craft,
purposeful action, energy, activity and vitality. It is the drive to choose your own direction, to
realize your Self. Ofcourse it is also the card of magick and the magician him-or herself,
communicating between heaven and earth, thus creating and materializing new possibilities.

Rider-Waite Tarot

Scapini Tarot

In the Rider-Waite Tarot we see a person dressed in white: his actions are pure (meaning in
harmony with himself and beneficial to the world). The white band around his head shows
that he has thought over his actions first and approved them to serve his higher self. The red
cloth he wears depicts the passion and desire he puts into his magick. Red is the color of
Aries and the planet Mars, saying: "I want this and I want it now." With his right raised arm
he holds a white wand of pure creative light and through his left downward arm he channels
these energies to earth. Thus he symbolizes the coming together of macrocosmos and
microcosmos through creativity and the love and truth of the open heart, since the center of
his left and right arm is between the 5th chakra (throat-chakra, creativity and speech) and the
4th chakra (heart-chakra, unconditional love). Above his head lies the lemniscate, symbol of
infinity, transformation and high spiritual power.
On the table lie the attributes for successful magick
The sword symbolizes mental power by single-pointed thought and focus.
The wand points at the willpower, determination and energy necessary to create something
new.
The cup tells that he has a passionate desire to perform his magick, and that he feels love and
humility towards the laws of nature.

The disk reveals that he is skilled in his magick, and that the combination of concentrated
thought, desire, willpower and skill will lead to successful magick.
The background of the card is yellow; the color of the god and planet Mercury: thinking,
communicating, traveling between the heavenly world of possibilities and the earthly world
of materialization, and also traveling between our personality and our soul-self. The red roses
symbolize passionate love. The white lilies, flowers of transformation, point at pure love.

Tarot de Marseilles

Thoth Tarot

In both the medieval Scapini Tarot and the old Tarot de Marseilles the magician wears a big
hat, emphasizing the importance of focused thought and knowledge. He works on a highly
instable table with 3 legs, what means that he changes probabilities into a solid physical
reality. In the Scapini Tarot the magician stands on the skin of a crocodile. The crocodile is a
symbol of vision and creative expression (in ancient Egypt they were considered to be
oracles), as well as a symbol of instinctive nature (the beast within) mastered by the
magician. The figure in Scapini's Tarot is mostly dressed in the red of deep emotional desire
and dedication towards his magick; the magician of the Tarot de Marseilles has reached more
balance between the active, male (red) part of his personality and the receptive, female (blue)
part of himself together with a mature portion of thinking (yellow).
In Crowleys Thoth Tarot the magician wears nothing at all: he is the ever-young, joyful, open
and spontaneous Mercury, who believes that everything is possible. He has become a selfconfident juggler, reaching the skies and creating himself a new world. Crowley writes that
Mercury is the infinite creation. The magical wand behind Mercury is surrounded by the two
snakes of life (male) and death (female). They have taken the place of the lemniscate in the
Rider-Waite Tarot.
THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE
Basic Card Symbols
A wheel turning clockwise with rising/falling figures or beasts on it. Waite also includes a
good many hebrew letters and alchemical symbols. Often there is a sphinx perched atop the
wheel.
Basic Tarot Story
From out of hiding comes the Fool, into the sunlight, as if being pulled up from some low,
dark point on a wheel. It is time for a change. Staff in hand, he heads back out into the world,
expecting nothing. But, strangely, things seem to happen to him as the hours go by, good
things. Wandering by water wheel a woman offers him a drink in a golden chalice, and then
urges him to keep the cup, just because she likes him; as he wanders by a windmill, he stops

to watch a young man swinging a sword; when he expresses his admiration of the weapon,
the young man presses it into his hand, insisting that he take it.
Finally, when he comes upon a rich merchant, sitting in a wagon, right over one of the
wheels, the man hands him a bag of money. "I like giving away money," explains the
Merchant, "and I decided, just randomly, that the tenth person who walked past me today
would get this money. You're the tenth." The Fool hardly thought he could still be surprised,
but he is. It is as if everything good that he ever did in his life is being paid back to him,
three-fold. All luck this day is his.
Basic Tarot Meaning
With Jupiter as its ruling planet, the Wheel of Fortune is all about big things, luck, change,
fortune. Almost always good fortune. Almost every definition of this card indicates
abundance, happiness, elevation, luck. A change that just happens, and brings with it great
joy.
As much as the Tarot is about what a Querent can do to change their life or self, there are
cards that admit that sometimes you just get lucky. This card can mean movement, change
and evolution, but its primary meaning always seems to say that such changes will seem to
come out of the blue, a stroke of good, unexpected fortune. The person you're reading for is
going to get that money, that job, that promotion, that special person, that break they've been
waiting for. Call it Karmic payback for all the good things they've done in life, destiny or just
luck, but whatever lotteries are out there, large or small, they've just won one.

Cubes

Wands
The mental word
How we look at the world
Cups
The emotional world
How we feel about the world
Pentagrams
The physical world
What we have in the world
Swords
The inner mental world
What we do about what we see

Appendixes
COLOR CHART
RED - Red governs active sexual life and denser, earthly activities. Red is active, energetic
and determined.
GREEN - The color of growth, expansion, joy, clarity and mental stimulation.
BLUE - Implies a cooling, calming and harmonious situation. Blue is found in the higher
frequencies.
ORANGE - The gentle warming effects of orange encourage calmness, wellbeing, and social
graces. A dominance of orange indicates a social person or situation.
YELLOW - The sunny, joyful color of strength, enthusiasm, confidence, creativity,
discipline, wisdom, logic, and the ability to overcome ignorance and evil.
VIOLET - A spiritual color which indicates understanding, stability, harmony and royalty.
BROWN - Earthy, practical solutions to life's problems.
BLACK - The absence of light or color indicates mystery, death, rapid change and negativity.
WHITE - Includes all of the colors of the light spectrum. It represents perfection, purity,
spirituality, cleanliness, and all things sacred.
GREY - Unclear intentions, neutrality, lack of movement, and dark thoughts.

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Timing Events in Tarot Readings
The combination of Tarot and Astrology can allow the Reader to pinpoint almost any day of
the year when making a prediction. The twelve zodiac cards in the Major Arcana are
associated with thirty days, while the Minor Cards 2-10 represent ten days each. The Knight,
Queen and Prince of each element also represent 30 days, but, there is a 10 day overlap
between them and the zodiac signs.
Tarot and Astrology
Major
Moon

Court Cards

Mino
r
10
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
2

Decanates
20-30 Pisces
0-10 Aries
10-20 Aries
20-30 Aries
0-10 Taurus

Dates

Mar 11- Mar 20

Mar 21- Mar 30
Mar 31- Apr 10
Apr 11- Apr 20
Apr 21- Apr 30
May 1 - May
10-20 Taurus
10
May 11 - May
20-30 Taurus
20
May 21 - May
0-10 Gemini
31
10-20 Gemini Jun 1 - Jun 10
20-30 Gemini Jun 11 - Jun 20
0-10 Cancer
Jun 21 - Jul 1
10-20 Cancer
Jul 2 - Jul 11
20-30 Cancer
Jul 12 - Jul 21
0-10 Leo
Jul 22 - Aug 1
10-20 Leo
Aug 2 - Aug 11
Aug 12 - Aug
20-30 Leo
22
0-10 Virgo
Aug 23 - Sep 1
10-20 Virgo
Sep 2 - Sep 11
20-30 Virgo
Sep 12 - Sep 22
0-10 Libra
Sep 23 - Oct 2
10-20 Libra
Oct 3 - Oct 12
20-30 Libra
Oct 13 - Oct 22
0-10 Scorpio
Oct 23 - Nov 2
10-20 Scorpio Nov 3 - Nov 12
Nov 13 - Nov
20-30 Scorpio
22
0-10 Sagittarius Nov 23 - Dec 2
10-20
Dec 3 - Dec 12
Sagittarius
20-30
Dec 13 - Dec
Sagittarius
21
0-10 Capricorn Dec 22 - Dec
30

