Newsletter of The Tarot School
http://TarotSchool.com ISSN: 1529-0565 Vol. 14 #1 January 1, 2022
In this Issue: - Welcome
- Tarot Tip: Reading Doesn't Make Sense? Try This! - Tarot School Aphorism - Meet the Reader: Gary Karp - Diviner's Corner: Glossolalia - Best Practices: How to Tell a Client You Can't Help Them - Upcoming Events Welcome to a new issue of Tarot Tips!
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!! It's hard to believe we've entered the 14th year since the Tarot Tips re-boot. (You'll find back issues in the archives here: https://tarotschool.com/Newsletter.html –– just scroll down a bit.) We're glad you're here! One of the design challenges I enjoy is finding just the right images to go with the articles. I particularly like the one above because of the beautiful gift box that takes the place of the zero in 2022. The New Year is like an unopened present, full of mystery. What gifts will the coming year bring? What gifts can we give to each other or to ourselves? Do we dare hope for the gift of optimism that this year will be better than the last two? As you experience the coming days and months, be aware of and grateful for the small and large gifts that come your way. They may come in the form of a smile, laughter, new knowledge or the joy of discovery. What's wonderful about tarot is that there is always something new to learn or discover. It is full of delightful surprises and insightful self-understanding. Tarot is a gift you can count on. Let us help you unwrap it! A bit about this issue... In this month's Tip, Gina offers us a way to make sense of a muddy or confusing reading. There's a new aphorism from Wald. (I enjoyed designing this one!) The Diviner's Corner explores spoken prophecy, and Sharonah introduces us to Gary Karp. Best Practices addresses the uncomfortable situation when we just can't help a querent, even though wish we could. Enjoy! There are tarot lovers all over the world! It's one thing to know this on an intellectual level, but seeing proof makes it more real. New people subscribe to Tarot Tips all the time, and we used to keep a list of the different countries everyone came from. That list has gone walkabout but there were over 140 countries on it! This month, we're happy to welcome recent subscribers from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Hong Kong, Nepal, Netherlands, Spain, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It's wonderful to know that no matter what language we speak at home, we all share the language of tarot! Wishing you health and bright blessings in the year ahead, Ruth Ann, Wald and Gina
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READING DOESN'T MAKE SENSE?
TRY THIS! by Gina Thies It’s inevitable. You have studied and learned the best spreads. You understand what the cards mean, however once your spread is done and you are ready to give an amazing reading, it’s garbled or doesn’t make sense to you or the querent. There may be one or two cards that seem relevant but what about the other 8 cards in your spread? Instead of scrapping the whole spread and starting over, look to the Aces or the Pages for clarification. If they are not in the spread, go through the deck and find the Aces and Pages/Princesses or Knaves of the four suits and place them next to or on the side of the original spread. Why? The simple answer is that these are very accessible cards in terms of going to the root energy of the suits that they represent. The importance given to the Aces and the Pages is not to be underestimated. In the Western Hermetic and Golden Dawn traditions, the four Aces are thought to be placed on the North Pole of the Universe, around which they revolve, and the Pages (Princesses) rule over the Four Parts of the Celestial Heavens, which lie around the North Pole. They form the Thrones of the Powers of the four Aces. Let us consider for a moment how it is North that is associated with the Throne of God. With that said, all comes from a Source. All of the Aces are titled “Root of the Powers” of the element they correspond to: Wands-Fire; Cups-Water; Swords-Air; Pentacles-Earth. The Aces and Pages can be used to clarify your readings by meditating on them separately in the context of the reading or dialoguing directly with them in a side spread, posing such questions such as, “What is the source of xxx?” or “What do I need to understand about addressing this issue now?” Aces represent the start or genesis of an issue while the Pages, being the last of the court, would represent a newness or beginning as well, but also a finality, an Alpha and Omega. Here are some traditional meanings and correspondences for the Ace and Pages: Ace of Wands: Force, strength, rush, vigor, energy. New creative endeavors, new ideas, new impulses. Page of Wands: Brilliance, courage, beauty, force, enthusiasm, sudden in anger or love. Aries, Leo or Sagittarius. Ace of Cups: Fertility, productiveness, beauty, pleasure, happiness. Emotional matters, spirituality. Page of Cups: Sweetness, poetry, gentleness and kindness. Imaginative and dreamy. Pisces, Cancer or Scorpio. Aces of Swords: It symbolizes curiosity, nobility, intelligence and order. It is quick and sharp, bright and fresh. Page of Swords: Wisdom, strength, acuteness, grace and dexterity. Gemini, Libra or Aquarius. Ace of Pentacles: Material gain, labor, power, wealth, etc. Page of Pentacles: Generous, kind, diligent, benevolent, careful, courageous, preserving, pitiful. Virgo, Taurus, Capricorn. Getting to the root or source of the issue can help clarify the reading. The Aces and Pages can help! Tarot School Aphorism Meet The Reader GARY KARP By Sharonah Rapseik, Ph.D., CMAP Gary Karp, aka “That Tarot Guy,” lives in Erie, Pennsylvania. He is a Certified Tarot Reader (CTR) through The Tarot Guild. Gary has been studying Tarot for over 30 years and has been reading professionally for over 15 years for private clients, at parties, new age bookstores, and psychic fairs. As a Certified Life Coach, Gary uses Tarot as a tool to help his clients gain insight into themselves, helping them to understand their situation and empowering them to move past their challenges. Sharonah Rapseik: Gary, what makes your tarot practice unique and how do you express it? Gary Karp: My experience with Tarot is of a practical nature. I believe that sharing the wisdom and guidance of the Tarot with my clients without providing them with a simple, actionable plan for them to execute is only doing half the job. I bring my skills and experience as a Certified Life Coach to each reading to assist them in reaching their intentions. Sharonah Rapseik: Thank you Gary, it’s been a pleasure to meet you! Follow Gary Karp here: https://www.patreon.com/thattarotguy About Sharonah: Sharonah Rapseik is an Artist / Designer, Author, Tarot Reader, Radio Host and Producer for Psychic Talk Radio. Visit her at: https://psychictalk.net/sharonah/ Diviner's Corner
