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2. Luck: The degree to which events align with your objectives. Ex. A
speeding car collides into your parked car…five minutes before the most
important interview of your life.
3. Feng Shui: Aligning and harmonizing your personal energy with the
energies of your environment and surroundings. Ex. Arranging your home
in a way that allows optimal flow of Qi to bring in the optimal flow of
opportunities to you.
4. Karma: The accounting of your past acts and the consequences, positive
or negative, on your present and future. Ex. Helping out a stranger in a
parking lot, which triggers a chain of events that leads back to a different
stranger helping you out in your time of need.
3: FENG SHUI is the theory of how well your environment supports you.
• The many physical forces affecting the earth will in turn affect your person.
Understanding those physical forces will help you navigate life with the wind
behind your back, rather than sail against the wind.
• Note that feng shui is an entire body of science that warrants its own focused
study. For the scope of this course, feng shui is simply the compatibility
between the Querent, his or her environment, and the Querent’s objectives.
1. Fate
YELLOW marks the cards that overlap with other of the five components.
2. Luck
YELLOW marks the cards that overlap with other of the five components.
5.
YELLOW marks the cards that overlap with other of the five components.
Education
If the goal is Career,
Querent is at the peak
3 of Wands, Rev.: Past experience of
failures, albeit minor ones, taught
of her educational Querent to be highly attuned to details.
development. Querent nurtured herself into a
perfectionist.
But if the goal is Love,
Querent still has much The Hierophant: Traditional education.
to learn. Querent lacks University educated, perhaps higher
experience. degrees obtained. Also suggests a
Querent who sticks to the norms.
If the goal is Love, Motivated by societal approval.
Querent has yet to
experience and answer The Sun: Gaining recognition and
for herself: What is accolades. High achievement. Toils
Love? denoted in the 7 of Pentacles will be
rewarded. In this card position, denotes
fierce ambition. Motivated to educate
herself because Querent hungers for
success.
KARMA
FATE
These cards
LUCK
tend to
suggest that
matters of
Fate are at
issue.
Thoth Tarot
Assessing a
Querent’s
FIVE COMPONENTS
Through Signifier
(or Significator)
Before a reading has even begun,
Analysis
broad insights based on a
Querent’s Signifier (or
Significator) card can shed light
on the Querent’s Five
Components formula.
The Rider Waite deck by U.S. Games Systems
The Five Components & Court Cards
Feng shui analysis is an Fate: Fire personalities are born leaders,
entire study beyond hunters; the planners and architects of
the scope of this
course. Here, its society. Innovators. NOTE that these are
indications are based broad generalizations
on the Wu Xing, the about FIRE signs.
Luck: For those governed by Fire, finding
five (instead of four)
metaphysical elements balance is a constant struggle; prone to the Signifier
Analyzing
per the Five Components
that the Chinese extremes.
believe the universe is sketches the outline
comprised of. Here, the only.
broad indications of Feng shui: Fire or Wood personalities.
feng shui for the • Fill in the
When Fire: Supported by Wood. Conflicts withpersonalized
details later with the
Signifiers is based on Metal and dominates. Conflicts with Water,
the Signifier’s First Operation and the
but Water dominates. reading spread.
compatibility with the • When Wood: Supported by Water. Conflicts
other elemental signs.
with Earth and dominates. Conflicts with
Metal, but Metal dominates.
Wands
FIRE Karma: Give and take by creation and
destruction. Builds others up, but can also
Aries, Leo, tear them down.
Sagittarius
Education: Creative fields, artisans,
working with hands, shop trades,
healthcare, agriculture.
The Five Components & Court Cards, cont’d.
H V H
I
From
From thethe From
From thethe
The
The four
four piles
piles correspond
correspond
left-most
left-most EARTHwith the fourAIR first
first pile,
pile,
with the four constants
constants of
of cut
WATER
pile,
pile, cut
cut the Supreme Being, the cut to
to
to
to form
form FIRE the Supreme Being, the form
form a a
four
four divine
divine elements,
elements, and
and
the final
the final Finances Social Love
third
third
the four
four quadrants
theOperation:Pile of
of the
quadrantsthat the
Traditional
fourth
fourth First
Careercondition. signifier appears in will
pile.
pile.
human
human condition.
pile.
reveal
pile.
nature of Querent’s inquiry.
Five Components Method: Pile that signifier appears in will
diagnose
Querent’s Five Components.
Also: Top-most card of each pile will be
read in a Five Components analysis.
Sift through the four piles one by one to locate the Signifier. The
pile the signifier appears in is the area of life the Querent must
focus on in the present and be proactive about nurturing with Feng
Shui, Karma, and Education.
SOCIETY WORK
Querent’s Social
Ambitions, Projects,
Sphere, Greater
Career, Professional
Ambitions,
Goals
RELATIONSHI
ECONOMY
PS
Wealth, Money
Matters, Property, Love, Romance,
Assets, Finances Family, Children,
Domestic Sphere
The Five Components & an Adaptation of the First Operation
1 Fate
2 Luck
3 Feng Shui
4 Karma
5 Education
Thoth Tarot
SUMMARY OF POINTS:
1. FATE
5. EDUCATION 4. KARMA 3. FENG SHUI 2. LUCK
The circumstances
Knowledge andQuerent’s past and What kind of How well externalQuerent was born
experience accrued
how that past affects
environment has conditions align with
into. Innate talents,
to date, and the present and Querent nurtured?Querent’s
Is it goals. Clear
strengths, or
education neededfuture,
to positivelyhelping
or or hindering
path or rocky road
weaknesses. God-
advance forward. negatively. Querent’s objectives? ahead? given.
Querent:
Jenny
PRACTICE: D.O.B.:
HYPOTHETICAL FIVE COMPONENTS 10/01/73
READING Gender:
Female
2. LUCK
Life of plentitude and 5. EDUCATION
abundance. In her Jenny has been
times of need, she contemplating many
must have felt divine vocational options
intervention, for some time. Good
because there are omen: she’s found
angels looking down the right one.
on Jenny.
3. FENG SHUI
Jenny’s environment
is Earth dominant NOTE: There is, of course, no set
right now. Venus way of answering Jenny, the
governs. She is Querent. The art of tarot comes
positioned in a way from each individual reader’s
that supports fruition.
personalized interpretation of the
In terms of her son,
follow maternal cards, the card positions, and how
instinct: they’re right they apply to the Querent. The
on. answer provided here is only one
of many ways to answer Jenny’s
questions.
Need a mnemonic to help you remember the Five Components?
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