Tarot by Hilary

The one “can’t miss” tarot event every year is Readers Studio. This event draws so many people from all over the globe to talk tarot for three whole days… clearly something completely up my alley!

I arrived on Wednesday night, knowing that the people that opted in for the bus trip to New York City would be returning shortly after my arrival, so I checked into the hotel room and made my way back down to the lobby to prowl for my tarot peeps. I didn’t have to wait long before people showed up, but most of us had the wise idea to call it an early night to be prepared for the next day’s “Tarot and Psychology” conference.
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This is an article in a series in blog posts…. the “The Major Arcana In-Depth” series! Every few weeks I will be featuring one card of the Major Arcana, from the Fool to the World. Come take a tarot journey with me!

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To learn about the Major Arcana overall and the first card in the Major Arcana, The Fool, go here.
To learn about the Magician, go here.

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This is another post in the “Ask a Tarot Reader” series. If you have a question for me that you’d like to see featured here, please email me at tarrytowntarot@gmail.com, Subject line: “Ask a Tarot Reader”. Please specify how you would like your name to appear or if you wish to remain anonymous.

I was reading at a birthday party the other day, and besides the normal rundown of “how long have you been reading for?” that happens when people see that I’m not a wizened old bat, the second most-asked question was, “How long does it take to learn this?”

My response was, “I think it’s one of those things that takes a lifetime to master, but probably not that long to learn.”

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My card of the day pulls last week had a very similar theme. They related directly to the weather phenomena we were experiencing in New York. If you’ve been living under a rock, you are one of the few people that haven’t heard of Superstorm Sandy that tore through many places (including the Eastern Coast) a few weeks ago.

This direct correlation of card interpretations to the weather surprised me, because usually when I pull my card of the day, it corresponds to more intellectual or personal situations and not what Mother Nature is doing. Normally I select my card of the day when I’m sitting in front of the computer… Continue reading »

Book: Tarot Foundations: 31 Days to Read Tarot with Confidence
Author: Brigit Esselmont
Date of Publication: September 2012
Published by: Self-Published, E-Book Format

I would strongly encourage people to use Tarot Foundations, because it is not dissimilar to how I personally would teach the tarot. The emphasize is really focusing on your own personal connections with your deck, and using that as a jumping-off point to the rest of the more murky aspects of tarot.

What I really love about this book is that you don’t even pick up the deck on the first day (you don’t start handling a deck until Day 3)! You get clear on your motivations of WHY you are learning the tarot in the first place. This fully places what you get out of tarot in your hands… you get out of it what you put into it. If you think that telling the future is all tarot is, well then, that will be all it is in your hands. Don’t stunt the possibilities of what tarot can do for you right off the bat; be open to all the possibilities, and they will be no limit to what you can do with it. Continue reading »