• Appropriate Number of Cards
• Spread positions should follow a logical or easy to follow order.
• Symmetry
• Interesting relationships between cards that are next to each other

Spreads

1 Card

What do I most need to know about <this> right now.

2 Card Focus by Gail Fairfield from Choice Centered Tarot

1. Major - The What of the Situation
2. Minor - The How of the Situation

The Pro & Con Layout

1. Pro-Whats the best thing about this. What are the benefits.
2. Con - Whats the worst thing about this. What are the costs.

3 Card: by Zoe Matoff

2 - 1 - 3

1. Whats the basic issue here
2. Don’t do this
3. Do this

Deeper Learning Layout by James Wells

1. Larger Deeper Learning for me in this situation.
2. What’s appropriate to release, exit, or leave behind?
3. What’s appropriate to embrace, enter or move towards?

Reality Check Spread by James Wells

1. What am I imagining on the bad side?
2. What am I imagining on the good side?
3. What’s the reality of the situation itself?

4 Card Psychological Spread from Tarot for Dummies

1. Your subconscious or child self (reactive)
2. Your conscious or adult self (intentional)
3. you superconscious or wise self
4. Overall comment

The Spread of Changes by James Rioux

The first card can be drawn at random or intentionally selected based on something you want to focus on and consciously pick a card to represent it. You can pick any of the position’s intentionally.

1-2-3-4-5

1. The past or root cause
2. Your state or attitude or how you thought about yourself before the change
3. The change itself
4. The after change attitude
5. The result of the change or desired outcome

Elenore Greenburg from 2007 Tarot Reader

1. What the client needs to learn about the current situation
2. What he or she needs to learn about how it plays out in their life in general or the bigger picture or pattern revealed by the situation
3. How learning the situation can further their spiritual growth
4. What’s appropriate to leave behind
5. What’s appropriate to move toward

Arthur Rosengarten from Tarot and Psychology

1. Whats’ working for you
2. What’s working against you
3. What you know
4. What you don’t know
5. What’s needed

The Leap Across the Abyss by Rachel Pollack from the Shining Tribe Tarot

1. Where do I start?
2. What is hidden?
3. Who helps me?
4. What do I fear?
5. What must I give up?
6. What must I take with me?
7. What will I experience?
8. What will I find?

Clarifying Options by Gail Fairfield from Everyday Tarot

Layout 9 cards for each option including an option you having though of. The third card will help identify the new option. Please refer to the book Everyday Tarot for the shape of the spread

1. your reason for considering this option
2. what this option represents for you
3. the true nature of this option
4. the resources that support this option
5. the obstacles that block this option
6. the advantages of pursuing this option
7. the disadvantages of pursing this option
8. what will probably happen if you choose this option
9. the Key Factor with regard to this option.

James’ 10 Card Layout

1. The External Experience of the Situation.
2. The Internal Experience of the Situation.
3. My contribution to it.
4. Other’s contribution to it.
5. What challenges blocks or problems are connected with it
6. What blessings, gifts or resources are connected with it.
7. What does soul have to say about the situation? (Soul: Personal Sacred or Sacred Self)
8. What does spirit have to say about the situation? (Spirit: Transpersonal Sacred or Sacred Other)
9. What’s the wisdom emerge from me from the situation? What can I learn?
10. (Optional) Based on the above information, what is the most likely way this will unfold in the <timeframe>

Freestyle Q&A

Initial question. Pull a card. Dialog. This generates another question. Pull a Card. Continue until it feels complete or resolved.

Custom Design Layouts

• Step 1: Pick a Topic (Subject)
• Step 2: Brainstorm Questions (Quantity)
• Step 3: Refine the Questions & Wording (Quality)
• Step 4: Put the Questions in an order that makes sense and number the Questions (Order)
• Step 5: Draw a Diagram (Shape)

Draw and Layout the Cards. Interpret. Finish with a summary card.