GLOSSOLALIA
Glossolalists are practitioners who specialize in speaking a language foreign to themselves, that are divinatory or prophetic in nature when interpreted. The method used is Glossolalic utterance and/or speech-like sounds that is believed to be a divine language. Glossolalia, which is also called “speaking in tongues” or “trance voice,” occurs when the person is in a heightened state through meditation, fervent prayer or induced ecstasy. The utterances heard resembled garbled words and sounds but researchers and linguists have connected these unfamiliar tones to pattens that are found in human language. Glossolalia is commonly found in Christian movements but is also practiced in non-Christian religions. Speaking in tongues is mentioned in the Christian Bible but there are also references in antiquity where it was believed that supernatural or divine beings spoke different languages than humanity. Other sources posit that all human language comes from a divine source. Glossolalic utterances are thought to be associated with angels or the Holy Spirit, and given to those deemed prophets or oracles. Famously, Court astrologer and occultist John Dee and medium Edward Kelley claimed that while scrying, messages came to them from angels in a celestial speech format. The experiences of Dee and Kelley were documented in Dee’s journals and became what is known as Enochian language, although Dee himself called them Celestial or Angelical. The use of the Enochian “calls” is essential in the practice of Enochian magick. Unlike Christian glottologue, the Angelical language appeared while experimenting with contact with angels as twenty-one glyphs in a vision reported by Kelley. Angels are not the only intelligences communicated with through glossolastic means. Other ethereal (and some believe channeled) messages are from alien sources with languages unknown to the channeler. Resources: Praying in Tongues, Speaking in Tongues, We’d love your suggestion or submissions for this column! If you have an idea or would like to contribute, please contact us at tarot@tarotschool.com. Best Practices for Professional Readers HOW TO TELL A CLIENT, "I'M SORRY, I'M UNABLE TO HELP By Gina Thies www.tarotadvisor.com / www.facebook.com/tarotreaders www.tarotcoupling.com / www.oraclesoup.org Perhaps it’s a new client, a referred client or a long-time repeat client, but at some point the querent may attempt to push past your personal or professional talents and boundaries. This business is one in which we have answered the call to be of service and to help guide others to their highest potential –– at least it starts out that way for many of us. However there are times when you’ll have to tell the client that you are not able to help them through your services. There are a few circumstances that come to mind where this may occur: 1) The request of the reading is beyond what you are comfortable with or capable of. 2) The client/advisor relationship moves into an arena where personal and professional boundaries are blurred and your readings are no longer objective. 3) The nature of the reading request is questionable in terms of the purpose and use of the information the querent is after. In the age of access to all sorts of personal information, privacy is a huge concern and everyday protections for the right to privacy and protected information is discussed. You would not knowingly give out your client’s personal identifiable information or private going-ons with anyone, but it’s possible that you’ll come across seekers looking for information from the “psychic” that you’ll have to ask why it is important or beneficial to them. In my own experience, prior to my knowing the extent of my psychic and intuitive capacity and its impact on the querent, much incredible, accurate information was given to clients about the people they were involved with personally or intimately. The challenges came when I was not able, willing or comfortable with “psychically spying” for the querent. In some cases the reading just was not clear or did not address the issue about which the client inquired. The best way to combat this is to set the direction and purpose of the reading early in the session. Spend a little time co-creating with the client why they need a reading and what topics will be covered, as well as an agreed upon start and stop time. Sometimes the reading evokes more than the client expected to know or it leads to the client veering off topic and asking about people that are not relevant to your helping them. For instance, asking if an ex will be happy with the new relationship partner and what are they up to, will they get married, etc. If they want this information, you might want to ask why it is important to their own life and what will they do with the information. The thing that matters is that you have a right and in some cases an obligation to say you can’t help them with this matter, topic or question. Upcoming Events: • Monday, January 10, 17, 24 and 31 (There is no class on the 3rd – Happy New Year!) • Monday, February 7, 14, 21 and 28 Tarot Salon on Zoom! 7:00 - 9:00 pm EDT Our popular Monday night classes are now online so you can attend no matter where you live! Get on the notification list to see what we'll be teaching each week. Find the form and register here: http://tarot.salon Readings with Ruth Ann: Running The Tarot School with Wald keeps me pretty busy, but I still love giving readings! 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