Reading Cards and Stones Q: Can you elaborate on the idea that we call the Tarot and how it works? B: Yes. It gets directly in touch with the archetypal level of your collective consciousness, and allows you to interpret archetypal movement and motion of individual personalities. Do you understand this? It is a mirror of the archetypal level of your collective consciousness. Q: Can you explain archetypal level? B: The collective symbology -- as you translate from spirit to physical reality there are the idea of certain symbols that represent different energies, different motions, different personality constructs. These are embodied in the symbols utilized in the deck of cards that you refer to. And at times when you are, shall we say, looking into those mirrors different symbols will stand out at different times and in different combinations and different ways. Indicating in those patterns as you perceive them with your intuitive sense, the symbols that are more representative of the archetypal flows of energy, and the way the personality that you are dealing with is interpreting the flow of spirit into physical reality. You are looking at their crystallized pattern of personality expressions. Q: How accurate is it? B: It depends, again, on the individual. It is a very well constructed trigger mechanism that can be exceedingly accurate depending on the sensitivity of the individual doing the reading. Because understand that is all you are really doing, is triggering that individual's connection to the archetypal level of consciousness. So in that sense they are channeling the information from a portion of their Higher self. And thus, it is that Higher self vibration that is making the symbols on the cards /stand out/ to be "reinforced" in what they are /intuitively/ getting in touch with, anyway, on another level. It is like Higher self communication to Higher self, but interpreting it and having the conversation through the physiological personalities, so that there is validity and credence given down on the physical level as well. Q: OK. Now when you shuffle the cards, and you take the cards after you shuffle them... B: Yes. Q: ...from the top... B: Yes. Q: ...who is giving them the order? I mean.... B: The Higher self. Q: The Higher self. B: And sub-conscious self. Q: Is it the same with the Celtic stones, the reading of the stones? B: Yes. All of that idea works exactly the same way. You are giving over, in trust, to all the different levels and layers of your consciousness that you do not normally allow yourself to be aware of in your awake conscious state; and you are allowing them to arrange things, in such a manner, while you are not looking at them, so your physical mind can't interfere, cannot impose its framework upon them. Thus, they are given an opportunity to allow those things to be ordered and patterned in such a way that then they are speaking directly to you when interpreted by an individual sensitive to the vibrations of those subconscious and unconscious, or Higher self levels. Q: So why couldn't you just buy a deck of cards and do it yourself? B: For yourself? Q: Yes. B: It can be all right, but it will depend on how honest you are with yourself and your communicated style with yourself. But by all means, certainly it can be something that would be very helpful in certain situations. Q: Well, if you are not psychic and you... B: You are ALL psychic, you are all psychic, it is just a matter of the degree to which you allow yourself to suspend your disbelief. Q: Well, you know like, when you look at the cards and you say, "what does this make me think of?" B: Yes. Q: And then you have those little books that you have to refer to... B: Sometimes you can start that way, but you will find that it will no longer be necessary as you get used to the idea, and of course, as you practice and practice, and get a feeling of the energy itself, that lets you know when you are on the right frequency, the right wavelength, you won't need the cards either. Q: Right. B: Remember that they are just trigger mechanisms. Q: Sure, fun. Q: Yes. And if you approach it that way, fun, that is the likely way that you will open to allowing the interpretation to come through in the clearest possible manner. You follow along? Q: Yes. B: Thank you. Q: Thank you.