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Overview

Drawing on nearly forty years of tarot experience, Mary K. Greer has developed a new energizing approach-made up of twenty-one stimulating techniques-to interpret or deepen your understanding of each card. Just as the twenty-one letters of the alphabet can be combined to form billions of words, Greer's twenty-one methods can be used in any combination for gaining amazing new insights and perspectives.

Emphasizing both traditional and personal methods of interpretation, Greer's techniques involve storytelling, sketching, symbols, metaphors, dialogues, acting, and other imaginative exercises. Designed to bring about interaction, transformation, and empowerment, this twenty-one-pronged approach to tarot can help readers expand standard interpretations and evolve new ways of connecting to the cards.

Winner of the Coalition of Visionary Resources Award for Best Divination Book

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780738707846
  • Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd.
  • Publication date: 5/1/2006
  • Pages: 336
  • Sales rank: 339,336
  • Product dimensions: 7.50 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Meet the Author

Mary Greer is an author and teacher specializing in methods of self-exploration and transformation. A Grandmaster of the American Tarot Association, she is a member of numerous Tarot organizations, and is featured at Tarot conferences and symposia in the United States and abroad.

Mary also has a wide following in the women's and pagan communities for her work in women's spirituality and magic. A Priestess-Hierophant in the Fellowship of Isis, she is the founder of the Iseum of Isis Aurea.

Mary has studied and practiced Tarot and astrology for over 34 years. Her teaching experience includes eleven years at New College of California, as well as at many workshops, conferences, and classes. She is the founder and director of the learning center T.A.R.O.T. (Tools and Rites of Transformation).

Her books include Tarot for Your Self: A Workbook for Personal Transformation (1984); Tarot Constellations: Patterns of Personal Destiny (1987); Tarot Mirrors: Reflections of Personal Meaning (1988); The Essence of Magic: Tarot, Ritual, and Aromatherapy (1993); Women of the Golden Dawn: Rebels and Priestesses (1995); and Aromatherapy: Healing for the Body and Soul (1998), with Kathi Keville.

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Step 1
Name

Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless.
-hannah arendt, the human condition

The Way of the Apprentice

Preliminaries: Choosing Your Card

Now's the time to select the card that you'll use through each of the twenty-one ways to read a tarot card. That's right; you might as well jump right in. Choose a deck that has storytelling images on all the cards, and shuffle it thoroughly as you ask, "What do I most need to look at in my life right now?"

Draw three cards and turn them to their faceup and upright positions (see Glossary). Which card is most intriguing? Which one is most unsettling? Which card has the most detail? Which card has the least detail? Decide which one of the three will be your "chosen card." It should have enough symbolism for you to explore in depth and, perhaps, be more interesting than pleasing. Aces are not your best bet or the Eight of Wands, as they usually have few details. It helps if one or more people are actively doing something in the image. If in doubt, pick a Major Arcana card.

You'll be working with your chosen card throughout the book. Do not look up its meaning until you get to Step 10. If you feel truly drawn to do so, you can change your card at any time, but remember: the greater the challenge, the greater the potential growth. If you change your card, go back through the previous steps to get an overview of the new card before continuing where you left off.

Activity
1:1
Say the name of the card you have chosen aloud:
"I've drawn 10, the Wheel of Fortune."
"You received the Four of Pentacles."
"This card is the King of Cups."
"I got 13, Transformation, which is usually called Death."

That's all there is to this first step. Say the name of the card! It seems obvious but don't overlook doing it. Time after time, I see students look at a card in desperate silence, with no idea of what to say or where to begin.

Saying the name of the card opens your mouth and starts it moving-what I call "priming the pump" or getting the ideas flowing. You'll then find it's easier to say the next thing and the next. Naming something helps you own it and thus connects you to what you know about it. It's like a key that unlocks a gate-sometimes a floodgate-of information.

Activity
1:2

If you are new to tarot or have just purchased an unusual deck, shuffle it and then examine the cards, one by one, saying their names as you do so. This simple exercise will help familiarize you with this particular pack.

The Way of the Adept

You can continue exploring this step now or come back later, after trying out the other ways to read a tarot card.

Before beginning a reading, you should have psychically grounded yourself, paid attention to your breath, and shuffled the cards. Step 1 establishes an essential quality in a reading: a focused state. Now you bring your focus to bear on a single card and what it has to offer. Naming the card is a formal introduction to the energies before you, an acknowledgment of the players in the game.

The tone and emphasis you use when naming the card will convey a tremendous amount of information in itself. You might surprise yourself with a feeling you didn't know you had. For instance, you might greet the Empress with a sense of letdown-"Oh, the Empress"-only realizing later that you were hoping for a little more dynamic and assertive card. If reading for a querent, you can disarm their assumptions about a card by your manner of naming it. For example, you might greet a disturbing card by cheerfully exclaiming, "How exciting, you've drawn the Tower!" The task then becomes to convey what makes this card so exciting. Don't overdo it and definitely don't fake a response. In general, you are best served by being open and curious about why this particular card appears at this place and time. Always pay close attention to first impressions, both when reading for yourself and with a querent.