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4
5
6
7
8
9
Queen Wands 10

10-20 Capricorn
20-30 Capricorn
0-10 Aquarius
10-20 Aquarius
20-30 Aquarius
0-10 Pisces
10-20 Pisces
20-30 Pisces

Dec 31 - Jan 9
Jan 10 -Jan 19
Jan 20 - Jan 29
Jan 30 - Feb 8
Feb 9 - Feb 18
Feb 19 - Feb 28
Mar 1 - Mar 10
Mar 11 - Mar
20

Note the orderly structure to the attributions, which should help memorization. Good Tarot
decks will have most of this information on each card. The information above can also be
used to assign a Significator according to birth date.

NUMBERS AND THEIR MEANINGS

1- LEADER
Traits: original, independent, courageous ACHIEVER, strength, creative
The number 1 symbolizes the principle of BEGINNING or initiation. It signifies that a person
must learn to stand alone, be assertive, and achieve recognition for his or her talents.
Therefore, the 1 is ambitious, an achiever, and fares best when it is allowed to demonstrate its
own ideas. It is self-sufficient, inventive, willful, and dominant. Its energy is masculine,
focused, and rational.
Gifts: Self-sufficiency, invention, mastery
Challenges: Stubbornness, egotism, bluntness, ambition, dominance,
willfulness, impulsiveness
Personal Goal: Establishing individuality; making a name
Fears: Being overlooked; not using talents
Succeeds as: Writer, director, inventor, president, public figure, business owner, designer
2 - PARTNER
Traits: diplomat, friend, artist, enduring PEACEMAKER, gentle, insightful, sensitive
The number 2 symbolizes the principle of coming together with another, and is interested in
partnership. It signifies that a person is generally supportive, and that issues of intimacy and
diplomacy are at work. The 2 is very aware of others' needs as well as its own, and strives to
demonstrate friendliness, understanding and tact. It is artistic, shy, thorough, and analytical.
Its energy is feminine and magnetic.
Gifts: Charm, understanding, supportiveness, loving
Challenges: Self-consciousness, fear, hesitation, over-conscientiousness, details
Personal Goal: Reciprocal relationships; security
Fears: Unknown, unplanned change, being alone, making a mistake
Succeeds as: Artist, technician, psychologist, spouse, healer, bookkeeper, coordinator
3 OPTIMIST
See also The Three Energies
Traits: creative, social, easygoing VISIONARY, humorous, energetic, spontaneous
The number 3 symbolizes the principle of growth. When the initiating force of 1 unites with
the germinating energy of 2 there is fruitfulness -- 3. It signifies that there is a synthesis
present -- that imagination and an outpouring of energy is in action. The 3 is optimistic and
fun-loving, and strives to uplift and color its surroundings. Its energy is enlivening, youthful,
and enthusiastic.
Gifts: Enthusiasm, imagination, versatility
Challenges: Exaggeration, lack of direction, unfinished projects, sensitivity to criticism,
laziness
Personal Goal: Enjoy life, stay young, play
Fears: Loss of youth, restriction, boredom
Succeeds as: Motivator, coach, writer, musician, artist, parent, salesperson, communicator/all
media
4 - PRACTICAL
Traits: application, determination, serious BUILDER, doer, manager, traditional
The number 4 symbolizes the principle of putting ideas into form. It signifies work and
productivity. The 4 is constructive, realistic, traditional and cautious. It is the number of
system, order, and management.

Gifts: Concentration, realistic values, system

Challenges: Rigidity, too cautious, limited viewpoint
Personal Goal: Accomplishment, security
Fears: Sudden change, deprivation, loss
Succeeds as: Earth scientist, business owner, developer, lawyer, administrator, office worker,
body worker
5 - PROGRESS
Traits: freedom, activity, influence ADVENTURER, sensualist, promoter, flair
The number 5 symbolizes the principle of multiplicity, progression, and passion. It signifies
the need for change, variety, and new growth. It is the broadcaster -- disseminating
information and asking questions. It is a public number -- outgoing, fast-moving, and
mercurial. The 5 is active, daring, non-conventional, unpredictable, and attracted by the
physical senses and indulgences. It is pragmatic and opportunistic and very persuasive. It
may be undependable.
Gifts: Resourceful, magnetic, motivated, competitive
Challenges: Restlessness, procrastination or activity with no direction, lack of follow through
Personal Goal: To win, to experience life to the maximum
Fears: Growing old, not seeing the world, boredom
Succeeds as: Public figure, developer, speculator, designer, news work, performer, change
agent
6 SERVICE see also the six energies
Traits: domestic, responsible, careful TEACHER, conventional, provider, healer
The number 6 symbolizes the principle of nurturing, caring, and harmony. It signifies the
need for stability and a solid home-base with comfort. It is the teacher, trainer, and parent. It
is happiest in conventional or familiar surroundings opinionated and frugal or anxious when
insecure. The 6 is rarely selfish, and may take on the burdens of others unnecessarily. It loves
tradition, and is health-oriented.
Gifts: Caring, ability to compromise, reliability
Challenges: Anxiety, being over controlled, codependency, guilt
Personal Goal: To provide for others' well-being, to create security and harmony, to love and
be loved
Fears: Lack of resources and love; world going to hell
Succeeds as: Parent, educator, caterer/ restranteur, nurse, body worker/health consultant,
traditional professional, counselor, coach
7 - INVESTIGATOR
Traits: specialist, inventor, loner, eccentric, thoughtful, spiritual
The number 7 symbolizes humanity's deep inner need to find depth, meaning, and spiritual
connection. When the creature needs of food, self-expression, material and domestic
achievements have been met, we turn to the deeper levels of life -- to learn, to educate
ourselves and to find purpose. The 7 is an investigator, an inventor, and must have solitude in
which to find the inner voice. Sevens tend to be different, eccentric, or loners and are very
discriminating in all areas.
Gifts: Mental understanding, analysis, perfection
Challenges: Pride, narrowness, distance, rigidity, connection to the past, argumentative,
temper, silence
Personal Goal: To maintain control over life; to understand
Fears: Failure to achieve standards, making a mistake

