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    Tarot for Teenagers - A Beginner's Guide to Tarot
    Tarot for Teenagers - A Beginner's Guide to Tarot
    Tarot for Teenagers - A Beginner's Guide to Tarot
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    Tarot for Teenagers - A Beginner's Guide to Tarot

    By Carole Somerville

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    A Beginner’s Guide to the Tarot  - When learning is fun you hardly notice the effort. - That’s the way this book teaches you how to understand the Tarot.

    There are no keywords and it is not necessary to learn the individual meaning of the cards by memory. Instead the author uses a series of stories and fun exercises to help you remember the different meanings of the tarot cards and apply these to your own life. Although written for teenagers this is an excellent guide to learning tarot for any beginner to the subject.

    This is a fun and easy introduction to learning the tarot. – Learn the meaning of each tarot card, the suits, numbers and symbols within the tarot through a series of entertaining stories. From beginning to end these will take you on a journey through the tarot.

    This book includes information on tarot spreads and example readings. All you need to get started is your own tarot card deck and an interest in learning the tarot.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCarole Somerville
    Release dateAug 20, 2014
    ISBN9781484923191
    Tarot for Teenagers - A Beginner's Guide to Tarot
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    Carole Somerville

    Carole is a qualified astrologer and has a degree in Psychology, Education and English Literature. She is also a Certified Reiki Master. Astrology is Carole's main subject. Psychology, the tarot, dream interpretation, history and spiritual realms fascinate her too. Carole has been addicted to writing from the moment she could hold a pen and counts her blessings to have been able to make a career out of something she loves.In the 1980s Carole was the leading writer for key astrology magazines in the UK including Destiny, Your Stars, Exploring the Supernatural and Your Future. In the 1990's Carole's print media clients extended to include The Daily Mirror, The People and Destiny. Carole's work began to incorporate problem pages, dream analysis and information booklets. Between 1994 and 1996 she was astrologer for the Scottish newspaper The Sunday Post. This led to Carole becoming astrologer for a number of other regional newspapers.Carole has also worked as a consultant for the Psychic Friends Network and helped them establish and then write their quarterly magazine Destiny. In recent years along with Carole's astrological work, she has been studying complementary therapies and Reiki. Her books include fiction as well as non-fiction.

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      Tarot for Teenagers - A Beginner's Guide to Tarot - Carole Somerville

      Introduction

      Whatever it is that has drawn you to the tarot, whether it is the artistic beauty in the images, the excitement of being able to do readings for yourself and your friends or an interest in furthering your spiritual knowledge, if you really really want to, you can learn the tarot and in this book I’m going to show you how.

      Some people are wary about tarot cards and indeed you might not be sure about how you feel about them yourself especially if this is something that’s very new to you. In films tarot cards are often used for dark purposes ... they might be linked, in horror movies, with evil people, seedy places and scary predictions. Some people might tell you they are evil and you shouldn’t dabble in areas that are dangerous. Interpreting the tarot is no more dangerous than interpreting your dreams. Both require an understanding of symbolism and this isn’t as complicated as it might sound.

      Symbolism is used in art, poetry, TV dramas and literature all of the time. This is when one object, sound, word or picture is used to represent something else. Thunder, for instance, might be used in the theatre to emphasise arguments or it may have a supernatural context; the colour red could warn of danger or speak of passion, a rose can represent romance. Symbolism therefore can be seen almost everywhere, and is not just specific to the tarot.

      The tarot and other methods of divination use symbolism to represent aspects of your life, your personality and your relationships. To help you learn the tarot, this book will give you easy ways to understand what symbolism is all about.

      One way to look at the tarot is to imagine a tarot spread as being a mirror that reflects your feelings, your situation and the circumstances going on around you at exactly the time you consult the cards. As you look into the mirror, you see yourself. As you look at your tarot spread, you see yourself. The tarot is a wonderful tool to help you get in touch with the inner-you. It will not have all the answers because in this life you need to figure things out for yourself: your Fate lies in your own hands.

      The tarot cannot influence what you do. It can offer insights into a situation and provide guidance. The tarot shows us signposts that signal what choices may be ahead.

      Just as you reach a crossroads on a journey and consider the different places the signpost points to, the choice of where you go or the path that you take, is entirely up to you.

