Learn Tarot Online with Amanda Goldston

Posted By Amanda on January 11, 2010

Hi everyone

I have just added The Astrology Spread to the Tarot Spreads section

on my main LearnTarotOnline Website.

This is a very useful spread in a couple of ways. It can be used for a simple 12 month forecast, with one card representing each of the 12 months in the coming year. It is quite a general spread.

Astrology Spread for Tarot Cards

You start at Position One and work your way around the circle.

You can also place a 13th card in the centre of the circle, if you wish, to indicate the overall tome of the whole year.

I have done a couple of shorts video with my forecast for the next 12 months, using the Astrology spread, so you can see how it works.

January to June 2010

July to December 2010

It can also be used in a more traditional Astrology sense, where each of the positions represents one of the houses in an Astrology chart. This can thn give you a good idea of what is going on in each of the 12 areas of your life, such as Money, Health, Career and Relationships.

With using ONE  card per position or house,  this is also quite a general reading.

You can, however, add further cards to give you additonal depth to your reading.

You can combine both aspects of the Astrology Spread together, so as to give you a more detailed reading on any or all of the aspects of your life over the next 12 months.

For more details on how to use this spread,

please CLICK HERE to go the Astrology Spread

on my main LearnTarotOnline website.

I hope you enjoy this spread and find it useful.

With abundant blessings.

Amanda Goldston.

Tarot Author and Coach

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Posted By Amanda on January 4, 2010

In-Depth Tarot and Intuition Reading

All the indications in Astrology,  Numerology  and Tarot seem to be pointing towards this being a fantastic year!

This is a great time to have an in-depth personal Angel and/or Tarot reading to see how 2010 is going to unfold for you personally, in both your personal and professional life.

Be aware of the new opportunities that are coming your way, so you can maximize them (and deal with any unhelpful blocks that may be getting in your way!) and understand how current challenging situations can be improved.

Readings are 60-90 minutes, by email, telephone or skype and can be recorded.

Your reading will cover all areas of your life and you can ask as many questions as you like.

I have a limited number of spaces over the next couple of weeks.

Remember, a Tarot card reading cannot tell you what to do and cannot make decisions for you. The final responsibility for your decisions and actions lies with you.

The cards can show you the general outcome of the way a situation is heading IF you not make any changes, and the cards assume that you don’t.

The good news is that, if you do not like the outcome, you can usually change it to something more desirable, by changing your own thoughts, actions and decisions.

Remember, nothing is FIXED and you have total free will.

Book your in-depth personal, intuition reading now.

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Posted By Amanda on December 20, 2009

December 2009 marks the Centenary of the first edition the Rider Waite deck of Tarot cards, which was created by the mysticist and member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Arthur E. Waite and illustrated by Pamela Coleman Smith.

US Games have produced a centenary edition of the cards, which include copies of some of Pamela Coleman Smith’s original drawings. The set looks gorgeous and I can’t wait to get hold of my copy.

Here is the flyer for the Book and Card deck set.

You can buy the set from Amazon.

That deck of cards has had a huge impact on the Tarot world and has been the benchmark for most of the huge plethora of tarot cards that have been designed and used since then.

The deck was revolutionary in its day because it was the first time that all of the cards, including those of the Minor Arcana, had been represented by different and distinct images, instead of by what were referred to as “pips”, which were symbols that in many ways were more reminiscent of playing cards.

I started out with a Rider -Waite-Smith deck in 1993. It was lovely, as it had beautiful gold edges around it. It eventually got so worn that I could no longer see the images, so I use the Universal deck now. This has softer, more pastel images, and has really lost some of the more striking colours of the Original deck.

For someone who had so much amazing talent, Pamela Coleman Smith really was not recognised in her own day and died penniless in 1951 in Cornwall (UK).  This may have been partly due to the lack of value placed on women in the Arts world in her era or a more profound unhappiness with herself.

I have been reading about her life and works and she was a fascinating person. According to one article I read, she had the ability to draw as a picture what she could hear in Music.

It appears that she may have had some considerable input from Arthur Waite into the design of the Major Arcana, however it would seem that she had a fairly free reign in designing the cards of the Minor Arcana. It also appears that the whole project was completed in the space of about 7 months in 1909.

Here are a couple of resources you might like:

Interviews with Tarot Authors about Pamela Coleman Smith

FREE Screensaver using some original 1910 Tarot Cards

Please enjoy.

With abundant blessings.

Amanda Goldston

Tarot Author and Coach

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Posted By Amanda on December 13, 2009

Hi

I have added a new section to my website which has videos on some of the different cards in the Rider Waite Deck of Tarot Cards.

For the Tarot Cards Video Page,

Please Click Here

These are part of an “Easy Learn To Read Tarot Cards” series of videos I am creating.

Currently, there are videos on the Fool, the Magician, the Lovers and the Hierophant from the Major Arcana section of the Rider Waite Tarot Deck.

There are videos on the meanings of the cards in both the upright and reversed positions, as well as videos on the colours, symbols, astrology and in some cases, the numerology of the tarot cards.

There is also a video on the combinations of the Fool and the Magician card, with both cards in the upright position, each card reversed and both cards reversed. You can really see how the meanings change in quite subtle – or not so subtle ways!

Please bookmark the page, when you get there and come back to it frequently as there will be more videos being added shortly.

Tarot Cards Video Page

Please enjoy these videos on some of the cards in the Rider Waite deck of Tarot Cards.

With abundant blessings.

Amanda Goldston

Tarot Author, Coach and Guide

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Posted By Amanda on December 9, 2009

I have created a new section on my website for  Tarot Spreads that you can use when Learning to Read Tarot Cards.

Tarot Spreads

There are two spreads there at the moment, which are the Celtic Cross Spread and the 21 Card Romany Spread.

These are  two of the most commonly used spreads for reading tarot cards and probably two of the easiest to work with, especially if you are just starting to learn how to read tarot cards.

Both can be used for getting a general overview of a situation and how it is likely to progress IF you don’t make any changes in your life.

The 21 Card Romany Spread has 7 cards for each of Past, Present and Future. The cards do not have any specific positions.

The Celtic Cross Spread consists of 10 cards and have quite defined positions. This makes it very useful for both a general overview and also for asking questions such as “What would be the outcome if I did this or I did that?”

I will be adding further spreads in due course.

For information on using these two spreads when reading your tarot cards, please CLICK HERE

I hope you  find the information on Tarot Cards Spreads useful.

With abundant blessings.
Amanda Goldston
Tarot Author, Coach and Guide

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