Step by Step Tarot. Terry Donaldson

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       5 TAROT WORKSHEETS

      You might like to copy the sheet entitled ‘Tarot Worksheet’ and create a complete page for each of the cards, 78 in all. At this stage, I want you to start building up your selection of associated memories and experiences for each of the cards. I want you, when you look at any one card, to reach the point of being able to link the picture with a complete set of feelings, memories, recollections, etc. It is this attribute which makes a great Tarot reading. Once you have worked through the deck in this way, your readings will not just be two-dimensional recitals of ‘the meaning of the cards’, in the way that so many self-trained people’s readings are. They will actually resonate with emotional intensity; they will become three-dimensional. They will acquire depth.

      The actual exercise is simple: take each card and place it on a Worksheet. Now allow your thoughts to flow around the images which surface in your mind as you look at it. As they start to appear I want you to quickly write down all the associations which come up.

      There will be memories of people, places, experiences positive and negative. Be specific: name names, put down times when things happened. Be as specific as you can. The more accurately you can do this, the more you will be genuinely weaving your own life experience into the symbolism of the cards.

      Thoughts, hopes, dreams, ambitions, fears, desires will be triggered as you do this, making associations and connections with each card. Sometimes some of the experiences you will be reminded of will not be happy ones, but in doing this exercise you will be clearing emotional debris out of your system. Better out than in!

      The whole purpose of the Worksheets is to act quickly, to get the immediate psychological response which the image of each card triggers off, before the critical faculty has a chance to step in and create a blockage.

      It is a good idea to cycle through the Worksheets, going through them fairly quickly at first, and then come back to them when you feel ready. Each time you go through a card, you will get something more from the exercise.

      There will be some cards from which you get more than from others. Some will have a lot to say to you; others will have their say with you further along your path. Some of the experiences which come back to you will be very intense. With some of them you may laugh, with others you may well cry.

      But to work with the Tarot is to work on yourself, in the sense of looking at your own limitations, your own blockages, and finding a way to clear them. After all, unless you’ve cleared these away for yourself, at least to some extent, how can you realistically expect to help others to do so?

      You will notice that the sheet entitled ‘Neighbouring Page’ gives you the chance to write up all of your own more intimate and detailed reactions to the specific memories thrown up by each of the cards as you move through this set of exercises. The more you put into these exercises, the more you will actively participate in your own growth process.

      Feel free to write up any residual emotions, regrets, realizations, hopes for the future, aspirations which you now have. Remember, you don’t have to show them to anyone.

      We don’t often get the chance in life to actually sit down and talk much to ourselves, to simply sit there and be, and get into communication with our emotions and thoughts. All the time we are rushing from one sensory experience to another. Sitting down and working your way through the Worksheets is a wonderful chance to befriend yourself, to heal yourself of old wounds, and to determine and prepare for those things that you want to find in life in the future.

      TAROT WORKSHEET

      NEIGHBOURING PAGE

      What happened here?

      

      What did you learn from this experience?

      

      What has this card to teach you?

      SAMPLE WORKSHEET NO 1

      SAMPLE WORKSHEET NO 2

      SAMPLE WORKSHEET NO 3

      Reminds me of Steve when he won the race – Everyone came out to meet him and he led the big celebration through the village

      SAMPLE WORKSHEET NO 4

      Time: July ’89 – November ‘90 I was confused about my life in general – I was bored and taking tranquillisers – I was getting out of it – I felt it was an effort to get up in the morning. Then, my daughter had an accident and I realised how precious she was to me. Suddenly I was able to snap out of it: I stopped taking the pills and regained control over my life

      The purpose of going through the Worksheets is two-fold. The first I have already given you: it gets you much more in touch with yourself. The second is that it enables you to make more of an emotional connection with the person who is having their cards read. You are far more able to connect with them if you have connected with yourself first. To relate to someone on an emotional level СКАЧАТЬ