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What are the Real Origins of Tarot Cards and Readings?

By admin On June 30, 2008 No Comments
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ds consist of twenty-one trump cards, the fool and one extra face card for every other suit in the deck. Various areas in Europe use the deck to play games with organized rules, but in English-speaking countries, tarot cards find their utility in the field of fortune telling.

The tarot cards began along with other cards in the 14th century. Historians theorize that they were created in Islamic countries, but the initial historical information in the English-speaking world is the Christian area of Bern, Switzerland. The older tarot cards contained only sixteen trump cards as compared to twenty-one in modern decks.

A deck of tarot cards, as they are used today, contains 78 cards, all of which contain different, meaningful symbols which can be interpreted in a number of ways. The deck contains a total of four suits, and the names of the suits may vary depending upon the tarot deck one is using. Often times, the suits are referred to as wands, cups, swords, and coins, which make up what is known as the Minor Arcana. Meanwhile, the Major Arcana consists of twenty two cards, all of which are used to signify major events or people in a reading.

Tarot card interpretations are always changing - and they have also differed significantly through time. Today, however, there are common and general card meanings. For example, minor arcana cards usually have an astrological meaning that changes along with the seasons of the year. On another side of things, court cards talk of people and their nature. This nature concerns the physio-emotional traits of a person.

More specifically, the determinants of a card’s meaning are the following: Card Number, Key Number, Rulership (Astrology), Hebrew Letter, Translation, and Numerical Value. The meaning is also determined by the position of the card, whether it is upright or Ill-Dignified/Reversed. The difference between peoples’ readings is the weights they impose on the different ‘statistics’ and ‘attributes’ of the card.

When card readings are conducted face-to-face, the card reader will sometimes ask the querent to shuffle the cards as they concentrate on the question. The querent will sometimes be asked to split the deck into three piles, and then to put the deck back together again. The card reader then lays out the cards in a specific pattern, and each card has a different meaning, depending upon the layout used. For example, the card reader may layout three cards, one to signify the past, one for the present and one for the future: all three cards together give a full interpretation of a given situation.

You can also have a tarot reading done over the phone. If you cannot find a local person who does tarot readings or would prefer additional discretion, this can be a good choice. While you should expect a tarot reading over the phone to be rather expensive, do avoid questionable services charging by the minute. There are reputable tarot card readers who provide readings over the phone for a reasonable flat fee. Some may also offer online readings for a small sum, and provide their interpretation of the cards via email.

Although tarot is known as something that is as accurate as astrology, there is still a growing tarot service market that is ever increasing through new mediums. However, purists still think that a face to face tarot reading is important. It is also important to note that tarot cards are not purely divinatory devices. They are also used in several countries as cards used for playing. This alone should encourage tarot card users to keep a level head.



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Craig Hamilton Parker the Psychic Medium

By admin On June 29, 2008 No Comments
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Craig Hamilton Parker and his wife Jane are naturally gifted in psychic mediumship, clairvoyance, prediction and telepathy, and their powers continue to astound non-believers, as well as a number of disbelieving experts, which have included professional psychologists. Their remarkable powers, as well as their undeniable screen presence and engaging written style, have earned them a well-deserved reputation as some of the most visible psychics in the world today.

Craig and Jane first shot to fame in the UK on Channel Four’s The Big Breakfast, which saw them predict news items for the week ahead. On the show, they worked alongside Chris Evans and Paula Yates, and their predictions made them very popular with the viewers.

Since then, Craig and Jane Hamilton Parker have worked internationally as TV psychics, appearing on programmes for the BBC and the Discovery Channel, as well as TV stations in France, Australia and South Korea. One of their most infamous TV appearances was on a programme called The Spirit of Diana, which was a television s?ce that saw the pair successfully contact the spirit of Princess Diana. This programme was considered rather controversial in the UK, although it was widely acclaimed throughout the world and achieved a worldwide audience of around 30 million people. The pair were also the subject of an Everyman documentary, which was broadcast on BBC 2, and they were regularly featured on specialist digital channel, Psychic TV.

Craig and Jane’s extensive TV work demonstrates their natural psychic gifts, as well as their ability to impress even the most sceptical of audiences. It also proves that their psychic talent is undiminished by working in difficult or distracting conditions such as inside a television studio, or in an outside location.

