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

The Nature of Readings
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continuously trying to communicate everything you need to know to fulfill your life purpose.
Everything you experience—every person, every billboard, every dream—is communicating
part of God’s message. To understand the totality of the Godhead is impossible, hence
our concept of ineffability as experienced by mystics down through time. But man has the
special ability to break down the messages from God into manageable pieces, and he tries
to personify these messages as much as possible.
Imagine an inverted tree, its trunk pointing upward toward the sky, branches down
toward the ground. God, the One, is the trunk of the tree at the very top. Just below, the
trunk divides into two branches, while below that each branch itself divides into two other
branches. The process continues just like the old saying, “...and they told two people,
and...” At the very bottom is an infinity of branches, each a bit of intelligence in the earth
plane receiving part of God’s message.
The channels or paths that information takes in reaching us are of many levels, some
personified and others not—but all of them depend on the socio-cultural backgrounds
from which we spring and on which we depend for our survival. Near the top, to someone
who has been born into the Judaeo-Chrisitian tradition, are the Archangels, and to those
in that tradition who have a more New Age or Theosophical orientation, there is the Great
White Brotherhood. In Islam there are the 99 names of God. In ancient Egypt and Greece
there were pantheons of gods. In Hinduism, there is also a pantheon of gods, each a facet
of the Godhead to which believers can relate.
Further down our inverted tree are the biological families into which we have been
born at one time or another, and even further down are the families in which we are now a
structural part. And here we come to the root of religion in man, to the origins of animism,
of ancestor worship and glorification of nature and nature-spirits. Early man instinctively
recognized where he came from and what he was part of. This is the correct understanding
of spiritualism, the proper communication with those who have passed on, but who even in
their timeless home on the other side of the void are part of us. Even ourselves in past lives
are available to help us receive our messages in this lifetime.
All of these levels are working to channel information from God to us. Meditating on
which cards may represent any of these personifications can bring startling results.
Reading for Yourself
In doing layouts for yourself, particularly in the beginning, remember that it is generally
much harder to read your own cards than someone else’s. Beginners tend to read
predominantly for themselves and can easily be misled to believe that reading is too difficult,
so the cards are put away forever. You will always want to read for yourself, but
beginners should force themselves to read for others, even if they are not present (see
below). If it is truly time for an aspiring reader to learn the Tarot, just as they were led to buy
a deck of cards in the first place, so will they be presented with the opportunities to read.
People, generally close friends or family, will ask for readings. The point here is not to refuse
these requests. Again I stress that it will be much easier to read for others than for yourself.
Reading for the Absentee Readee
Having the readee present, face to face, is preferred, most obviously for the chance for
repartee and observation. But it is also possible to do excellent readings with the readee absent.