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God Within: The aspect of the Divine with which the individual personality identifies and
which exists deep inside each of us. Here is the feminine side of the Divine; the benevolent,
the understanding, the forgiving God. At its extreme, it represents the infinitely small in
the universe.
God Without: The aspect of the Divine which is conceived as external to the individual
personality. Here is the masculine side of the Divine, the all-powerful, all-capable, the
judgmental God. At its extreme, it represents the infinitely large in the universe.
Hierarchy: The concept in many schools of metaphysical thought that there is a group of
advanced souls guiding man’s progress on the incarnate plane, such guidance having required
incarnating themselves from time to time. The Christian concept of archangels is
similar.
Hooks: Author’s term for the conventions, spreads/layouts, and card interpretations that
every reader develops over time. Once a reader has established regular practices, they
become the personal rules of grammar in their language of the Tarot, a grammar for the
reader’s personal dialect that can be used by God to deliver specific meanings/messages in
any given reading.
Karma: The belief system which allows that the experiences of this lifetime, the lessons to
be learned, are chosen in the context of and with the soul’s knowledge of all prior incarnations.
Karma is another word for our chosen path in toto. The popular notion of karma as
punishment carried over to the present lifetime for wrongdoing in past lifetimes is incorrectly
presented. The soul, from its overview, knows what it must do to advance efficiently
along its path and will chose the work it needs to do. To the soul, no task or life position is
worse or better than any other.
Karmic Contract: The first four cards in the Karmic Spread constitute the Karmic Contract,
representing the readee’s situation at birth. They show the physical, emotional, mental,
and spiritual aspects of the work chosen for the present lifetime that are most applicable
for the given reading.
Karmic Spread: The spread that accommodates a layout of 22 cards and which uses the
information generated by the karma at work and visible in the structure of the Tarot itself,
in particular the way in which the two Arcana interface graphically to reveal a four-fold
aspect of the self moving through the seven stages of evolutionary growth in consciousness.
Karmic Tarot: The Tarot convention that uses a layout of 22 cards selected in each reading
from a 78 card classical Tarot deck and distributed over the spread pattern known as the
Karmic Spread.
Layout: The distribution of cards in a designated pattern for a given reading using a predetermined
spread convention. Each distribution of the cards is a layout.
Major Arcana: The group of 22 cards, numbered from 0 to 21, whose illustrations and
meanings represent the archetypal lessons that the human race must experience and internalize.
The author also refers to these 22 cards as the Majors.
Major Arcana Journey: The acquisition of the knowledge of the 22 Majors. This journey
must be thought of on two levels: the path through the experiences of the present lifetime,
and the path of growth in evolutionary consciousness through all our lifetimes—past,
present, and future.
Minor Arcana: The group of 56 cards, made up of four 14-card suits, each containing 10
numbered cards (known as the Pips) and four face cards (known as the Court cards), and