When reading for another, empathize with their first response to a card. Acknowledge and support their response before continuing.

Activity
1:3
Shuffle your deck. Ask the question, "Who am I?" Then turn over a card and say its name. Notice any physical response in your body as you first see the card and name it. Did you hold your breath or did you inhale, as if to take in the card? Did you move subtly back or forward? Was there any tenseness or relaxation? What was your very first sensory impression-a flush, a chill, an increased heartbeat, surprise, disappointment, satisfaction, nostalgia? Try this with two or three more cards.

Activity
1:4
Have another person draw a card for the same question. Say the name of the card. Simultaneously note the person's initial physical response. Tell the person what you observed and then ask what her first impression was. For example, Amy draws a card and I tell her, "It's the Ten of Coins." Then I say, "You moved forward slightly when you saw it and seemed to smile. What's going on?" Amy responds, "I'd like having that many coins and my own family." Was the response what you expected?

Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments, ix Introduction, xi How to Use This Book, xix step 0Stepping Out 1
Step 1Name 3
Step 2Description 7
Step 3Emotion 15
Step 4Story 25
Step 5Number 33
Step 6Mode, Suit, Element 47
Step 7Synthesis 59
Step 8Metaphor 67
Step 9Query & Snapshots 77
Step 10Meanings 89
Step 11Range 103
Step 12Modification 115
Step 13Symbols 129
Step14Dignity & Theme 147
Step 15Dialogs 163
Step 16Drawing 173
Step 17Embodiment 183
Step 18Imagination 191
Step 19Myth & Archetypes 201
Step 20Deck Comparison 219
Step 21The Possible Self 231
Step 00Full Circle 239

Appendix A: Emotions List, 243
Appendix B: Number & Rank Keywords, 245
Appendix C: Mode, Suit, Element Keywords, 251
Appendix D: Elemental Dignity Combinations, 257
Appendix E: The Empress Vision, 261
Appendix F: Archetypal Motifs Chart, 265
Appendix G: Reading Styles, 271
Appendix H: Traps & Solutions in R.I.T.E., 275
Appendix I: 21 Ways Worksheet, 283
Glossary, 285
Bibliography, 297
Index, 305

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 12, 2012

    Excellent

    As a Psychology major I was quickly impressed with her method for setting the tone for a warm and supportive reading. Not only has she studied her tarot, she has studied her psychology and communicates in a warm and inspiring manner.

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  • Posted August 18, 2011

    One of the best out there.

    There are a lot of good books on tarot. This (along with most of her books) goes above and beyond. Mary uses 21 steps to approach the tarot and providing these tools to pick and choose what works best for you. Her writing style is very pleasant and easy to read.
    Indispensible.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 22, 2006

    The BEST book on intuitive tarot to date!

    If you have ever wanted to be a more accurate and intuitive reader, this book is a future classic. It has something for people of all levels of tarot work¿it¿s a tarot workbook in a large sense, but it¿s peppered with insights on fine-tuning the art of being a reader, too. Mary Greer doesn't skimp on the exercises she puts in her books--she doesn't let you rest easy on book definitions, instead she challenges you to rely on your own intuitive/Jungian/world and personal mythology connections to make tarot reading much more of an adventure than just memorizing card meanings! Areas she covers include: sections on numerology, symbolism, creating narratives between the cards and expanded meanings for both the Court and Major Arcana cards--going far beyond any other book in their comprehensiveness. In this book she handles a lot of cards (like The Tower) with more sensitive and insightful interpretations than I¿ve seen and she includes many real life case studies-- in many cases drawn from emails she received in response to various cards and situations, so her writing is based on responding to the real life issues facing actual tarot card readers. By focusing on the intuitive mythologies of the cards, Mrs. Greer doesn¿t weigh in so heavily on individual symbols¿instead, she seeks themes that would be universal to several different kinds of tarot decks. This book also helps expand your vocabulary for explaining difficult cards to querants¿such as The Death card¿in ways that not only help them relax their defenses, but actually help them open up to see the bigger picture and get more from their readings. There is much here about how to engage a querant in a conversation about their cards, instead of a reading being only a one-way question and answer session. Mrs. Greer also brings attention to the art of reading people, their reactions, the words they use and don¿t use to give a more sensitive and finely attuned reading (instead of just advising people, you¿re helping them arrive at their own unique epiphanies¿in fact, she borrows the phrase from Freud saying that she considers herself a ¿midwife of the soul¿¿a beautiful analogy of helping people ¿give birth to their own wisdom.¿ This book can be a bit heavy for beginners since it takes a meditative approach (as in Tarot for Your Self,) but it fills in many of the little crannies left by her former books. For anyone teaching tarot, this would make an excellent textbook for an advanced tarot class as it is a book that people can grow into and, as a result, grow from. The price is unbeatable and while it¿s come out as a first edition in the quality paperback format, it¿s worth picking up a copy because it has the potential to become a classic in the field.

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