Your first step to a helpful insightful Tarot Session is ask empowering open ended questions such as:

• How?
• What?
• Where in my life?
• In what ways?
• What do I most need to learn about?
• What do I most need to know about at this time?
• What is a more evolved perspective on … ?

Avoid:

• Yes/No Questions
• Negatively worded questions
• Questions about other people’s lives

James Wells

James Wells is a Toronto-based consultant, teacher, and facilitator devoted to merging soul and strategy. Through tools and processes such as Tarot, Reiki, Council Circle, and Journal Writing, he and his clients and students are inspired to become more of who they really are.

Tarot has been a part of James’ life since 1979. His insightful, down-to-earth, proactive style makes him a popular practitioner and workshop presenter at home and abroad. James is a contributor to most of Llewellyn’s Tarot Reader almanacs. In his “me time”, he enjoys writing, reading, music, walking, and good food.

jameswells.wordpress.com

To book private consultations and to set up a workshop in your area, feel free to contact James at (416) 966 - 2685 or at evolutionary_tarot@yahoo.ca

JAMES WELLS — Merging soul and strategy through tarot, Reiki, journal writing, council circle, workshops, & classes.

Music Credits

• Opening Music: The Oracle Speaks by William Wilde Zeitler from Elegy for Atlantis
• Closing Music: The Way by Ishwish from Remember (Magnatune)

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Born out of the mystical vision of artist Robert M. Place, The Alchemical Tarot: Renewed demonstrates the close link between alchemical symbolism and traditional Tarot imagery and illustrates that the Tarot, like the alchemical quest, is designed to lead one to the gold of inner wisdom. One of the most beautiful and sought after modern Tarot decks, the out of print first edition Alchemical Tarot has sold at auction for over $2,000. Now it is back in print at an affordable price.

The Alchemical Tarot: Renewed is a digitally redesigned version of the original with improvements in the drawings, more vibrant colors, and reproportioned so that the art is more prominent. The cards are 4.75 x 2.75 and come in a tuck box. It is printed on standard card stock, like a poker deck, with the same durable finish and die-cut edges. The deck includes the original Lovers card that was censored in the first publication as well as the Lovers that was published in that edition and a little-white-book that lists the meaning of each card. Each card in The Alchemical Tarot: Renewed is beautifully drawn and captures the enigmatic symbols of alchemy that are natural vehicles for communication with the unconscious mind. It can be used my Tarot readers at any level.

The Alchemical Tarot: Renewed is now available at shop.tarotconnection.net.

Other Alchemical Tarot Materials

• 
• Alchemical Tarot Website (with 3 & 9 Card Readings)
• Alchemical Tarot Notebook (Binder)
• Alchemical Tarot Notebook (Spiral)
• Alchemical Tarot Prayer Candles
• Alchemical Tarot Votives
• Classes with Robert Place
• Art Prints (from the Alchemical Egg)
  

Robert M. Place

Robert M. Place is an internationally known visionary artist and illustrator, whose award winning works, in painting, sculpture, and jewelry, have been displayed in galleries and museums in America, Europe, and Japan and graced the covers and pages of numerous books and publications. He is the designer, illustrator, and co-author, with Rosemary Ellen Guiley, of: “The Alchemical Tarot” and “The Angels Tarot“, which are both published by HarperCollins and have received international acclaim particularly for their skillful and illuminating graphics. He is the designer, illustrator, and author of “The Tarot of the Saints” and “The Buddha Tarot“. And, he is the author of “The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination“, which Booklist has said, “may be the best book ever written on that deck of cards decorated with mysterious images called the tarot.” He is currently working on the “Vampire Tarot“, which will be published by St. Martins Press in 2008.

Robert is recognized as an expert on Western Mysticism, the history of the Tarot, and as a gifted teacher of divination. He has taught and lectured at the New York Open Center, Omega Institute, The New York Tarot School, and the World Tarot Congress. He and his work have appeared on Discovery, The Learning Channel, and A&E. He has been a guest on numerous radio shows including The Woodstock Roundtable on WDST-FM, People are Talking on WKZE-FM , and Mystic Musings on KKUP FM.

