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Got Gemini?
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posted July 17, 2008 02:41 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Got Gemini?     Edit/Delete Message
Personally I am quite intrigued by it even though I don't know how to interpret any of the cards. I think I may pick up a deck today. Hmmm...

So what say you knowflakes!

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AlfaOmega
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posted July 17, 2008 03:04 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for AlfaOmega     Edit/Delete Message
that the tarotcards tells the truth at the moment

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Got Gemini?
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posted July 17, 2008 03:06 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Got Gemini?     Edit/Delete Message
I have this little app on my iPhone that does one card readings and they are pretty interesting. They give a short description of a suggested meaning but I am confused as I thought you were to ask a question (like Horary) and the card would express the answer in the picture on the card.

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Lara
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posted July 17, 2008 03:09 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lara     Edit/Delete Message
oh wow GG,

I have an iPhone too. May I ask what the application is and I'll try it out

I use tarot all the time.. as in doing readings. Which card did you pull out?

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Got Gemini?
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posted July 17, 2008 04:07 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Got Gemini?     Edit/Delete Message
Its called "iTarot"

I its under the Entertainment category in the App store. You have OS version 2.0 installed on your phone right?

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praecipua
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posted July 18, 2008 09:55 AM           Edit/Delete Message
hi Gotgemini, nice to meet u.

i don't know much about tarot except what i learnt from the book of rachel pollack. http://www.amazon.com/Seventy-Eight-Degrees-Wisdom-Rachel-Pollack/dp/0722535724

she's really good at explaining the different views on tarot (those who use it for divination purposes and those who use only the major arcana and use it to understand archetypes).
on top of this, she gives in this book an interpretation for each cards.

you get me, i think she's really good. her book is clear, really spot on and she knows what she's talking about, not only from a limited tarot' specialist perspective but from a wider occult perspective.

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Got Gemini?
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posted July 18, 2008 11:23 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Got Gemini?     Edit/Delete Message
Well, went to Border's yesterday and bought a Universal-Waite deck. I guess i'll start with that. One thing I noticed was the devil card (pic below).

For so long, I have always knew that Lucifer was considered the "Sun of The Morning." Which is really Venus.

Check this:

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http://www.lds-mormon.com/lucifer.shtml

Why Lucifer? In Roman astronomy, Lucifer was the name given to the morning star (the star we now know by another Roman name, Venus). The morning star appears in the heavens just before dawn, heralding the rising sun. The name derives from the Latin term lucem ferre, bringer, or bearer, of light." In the Hebrew text the expression used to describe the Babylonian king before his death is Helal, son of Shahar, which can best be translated as "Day star, son of the Dawn." The name evokes the golden glitter of a proud king's dress and court (much as his personal splendor earned for King Louis XIV of France the appellation, "The Sun King").

The scholars authorized by ... King James I to translate the Bible into current English did not use the original Hebrew texts, but used versions translated ... largely by St. Jerome in the fourth century. Jerome had mistranslated the Hebraic metaphor, "Day star, son of the Dawn," as "Lucifer," and over the centuries a metamorphosis took place. Lucifer the morning star became a disobedient angel, cast out of heaven to rule eternally in hell. Theologians, writers, and poets interwove the myth with the doctrine of the Fall, and in Christian tradition Lucifer is now the same as Satan, the Devil, and --- ironically --- the Prince of Darkness.

So "Lucifer" is nothing more than an ancient Latin name for the morning star, the bringer of light. That can be confusing for Christians who identify Christ himself as the morning star, a term used as a central theme in many Christian sermons. Jesus refers to himself as the morning star in Revelation 22:16: "I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star."


So my challenge I guess is to look at it from the "evil" perspective instead of the orginal, unperversed meaning since everytime I see a pic of the devil or a pentagram, I think of Venus and how its orbit traces a rose or pentagram in the sky.

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Lara
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posted July 18, 2008 12:31 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lara     Edit/Delete Message
Did you pick that card GG?

If you did, it involves making a decision and releasing you both from the devil's chains. When things are not right in one's life it seems as if the devil is amongst us... there are lots of different representations for this card but this is what l immediately thought of when l look at it, from your perspective.

It is a rebirth of individuality and a death of duality through releasing each other.

If i'm off-base then just say so.

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Inner depths
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posted July 18, 2008 12:36 PM           Edit/Delete Message
I do not put much faith in tarot cards! Though there is astrology mixed into some of the cards - they kind of link up together.....

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Got Gemini?
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posted July 18, 2008 01:56 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Got Gemini?     Edit/Delete Message
Lara no, I didn't draw that card. I just opened the deck to look at all the cards and thought about that one when I got to it.

That is an interesting interp you made though!

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Lara
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posted July 18, 2008 02:14 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lara     Edit/Delete Message
ok... shuffle the cards at least 5 times for a couple of days and put them under your pillow as you sleep. This will orientate them to your energy.

Then, shuffle them and fan them out on the table, using your LEFT hand only. Run your LEFT hand over them and pick out 5 cards.

