The Dec 2007 Issue of Tarot Reflections is up and has a couple of articles that feature me & the Tarot Connection.

• An Interview with Leisa ReFalo, the First Lady of Tarot Podcasting
• Tarot Podcasts – The New Wave of Tarot

Difficult Cards with Roger Tobin

What are Good Cards vs. Bad Cards, auspicious vs inauspicious etc.

Popular Tarot Culture would look at certain cards as inherently bearing weight in one direction or another for divination. (Example is face value of Golden Dawn titles).

Spread positions can heighten the effect of what we consider good and bad. (Consider that the Golden Dawn considered nearby cards as having an impact on the card in question)

Reversals can also matter, as can other dignity systems.

What makes a card difficult?

Reaction to the meaning and image, our core values, what we are “afraid” of.

• Are “bad” experiences actually good for us?
• Why is “bad” in the past better and “good” in the future better?
• What does this tell us about what we are willing to think about the lessons of life?

Personal experience with a card over time:

• Difficulty in interpretation
• Real life experience is often totally the opposite of what we thought.
• Comes up often without clear meaning
• Never comes up. . .

Difficult Reading for Paul using the Tarot of The Vampires

Is this a good financial move? Cards: 10 of Knives, 9 of Knives, 3 of Knives

Is it worth doing? Cards: 4 of Knives, 2 of Knives, 3. The Brides (Empress)

Images from The Vampire Tarot by Robert M. Place copyright 2007.

Music Credits

• Opening Music: The Oracle Speaks by William Wilde Zeitler from Elegy for Atlantis
• Closing Music: Finally by Ion from Future Forever (Magnatune)

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This Podcast Episode has been archived. It is available for purchase at shop.tarotconnection.net in the Year One Archive mp3 DVD.

Roger Tobin discusses reversals in Tarot, which is a topic open to a great amount of interpretation. Going from historical usage through modern interpretations, There are a number of ways to use and look at reversals, coupled with a number of questions for readers to consider in order to develop their own philosophy for using reversals.

Roger Tobin is a Professional Tarot Reader from Portland, Oregon. He was introduced to the Tarot in the late 1980s but started serious study and practice in 2002 after encouragement from his family. He is a member of The American Tarot Association and reads for both of their Networks. Roger is also a Mentor for new readers as well as an active community volunteer. He enjoys both studying and teaching of topics in Tarot, and helps lead the Portland Tarot Study group. You can find out more about his reading practice at his website Sylvan Creek Tarot.

Reversals Class with Teresa Michelsen (Portland, OR 2005)

• Seeing the good, bad, and neutral attributes of every card
• A survey of ways to use reversals, from traditional to modern to highly individual
• Obstacles and challenges
• Unhelpful influences (special discussion of court cards here)
• Hidden, deceptive, and unrealized factors
• Extreme or unbalanced energies
• Internal vs. external Special or assigned meanings
• Entire reversed readings

Teresa Michelsen is a tarot reader and instructor with more than 25 years of experience reading tarot. She is well-known on the tarot e-mail lists under her reading name of Thrysse, and has published many articles on tarot on the worldwide web and in ATA publications. Teresa is the author of Designing Your Own Tarot Spreads and the Complete Tarot Reader.

• Teresa’s Website Tarot Moon
• Reversals Class Information – January 2007
• CompTarot
• CompTarot Yahoo Group

Shake Rattle and Roll by Ginny Hunt

… The main thing about the Tower is it signals the disruption and even destruction of things that you thought were solid. The more comfortable we become in our castles, the more complacent we become, the less connected we are from others and from what is really important in our lives. We begin to believe the illusions of safety and security that we’ve built and start taking some very valuable things for granted. A Tower moment, though rarely welcome, unless it’s happening to someone you dislike very much, brings into sharp and sudden focus those things we thought indestructible and safe, and subsequently presumed too much upon. … Read the Entire Post

Music Credits

• Opening Music: time release by the Droney Tones.
• 78 Notes Music: A Life Worth Living by Royalty Free Music
• Closing Music: Chanter voel par grant amour by Joglaresa from the album Magdalena (www.magnatune.com)

This Podcast Episode has been archived. It is available for purchase at shop.tarotconnection.net in the Year One Archive mp3 DVD.

Join the Portland Tarot Study Group as we study the cards associated with the Sun and the Moon in the Golden Dawn System. The Sun is the Sun and the Moon is the High Priestess. Roger Tobin leads this session.

Music Credits

• Opening and Closing Music by the Droneytones.

This Podcast Episode has been archived. It is available for purchase at shop.tarotconnection.net in the Year One Archive mp3 DVD.

The American Tarot Association is a professional and social organization for Tarot enthusiasts, students, scholars, and readers. It promotes Tarot as a valid and useful tool for personal and spiritual growth and supports the Tarot community through a variety of programs, including the the Free Reading and Free Tarot networks and the monthly newsletter Tarot Reflections.