      Tarot Tips: Tarot Cards are not Evil

      People who don’t understand the tarot might accuse you of dabbling in something dangerous and evil. Tarot cards are no more evil than your dreams. Like your dreams, they provide a link between your conscious and sub-conscious minds. Like dreams, the symbols within the tarot can be very beautiful and they will help you develop your intuition.

      People may suggest the tarot cards are the work of the devil. How do they come to this conclusion? How can the devil operate through the tarot? As you talk to people let them see you are a kind, caring and loving person and there is nothing evil about you. In fact when you do a tarot reading for others, you have a duty to think carefully about how you word what you see in the cards so as not to influence them in any way. This leads to the next assumption by some, that the tarot can influence people. The tarot reflects a situation as it currently is and gives guidance on possible options but the tarot does not influence anyone. The tarot merely opens your eyes to what you already (instinctively) know but haven’t been seeing. 

      Chapter One –

      Some Basics before we Begin

      Before we make a start on how to interpret your tarot cards, think about how you are going to store and care for them. This may sound a little weird but once you have chosen a tarot deck, you and your cards will form a link as the cards become tuned into your energies.

      Again don’t think of this as being voo-dooish or anything. For just think: have you ever stepped into a house and thought it had a lovely welcoming feel about it? Or have you visited a place that gave you shivers down your spine only you couldn’t explain why? Objects and places absorb the positive and negative energies around them and give off vibes of their own that sensitive people can pick up. Your tarot cards will slowly become attuned to your energies and that’s why you should not let other people use your cards. Remember: the tarot isn’t a game.

      It is recommended that tarot cards are wrapped in a silk scarf. Choose a colour that you like. Keep them in a wooden box to protect the energy within the cards. Whether or not you believe there can be energy in inanimate objects it is good to develop a ritual associated with your tarot cards and how you use them. Keeping your tarot deck in a special case, opening your box and unwrapping the silk from around your cards can help you get into the right mood to do a reading. You might also have a special cloth on which to lay out your spread. This all helps relax you and will set the mood for your tarot reading.

      Your Tarot Cards

      There are many tarot decks to choose from and some are very different from each other. You should choose a deck that you feel drawn to. Although it would be an abuse of the tarot to do a number of readings for the same person in a day (and this would greatly dilute the significance of any reading) when learning the tarot it helps to hold each card, study its images and familiarise yourself with its meaning. You will need to think too about what each card means to you. For this, you might focus on one card a day and in this book you will find easy exercises to help you become familiar with your tarot cards.

      There are 78 cards in a tarot deck, 22 Major Arcana and 56 cards form the Minor Arcana. The Major Arcana represent major events in your life. Within these 22 cards all main events and encounters experienced in a lifetime are covered. The remaining 56 cards give indications of the activity, people and day-to-day situations going on in your life at the time of the reading. The more Major Arcana cards there are in a spread, the more likely it is that this is a time of consequence. So the cards in the Major Arcana form the principal chapters while the cards in the Minor Arcana represent the pages, all of which when put together will form the book of your life.

      The 22 Major Arcana Cards are: the Fool, Magician, High Priestess, Empress, Emperor, Hierophant (or Pope), Lovers, Chariot, Justice, Hermit, Wheel, Strength, Hanged Man, Death, Temperance, Devil, Tower, Star, Moon, Sun, Judgement and the World.

      The 56 Minor Arcana are split into four suits: the Wands (sometimes called Rods, Batons or Staves), Cups, Swords and Pentacles (sometimes called Coins or Discs). Each suit has ten numbered cards and four court cards of which there are: the Pages, Knights, Queens and Kings.

      Each of the suits in the Minor Arcana has its own characteristics and relates to feelings, actions and events going on in specific areas of life. Each card in the tarot has its own meaning but these interpretations aren’t written in stone. This book will give you an idea of the general meanings of the cards. As you become more familiar with the tarot, you will start to recognise your own intuitive responses when interpreting the cards. You will learn how each tarot spread forms its own picture and how a card can mean different things depending on where it falls in a spread and which other cards are beside it. You will also learn how the symbols in each card can have their own meaning for you and how you can discover what this might be.

      There are a number of ways to learn the tarot and my aim in this book is to try to help inspire you to want to learn and help you remember the meanings of the cards. I will do this through taking you on a fun, step-by-step route through the tarot that will help you categorise the cards in your mind. This will be done through use of memory aids, entertaining exercises and through helping you find the confidence to trust your own

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