Tarosophy: Tarot to Engage Life, Not Escape It

Title Page
Copyright Page
DEDICATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CONTENTS
Author’s Foreword
Tarosophy Online
Chapter Summary
Section One: Tarot True
Part 1: Tarot Vast, Tarot Vindicated
1. 1 Introduction
1. 2 What is the Tarot?
1. 3 Tarot History: Guilt by Association
1. 4 Tarot Esoteric
1. 5 Tarot Popular
1. 6 Tarosophy
Exercise 1: Making a Metaphor
1. 7 Metaphors
1. 8 Symbols
1. 9 How Does Tarot Work?
Exercise 2: The Voices Explain Themselves
1. 10 Attributions and Correspondences
1. 11 Synchronicity and Tarot as Vision
1. 12 Archetypes
1. 13 Querent. Client. Customer. Seeker. Questioner. Petitioner. Person
1. 14 You Can Make a Map of the Map
Exercise 3: The Map is the Territory (Literal Readings)
1. 15 Mythic Creation, Creative Myth
1. 16 Types of Foresight
Exercise 4: Your Tarot Journal – The Triangle of Foretelling
Section One, Part 1 Reading List
Part 2: Tarot Consecrated, Tarot Created
2. 1 Your First Tarot Deck
2. 2 What is NLP?
Exercise 5: Consecrating Your Cards, Bag or Box
2. 3 Tuned Consecrations
2. 4 Big Picture, Little Picture
2. 5 Anchoring
2. 6 Fail-Safe Tarot
2. 7 What is the Kabbalah?
2. 8 Tarot in 10 Minutes
Exercise 6: Living the Archetypes
2. 9 Reading the Spread
Exercise 7: Some Cards are Cool, and Some Cards are Small
2. 10 Reading the Tarot of Creation
2. 11 Recording Your Reading
2. 12 The Elements
Exercise 8: The Hand of the Four Elements
Exercise 9: Your Tarot Altar
2. 13 Layouts and Spreads: Analysis and Synthesis
2. 14 The Torus Layout
2. 15 Spreads and DIY
2. 16 The Dawn Spread
2. 17 How to Get a Yes or No Answer
2. 18 The Courtroom or Judgement Spread
Section One, Part 2 Reading List
Part 3: Tarot Oracle, Tarot Voice
3. 1 Oracle, Voice
3. 2 Oracular Talent
Exercise 10: Becoming an Accidental Oracle
Exercise 11: Tarot on TV Trick for Intuition Training
3. 3 You Are Intuitive
Exercise 12: Linking Words for Intuitive Speaking
3. 4 Drawing from the Well of Intuition
Exercise 13: Feeling Towards the Truth
Exercise 14: Natural Dignities (The Cards Go Walking)
Exercise 15: Deeper Down the Well
Exercise 16: Intuitive Response
Section One, Part 3 Reading List
Part 4: Tarot Reader, Tarot Read
4. 1 The Tarot Reader
4. 2 Creating Your Tarot Self
4. 3 The Top 5 Characteristics of an Excellent Tarot Reader
Exercise 17: Pivot Grammar and Linking Words
Exercise 18: Confident Reading
Exercise 19: Flirty and Seductive Methods for Reading
Exercise 20: Creating Your Tarot Self
4. 4 The Tarot Reader’s Toolkit
Section One, Part 4 Reading List
Section Two: Tarot Deep
Part 1: Tarot Told, Tarot Tuned
1. 1 Reading for Others, Reading for Self
1. 2 Strange Places for Tarot
1. 3 Difficult Clients and Querents
1. 4 When Will Dwayne Come Back to Me?
1. 6 The Questions You Will Be Asked
1. 7 A Deck for Every Deal
1. 8 Specific and General Questions
1. 9 When Do People Ask Questions?
