LXXXI Quareia The Magician’s Deck

A very interesting deck, thanks for the review

Workbook for Devising Your Professional Tarot Business Plan

Helpful info thank you

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The Efflorescent Tarot by Katie Rose Pipkin (Self-Published) The Efflorescent Tarot by Katie Rose Pipkin (Self-Published)

Note: What synchronicity. Theresa Reed of The Tarot Lady asked me to contribute to a really cool piece, “Best Tarot Business Advice from 22 Tarot Pros.” And I had scheduled this post to go live in the same week. Definitely check out Theresa’s blog. It’s one of my favorites.

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So you’ve always been kind of a weirdo. An intuitive weirdo, no less. You read tarot cards. Scrying with a crystal ball is not out of your realm of conceivable possibilities. Also, for the last who-knows-how-long, your friends and family have been asking you to divine for them. You hear the calling to do this as a professional now. That’s right. You want to launch a professional service in divination. Although you’re no computer whiz, you do know your way around the Internet. So you’re thinking, gee…

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Weekly Illumination: December 13th, 2015

Thank you!

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NAMASTE MY FELLOW LOVELY SOULS. ON THIS DAY I WILL PROVIDE SPIRITUAL ILLUMINATION USING BOTH TAROT AND ASTROLOGY. THAT BEING SAID THE CARD THAT I DRAW FOR THIS WEEK IS…

Sunday – King of Cups

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This day allows you to peacefully reflect on the events that have occured and also plan for the events to come. This will happen by you cultivating a much more mature understanding of your feelings. You will definitely establish a deep soulmate connection that will set the tone of the week. It won’t be conclusive but follow the lead of your intuition as it is more on point than you realize 😉

Monday – Eight of Pentacles

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Be sure that the work you do on this day is quality and reflects efficient  effort on your part. The meaningful work you produce will definitely help you gain the right consistency and also allow you to gain…

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The Star

The Star is a card full of optimism, promise, hope and faith. There is a large, yellow star shining brightly overhead which feels to be lighting the path before us and showing us the way to our full potential. If you draw  The Star in a tarot reading about your career then it could indicate … Continue reading The Star

Tarot and Social Inductive Reasoning

interesting and Insightful..

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"The Fortune Teller" by Georges de La Tour (circa 1630s). “The Fortune Teller” by Georges de La Tour (circa 1630s).

I would say this is the dark or shadow side of professional tarot practice. To not face it, to intentionally withhold it from public scrutiny is to practice tarot with your head buried in the sand or worse yet, to intentionally misrepresent what happens or could happen in professional tarot. Everything here makes me uncomfortable. It makes me squirm. It makes me feel icky. I loathe that any little part of my personal tarot practice– always unintentionally– mirrors anything I’m about to address in this post (or in the downloadable PDF I’m providing).

The classic term used is cold reading. Cold reading is using learned techniques to obtain personal information about an individual, and use that information in a way that implies you have psychic or heightened intuitive abilities.

A recent phenomenon among the New Age or New Thought practitioners…

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