Succeeds as: Consultant, professor, analyst, earth/maritime occupations, individualist,

observer, occultist
8 - POWER
Traits: executive, professional, strength, money PROBLEM SOLVER, organizer, achiever,
judgment
The number 8 symbolizes the principle of domination, control, and achievement. It is the
executive decision-maker. The 8 tends to be rather formal, stern, and hard-headed. More
comfortable in the realm of material, tangible facts, the 8 will be truly exceptional as soon as
it develops its spiritual connection and intuition. A natural leader with a good grasp of how to
accomplish any goal, it must learn compassion.
Gifts: Decisiveness, courage, focus, delegation
Challenges: Belligerence, manipulation, anger, judgment
Personal Goal: To exercise control over environment, to achieve power and status
Fears: Loss of prestige, being at the mercy of circumstances or of others less capable
Succeeds as: Any type of professional, business owner, publisher, contractor, engineer,
financial analyst, judge
9 - UNIVERSAL
Traits: generalist, multi-talented, teacher HUMANITARIAN, healer, artist, old-soul, actor
The number 9 symbolizes the principle of a universal philosophy or consciousness. It is the
dreamer, and feels at home in the realm of the arts, medicine, religion, drama, and philosophy
and metaphysics. It is a healer and educator, acting always for the benefit of others. The 9
looks for solutions from the inspirational, intuitive, and creative worlds. Its energy is loving,
compassionate, diffuse, and global.
Gifts: Understanding, communicating, influencing
Challenges: Drifting, tolerance, losing focus, bad habits
Personal Goal: To make an impact in a big way; expansion
Fears: Restriction of any kind, losing control of emotions
Succeeds as: Minister, occultist, health/body worker, counselor, artist/craftsperson,
world/community leader

There are 3 double-digit numbers that, while they are rooted in the single-digit numbers,
require special emphasis and attention. These are 11, 22, and 33.
They are called Master numbers because they possess more potential than other numbers.
They are highly charged, difficult to handle, and require time, maturity, and great effort to
integrate into one's personality.
11 - IDEALIST
Traits:artist, celebrity, highly energized INSPIRATION, psychological, radical, sensitive
The number 11 symbolizes the principle of enlightenment. It colors everything with drama, a
visionary outlook, artistic sensitivity, and a sparkling quality. It is not truly practical, but its

contribution is its unique perspective and philosophy which instigates new consciousness. Its
energy is very high-strung, intense, mercurial, polarized (off an on), and subtle.
Gifts: Revealing higher truths, transformation, poetic interpretation, romance
Challenges: Illusion, isolation, allergies, over-stimulation
Personal Goal: Living the dream
Fears: Drudgery, restriction, ugliness, boredom
Succeeds as: Media star, poet, inventor, psychologist, minister, designer, society figure,
beauty queen, occultist
22 - MASTER BUILDER
Traits:Idealistic, expansive, visionary, master-builder, government, universal transformation.
philanthropic
The number 22 symbolizes the principle of precision and balance. When it senses its full
capacity as a MASTER BUILDER, it can achieve what is barely imaginable. The 22 can turn
the most ambitious of dreams into reality. It is potentially the most successful of all numbers.
It has many of the inspirational insights of the 11, combined with the practicality and
methodical nature of the 4. It is unlimited, yet disciplined. It sees the archetype, and brings it
down to earth in some material form. It has big ideas, great plans, idealism, leadership, and
enormous self-confidence.
Gifts: Inspire others, common sense, intuitive, practical
Challenges: Share your vision, allow others to make contributions
Personal Goal: Integrate seemingly conflicting characteristics within yourself-your inspiring
vision and natural tendency toward practicality.
Fears: Loss
Succeeds as: Politican, business owner, lawyer, administrator,
33 - MASTER TEACHER
Traits:Christ-like, healer, compassionate, blessing, teacher of teachers, martyr, inspiration,
honest, monk.
The number 33 symbolizes the principle of guidance. When expressed to the fullest, the 33
lacks all personal ambition, and instead focuses its considerable abilities toward the spiritual
uplifting of mankind. What makes the 33 especially impressive, is the high level of sincere
devotion. This is shown in its determination to seek understanding and wisdom before
preaching to others. The 33 in full force is extremely rare.
Gifts: Honesty, discipline, bravery
Challenges: Requires self-sacrifice, courage
Personal Goal: Searching for the truth
Fears: Lack of resources and love
Succeeds as: Parent, educator, Artist, Doctor
Other Higher Numbers
The 14 Days of Burial, in the Masters degree. 14 parts into which the body of Osiris was
divided A type of Christ, sacrificed on the 14th day of the month. An amulet of 14 points has
been used to cure the sick.
There are 14 Books of the Apocrypha. They were written originally in Greek, never in
Hebrew. An Israelite had to partake of 14 meals in the Booth during the Feast of Tabernacle.
The Israelites killed the Paschal Lamb on the 14th day of the Month Nisan.

In Matthew, chap. I., we find the genealogy of Jesus re-cited in three series of 14 names, the
first under Patriarchs and judges, the second under Kings, the third under Priests and
Governors.
The ancient physicians considered that the 14th day was the crisis of fevers.
15 was the number of Pairs of the Aeons, or Holy Principles in the Gnostic scheme of
Valentinus.
15 is the number by Gematria of the 8th Sephirah, Hod.
There were 15 steps in the Temple between the ante-court of Israel and the Women's Court
and in these were sung the 15 Psalms of Degrees. Psalms cxx. - cxxxiv., 15 is the number of
Jah, a name of God. So the Jews who wrote letters for numbers, never wrote Jah, 10, 5, for
15, but Tv, 9, 6=15.
The great day of joyful recreation for Jewish Maidens was the 15th Day of the Month Ab.
The Deluge covered the hills to the depth of 15 cubits.
A Jewish boy in the olden time was ordered to begin the study of the Gemara when 15 years
of age.
16 means Felicity and also a square number. There are 16 Court Cards in a Tarot pack.
In the Treatise De Iside et Osiride," Plutarch says Osiris was killed on the 17th Day of the
Moon and hence when the Moon was at the full and from that reason, the Egyptians
abominate the number 17, and so did the Pythagoreans they called in Antiphraxis
(obstruction), because it falls between the square number of 16 and the oblong number 18.
18 was deemed a protection against thieves.
18. Isaiah made 18 denunciations against Israel. At 18, years of age a girl should go to the
Nuptial Colony. The Golden Candlestick of the Temple was 18 hands-breadths tall. There are
18 Blessings in the Hebrew Liturgy. There were only 18 High Priests during the existence of
the First or Solomonic Temple at Jerusalem.
19. The number 19 is famous as being the number of years in the Metonic Cycle. The cycle
of the revolutions of the Moon, after which she returns to have her changes on the same day
of the Solar Year. Meto lived 433 B.C. He was an Athenian. He published his discovery at the
Olympic Games in the above year. The exact period is, however, 18 years and 10 days. The
Calippic period of four cycles or twenty-six years was invented by Calippus, B.C. 330, to
correct Meto. John Heydon says that the number 19 facilitates births and menses.
20. The Kiddushin, 29. 2 says God may curse a man who does not marry at least when 20
years old, for his life is a constant transgression. A woman marrying be-fore 20 may bear
children up to sixty. At 20, until 40, and after 40 will have none. Bava Bathra, 119. 2. To die
after 20 days diarrhoea is to die pure.
21. A hen sits 21 days, and the Almond is ripe 21 days after the flower falls.
22. 22 Letters of the Hebrew Alphabet, used also as numerals. The realization of a good
Dream may be deferred 22 years. Berachoth, 55. 2.
From the Works of Hermes Trismegistus are abstracted 22 axioms on the Human Will. They
can be found in Tukaram Tatyas Guide to Theosophy," Bombay 1887.
23. In the Sanhedrin, 23 judges were required to try cases of punishable death. This day of
September is no-table because the Moon, which comes to the Full within a fortnight of it, is
called the Harvest Moon, which rises three days in succession at the same time, instead of
getting daily later.
24. 24 is an Evil Number, referring to Cain, Qin, but not of his numeration, which is 100+
10+50=160, or else 100+10+700=810. There are 24 birds unclean as food. 24 ribs both in
man and women.
26. The number of Jehovah, IHVH, 10+5+6+5=26. In the English language, which uses 26
letters, it is found that the letters occur in very different proportions. In a fair example of
modern English it has been calculated that the proportion between the frequency of the use of

