Karmic Tarot: A Profound System for Finding and ... - myteacup

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Atmosphere and Control
Karmic Tarot
The reading process consists of six principal factors, five objectives:
1. The Reader.
2. The Readee.
3. The Tarot Deck.
4. The Layout.
5. The Environment and a subjective factor.
6. The Provider.
First, there is the reader, the person laying out and interpreting the cards. Anyone can
read the Tarot. All that is required are the physical abilities of sight and speech. 1
Second, there is the readee, the person for whom the cards are being interpreted. (The
term querent is most frequently used, but over the years I have found myself using the term
readee, and it seems to work quite well.)
Third, there is the Tarot deck itself. There are many decks available commercially today
and the choice of a deck is a highly personal matter. You should certainly study all the
available information about the origins and characteristics of any decks that attract you,
but in the final analysis, no one can tell you which deck will be the right one, or ones, for
you. But I feel, however, that there is one condition that should be met by any deck you
consider for reading the Tarot. It should be of what I call the “classic” type, one which has
78 cards structured into a 22-card Major Arcana and a 56-card Minor Arcana—consisting
of four Suits, each divided into 10 numbered Pip cards and four Court cards. There are
numerous other decks that have their own validity within their own systems of thought.
You may be interested in having additional decks for reasons other than reading; for their
beauty, historical value, or for a collection. But they cannot be used in a study of the classic
Tarot, such as in this book, much the same as you could not use a Portuguese dictionary to
study German.
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