Tarot Principles

  XXI. Tarot is to Engage Life, Not Escape It   Life is our Temple. Heaven is Hid in our Images and we Abide in the Sanctuary. We should use Tarot to Take Us Beyond Ourselves, not See in it an Endless Series of Selfies. So, at last, we might come to realise that this

XX. Be Serious in your Study but Inventive in your Practice   A Tarot reading requires five attitudes, but a sixth is the attitude that it requires whatever it asks. These attitudes are; congruency, flow, pacing, intimations of depth, and curiosity. We should aspire that our reading is true to the cards as it is

XIX. See the Spaces Between the Cards   Tarot is as much about silence as it is about speech. In a reading there are spaces that make up the spaces outside of the lines. Tarot shows us not only a map of the land but of the people, the politics, the names of the places

XVIII. Learn the Meanings with Precision, Reading is another Matter.   To learn tarot is to learn life. In life, as tarot, we continuously strive to recognise rules and patterns for prediction based on our observation and experience. The meanings of each card, whilst multivalent, tend to specific core meanings. We learn upwards from the

XVII. Spreads are for Beginners. Later, One Reads Only the Cards Tarot is a lyrical language of the soul’s encounter with the Universe. It arises freely, and like the most dignified dance, allows us to express ourselves in motion to the music of the divine. The re-arrangement and reading of the deck is as sacred

XVI. Prepare to Face Ten Thousand Readings   Tarot is a dynamic engagement with every situation in time. When we read for others or ourselves, we re-align ourselves to the present moment. Tarot teaches us that time is the moving likeness of eternity. Time is a Tower that is endlessly building and collapsing. Remember then,

XV. Every Reading is as Important as Every Other Reading   Tarot is the story of everyone as told by someone. It is also the story of someone told by everyone. A Tarot reading can be the most important thing that someone ever ignores. So, we might never know (as with everything) the full consequence

XIV. You Do Not Need to Know Everything   Tarot is an imitation of life in as much as life is an imitation of reality. In a reading we can see the map laid out, but it will always be incomplete. Tarot allows us to make a map of the map. So, we might wonder

XIII. Learn to Hear the Real Question   Tarot is a matter of life and death. In a reading we can discern more questions from every card. Tarot opens the gates to universal truths transcendent of space and time. So, we should honour the question. Remember then, from the very beginning, to listen and listen