the letters was, of A, 85; B, 16; C, 30; D, 44; E, 120; F, 25; G, 17; H, 64; I, 80; J, 4; K, 8; L,
40; M, 30; N, 80; O, 80; P, 17; Q, 5; R, 62; S, 80; T, 90; U, 34; V, 12; W, 20; X, 4; Y, 20; Z, 2.
27. The number of the Izeds or Angels who ruled under the supervision of the Seven
Amshaspands of the Zoroastrian Theology.
28. A division of the Zodiac into 28 mansions of the Moon, was probably earlier than the
Solar Division into 12 parts. The names and symbols can be obtained in Sanskrit and in
Arabic. Proctor believes that Solar Astronomy of the 12 signs arose about 2170 B.C., in a
country of about 36 degrees of north latitude, and at a period when Taurus was the first
constellation of the Zodiac.
29. The Rosh Hashanah says the period of the Moons Revolution is 29 days, 6 hours and 40
minutes.
30. A meal of Lentils once in 30 days keeps off the Quinsy. At 30 years of age Jesus began his
ministry; Joseph was 30 years old when he stood before Pharaoh; David was 30 years old
when he began to reign; 30 pieces of silver was the price Judas received and Jair had 30 sons.
31. The number of El, God=Al. 1+ 30. Joshua did not complete the conquest of Canaan until
he had slain 31 kings.
32. The number of the Paths of Wisdom, of the Sepher Yetzirah, being 10 Sephiroth and 22
letters of the He-brew Alphabet.
33. The years of the life of Jesus. King David reigned in Jerusalem 33 years. The number of
vertebrae in the human spinal column.
35. The number of Agla, AGLA, a composite Kabalistic wonder-working name.
36. Abaji said there are never less than 36 holy men of any regeneration upon whom the
Shekinah does not rest. Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride," calls the Tetractys, the power of the
number 36, and on this was the greatest oath of the Pythagoreans sworn; and it was
denominated the World, in consequence of its being composed of the first four even and the
first four odd numbers; for 1 and 3 and 5 and 7 are 16; add 2 and 4 and 6 and 8, and obtain
36.
39. The number of Articles of the Protestant Christian Church belief.
40. Up to 40 years of age eating is best for a man, after 40 drinking suits best. He who has
passed 40 days with-out an affliction has had his reward in this life.
For 40 days, the Flood lasted, for 40 days, the spies searched the promised land, for 40 days,
Goliath challenged Israel, 40 days of Ezekiel's penitence, the Jews were 40 years in the
Wilderness, 40 days of waiting be-fore embalming the dead, Genesis 1. 3; for days, the
woman's purification lasted after childbirth; for 40 days, Moses fasted twice; for 40 days,
Elijah fasted, and for 40 days, Jesus fasted in the Wilderness and 40 days elapsed between the
Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus. Moses was 40 years in Egypt, 40 in Midian, and 40 in
the Wilderness. The Israelites were 40 years among the Philistines.
42. 42 is notable because of the 42-lettered name of God, taught by the Kabalists. There were
42 Judges in the Judgment Hall of Osiris. See Bettany, The Worlds Religions," pg. 166, on
the events of the 42nd day after death.
The Talmud of Babylon in Kiddushin 71, mentions the 42-lettered Name, and it is given by
Ignatz Stern as composed of the Divine Names of the Bible; thus Eheyeh asher Eheyeh, Al,
Jah, Jehovah, Elohim, Jehovah Sabaoth, El Chai and Adonai. Ahih Ashr Ahih; Ih; Ihvih; Al;
Alhim; IHVH Tzbavt; Al Chi; Adni, or 4, 3, 4, 2, 5, 2, 5, 4, 5, 2, 2, 4=42.
It is very curious that the Ten Sephiroth which denote the attributes of God will show, when
these letters are added together, and a V added for and before the last one, this same number
42; if Chesed be called Gedulah, as was common among Kabalists.
45. The number of Adam, Adm. The world is preserved for the sake of 45 righteous persons.
Chullin, 92.
48. There have been 48 prophets in Israel. 48 cities were assigned to the Levites.

49. Moses received 49 reasons for the cleanness and uncleanness of each thing; so says The
Talmud.
50. The number of the Gates of Binah (Binh) the Understanding. The Kabalah states that even
Moses only reached the 49th. See my Sepher Yetzirah," Third Edition, 1911.
58. Noah, Nch.
60. Aristotle stated that the Crocodile lives naturally 60 years, and sits 60 days on 60 eggs.
The Chinese have a time cycle of 60 years, and call it Kya-tse. The people of Malabar call
this period Chi-tam. The Talmud refers to 60 deadly drugs and 60 sorts of wines; the sow
bears her litter in 60 days.
61. The number Ain, Negative existence of the Deity.
64. Aletheia, truth.
65. The number of Adonai, translated Lord" (Adni) and of Hs, Hes, keep silence.
67. The number of Binah, Supernal Mother, the 3rd Sephirah.
70. The number of Sud, Sod, a secret doctrine and private assembly. The earliest name for the
Kabalah. Also Iin, Yayin, wine, also meant a secret. The Rabbis considered that there were 70
nations, and Mordecai is said to have known 70 languages. The Jewish 70 years of the
captivity are reckoned from their conquest by Nebuchadnezzar to the accession of Cyrus.
71. The number of the Members of the Sanhedrin.
72. 72 has a large number of mystic references to the 72 angels bearing the names of God
derived from Exodus xiv. 19, 20, 21 by the Kabalists. There is an important set of 72
pentacles which, placed in pairs, forms a series of 36 talismans (see Dr. Rudd, the
Lemegeton, Harleian MSS.). It is also the number of Chesed (Chsd) the Sephirah, Mercy.
It is said that Ptolemy, King of Egypt, collected 72 He-brew Rabbis and confined each in a
separate room, and ordered each to write out the Mosaic Law, and that by the help of God,
each wrote out the same words. Megillah of the Talmud, 9.1. This account is similar to that of
Josephus and Aristaeus, but different to that of Philo. Hence the name Septuagint.
73. The number of Chokmah (Chkmh), Wisdom, the 2nd Sephirah.
78. The number of cards in a Tarot pack. 40 numerals, 16 court cards and 22 Trumps (Major).
79. Boz, Boaz, the left-hand brazen Pillar at the entrance to Solomon's Temple.
80. The number of Yesod, foundation, 9th Sephirah. The venerable Rabbi Hillel had 80
points.
81. According to the Book of Rites of Chao Kung, B.C. 1112, an Emperor of China should
have 3 concubines of the First Rank, 9 of the Second, 27 of the Third and 81 of the Fourth
Rank.
90. Ikin, Jachin, the right-hand Pillar of Solomons Temple.
91. 91 is the number of Amn and of Tetragrammaton Adonai (IHVH, Adni).
96. According to Vitruvius, the natural height of a typical adult man is 96 digits, which
equaled 24 palms, or six feet.
99. The Mahometans have 99 names attributed to God.
100. This is the number of Mdvn, which means strife, and it is the beginning of 100 lawsuits.
The Jerusalem Talmud, Bava Metzia, 85. 1, says that Rabbi Zira fasted 100 times to enable
him to forget the Talmud of Babylon, in favor of the Talmud of Jerusalem.
Obadiah was considered worthy to be called prophet, because he concealed 100 prophets in a
cave.
103. The family of Herod Asmonaeus ruled Jewry 103 years.
120. For 120 years, the secret vault of Christian Rosenkreutz remained unopened, as he had
ordered, 1484 to 1604.
The Shemaneh Esreh, the 18 Blessings, were composed by 120 Elders.
130. The Rabbis said that after the curse, Adam fasted 130 years as a penance. This number is
referred to Elijah, Alihv, and to the word prophet, Hnbia. These names number 120, add 10 to

