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My name is Will and I'm Garon, and unlike moulderin Scully,
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want to believe. So we've embarked in a journey of discovery.
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We've talked to people deeply entrenched in the spiritual and
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metaphysical world.
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We've thrown ourselves into weird and wonderful experiences. I even
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joined a coven of witches.
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And wait, you joined a coven yep.
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All on the interest of finding something, anything, that will
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prove that there's something beyond this physical.
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Three dimensional world we all live in.
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This is the Skeptic Metaphysicians. This episode of The Skeptic
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Metaphysicians was recorded live at the Edgar Casey Are Today
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we're tackling a very popular topic in this space, the Toureau,
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and our guest today has studied, read, and taught the
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Toureau for over fifty years, so you know that her
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information is rock solid. Her collecting background allows her to
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bring diverse spiritual elements and practices to her readings, giving
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her a very unique perspective. And she also teaches and
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needs workshops in charm casting, creating, vision boards and pendulum
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design and dowsing. I'm thrilled to welcome to the show,
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Russa Harju, thank.
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You so much for coming on, Thank you for having me.
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Tourou is a stalwart right in when you think about
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psychic fairs or things like that, or or in Newage movement.
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The tourou has been around for a very very long time.
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It's what you think of crystals to row things like that, right.
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So my biggest question, and I know we're going to
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go deep into it, and you're graciously going to be
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giving us a quick little mini reading later on, so
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we're excited about that. But when you when a reader
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uses the cards, do the cards have the messages in
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them themselves? Or is the toroau are the cards actually
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just a gateway for your intuition to come through both? Okay,
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thank you, I thank you for joining us.
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Well let's even start before that. What are turo or
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tarot or how do you pronounce it are? What are
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the cards?
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Okay? Well they are not as old as people think
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they are. People think, oh, ancient Egypt, all that stuff.
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They first deck they have on hand is from about
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mid fourteen hundreds in Italy and it was a card game.
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But with any kind of game they turn into divination
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tools and so these cards. This particular deck, the wait
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Smith deck, is one of the most popular ones there is.
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And this one came out in about nineteen ten, so
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it's public domain and it's very different from the earlier cards.
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And they were designed to be a gateway. They were
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designed that each symbol opens you up. But you don't know,
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you don't need to be working in your psychic development.
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You can read the cards by noting the symbol. You know,
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the Emperor's card number four, that's stability and structure. His
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corresponds with the sign of ares. The rams show you that.
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So there's pints and all the cards and so it's uh, basically, yeah,
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the messages are in the cards. You hear from spirit.
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It opens you psychically. If you do a little ritual
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before you read, like I do, opens you psychically. So
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it comes at you from all different angles.
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Okay, and you mentioned something I was going to ask about.
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You said, you do a ritual before you start. What
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what is that like? And do you have to do one?
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No, you don't. That's the one thing that drives men
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says there's so many weird myths about taro, you know,
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like you can't buy your own deck. That's that's a nonsense. Okay,
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if you had to wait till someone gave you one.
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Yeah, I've been waiting all this time.
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That's given.
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No one's giving one. If anyone's out there, I'll need
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to do it.
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You can go to the gest store. At the bookstore,
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they have some really nice ones. But yeah, you don't
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none of that. You know, don't let other people touch
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your cards. I let other people touch my cards all
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the time. There's a lot of silly myths about it.
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But uh, the same thing with the rifle beforehand. Some
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people say, oh, well you have to cut the cards
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three times and then this, and you know, that's what
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happened is somebody saw someone else's a ritual and didn't
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understand why they were doing it. So there's a lot
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of that nonsense, like that old story about the family
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who every time they had a pot roast, they cut
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a piece off, put it to the side, and for
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two generations and then somebody said, why are we doing that?
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They asked a great grandmother and she said, oh, when
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I was first married, my pot was too small. So
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it's just doing something without knowing why. So a ritual
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is to set you up. For example, I always use cloths.
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I make claws, they sell cloths. I never put my
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cards on a blank, bare table because and first all,
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I don't know what's been on that. And secondly, when
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I see this, it starts to wretch at me, right
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into the alpha state, which I want to be in
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in order to read. So when I see this, it's
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like you seeing teable set for dinner. You know it's
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time to eat. I know it's time to read. God, okay, So.
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Put you in the mind space absolutely.
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And that's the start. And then before each reading, I
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do a little breath work. I have a certain hand
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motion that helps me get in the alpha state. It's
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something I've trained myself to do over the years. So
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immediately I'm in the alpha state, I do a quick
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little intentional prayer. I ask my ancestors, I ask the Goddess.
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I ask all beings of light to help make my
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reading as accurate and helpful as possible. You know, for
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the high it's good of all concerned. Just that's my ritual.
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Other people do all, yeah, whatever works for them, cutting
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the cards, knocking the cards, there's a lot of different
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things you'll see people do. And if they've worked that out, themselves.
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It's great. If they're just copying someone else, it's really not.
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Very helpful right now. It can't hurt though to incorporate
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some else.
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Does it hurt out? I love the aesthetics, but I
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keep my cards at a box wrapped in silk. Do
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you have to do that? No, but I like the
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tradition of it. I like the aesthetics as well. I
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clean my cards with selenite in between each reading.
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I was going to ask you about that.
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Yeah, I mean I don't do that at home if
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i have like a one on one, but if I'm
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in a psychic fair, I'll do it for a minute.