1. 10 Dealing with Unusual Questions
1. 11 The Dark Man and the Woman Without Mercy
Exercise 21: Exploring Relationships in the Court Cards
1. 12 Reading Hot, Reading Cold
1. 13 The Only Important Thing You Need To Do
1. 14 Tuned and Attuned Decks
1. 16 Fall-Back Reading
Section Two, Part 1 Reading List
Part 2: Tarot Spread, Tarot Stepped
2. 1 The Minors in Three Lights
2. 2 Tarot Astrological
2. 3 Tarot Kabbalistical
2. 4 The Spiritual Process Triads of Papus
2. 5 The Secret Keywords of the Major Arcana
Exercise 23: Generating Your Own Keywords
2. 6 More Archetypal Than Others
2. 7 Powerful Reading With the Majors Only
2. 8 The Tarot Reader Revealed
2. 9 The Major Arcana Considered as a System
Exercise 24: Chunking Up Exercise (Archetypes)
2. 10 The Major Arcana Enquiries
2. 12 The Temple of Thoth (Gated Spread)
2. 13 The Unfolded Cube Spread (3D Spread)
2. 14 The Snowflake Spread (Fractal Spread)
2. 15 The Next Step Spread (Progressive Spread)
2. 16 Layered, Chained, Linked, and Pulled Spreads
Section Two, Part 2 Reading List
Part 3: Tarot Dreamt, Tarot Realised
3. 1 The Fountain of Morpheus
3. 2 Senoi Dream-work
3. 3 The Inner Guide Meditation
Exercise 25: The Inner Guide Meditation
Exercise 26: Over-Intellectualising Overcome
Exercise 27: Working With Attachments
3. 4 Coded Questions and the Inner Guide
3. 5 Clean Tarot
3. 6 Tarot and the Poet
Exercise 28: Creating a Tarot Story
Exercise 29: Tarot Yoga
Exercise 30: Tarot Martial Arts, Music and Dance
Exercise 31: Creating Your Own Tarot Deck
3. 7 Reviewing Tarot Decks
Section Two, Part 3 Reading List
Section Three: Tarot High
Part 1: Tarot Tree, Tarot Path
1. 1 Learning the Correspondences
Exercise 32: Learning the Correspondences
1. 2 The Kabbalistic Calibrated Spread
1. 3 The Seasonal Path Calibrated Spread
1. 4 Understanding the Kabbalah Through Tarot
Exercise 33: Three Cards to Unlock the Crown
Exercise 34: Four Cards to Unlock Understanding
1. 5 The Mystery of the Kingdom
1. 6 The Mystery of the Rainbow
1. 7 The Wedding Day: A Kabbalistic Tarot Journey
1. 8 The Celtic Cross Unpacked
Section Three, Part 1 Reading List
Part 2: Tarot Stellar, Tarot Trance
2. 1 Exploring the Natal Chart Through Tarot
Exercise 35: Matching the Sun and Moon
Exercise 36: Comparing Sun and Moon
2. 2 Astrological Dignities and the Tarot
Exercise 37: In-Depth Exploration Around the Sun & Moon
2. 3 Tarot Trance
Exercise 38: The Betty Erickson Technique
Exercise 40: Merging the Cards for Creative Solutions
Exercise 41: 3-Card Pattern
Exercise 42: Changing a Situation Through Tarot
Section Three, Part 2 Reading List
Part 3: Tarot Ascended, Tarot Secret
3. 1 The Ladder
3. 2 The Tarot as Illustrating Spiritual Ascent
Exercise 43: Tarot of Spiritual Ascent
3. 3 The Book of Thoth as Illustrative of Spiritual Progression
3. 4 The Ladder Laid Down
3. 5 The Tarot of the Braid
3. 6 Solomon’s Ladder
3. 7 The 1,232 Major Lessons of Tarosophy
3. 8 Tarosophy and a Tarot Secret of the Golden Dawn
3. 9 Never Will the Eternal Change
Exercise 44: The Secret Journeys of the Majors
3. 10 Towards Your Own Tarosophy
Exercise 45: A Tarosophical Spiritual Statement
Exercise 46: A Tarosophical Analysis of an Argument
3. 11 The Ten Degrees of Tarosophy
3. 12 Tarot Long Term
3. 13 The Hidden Teachings Beyond Tarot
3. 14 Tarot Dangerous
3. 15 Who Wants to Live Forever?
3. 16 The Top Five Tarot Crimes
3. 17 Tarot Haiku
Exercise 47: Haiku Your LWB
Exercise 48: 3-Card Haiku Creation
Exercise 49: Annual Year Ahead Spread (36-Card Spread)
Exercise 50: All the Traps/All the Escapes (78-Card Spread)
3. 18 A Tarot Blessing
Section Three, Part 3 Reading List
Author’s Afterword: The Fair-Wrought House
Appendix 1: Half the Market Think You Are Evil (Marketing)
Appendix 2: Tarot Law, Tarot Trade (Legal)
Appendix 3: Top Tarot Tweet Tips (78 Tips)
Appendix 4: Contributors to the Secret Keywords
Bibliography