Tarot Tribe - Beyond Worlds

Today we delve into learning everything from court cards, to doubling up cards for meanings, to using timing with tarot, to wacky card meanings! Douglas Gibb is a rising tarot star, and his ultra-creative blog has caught the tarot world by storm! Doug started with Tarot when he was a teenager and took it up seriously when he was about 20 years old. He went pro several years later and has been working as a pro tarot reader ever since. Doug set up Tarot Eon as a way to help him overcome the, "Tarot is just a job" feeling that developed directly after burning out. Doug realized that he'd forgotten the reasons why he loved the Tarot. He wanted to remember! Over the years Doug has changed his mind on many different areas of Tarot - "I'm forever contradicting myself. However, I think this is a sign of a healthy attitude. I'm constantly looking to re-evaluate." Check out Doug's website and incredible, educational blog at: www.taroteon.com

Class Handout: http://www.divinewhispers.net/crone.htm Join us to learn about The Tarot of the Crone & share a mini-class on using these cards. We will also do an activity that can be applied to any deck, so bring your favorite deck & join us for some good, modern tarot fun! Ellen Lorenzi-Prince, creator of Tarot of The Crone, demonstrates a spread that should speak to our souls while at the same time teach us about the concept of the crone in our lives & the hidden gems in her deck. Ellen's deck is new vision inspired by ancient Greek art, religion & myth. The Crone is the ancient holy one. She is grandmother, witch and hag. She has been ignored, trivialized, blamed & feared, for she holds powers that others deny. Powers of time & transformation. Powers we may fear, but would do better to understand. In a magical moment 25 ago, Ellen was given her first tarot deck. It has been an integral part of her spiritual path ever since. Her own deck, Tarot of the Crone, was created as an offering to her goddess, as a path to strength during a dark time, & as a way to delve more deeply into what tarot meant to her. Since discovering power & healing through that process, Ellen's focus has shifted from reading & teaching to creation & imagination. In addition to using tarot for plot & character development in her writing, she has designed & produced the Pandora Tarot, Tarot Paper Dolls, & the upcoming Minoan Tarot. Open your decks tonight & we'll work on connecting with our souls together. Ellen's Website: www.croneways.com/tarot.html Purchase her deck at The Tarot Connection: http://tarotconnection.net or http://tinyurl.com/tarotofcrone

The hand-out for tonight's episode is at: http://www.divinewhispers.net/enrique.htm Join us to meet Enrique Enriquez, taroist and premiere blogger/interviewer, as we learn about the connections between the Marseille tarot and poetry, embodied semantics and the language of the birds. See the Marseille Deck at: http://tinyurl.com/marseilledeck Enrique Enriquez (born April 23, 1969 in Caracas, Venezuela) is a visual thinker and tarot reader. His interest in the tarot began in his early twenties, while studying Graphic Design at the Instituto de Diseño de la Fundacion Neumann, in Caracas. Between 1987 and 2001 he explored a wide array of expressive media, like painting, drawing, writing, performance art, animation and radio broadcasting, before setting on the tarot as a tool to explore the way images work and the dynamics of meaning-making. In 2000 he moved to New York, where he currently works as a tarot reader. In 2009 his ‘Gestural Keys to the Tarot’ were published as a prologue for the Jean Dodal tarot, re-edited by Jean-Claude Flornoy. Besides being an active member of the tarot international community, he is currently conducting a series of “Conversations Around and About the Tarot” with several well known authors within the tarot’s world: historians, artist, poets, readers, magicians, publishers, etc.(www.enriqueenriquez.me)The British Society of Mystery Entertainers described his work as one that “challenges many preconceptions about the tarot”. Visit Enrique's website at: www.enriqueenriquez.me His e-book can be purchased at: http://www.mindseyeview.com/marseilles-tarot.html

Join your tribe tonight as all 4 cohosts of Beyond Worlds Kibitz together about PREDICTING with tarot. Join us in the chat room or call in to join us in this community forum! Want a reading? Call in! (646) 200-0765 Curious about where our discussion will go? See (TarotEon) Douglas Gibb's excellent blog at: http://tinyurl.com/taroteon

