Message #173 - TAROT(podsnet echo) 
   Date: 02-01-96 11:37
   From: Linterah
     To: All
Subject: Tarot Exercise
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This is an exercise from TAROT FOR YOURSELF that I tried and posted (a
long while back) my results on GEnie.  There were several of us who
tried the exercise.  Unfortunately, I can't find a copy of the file I
posted.  This can be done, in due time, with all the Major Arcana.

Lay your Major Arcana cards out in front of you in three rows of seven
cards with the Fool above.

1.  Pick out the card which most attracts you, study it a while then
describe what you see, allowing your eyes to move freely over the card
and recording the symbols as you focus on them.  Note which symbols seem
to command your attention.

2.  List any imaes or objects in the card which you didn't mention
above.

3.  What colors predominate?

Now close your eyes and see if you can't recreate this card in your
mind's eye.  Open you eyes and see if you left anything out.

You might want to tape this, the second part of the exercise.  Or else,
have a friend read it to you.   You'll be using the same card for this.

Close your eyes and take three slow, deep breths to center yourself.
Imagine the card you have chosen becoming larger and larger until the
figures in it are life size. . . . Step over the border of the card and
enter it.  The landscape now extends as far as you can see in all
directions.  Look around you.  What do you see? . . . Do you hear any
noises? . . . What can you smell? . . . What is the temperature? . . .
What time of day is it? . . . Examine more closely anything that
interests you. . . . Touch it if it's appropriate; what does it feel
like? . . . Who else is there in this Tarot landscape with you? . . .
Approach the figure who most attracts you. he or she has a gift for you,
something which you can take back into your life to help you on your
path to self-knowledge.  Accept the gift and look aat it carefully. . .
Thank the giver.  Ask what it is to be used for. . . . Take one last
look around and then imagine that the border of the card is behind you.
Turn around and step over it and watch the card instantly shrink back
down to its normal size.  Open your eyes.

As with dreams, your experience will quickly lose details if you don't
write them down.  While writing, you may become aware of more details
than you thought you had seen; record those impressions and feelings,
too.

SEE NEXT POST...



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