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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)