this, the number of letters. The Kabalists make a Mystical Square (rectangle) or Kamea of
Alihv of 130 permutations - ten by thirteen.
152. The number of Maria, the Greek name for Mary the Virgin, being 40, 1, 100, 10, 1=152.
153. The number of the great fishes caught in an unbroken net by the Apostles after the
Resurrection.
200. The number of bones in the human body.
207. This is the number of Ain Soph, Ain, Svp, the Boundless, and Aur, Avr, Light, and of
Adonai Olam, Adni Ovlam, Lord of the Universe.
216. The cube of six (6); 216 years, the period of the Pythagorean Metempsychosis.
221. The Cup of David in heaven contains 221 logs of wine, (about 20 gallons) says the
Talmud.
231. The sum of the numbers 1 to 21, the Gates of the Sepher Yetzirah.
243. Circles of Zoir Anpin; the number of the permutations, without reversal of the Hebrew
Letters. Kalisch.
248.There are 248 members of the body, says Talmud Eiruvin, 53. 2, and an anathema enters
into all of them. The word Chrm, accursed, is 248,but so is Rchm, Mercy.
252. It is said that the disciples of Rabbi Ishmael once dissected a low woman, and found she
had 252 members; but it does not say what the extra ones were.
270. Worlds of the Idra Rabba, or Greater Holy Assembly.
271. The Talmud, in Niddah, says that the Hebrew woman pregnancy lasted 271, 272 or 273
days.
280. 280 days, the term of natural pregnancy, human; - ten times the Lunar 28-day period.
284. The number of Theos, God, in Greek letters.
294. Ekklesia, The Church and Rodon, the Rose, and also Melchisedek, King of Salem.
300. Mithras. The riches of Korah were so vast that it took 300 mules to carry them. There
were 300 sorts of devils in Sichin. The Veil of the Temple required 300 priests to draw it
aside, and 300 to cleanse it.
314. The number of Shaddai, Shdi and of Metatron, Mttrun.
345. This is the number of El Shaddai, Al Shdi, God Almighty; and of Shmh (Shemah), the
Name of the Absolute God; also of MshH, Moses and Shilh, Shiloh.
358. The number of Messiah, Mshich and Nchsh, Nachash, the Serpent symbol of life.
364. The name Satan, the Shathan, HshThn, contains 364, and all these days of each year he
can tempt man, but not on the 365th, the Day of Atonement.
365. Days of the year, Negative Jewish precepts, Dukes of Babylon, and Streets in the City of
Rome.
370. Directions of the thought of Microprosopus. See Idra Rabba, 5. 537.
373. Logos.
375. ShlMH, Solomon.
394. There were this number of law-courts in the Jerusalem of the Kingdom period.
400. The body of Joseph was carried 400 miles to burial. David is said to have had a guard of
400 young men who rode in golden chariots at the head of his army.
410. The First Temple stood 410 years, and the Second Temple 420.
474. The number of Daath, Dot, Secret Wisdom, the union of Chokmah and Binah.
496. The number of Malkuth (Mlkt), the Kingdom, the 10th Sephirah.
500. Kosmos.
543. The number of the mystic name Aheie asher Aheie, I am that I am" (Ahih Ashr Ahih).
550. Shmir, the Shamir, the magical insect which cut the stones for Solomons Temple.
608. 608 is a very notable number, representing the Sun. Martianus Capella, of the 5th
century, says: The Sun is called in Italy, the God Sol; at the Nile, Serapis; at Memphis, Osiris;
he is also Attis; Adonis at Byblos; and Ammon in Libya; also Typhon, Mithras and Pluto; his

holy name is of 3 letters, which number 608." In Chaldee and Hebrew 608 is Cham, or Ham
(Chm), which also means, heat." In Greek Y.H.S. from U.H.S. =400+8+200=608. Tyre, Trch,
is also an example of 608.
612. Zeus.
613. The words of Moses our Rabbi, MshH Rbinu; and Lord God of Israel, IHVH Alhi Ishrl,
both number by Gematria 613. The 613 Precepts of the Jewish Law were delivered to Moses.
David, it is said, reduced them to eleven (11), and Isaiah to six (6), and later to two (2).
Habakkuk to One (1), viz., The just shall live by Faith. 613 also refers to the holy garment
which had 600 fringes, eight (8) threads and five (5) knots.
620. The number of Kether, Ktr, the Crown, or 1st Sephirah.
622. 622 years from the Christian era is the date of the Hegira, or flight of Mahomet from
Mecca, from which year the Mahometans reckon their calendar.
632. 632 years A.D. is the foundation of the Persian mode of reckoning years, from their
King Yezdegird.
640. 640 is Shemesh, the Sun, Shmsh; Mem is water; place the three letters one above the
other, and we get Sh, fire, Sun, rising above and sinking below the waters.
646. The total numeration of Elohim, or Aleim Alhim, being 1+30+5+10+600 (= 646); or
avoiding the use of final Mem, we get 1+30+5+10+40 (= 86); neglecting the tens
1+3+5+1+4, and placing these numbers in a circle, we get the sequence 3.1415, notable as the
value of Pi, or the relation of a diameter to circumference of every circle. Elohim is both a
singular and a plural word.
650. 650 has been referred by Godfrey Higgins to Noah, Menes, and Bacchus. Noah, in
Hebrew is Nvch or 64.
651. 651, Teletai, the Greek Ancient Mysteries and Episteme - Science.
666. 666 is the pet number of Godfrey Higgins, as referred to Rasit (Rsvt), 200+ 60+ 6+ 400,
(= 666), which he insists means Wisdom or as most believe, - Beginning or Principle. The
first words of Genesis are be-rasit, In the beginning. 666 is also the number of the Beast, the
number of Man, has been associated with Satan, Mahomet, the Pope and a hundred others. It
is also the number of Svrt, the Hebrew word for the Sun. it occurs in Revelations xiii. 18.
666. In addition, 666 is also the diameter of a circle whose circumference is 2093, which is
the diagonal of a square whose sides are 1480, the number of Christos. It is also the sum of
the numbers 1 to 36. It is also the number of Syene in Greek, a place in Egypt at which, if a
pit be dug, said, Eratosthenes, the rays of the Sun at the Summer Solstice shine perpendicular
into it.
700. The Talmud says there are 700 species of fishes, and in Eiruvin, 18. I, it says that God
plaited Eves hair into 700 braids.
753. 753 B.C., the founding of the City of Rome. It is also the number alike of Abram with
Sarai 243 and 510, and of Abraham with Sarah 248 and 505, the change which led to
parenthood.
780. Ophis - serpent, and Sophia - wisdom.
801. 801 is the number of alpha and omega, 1+800, the Peristera or Dove, vehicle of the Holy
Ghost; being 80+5+100+10+200+300+5+100+1=801.
813. 813 is the numeration of Ararita, a very important Kabalistic word, its letters being
collected from the initials of the sentence, One principle of his unity, one beginning of his
individuality, his vicissitude is one," or so it is rendered by S. L. Mathers
831. Puramis, a pyramid and Phallos.
888. The number of Iesous, Jesus, the great contrast with 666, the number of the Beast.
891. Uranus - ovpavos Heaven.
903. The Talmud in Berachoth, 8. I says that there are 903 kinds of Death, for by Gematria of
the word Tutzaut, which means outlets" see Psalm isviii. 20; this number is obtained, thus T,

