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Liber Azag The Book of Tarot
Liber Azag The Book of Tarot
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Table of Contents
Introduction...............................................................................................4
How to select cards...................................................................................5
Spreads.....................................................................................................6
Card Of The Day....................................................................................7
Two Cards Of The Day...........................................................................8
Three Card Spread................................................................................9
Blind Spot............................................................................................10
The Cross............................................................................................12
The Relationship Spread.....................................................................14
The Decision Game.............................................................................16
Special cards...................................................................................16
The Path..............................................................................................18
The Celtic Cross..................................................................................19
Astrology Circle...................................................................................23
How to read the astrology spread...................................................25
The Fool Game spread........................................................................26
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Introduction
Tarot is a truly amazing piece of divination system. It was
originally derived from a card game called tarocchi. Many
people claim that the divination system was first, but
check the history.
The Tarot deck is split into Major and Minor arcana. Major
arcana (also called trumphs) contains 22 cards. Minor
arcana contains 56 cards.
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Those 56 cards are split into suits, each suit has 14 cards.
Suits commonly are Wands, Swords, Cups and Pantacles
(or Coins). Each suit contains 10 numeric cards and 4
court cards: Knights, Queens, Princes, Princesses (or
traditionally: Kings, Queens, Knights, Pages).
Second method is to shuffle the cards till you get the "this
is right" feeling when you stop and then you pick cards
from the top. This feeling is hard to describe, but don't
worry, you will know exactly when to stop.
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Reader interprets the cards so the reader's point of view is
always the one that is being considered.
Spreads
The heart of the Tarot are spreads. An indepth
interpretations of correctly chosen spread give us the best
understanding of the question at hand. It is a common
sense that simple spreads are easier to learn but less
descriptive, so bear that in mind during the beginning.
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Card Of The Day
Let's start with the easiest of the spreads. You pick just
one card and that card represents the experience of your
day, these are usually selected in the morning to see
what's coming at you. You can either try to memorize it
and match your day accordingly, or you can just select the
card, keep it separately somewhere and reveal what the
card was during the evening, that way it won't be a self-
filling prophecy.
Image 1: One
card spread
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Two Cards Of The Day
This spread is hardly ever used or described and frankly I
do not know why. It's a simple, yet amazing beginner's
spread teaching you something you will need to use later
for more complicated spreads, it teaches you a
relationship between cards. You know, every position in
spreads has its unique meaning, but you always need to
consider the spread as the whole, else your readings will
be just an half of what it should be.
For this spread you pick two cards. Each card represents
one quality of your day, one positive and one negative,
but what is really the very definition of your day is the
difference between those two cards. It can be very tricky
to spot the difference sometimes, especially when cards
seem to mean the same thing, but when you get it, you
will be amazed how much information this spread can
actually give to you.
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Blind Spot
An amazing introspection spread, it's the easiest of all
introspection spread (these are usually difficult). It can
give you an insight into who you really are and how you
are perceived by others. It is quite healthy to use this
spread at least every two weeks.
Card 3: Shadow
This is something you know about yourself but you
purportedly hide it from the others. It might be something
you are ashamed of or what you think people wouldn't
understand.
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Image 4: Blind spot
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The Cross
Very simple spread with a variety of uses, it gives a
general overview of the situation, tells what the next step
should be or explains certain events. It is also used to
explain other cards. For this spread pick 4 cards.
Variation A:
Card 1: This is what's it about
Card 2: This is what isn't important
Card 3: This is important now
Card 4: This is where it leads to
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spread and you want to know what it means. You then pick
four cards with the intention to understand this card on
this position and The Cross will explain what it means.
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The Relationship Spread
An amazing spread to gain some insight into the current
state of a current relationship. It can be a relationship
between colleagues, friends, lovers, etc.
For this spread you have to select 7 cards. The first card in
the center represents the general summary of the
relationship, the overview of the current state. Left column
represents the querent and the right column represents
the other half of the relationship (colleague, lover, friend,
etc).
Having a same sex court cards can mean your partner (or
you, of course) are trying to thinking like someone else,
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feel like someone else or look like someone else
(depending on the row). It means you have some role
model you want to imitate. This can also be the reason of
a bad relationship situation.
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The Decision Game
This spread seems to have a little unreasonable setup, it's
because of its history (coming from the Two Cards spread
and Three Cards spread).
Special cards
The Decision Game also has a special cards. When one of
these special cards appear on either of the path (so
everywhere except card 7), it has a special meaning
VI The Lovers: This means that decision was already
made to follow that path
X Wheel of Fortune: Means that querrent isn't free in
the choice and at least in the beginning he should try to
walk this path
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XVII The Star: Shows the path of the future
XX The Aeon: Same as XVII The Star
XXI The Universe: Shows the real place where querrent
belongs into.
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The Path
This spread is very useful to find out what we should do to
achieve our goals.
Left column shows how we behave and the right one how
we should behave to achieve our goal, and from the top
row to the bottom row on the mental, emotional and
physical level (just like in the case of Relationship spread).
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The Celtic Cross
The most famous of all spreads, unfortunately also the
most overused one. The Celtic Cross is a common-use
spread, if you don't know what spread to use for the
reading, use this one. This spread has qualities of many
aforementioned spreads, plus it shows many tendencies
we want to use or avoid. Unfortunately it also contains a
great deal of relations between different card positions
which normally isn't well taught. That's why I will teach
you this spread traditionally, as I was taught.
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Card number 3 shows what consciously drives us into this
situation, why we want to achieve what we want to
achieve. Card number 4 shows what drives us
unconsciously (that's the base of it). Fourth card is why we
really are in such situation but it isn't apparent at the
moment.
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Now, the reading of the spread has a bit different order.
First cards you reveal are card number 5 and card number
9. You want to see these two first to find out what
happened and what are expectations of the querent. The
difference between these two should also give you some
information about the current situation.
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Image 9: The Celtic Cross
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Astrology Circle
The most general spread there is. This spread shows a
basic summary of many different aspects of the life. It can
be used either as the proof for a doubting querent or to
help an unsure querent to find topics to further discuss
with the reader. It is actually unfortunate, but readers
usually use The Celtic Cross where Astrology Circle should
be used instead, I am pretty sure you will understand why
when we get through this spread. If no timelapse is given,
then this spread shows the present and immediate past of
the querent.
Card number 5 shows the fun part, how much the querent
is able to enjoy himself and his life. It can also be
associated with card 2 (finances - play with money).
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Card 9 is about Higher understanding, morals, faith, often
also associated as the result of endeavors described by
card 8.
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How to read the astrology spread
• First of all, you uncover one card after the other to
get a general understanding of the situation.
• You then compare cards on positions 1 and 7 for
understanding me/you topic.
• Next comparison is between 4 and 10, meaning from
where and to where.
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The Fool Game spread
This spread is very good for finding out some more detail
about a current situation, common questions are “What is
my current situation in work” or “where am I on my path”.
You pick 12 cards from the deck, then you add 0 The Fool
between them and you shuffle. Then you spread these
selected cards. From left to right they show the
chronological progress of events and The Fool shows the
current place in time.
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