Romancing the Tarot

Phyllis Vega

a review by Solaris, CPTR

Phyllis Vega co-authored Power Tarot, a popular book of spreads for just about every situation. Now you can enjoy her new book specifically for matters concerning love and relationships. Spreads in this book help you to change your beliefs, focus your intent, and use your will and imagination to create the relationship you want. The tarot spreads in this book help illustrate how negative thoughts, feelings and beliefs can undermine your intimate relationships. If there is a problem with love, sex, or letting go of someone in a relationship, there is probably a spread in Romancing the Tarot which addresses the issue. This book is unique in that it gives seven categories that are geared to romance for each of the 78 cards: Just the categories alone can make up a spread!

Expectations - what you want/get Emotional - how you really feel about the relationship Material - careers and finances Sexual - physical/intimacy issues Spiritual - how you grow spiritually Challenges - difficulties you may encounter Outcome - what may happen in the relationship

There is also a section on Court Cards. I find this helpful, as court cards can be difficult to understand in readings, especially when dealing with love or romance questions. The courts can represent characteristics and personality aspects, events or activities, or seasons of the year. As with the rest of the deck, major arcana and aces through tens, the seven categories are given for the courts. Since this book is strictly about romance issues, readers need to observe some caution, especially if you have a Code of Ethics about not reading for third parties. (A third party is anyone other than the client who is receiving the reading.)

Many of the spreads in this book have positions that are asking the reader to tell the client what another person will do or how the other person in the relationship will react. The emphasis of a reading needs to be focused on what the client can do about the situation. Try to keep the reading centered on the client's responsibility in the relationship by rewording the position. For example, change The other person's feelings about you (the client) to How you think the other person may feel about you. There is a spread for finding out if someone is cheating on you, which in my personal Code is a no-no to read about. It has positions for where your significant other's relationship with another person is going, what your SO's concern is, and the other person. How does a reader determine what qualifies as true love? In a spread called True Love, the last position asks if the love between the persons in the relationship is true love or not. I would reword this position toWhat happiness can I expect to achieve? or What takes my relationship to a higher level of satisfaction?

I think that most readers can use the spreads in this book to help clients look at their relationships in a new perspective. Just be wary and do not put yourself in a position of making predictions or speaking for a person who isn't the one having the reading. The fact that there are seven ways to look at each card gives reader lots of new meanings and keywords. This book is helpful in giving you ideas for creating your own spreads for romance questions. For those who are phone readers or who do live readings online, this is a wonderful book to have handy. Remember to use the spreads wisely, be professional and stick to your ethics. I hope you enjoy working with the spreads in this book as much as I did.

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