Hand-out for the class: http://tinyurl.com/tarotdynamics1 Do you collect Tarot decks, but find it almost impossible to read a deck other than the one on which you learned? Have you been curious about learning to read the Tarot, but worry that it will be too time-consuming or complex? Have you ever taken a Tarot class only to decide that Tarot was too confusing for you? Have you tried to teach yourself the Tarot from one book after another only to become annoyed and frustrated? Tonight Anna Burroughs Cook helps you discover just how “reader-friendly” Tarot Dynamics really is. With 5 simple keywords, accompanied by explanations & definitions that apply to today's situations, Tarot Dynamics brings the Tarot into the 21st century for everyone, enabling adept readers, intermediate students and teachers to quickly and easily blend the old with the new to round out the accuracy and scope of their readings while taking the guesswork out of learning to read the Tarot for beginners. Anna Burroughs Cook has been reading & interpreting the Tarot for 30 years and has developed a wide base of clients across the United States as well as the U.K. & Ohio in the Lorain County area where she currently resides with her hubby Rick. Over the years she has appeared on television and radio programs and taught private classes including Tarot and Psychic development classes in Adult Education programs. In May, Anna delivered the first lecture of her series entitled Bringing The Tarot Into The 21st Century at the Midwest Astrologers Conference at the Doubletree Inn in Cleveland, Ohio. See her website: www.tarotdynamics.com

Hand-out for this class: http://tinyurl.com/danmike Join pro Tarot readers Dan Pelletier & Mike Hernandez for a discussion on using multiple Tarot decks. What are reasons why you might consider using more than 2 or 3 Tarot decks in general? How do differences in artwork & symbolism among various decks can open up new perspectives & meanings for the cards? Why might you use more than 1 or 2 decks even for a single reading? How can some decks lend themselves to specific types of issues? Tonight, we'll introduce you to “The Rosetta Stone Method”, a fascinating way of using multiple decks to clarify, enhance & resolve communications issues between two individuals. Dan Pelletier is the author of ‘The Process–The Way of the Tarot Reader.” He has written articles appearing in The Association for Tarot Studies Newsletter, Timeless Spirit Magazine, Tarot for Life website newsletter “Seeker’s Journey,” & has interviewed deck creators on the tarotgarden.com website library. He has been reading Tarot for himself & others for close to four decades. Dan is co-owner of The Tarot Garden, a highly respected resource for tarot decks & related information on the Internet. Mike Hernandez uses the Tarot to provide you with knowledge, Spiritual guidance, and peace of mind that can help you with issues such as relationships, travel, work, & your inner self. Mike does readings at venues such as bookstores and psychic fairs, and is available for various events and functions such as bachelorette parties, birthday parties, conventions, corporate parties, festivals, & fund raisers. Visit Dan's website at: http://tarotgarden.com Visit Mike’s website at www.JustEnoughTarot.com

Dr. Diane Powell, a Johns Hopkins-trained neuroscientist, has brilliantly reassessed the meaning and nature of consciousness by exploring research on the workings psychic phenomena. If you've ever doubted that ESP exists, listen in tonight. Dr. Powell speaks with us about scientific proof research has found that helps us understand how the human mind works and how we can better understand ESP and psychic phenomenon. Over the past few decades several well-designed and rigorously supervised experiments have documented the existence of telepathic interconnection, clairvoyance, precognition, psychokinesis, and out-of-body experiences. Building upon these experiments, Powell constructs a new theory of consciousness. Integrating concepts from physics, neuroscience, and other disciplines, she offers an insightful and intriguing explanation of ESP, and regards psychic abilities as expanding our understanding and appreciation of consciousness. ABOUT OUR GUEST: After an undergraduate education in neuroscience, Diane Powell received her medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she also completed training in medicine, neurology, and psychiatry. She obtained additional training at Queen Square and The Institute of Psychiatry, both world-renowned medical institutes in London. She has been on the faculty at Harvard Medical School, was a member of a part-time think tank on consciousness at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, CA, and the Director of Research for the John E. Mack Institute. She currently is a member of the Board of Directors of the Jean Houston Foundation. Her website is at www.dianehennacypowell.com

On 7/8/10, Donnaleigh was a honored to be a guest on the Tarot by Misha show at The Mix Talk (www.themixtalk.com). Donnaleigh & Misha discussed a professional reader's responsibilities to other professionals, discuss what a professional violation is, and what should we do when we feel we are professionally violated by someone. This is a much unexplored topic,and comments are welcome. This show is being shared through the Beyond Worlds RSS feed with the permission of Misha. Thanks, Misha!

