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Each seeker follows his own path; mine uses the Tarot as a focal point and tool. As Pirsig says about geometry, it's not so much true as it is advantageous.

In my experience and for my purposes the tarot is a set of images for meditative focus. In the exoteric sense it's a visual toolbox, an archetypal feast. In the esoteric sense the images are also mnemonic devices that help structure our experience of hidden wisdom. From an analytical point of view, the tarot might be a turbocharged set of Rorschach inkblots, or a tableau of Jungian archetypes.

My first exposure

My first real exposure to tarot was in college in the late 80s. My roommate Jason always had a pack with him and it was, of all things, a great way for him to meet women. As dt king might say, it was a "babe magnet". What was it Kierkegaard said about teaching vis-a-vis seduction?

As I spent more time in research for graduate school I found I enjoy decoding encoded text, whether architecture, literature, art, landscapes, fountains, encryption proper or tarot. It's all related, in my view.

My current involvement

Associations:
- I am a member of the Builders of the Adytum, which teaches practical occultism via tarot and QBLH.
- I also helped the American Tarot Association get their mailing lists off the ground. They have gravitated to Onelist so I'm not involved with them directly so much any more. I still active with the Tarot Prison ministry project penpals I met through ATA.
Online discussions
- Mailing lists
  While mail and news communities may be more loosely-federated than actual associations, they are still very important. The tarot-l mailing list is incredible. You will get to rub elbows with such tarot luminaries as Rachel Pollack, and Arnell Ando. I highly recommend the list.
- Newsgroups
  The alt.tarot newsgroup is profoundly unhealthy and I cannot recommend for you to read it. If you do need to venture in there, get your killfile ready to roll; it is adulterated with the pathological, the terminally unhappy, and the plain ol' fscked up. The ratio of flamers to civil posters is about 10:1.
  alt.tarot.friendly exists mainly as an anti-newsgroup to alt.tarot, which is to say flames are minimal, and the newbie ratio is higher. A.T.F. is not widely propagated. Maybe a post/week if we are lucky.

Spreads I like to use

One card-for-the-day. :) About as simple and effective as it gets. I do my card for the day with Arnell's Transformational Tarot.
Cross and Triangle
My [per]version of the C and T above
Chakra spread. The cards are laid out in the 7 chakra positions.

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