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THE TAROT
GUILD
The Tarot Guild of Aotearoa is a non-profit
group, run by people with a passion for Tarot.
The Tarot Guild hosts a monthly Sunday workshop.
On the last Sunday of every month there is a workshop
designed and run by the local Tarot community to share ideas and experience
around our Tarot practice and related subjects.
Every month there will be a different person or group facilitating the
workshop and plenty of time for Readings with each other. Come along
and make some Tarot friends.
The Tarot Guild also
has a business meeting on the Last Friday of each month for forward
planning of Sunday Meetings and events which you are most welcome to
attend ( contact Fern Mercier).
Solstice party.
3pm till late.
Sunday 29th June 2008
Fern's Place. Invites only.
Bring a plate and BYO.
Dress as a card , a tarot reader, a tarot symbol or tarot creature.
Court Card Characters- Cherry Cato and
Paula Davis
Sunday 31st August
1pm – 4pm
Grey Lynn Community Centre.
$10 entry fee.
Inspired by Mary Greer and Tom Little’s book, Understanding the
Tarot Court Cherry and Paula will explore the Court Cards, starting
with A.E. Waite and the traditional meanings through to seeing the cards
as qualities that people express.
We will also look at the use of a Significator card, as well as each
card’s elemental dignitaries.
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THE TAROT GUILD
OF AOTEAROA
Proudly presents
WINTER WORKSHOPS
WITH RACHEL POLLACK
23rd, 26th and 27th July 2008
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Rachel Pollack is
a world authority on the modern interpretation of Tarot
cards and a tarot card artist. She is a poet and an multi-award-winning
novelist and has published 12 books on tarot, including
the modern classic Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom
often called “the Tarot readers’ Bible”.
She lives in New York U.S.A.
For her book and Tarot Deck, The Shining Tribe
Rachel has drawn symbolism from six continents and fifty
thousand years of human spiritual images, as well as her
thirty years as a leader in the Tarot movement, and created
a visionary deck.
The Forest of Souls: A walk through the Tarot Rachel
takes the reader on a magical walk through the mysteries,
archetypes, and dream-like images of the Tarot. While the
most common use of the Tarot is for divination, she shows
how to use the cards for readings of an entirely different
nature. Asking improbable, even impossible questions, she
plays with the sacred possibilities and answers that the
Tarot gives us.
We are fortunate to have the opportunity to meet Rachel
Pollack and benefit from her knowledge and insights into
the Tarot in the 21st century.
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Master Class plus Dinner
with Rachel
For more confident readers. Intense work
using specific techniques. $140
Masterclass without Dinner $100
Weds 23rd July 3pm – 6pm at The Oval
Room Grey Lynn Community Centre 510 Richmond Rd. |
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Wisdom
Readings
Using the tarot to ask the bigger questions
about life and death. Creating powerful readings for people
in difficult situation. Using tarot to explore myths and
other significant stories and teachings. This is an approach
Rachel invented, and part of what she calls the Wisdom Tradition.
In Wisdom readings we ask the cards questions beyond our
personal concerns, questions about existence, and mystery,
questions such as “What is the soul?” or “What
is evil?” Rachel's book, Forest of Souls
contains possibly the archetypal Wisdom reading, when she
asks the cards to “show me the reading you gave God
to create the universe.”
A second type of Wisdom reading creates personal spreads
out of quotations and teachings. For example, two thousand
years ago the great rabbi Hillel asked three questions:
If I am not for myself, who will be? If I am for myself
alone, what am I? If not now, when? We can create a powerful
reading for people in difficult relationships (with a partner,
a child, a boss, etc.) How do I need to be for myself in
this situation? How do I need to be for others? What do
I need to do right now?
Still a third type of Wisdom reading uses the Tarot to
explore myths and other significant stories or teachings.
We might do a spread, for example, based on the Sermon on
the Mount, with one card drawn for each of the statements.
Or the Buddha’s Four Noble Truths. Or more playfully,
for the characters and events of Cinderella.