Did you ever have a dream that left you confused? Let's learn about how to go deeper into our (or our clients') nightly dreams by using tarot! The Hand-out for tonight's class is at: http://tinyurl.com/dreamstarot Paula Chaffee Scardamalia weaves together her creative & intuitive experiences as a dream traveler, tarotist, author, & professional weaver, to show how to decipher dreams & then tell your stories. She is a book coach & creative mentor, & leads workshops, seminars, & group & individual retreats, at her home, online, & across the US. Paula began studying dreams in the early 80’s. In the early 90’s, she became part of author & dream teacher Robert Moss’s dream circle. In 1999, she taught her first workshop on shamanic dreaming & writing at the Internat'l Women’s Writing Guild, & has taught at the conference ever since. In the last 3 years she has woven together both the dream work & the tarot as powerful intuitive tools for writers. In 2004, she released her CD, The Tower in the Woods: Dreaming Your Creativity Awake, a recording of four different conscious dream journeys with drumming. Paula is the award-winning author of Weaving a Woman's Life: Spiritual Lessons from the Loom, a book she wrote after almost 15 years as a professional weaver who sold luxurious wares across the country and the globe. As a professional freelance writer, Paula has written feature articles for publications as diverse as Faery Magazine, Beliefnet.com, First30Days.com & Crafts Business Magazine. She also writes book reviews for Broadsheet, a publication for women who love to read & write about fantasy, & for Foreword Magazine. See Paula's website at: www.diviningthemuse.com

Tonight's handout is at: http://tinyurl.com/confusingcards Did you ever get a new tarot deck and suddenly freeze because some of the cards don't match your known meanings or traditional meanings of that card? Tarot luminaries Rachel Pollack and James Ricklef join us tonight to share a technique where you can get more comfortable understanding confusing cards. We'll take some cards that are sly and tough to understand, and ask tarot about what we need to know. See James' delightful technique described in his blog about the MAAT tarot: http://www.jamesricklef.com/DeckRev_MAAT.html And James also uses this technique to clarify the 4 of Cups in a self-reading that needed more insight on that particular card: http://jamesricklef.wordpress.com/2010/06/13/four-of-cups-redux/ Tonight, let's learn from two Masters while having a tarot-good time with hinky cards and wasy to unravel them! Rachel Pollack's website is: www.RachelPollack.com James Ricklef's website: www.JamesRicklef.com His Blog: www.jamesricklef.wordpress.com

BATS, Myth-busting, & The Majors, and court cards with Thalassa! Thalassa is producer of the San Francisco Bay Area Tarot Symposium – the oldest established, permanent floating Tarot Symposium in the world (actually, the longest continuouslyy produced Tarot event) & founder of the Daughters of Divination (DOD). She has been living, working & playing with the Tarot for more than 40 years (she was an infant prodigy). She is also active in the production of Pagan & Divination events across the country, & her writing has been published in a wide range of publications, including the Llewellyn Tarot Reader almanacs since their inception. She has been involved in standup comedy, choreography, and stage management, & currently teaches improvisation and physical characterisation for performers of Renaissance & Victorian festivals. Her other interests include historical recreation, needlework, and plotting global domination. Thalassa lives in San Francisco with her long-suffering husband, a herd of semi-feral dustbunnies, a sword collection, & more Tarot cards than is safe to assemble in one place. She is working on a book (on Tarot, of all things). And tonight, we talk about BATS! What is BATS? A chance to schmooze and socialize with fellow Tarot enthusiasts & BATSmaniacs. Inter-active entertainment provided by the metaphysically oriented interactive theatre troupe LILAC - Explorers of the Antique Unseen plus games, oracular operations, and other surprises! Who will be at BATS? Mary K. Greer, Rachel Pollack, Marcus Katz, Emily Carding, James Wanless, Leisa ReFalo, Ellen Lorenzi-Prince (Tarot of the Crone), and more! Learn more about BATS at http://www.dodivination.com/sf_bats