When contacting the spirit world, the couple are disciplined and dedicated to spiritual values, unlike many other TV psychics who often take a much more sensationalist approach. Because of this, any clients seeking spiritual guidance or help from the pair cannot fail to be pleased with the results.

As well as being a popular TV personality, Craig Hamilton Parker is also a bestselling author who has penned a variety of books on subjects such as psychic mediumship, intuition and dreams. His 12 published titles include the best selling ‘What to Do When you are Dead’, which has proven to be a big hit.

Craig also writes regular columns on a number of psychic issues, as well as features for some high-profile newspapers and magazines. In the UK, these include the Daily Mail and The Times, as well as a number of other titles in countries as far afield as America, Ireland, South Africa and Australia.

Craig and Jane Hamilton Parker currently live in Hampshire and when they’re not writing or making TV programmes, they are available to give private readings by appointment. They also offer a number of psychic services by telephone, including telephone tarot reading, psychic SMS, telephone spiritual guidance and accurate recorded telephone horoscopes for the day, week, month or even the year ahead.



By: Samantha Srillian

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Samantha Srillian is a freelance writer, as well as a naturally gifted psychic medium and tarot card reader. She is interested in alternative therapies, angels and spiritual healing.



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Psychic Chat Online, the Future That is Now

By admin On June 29, 2008 No Comments
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Psychic chat online is becoming ever popular with the technology now at hand. And it has many advantages over other methods of psychic consultations. With the power of internet so advanced it is now easy to have a psychic in your living room without you leaving your house. Psychic chat online can be very rewarding, you can have psychic chat live in real time with a genuine psychic in the privacy and comfort of your home. You can stay anonymous if you choose, it is 100% private.

Compassionate and caring, these psychic diviners can guide their seekers on matters on anything that is spiritual or love matters, or day to day directions in life, etc. Your experience can be rewarding, uplifting and positive. If you have had an experience with a talented and experienced psychic, you will know that their understanding about the realm of life is somewhat insightful. The psychic or spiritual counselor touches on your past and present and finally can instruct about your future directions. Some of the psychics online have spirit guides or psychic intuition to assist them in online psychic chat readings. We need to also remember, pure psychics, meaning the ability to give psychic readings without using any divination tools is by far the best readings a person can ever have. Also to combine psychic chat readings with a divination tool (such as tarot cards or kumalak beads) can result in more insightful psychic chat online.

Psychic chat online has replaced more mainstream consultation. One of the reasons for it is the easy and comfort of internet world. Also these new emerging technologies online it is brought psychic gifts and talents from all parts of the world in to the internet realm. And the advantages of many genuine psychics offering, psychic chat online is that you have options to choose your desired psychic.

There are pure psychics who offer psychic readings without using any divination tools such as (tarot card, numerology, or kumalak readings) although many psychics will combine both divination readings and psychic readings to give you more insightful

results. Be it for present or your future directions. Also having many psychics in one place (internet) will add value for the end enquirer as the competition to win your trust will further minimize service fees for such service.

Whether you have had an fruitful experience with an online psychic chat service or you are a skeptic, it might just as well prove to be a fun experience to consult a psychic online. You can get clear insights to your life’s directions, through the comfort of your own home. So have you had your psychic chat online recently?



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Psychic Readings - Divination Kumalak

By admin On June 28, 2008 No Comments
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Psychic ability is a talent ability everyone possesses. It is a hidden talent you possess and is demonstrated whenever you display intuition which you normally do and should possess. Such information does not come from the knowledge that you have learned but from a source outside of your normal sources of knowledge. Such knowledge comes from the universal mind. Just as we have our normal five senses of hearing, feeling, seeing, smelling and tasting this psychic talent ability (intuition gut feeling) is known as the seer. When a psychic has learned how to open the curtains of his or her heart also when focus of the heart from the gifted soul is being, directed on a subject will see things that are not usually visible to normal eyes or senses. This humanly gift that everyone possesses it just has to be cultivated with years of training, as you may be aware that psychic readings are a insights to situations and events that a person might like to expand their knowledge about.