400. V, 6, Tz, 90, A, 1, V, 6, T, 400=903. Death by the Divine kiss is the Euthanasia; death
from quinsy is said to be the worst form, a sort of suffocation long drawn out.
950. According to Genesis ix. v. 29, Noah lived 950 years. The great ages given in the book
of Genesis to the patriarchs have long been a cause of doubt. Recent re-searches by a Hebrew
scholar have led to the opinion that these high numbers did not mean our Solar Years, but
years of five months of thirty days and perhaps the earliest year was only one month. David
spoke of 70 years as the length of human life; there was no such long period between Noah
and David as could reduce human life by eleven-twelfths.
974. There were this number of generations from the writing of the Law by the Holy One
before he created Man in the World.
999. At the Judgment, although there be 999 who condemn a man, he shall be saved if One
plead for him.
1000. The 1000-headed serpent is Sesha of Ananta, the Hindu emblem of eternity.
1000. The daughter of Pharaoh, whom Solomon married, told him of 1000 forms of musical
instruments and taught him the chants for all the idols. 1000 is the cube of Ten, a symbol of
Perfection. Potiphars wife tempted Joseph with 1000 talents of silver, when her personal
charms failed to move him. The thickness of the earths crust is 1000 ells, below this is an
abyss of 15,000 ells. Succah, 53.2. If you have a secret, tell it only to One in 1000.
1004. 1004 B.C. is The Consecration of Solomons Temple.
1081. This is the number of Tiphareth, the central Sephirah, the Sun, Beauty, Microprosopus,
Sun-God.
1263. This the number of the word Gnosis.
1271. He Gnosis, The Gnosis and Stauros, the cross of Jesus.
1322. First year of Egyptian cycle of Sothis, B.C.; Rameses II came to the throne in this year,
B. C.
1378. The reputed year of the birth of Christian Rosenkreutz, founder of the Rosicrucian
philosophy.
1408. Christian Rosenkreutz founded this arcane society in Germania.
1459. The date of writing of the Hermetic Romance of the Chemical Wedding, by C.R.
1461. The Egyptian Sothic Period, calculated by the heliacal rising of Sirius, the Dog Star, at
the Solstice.
1480. Christos, in Greek numeration meaning Anointed. According to The Canon" this
number exhibits an important measure of the Cosmos, and was the foundation of the
scientific pantheism upon which Christian theology was built, it was a part of The Gnosis and
was de-rived from the priestly astronomers of Egypt.
1484. Christian Rosenkreutz died. The Vault closed over his body and the secrets of the Order
he had founded.
1604. The Vault of C. R. opened by his successors after 120 years of secret study and
benevolence.
1614. The Fama Fraternitatis Rosae Crucis was printed. 1717. Grand Lodge of Freemasons
was founded.
1752. New Years Day changed from March 25 to January 1.
1865. Frater Robert Wentworth Little founded the Rosicrucian Society of Freemasons of
England, in its present form.
1885. Dr. Robert Woodman became Supreme Magus.
1892. Dr. William Wynn Westcott became Supreme Magus.
1911. This year A.D. is the 5013th year of the Kali-Yuga of the Hindu sages. This Yuga is to
continue 432,000 years.

2000. A Sabbath days journey was 2000 paces. Rabbi Gamaliel had a tube made which, when
he looked through, he could see objects at 2000 cubits distance. This is the earliest suggestion
of the telescope. Eiruvin, 43. 2.
2368. The Greek number of Iesous Christos.
3000. Rav Hammunah says that Solomon spoke 3000 proverbs. At the mourning for Moses,
3000 precepts were forgotten.
3102. In B.C. 3102, in February, the Kali Yuga, the Black Age of humanity began, according
to the Brahmins.
3761. The Jewish Era was calculated to commence 3761 years before the Christian Era.
4231. Years after the dispersion, said Rashi, the Jews will be restored to their own land.
4291. After these years, the wars of Gog and Magog will cease says the Talmud.
5888. The number of verses in the Pentateuch says the Kiddushin; but they are usually
counted as 5845.
6000. The world was intended to last 6000 years. 2000 years of Disorder; 2000 of the Law
and 2000 more be-fore Messiah should come; but his Coming has been delayed by our
iniquities. So says the Talmudic treatise. Sanhedrin, 97. 1.
25,000. According to Ezekiel, the mystical city of Jerusalem was surrounded by a square
space measuring 25,000 roods in length and this he called The Holy Oblation, and it was for
the use of the priests, the sons of Zadok.
3.14159 This is the value of Pi, the ratio of diameter to circumference of a circle.
Bodes Law is a curious arithmetical and astronomical problem: Take the series of numbers
0 3 6 12 24 48 96 192
Add 4 to each.
444 4 4 4 4 4
And we obtain the numbers
4 7 10 16 28 52 100 196
These show the relation of the ancient planets to the Sun, as to distance, in the order Mercury,
Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. The planet corresponding to 28 is missing,
and seems to be replaced by the asteroids. Uranus was discovered in 1781.
The Platonic Year, or great Period, according to Tycho Brahe, is 25,816 years. Ricciolus,
25,920 years; Cassini, 24,800 years; Norman Lockyer now gives 24,450 years.
It is the period of time determined by the revolution of the equinoxes, or the space to time
wherein the stars and constellations return to their former places in respect to the equinoxes
by means of a constant precession. The equinoxes moving backwards or westwards, meet the
Sun constantly earlier. In the time of the oldest Greek observations, the equinoctial points
were in the first stars of Aries and Libra respectively; they are now in Pisces and Virgo. When
these names were given, the Sun entered Aries at the Vernal Equinox, and Sign and
constellation coincided; now they do not, so do not be confused by our still calling the first
Sign of spring Aries, although the Sun is now really at such time in Pisces; every 2160 years,
the Sign is changed. Precedent to Aries, the Sun at the Vernal Equinox

Fine-Tuning your Predictions

If the reading points to an event happening in the next month, it is possible to narrow down
the period to approximately seven days. For this, we use the Aces. Knowledge of the Moon
Phases is a useful skill:
Ace Disks
First Quarter
Ace of Cups
2nd Quarter
Ace of Swords
3rd Quarter
Ace of Wands
4th Quarter
Determine the Day
To determine the day, simply look to see if one of the planetary cards is significant:
Sunday
Sun, Sun
Monday
Moon, High Priestess
Tuesday
Mars, Tower
Wednesday
Mercury, Magus
Thursday
Jupiter, Fortune
Friday
Venus, Empress
Saturday
Saturn, Universe
The divinatory meanings of the cards must be ignored; otherwise Tuesdays will always be
disastrous... Conversely, if the reading suggests events are not particularly predictable, we
might see the Fool, the Hanged Man or Judgment cards in the Outcome position of a
Spread.

