Every aspect of our lives, from the most easily recognizable--relationships, material success, health, security, work--to much more subtle and often seemingly fixed subjects, such as truth, wisdom, spirit, and natural laws, constantly flows through ever-changing patterns and cycles. So, if the universe is flexible and evolving, and if our understanding of it changes with each new theory or model, what is real? How can we guide ourselves through the seeming chaos of living? How do we find a center, or grounding, in the middle of it all? How can we experience this constancy of change from the exciting and positive position of choice instead of the often terrifying helplessness found in the maze of fate? In Choice Centered Relating and the Tarot, Fairfield provides easily identifiable examples of choice centered approaches to life experience. She quickly faces the fact that many events in our lives are beyond our control, or choice, and then leads us to the empowering realization that we can learn the art of conscious action and reaction. Our center of control is not outside--but within--and with deepening understanding and steady practice, we can learn to access this center and nurture its growth. From this choice centered orientation we learn how to frame relationship-related questions and interpret the guidance provided by the symbolism of the tarot. The book is filled with thought-provoking questions and guides to interpretation using a wide variety of sample layouts. Any of the excellent tarot decks currently available can be used to awaken this life-changing approach.

Everyday Tarot, first published as Choice Centered Tarot, is an accessible, thorough introduction to the tarot. Gail Fairfield focuses on the psychological meanings that can be found in the symbolism of the cards. Rather than simply predicting a future in which we have no real choice, her clear, concise interpretations provide meaningful guidelines that will lead readers to powerful insights and greater self-understanding. She makes the tarot an easytouse tool for intuitive information gathering, personal empowerment, and self-discovery, all keys to making great choices about life's dilemmas. Fairfield explains everything needed to become a competent card reader and offers invaluable tips on choosing a deck, designing layouts, and giving readings for individuals and groups.

Joan Bunning's The Big Book of Tarot offers a complete course on how to use the tarot cards for personal guidance. The author communicates the basic depth and beauty of each card and shows how the cards trigger psychological projection, enhance intuition, and improve communication with the Inner Guide. While there are countless books devoted to tarot, what sets Joan Bunning apart from every other writer on the subject is her ability to take a rather complicated esoteric system and break it down into clear, manageable, and easily learned parts. The lessons Bunning offers cover the basics and then move gradually into more advanced concepts. Exercises and sample responses for each lesson help you learn and practice. The book includes: Lessons on how to consider one card by itself, how to look for card pairs, and how to create the "story" of a reading A convenient reference section that contains two pages of information for each card including a picture from the popular Waite deck, a description, keywords, action phrases, and suggestions for cards with similar and opposite meanings An exploration of the meaning of reversed cards and how to work with them to give tarot readings a natural flow of high points and low points without abrupt transitions Practical insights on how to work with and interpret a wide variety of tarot spreads Note to the Reader: This book consists of material drawn from the author's many previous books as well as new material.

Each tarot reader has a unique style that they hone over time into the fine art of divining the future. In this essential guide to arranging cards into prophetic patterns, Joan Bunning has compiled a veritable encyclopedia of tarot spreads with great appeal for accomplished readers who want to explore further as well as novices with their very first deck. What sets Joan Bunning apart from every other writer on the subject of tarot is her ability to take a rather complicated esoteric system and break it down into manageable, clear, and easily learned parts. Chapters include spreads for relationships, family, love, money, health, work, and even specific time periods. Sample spreads are comprehensive, ranging from manycard "Gypsy" spreads to quick and easy "Three Card Draws." She also gives the reader reference charts, exercises and structured tarot lessons.

Choice-Centered Relating and the Tarot is an important guide for using the symbols of the tarot to make relationship decisions. Once you have learned to read the cards, using your favorite deck, you'll want to go further -- to help yourself or people you know with important decisions. In order to do that, you must know the "ins and outs" of the relationship process, whether it's the most important love relationship in your life, or how to deal with an unruly child, or even how to cope with people at work. Gail Fairfield shows you how to approach relationship analysis from a choice-centered point of view. Fairfield outlines how to ask the right questions and how to work through situations to arrive at equitable solutions. She provides examples of the choice-centered approach to life experience. Many events in life are beyond control -- or choice -- so she gives us techniques for dealing with conscious action and reaction. Our center of control is not outside -- it resides within us -- and with deepening understanding and steady practice, we can access this center and nurture its growth. A choice-centered orientation lets us ask relationship-related questions and interpret guidance provided by the symbolism of the tarot. This book is filled with practical advice, thought-provoking questions, and guides to interpretation using a wide variety of sample layouts. Using many case histories and examples, Fairfield brings the tarot to life! This book will become a valued friend and advisor, one you'll keep close at hand every time you read the cards.

Want to delve deeper into the concepts that made The Wildwood Tarot wildly popular? This workbook further explores those powerful ancient traditions. Wild Magic invokes the power of the Wildwood—the Green Man and Green Woman, as well as all the living archetypes of the forest, such as Herne the Hunter and Robin-in-the-Hood. Journey across time to the pre-Celtic world where primal forces, in the guise of animal, bird, and fish, roamed free and opened doorways into the otherworld of the Ancestors. With chapters on the Lore of the Wild, the Wheel of the Year, shamanic methods of examining the wild, and meditations designed to enable personal encounters with Wildwood archetypes, as well as newly crafted rituals enabling readers to celebrate festivals such as the Midsummer and Midwinter Solstices, the book takes a fresh and informed look at a set of ancient traditions applied to the present.

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A practical approach that provides basics for understanding astrological charts. Shows you how to utilize astrology to make the most of your life and gives clear examples of in-depth, choice-centered interpretations of aspects, houses, planets, and signs.Whether you are a novice, knowledgeable student, or professional in the field, you will find this book useful.

Vols. 8-10 of the 1965-1984 master cumulation constitute a title index.