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Welcome to the Tarot School Forum! This is the place to discuss the teachings of Wald and Ruth Ann Amberstone, founders and instructors of The Tarot School, producers of The Readers Studio annual event for professional tarot readers, and authors of Tarot Tips and the just released Secret Language of Tarot.
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Csaba
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« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2007, 01:31:29 AM »

Dear Wald!  It's good to hear that things will not take place so imminently as it's just in the preface of the book, the rest of it might take a long while.   No, there is nothing on the part of the "hierarchy" here as long as I stay cautious and keep my enthusiasm in low key.  I was transferred from Canada to Hungary the last year, for my mother tongue is Hungarian.  The Fourth Lesson is very intriguing but I wasn't satisfied with my meditation on the night under the Dark Moon and decided after jotting down the Close Examination of the first five pip Cups to repeat it but got stuck and instead I was just filling my head with ideas from books and the web and found myself overwhelmed by the quantity of what I need and would like to know, by the questions arising about reconciling different systems, and by feeling the need to remember important, elementary details e.g. of related astrological notions.  But reading the actual in the meantime (mostly for myself) has always been a great delight to me, and it's been like learning a new language that takes much patience at the beginning and then remaining ready to learn without end.  Happy to hear from you! (I worried if my lines might get misunderstood) Hugs, Csaba
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« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2007, 09:58:35 PM »

What a very pleasant surprise to hear from you, Csaba! I had thought that possibly your hierarchy had squelched your enthusiasm for tarot in some way, and of course, I would have to bow to that. So thinking, I left things stand without comment. I'm delighted to find out that I was wrong.

Concerning my own imminent departure from tarot, not to worry. Smiley I have to admit that every once in awhile the combination of my love of melodrama and serious overwork makes me think of chucking it all and selling shoes for a living. But then I get a grip, and I realize that what I do is all I want to do.

Still, the feelings that underlay the concept for A Cup Full of Tarot, and the writing of the introduction for it, were genuine. And the book that will eventually materialize from those feelings will be no less valuable and valid.

The first couple of entries in our blog, and the necessary review of the material that will follow, please me -- and I think they will please you. I'll continue in this vein, the disclaimer above notwithstanding, because the book that results will become what it needs to become that way.

If this book does in fact become historically interesting at some point, this discussion should make it all the more interesting.

Once again, thank you for keeping in touch! I do so look forward to resuming our lessons and our ongoing conversations about them.

Blessings in Heresy,
Your friend, Wald
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« on: June 23, 2007, 07:10:57 PM »

Dear Ruth Ann, Wald, and Fellow Students,
After I handed in my work on the third lesson and got my first degree candidacy in 2005 I was very happy to have produced something.  It's been two years now that I simply got stuck and found myself imbibing all kinds of literature on Tarot and its ramifications (Alchemy, Qabalah, Kabbalah, Numerology - Qabalistic and Pythagorean, even Wicca, pagan mythology), I feel I do not produce anything for my progress in writing.  Then came the shock to read in the blog that Wald was contemplating to put down the Tarot, - for awhile or all together, if I understood correctly.  Throughout my short and slow journey of a tortoise in the realm of Tarot School I hoped and prayed only if my masters could "wait" for me and the remaining 9 lessons.
  Then I listened to the interview of Today's Tarot Podcast with Wald and Ruth Ann and realised how much I admire both of them for what and how they have worked on the Tarot School.  As an RC priest I'm grateful for all the precious heresies I've been taught thus far:) and am worried and would ask Wald to ask to reconsider, just for our selfish sake or mine.  In any event, I felt words of appreciation were long due, and that's all I wanted to do in this post.



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