Step by Step Tarot. Terry Donaldson
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Название: Step by Step Tarot
Автор: Terry Donaldson
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Эзотерика
isbn: 9780007498260
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It is important that you select your own deck, so this will entail going alone to a bookshop that specializes in Tarot decks and looking at the portfolio which they will invariably have. Here, you can look through a vast selection of different decks, with all the cards held behind a sheet of transparent film.
Ask for some guidance from the assistant if you are unsure and don’t be afraid to say that you are just starting out on the road of readership. You will find that they may well have a recommendation to make.
Probably the best decks to work from as you learn the Tarot are the Ryder-Waite and Morgan-Greer decks. But in the end it will have to be your own choice.
As you progress in your studies, it is very likely that you will build up your own collection of different decks and will have them out on the table when people come for readings, so that as you begin the session, you will be able to ask which deck they would like you to read from.
If you have already selected a deck for yourself or feel drawn to work with the deck you have, then fine. This is going to be the one for you!
All you have to do now is to follow the training steps and we’ll be turning you into a reader!
The Tarot is something which functions on many levels.
On one level, it is a set of cards which portray a way of looking at the world. A way of making sense of the world, rather than an attempt to define and limit it.
On another level, it is an approach to life, which enables each of us to move away from our own private realities towards the point of being able to have a multi-viewpoint.
A lot of top-level executives these days are finding themselves on expensive courses which attempt to nudge them out of their own personal mind-set and develop qualities of mental flexibility and creativity. This was – and is – the first and primary purpose of the Tarot: to give us a set of windows through which we can look upon life. It has other qualities too:
It is a counselling tool.
It is a means through which communication – sometimes on a highly psychic or intuitive level – can take place.
It is the means through which countless people over countless years have found a place to gain a resolution to the problems which have beset them.
The Tarot works through synchronicity – in other words, the random patterns in which the cards seem to fall are part of a greater pattern within the cosmic scheme of things. This may seem chaotic to some, but not to those who seek to understand the nature of the causes of things; to those who have learned to look for causes which in turn give rise to effects.
This, then, is the function of the Tarot: to facilitate our grasp of how things may be changed in the future through a deepening of our realization of what has happened in the past.
As a trainee, you are entering a new doorway.
May your life never be the same again!
4 STORY-TELLING WITH THE TAROT
THE BARDIC TECHNIQUE
Once you have worked with this you will be able to open up a lot of modern fiction, especially fantasy, sword and sorcery books, and see how their authors actually did it! I actually know a number of writers who use this technique whenever they get stuck for some inspiration.
We are going to use it because it gets you to the point of working more intuitively and imaginatively with the images on a set of cards, without wondering how right or wrong you might be.
What you must do here is lay out a set of, say, three or four cards. That will be enough for the moment. When you get the hang of it, you might well want to lay out sets and rows of them.
Now, without even trying to remember ‘what they mean’, make up a story – a simple little children’s story or a fairy story – using the pictures on the row of cards as a source of inspiration.
It’s a lot simpler, I have found, for those that already have children, as they often get asked for stories at bedtime.
But even if you don’t have children, it is still part of your initiation to develop your story-telling technique. In the ancient Druid Order (and I believe the same still applies today), the first grade of initiation was that of the bard, the story-teller, whose role it would be to entertain, to enlighten, to teach, using songs and poetry, music and legends, in order to do so. They would travel around the land, teaching and learning as they went.
On the facing page, I have given you an example.
Just below, I have chosen for you at random the Knight of Wands, the Seven of Wands, the Ace of Coins and the King of Swords.
It isn’t a bad idea actually to use the words ‘Once upon a time…’ in starting off. Somehow it seems to set the little story up just right.
KNIGHT OF WANDS (RODS)
Once upon a time, there was a Knight of the Round Table, who became severely disillusioned with how his life was going. He wasn’t even sure what changes he wanted to make; all he knew was that he wanted to do some travelling.
SEVEN OF WANDS
One day he was travelling around the countryside when suddenly he saw a band of brigands setting upon a single traveller, attempting to rob him. The Knight went straight to the man’s rescue, and although the brigands didn’t run off immediately, they didn’t put up too much resistance either.
ACE OF COINS (PENTACLES)
The traveller was greatly relieved to have received such assistance and gave the knight a coin with a special symbol engraved upon it.
‘Take it,’ he said, ‘and if ever you find yourself in the city of Hyperborea, give it to the Sheriff, who will know what to do with it.’
The Knight took the coin, took his leave and set off on his journey, and one day he arrived at the city of Hyperborea, famous for the great arch which marked the entrance to the city’s gates.
THE KING OF SWORDS
While the Knight was there, he got into some trouble and was hauled up before the city’s Sheriff. The Sheriff was known to be a very severe judge in these matters, but the Knight showed him the special coin and instead of being punished, he was welcomed into the Sheriff’s own household that СКАЧАТЬ