Tarot Tips: The Year-Long Spread, I Ching and More
Published: Wed, 01/01/20
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http://TarotSchool.com ISSN: 1529-0565 Vol. 12 #1 / January 1, 2020
In this Issue: - Welcome
- Tarot Tip: The Year-Long Spread - Tarot School Aphorism - What's Gnu? - Diviner's Corner: I Ching - Best Practices: Pros and Cons of Hourly vs. Flat Fees - Upcoming Events Welcome to a new issue of Tarot Tips!
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To all our tarot students, friends, and colleagues around the world, HAPPY NEW YEAR! May your days be filled with Inspiration (Wands), Love (Cups), Clarity (Swords), Health and Prosperity (Pentacles)! To start off the new Roaring Twenties, we're happy to share one of our favorite New Year's techniques, the Year-Long Spread. Jenna Matlin has contributed a wonderful article on the I Ching for the Diviner's Corner, and Best Practices takes a look at the pros and cons of charging clients by the hour as opposed to a single flat fee. We have a lot to look forward to this year, and are glad of your company! And one more thing...
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THE YEAR-LONG SPREAD
The Year-Long Spread is a powerful Tarot School technique that is a good way to start the New Year, although you may begin to work with it any time. It is a combination of a spread and a practice that is done every day for a year. At the end of that time you may, if you wish, continue your practice with a new spread. As you probably know, it's a common practice among tarot enthusiasts to pick a card every day and contemplate its message. This spread will elaborate on that practice and give you a mighty piece of contemplation to do. For this exercise you will need a dedicated deck that you don't use for anything else during the coming year. You will also need a special place to display the cards for reference. There'll never be more than five of them at a time so you won't need a big space. Your altar might do very nicely. You may wish to take a picture of the cards each morning to refer to throughout the day. This can also be useful if you are uncomfortable leaving cards out because of pets or other people in your home. In order to do this spread properly, you will need to know your Birth Cards. If you don’t already know them, use the handy Birth Card Calculator on our website: https://tarotschool.com/Calculator.html What To Do: 1) Take your two Birth Cards out of the deck. Place them side-by-side at the top of the layout. 2) Make a separate deck out of the Major Arcana (minus your Birth Cards) and draw one card from this little deck for the year. Place this card below the Birth Card on the left. Contemplate the Year Card as your theme for the year. Spend some time every day for the next year doing at least a small contemplation on this card. Contemplate this Year Card in the context of your Birth Cards. 3) Shuffle the remaining Major Arcana back into the rest of the deck. Pick one from this deck as your theme for the month. Place this card below the Birth Card on the right. Contemplate this Month Card within the context of the Year Card and your Birth Cards. These cards together will contain an augmented message for the month. Each month, return the previous Month Card to the deck and draw a new card for the new month. If you pick a card you've drawn before, you may work with it or draw again. 4) Shuffle the remaining cards of the deck carefully and thoroughly once each day and then draw a card for the day. Center this Day Card below the previous two. Contemplate all five cards together as your message for the day. If you do this Five-Card Contemplation each day, changing the Day and the Month cards at the appropriate times, by the end of the year your sense of yourself, your year, and tarot will be very intricate, very detailed, very large and very true. This is only a 5-card spread but it's a tough one. We've been doing this practice ourselves and find it very powerful. Enjoy! Tarot School Aphorism LOOKING AHEAD! We have a very exciting year planned for 2020! Here's a preview of what's coming soon: ANNUAL KEEP THE HOLIDAYS GOING PARTY Hosted by Sasha Graham (one of our beloved graduates), this is a great way to kick off the year! See Upcoming Events below for the details. BIRTH CARD CORRESPONDENCE COURSE! This long-awaited and hotly anticipated course on The Tarot School's system of Birth Cards is finally complete! It contains the most comprehensive lessons on Birth Cards we've ever created, and it will be available very soon! MONDAY NIGHT TAROT SALONS These intimate gatherings in our home are where we try out new techniques and enjoy group readings that can be done nowhere else. If you live in the NYC area, contact us to be put on the weekly invitation list. We look forward to seeing you there! TAROT SCHOOL INTENSIVES After a year-long hiatus, we'll be resuming our program of intensives. Watch this newsletter for dates and details. READERS STUDIO & DIVINATION DAY There are still some seats available for our international tarot conference at the end of April. Some say it's the best and biggest tarot party in the world –– not to mention the fabulous instruction from some of your favorite teachers and authors! Come join us. You know you want to! Get all the deets at ReadersStudio.com 25TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION! The Tarot School will be 25 years old next month! It's been an amazing adventure and we're still going strong. We'll be celebrating all year so watch for special offerings and events. Diviner's Corner I CHING by Jenna Matlin When I am not reading tarot for clients, I am using I Ching for myself. I am consistently blown away by the incredible accuracy and wisdom of this divination tool. What I love about the I Ching is the connection it makes to our natural world and how it seamlessly integrates with Feng Shui and Qi Astrology. The I Ching comprises of 8 trigrams. A trigram is a column of 3 broken (two mini-lines with a space between) or solid lines. Each trigram depicts an aspect of nature