Tarot Studies – if you want to start learning at your own pace

is for Divination, Self-guidance, Meditation, and Spiritual development, to Know Yourself.

What you will need for Tarot studies:

Your own Tarot Deck

-This is a practical you are trying to learn, and everybody have their own speed of understanding.

-Most of the practice is done at home so you need to be able to be independent in your studies.

-It requires your own personal dedication and concentration.

-Tarot reader’s Quirk:

The Tarot deck is as personal and necessary as a toothbrush:

- i.e. no one lends their toothbrush to another person, in the same way, no Tarot reader lends their deck to another Tarot reader.

Silk or Natural Fibre cloth

This replaces the original package the cards came in. It’s easier to handle and saves the cards from scratch damage of taking it out and putting it in every time you use the cards.

- Favourite Colour

Tarot Cover or Reading Cloth

Natural fibre, about 1×1 m, in any colour that pleases you most (favourite colour).

This cloth is spread out before you begin to un-wrap your deck of cards for reading. The purpose is to protect the cards from touching the surface you’re going to read on.

Tarot Journal or Diary

A thick all-purpose notebook will be fine.

-You will need to make notes for yourself, Tarot study is about self realizations and introspective ponderings. You will need to write down what results come from you meditations and your own progress.

-The notebook is divided into three sections:

General notes

Daily Record book

Tarot log

FIRST THING TO DO WHEN AFTER YOU BUY YOUR TAROT DECK

= PUT AWAY THE “LITTLE WHITE BOOK”

The little white book that comes with your Tarot deck may look like a good idea as a starting point. But it is nothing more than a sales gimmick and is really not suitable to learn from.

They can be very misleading, as they provide you with the publisher’s image of what that certain Tarot deck is. The research is not complete, and the information, though not wrong is not the right information for beginners. This will not help you advance in Tarot study; it often has the opposite effect. It creates mental blocks: The worst thing that can happen from “learning” from the little white book is it will give you a “mental block” or a certain mindset against any other methods of interpreting the Tarot. There are people who get so imprinted by the “little white book” that they automatically reject any other source of meaning for their Tarot deck. Even keeping it as a reference will not help you go forward where your tarot reading skills are concerned. Key words do not give sufficient guidance most white books leave it entirely up to you to understand.

My conclusion and advice is that you get rid of the book and you’re better off. The little book only serves the purpose of the publisher = selling. It will confuse you or at worst – stops you from learning.

Colours

(here are some notes on Colours, to help you find the fabric colour you want for your tarot cards and reading cloths, if you don’t have a favourite colour)

WHITE: A balance of all colours. Symbolizes peace, purity, innocence and power of a higher nature. Promotes peace, tranquility, purification; truth, spirituality, and sincerity. Also used for meditation, truth seeking, spiritual enlightenment, summoning spirit guides, astral travel, and to enhance psychic abilities.

YELLOW: A stimulating and uplifting colour that is the colour of creativity; intelligence, confidence; movement and energy. Connects to clairvoyance, divination, wisdom, learning; imagination, and inspiration as well as the power of concentration and communication.

ORANGE: Is a stimulating and energizing colour. It connects to attraction, stimulation, control, personal strength, authority, and power. Also encouragement, adaptability, luck, and sudden changes. It attracts the characteristics wanted from others

GOLD: Colour that promotes understanding and attracts the powers of cosmic influences; intuition, persuasion, charm and confidence.

PINK / ROSE: A positive colour symbolic of emotional love, nurturing relationships and romance. Promotes spiritual awakening, healing of the spirit, femininity, friendships, honour and morality.

RED: The fiery, invigorating colour of energy and life. Always connected to blood, birth and death; and sex. Connects with love, passion, fertility, physical energy and strength. Increases magnetism. Also emotes courage and enthusiasm. This is the colour that moves things.

PURPLE/VIOLET: Vibrating colour that is highly spiritual and traditionally connected to mysticism, inspiration, wisdom, idealism, purification; success, peace; and power. Aids in meditation, sensitivity and higher psychic talents; as well as connecting to idealism, ambition, power, success and protection.

MAGENTA: A combination of red and violet that is a very high vibration frequency that tends to work fast. This colour energizes where immediate action and high levels of power or spiritual healing are required.

BROWN: An earthy, balanced colour, used to attract money and financial success. It aids in emotional stability and balance, eliminates indecisiveness, improves powers of concentration, study, intuition, and telepathy.

INDIGO: A vitalizing colour of inertia; used to cleanse the spirit and remove fear. This colour induces a deep meditative state, it neutralizes or to counteract negative energy. Improves memory, alleviates depression and moodiness.

BLUE: This colour soothes and relaxes. Blue is a primary spiritual colour. Promotes wisdom, tranquility, harmony, peace, inner light and truth. Connects to inspiration, spiritual power, protection, understanding, good health, patience and loyalty. Aids in meditation as it connects to intellect and mind. Promotes happiness, laughter and joviality. Alleviates Insomnia and depression.

GREEN: The colour that connects to nature, fertility, and rejuvenation. Aids good fortune, prosperity, luck; ambition and success. Bringer of love and renewal, it is an emotional “soother” and balancer, used to counteract greed and jealousy.

SILVER / GRAY: Neutral colour that removes negative energy or influences and encourages stability. Useful when pondering complex issues during meditation; it also negates or neutralizes when needed. Helps develop psychic abilities.

BLACK: Opens up the deeper levels of the unconscious. Black is used to induce a deep meditative state and is good for banishing evil or negativity. Connects to self control, quiet power, and resilience, as it absorbs negativity and destroys it; offers strength and support protects from ill will and is also an aid during loss.

My Tarot Diary:

http://kirinouji.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/tarot-correspondence/

http://kirinouji.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/the-minor-arcana/

http://kirinouji.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/court-cards/

http://kirinouji.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/the-major-arcana/

Sites to view Tarot Decks from all over the world.

http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/ – to see Tarot Reviews… usually about the deck’s beauty and appeal, but it’s a good starting point to go look for the deck that would attract you…

http://www.alchemywebsite.com/tarot/tarot_collection.html -This site has the biggest listing of Tarots in print (international)… The owner of the site reviews and analyzes Tarot Art. – you’ll find all sorts of Tarot decks here…