Choice Centered Tarot

Every aspect of our lives, from the most easily recognizable--relationships, material success, health, security, work--to much more subtle and often seemingly fixed subjects, such as truth, wisdom, spirit, and natural laws, constantly flows through ever-changing patterns and cycles. So, if the universe is flexible and evolving, and if our understanding of it changes with each new theory or model, what is real? How can we guide ourselves through the seeming chaos of living? How do we find a center, or grounding, in the middle of it all? How can we experience this constancy of change from the exciting and positive position of choice instead of the often terrifying helplessness found in the maze of fate? In Choice Centered Relating and the Tarot, Fairfield provides easily identifiable examples of choice centered approaches to life experience. She quickly faces the fact that many events in our lives are beyond our control, or choice, and then leads us to the empowering realization that we can learn the art of conscious action and reaction. Our center of control is not outside--but within--and with deepening understanding and steady practice, we can learn to access this center and nurture its growth. From this choice centered orientation we learn how to frame relationship-related questions and interpret the guidance provided by the symbolism of the tarot. The book is filled with thought-provoking questions and guides to interpretation using a wide variety of sample layouts. Any of the excellent tarot decks currently available can be used to awaken this life-changing approach.

Everyday Tarot, first published as Choice Centered Tarot, is an accessible, thorough introduction to the tarot. Gail Fairfield focuses on the psychological meanings that can be found in the symbolism of the cards. Rather than simply predicting a future in which we have no real choice, her clear, concise interpretations provide meaningful guidelines that will lead readers to powerful insights and greater self-understanding. She makes the tarot an easy-to-use tool for intuitive information gathering, personal empowerment, and self-discovery, all keys to making great choices about life's dilemmas. Fairfield explains everything needed to become a competent card reader#8212and offers invaluable tips on choosing a deck, designing layouts, and giving readings for individuals and groups.

Choice-Centered Relating and the Tarot is an important guide for using the symbols of the tarot to make relationship decisions. Once you have learned to read the cards, using your favorite deck, you'll want to go further -- to help yourself or people you know with important decisions. In order to do that, you must know the "ins and outs" of the relationship process, whether it's the most important love relationship in your life, or how to deal with an unruly child, or even how to cope with people at work. Gail Fairfield shows you how to approach relationship analysis from a choice-centered point of view. Fairfield outlines how to ask the right questions and how to work through situations to arrive at equitable solutions. She provides examples of the choice-centered approach to life experience. Many events in life are beyond control -- or choice -- so she gives us techniques for dealing with conscious action and reaction. Our center of control is not outside -- it resides within us -- and with deepening understanding and steady practice, we can access this center and nurture its growth. A choice-centered orientation lets us ask relationship-related questions and interpret guidance provided by the symbolism of the tarot. This book is filled with practical advice, thought-provoking questions, and guides to interpretation using a wide variety of sample layouts. Using many case histories and examples, Fairfield brings the tarot to life! This book will become a valued friend and advisor, one you'll keep close at hand every time you read the cards.

This guide teaches readers how to use the tarot as an insightful psychological tool. It describes how the symbols of the cards reveal powerful insights which can be used for greater self-understanding, enabling the reader to make intuitive choices in life situations.

Every day you make choices. Some are big, some are small-but all will affect the course of your future. The good news is that you don't have to do it alone-the tarot can give you advice when you need it most! Reading the tarot for advice requires a different approach than reading for prediction. Tarot: Your Everyday Guide presents a new method of tarot interpretation. You'll learn how to use the tarot to help you make an informed decision and determine a course of action for just about any life situation. For example, in an advice reading the Two of Wands could mean you should set up your own challenges to work out goals, define issues, and work out compromises. If the King of Cups comes up in an advice reading, it means you must give encouragement, acknowledge the accomplishments of others, give rewards, and let others enjoy the limelight. Alternatively, it could mean you need to seek a mentor who has these qualities. The position of a given card within a spread, and the cards before and after it, will clarify the cards' advice for you. You can even use advice readings to augment traditional divination. If a divinatory spread shows trouble ahead, consult the cards for advice on how to avoid the situation or lessen its impact. Whether you're an experienced tarot reader or have never even shuffled the cards before, this unique and practical book will open new doors of understanding and help you integrate the rich symbolism of the tarot into your daily life. Winner of the 2001 Coalition of Visionary Resources (COVR) Award for best Self-help Book

A practical approach that provides basics for understanding astrological charts. Shows you how to utilize astrology to make the most of your life and gives clear examples of in-depth, choice-centered interpretations of aspects, houses, planets, and signs.Whether you are a novice, knowledgeable student, or professional in the field, you will find this book useful.

From the author of the Green Witchcraft series comes a unique approach to using the Tarot as a spiritual tool for channeling energy and communicating with the Divine. Utilizing themes and images from Natural Witchcraft, this book takes readers step by step through the Major and Minor arcana. Illustrations.