such as “Lake” or “Earth”. These trigrams are combined to create 64 complete fortunes of 6 lines called hexagrams. Additionally, there is an aspect called the “changing line” that represents what is on the cusp of changing and what it is changing into. In tarot we would use a spread and multiple cards to indicate change and movement, but in I Ching those things are already built into the system. The I Ching was originally divined by casting joss sticks, but nowadays people will toss coins or pick up an I Ching card deck. Each of the 64 fortunes convey the breadth of human experience. My favorite hexagram is 45: Lake over Earth meaning “Gathering: The King enters his temple…Fruitful to have a direction to go.” Water pools into a lake in a depression in the earth, all things (water, people, animals) gather to drink. I also appreciate hexagram 21: Biting Through. The 21st hexagram depicts the trigram of Fire over the trigram of Thunder. Thunder booms from heaven to enforce something difficult but true. Biting Through means to force your teeth to meet through tough hide or even bone. For me, this hexagram feels like a mix of The Tower, The Emperor, and the 9 of Wands. Through perseverance and correct use of force, success can be obtained, though not easily. It is true, though, that Chinese words and concepts do not always translate easily into English or western models of thought. As an example, Hexagram 54, Marrying Maiden, needs cultural context to reveal its true nature. Hexagram 54 depicts the trigrams of Thunder over Lake. At this point, it is helpful to know that each trigram corresponds to a direction and a family member. Thunder is eldest son, and Lake is youngest daughter. At first glance, it might appear as a happy hexagram as maidens marrying usually has positive connotations, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. Here you have the eldest son (who represents familial duty and loyalty) suppressing the youngest daughter (and thereby least powerful family member). Or, you have the eldest son of an already existing family marrying a second wife. The second wife in a traditional Chinese family had almost no direct power. She sublimated herself to the official wife, wife number one. She may come as a tribute or peace offering between two houses. Her children would never be in line for inheritance over the first wife’s children. As a result, the appearance of this Hexagram means to be powerless, and can represent an undertaking that is filled with misfortune. Because of the nature of interpretation and cultural differences, I recommend buying a variety of books with different explanations to deepen your understanding of this amazing system. Happy tossing! Books: • The I Ching by Wilhelm/Baynes (Considered by many to be THE definitive book on I Ching) • I Ching: Walking Your Path, Creating Your Future by Hilary Barrett (Great beginner’s book) • The I Ching: A Guide to Life’s Turning Points by Brian Walker Websites: • This is a website version of Wilhelm/Baynes’ book The I Ching: http://www.akirarabelais.com/i/i.html • I love this resource as it contains interpretations from various authors which rounds out understanding: http://www.jamesdekorne.com/GBCh/GBCh.htm About Jenna: Jenna Matlin, M.S., author of Have Tarot Will Travel and Have Tarot Will Party conducts in-person readings in Durham, NC, as well as via phone and online. Jenna also teaches tarot, Lenormand, how to build intuition, and coaches other tarot entrepreneurs in business. You can find her at jennamatlin.com We’d love your suggestion or submissions for this column! If you have an idea or would love to contribute, please contact us at [email protected]. Best Practices for Professional Readers PROS AND CONS OF HOURLY vs. FLAT FEES By Gina Thies www.tarotadvisor.com / www.facebook.com/tarotreaders www.tarotcoupling.com / www.oraclesoup.org When setting up your reading services, you’ll need to decide whether to charge for your time by the hour or as a flat fee. No matter which you choose, it’s best to be clear about that in advance to avoid confusion for your clients, and for yourself as well. What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of each way? Lets take a look: Flat Rate Fees: One of the advantages of charging a flat rate is there is no pressure to perform due to time limits. You can also customize with add-ons and have different flat rates for different services. The disadvantage of charging flat rates is that there is a danger of putting in more time/energy and not pricing accordingly. Hourly Fees: The greatest advantage of charging by the hour is the flexibility to prorate your time. For some practitioners, this makes it easier to stay on task. The disadvantage of charging by the hour is not sticking to the allotted time and not charging properly when a session goes into overtime. Another thing to consider is that most people are paid by the hour. If you charge $200 per hour and your client only earns $15 per hour, the difference may be difficult for them to justify. There is no right or wrong approach here. The choice is a matter of knowing yourself and your clients. Being clear about costs upfront makes for a more enjoyable reading experience for all. Upcoming Events:
• January 15, 2020 The Tarot School's 2020 Keep the Holidays Going Party! Wednesday, January 15th 6:30 pm The Crooked Knife 29 East 30th Street, New York City (Bring cash for separate checks!) RSVP Sasha Graham [email protected] • January 6, 13, 20 and 27, 2020
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• April 23, 2020 2020 Divination Day Featuring these exciting presentations: * Karin Dalton-Smith: Tea Leaf Reading * Gina Jean: Domino Divination * Mitchell Osborn: Intuitive Animal Communication Single Day Passes are available! http://DivinationDay.com • April 24 – 26, 2020 2020 Readers Studio Master Class Instructors: * V. * Liz Dean * Theresa Reed ... plus Study Groups, Breakfast Roundtables, and much more! http://ReadersStudio.com Join our 10,785+ fans and join the fun!
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