Determining the Hour

Need more precision than a day? The traditional system of planetary hours comes to the
rescue.
Planetary Hours
Sun
Mon Tue
Mer
Jup
Ven
Mon Mar
Mer
Sat
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Mars Mer
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*Hours from sunset to sunset

**Hours from midnight to midnight

The Four Seasons

There are times when a vague prediction date is required. The Princesses do not have an
astrological attribution, but they can represent the four seasons.
Spring
Princess Wands
Summer
Princess Cups
Autumn
Princess Swords
Winter

Princess Disks
Armed with this information, you have the ability to make predictions as accurately as
required, and depending on the situation.

ACES
The suit of Wands represents creative energy, new enterprises and new inspiration. Aces
represent the energy of each suit in its purest and most concentrated form. They also
represent beginnings, ideas, commencement, opportunity, a fresh start, inspiration, a gift.
Ace of Wands
The Ace of Wands in the Rider-Waite deck features a wooden club with little sprouting sprigs
symbolizing power and brute force. Those little sprigs represent growth and expansion. In
time the wooden clubs became bejeweled royal scepters.
Magicians use wands in their magic acts, fairies spread fairy dust with their wands and
generals carry swagger sticks on the battlefield as they strut around with an insolent air. All of
these wands symbolize power, direction and the promise of fulfillment.
Ace of Cups
The suit of Cups represents love, passion and intense feelings. More abstract symbolism
offers choices, artistic expression and sensuality.
The Ace of Cups with a streaming fountain of water spilling over into a pond signifies the
outpouring and circulation of divine love and energy. Those little droplets form the letter
"yod" in the Hebrew alphabet and symbolize showered blessings. Pools of water found
throughout tarot imagery represent the flow of spiritual substance. Water is life giving and
sooths the body and soul. Since we cannot see into deep waters we cannot know the
mysteries that lie beneath.
Ace of Pentacles
Pentacles represent enterprise, money and the actual manifestation of the all the other suits.
Spiritually, the suit of Pentacles reveals how the mind sets things into action and ultimately
manifests into reality.
The Ace of Pentacles offers the opportunity for growth and accomplishment. The garden gate
beyond the lush garden lures us into the land of clarity, accomplishment and potential for
abundance. Spiritually the card reveals a new path.
Ace of Swords
Swords depict a double-edged meaning. The negative side has, in the past, been presented as
warlike. However, more positive revelations are gained from this suit. Swords now represent
decisive action, strength, resolve, logic and rationality. Swords may also cut through the
illusions and stuff we accumulate. Spiritually we may consider how one might resolve
challenging situations.
The Ace of Swords presents the opportunity to find clarity, the truth or any of the above
decisive actions. The metal sword in ancient times was thought to ward off evil. The sword is
still used by English royalty to bestow knighthood by tapping a sword on each shoulder as
part of a ceremony that rewards accomplished people.
Reversal of Aces
There at least a dozen ways to interpret a reversal. Some readers reverse the meaning of a
card, while others find alternative meanings that relate to the query. We use the idea that a
reversal means the opposite not necessarily the negative
Twos
Twos represent duality, balance, choices, interaction, polarity, developing.
Two of Wands A choice or balance in applying energy. The first steps have been completed,
and one must decide where to apply energy from this point on Control.
Two of Cups Emotional interactions. Balance between opposites Love.
Two of Swords Peace (hard won) a respite from conflict, a tenuous balance Compromise.
Two of Pentacles Balance in practical matters; juggling several tasks on the physical plane
(home, work, hobbies, recreation, etc.)Change

Threes
Threes represent creation, abundance, group activity, building, planning, and synthesis.
Three of Wands - planning, reflecting, aspiration
Three of Cups - Celebration, happiness, joy, sharing, abundance, friendship
Three of Swords - Sadness, heartbreak, emotional pain, sorrow
Three of Pentacles - creating, bringing into physical reality, work.
Fours
Fours represent stability, structure, order and practical attainment.
Four of Wands - rites, inspiration, freedom, ceremony, harmony, peace
Four of Cups - Boredom, apathy, discontent, dissatisfaction, withdrawal, meditation
Four of Swords - regrouping, introspection, illness, time out, rest
Four of Pentacles - holding on to ones possessions, thrift, a reluctance to let go, insecurity,
selfishness. Undercurrents
Fives
Fives represent change, unbalance, challenge , struggle, conflict, breakdown.
Five of Wands - Competition, struggle, challenge to authority or established order
Five of Cups - Disappointment, loss, failing to see the good in a situation
Five of Swords - hurt, bruised ego, a small defeat, loss or embarrassment.
Five of Pentacles - Worry, fear, financial loss, difficult times, trouble, insecurity
Sixes
Sixes represent Harmony, triumph, balance, a high point.
Six of Wands - Victory, self confidence, advancement,well being
Six of Cups - Happiness, pleasant memories, ecstasy, friendship, sharing
Six of Swords - Journey, passing through difficult times, perspective, service
Six of Pentacles - Gifts, generosity, giving freely, an exchange of energy
Sevens
Sevens represent reflection, inner work, the hidden, difficulties or struggle
Seven of Wands - Self defense, holding a position, inner conviction
Seven of Cups - imagination , fantasy, choices, illusion
Seven of Swords - deception, stealing, strategy, secret plan
Seven of pentacles - waiting, patience, delay, efforts paying off
Eights
Eights represent balance, movement, order, change, giving and receiving.
Eight of Wands - Energy, movement, activity, speed,things happening quickly
Eight of Cups - Withdrawal, retreat, turning your back on something and moving off into a
different direction
Eight of Swords - Restriction, feeling blocked, feeling ganged up on or attacked, frustration,
waiting
Eight of Pentacles - Craftsmanship, productivity, putting your affairs in order, mastery, being
busy
Nines
Nines represent completion, conclusion, attainment, magic
Nine of Wands - Wisdom, experience, defensiveness, wariness
Nine of Cups - Wishes coming true, fulfillment, satisfaction

Nine of Swords - Nightmares, anxiety, mental stress, depression, guilt

Nine of Pentacles - Abundance, material prosperity, comfort, security, reward
Tens
Tens represent the final culmination of each suit. The cycle is complete and you are ready to
begin a new cycle.
Ten of Wands - burden, responsibility
Ten of Cups - Joy, happiness, optimism, family
Ten of Swords - Sacrifice, hitting bottom, release, letting go
Ten of Pentacles. Wealth, abundance, inheritance, prosperity.
Numbers
At this point we have gone through all the numbered cards. When we started with the Aces,
different authors assigned different qualities to each of the numbers.
Here are a few for comparison:
1 Gifts Beginnings, creation, willpower Unity
2 Balance Love, harmony, cooperation, polarity, duality, choice, balance Polarity, duality
3 Synthesis Creation, abundance, imagination joy, artistic expression Development, growth
4 Stability Organization, structure, discipline, work, order Measurement
5 Struggle Freedom, progress, change, courage, versatility Motion, adaptation
6 Exuberance Service, truth, responsibility, beauty, harmony Balance, equilibrium
7 Inner work Spirituality, wisdom Creative synthesis
8 Change Giving and receiving in balance Rhythm, alternate cycles
9 Completion, brotherhood universal love Transition
10 Transformation New beginnings Manifestation, completion, fulfillment

