This will be my last Tip regarding various ways to find people in your client’s life using the Astrological Layout.  If you still want to go deeper, I recommend studying my Astrological Tarot programs on MP4 video or MP3 audio. If you love to learn, a study of my Basic Astrology and Astrology for Yourself programs will help you to go deeper in your use of the Astrological Tarot Layout, as you’ll quickly learn to combine both Astrological and Tarot reading skills.  It’s a winning combination, for sure!

     So then, you already know that the 7^th card or the 3 o’clock position on the clock as we see it in the Astrological Tarot Layout, is the place that we see your client’s primary relationship partner. That could also be any one-on-one relationship for the client. What I want you to understand now, is that using a concept astrologer’s call “spinning the wheel”, it’s easy to find out anything you want to know about any person in the client’s life. The client’s partner is a reflection ...

  In this Tarot Tip I’m expanding on what you learned in my Tarot Tip #27, where I showed you how to find key people in your client’s life, like their mother, father, children, friends, and significant other, using the Astrological layout.

     You now know how to lay your cards out in a circle using 12 cards, starting at the 9 o’clock position and placing them counter-clockwise around the circle.  If you know astrology you can just think of this as an astrology chart layout.

     In astrology, we call this technique, “spinning the wheel”.  It works quite well in the Tarot as well!
     Here’s where to find more key people in your client’s life using this layout:

Best friend – 3 o’clock position, or 7^th house.
Colleague – 4 o’clock position, or 6^th house.
Siblings – 7 o’clock position, or 3^rd house.  That also describes specifically your oldest sib.
   Your second oldest sibling is the 5 o’clock position, or the 5^th house.
   The third oldest sibling is the 3 o’clock position, or the ...

 In my Last tarot tip, I showed you how to easily identify a client’s pet when using an Astrological Layout for your reading. 

     As you are well aware, identifying who people are in your client’s life is one of the most challenging things for a new tarot reader to learn.  Most tarot spreads rely on the reader’s intuition to identify the person, or if the reader can give enough insight from the cards themselves into the persons personality, we hope that the client can identify the person themselves.

     The astrological layout makes people identification easy, as each person in your client’s life occupies a different position in the reading. There is no guessing involved!

     In my Tarot Tip #25 I introduced this concept as we learned how to identify your client’s pet.  Here, we’re going to take a deep dive into virtually everyone else in your client’s life!

     Incidentally, you don’t need to know astrology to use the Astrological Layout.  All you need is a circle of 12 cards; i...

In my last few tarot tips, I’ve been talking about how to find and talk about your client’s pet in their reading.  Now I’m going to tell you about a very special layout that will allow you to find just about anything in your client’s life just by its position in the layout.

This card layout is called The Astrological Layout.  It’s one of the most versatile and commonly used card layouts in the world of tarot.

The Astrological Layout uses 12 cards and they are usually laid out in a circle, though I’ve seen some readers who prefer to lay them out in a straight line, left to right.  Personally, I prefer the circle as not only does it mirror the traditional astrology chart format, but the circle is a very symbolic geometrical symbol in the tarot, having no beginning and no end.

When laying out the cards in a circle, your first card is placed on the ‘horizon’ on the left side. That would be 9 o’clock on the clock. The second card is placed slightly to the right, and below the first ca...

I have always felt that if youngsters were taught that not everyone loves in the same way, our world would be a much happier place.  In this tip I’m going to address how Pentacles people give and receive love.  The Pentacles in the Tarot correspond to the three astrology earth signs of Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn, and in the playing-card deck they correspond to Spades.

Pentacles people are earthy.  Mind you, they also often have a very deep spirituality, seeming to connect deeply and automatically into the vibrational reality of the natural world.  But here we are interested in how they give and receive love.
 

It may be difficult for you to be in any sort of love-based relationship with a Pentacles person unless you understand a simple concept.  Pentacles people are powerfully connected to the physical world and to money and stuff.  So, when a Pentacles person wants to show you how much they love you, they will often give you something, or build you something, or do something nic...

Tarot Tip #18 – Love and the Tarot Suits part 1:

     I’ve often wished that tarot, as well as other metaphysical studies, was taught to children in school. If young people learned about this tip early in life, as adults they’d all get along with one another a lot better, and their relationships would be filled with understanding instead of conflict.
    
Earlier in this series of Tarot Tips I explained that each of the four suits of the tarot relates to a different element.  To remind you, the suit of Wands relates to the element of fire, Pentacles to earth, Swords to air, and Cups to water. In my earlier Tip I gave insight into how each suit in the cards brought a different feeling to the reading because each element has distinctly different characteristics.  Wands/Fire is very physical and action oriented, Pentacles/Earth is materialistic but often spiritual, Swords/Air is social and intellectual, and Cups/Water is emotional and intuitive.
    
Those differences in how the suits of t...

 In my Tarot Tip #16 I talked about the various cards in the deck that show you a love relationship is happening in your reading, and I promised to talk about the people involved in those relationships in my next tip.  So, let’s get started.

     Obviously, the Court Cards of the Minor Arcana and certain of the ‘people cards’ of the Major Arcana, will be the actual people in your client’s life that the cards might talk about.  The Court Cards would be the King, Queen, Knight, or Page of each suite.  The ‘people’ cards of the Major Arcana are the High Priestess, The Empress, and The Emperor, and occasionally I have seen the Magician and the Hermit also representing people in my client’s life.

     When you have one or more of the ‘love’ or ‘relationship’ cards I spoke of in Tip #16, and two or more ‘people cards’ all falling near one another in the reading, you have the love story in front of you, ready to be read.

     When reading the love story in your client’s reading, it’s impor...

 In my last tip I talked about several ways you might see a marriage in the cards.  In this tip I’ll talk about love.

     There are many types of love, and the tarot cards do a great job giving us insight into all of them.  In fact, the tarot dedicates an entire suite, the suite of Cups, to the subject of love!  Any time you see cups in a reading, you can assume the cards are speaking about strong emotions concerning something.  If upright, that emotion is usually positive; inverted, negative.  The cups in the tarot deck can show us the entire gambit of human emotions, ranging from the negatives of anger, hurt, depression, and loss, all the way to love, happiness, joy, bliss, belonging and nurturing.

     Let’s focus on love, and specifically, romantic love.

     It’s fun to note right off that the cards wisely recognize that sex and love, even romantic love, are not necessarily the same thing, in spite of the fact that many people treat them as such.  In the cards, love is always repr...