The Complete Guide To The Tarot

Book: The Complete Guide To The Tarot by Eden Gray

As someone new to the study of the Tarot, I found Eden Gray's "A Complete Guide to the Tarot" to be the best general Introduction to this fascinating divinatory system. Gray writes with a confident but accessible authority that makes her book very appealing.

This book truly explains the deep meanings behind the hermetic symbolism of the Waite-Rider deck. With the systems and symbolism section it becomes a comprehensive text on metaphysical thought- a true book of Thoth, or Hermes. My only complaint is that there is no deluxe copy with leather binding and vellum pages. I would gladly pay extra for it, for this is the kind of book you will refer to again and again over a lifetime. Of course, if the tarot is no more than a new-age parlor game to you, you might want to look elsewhere. If you are prepared to meditate on the meaning of deeper things, then you have found your guide.

Gray devotes one or two pages to every card in the classic Rider-Waite Tarot deck, and lists possible divinatory meanings. She shows how to use various spreads of the cards in order to give readings, and she also discusses the use of the Tarot as an aid in meditation. She also explores the connections between the Tarot and other systems of occult wisdom: numerology, astrology, and the Kabalah.

It is a perfect guide for beginners as well as an excellent convenient reference for more experienced readers of Tarot Cards. I've seen many books aimed at those new to tarot, none are as complete and most are confusing to novices. This book clearly and concisely explains the divinatory meanings of the cards as well as the symbolism behind each one. Its illustrations are of the popular and easily accessible Rider-Waite deck, but it can be used with most standard decks. Gray also provides information on some systems of thought that can illuminate the tarot experience. This book's low price is a big bonus. One wishing to dabble in tarot can easily afford this excellent guide. One who is experienced can easily afford to add this to a reference set.

The book includes a bibliography for those interested in further study. Overall, I found this to be a useful and enjoyable book.

Buy Eden Gray's book: The Complete Guide To The Tarot

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Awareness Techniques

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I. RELAXATION:

a. Make person comfortable
b. Rub Legs and feet
c. Rub (manipulate) forehead

II. EXTENSION:

a. Close Eyes
b. Make Yourself a few inches taller (feet) "tell me as soon as you have done
this."
c. "go back to normal size"
d. foot taller (feet) tell me as soon...etc
e. "go back to normal size
f. repeat d&e
g. few inches taller (head) "tell me as soon...etc
h. go back to normal size
i. foot taller, tell me etc.
j. go back to normal size, tell me.
k. Repeat i & j 2 times (3 times total)
l. Now this time I want you to extend yourself through the head, (pause)face,
(pause),body,(pause),arms,(pause),legs,(pause), and feet. In other words blow
yourself up just like a balloon.
m. go back to normal size

III. RUNNING (KEEP EM TALKING)

a. Now I want you to blow yourself up like a ballon but much bigger this time.
Tell me when you have done this.
b. Go quickly and stand in front of the building in which you live tell me as
soon as you have done this.
c. Have him briefly describe the door, doorknob, windows, walkway, trees,
shrubs, marks of any kind.
d. Go quickly and stand on the roof of the building and look down into the road
(yard) in front, tell me as soon as you are there.
e. "Briefly describe what you see"
f. "Go 500 ft. into the air and look down. (tell me when you have done this.
g. "Describe what you see"
h. "Is it day or night?" Why do you think it is so?"
i. "I want you to change is to (day/night) tell me as soon as you have done
this."
j. Repeat i 3 times ending with it a bright sunny day.
k. "who is making it day and night?"
l. "Now are you still high in the air?"
m. "Please keep it bright and come back to earth in another lifetime that you
have lived Many Years ago. Come down quickly, as you go back in time;
bringing your feet down quickly and firmly but gently, and stand on the
ground tell me as soon as you have done this.
n. (watch for Rapid Eye Movement)

* * Controller * *

Now go to the question sheet.
Remember to advance or go back in some order and to keep the subject talking! If
at any time you must discontinue running say

"Do you see any reason to continue at this time?"

Let the subject decide when to stop.
Insist that the subject answer your Questions and does only what you tell him.

Move ahead by skipping first a day then a week, then a month ,a year, then on to
another lifetime.