Cost: $150.
Saturday 26th July 26th 10am – 4pm at Fernndale
House 830 New North Rd. Mt Albert.
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Rescuing the Tarot from
Psychology
Expanding the recent psychological perspective
of tarot using a number of approaches and techniques that
find new ways to experience the images. In the early 80s
a small group of writers and teachers—Mary Greer,
Angeles Arrien, Gail Fairfield, James Wanless, and Rachel
Pollack—“rescued” the Tarot from fortune
telling, that is, the clichéd way people had come
to look at the cards and readings. To a large extent they
did this by psychologizing the cards, seeing how the pictures
showed us emotional states and held up a mirror to who we
are. Maybe this has become the new orthodoxy. Sometimes
we can only look at the cards as psychological mirrors.
So a number of my approaches and techniques attempt to find
new ways to experience the pictures, to rescue the Tarot
from psychology, without just going back to old ways.
$150.
Sunday 27th July 10am -4pm at Ferndale House 830
New North Road. Mt Albert
Combo Discounts for booking
more than one Workshop
Combo A-1: All 3 Workshops
+ Weds dinner $352.
Combo A-2: All 3 Workshops $320.
Combo B-1: Master Class + Saturday Workshop
$200 (add $32 for dinner)
Combo B-2: Masterclass + Sunday Workshop
$200 (add $32 for diinner)
Combo C: Saturday and Sunday Workshops
$240.
Current Tarot Guild Members deduct $10.
Early Bird Discount if booked and paid by May 28th - deduct
10%
Cash, Cheque or Direct Credit.
Direct Credit: 38-9001-0634225-00
Cheques made payable to: Tarot Guild of Aotearoa.
Post to Tarot Guild of Aotearoa,
15 Manuka Rd. Titirangi Auckland 0604
Phone Paula 817 3177 or Email paula.fd8@gmail.com
Rachel is available for private
readings
$140 for an hour. $75 for half hour –
Phone Paula 817 3177 or Email paula.fd8@gmail.com
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| TAROT PAGES
The tarot guild monthly newsletter:
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June
2008 edition
Earlier copies can be obtained from Fern |
| Membership
Contact and Treasurer: Paula Davis
- Phone: 817 3177 - Email Paula
The
Tarot Guild insignia, Our "dancing lady", is
from one of the earliest Tarot decks—the Tarot of Mantegna
1460. She sets the cosmos in motion and is responsible for the
rotation of the heavens and the rising of all the stars and planets.
Subscription Options
Option A
$80-00 per annum
This entitles you to
• Free admittance to Sunday Meetings.
• Free subscription to Tarot Pages, the Guild's monthly
newsletter.
• A 10% discount on any purchase from Pathfinder Books,
City Store.
• A membership to the Guild Library.
• Access to The Magician, the Australian Tarot Guild Publication.
• Discounted offers on future Tarot retreats and extra workshops.
Option B
$40-00 per annum
As per Option A except for
• A 50% discount on admission to Sunday Meetings i.e. $5-00
door charge.
Option C
$10-00 per annum for Tarot Pages - the monthly Newsletter, hardcopy
posted within NewZealand.
Casual Attendance
$10-00 door charge admittance to any Sunday meeting.
TAROT GUILD OF AOTEAROA CHARTER
(The Tarot Guild was formed in Auckland on 1st April 2003)
1. To promote participation in Tarot
Readings, enthusiasm for learning Tarot, and nurture a Tarot community
spirit.
2. To value and preserve the ancient wisdom of Tarot as well as
giving it a contemporary voice.
3. To respect the individual ideas and talents within our group
and to encourage networking amongst members.
4. To foster a greater understanding of Tarot as a valid form of
personal growth and healing.
5. To raise the profile and status of Tarot and Tarot readers in
the wider community.
6. To provide a forum for members' ongoing learning of Tarot and
associated esoteric disciplines.
7. To establish a Code of Ethics for Tarot practitioners |
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