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I want to hank whoever recommended this. It is a fantastic book and it has really opened my mind to how eerily well the tarot works. One exercise she had in there was to have you graph the year cards for every year of your life. This card is calculated by adding up the digits in the year and corresponding them to major arcana cards. There were some things which really jumped out at me when I did this:
1) The most common 'cycle' was in the area around Lovers-Chariot-Strength-Hermit, which repeated, with slightly varying start numbers or end numbers, five times. Hermit is both my soul and personality card, so that explains why this area of the spectrum appeared so often.
2) The hermit years actually did correspond to key events in my life, as she predicted. There were some years when I have no idea why a card was significant (the moon appearing only once, the year I was 3? Ooookay...) But the hermit years were significant. One of them was my bat mitzvah, one was second-year university (the first time I lived on my own, outside of a dorm situation or my parents), and the year I lived overseas for grad school.
3) The Emperor was the year card the year I met my husband! I had not expected that. And the lovers was the year we moved in together.
4) The Wheel of Fortune was the year I started with my current boss. It is the longest employment I have ever had, and it affected me very significantly when she told me she was not renewing my contract after this year.
5) Speaking of which, this year was is Strength, the year I have to figure out the next phase f my life after working for her. The last Strength year was the year I came back after grad school and started my career in the first place. Interesting!
6) Next year will be my first year married, and it is a hermit year again. We are hoping for a family. I wonder if the hermit represents a nesting instinct, and the hopeful fulfillment of that wish?
This book is the first 'workbook' type book I have read where I actually stopped to do the exercises rather than just bookmarking them for later. I could not believe how the traits on the cards lined up with my life events when I plotted them this way!
Has anyone else read this book? I can't wait to see what else it will teach me!
1) The most common 'cycle' was in the area around Lovers-Chariot-Strength-Hermit, which repeated, with slightly varying start numbers or end numbers, five times. Hermit is both my soul and personality card, so that explains why this area of the spectrum appeared so often.
2) The hermit years actually did correspond to key events in my life, as she predicted. There were some years when I have no idea why a card was significant (the moon appearing only once, the year I was 3? Ooookay...) But the hermit years were significant. One of them was my bat mitzvah, one was second-year university (the first time I lived on my own, outside of a dorm situation or my parents), and the year I lived overseas for grad school.
3) The Emperor was the year card the year I met my husband! I had not expected that. And the lovers was the year we moved in together.
4) The Wheel of Fortune was the year I started with my current boss. It is the longest employment I have ever had, and it affected me very significantly when she told me she was not renewing my contract after this year.
5) Speaking of which, this year was is Strength, the year I have to figure out the next phase f my life after working for her. The last Strength year was the year I came back after grad school and started my career in the first place. Interesting!
6) Next year will be my first year married, and it is a hermit year again. We are hoping for a family. I wonder if the hermit represents a nesting instinct, and the hopeful fulfillment of that wish?
This book is the first 'workbook' type book I have read where I actually stopped to do the exercises rather than just bookmarking them for later. I could not believe how the traits on the cards lined up with my life events when I plotted them this way!
Has anyone else read this book? I can't wait to see what else it will teach me!