There is a lot of psychics out there some legitimate and unfortunately most not and psychics very often will use divination methods along with their psychic readings etc tarot, runes, coffee cup readings, astrology and kumalak and the end result of their psychic readings will be amazing for the enquirer given them clarity

Kumalak divination

Kumalak (to cast the stones) is one of the earliest divination method on earth, it has origins back to Kazakhstan and Mongolia, Himalayas, these countries being located in the center of Eurasia, has long been at the intersection of ancient world civilization. Thus it has been a site for a negotiation of social and spiritual, cultural and ideological relations between East and West, North and South between Europe and Asia. At different stages in history Kazakhstan has been home to many nations with distinctive cultural histories, which in turn also brought divination methods practiced in ancient worlds such as Persia, Egypt and Greek to this cultural hub. Although kumalak divination is unique to central Asia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Himalayas and north/west China it is also practiced world wide by hobbyists. Kumalak divination also known as the mirror of destiny it is extremely powerful at the right hands.

The way the reading is done, first the psychic kumalak reader gets forty one beads representing the weeks of the year for central Asian region, then one by one the psychic kumalak reader touches the beads on his / her forehead to open the eye of their mind, there has to be incantations repeated each time this is done when finished the incantations then, there is also twelve phrases which must be said, here’s two of them below.

To above I summon the power of my soul

To below I summon the power is my soul

Above is English translation of some of the versus that must be repeated before a psychic sorts the kumalak divination to reveal the answer to a question, once this procedure is finished, then psychic kumalak reader separates the beads in to three piles, and minuses each pile four beads at a time, till there is only one, two, three or four beads left and places the beads accordingly making nine piles in total at the end. Enquirer must remember that, kumalak divination is opened to reassure the psychic reader for his or her answers and to gain more insight to the answers



By: tolga savas

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Tolga Savas
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PSYCHIC TV - I.C. Water

By admin On June 27, 2008 24 Comments
“IC Water” by Psychic TV, in hommage to Ian Curtis. Promo video produced in 1990 and included in the dvd “Black Joy” (Jettisoundz 2003). www.genesisp-orridge.com

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Natural Instincts and Psychic Intuition

By admin On June 26, 2008 No Comments
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Instincts, we all have them even the animals in the animal kingdom, psychic intuition on the other hand or gut feeling some of us like to use is reserved for us humans. Imagine this for a moment that, you are out having a nature walk in the forest, and in the distance you hear roars that is loud and it stops you in your tracks, you instinctively know in that moment that is danger near by and thought process that is built in your DNA kicks in for you to either look at a place to climb or slowly without drawing the attention of the roars quietly but hurriedly walk away from that uncertain situation.

This instinct to preserve life is the result of evolution for our kind. As we have chosen to live in the big cities we are unfamiliar of the way the nature works, but if we were to travel to visit our Amazonian friends they would react different to the same situation or the Indian friend who are very familiar with living in the nature near lions. And if we further study different living systems of humans we will realize that American Indian tribes have even learned to live side by side with wild wolves. As wolves are territorial animals they usually stand their ground and protect their territories, but their instinct of natives of America are well respected I guess, as these natives were highly spiritual in nature also their psychic intuitions were high on the ladder of understanding of the nature that they lived in.

There are countless documentaries on animal kingdom from the tropics to icy places like the Antarctica, human kind has and is still studying animals and their instincts. But this subject (animal and instinct) is very wide to cover here, so we can say that our instincts are a defense mechanism, warnings and signals to our nervous system that triggers call to action, to safe guard our lively hood. It’s our conscious and unconscious mind at work to protect our physical mental emotional psychic.

Psychic intuition on the other hand is somewhat different when it comes to instincts; it is about protecting, understanding ourselves to rather thrive in life. We can consciously come up with meanings about intuition through the flow of information of experiences of our lives and the subconscious knowledge that governs our lives on different levels. This scared and psychic intuition has always been with us to guide us to our true state which is to feel, strong joyous emotions, to complete us to a degree to say; I am - I exist.

You might have heard, a caring mother saying to the child, always follow your gut feeling your intuition, do what’s right, mothers instinctively know to protect and guide their children, this is always the case as far as mothers are concerned. Because with or without knowing that, when a person follows its pure gut feeling its psychic intuition we will come to know that the actions followed by this humanly gift will always result in joyous results for all mankind. And unfortunately the dark sides of humans come from not following this psychic gift, it creates wars, it creates unhappiness all the bad things stem from not following this pure gift. Many of us caught in the stream of life forget to pay attention to our psychic intuition powers that reside within us. We tend to look for it when we are faced with dilemma; I believe it can be cultivated to come out in our day to lives

Your gut feeling at work is your soul trying to communicate to you, chat to you silently and instinctively, when this happens you know to take notice to revaluate to figure out the meaning of this strong feeling, the meanings of these feelings can be better understood, through communicating inwards using all one knows about relaxing, getting to know your spirit, through meditation, thus allowing yourself to follow your psychic intuition



By: tolga savas

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Tolga Savas
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Tarot Cards And The Kabbalah

By admin On June 22, 2008 No Comments
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The origins of the Tarot deck and its associated interpretive meanings may never be known with empirical certainty. However, one school of thought subscribed to by Kabbalistic occultists is that the Tarot deck stems from Jewish mysticism.

