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Crystals for Tarot reading.

13/3/2022

Crystal often provide a subtle influence on your reading. They may create a more positive, intuitive, grounded, and calming space for reading. Crystals on your reading table can provide subtle energies that benefit your reading. They may create a more positive, intuitive, grounded and calming space for you and your client.

Clear Quartz.
Clear quartz is a good all-purpose crystal. When placed near your Tarot reading, it clears unwanted energies. Held in your hand while reading amplifies your energy and intention, helps to sharpen your intuitive and psychic abilities, and encourages clarity and focus. Use it to cleanse your Tarot cards by placing it on top of your deck and use it to cleanse your other crystals’.

Rose Quartz
Rose quartz crystal is a lovely soft pink in colour. If present on your reading table, it can create a soothing energy for all relationship readings, including grief or self-worth and issues of valuing the self. Rose quartz can help people better relate to their heart chakra and become more emotionally receptive.

Spirit Quartz
When reading, this crystal can help the reader to meditate, clear their chakras and connect with spiritual guidance. It assists clients to release fear, feel supported and to take a fuller perspective of personal issues.

Celestite
Celestite has a very calming and spiritual energy. The vibration of celestite increases your intuition and can help connect you to connect to your guides and Angels.

Amethyst
Amethyst is often thought of as the crystal offering the highest energy for connecting you to Spirit. It is present in reading room tables and in places of healing. Amethyst helps to enhance intuition, visualisation and being heart-centred.

Black Tourmaline
Creates positive feelings and protects against negative energies, creating a grounded atmosphere in a reading. Placed on the reading table this crystal helps to create a space that feels safe, grounded and calm.

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Tarot Study Group 2022 March Update

10/3/2022

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Hello Everyone,
Our 2022 Tarot Course is now full. Thank you!

The group is small by design. This allows for plentiful class interaction and discussion and, promises to make our Tarot Course engaging, entertaining, personally relevant and interesting. I look forward to meeting everyone and to sharing and growing our ability to intuit, understand and interpret Tarot through 'live-group' practice and study.

St John's Hall - preparation of table settings for Tarot Course 2022

Complacency and communicable disease are not good bed-fellows, and can affect not only our well-being, but our ability to relax around others and to fully participate in pleasurable group activities.

Fortunately, St John’s Hall is huge, light-filled and airy, so easily lends itself to physical distancing that complies with current Covid guidelines. Sue and I have been arranging the table-seating in the hall to ensure our Course participants are as comfortable and safe as possible.

A reminder folks, as per official Covid protocols, all 2022 Course participants must be double-vaccinated, and be prepared to show proof of vaccination if requested by an appropriate authority. Please bring your own face-masks, which are to be worn when not seated and, regular hand-sanitising is recommended.

Items each participant needs to bring to the classes are - a 98+ page exercise book which will be used as your Daily Tarot Journal (spiral spine is better); crystal/s (of choice) and/or a battery-operated candle (no live flames please); a tablecloth (Bargain City have some nice ones); a water bottle and mug/cup for personal use, during coffee/tea breaks.

A 98+ page exercise book can will be used as your Daily Tarot Journal.

Please bring a water bottle and a mug/cup for personal use during coffee/tea breaks. Tea, coffee, milk, and biscuits are provided by St John’s administration.

My very best wishes and I look forward to meeting all of you soon.
Martha.

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Tarot Course 2022 - Update

17/2/2022

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One remaining booking available for the St John's Tarot Course, 2022.

Greetings!

Thank you to all Tarot enthusiasts who have booked their place in this Course. We now have one remaining spot (booking place) in this 2022 Course.

I am truly looking forward to meeting all of you for what promises to be a fun, unique and wonderfully engaging program of shared Tarot learning and practice.

As we know Tarot can be used for self-knowing, self-care, personal growth and wisdom. Many of you may also use this Course as a springboard to enhance your intuitive and reading abilities and/or for broadening and deepening your own and diverse professional practices in guiding and healing others.

As is my own experience, having a personal and professional Tarot practice undertaken with joy, empathy, compassion and good intentions can help to make the world a kinder, more conscious and happier place.

Example of The Rider Waite Tarot (US Games) beautifully illustrated by Pamela Colman-Smith.

The Tarot deck we will be using throughout the Course will be The Rider-Waite (US Games) Tarot.

