Tarot Journey with Leisa ReFalo

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Card 1: Situation
Card 2: What You Do Know
Card 3: What You Don’t Know
Card 4: What You Could Do (Advice)
Card 5: Outcome

From Guneeta Dhingra’s All You Wanted To Know About Tarot.
 
 Card 1: Something which is in favor of the situation
Card 2: Something which is against the situation
Card 3: Something which is likely to happen
Card 4: Things that are in control if free will is used
Card 5: Outcome, if [...]

These spreads are designed to help answer yes/no questions
Yes/No Counting
Count upright cards.   Option: center card counts twice.

0.     No
1.     Maybe No
2.     Maybe Yes
3.     Yes

Yes/No/Maybe
By John Gilbert. Tarot Tells the Tale pg. 73.

 Yes if … conditions for a yes answer
No if … conditions for a no answer
Maybe – decision [...]

Three Card Spreads: Progression Spreads
Self Knowledge

Personal (self)
Interpersonal (relationship)
Transpersonal (humanity/morality)

Three Levels

Emotional
Social
Spiritual

Life Purpose Spread
By Sherry Smith on Tarot Reader’s e-list. Divide Deck in to Majors, Courts and Pips. Tarot Tells the Tale pg. 102

Major – Soulful work the universe wants you to do at this time. [...]

These spreads don’t fit into any category.
Blessings
Tarot Tells the Tale pg. ???.

Blessings you bring to your own life.
Blessings that others around you bring to your life.
Blessings the universe is bringing to you.

What does the Future Hold?

Focusing Card. What is the reading about?
Where your current path is leading [...]

These spreads cover multiple levels of being.
Plans/Emotions/Ambitions
Tarot Tells the Tale pg. 152 Lady Macbeth.

What ideas of plans will help you obtain your goals
What Emotional Aspects should you be aware of
What are the most important spiritual considerations regarding your ambitions?

Body/Mind/Spirit

Body: while my body wants.
Mind: My mind is telling [...]

Three Card Interaction Spreads
These spreads explore the interaction between two things. The middle card joins the right and left together.
Relationship

 Querent
 Relationship
 Someone important to the Querent (spouse, partner, boyfriend, girlfriend, parent, boss, child, job)

Sense of Direction

 Where you are right now.
 What you need to do/Obstacle in your way.
 Where you want [...]

Three Card Daily Spreads
Spreads for Daily Readings.
Tasks For The Day
Complete Book of Tarot Spreads by Evelin Burger & Johannes Fiebig

 Card for the day
 Specific tasks for the day
 Unique chances during the day

Events for the Day
Complete Book of Tarot Spreads by Evelin Burger & Johannes Fiebig

 This is the point/this [...]

Relationship

Querent
Relationship
Someone important to the Querent (spouse, partner, boyfriend, girlfriend, parent, boss, child, job)

Sense of Direction

Where you are right now.
What you need to do/Obstacle in your way.
Where you want to be.

Difference of Opinion

Your point of view
The problem itself
Other person’s point of view

Which do I [...]

These spreads give an overview of the situation, talk about a specific challenge and discuss how to address the problem.
Getting or Improving a Relationship
By Rev. Jenny Moore. www.bluewitch.com author of the Healing Tarot.

Understanding the dynamics of your relationship.
Your patterns of resistance to the relationship
The Most effective way to find or [...]

In the Hebrew Alphabet there are three types of letters:

3 Mother Letters
7 Double Letters
12 Simple Letters

In the Golden Dawn Tradition there are three types of astrological attributions for the trumps associated with the three types of letters:

3 Elemental Trumps
7 Planetary Trumps
12 Zodiacal Trumps

 
7 Double Letters

Tarot Key
Secret Symbols [...]

This page illustrates the Golden Dawn’s System of Astrological Attributions and is illustrated with the Thoth deck. 

Zodiac / Planet
Major Arcana
Court
Minor Arcana
Decan

Cardinal Fire

20º - 30º Pisces (March 11 - 20)
Mars in Pisces
Perpetual Success

Aries / Mars

[...]

This version of the Chart of Astrology and Dates shows a simplified view of the Court Cards.  The Court Cards in this chart to not over lap signs as they do here.  The seasons in this chart are attributed to the Aces and Pages with their Alchemical Elemental Attributions.

Season
Zodiac/Planet
Major Arcana
Court
[...]

This version of the Chart of Astrology and Dates shows a simplified view of the Court Cards.  The Court Cards in this chart to not over lap signs as they do here.  The seasons in this chart are attributed to the Aces and Pages with their Alchemical Elemental Attributions.

Season
Zodiac/Planet
Major Arcana
Court
[...]

This illustrates the Golden Dawn’s System of Astrological Attributions and is Illustrated with the Rider-Waite deck. 

Zodiac / Planet
Major Arcana
Court
Minor Arcana
Decan

Cardinal Fire

20º - 30º Pisces
(March 11 - 20)
Mars in Pisces
Perpetual Success

Aries / Mars

[...]

There are three hebrew letters and therefore three Major Arcana cards that correspond with elements.

 
3 Mother Letters
 

Tarot Keys
 

Aleph
Ox
Air
0. The Fool

Mem
Water
Water
12. The Hanged Man

Shin
Tooth
Fire
20. Judgment

The order of the 3 Elemental trumps is in the same order as described in [...]

Astrology and Decans

0º - 10º Aries (March 21 - 30)
Mars in Aries (Dominion)
 
10º - 20º Aries (March 31- 10)
Sun in Aries (Established Strength)
 
20º - 30º Pisces (April 10 - April 20)
Venus in Aries (Perfected Work)

0º -10º Taurus (April 21- 30)
Mercury in Taurus (Material Trouble)
 
10º - 20º Taurus (May 1 - 10)
Moon  in Taurus [...]

The signs of the zodiac have attributions of element and quality.  These attributions rotate around the wheel of the zodiac in a systematic order.  Starting in March with Aries the Elements are Fire, Earth, Air and Water.  The qualities are Cardinal, Fixed and Mutable.
In the  simplified version of the golden dawn system of attribution [...]

12 Simple Letters
Common Astrological Attributions
Elemental
Modality
Major Arcana
Dates
Colors

He
Aries
Fire
Cardinal
4.Emperor

3/21 - 4/20

 Scarlet

Vau
Taurus
Earth
Fixed
5. Hierophant

[...]

Mars in  Capricorn
Picatrix (Ouroboros Press)
The Image of a man with a monkey in front of him appears in its second phase and this is known as the phase of mars. This phase delineates seeking what is known but unobtainable.

Picatrix (Mystical Origins of the Tarot)
It is a decan of ever seeking what cannot be [...]