Together with his wife Rose Ann, he has been creating hand crafted jewelry for over twenty-five years. Their work has been exhibited in the White House, in the American Craft Museum, The New York State Museum, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Delaware Art Museum, The Montclair Art Museum, The Irish American Heritage Museum, the International Wilhelm Muller Competition, (which toured Museums in Germany), Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, England, and in numerous galleries in the United States, Ireland, Britain, and Japan.

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• Schedule a Reading
• See the Tarot of the 7 fold Mystery

To receive The Restored Temple of Hermes, the free newsletter of the Alchemical Egg, with articles, a question and answer section, and news about up-coming lectures and workshops, e-mailed every other month, send an e-mail to Robert with The Restored Temple of Hermes in the subject line. Also, please let include know what state or country you live in.

Music Credits

• Opening Music: The Oracle Speaks by William Wilde Zeitler from Elegy for Atlantis
• Closing Music: Fantasia terza by Paul Beier from Simone Molinaro
• Closing Music: Fantasia decima quarta by Paul Beier from Simone Molinaro

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Transiting Pluto By Dena DeCastro

The force of transiting Pluto brings transformative, life-changing external events OR internal realization (reference the January Podcast on Pluto into Capricorn). Pluto brings the opportunity for us to reconnect with our passions by clearing away things that are blocking us in the unconscious. Pluto offers us the lesson that we are not ultimately in control of everything in or lives, and often we find that there is very little we do control. The issue of power and its locus is up for consideration here, and we must look at our relationship to power – both our own power and how others use power towards us. Pluto often pushes us to face our fears – not to punish us, but so that we may come more fully into our own power and feel a passionate connection to our lives.

Transformation, Regeneration, Rebirth
Destruction
Death
Obsession
Dictatorship
Terrorism, rebellion, anarchy
Secret, Undercover, Hidden
Revitalization

Dena’s Reading

3 Card Change Reading

1. Resistance (Saturn-Devil)
2. Struggle (Mars-Tower)
3. Transformation (Fire-Pluto-Judgement)

Dena DeCastro

A professional astrologer in the Portland area for several years, Dena has appeared on local radio shows, taught workshops, and given lectures on topics in Evolutionary Astrology. The evolutionary perspective is that our souls progress from lifetime to lifetime. The focus of Dena’s readings is upon your chart as the dynamic representation of your highest potential, and the guide toward achieving it. Dena hosts the podcast Evolutions of Astrology featuring interviews with astrologers and other readers, as well as discussing various topics of astrology and chart interpretation.

To subscribe to “Evolutions of Astrology” via iTunes, click here.

Music Credits

• Opening Music: The Oracle Speaks by William Wilde Zeitler from Elegy for Atlantis
• Closing Music: I’m Your Moon by Jonathan Coulton

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Shuffle the Deck, Cut, Layout the first 10 cards of the deck in two rows of 5.

1 2 3 4 5

6 7 8 9 10

Read the first 10 cards grouping as you feel they should be grouped. There are no positional meanings look at the overall images. Look for relationships between cards.
Then below layout out the rest of the deck (see photo of Penny below) stopping as you see patterns or groups of cards that are interesting. Also look at the row that contains astrological court card for the person getting the reading. If you took not of how the cards were cut, look for where those cards come up.