Tarot decks can be purchased in various qualities and prices. The Rider-Waite deck can be bought online for very little cost if you wish to have a 'starter' pack and/or a deck for 'learning with'. Tarot decks and be purchased locally. If you have the opportunity, and feel safe, it's always lovely to visit a local market or bookstore (e.g. Theosophical Society, South Terrace). This gives you the chance to browse the slightly different versions of the Pamela Colman-Smith's original illustrations (as in The Rider-Waite Tarot).

A Tarot journal or diary

Spirax A4 Lecture Book No. 906 140 Page

Keeping a journal is a great tool for both personal and shared Tarot reading practice. It is, importantly, a super way to increase your intuitive and instinctive understanding of the cards.

We will be using a Tarot journal (or diary) to note and discuss the meanings and experiences you have derived from your personal daily Tarot card draw. The daily draw is a home-based practice. Similarly, I will be keeping the group's Tarot journal for our shared fortnightly Tarot card draw. (We'll see how many synchronicities occur!)

Exercise books are sufficient for this purpose. From experience, I do suggest you purchase a larger exercise book with a spiral spine (about $4.50); these are available at most supermarkets, newsagencies and large variety stores.

On the business side of things ...

The Tarot course will commence on 26 March 2022 as planned. It will be run from the very spacious and airy Hall, at 271 Carriington Street, Adelaide.

Seating will comply with current Covid restrictions for internal numbers and spacing. Each participant will have their own table to work from; so, please feel free to bring your crystals, a battery-operated candle (only) and a table-cloth. Masks must be worn at all times unless seated at your own table. There will be scheduled tea-and-toilet breaks throughout the afternoon. Coffee and tea are available from the kitchen and it is advisable to bring bottled water for use at your table during sessions, as open liquid cups and containers are not permitted in the main hall. We request that hand-sanitisers be used before and after handing public property and visiting the facilities.

Payment of the deposit invoice secures your place on the Course. Course bookings will be taken until Feb 27th. An invoice for final payment will be emailed to all those who have booked/paid the booking deposit. Payment for the full Course is due on the 7th March. Course places will be filled sequentially, until the Course is full on the basis of the receipt of a full and/or final payment.

If at any time prior to Course commencement you wish to book a place and we have reached our maximum number (of fully paid Course participants) you may request to go on the waiting list. You will be contacted by email with a deposit/full feel invoice when a placement becomes available.

Thank you once again for your interest and enthusiasm in being part of a fresh and new local study and practice Tarot group. Those who are currently booked, please feel free to email me with any questions or concerns. Your questions will be of importance to the whole group.

For all new inquiries, please Contact me.

Always my best wishes,
Martha Adams.

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Life in 2022? – A Tarot perspective.

5/2/2022

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Tarot Year 2022 - Significant Number 2

2022 (2+0+2+2=6) is, symbolically and energetically, a Number ‘6’ Year. However, the repetition of the number 2 in the Year Date is interesting. The significances implied by the number 2 and the number 6 can be very complimentary.

Looking at the 'values’ each digit in the date 2022 (2+0+2+2=6), The High Priestess II gives a prevalence and significance to the number two, tripling the importance of this energy in our lives for the coming year. (In a later post, we will also look at the influence of The Fool 0 which offers the vibration of the number 'zero'. A new adventure.)

The energy of the number 2, of The High Priestess II, is highly feminine and fluid. Like water it can be as deep as the deepest ocean; possessing the strange, unique and unfamiliar. It can erode and change the most resistant landscapes. The endless sky, is the space of superconsciousness' perhaps collective consciousness. And, as we live with these dynamic, complementary and contradictory influences, in the essence of pro-creation, we must we weave our own tapestry of life.

The High Priestess II signifies that we are born with powerful intuition, insight and the ability to feel subtle energies instinctively and empathically.

In The High Priestess II we understand that we are both eternal and ‘unfinished’. Our lives follow the phases of the moon. Events in our life wax and wane under the natural conditions of Earth's duality – of night and day, light and dark, yin and yang, male and female, etc. This continuing change brings growth, fullness and completion and, decline. It forms the essence and value of the experiences of living. The High Priestess demonstrates the capacity for deep feeling and inner guidance as the qualities and attributes we have 'been born with' and remain continually at our disposal throughout our own ‘Fool’s Journey’.

Similarly, the decisions and choices we make today - individually and collectively - will always influence our future. Tarot Justice II (1 + 1 = 2) symbolises the universal 'Law of Karma' or the law of ‘cause and effect’. Justice II reminds us to strive for all that is honest, fair and just. Justice II makes her decisions rationally and factually and, by taking a completely balanced and unbiased approach to all aspects or sides of any situation.

