![]() ![]() The Five Components of Circumstance is a cosmological theory based on the Chinese maxim that one’s fortune is based on five factors: 1) fate, 2) luck, 3) feng shui, 4) karma, and 5) education. I first wrote about this course that I put together here. SELF-GUIDED INTERMEDIATE TAROT COURSE: INTEGRATING THE FIVE COMPONENTS OF CIRCUMSTANCE. Make sure your printer settings are set to: “Print on Both Sides” and “Flip on Short Edge.” Otherwise the front and back alignment of the flash cards will be wrong. Don’t use my default card meanings because even I don’t use them: I like to read intuitively. In fact, I strongly recommend doing that. Since it’s a Microsoft Word document, you can delete the default card meanings I’ve put in and use your own. Print them double-sided, cut into quarters, and voila! you’ve got flashcards. I’ve created an easy to print and cut template of flash cards. Nonetheless, the beginner student has to start somewhere. You can’t just memorize a bunch of key words or phrases, apply them pedantically to a spread of cards, and think that is called tarot reading. I hesitate to provide this because I don’t want you to get too mechanical with tarot study. RIDER-WAITE-SMITH FLASH CARDS FOR ROTE STUDY. Yoav Ben-Dov, those using the Rider-Waite-Smith tradition can still follow along with ease. Although it is keyed to the CBD Tarot de Marseille by Dr. This tutorial explains what elemental dignities are and how to apply them in readings. Elemental dignities is the chemistry of tarot. That’s when you’ll know you have truly absorbed the lessons of the tarot.ĮLEMENTAL DIGNITIES. Then one day the advanced practitioner will set all that aside and return full circle to keywords. ![]() As you develop in your studies, keywords will be fleshed out into statements, affirmations, thoughts, metaphor analysis, astrological correspondences, other cultural, ideological, theosophical, or semiotic references, elemental dignities, etc. What’s interesting is the advanced practitioner will circle back to tarot keywords as well. Beginners should study with keywords, as that makes the tarot a whole lot easier to digest. No, delete and put in what intuitively feels right to you. Do the keywords given on the worksheet make sense to you given the impression of the card? Yes, then keep the keyword. Compare them to the keywords on this worksheet. ![]() As you study a card, note your impressions and jot down a few keywords. If you are brand spanking new to tarot, start with an ordered deck (i.e., Majors, Minors, chronological) and study each card one by one. A table of tarot keywords, integrated from Waite’s Pictorial Key, Crowley’s Book of Thoth, the writings of MacGregor Mathers, and Paul Foster Case. Then you won’t need to consult any other reference but this: your very own customized glossary to use for future reference. As you progress in your studies, fill in this worksheet with your own personal card meanings. The files are compatible with Microsoft Word 2007 or later.īLANK FORM: YOUR OWN GLOSSARY OF CARD MEANINGS, UPRIGHT AND REVERSED. This worksheet is blank, but for images of the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot cards. That said, I would argue that the study guides (which are also free!) are much better at giving you some structure to your studies.Ĭlick on the titles in all-caps to download the worksheets. They’re provided here for free because I want you to learn tarot and I want to do what I can to facilitate that learning. The below downloads are more general and pre-date the publication of Holistic. Click the above for free Holistic Tarot study guides and supplements.Įven if you don’t follow the independent study courses or get Holistic Tarot, there is a ton of information, reference tables, how-to guides, and intuition-developing exercises and ruminations in those free downloadable study guides that can help you in your tarot path. Supplements and worksheets there are keyed specifically to the assignments from the study guides and the book. It’s based on the Rider-Waite-Smith system and there’s three different courses: Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced. ![]() If you’re serious about independent study, then consider ordering my book, Holistic Tarot and downloading the free independent study guides over at Holistic Tarot Study Guides. FREE WORKSHEETS FOR DOWNLOAD, USE, & STUDY ![]()
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