Sample Reading

2 of Cups, Page of Cups, Ace of Coins, Two of Swords, Two of Cons

8 of Coins, Judgement, Chariot Rx, Knight of Swords, Justice

Book List

• The Book of tarot by Fred Gettings
• Your Days are Numbered by Florance Campbell
• The Secrets of Numbers by Vera Scott Johnson and Thomas Wommack
• A Beginner’s Guide to Constructing the Universe: Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art, and Science

Penny Key

Penny Key picked up her first deck of tarot cards while in college in the early 70s, and learned to read by mentorship as well as studying the few books (one) on the subject in the library of her small Southern city. She moved to Los Angeles in the late 70s, and while working in the entertainment industry, she worked at Psychic Fairs as a tarot reader, acquiring a small clientèle. She stopped reading “professionally” because she began to feel like a therapist and felt unqualified to help her clients further. Now, she only read for friends and family. She spent many years in the entertainment industry, including nearly a decade as a talent agent. Ironically it was while she was an agent that she felt the call to actually become a psychotherapist, and returned to graduate school to get a master’s in psychology. Today she’s a Marriage and Family Therapist, working as a counselor at an art college. She also has a private practice in Santa Monica, CA, and has recently joined a small discussion group interested in exploring the psychological side of tarot.

School Concert - March 20th 2008

Music Credits

• Opening Music: The Oracle Speaks by William Wilde Zeitler from Elegy for Atlantis
• Transition Music: Mysterium by Blind Divine from (Music for Unmade Movies - Volume 1 (Magnatune)
• Closing Music: Paranormal Wonder by Blind Divine from (Music for Unmade Movies - Volume 1 (Magnatune)

  

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Hero’s Journey Layout

M.Y.T.H. Make Yourself The Hero of your life. A proactive reading which shows how to create the future of our choice. Breaking the card into sections allows for very specific answers.

First decide on the Quest.

Divide your deck in to 5 Stacks

Stack 1: Remainder Cards, those not used in the 4 other stacks.

Stack 2: Major Arcana 0. Fool - 10. Wheel of Fortune

Stack 3: Negative Cards: 5 of Wands; 5 of Crystals (Swords), 6 of Crystals, 7 of Crystals, 9 of Crystals, 10 of Crystals; 4 of Cups, 5 of Cups, 6 of Cups, 7 of Cups, 8 of Cups; 5 of Worlds (Pentacles). (If you are using a deck other than the Voyager Tarot you might want to look through your deck and see which minors you feel are negative.)

Stack 4: Court Cards

Stack 5: World Cards except 5 of Worlds. (Pentacles)

Card 1: Present

Where are you now in relation to your quest. Shuffle and draw a card from Stack One (Remainder Stack).

Card 2: Gift or Power

This is your magic, your gift. The gift that you have to archive the quest that you are on. Shuffle and draw one card from Stack Two (Majors 0-10).

Card 3: Obstacle

The noble adversary, the demon, the challenge, the obstacle, that which could stop you. Shuffle and draw one from Stack Three (Negative Cards)

Card 4: Ally

The helper, that which can help you from within, or other people in your life who can assist. Shufle and drew from Stack Four (Family/Court Cards)

Card 5: Action

Earth cards - Pentacles or Disks. All about action. I Do. What action can you take? Shuffle and draw from Stack Five (Worlds-Actions)

Card 6: Outcome

Put the rest of the deck together. Shuffle and draw one card. Where does it take you where do you go?

James Wanless

James Wanless, Ph.D. is the noted creator of Voyager Tarot, and also the author of Way of the Great Oracle, Strategic Intuition for the 21st Century, New Age Tarot, Wheel of Tarot and his latest book, Intuition@Work.

He has often been called “Mr. Tarot” or the “Tarot Revolutionary” because of his enormous contribution to the field of tarot. With his magical blend of personal charisma, humor and pragmatic enthusiasm, he is thought of as a “corporate shaman” and an internationally known authority on intuition.

He keynotes, trains, and consults with organizations throughout the world. He has also developed a groundbreaking technique for using the tarot as a proactive tool for “Life Coaching.”

New Edition of Voyager

Fair Winds Press has published a new edition of voyager tarot. This replaces the previous version and is 10% Smaller.

Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 4.9 x 1.9 inches

Experience the power of the symbols. Pick a card a day and change your life! Voyager Tarot shows you how to achieve your visions and dreams, creating the success you desire. Use the deck as an intuitive guide to forecast your future, reveal secrets of you subconscious and provide spiritual inspiration. This excellent decision-making tool can help you navigate life, enhancing business planning, relationship building and self-discovery.