Justice II represents lawful and truthful acts. She may situations that require some sort of legal or contractual scrutiny or arbitration. Justice II decisions may result in recommendations that are made on the basis of actual, factual and material information. So, when Justice II arrives on the scene, make sure that you have "dotted your i's and crossed your t's" as there is no room for sloppiness in the detail.

Justice II is one of the four Tarot Virtues and suggests transformation of the self. Additionally, we see that the veil raised behind Justice II (The Rider-Waite-Smith) is purple, which is the colour of mysticism, magic and wisdom. Purple signifies our third eye or 7th Chakra, which contains all the qualities of the other 6 Chakras. The 7th Chakra connects us to our inner-seeing, intuition and psychic abilities. If we are prepared to follow her guidance Justice II can help us to perceive our selves and the world around us, in wholly new ways.

The Tarot implies that the Year 2022 holds the potential for new beginnings and events that are unusual, exciting and historic. Tarot suggests that 2022 may quite possibly be an adventure of a lifetime!

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New Tarot Course in Adelaide, March - June, 2022

15/1/2022

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Tarot Study and Practice in 2022

At St. John’s Church Hall, Carrington Street, Adelaide I will be presenting an interactive and thought-provoking (and fun) 16-hour Tarot course that will take you, step-by-step, through The Major Arcana and The Minor Arcana. The course consists of 8 fortnightly Tarot workshops will be presented on Saturday afternoons commencing on the 26 March and finishing on June 25, 2022.

This course is designed for those wishing to learn Tarot, to revitalise their knowledge and understanding of the 78 Arcanas. The learning Tarot is shared practice reading Tarot cards and simple spreads with like-minded other Tarot-enthusiasts.

About this Course.

The 16-hour Tarot Course will be delivered over seven fortnightly workshops on Saturday afternoons.

The study-practice group will invite a minimum of 12 and a maximum of 16 participants. The Tarot course will be be presented as closed study group. This ensures group members can together, develop knowledge and skill in Tarot.

Learning synergy, communication and friendship are the core elements of 2022; a 6 Year.
These characteristics are typical in small number and progressive classes. Smaller learning groups present a shared learning experience that offers maximum learning and practice benefits to every participant.

The course explores and examines both the traditional card meanings introduces regular journaling and discussion activities for heightening your psychic and intuitive abilities.

Each workshop will be audio-recorded for any participant who becomes unwell or is otherwise unable to attend on a particular day. Course participants will learn and practice in a Covid-safe environment and will need to observe standard Covid safety practices.

Participant's will have separate tables and the organisation of the tables and seating in hall will ensure participants maintain regulation distancing – according to Covid safety regulations – from the other participants. Participants are encouraged to wear masks and must be vaccinated. All participants and are required to exercise personal Covid safety practices and standards.

Why learn Tarot?

We might learn and read Tarot for many reasons. Many people work with Tarot for their own personal growth, spiritual development and for advancing their intuition. Tarot increases our ability to be creative, self-reflective (mindful), improving self-awareness and our ability to make well-informed and wise decisions.

As a Tarot practitioner we offer Tarot clarity, insights, inspiration, and guidance that can help to others to find the answers they seek in their relationships, matters of work and business, abundance and well-being, and home and family.

Tarot can bring a clearer understanding of the past and present to suggest possibilities for future happiness. When Tarot is read with an open mind, a quest for truth and good intentions it can help us, and assist us to guide others, to more satisfying and rewarding lives.

About your Tarot tutor.

Hi, I’m Martha.

I have been 'reading cards' since the 1970's, and have been a fervent Tarotist for over 40 years. I find Tarot, exciting, challenging, fun and a great social activity. It has become very much a part of who I am.

I believe that however accurate a reading maybe, every person has the capacity and the right to exercise their free-will. The Tarot shows how to make the most of what you've got and to reduce or eliminate what you don't. With guidance and clarity, unfortunate or difficult situations can be altered, settled or changed; sometimes with time and effort and sometimes very simply, easily and quickly. Every person and their situation will be different. Ethical Tarot practice holds firmly to the core principles of freedom and personal choice.

In 2006, I decided that I would read and teach Tarot, professionally. My 'working' background, experience and qualifications of 40 years is in personnel management, staff training and development, personal counselling, and vocational and business counselling and education.