My Guests are Tracy Hite the Treasurer of the ATA and Manager of both the Free Reading and Free Tarot Networks. And two readers, Roger Tobin and Suzy Moore who share their experiences on the Networks.

Tracy Hite

Tracy began her own Tarot journey while recovering from her first son’s birth on New Year’s Eve, 1996. She tried to study on her own for nearly a year, picking up what she could from books and websites, but she had a lot of trouble piecing everything together. Through membership in the American Tarot Association, she met the contacts and gained the expertise needed to gain her certification as a Certified Tarot Master. Tracy’s LiveJournal

Roger Tobin

Roger Tobin is a Professional Tarot Reader from Portland, Oregon. He was introduced to the Tarot in the late 1980s but started serious study and practice in 2002 after encouragement from his family. He is a member of The American Tarot Association and reads for both of their Networks. Roger is also a Mentor for new readers as well as an active community volunteer. He enjoys both studying and teaching of topics in Tarot, and helps lead the Portland Tarot Study group. You can find out more about his reading practice at his website Sylvan Creek Tarot .

Suzy Moore

Suzy Moore picked up Tarot cards for the first time in 1983, and has had a deck close by ever since. Suzy is a member of The American Tarot Association and reads several times a week for the Free Tarot Network. She is an Assistant Organizer for Living Tarot Meetup, and serves as the Meetup Guide for our live meetings, and am also a member of Tarot Talk Dallas. Suzy also co-teaches both beginner and advanced initiative tarot classes with Ferol Humphrey.

Music Credits

• Opening Music: time release by the Droney Tones.
• Closing Music: Free Me by Cyclop

This Podcast Episode has been archived. It is available for purchase at shop.tarotconnection.net in the Year One Archive mp3 DVD.

3 Parts of a Tarot Reading

Roger Tobin & I discuss the 3 major parts of a Tarot Reading and Roger demonstrates 2 readings with the Robin Wood Tarot .

1. The Question
2. The Spread
3. The Interpretation.

The Robin Wood Tarot by Robin Wood 1991 Llewellyn Worldwide, 2143 Wooddale Drive, Woodbury, MN 55125-2989. All rights reserved, used by permission. Card images are protected intellectual property, and may not be recopied or reused in any manner without written permission from the publisher.

Download the Tarot Spreads File

Roger Tobin is a Professional Tarot Reader from Portland, Oregon. He was introduced to the Tarot in the late 1980s but started serious study and practice in 2002 after encouragement from his family. He is a member of The American Tarot Association and reads for both of their Networks. Roger is also a Mentor for new readers as well as an active community volunteer. He enjoys both studying and teaching of topics in Tarot, and helps lead the Portland Tarot Study group. You can find out more about his reading practice at his website Sylvan Creek Tarot .

Robin Wood Tarot

Bonnie Cehovet and I review the Robin Wood Tarot which is a Pagan interpretation of the Rider-Waite Tarot . You can learn more about the Artist Robin Wood at her Website. You can order a Robin Wood Meditation Set if you want to color your own copy. Robin also has a number of Tarot Articles to read including a few spreads.

Bonnie Cehovet (Washington) is a Tarot Educator, a professional Tarot reader with over ten years experience, a Reiki Master/Teacher and a writer. She currently has articles and reviews appearing in the World Tarot Network newsletter, and reviews appearing on the Meta Arts e-magazine site and on Aeclectic Tarot . Her website is The Crystal Gate – Tarot .

Music Credits

• Opening music by the Droneytones.
• Some of the music provided tonight from the PodShow Podsafe Music Network. Check it out at music.podshow.com
• Closing song is Titania, Wake My Sweet Queen by Mark Gunn. Visit Mark’s site for more music downloads.

This Podcast Episode has been archived. It is available for purchase at shop.tarotconnection.net in the Year One Archive mp3 DVD.

Is there a difference? Roger Tobin and I discuss Fortune Telling and Divination and define terms.

Roger Tobin is a Professional Tarot Reader from Portland, Oregon. He was introduced to the Tarot in the late 1980s but started serious study and practice in 2002 after encouragement from his family. He is a member of The American Tarot Association and reads for both of their Networks. Roger is also a Mentor for new readers as well as an active community volunteer. He enjoys both studying and teaching of topics in Tarot, and helps lead the Portland Tarot Study group. You can find out more about his reading practice at his website Sylvan Creek Tarot.

Portland Psychic Whitney Leigh Harris talks about Mediumship & Psychic readings. Currently, Whitney offers in-depth readings in person, over the phone and via e-mail. Whitney’s website is WordsforWisdom.com

Music Credits

• time release by the Droney Tones.