My List of Tarot Articles
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Deck Reviews
Layouts

"Yo Den, what's with the bird?"
Granny's Hanky and her & my deck pictures! new!
My B.P.Grimaud "Le Jeu des Peintres" Deck

Tarot Glossary
A Beginner's Article #1
A Beginner Article #2
Mailing List Etiquette
Email / Letter Etiquette
How to Choose a Deck
Shuffling Along
Journal Keeping
Yearly Letters & Cards : new!
Keywords
Beginner Pips
Beginner Courts
Beginner Majors
Court Cards Family Relations : new!
Why do different books have different meanings
     for each deck?
Why pull a daily/weekly card?
What are the Significator and the Clarifier?
Reading for Yourself
Reversals
Reversals : Required Knowledge
Also see Q&A #65
Numerology Thoughts
Basic Numbers & Elements
My More Advanced Number Notes : new!
...the above are the misc study notes that I used!
Esoteric / Exoteric
Angels & Tarot : new!
Yes/No Questions
Three Card Layouts
Confusing Layout Answers
Two different answers to one question
Key Interpretation According to Placement
That Old Stand-By - The Keltic Kross
Ethical Thoughts to Consider
Ethical Major Arcana (exercises)
Tetramorph!
Adding Up the Numbers!
Tarot in Numbered Groups
The Hebrew Letter Story
Interesting Opposites

Confusing Correspondences!
Correspondences
Numerology, Birth Cards & Tarot
Elemental Chat
The Elements... Revisited!
Runes & Tarot

The Tree of Life : beginners.
Tree of Life Competency
Alternative Tree of Life Systems :
Astrology Wheel
Chakra Body
Color Rainbow
Yggdrasil

Alchemy and Tarot
Timing It
Timing It Revisited
'General' and/or 'Specific' Answers
Symbol's Chat
Tarot Scrying - Advanced
Path Working
Israel Regardie
Michael Poe
Tarot Counseling Conversation
Native Deck discussion...
Book / Software : Review Page
Thoth/Waite deck comparison
Advice on How to Write Reviews
Recommended Reading
The Voracious Reader
Make your own Spread Cloth
Make your own 5-sided Tarot box.
Make your own 4-sided Tarot box.
XIII. Death and Friday the 13th
The 13. Death Key
Predicting Physical Death
Divining with Playing Cards
The 'Challenged' Reader
What makes a Grandmaster?
Life, Wisdom, & Tarot : just thoughts.

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Den's Individual Key Entries
The Church Of Tarot Section
Founded Nov. 2000
All Rights Reserved to the Individual Owners.
Tarot Sermons for 2012
Index of Keys Page
0 Fool
1 Magician
2 High Priestess
3 Empress
4 Emperor
5 Hierophant
6 Lovers
7 Chariot
8 Strength
9 Hermit
10 Wheel
11 Justice
12 Hanged Man
13 Death
14 Temperance
15 Devil
16 Tower
17 Star
18 Moon
19 Sun
20 Judgement
21 World

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What I Learned in 2011 : Donnaleigh's blog
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Editorial by DenElder : August 2001
Going Public...  updated, April 2011
I am boycotting Janet Boyer
Theft!  : new!
My Opinion on Internet Plagiarism!
Secure Your Domain Names : new!

The following answers are my own opinion.
Please take only what works for your Self --

  1) How do I pick my deck?
  2) What do I do now?
  3) What books should I get to read first?
  4) Why do you recommend starting with the Celtic Cross Layout...
  5) Why do the cards lie to me? Why don’t my cards ever tell me what is really going to happen?
                                                  These stupid cards are never right!
  6) What about becoming a professional Reader?
  7) Can you Read for somebody who does not believe in Tarot and be accurate?
  8) Do I have to learn large, complex spreads?
  9) What about the person, with concerns that Tarot is connected to the 'Devil'?
10) Why do different people give different meanings for the cards?

11) How do you say "Thoth"?
12) What is your opinion of cutting off the edges of your cards?
13) Do you recommend buying tarot related objects from auctions?
14) I am confused about the religion of Tarot, can you shed any light on this religion?
15) What is the difference between Judgement and Judgment?
16) There is a person who promotes that one sometimes has to change the Querent's question...
                                  what is your opinion on this and why?
17) What about the person who sits down for a reading but has no question?
18) I like my deck but the cards are too big for me to shuffle, do you have any advice for me?
19) My question concerns the various Tarot Lists on the Internet, are there any nice ones
                                         where people aren't always mean and nasty with each other?
20) What does it really take to seriously approach Tarot 'greatness' of ability and knowledge?

