Exercises for Lesson 12
These are my suggestions for the exercises for lesson 12. Don't think of these as the "correct answers". They're simply my responses from my perspective. If one of your choices differs from mine, see if you can figure out why you chose the way you did.
With the tarot, you want to trust your own intuition from the very beginning. Everyone sees the world through a different lens. Your goal is to learn how your own particular lens works.
Exercise 12.3 - Arcana Cards in the Celtic Cross
Layout One: All cards are minor except the outcome (Position 10). This situation is a temporary personal drama, but its impact will be powerful and significant in some way. (See Jill's first reading.)
Layout Two: The only major arcana card is in the Past (Position 4). The circumstances of the moment are the result of some major event from the past, or what was once of major significance is now fading.
Layout Three: Position 8 - the environment - is the only major arcana card. This situation may be part of a larger undertaking, or the outside influence may be especially strong.
Layout Four: Since Position 3 is the only major arcana card, the hidden, underlying energy here is strong. Things may be minor on the surface, but the force sustaining them is powerful.
Layout Five: Two major arcana cards are at the center of the reading (Positions 1 and 2). Two powerful forces are coming together for better or worse. The minor factors circling around are an offshoot of this core dynamic.
Layout Six: Someone thinks (Position 5) that his role (Position 7) in the situation is major, but the actual circumstances do not bear this out.