Place them in a row with the 1st card you pulled out, first.

Then read them as such -
http://www.angelpaths.com/spreads.html#action


Good luck! Death card means change and you were drawn to it so worth doing a 5 card spread.

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Lara
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posted July 18, 2008 02:15 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lara     Edit/Delete Message
this is a good spread too

http://www.angelpaths.com/spreads6.htm


ps. go with your gut... it's always right

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Fluke
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posted July 18, 2008 02:23 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Fluke     Edit/Delete Message
I have great respect for my tarot cards, so I rarely use them. I didn't plan it that way, but when I first bought my deck (some say you shouldn't buy your own tarot cards, but I still think the cards choose you, even if you buy them yourself) the first spreads I lay was eerily in tune with what was going on around me at those times. I thought I'd just buy them and "play around" with them, but soon got a healthy respect for them and now only take them out for a specific purpose and handle them very carefully, never lay down a spread on a cluttered table, get in a specific frame of mind, put them away in their case when I'm done and in some way "thank" them, or at least have a thankful feeling towards them when I'm done.
Personally I liken them to similiar things like pendulums and other forms of divination, I think you draw on the same source, your guides, spirit or whatever you like to think of it as , the difference is just what you channel it through

*edit* Oh, and personally I really like the Celtic Cross spread

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AlfaOmega
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posted July 18, 2008 02:51 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for AlfaOmega     Edit/Delete Message
Hello *Fluke* nice to see "en skandinavare" här

agree with that's important to handle the cards with care

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nattie33
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posted July 18, 2008 04:10 PM           Edit/Delete Message
I like this site for intereptions
http://www.biddytarot.com/cards.html

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Lara
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posted July 18, 2008 05:18 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lara     Edit/Delete Message
nice site nattie

I always think it's best to look at cards only and interpret what you see... that way you get to hone your intuitive skills

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CoralFrequency
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posted July 18, 2008 07:07 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for CoralFrequency     Edit/Delete Message
This has free readings:
http://www.facade.com/tarot

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pilipinasblitz
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posted July 18, 2008 07:15 PM           Edit/Delete Message
hello. am i allowed to post now?

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CoralFrequency
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posted July 18, 2008 07:20 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for CoralFrequency     Edit/Delete Message
lol yes you are

welcome!

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Kick It
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posted July 18, 2008 07:27 PM           Edit/Delete Message
Yeah it seems fine. A bit like Horary. Never really use it though.

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pilipinasblitz
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posted July 18, 2008 07:32 PM           Edit/Delete Message
MABUHAY, NAMASTE, AND BLESSED BE!!!

ok, i guess i'm allowed to post now. may i just add my contribution to the ongoing discussion. it's good to be back here in LINDALAND!!! i was formerly KISMETKAIZEN here. i have been a professional astrologer and tarot reader for 5 years now. all i can say from my experience with the TAROT, having counseled hundreds of clients now, both in the PHILIPPINES when i was still living there (i lived there for practically all my life until i migrated to the USA in 2004) and here in Hayward/east bay, CA, is that TAROT goes beyond mere "fortune telling." TAROT is actually a powerful tool for PROBLEM-SOLVING and CATHARSIS.

for example, one turn of a single pivotal card and i can gently say to a client,"Please tell me more about your father...," and out comes all these feelings, this guilt, recriminations, pent-up regrets, frustrations, or whatever complicated emotions may arise as the case may be, depending on the particular client's situation. an effective and compassionate tarot reader can uncover in 15 minutes of a tarot session what years of a psychotherapy-in-a-staid-office-setting may not. it all really depends on the dynamics or chemistry between the reader and the readee, too.

well, ive had my humble say. please feel free to ask me your questions. please also feel free to visit my blog where i post a weekly horoscope column, which i write for an a Filipino-American weekly newspaper (yes, an actual, not virtual paper) in the East Bay area of Northern California called the MANILA MAIL NEWSPAPER. my blog:
http://pilipinasblitzforever.blogspot.com

Blessed be!

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leapinglemur14
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posted July 18, 2008 07:54 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for leapinglemur14     Edit/Delete Message
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writesomething
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posted July 18, 2008 09:17 PM           Edit/Delete Message
I love tarot cards until they dont tell me what I want to hear...lol..just kidding, a few months ago I got it as a gift from a chance meeting...she being a scorpio, gem rising) I was excited and love my cards, although i dont use them too much. theres still a lot i dont understand.

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Lara
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posted July 19, 2008 03:28 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lara     Edit/Delete Message
amazing isn't it how anything psychic always attracts bad pennies whom feel the need to be self-gratuitous and self-empowering through advertising their wares in a way that they appear to be part of the 'family' and yet are so obviously NOT!!!!

Who are these people kidding?
sorry GG, just had to say something about one of your more elaborate posters.

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silverstone
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posted July 21, 2008 12:29 AM           Edit/Delete Message
Through the looking glass is a good forum to discuss the Tarot!

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