21) Is it worth joining --- ?
22) Is certification worth the high costs? /// And the question that should be asked!
23) I heard it is illegal to practice Tarot in Canada, do you know anything about this?
24) What are your most recommended Tarot sites for a beginner?
25)  What's that squiggle symbol on the Rider Waite cards?
26) I have a Customer with a difficult problem, how on earth do I fix (this)?
27) I love the Thoth deck but...
28) Just how small are your hands, Den?
29) The 'challenged' Reader?
30) Tiny little decks? Can you really use them?

31) When reading for a country or a government, what do you think are the main points to consider?
32) Do you know anything about Tarot agents?
33) What is the upside down M on the Ace of Cups? ...and other ramblings on this key's symbolism.
34) Why did you start "World Tarot Day"?
35) What is the Plato Cycle?
36) Why are you so hung-up on ethics?
37) Would you touch on 'timing' with a layout again?
38) Why do we have to be so careful... when talking to people about Tarot or any other metaphysical topic?
39) What do I do when a card just won't become "clear" to me?
40) Do you recommend posting your ethics publically?

41) If you could give one piece of advice to a Phone Reader, what would it be?
42) Some years back you mentioned about using the 900- lines to demonstrate cold readings
                                                         to your students, would you share that thought again?
43) You often tout just Rapping a deck to clear it, but as a Magician, do you have other methods that are just as easy?
44) Can you really get anything out of just two cards?
45) I am into Crystal Magick and am just now getting involved with Tarot, would you recommend
                                             those minerals suitable for this?
46) Is it ethical to do a reading on a young child or even a child that's hasn't been born yet?
47) As I continue to practice and learn more about tarot, it seems that my interpretations and
                                             psychic input are getting more complicated...
48) How do you handle doing readings for close friends and relatives?
49) Would you speak about another 'scary' card for people, the 10 of Swords?
50) Why do you prefer and recommend the "Universal Waite" deck, instead of the usual "Rider-Waite"?

The following answers are my own opinion.
Please take only what works for your Self --

51) How do you tell if the interpretation is coming from you or the cards?
52) I bought a new deck and totally disagree with the author's meanings...
53) How do I know if I'm doing this right?
54) Why start with "keywords"?
55) I was raised a strict  >fill in the blank<  how does a person ever completely get over the bias
                                       that Tarot is a "tool of the devil"?
56) Can children be taught to read Tarot and should they?
57) I have the recommended books and your articles for teaching Qabalah to my students
                                                       but they are still having trouble "getting it"...  help!
58) I caught you once telling of a method of psychically using cards by holding them in your hands... would you repeat that?
59) What do you do with your worn out decks?
60) Tell again about "Granny & the Devil"?

61) How do you maintain your own energy separate from your customers...
62) What are your favorite decks and spreads?
63) Can physical death be predicted?
64) I think I'm doing something wrong, every time I do a reading for >this situation< the same cards
                                                            keep appearing over and over, with only slight changes.
65) I know you are a big proponent for teaching "reversals" but why? Plus thoughts on the History of using reversals.
66) How can I read for myself objectively?
67) Which cards warn of which illnesses and accidents?
68) Could you advice me on learning to read with concerns to relationships?
69) Is there a certain direction or rule we should follow when placing cards in a larger layout?
70) Are you suppose to dim the lights at group meetings? Why?

71) What is the difference between the "The Path of the Lightening Flash"... and "The Path of the Serpent"?
72) Some Readers have initials after their names, what are those?
73) Your favorite tarot poem?
74) Do you mind repeatedly answering so many beginner questions?
75) I noticed [this person] is no longer listed among your recommended authors...
76) What happened to your website? You said it was hacked, what happened?
77) There is this person bragging about their ability but nobody else seems to respect them?
78) Can you explain about the "Mother" cards?
79) You have mentioned 'Stage' cards, please explain further?
80) Does anybody know the real history of tarot cards?

81) Who are the top 10 people in tarot that you respect and recommend?
82) What are your top 10 favorite decks?
83) Would you speak about the two towers marked with an 'B' and a 'J' on the #2 High Priestess card?
84) How do I ask the right questions for a reading?
85) Could you address the exercise about Emotions and Tarot?  new!
86) Legal and moral obligation cards?  new!
87) The Watcher Exercise?  new!
88) The use of 'mottos'?  new!
89) What key questions should I ask when I read for myself?  new!
90) Learning our cards in a trio?  new!

91) Why does 7 Wands wear a shoe / boot ?  new!
92) Generalities and comparing cards?  new!
93) Why does the Fool step off the cliff?  new!
94) What is a Consultant?  new!
95) Jubilee numbers and the #49?  new!
96) The ruling majors in legal and moral issues?  new!
97) Why are you so hung up on the Hermit's lantern?  new!
98) What are tarot's subliminal messages?  new!
99) Can tarot be used for eschatology?  new!
100) Could you speak on the Blank Card?  new!

The following answers are my own opinion.
Please take only what works for your Self --

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