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  You can ask, “What are you going to do to get closer to that right now?” and then act upon it. You can make sure something happens for that person which activates their goal – take them to a website with travel options if they have expressed an interest in travel, for example. Your goal is accomplished if the person takes concrete action to accomplish their ambition – even if it is to say, not now.

  Debrief: How do people react when you constantly call their words to action? When does it help, when does it hinder?

  The Page of Wands

  Your Mission: Operation Encourage

  Code Word: Push

  The Page of Wands is the ultimate secret tarot agent. He or She pushes others into new endeavors, to take the initiative, and to put their best step forwards. When given this mission, you should secure your target and help them discover something new to do. Take them some place they have never been before, to a new genre of entertainment, or simply play them some new music.

  The encouragement you provide as a Page of Wands should be child-like and honest – you take this task as a mission of joy in the discoveries of others. You accomplish this mission when you see someone else have a novel or new experience.

  Debrief: Did you enjoy this mission? Why or Why Not?

  Practice Note

  For all missions, accept a time-frame of your own devising. You must accomplish your Gate Three main decision-making Court Card mission and its opposite mission for use in further gates, but other than that the further missions are optional.

  We usually allow a few days for a mission, sometimes a week or even more if the mission requires it for success.

  Remember these words, “Your mission, should you decide to accept it …”

  Conclusion

  These higher meanings are, however, matters of inference, and I do not suggest that they are transparent on the surface of the card. They are intimated in a concealed manner by the chains of flowers, which signify, among many other things, the sweet yoke and the light burden of Divine Law, when it has been taken into the heart of hearts.

  A. E. Waite, Pictorial Key to the Tarot, pp. 102-3.

  Throughout this series, we are gradually elevating the tarot into a spiritual tool for ongoing work in real life. The cards can be used to engage in activities, stretch your boundaries, and respond to significant life-changing events – or prepare for them. The Tarot Life is a life which uses the cards as gates between the spiritual and mundane aspects of our experience.

  In the following seven booklets in this series, we will build on our progress in the first five months, next extending this present work into connecting with service. First we ride the Lion, then we let the Lion take us for a ride – as we will see in month six.

  It is important to the process that you undertake the exercises, and we have an optional Facebook group listed in the appendix where you can share and discuss your experiences, ask questions and gain support.

  We have also provided in the final section a list of reading materials and website resources to discover more in the very best of Tarot and Tarosophy®.

  In this series, released monthly over 2013:

  1. Discover Your Destiny

  2. Remove The Blocks

  3. Make Decisions Better

  4. Enter the Flow

  5. Ride the Lion

  6. Connect to Service

  7. Find Your Equality

  8. Die To Your Old Self

  9. Entering Unity

  10. Becoming the Real

  11. Your Keys to Freedom

  12. The Depth of Divinity

  What Follows Next Month

  In next month’s Tarot Life, we flip the work done in this month by connecting to service – offering ourselves up through our tarot to everyday moments. In doing so, we begin the spiritual arc beyond the psychological arc already experienced in the prior months. As we approach the final three months, we then connect all these gates together to effect radical change and transformation.

  A Reading List on Alchemy

  We have provided a number of references to alchemy in the reading list below, which may assist anyone looking to further their studies in this fascinating field. The tarot contains many thematic and symbolic similarities to the process of alchemy, and study of either can illuminate the other. Tarot Life will return to Alchemy in later gates and these books may provide optional preparatory reading.

  We have also included one of A. E. Waite’s books on Alchemy, which may assist you understand how he incorporated alchemical designs in the Waite-Smith Tarot. This is a theme picked up by Campbell and Roberts in their book, Tarot Revelations.

  The Golden Game, Stanislas Klossowski de Rola. London: Thames & Hudson, 1988.

  Transformation of the Psyche, Joseph L. Henderson & Dyane N. Sherwood. London: Routledge, 2003.