Some occultists even go as far as to say it was an abstract code developed by Kabbalah masters to embody their thoughts and ideas, in an allegorical format. But before we delve into the nuances of the relationship between tarot cards and Jewish mysticism we must first answer a fundamental question. What exactly is the Kabballah?

Jewish mysticism and the Kabbalah have roots that date back to the third to sixth century A.D. during this period a book called the “Book of Creation” was written, in anonymity, and contained meditations based on the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet. This book is believed to be the foundation of modern day Jewish mysticism and the Kabbalah. However, it would be many centuries before this seedling of ideas would grow into the tree of life we know today as the Kabbalah.

In fact it would not be until the twelfth and thirteenth centuries A.D. that the ideas and concepts, in this book, would be expanded and built upon significantly.

During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries A.D. the writing and publication of the Zohar or “Book of Splendor” contributed greatly to the ideas and concepts of the modern Kabbalah. One of the major underlying principles of the Kabbalah was that the universe consisted of four worlds. These four worlds were created in order the highest world belonging to God and the lowest world belonging to man.

In addition these four worlds consisted of emanations called sephiroth. The four worlds were each separated into identical sets of ten sephiroth. The only difference being the energy associated with them. This energy is defined by the world that the sephiroth resides in.

Visual aids were constructed from the sephiroth. The focus of meditation was now on these geometric structures the most popular being the tree of life. It consisted of ten sephiroth connected by twenty-two pathways corresponding to the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet.

With this in mind a correlation between the tarot deck and the tree of life may be formed. The first correlation is between the four worlds of the Kabbalah and the four suits of the tarot deck. The next correlation that may be formed is between the ten sephiroth and the minor arcana numbered ace through ten. The final relationship that may be formed is between the twenty-two cards of the major arcana, twenty-two pathways, at twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet.

The major debate among occultist is the placement of the cards on the twenty-two pathways. A common practice would be to start with the first card of the Major Arcana and proceed arithmetically to the world card number twenty-two. However, there is a wrench in the works. The fool card’s number zero of the major arcana defies placement on the pathways as it would skew the other twenty-two cards to non-corresponding numerical pathways.

So, there in lies the rump of the problem. The placement of the fool card on the pathways has been the subject of much debate. Almost as if the fool cards true nature has disrupted the correlation of the tarot cards and the pathways. However, Court de Gebelin wrote an essay in the late 1700’s defining a correlation between the cards and the Hebrew alphabet. In addition another author published in “The Primitive World” Comte de Mellet proposed the linking structure between the tarot cards and the twenty-two pathways marked by the Hebrew alphabet.

Whether you subscribe to the Kabbalistic school of thought regarding the tarot cards or not it is very interesting to note the many similarities between the Jewish mysticism and the tarot deck. It is hard to deny that such a correlation exists but never the less one must keep an open mind without irrefutable historical evidence.

Although, we may never know the exact origins, nature, or purpose of these mystical cards one thing is certain we will continue to enjoy these aesthetically pleasing mystical cards for ages to come.



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Eartha Moon Psychic Investigator: Is Bloody Mary Real?

By admin On June 22, 2008 21 Comments
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Eartha Moon investigates the legend of Bloody Mary.
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Love Tarot Mediums in Todays World

By admin On June 22, 2008 No Comments
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Salome Keomuangtani asked:


Tarot cards comprise of twenty-one trump cards, the fool and 1 supplemental face card for every other suits in the deck. Zones about Europe employ the deck to amusement with established rules, howeverin English-chatting states, tarot cards can be discovered in the zone of fortunetelling.

The tarot cards commenced also with other cards in the 1300s. History people recommend that they were invented in Islamic states, although the initial actual material in the English-chatting sphere is the Christian terrain of Bern, Switzerland. The older tarot cards consisted of only 16 trump cards as compared to twenty-one in intricate decks.

