Min's Compleat Tarot User Manual - Chapter 1 of 9
M A G V S
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MIN'S COMPLEAT TAROT - USER MANUAL
-by Daniel Joseph Min
(c)opyleft 2002
life is free
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - Groundrules
Chapter 2 - Tree of Life
Chapter 3 - Ten Heavens
Chapter 4 - Twelve Signs
Chapter 5 - Court Cards
Chapter 6 - Pip Cards
Chapter 7 - Solar System
Chapter 8 - Trinity
Chapter 9 - Music of the Spheres
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Chapter 1
Groundrules
THE TAROT IS an interface for helping believers
in psychic or paranormal powers beyond our five
senses to establish meaningful contact herewith.
The seasoned practitioner of tarot may use this
marvelous and powerful tool to communicate with
spirits of the dead or to predict future events,
or for more traditional readings of the present,
past and future--by its revelation in the cards.
You may ask questions of the tarot, and receive
answers by shuffling and drawing cards from the
deck, or ask your client to do the same. Really,
the only limit for how you can use the tarot is
the limit you have imposed on it, not it on you.
Be creative, spontaneous, above all be yourself.
Be confident in your innate God-given abilities.
Find the method that works best for you and use
it, develop it, learn to master your techniques.
The usefulness of tarot can best be appreciated
by laying down some ground rules first, so that
as you gain familiarity with the tarot, you can
build your psychic house of knowledge on a firm
foundation of scientific facts and astronomical
truths, beginning with the universal principles
of cause and effect, action and reaction. These
form the basis of life itself, of all existence.
For example, consider light and darkness, as in
contrast to itself, as with white against black.
How do we know that something has light, if not
by noticing the absence of light, i.e. darkness?
This is commonly symbolized by the yin and yang,
the feminine and masculine aspects or forces of
the universe, energies which both contrast with
and complement each other simply and profoundly,
passively and actively, "weakly" and "strongly".
The keyword here is completely. Yin or yang, by
themselves, are incomplete thus are inseparable
since the universe is complete as everything in
the universe is part of itself, all part of One.
Do you know your right hand from your left hand?
Of course you do. Clasp your hands together and
see how they naturally interlock as if one fist.
The wife and husband are joined together as one,
as the circle which holds the yin & yang is one,
even as the planets of our solar system are one.
Ten planets, heavens and spheres, as one system.
And so we've established this first ground rule
for learning and using tarot: Interconnectivity!
Synchronicity! Our primary rule states that all
existence in the universe is interconnected, in
some way or another--ways we can't even imagine,
but also in ways that we can study & understand.
Let us rejoice that we're all a part of the One.
We'll call this our LAW OF ONE like Edgar Cayce
used to talk about in his psychic readings. For
contrast against the One, we'll call it BABYLON,
also in honor of Edgar Cayce as he used to call
children of fragmented philosophy the "children
of Belial", or as this ancient word "lbb" means
ben Babel, "the children of confusion by mixing".
It's all in the bible. You can look it up later.
As our first ground rule, we'll acknowledge our
at-one-ment with the universe, giving thanks to
its Creator and the Gods who are altogether One.
This is fundamental to understanding how to use
the tarot, since every one of the seventy-eight
cards in the deck has a definitive relationship
with the other, each being precisely defined by
astronomical truths and astrological deductions,
forming the quintessential music of the spheres.
This makes a good invocation before beginning a
session of tarot readings, e.g., Muses who sing
and are of One mind and One voice as One divine
symphony praising the immortal Gods & Goddesses,
lead us in thy modes of truth and songs of love.
You may even want to sing it, or chant a mantra
in the language of your choice...it's up to you.
It can be any words of your choosing said aloud
or in silence as long as you say something kind
in the presence of God who is everywhere always.
Give thanks in whatever way you are comfortable
with. Remember you must ask for divine guidance.
Ask and ye shall receive. Knock, the door opens.
Have faith that the divine power will guide you.
Say a prayer for your clients in their presence.
It doesn't have to be religious, just heartfelt.
Practice tarot in good faith and you'll succeed.
When you doubt that the tarot can help, then it
is likely that you will fail to get any helpful
or veracious reading from the cards. Show faith
by works and be confident the Gods can help you.
Keep this in mind while reading the tarot cards.
In the next lesson, we'll practice the ten-card
spread by using the ancient tree of life layout.
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End Chapter 1. See Chapter 2 for continuation...
Daniel Joseph Min
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Not all that bad after all. Read more (a more thorough skim), passes
more bs filters than i heard going off at first; maybe i was in a shitty
mood? anyhoo: good tarot!
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