Intuition Into Action Podcast

Intuition Into Action is a lively and entertaining podcast dedicated to exploring the ways and wonder of Intuition. Dr. James Wanless, author of the books: “Intuition at Work” and “Voyager Tarot”) is your host, and opens each program with a Theme for the week, followed by a compelling question for Ask the Oracle. The program ends with an Intuition Tip that listeners can use daily to develop their Intuition. Co-Hosted by Linda Woods (producer of Windows to Wellness podcast).

Visit us online at www.intuition-blog.com and www.ahealingvoice.net

Music Credits

• Opening Music: The Oracle Speaks by William Wilde Zeitler from Elegy for Atlantis
• Closing Music: Creative Energy by Charlie Bobus (Podsafe Music)

  

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A Scorecard on Conventional Wisdom from New York Times: Week in Review

Initiation: The Western Magical Tradition with Lon Milo DuQuette

Maybe Logic Academy
March 24 through May 4, 2008

This course is designed as a six week initiatory experience – Initiation into an informal, (yet I assure you, very real) magical order. Like in other schools of the Western Mystery Tradition, this order is comprised of three degrees, each with its own ritual of self-initiation, secret password, grip, signs of recognition, and jewel.

Sound silly? I confess up front that we will have fun. But the underlying magical power of such silliness has its roots in the Egyptian Book of the Dead – a secret of human consciousness that (properly understood and mastered) is said to be the key to overcoming death.

The course is ideal for both magical novices and adepts. We will undergo real initiations and work real magick. The three degrees are:

First Degree: The Lesser Mysteries
Second Degree: The Greater Mysteries
Third Degree: The Supreme Secret

Find out more at: Maybe Logic

Chapter Two: Space/Time Divination

Divination is an art of magic that supposedly tells a person the “future.” Many magicians advocate doing a divination before performing a spell in order to determine the outcome of the spell. Others, such as myself, rarely use divination for that purpose. I have my reasons for not doing so, mainly because I feel that divination can obscure probabilities that could occur. If you are willing to buy into the one, two, or three outcomes that are depicted, but are ignorant of the various other outcomes that could occur, and are not represented in the cards, you are limiting your possibilities. However, this is not to say that divination, in its various forms, isn’t useful to the creative magician. It just means you need to take a different approach to how you use divination tools. I only use tarot cards. I know there are other divination systems, but the cards work for me. For those of you who don’t use tarot cards, however, it is still possible to take the gist of the ideas I describe and apply them to your divinatory tools.

Part of the problem with divination is that it might be considered a rather passive form of magic. I put some cards down and suddenly I know my future. However, I have found that divination can be a very active form of magic. Divination can be a form of space/time magic. When most people think of divination, they think of tarot cards, or a crystal ball and a person telling them what will occur in their future. While this stereotype is true of divination, most people don’t understand the dynamics involved, i.e. what is actually happening when their ”future” is “read.” What is actually occurring is not so much a foreseeing of the future, but rather a person choosing to perceive one or two specific probabilities from a field of infinite probabilities. The problems that this can cause mainly comes down to the person choosing to believe in this one probability, as opposed to exploring other probabilities of the future that could be just as useful to them, if they were willing to question what they perceive about their probabilities and the future. Another problem is giving too much authority to the people who tell the ”future.” By giving those people authority, you give away your responsibility and choices.

Taylor Ellwood

Taylor Ellwood is the author of Pop Culture Magick, Space/Time Magic, Inner Alchemy, and Multi-Media Magic, as well as a co-author of Creating Magickal Entities and Kink Magic. Taylor also edited the Magick on the Edge and Manifesting Prosperity Anthologies. He is also the author of numerous articles on the occult which can be found at such magazines as New Witch Magazine and Konton Magazine and on such websites as Key 64, irreality, and Witchvox.