Course Fee and Payments.

The complete 16-hour course is $160 per person and represents great value.
An invoice for a non-refundable deposit of $60 will be sent when a booking is made to hold your place in the course.
Bookings for this course will be taken until 26 February 2022.
Final payments are due by 7 March, 2022.

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Let's just do a brief recap 2021 (2+0+2+1 = 5) ... a 5 Year.

12/1/2022

Last year, 2021 (2+0+2+1) was a real doozy.
2021 was a year that certainly offered enormous challenges to our collective social and cultural sensibilities of stability, tradition and predictability as The Hierophant V's received a jolly good shake! Similarly, as an international community, all of us seemed to experience personal challenges to finding our Temperance XIV; to centre ourselves amid the challenges and changes with introspection, patience, and optimism.

2021 appeared to highlight the combined influences in The Minor Arcana which directly challenged both our inner and outer authorities, illustrated by The Major Arcana’s V and XIV. What we saw playing out in 2021, in considerable force, were the combined 5 energies of The Minor Arcana. These are those of constant conflict and lack of consistent focus and agreement (V Wands); an overwhelming sense of personal loss and doubt (V Cups); of isolation, a lack of health and comfort (V Pentacles) and political games and power-struggles (V Swords). The Minor’s played out in the lives of both individuals and groups.

The 5 energies of 2021 certainly impacted everyone. Everywhere around our beautiful but hurting Planet, lifestyles and lives have been irrevocably changed. In Temperance XIV, there is however a sense that people everywhere are hoping for the new cycles and rapid changes demonstrated by the 5 energies, will quickly pass. And will manifest into some sort of new order in which we can all regain freedom of choice, unity in decision-making, peace, and inspiration.

2022, is a 6 Year and will certainly bring new opportunities and challenges that bring the energies for positive adjustments through collective and personal communication and resilience.

Next ... Let's move along now, to 2022 ...

The Medieval Wheel of Fate and Fortune. The Wheel of Fortune X Part 1.

4/8/2021

In medieval myths and tales the Wheel became an analogy for the ‘shadowy and veiled’ qualities Fate and Fortune, which can elevate buffoons, advance crooks, sadden the benevolent and cast down thebrave. Fickle Fortunae is the goddess who turns the Wheel. Following medieval convention, Fortunae is often drawn larger than life to demonstrate her greater significance and importance over human beings. Illustrations of Fortunae are often designed to emphasize duality and instability of Fate. The goddess could be drawn with two faces either side-by-side, or back-to-back – and usually with one black, one white, one smiling and one scowling. Similarly her clothing may be divided between dark and light, ragged and opulent[1].

[1] Richard Leighton Greene. s.v. "Fortune." Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Vol.3, Joseph R Strayer, ed. New York: Scribner's, 1983. pp. 145-147.

A position on top of The Wheel signified opportunities for emerging circumstances of personal abundance and mastery, and for wellbeing, happiness and leisure. A position on a down-turning Wheel represented increasing difficulties. With the descent to the bottom, the hapless individual encountered pain and misfortune.

In medieval illustrations of Fortunae’s Wheel, the rim typically depicted four human figures which identified the four "stages" of the self. The figure rising on the left is usually depicts the concept ‘I shall reign’, the figure sitting at the top is often crowned and infers ‘I reign’. The figure on the right of the rim is descending signifying ‘I have reigned’; and the struggling figure at the lowest point of the Wheel means ‘I have no kingdom’[1]. As goddess Fortuna turned the Wheel the unhappy figure clutching at the bottom of The Wheel may once again ascend their position and circumstance in life, and all would be well [2]. Sometimes, however, the unfortunate soul in this lowest position of the Wheel appeared to have been thrown outward or crushed under Wheel’s size and weight.
[1] https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/themes_motifs/fortune/iconography.php
[2] https://journeys.dartmouth.edu/exploratoryshakespeare/2015/07/14/fortuna-the-wheel-of-fortune/

As a Tarot trump card, The Wheel of Fortune X appeared in Italy around 1440. It is believed to symbolise ‘Rota Fortunae’[1] (Latin for wheel of fate) representing the turbulent and cyclical nature of fate; and the prosperity and adversity that can befall any person, at the turn of Fortunae's Wheel of Fortune.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rota_Fortunae

Martha Adams © 2021-8-4

Tarot Email Reading: The Lovers VI, The Hermit IX, The Hierophant

7/12/2018

Hi Aly,
I have received your question about concerns regarding your general well-being which is explored in the following 3(+1) card tarot reading.