A typical tarot deck contains 78 cards consisting of the four suits seen in regular card games, which are hearts, diamonds, spades, and clubs. The Latin version of the tarot deck has a different set of suits. They are swords, batons, cups, and coins. Like a regular deck, tarot cards are numbered from one to ten plus the four court cards; jack, queen, king, and ace.

The difference between a tarot deck and the regular deck is the twenty-one divinity cards known as Major Arcana. A joker equivalent in the tarot deck is called the Fool, or the excuse. The Fool can take all four suits and acts as the strongest trump card.

Meaning is assigned to each card in a tarot deck; however, the specifics of interpretation are impacted by the layout of the cards, whether they are upright or reversed, and the interpreter’s own reading. Many of the cards in the major arcana, the trump cards, are fairly logical. The Lovers represent love, in some capacity, while Strength is symbolic of courage and drive. Each of the cards in the minor arcana also carries meaning when used for divination, based on both the numeric value of the card and which suit it is. Meanings of each card can be found online, in books, or simply by interpreting the images on the card.

Face to face tarot readings are interactive in a sense that the reader allows the person to determine which face down card is interpreted by the reader. Face to face readings are commonly found in the streets of many different places in the English-speaking world. In England, there is a going rate of £12.50 per person, but the price drastically decreases depending on the number of people paying for the service. Some offer the service in the comfort of one’s own home, while some offer it on the street for cheaper rates as well.

There is a purist belief that face to face readings are significantly more accurate than other types of readings such as e-mail readings or phone readings, but of course the general destiny of these beliefs is to be completely unfounded like all other astrological arguments.

Phone readings are available on the Internet for approximately £5.00 per reading. Perhaps it is significantly cheaper than face to face readings due to the lack of mystique and personal/visual connection with the reader himself. While the past presented interested parties with the option of calling a phone line, the Internet now offers international calls for the same price, and if one is interested, one can acquire a reading through credit card of PayPal.

The popular reputation of phone readings is that the impersonal nature of the transaction weakens the link, although this can also be attributed to the absence of mystique from the service.

Tarot cards have been around for centuries and have been used in many cultures for the purposes of divination. There are a variety of card layouts, and there are several different card reading methods that card readers use. The interpretation of Tarot Cards is based on the card position and the various symbols in each card.



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The Importance of Asking Good Questions During a Tarot Reading

By admin On June 21, 2008 No Comments
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Tarot cards are one of the most popular ways that psychics tell the future. As we all know, every tarot reading begins with a question. Your question will eventually determine whether the tarot cards will really give you the answer that you want or not. That is why there is a need to ask a very clear, relevant question even at the start of the session.

There are some guidelines that you need to know about the questions to be asked when your fortune is being told using these cards. By asking these questions, you will be sure that you will get the answer that you are really waiting for during a tarot reading.

First, you might want to ask a question which aims to know how something has evolved or came into being. This is quite a great question to ask once you are quite confused about a particular situation and you want to know the possible outcome that may spring from it. Asking this type of question during a tarot reading will provide you a clear background on the actions to take regarding your dilemma and to find out where the difficulties will eventually take place.

Another effective question to ask during a tarot reading is about what to do in a certain situation. By doing this, you are simply asking the tarot to give you some advice on a particular concern that you have at the moment. With this question, the tarot cards will give you a relevant means of action that you should do in order to overcome the dilemma.

Asking about the personalities or characteristics of some people is also an effective tarot question. If you have a misunderstanding with a friend or a loved one and you really want to know why has he or she been acting as such, you can get more than enough responses during a tarot reading. You can also ask about the existing background of the problem so as you will be able to know the next action to consider.

There are other questions that people tend to ask during a tarot reading. Many people think that these are good questions, but actually they are not. Tarot cards have a tendency to give such vague responses once that certain questions have been asked. A simple yes or no question is not really good during a tarot reading. Questions like, “Will I be able to get the job,” or “Will we break up soon” seem quite good, but these can elicit vague responses from the cards. Another vague question would be asking the cards about a particular course of action that you have to take. Asking the tarot cards questions like “Should I leave him or not,” or “Will I go to Spain or to France?” are definitely going to give you vague responses. Tarot cards focus on the existing situation of someone’s life, and it eventually will give you measures on how to get through your problems, but it will not give you clear responses for closed questions.

Once that you have followed these guidelines, you will surely get the responses that you want from the age-old dilemma that you want to solve.



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