Taylor is the non-fiction Acquisitions and managing editor of Immanion Press. Taylor is also owner of Imagine Your Reality Life Coaching.

Websites:

• The Green Wolf
• Imagine Your Reality
• Immanion Press

Recommendations

Invocation

Music Credits

• Opening Music: The Oracle Speaks by William Wilde Zeitler from Elegy for Atlantis
• Closing Music: Folded Space by Robert Rich from Bestiary (Magnatune)

  

  

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Chapter Four: Open-Source Totem Cards

I’ve been thinking about the concept of totem cards, decks that supposedly help you find your totem animal(s) with just one reading. In Fang and Fur, I explained some of the downfalls of a number of methods used to determine one’s totem. One of the shortcomings of cards is that they necessarily have to limit the number of animals you have as your choices, and even the creators that add a few blank cards for “animals not pictured here” still put the odds in favor of BINABM (Big, Impress North American Birds and Mammals) and whatever other critters they chose to include in their decks. Additionally, unless you read for other people, once you’ve read your cards what do you do with them? Some sets advocate using the cards for divination, but others seem to primarily want to use them for determining your life totem(s).

… I wanted to come up with a system of cards or other symbols that could be used both for seeking totems and magic, as well as other purposes. I saw the limitations as a challenge, and wanted to find a way to answer them. While I’m happy with Andrews’ deck for my own divinatory purposes (he does include a nice mixture of animals), and the Wolf Song cards for evocation, I wanted to create something that was more inclusive overall. I wanted a deck that wouldn’t limit me by what totems I could work with, and that I could use both for divination and for other forms of magic.

What I came up with was a set of thirty-three cards based on taxonomy (specifically phyla), habitats, and other basic categories of information about animals. Not every card would be used in every type of reading, but I managed to create a set that had fewer cards than most decks, and allowed for more animals than any other (Not that I’m bragging or anything…). I also managed to address the issues I’d had with existing decks.

Lupa

Lupa is the author of Fang and Fur, Blood and Bone: A Primal Guide to Animal Magic and A Field Guide to Otherkin. She is the co-author of Kink Magic: Sex Magic Beyond Vanilla with her husband Taylor Ellwood and has also contributed to the anthologies Magick on the Edge and Manifesting Prosperity: A Wealth Magic Anthology. Lupa is also an associate editor, layout tech, and nonfiction publicity/promotions manager for Immanion Press/Megalithica Books.

Lupa’s upcoming book: DIY Totemism

While a basic working knowledge of magic and totemism is helpful, DIY Totemism is written in an approachable fashion. Solid research and proper citation methods are paired with thorough practical results showing Lupa’s work, and rather than being a dogmatic guide to what you should and shouldn’t do, once again Lupa provides you with tools you can integrate into your own practice.
Websites:

• The Green Wolf
• Pagan Book Reviews
• Articles by Lupa
• Lupa’s Artwork
• Immanion Press
• Therioshamanism

Recommended Reading

WildSpeak.com

Music Credits

• Opening Music: The Oracle Speaks by William Wilde Zeitler from Elegy for Atlantis
• Closing Music: The Witch Outstrips the Wolf by The Psycho Daisies (Podsafe Music)

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Download the sample readings of the Character Motivation Spread and the Pen and Paper Spread.

Stephanie Arwen Lynch

President of the American Tarot Association Stephanie Arwen Lynch has been reading the Tarot since 1979 and began reading professionally in 1982. She has taught workshops on Tarot for the Professional Fiction Writer as well as How To Create Your Own Spread.

A self-confessed tarotaholic, Arwen owns a collection of nearly 75 decks to date. She is intrigued by the various ways artists express the archetypes of the Tarot. She subscribes to the Jungian archetype philosophy in her reading. One of her passions is designing Tarot spreads. Currently she is engaged in writing a series on fairy tales and spreads that examine the underlying archetypes found in fairy tales.