Joanna Powell Colbert ~ artist, writer & teacher of Tarot and earth-centered spirituality ~ is one of ?the most accomplished & well-loved artists in the Goddess-spirit community.? Her work has appeared in many publications since the mid-1980s, including SageWoman & Circle Magazine. The Gaian Tarot, nine years in the making, combines Joanna's love of symbolic, archetypal art with the mysteries of Mama Gaia, the natural world. The limited edition Majors-Only deck sold out before it was released in 2004. The deck is featured in US Games' Encyclopedia of Tarot, Volume 4. A mass market version of the Gaian Tarot will be published by Llewellyn Worldwide in 2011. The Collector's (Limited) Edition is currently available for order from the Gaian Tarot website. The Gaian Tarot was created during the decade Joanna lived on a small island near Bellingham, Washington. Today she lives in the woods outside Bellingham with her husband, musician Craig Olson, in a house called ? Learn more about Joanna at: www.GaianTarot.com www.GaianTarotircle.com

Have you ever wondered how you can bring greater depth and clarity to your Tarot readings? Have you struggled to understand just what is exactly going on in your card readings, and how the cards relate to the object of the reading? For the first time, a book shows how the professionals use secret techniques that take Tarot readings to new and exciting levels. It goes beyond the surface levels of the Tarot spread and explores the hidden depths. Catherine's system explains how to decode those parts of a Tarot spread that seem to make no sense and how to break out of readings that seem to have become "stuck". Using the power of the elemental symbolism of the cards combined with numerological techniques, this book cracks the "Celtic cross" spread wide open to reveal exciting new levels of insight. Join Catherine tonight in an advanced tarot class, using the Golden Dawn's "card counting" technique, and we'll talk about elemental dignities & their impact on a reading. View the cards from the reading in this episode at: http://tinyurl.com/beyondthecross Catherine was also featured on Storm Cestavani's Psychic Friends Live on 5/21/10, and you can hear that episode to learn more about Catherine by going to: http://tinyurl.com/catherinechapman Visit Catherine's website at: http://www.tarotelements.com

Let's get creative with Tarot! How can you write a story using tarot to spur the creative process? Devise a plot? Create characters and situations? Corrine Kenner specializes in bringing metaphysical subjects down to earth. She has written 12 books & edited 4 anthologies, including Tarot for Writers, Simple Fortunetelling with Tarot Cards, The Ma'at Tarot Workbook, Tarot Journaling, The Symbolist, & Crystals for Beginners. One of her books, Tall Dark Stranger: Tarot for Love & Romance, was a COVR Visionary Award finalist, marking it as one of the top 3 divination books of 2006. Corrine created the Epicurean Tarot & the Christmas Tarot, & she is currently working on a beautiful book & deck set called the Wizards Tarot. Her work has also been featured in the Encyclopedia of Tarot. Her completely downloadable Christmas Tarot at: www.christmastarot.com In her home state of Minnesota, Metro magazine called Corrine one of the best psychics in the T

Join us as we roll out our softest royal red carpet for Donnaleigh's favorite tarot artist, Ciro Marchetti! Creator of The Gilded Tarot, The Tarot of Dreams, and The Legacy of the Divine tarot decks, Ciro is a prominent leader in tarot artistry. Soon to be released is his exciting, mysterious new deck called The Oracle of Visions. Pictures of that deck can be viewed at: http://ciromarchetti.com/tarotzodiac_o.htm Ciro will be sharing with us many secrets found within his cards, what's new and coming, and he'll tease us with details on his new iPhone app for The Legacy of the Divine tarot, with revolutionary new capabilities and flexibility never before seen in an app! (See below video for more details). Learn more about Ciro's work at his website: www.CiroMarchetti.com