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Tarot Hermeneutics

Exploring How We Create Meaning with Tarot

Cultivating the Sacred Rose Tarot in the Garden of your Soul

 

Our Tuesday evening, 7 PM to 9 PM Eastern Standard Time, teleconference tarot discussion group which meets weekly and without obligations or fees will begin an open ended intensive study of The Sacred Rose Tarot by Johanna Gargiulo-Sherman. The deck has been a best-selling tarot deck for nearly 33 years. Johanna, who created the deck and its companion guide, will lead us through a number of discussions and exercises about the meaning of the cards and its symbolism: How to work with the deck intuitively for self –inquiry and self-knowledge, as a magical system for transformation and ritual healing work, as well as a means of divination.

Each week we will go through parts of the Guide the to The Sacred Rose Tarot with the intent to amplify the magical and psychological symbolism as discussed in the work. We will also systematically study each card in the deck going through its color symbolism as well as the levels of meaning of the images and symbols. There will be some light comparisons with the Rider Waite Smith deck and the Tarot of Marseille images and symbols.

Altogether the purpose of these conversations will be to explore innovative ways of using the deck for fun and profit as well as for prophecy and soothsaying.

As usual for the Tuesday evening classes there are no fees or commitments. People are welcome to call in – and over time will become acclimated to the discussion and conversation of the group. We are a peer led group rather than a directive study class. However in this study because we have the creator of the tarot deck with us, she will keep us oriented to the magical traditions she was utilizing when she created The Sacred Rose Tarot. This group is beginning in January 2014 and will continue studying the material in an open-ended fashion until we feel that we have completed our task.

 

You may contact pnagy(at)tarothermeneutics.com if you have any questions about the class. If you have questions about the tarot deck itself you’re welcome to email Johanna Gargiulo-Sherman johannagsherman(at)hotmail.com. The Sacred Rose Tarot is the rose as a "symbol of Western consciousness, similar to the lotus in the East." On the back of the cards are five roses: red, white, blue, gold and starry purple. The artist Johanna Sherman drew inspiration for this deck from Byzantine icons and medieval stained glass windows. Most cards show a prominent figure facing forward in a lush, natural setting. The idea for the Sacred Rose Tarot began in 1977 when Sherman's illustrated business card arrived at the offices of U. S. Games, sparking an interest in her artwork.

 

 

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Telephone Contact

Dial in Number

Dial at 7-9PM EST [12-2AM GMT]:

1-(559) 726-1300

Participant Access Code:

 686427#

(You will be charged your regular long distance rate, if applicable. There are no hidden charges or tolls for this class.

You are welcome to dial in any time during call.  

The alternative number is when and if the 1st number is not working properly

Alternative number: 1 (605) 715-4920

Access number: 2160089 # 

Schedule:

Open discussion and reading texts hour one: Second hour tarot exercises and games.

 

related pages

Template Elemental Power Spread

Explanation of Elemental Power Spread

David Attwood's Tree of Life Elemental Power Spread

Review of Jean-Luc Marion, In the Self's Place: The Approach of St. Augustine by John D. Caputo

Stages of Life

autobiography as tarot practice