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Can you hold that up so we can see it celenite?
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And what does that do for the selenite cleans anything.
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I'm a very lazy person, so if I've got to
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clean my cards, I'm not going to stand there and
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wave seventy eight cards over POLOSOFTA. I'm just not going
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to do a lot of work. It's too much. And
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I buy I make jewelry, but I buy a lot
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of vintage jewelry at state sales. I don't know who's
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warrant come home put it on my selenite. I don't
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have to do any other kind of cleansing. I don't
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even cleanse the selenite. It cleanses itself. So it's just
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really handy. And you know, I'm not going to smudge
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stuff all the time. I'm not going to put it
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in a bowl of salt and forget it. Yeah, and
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you know all that it's just too much work.
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If only would clean the bathrooms, put it in there,
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you come back the next morning.
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I haven't if it if it had a possibility, I
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would have tried.
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The energy of the bat.
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So the cards are you mentioned a gateway to a
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large extent, The right of wait is the traditional deck everything.
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It's the most popular deck there is. It's not traditionalist
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and old, but it's right.
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But it's the one that people most think of when anythink.
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Toro, they do, and most modern decks are based on it.
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You know, there are a couple of different like the
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Crowley decks a little different, and the artisan Taro is
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a little different. But ninety eight percent of your decks,
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even the novelty ones, are based on the way deck.
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Okay, oh, I was going to ask about the novelty
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ones because I saw like a Britney Spears. Will that work?
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I have a couple because they're pretty, you know, But
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and I have the Buffy the Vampire Slayer one because
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I wanted to say Spike, but it's it could work.
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I wouldn't use them because this deck has a depth
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of symbolism that those decks aren't going to have. I
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think they're just for fun.
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Right. You can bring up a good point because symbolism
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symbols are powerful. So when you say that the act
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is a gateway, the symbols themselves might bring something out
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based on the symbolism. We talked about Sacret, Jim Amitri
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and all that kind of stuff. There is something to
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be said about I always say traditional, but the writer
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wait for me. Whenever I see it it it lists
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a certain response. Where I pick up the Britney Spears deck,
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It's not going to give me that same response. It's
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gonna it's gonna.
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Does not the gravitas.
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It doesn't have the gravitas.
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Well, I mean this was developed for that.
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Uh.
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Weight and Pamela Coleman Smith, who was the artist, were
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members of the Golden Dawn and the Golden Dawn is
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a magical society. Back in Victorian times, and it was
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you know, a lot of rich, you know, British guys.
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Sure, so they.
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They work. They had like a magical brotherhood I guess
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called the Golden Dawn, and this incorporated a lot. They're
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the first ones who in modern times correlated the Taro
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and the Kabbala and Taro and astrology. So every single
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card has an astrological correspondence. The major arcana, which is
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the twenty two cards, like the Emperor and the Tower,
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they are either correspond to is a sign of the
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zodiac or a planet. The minor arcana. Each of the
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four suits pentacles corresponds to earth, cups corresponds to water,
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swords correspond with air, and ones correspond with fire. Although
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there's a little controversy about that. Sure, there's a lot
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of controversy in Terrance.
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Everybody with how you've pronounced or whatever a time.
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Car But Young studied the tarot and we use a lot,
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or at least I do use a lot of his
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terminology when I read, you know, the cards fall how
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they're supposed to fall, that synchronicity. The major arcana cards
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are archetypical images, and that's another reason they have power
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when you see the hermitage, you see the wise man
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who gives you information. When you see death, you have
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an impact from that guy.
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Yet, if I'm not mistaken, death is not a negative card.
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Is just a transition.
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It's a transition that's so intense that it's as if
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you died and were reborn. It's that kind of a transformation.
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It's huge.
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So does it make a difference if they're upside down
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or right side up and following up to that upside
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down or right side to the reader or to the reading.
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That's another controversy. Yeah, people will tell you different things.
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Some people don't read reversals at all. Yeah, that's when
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they're upside down. I do, because there's seventy eight cards.
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If you read reversals as well, then you've got whatever
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that is one hundred and fifty six or whatever it is.
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So to me, yeah, reversals can mean the opposite, or
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they can be like when a planet's retrograde. You know,
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whatever that change is, whatever that energy is, it's taking
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a little longer to manifest, gotcha. So I read it
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as facing me because it would just be too much
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metal gymnastics, and I it's like reading a book it's
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right in front of me. So that's how I do it.
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Some people don't read reversals at all, and everyone has
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different opinions, and you do what works for you. You know,
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if your readings are helpful and accurate, that's what counts
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if your client is satisfied.
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So can anyone just pick up a deck and start
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reading off the bat or is a special type of
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training you have to.
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Have ETI to practice. I mean, you can't just throw
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them down and do see. There's three ways to read.
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There is totally this is what the card means. This
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is what the card means in this position. You know,
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that's a very you know, straightforward, you lose a little
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book till you have it all memorized. Another way to
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read is just to look at the pictures and make
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up stories. So you have your book learning, you have
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your intuitive and then you have the way I do it,
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which is a hybrid. So I know what the cards mean,
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but I also have flexibility in that. You know, each
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time I look at a card, I might notice a
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different symbol, and so that would shift the meaning for
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me a little bit.
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Okay, So it's not as easy as just looking at
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that because I know the weight deck actually has descriptors.
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Of each card, and what it means is that a