MAJOR ARCANA
FOOL (0)
MAGICIAN (1)
Beginning
Spontaneity
Faith
Apparent Folly

Action
Conscious Awareness
Concentration
Power

EMPEROR (4)
Fatherhood
Structure
Authority
Regulation

HIEROPHANT (5)
Education
Belief Systems
Conformity
Group Identification

STRENGTH (8)

HERMIT (9)

Strength
Patience
Compassion
Soft Control
HANGED MAN
(12)
Letting Go
Reversal
Suspension
Sacrifice
TOWER (16)
Sudden Change
Release
Downfall
Revelation

Introspection
Searching
Guidance
Solitude

HIGH PRIESTESS (2)

NonAction
Unconscious
Awareness
Potential
Mystery
LOVERS (6)
Relationship
Sexuality
Personal Beliefs
Values
WHEEL OF
FORTUNE (10)
Destiny
Turning Point
Movement
Personal Vision

DEATH (13)

TEMPERANCE (14)

DEVIL (15)

Ending
Transition
Elimination
Inexorable Forces
STAR (17)
Hope
Inspiration
Generosity
Serenity
JUDGEMENT (20)
Judgment
Rebirth
Inner Calling
Absolution

Temperance
Balance
Health
Combination
MOON (18)
Fear
Illusion
Imagination
Bewilderment
WORLD (21)
Integration
Accomplishment
Involvement
Fulfillment

Bondage
Materialism
Ignorance
Hopelessness
SUN (19)
Enlightenment
Greatness
Vitality
Assurance

MINOR ARCANA --- ACE-TEN

WANDS
CUPS
Creative Force
Emotional Force
Enthusiasm
Intuition
ACE
Confidence
Intimacy
Courage
Love
Personal Power
Connection
TWO Boldness
Truce
Originality
Attraction
THREE Exploration
Exuberance

SWORDS
Mental Force
Truth
Justice
Fortitude
Blocked Emotions
Avoidance
Stalemate
Heartbreak

EMPRESS (3)
Motherhood
Abundance
Senses
Nature
CHARIOT (7)
Victory
Will
Self-Assertion
Hard Control
JUSTICE (11)
Justice
Responsibility
Decision
Cause and Effect

PENTACLES
Material Force
Prosperity
Practicality
Trust
Juggling
Flexibility
Fun
Teamwork

Foresight
Leadership
Celebration
FOUR Freedom
Excitement
Disagreement
FIVE Competition
Hassles
SIX

Triumph
Acclaim
Pride

Aggression
SEVEN Defiance
Conviction
Quick Action
EIGHT Conclusion
News
Defensiveness
NINE Perseverance
Stamina
Overextending
TEN
Burdens
Struggle

Friendship
Community
Self-Absorption
Apathy
Going Within
Loss
Bereavement
Regret

Loneliness
Betrayal
Rest
Contemplation
Quiet Preparation
Self-Interest
Discord
Open Dishonor

Good Will
Innocence
Childhood

The Blues
Recovery
Travel

Wishful Thinking
Options
Dissipation
Deeper Meaning
Moving On
Weariness
Wish Fulfillment
Satisfaction
Sensual Pleasure
Joy
Peace
Family

Running Away
Lone-Wolf Style
Hidden Dishonor
Restriction
Confusion
Powerlessness
Worry
Guilt
Anguish
Bottoming Out
Victim Mentality
Martyrdom

MINOR ARCANA --- COURT CARDS

WANDS
CUPS
Be Creative
Be Emotional
Be Enthusiastic Be Intuitive
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Be Courageous Be Intimate
Be Confident Be Loving
KNIGHT Charming
Romantic
Positive
Self-Confident Imaginative
Daring
Sensitive

SWORDS
Use Your Mind
Be Truthful
Be Just
Have Fortitude
Direct
Authoritative
Incisive

Planning
Competence
Possessiveness
Control
Blocked Change
Hard Times
Ill Health
Rejection
Having/Not Having:
Resources
Knowledge
Power
Assessment
Reward
Direction Change
Diligence
Knowledge
Detail
Discipline
Self-Reliance
Refinement
Affluence
Permanence
Convention

PENTACLES
Have an Effect
Be Practical
Be Prosperous
Be Trusting/Trustworthy
Unwavering
Cautious
Thorough

Adventurous
Passionate
Superficial
Cocky
KNIGHT
Foolhardy
Negative
Restless
Hot-Tempered
Attractive
Wholehearted
QUEEN Energetic
Cheerful
Self-Assured
Creative
Inspiring
KING
Forceful
Charismatic
Bold

Refined
Introspective
Overemotional
Fanciful
Temperamental
Over refined
Introverted
Loving
Tenderhearted
Intuitive
Psychic
Spiritual
Wise
Calm
Diplomatic
Caring
Tolerant

Knowledgeable
Logical
Blunt
Overbearing
Cutting
Opinionated
Unfeeling
Honest
Astute
Forthright
Witty
Experienced
Intellectual
Analytical
Articulate
Just
Ethical

Realistic
Hardworking
Stubborn
Unadventurous
Obsessive
Pessimistic
Grinding
Nurturing
Bighearted
Down-to-Earth
Resourceful
Trustworthy
Enterprising
Adept
Reliable
Supporting
Steady

3
Directions
I am listing directional attributes of the suits by various authors. You should chose one that
supports your personal beliefs or which feels right to you.
Wands = South, Cups = West, Swords = East, Pentacles = North(Vicki Noble, "Mother peace
Tarot", Mary Greer "Tarot for Yourself", Connelly,"Tarot a New handbook for the
Apprentice", Jana Riley "The Tarot handbook")
Wands = East, Cups = North, Swords = West, Pentacles = South
Wands = South, Cups = West, Swords = East, Pentacles = North (Witchcraft)
Wands = East, Cups = North, Swords = West, Pentacles = South (Astrology)(Gail Fairfield,
"Choice Centered Tarot" Surprisingly, these were the only lists I could find. I thought some of
the older esotericists (Papus, et al) would have something since they tended to like lists of
attributes, but I didn't find anything :(
Personality and Soul Cards
Contrary to popular belief, these concepts were not developed by Mary Greer, but by Arrien
Angeles in "The Tarot Handbook", a book which does not get the credit it is due in my
opinion. She also presents several similar concepts in the book. such as growth cards and
growth cycles. Personality Card - this card represents your expression in the outer world,
your talents, gifts, resources and how others see you. To find this card, add your birth day,
month and year together. Example: Sept 9th, 1956 = 9 + 9 + 1956 = 1974 then add the digits
of the result together - 1 + 9 + 7 + 4 = 21. This is your personality card. If it is a double digit
reduce it again: 2 + 1 + 3. This is your soul/spiritual card. The soul card represents the
deepest core of who you are. It provides an internal base of energy and natural resource for
you to draw upon for your personality expression. If the first result is more than 21 like mine:
June 6th, 1956 - 6 + 6 + 1956 = 1968, 1 + 9 + 6 + 8 = 24 (note this is more than 21), reduce it
again, 2 + 4 = 6. This both my personality and soul card.