Arwen reads for everyone but she specializes in reading for the writing community as well as the GLBQT community. As a queer femme, she feels that it is important to be sensitive to everyone’s personal gender preferences.

She has run her online Tarot business since 2005 and reads online as well as in person and over the phone. She has read on the Free Reading Network as well. She is the past editor of the ATA Quarterly journal. Tarot By Arwen is Arwen’s professional site.

Arwen is also a published romance writer. She is part of the writing team of Marilu Mann whose first novel, an erotic paranormal romance, will be released by Ellora’s Cave. She sold two books to EC last year and the first one, Changing Times, will be released May 7, 2008 as book one of the series Lusting Wild. Book two, Changing Hearts, will be released later this year.

Marilu Mann

Marilu Mann brings the steaminess of the Louisiana bayous to her books and she doesn’t stop there. Willing to travel to the frozen tundra of Wisconsin to heat up those northern nights and melt a little snow, she’ll also circle the globe to Wales, Ireland, Scotland and back just to bring you books that make you sweat.

Currently residing in Texas, Marilu is an avid armchair traveler. Her sexy shifters will set your blood to boiling in no time. Owned by one Diva Teen and various animals, Marilu keeps busy writing the novels her readers beg for.

Marilu is thrilled to be a part of the Ellora’s Cave family and loves to hear from readers. Drop her a note at Marilu Mann or visit her website or her MySpace for more info.

Music Credits

• Opening Music: The Oracle Speaks by William Wilde Zeitler from Elegy for Atlantis
• Closing Music: Howling at the Moon by Kenny Neal (Podsafe Music)

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Sabian Symbols look a lot like the Magical Images. Aries 3: The Cameo Profile Of A Man, suggesting The Shape Of His Country

The ultimate peace and unity of Kether is represented by a special anthropomorphic symbol known as a Magical Image. Such an image is given for each of the sephiroth, and has been built up over the centuries by meditative work on the inner plane. These images are, along with applicable symbols points of contact with the Sephiorth. In the case of Kether, the image is of an Ancient Bearded King seen in profile. This is a crowned and white-bearded head, seen from the right side, its left being unknown to us as it borders on the Unmanifest. - The Qabalistic Tarot by Robert Wang Pg. 56

I am proposing that we could use the Sabian Symbols in the same way magical images are used and you can associate most Tarot Cards with degrees of the Zodiac (see notes handout below).

Sabian Symbols Resources

Podcast
TURNING OF THE WHEEL
Learning Life Cycles Through Astrology with CHRIS FLISHER

• Download Episode
• Visit Turning of the Wheel Archives
• Subscribe with iTunes
• ChrisFlisher.com

The Sabian Symbols with Lynda Hill 10/25/07

Lynda Hill, FAA Pract. Cert. has been a professional astrologer for more than 18 years. 2006 marked her 22nd lecture tour of the States, in addition to the many lectures she has conducted for astrologers and the public throughout Australia, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Russia, South Africa, New Zealand and Canada. Lynda is the astrologer for Good Taste and Take Five, and writes astrological commentary for publications all over the world. She divides her time between Sydney’s beautiful Northern Beaches and the World Heritage-listed Blue Mountains (when she’s not traveling the world delivering lectures!).

Lynda has been a tireless researcher on the Sabian Symbols. Listen to the amazing story of this remarkable divination oracle. Her book, “360 Degrees of Wisdom: Charting Your Destiny With the Sabian Oracle” is published by Penguin USA (Plume imprint) and was released in February 2006 by Sony Japan in Japanese. This is a revised edition of her self-published book The Sabian Symbols as an Oracle, which comes with a special set of divination cards and can still be purchased through Lynda by emailing her at www.sabiansymbols.com

Websites:

• Lynda Hill’s SabianSymbols.com
• Sabian Symbols Oracle
• Visualize the Zodiac
• Sabian Symbols as Art

Books:

Handouts

Using Dice

12 sided	1. Aries 2. Taurus 3. Gemini 4. Cancer 5. Leo 6. Virgo	7. Libra 8. Scorpio 9. Sagittarius 10. Capricorn 11. Aquarius 12. Pisces
6 sided	1. 1st decan (1-10) 2. 2nd decan (11-20) 3. 3rd Decan (21-30)	4. 1st decan (1-10) 5. 2nd decan (11-20) 6. 3rd Decan (21-30)
10 sided	1-1st Degree in Decan 2-2nd Degree in Decan …	… 9 - 9th Degree in Decan 0 -Last Degree in Decan

Example (9, 3, 9)

• 12d -> 9. Sagittarius
• 6d -> 3. Third Decan
• 10d-> 9. 9th Degree

Sagittarius 29: A Fat Boy Mowing The Lawn Of His House On An Elegant SuburbanStreet

Sukhi’s Reading (Calculating a Degree)

1. Sukhi: Hermit (Virgo)
2. Crossing: Page Pentacles
3. Crowning: King of Pentacles
4. Undercurrents: Ace of Pentacles
5. Past: Page Cups Rx
6. Near Future: Six of Wands
7. Internal: 8 of Swords Rx
8. External: Death Rx
9. Hope & Fears: 10 Swords Rx
10. Outcome: Empress

I selected the Hermit/Virgo as the significant sign on the reading then added the numbers from the spread together and reduced the sum to a number between 1 & 30.

9 + 1 +6 + 8 + 13 + 10 + 3 = 50 (5+0 = 5)

Virgo 5

A Man Becoming Aware Of Nature Spirits And Normally Unseen Spiritual Agencies

My Chart, Tarot Cards, Sabian Cards

I printed out a set of the Sabian Symbols on Color Card stock. This picture is of my Natal Cart with the associated Tarot Cards around it.

For example:

• Sun in Aries - Sun/Emperor
• Moon in Capricorn - Priestess/Devil

The outer rim is the symbol associated with the degree of that sign.

Dena DeCastro

A professional astrologer in the Portland area for several years, Dena has appeared on local radio shows, taught workshops, and given lectures on topics in Evolutionary Astrology. The evolutionary perspective is that our souls progress from lifetime to lifetime. The focus of Dena’s readings is upon your chart as the dynamic representation of your highest potential, and the guide toward achieving it.

Dena hosts the podcast Evolutions of Astrology featuring interviews with astrologers and other readers, as well as discussing various topics of astrology and chart interpretation.

Basics of Astrology: Teleclasses with Dena
Have you ever attempted to read your own birth chart, and found you just didn’t know where to begin? Or, have you always been curious about astrology, but found books on the topic to be complex and incomprehensible? If so, these teleclasses are for you (see info to the right on teleclasses).

Each class module will focus on a different topic of astrology. Included will be on-line visual aids, downloadable chart examples, and/or specific hands-on demonstrations of the techniques discussed. There will also be a 15-minute period devoted to Q & A.

Class sessions are 90 minutes, and are conducted via phone.

Module 1: Planets and Signs

This module is geared toward those with an interest in learning the basics of astrology. No previous experience is required. We will explore the archetypes of each planet and sign, and begin interpreting the placements of planets within different signs.

Module 2: Houses and Beginning Interpretation

This module delves into the meanings of the houses, and we begin to combine the interpretation of planets, signs and houses. This is the first step toward chart synthesis, and necessary in order to read a natal chart.

Module 3: Aspects

Aspects between planets in the natal chart add an important layer to interpretation. This module illustrates how aspects to our personal planets and Ascendant give us more information as to how these planets function within the natal chart.

• To subscribe to “Evolutions of Astrology” via iTunes, click here.
• To learn more about Dena’s Teleclasses, click here.

Music Credits

• Opening Music: The Oracle Speaks by William Wilde Zeitler from Elegy for Atlantis
• Closing Music: Title and Registration by Death Cab for Cutie (Podsafe Music)

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