After several lifetimes controller should have subject die and go through death.
CONTROLLER QUESTION SHEET

* It is important to keep the subject talking!

1. Look down at your feet. Tell me what you are wearing on them. Describe them.

2. What do you have on your legs? Describe?

3. What else are you wearing.

4. Are you wearing jewelry? describe

5. Are you wearing anything on your waist? Describe

6. Are you male or female?

7. How old are you now?

8. What is your name?

9. What color is your skin?

10. Look around you and tell me what you see.

11. Do you have anything in your hands? Describe

12. Go stand before your (house) dwelling. Describe it to me.

13. Go quickly to the top of the roof and describe what you see.

14. Go 500 ft up and describe what you see.

15. Go back to standing before your home quickly, tell me when you are there.
Enter your home and tell me what you see.

16. What is this place called, your homeland?

17. What year is it?

18. What season is it?

19. What happens next?

* The CONTROLLER should also ask questions about what the subject is doing, how
things are made, what places look like and give orders leading the subject to do
things or go places which may be of interest.

DEATH & AFTER

Now I want you to die (remind subject he/she is safe)

1. How did you die? What caused your death?

2. What happens next?

3. Describe what is around you.

4. Are there others around you? What do they look like.

5. How do you feel? Why?

6. Looking back what was your general impression of this past incarnation?

7. Were there any significant lessons learned in this lifetime?

* * Do this for several lifetimes. ask him to go back and find his present
parents from the first time he saw them until after he was born. ask questions,
keep em talking.

1. Describe them to me

2. Did you choose them?

3. Why?

4. enter into the womb. Tell me when you are there

5. How do you feel

6. What do you hear

7. What happens next?

8. What do you expect to learn from this lifetime? From these parents

9. Age 3 months in the womb

10. Ask questions 5-7 again

11. Age 3 months more.

12. Ask questions 5-7 again

13. Today you will be born - Describe what your birth from your point of view.

14. (after birth) what is happening?

15. How do you feel?

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Names And Attributes Of The Minor Arcana Of The Trumps

THE FOLLOWING IS A LIST
OF THE NAMES AND ATTRIBUTES
OF THE MINOR ARCANA OF THE TAROT.

EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK
"THE COMPLETE Golden Dawn SYSTEM OF MAGIC"
BY
Israel Regardie

CARD LORD OF DECAN SIGN
5 Wands Strife Saturn Leo
6 Wands Victory Jupiter Leo
7 Wands Valour Mars Leo
8 Pentacles Prudence Sun Virgo
9 Pentacles Material Gains Venus Virgo
10 Pentacles Wealth Mercury Virgo
2 Swords Peace Restored Moon Libra
3 Swords Sorrow Saturn Libra
4 Swords Rest from Strife Jupiter Libra
5 Cups Loss in pleasure Mars Scorpio
6 Cups Pleasure Sun Scorpio
7 Cups Illusionary Success Venus Scorpio
8 Wands Swiftness Mercury Sagittarius
9 Wands Great Strength Moon Sagittarius
10 Wands Oppression Saturn Sagittarius
2 Pentacles Harmonious Change Jupiter Capricorn
3 Pentacles Material Works Mars Capricorn
4 Pentacles Earthy Power Sun Capricorn
5 Swords Defeat Venus Aquarius
6 Swords Earned Success Mercury Aquarius
7 Swords Unstable Effort Moon Aquarius
8 Cups Abandoned Success Saturn Pisces
9 Cups Material Happiness Jupiter Pisces
10 Cups Perpetual Success Mars Pisces
2 Wands Dominion Mars Aries
3 Wands Established Strength Sun Aries
4 Wands Perfected Work Venus Aries
5 Pentacles Material Trouble Mercury Taurus
6 Pentacles Material Success Moon Taurus
7 Pentacles Success Unfulfilled Saturn Taurus
8 Swords Shortened Force Jupiter Gemini
9 Swords Despair and Cruelty Mars Gemini
10 Swords Ruin Sun Gemini
2 Cups Love Venus Cancer
3 Cups Abundance Mercury Cancer
4 Cups Blended Pleasure Moon Cancer

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For the sake of enlightening those who would not other wise
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