TAROT THEORY AND PRACTICE

Ly de Angeles

Due for release 1st November 2007, Llewellyn Worldwide, USA

 

SYNOPSIS –

Tarot Theory and Practice takes the reader – student or adept – deeply to within the heart and nature of prophecy, along with the actual science of not only how it works but why . It plunges us into questions of reality and describes how we can see clearly beyond what is, in truth, merely a consensus of agreed perception. Relying on a simple understanding of Quantum Physics and theoretical evolution it guides us through what “seems” to be past, present and future and that is, in actuality, both a continually unfolding present and a revolution of many cycles, both immense and personal.

The author describes how knowing and understanding these principles are necessary tools enabling the psychic to tap into the actual force of Tarot itself – somewhat of a god and/or goddess or group of spirits –through the expansion of mind, enabling us to learn from this actual source rather than relying on simply the opinion of another person or any book already written.

There are many interpretations for each of the 78 Cards, always depending on the patterns of the spreads and these are provided from the perspective of experience, as are the commentaries.

The many case-histories and examples explain, in depths, how Tarot changes as the world changes.

PROJECTED TABLE OF CONTENTS –

INTRODUCTION

THE TWELVE-UNIT SYLLABUS IN BRIEF

PART ONE - THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING

UNIT ONE – TIME AND MULTIPLE REALITY

The First Barrier – De-Conditioning the Common Paradigm

A Simple Visualization

Tarot and the Theory of the Big Bang

Y-Node Theory

The Chicken or the Egg – Collapsing the Wave

Light and Thought

 

UNIT TWO – WHAT TAROT IS AND WHAT IT ISN'T

Minimalist History

The Personal Energetic Field and Body Language

 

UNIT THREE – WHO DEFINES ‘REALITY'?

Shadow Reality/Multiple Reality and Alternative Lives

Multiple Lives – Ourselves in the Future, Our Connection with Many

Gods – Close Encounters of the Second Kind

To Die, or Not to Die, That is the Question

Shadow Reality

Free Will and Fate

The Random Factor

 

PART TWO - TAROT, THE LIVING TRADITION

UNIT FOUR – COMMUNICATION AND PERCEPTION

Communication vs Babble

Learning Objectivity – What Do You Really See?

 

UNIT FIVE – FROM EVOLUTION TO CURRENT EVENTS

The Tree of Life

Back to the Future (the Theory of Evolution)

Microcosmically

Macrocosmically

The Making of a Template and First Use of Major Arcana

 

UNIT SIX – THE INFINITE AND THE INDIVIDUAL

From No-thing to Something – The Tree of Life as an Individual

The Template and all Cards to Decode both Individual and Public Events

 

UNIT SEVEN – THE SOUL'S JOURNEY

The Major Arcana and the Cycles of the Personal Tree of Life

Where Am I Now?

 

UNIT EIGHT – THE 78 CARDS AND THEIR MEANINGS

The Major Arcana – Meanings

The Minor Arcana - Meanings

 

PART THREE - PRACTICING YOUR CRAFT

UNIT NINE – THE FIRST FEW MONTHS

Preparation

Practice Aloud

The Opening Ritual and the 3 Card Read

Needing Willing Allies

 

UNIT TEN – TAROT SPREADS

Preparation

Application of Spreads in a Real-Life Scenario

Part 1 of the Consultation: Prediction –

Spread – Celtic Cross

Spread – General Events

Spread – Tree of Life

Spread – Warning

Spread – Anything Else

Spread – The Soul's Journey

Part 2 of the Consultation: Questions

 

PART FOUR - THE FUTURE

UNIT ELEVEN – UNDERSTANDING THE WAY

Tarot Itself as the Teacher: Personal Detachment

Divining For Yourself or Those Close to You

The Fear Factor: Telling Bad News

The Spoken Word: the Literal Truth

 

UNIT TWELVE – GOING PROFESSIONAL

Walking the Walk

Transference

The Code of Silence and Selective Memory

First Do No Harm

Client Contact and Consultation

Self-Protection and Psychic Clag

The “He/She's My Best Friend” Syndrome and Personal Privacy

“Should's” – You Won't See What is Not Realized

Safety and Responsibility – Some Do's and Don'ts

 

WRAPPING THINGS UP

APPENDIX 1 – MULTIPLE CARD MEANINGS

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

INTERNET REFERENCES

 

LY DE ANGELES SAYS IN CONCLUSION

As I mentioned in the introduction this has been the book I thought I never would/could write all this stuff. Just goes to show how constantly one can fool oneself into perceived limitations.

Even now, after all these years, I take a deep breath when clients are due and sometimes I catch myself toying with the idea of retiring . . . but I figure it doesn't work that way with Tarot because the phone keeps ringing and the people keep coming.

I ask that, when and if the phenomenon that is Tarot kicks in for you, you take care not to burn out.

There is a lot of stress in the world – likely to hot up in the next few decades – and you have the right to say no, to be sick, tired, over it, frustrated at people's anxiety, demand, neediness; to ask that if they have a cold they not come; to be comfortable with taking the phone off the hook.

The way I have taught this in the book form is also, from my personal perspective, a perceived limitation and it might seem that way to some readers. It has been suggested to me that I provide “thorough information on your process and interpretation” but that is simply not possible. To do that I would need to read each card individually and that is never Tarot because Tarot is also a book and no single word means anything without context.

The cards in their groupings are a ritual doorway. Other senses are always at play – clairvoyance (clear and psychic sight), clairaudience (clear and psychic hearing), clairsentience (clear and psychic sensory perception) and always when you look at a spread a multitude of other faculties are at work. The dead will rattle you with their incessant desire to let the client know they are around; the Earth herself will speak her pleasure or her pain; unknown people from the future will tell you their names; unborn children will explain, to the grieving woman who recently miscarried, why they chose not to go through with it at that time but to be patient; certain gods will get in on the act and choose to teach; alternate selves of the client will tell them all about themselves and the secrets that only they can know.

I have stared dumbstruck when an unsuspecting first-time client has said “So, do you just read Tarot?” Like … it's easy? Like being able to look beyond the world and life of individuals or nations and know what will happen and then having it happen is the same as cooking spaghetti?

I honor each and every one of you who ‘get' it; who pass the Plateau; who can heal – often without knowing – a distress and a dilemma that is yet to occur because you saw it coming and the person will know the thing was destiny; who have the courage to take the risk of being foolish or a possible failure because what we do is both an art and a science and it has been disrespected, feared, even persecuted for millennia.

Tarot is like Crop Circles – the universe's trick; the unraveling of “What ifs” and “Justs” into a paradox of the unanswerable. Its presence leaves us feeling touched by an awesome divinity.