  The Alchemy Reader, Stanton J. Linden. Cambridge: Cambridge Press, 2003.

  Alchemy, E. J. Holmyard. New York: Dover, 1990.

  Alchemists Through the Ages, A. E. Waite. New York: Rudolph Steiner Publications, 1970.

  Tarot Revelations, Joseph Campbell & Richard Roberts. Palm Harbor: Vernal Equinox Press, 1987.

  The Tyldwick Tarot

  The Tyldwick Tarot, whose images grace the covers of this Tarosophy Kickstart series, is a fully complete Tarot deck awaiting publishing by Neil Lovell. It can be viewed online on the comprehensive and beautifully designed site, http://www.malpertuis.co.uk/tyldwick.

  The theme of the deck is that of an elegant house, through which one can wander without “being distracted by a cast of characters” as might be found in other Tarot decks. The cards are beautifully layered and suffused with tonal casts from the international travel that the designer has enjoyed – and not so enjoyed - as described in some fascinating cases which are revealed in the extensive interview on the site.

  The deck reminds us very much of the film, Last Year in Marienbad (1961, dir. Alain Resnais) which is a dream-like excursion into an environment which may or may not be real, in which the characters not so much inhabit the place, but are extensions of the place itself. In the Tyldwick Tarot, the few characters we see are the Court Cards where faces are reflected in mirrors – or perhaps are even looking out from the other side of the mirrors themselves.

  The deck is currently awaiting publishing and the designer has asked interested parties to reserve copies or express an interest to sufficient numbers before he commits to publishing. We would highly recommend this deck, and suggest you make that commitment – as we would love to see it in our own hands and use it for both reading and meditation work.

  The KickStart Guides

  Look out for more titles in this innovative series of Tarosophy KickStart Guides.

  Volume I.

  Book I: Tarot Flip - Reading Tarot Straight from the Box

  Book II: Tarot Twist - Finding a Spread for Every Question

  Book III: Tarot Inspire – Tarot & Western Esotericism for a Spiritual Life

  Volume II.

  Book I: Tarot Switch – Methods of Engaging Tarot in Life

  Book II: Tarot Solution – How to Read in Real Life Readings

  Book III: Tarot Decode – Signs, Symbols & Portents in Tarot

  Also

  Tarot Turn Vol. 1 - 3: A massive crowd-sourced reference guide to all 12,200 possible combinations of reversed Tarot card pairs.

  Tarot Life: A revolutionary method to change your life in 12 Kindle pamphlets.

  Bibliography

  Crowley, A. The Book of Thoth. York Beach: Weiser, 1985.

  Greer, M. K. & Little, T. Understanding the Tarot Court. St. Paul: Llewellyn, 2004.

  Hamaker-Zondag, K. Tarot as a Way of Life: A Jungian Approach to the Tarot. York Beach: Weiser, 1997.

  Sargent, C. Personality, Divination and the Tarot. London: Rider, 1988.

  Waite, A. E. Pictorial Key to the Tarot. London: Rider, 1974.

  Tarosophy Websites & Resources

  Tarosophy Tarot Associations: http://www.tar
otprofessionals.com

  Tarot Professionals Facebook Group:

  http://www.facebook.com/groups/tarotprofessionals

  Hekademia Tarot Course: http://www.tarosophyuniversity.com

  Tarot Town Social Network: http://www.Tarot-town.com

  Tarosophy by Marcus Katz: http://www.tarosophy.com

  Tarot Book Club: http://www.Tarotbookclub.com

  The Tarot Review: http://www.theTarotreview.com

  Join the Tarot Life Facebook group at:

  http://www.facebook.com/groups/150952695052327/

  There are many threads, questions & answers, examples, discussion and sharing of this life-changing technique.

  If you cannot locate the group, contact us directly at [email protected] and we will be delighted to add you to the group.

 

 

  Marcus Katz, Ride the Lion

 

 

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