Q: I am feeling generally unwell and wondered if I have a long term physical problem.

As you know, tarot is not a diagnostic tool but can provide you with information and insight to what the energies and influences surrounding your issue could be; and the steps you might take to improve, better understand or resolve your matter.

As you can see below, your layout of 3(+1) cards consists of all Major Arcana cards drawn from the full deck of 78 cards. The question that you have asked here is an important one and very deserving of your immediate attention.

Visual Oracle Ultimate Edition Lite Lifetime License issued to Martha Adams 16.3.28 16.jpg The Tower XVI 9.jpg The Hermit IX. 6.jpg The Lovers VI. 5.jpg The Hierophant

A: The first card drawn is The Lovers VI Reversed.

The tarot’s simple answer to your question is: ‘No’.
Additionally, the tarot layout suggests only that what it is you are experiencing is not necessarily a long-term or solely a physical problem.

6.jpg Visual Oracle Ultimate Edition Lite Lifetime License issued to Martha Adams 16.3.28 The Lovers VI

Card #1: The Lovers VI Reversed.

This Major Arcana describes the importance of making good, healthy choices for yourself. As this card is reversed, it suggests that you are ignoring to your higher instincts on a matter of some importance to you; and that, you are not listening to, feeling or sensing the wisdom of your own guides and angels.

The Lovers VI reversed indicates also, you are conflicted about some matter and the reality, or true nature, of your situation remains clouded or obscured by either too much sentiment or an over-reliance on logic.

The Lovers VI reversed is therefore a timely warning, and a caution, that there’s a battle ‘going on’ inside of you and, because you are ‘divided on an issue’, the decisions you are making, or trying to make, could well be undermining your sense of general well-being.

5.jpg Visual Oracle Ultimate Edition Lite Lifetime License issued to Martha Adams 16.3.28 The Hierophant V

Card #2: The Hermit IX.

This Major Arcana is a card of self-knowing and self-examination. We see in the layout that The Hermit IX is literally ‘turning his back’ on The Lovers VI reversed, and the circumstances that this card represents. His position in the layout (to the left of The Lovers VI reversed) proposes that, to make an informed and insightful decision on-this-matter, you might remove yourself from all external distractions in order to consider your own hopes, aspirations and goals.

The Hermit IX signifies that now is the time for serious, quiet, 'personal reflection'; before deciding on your next step. And, his appearance in the layout suggests that you really do know what is, and what is not, a good choice for you.

16.jpg Visual Oracle Ultimate Edition Lite Lifetime License issued to Martha Adams 16.3.28 The Tower XVI

The Tower XVI Reversed was drawn to provide our reading with a little more information regarding nature of The Lovers VI reversed. The Tower XVI when upright is a card that signifies uncontrollable disruption. While it symbolises a clearing away of something that is against your soul's or higher purpose it does, too often, represent a sudden, and often traumatic, twist of events or turn of fortune.

Fortunately, however, when The Tower XVI is reversed it indicates that harm and/or losses can be minimized or avoided; it is a sign that misfortune can be prevented if you are aware of the dangers of a building your future on flawed beliefs, values, knowledge or practices.

5.jpg Visual Oracle Ultimate Edition Lite Lifetime License issued to Martha Adams 16.3.28 The Hierophant V

Card #3: The Hierophant V.

The Hierophant V represents cultural traditions and institutions, including those vested in religion, health and education. This card is the teacher, instructor, advisor and guide who helps us to greater knowledge and understanding of social norms, expectations and structures. The Hierophant V informs us ‘how the system works’. He represents the ‘right way’ or the ‘right path’ or the ‘right action’.

The position of The Hierophant V in the layout, signifies that help is available to you to make the right, best or most appropriate decisions and choices. And, that you might seek out this advice for your own benefit and peace of mind.

Overall:

Looking at the layout of your cards as a whole, I sense that you are quite 'cutting yourself in two' over an issue that lies close to your heart. This current dilemma is making it difficult for you to achieve the level of inner-peace and life balance necessary for your wellbeing.

Aly, to regain your sense of wellbeing, this layout indicates the importance of first and fore-mostly stepping back from this situation; and to review and take into consideration who you are and what you really want from and for yourself, and for your future.

all my best,
Martha.