Upcoming 2012 Massachusetts Tarot Society Meetings

May 19, 2012- “Readers Studio Sharing Session” – by MTS attendees of the 2012 RS – George Barham, Linda Farmer, Paris Finley, Sheilaa Hite
June 16, 2012 – “Planting Tarot for the Summer Season” with Krislyn T. Lequin. Exercises with the Majors and Minors of the Tarot. We will be working with a Major Arcana card of which aspect or trait you will spend the summer working on using the minors to help you develop great bounty in your personal tarot growth.
Beginner to advanced.
July 21, 2012 “Open Tarot Discussion” Everyone
August 18, 2012 “Herbal Connections” by Linda Farmer
We will be looking at the connections between the Tarot and the herbs in the Herbal Tarot deck, authored by Candis Cantin and Michael Tiera. If you have an Herbal Tarot deck, great. If you don’t, come anyway because we will have a chart that lists the Tarot cards and the herbs with their spiritual properties so that, theoretically, the information can be applied to any deck. We’ll see what experimenting with this concept brings us.
September 15, 2012 “Gaian and Beyond” by Carolyn Cushing
October 20, 2012 – “Reaping the Harvest of your Tarot Gardening” with Krislyn T. Lequin. We will be covering the work done over the growing season with your Major Arcana card and how the minors helped you to cultivate that growth.
November 17, 2012“Tarot and the Internet” by Paris Finley
Browsing together, we look at online groups, sites, and resources, plus learn some tricks from ‘User Friendly’ computer columnist, Paris Finley.” eBay buying & selling tricks. No computer needed at the meeting.- (Open to those who own at least one deck and know the general meanings for their cards.)
December 15, 2012“Wheel of the Year”

Unscheduled and still ahead:
“Tarot and the Qabalistic Tree of Life” – Juniper Talbot

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Mass Tarot Society Meeting – May 19 – “Readers Studio Sharing Session”

Attendees to this year’s Reader’s Studio in New York (April 28-30, 2012) will share some of the highlights of the meeting. George Barham, Sheilaa Hite, Linda Farmer, Paris Finley and Carolyn Cushing of the M.T.S. attended this year.

Open to anyone with a basic knowledge of a Tarot or Oracle deck.

1 pm to 3 pm at the Lilly Library in Florence, Mass.
Administration meeting starts at noon for those interested in helping with running the M.T.S.

Mass Tarot Society Meeing – 4/21/12 – Intuitive Tarot & Divination with George Barham

In this session, led by George Barham, we explored divination as the foundation of the tarot. Divination goes back thousands of years. The world’s oldest book the I Ching is divination tool. We will created our own divination tool in class and did readings with it.  Rachel Pollack  has said “Tarot is one of the great systems of divination”.  We were able to experience that first hand.

Attendees: Marc, Carol, Kat, Jill, Lilith, Erin, Jacqueline, Deborah, Joellen, Brenda, krislyn & Paris

Memorable:
“graciously being soulful”
“World Spirit Tarot” – Deborah
“turning diamonds back into coal”

Reminders:
Omega Institute

Mass Tarot Society Meeting – 3/17/12 – Exploring the Tarot as a Guide to the Soul’s Journey

At this meeting, Marcianna Caplis, using Carl Japikse’s book as a reference, led us through card meanings and some layouts with the Tarot Roots of Asia and The Aquarian Tarot. We explored Japikse’s concepts.

Mass Tarot Society Meeting – 2/18/12 – Tarot Scrapbooking Plus

February 18 – “Tarot Scrapbooking/Journaling & More with Joellen Aquadro”

Attendees: Laura, Marcianna, Ada, Linda, Jill, Joellen, George, Juniper, Paris, Karen, Brenda, Kat, Marie, and Krislyn.

Announcements:
Juniper Talbot is hosting “Tarot Talk” at InspiritCommon (219 Main, Northampton) on Wednesdays from 6-7.
Walk-ins welcome. Call InspiritCommon at 413-585-1169 for more information. Juniper is also offering a Tarot Class Series at Inspirit Common in April.

JoEllen took attendees through some ways to explore solitary tarot time: journaling, scrapbooking and mindmapping.
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Noteworthy:
Tai Chi is The Strength card (George)
Keep track of synchronicities (Jo)
Keep using the same date book, and you can see what happened on the same day, year-after-year. (Jo)
A website featuring daily blogs about journaling (Jo) [What was the site, Jo?]
What archetypes do the great birds represent? (who was this?)
Blank decks are available. (Paris)
Rounded corner cutters are available. (Jo)
Gentle alarm clocks/ “zen clocks” (various)
Crystal by the bed (Brenda)
No electrical appliances in the bedroom (Brenda)
Mugwort pillows and teas (Linda, Krislyn, Brenda, various)
Carrier oils (Krislyn)
Smudge sticks
A deck of decks (Jo)
“Temple Grandon” (sp?) movie (Karen)
Cloth to “soften” the meeting space

No Mass Tarot Today (the 21st).

Alas, we cannot gather today because the Lily Library is closed.  We’ll let you know about soon about the shifting of the schedule.  So stay home warm and safe and play with your Tarot decks on your own.

REMINDER: We’re at the Lilly Library in Florence Saturday, January 20! 1-3 pm

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Start 2012 by Learning Tarot

If your New Year’s Resolution was to learn Tarot, there are many opportunities right here in the Valley for you to do so!

I (Carolyn of Art of Change Tarot) will be doing a three-sessions series called Tools for Lifelong Tarot Learning at Groundings in Florence. These sessions will ground you in Tarot basics as well as give you tools and techniques for your continued exploration of Tarot as a tool for personal development, spiritual exploration, creativity enhancement, and discerning the unfolding patterns of life. Sessions are from 6 – 8pm on the 10th, 17th, and 24th of January; hold the 31st for a snow day! Sessions may be taken individually but sign up for the whole series for just $70. Pre-registration required through Groundings (Call 413-320-4919  or e-mail: information@GroundingsLLC.com).  Session titles are:

• Creating a Spine of Meaning
• Encountering the Tarot
• Reading for Self and Others

All session are very interactive.  More details at http://artofchangetarot.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/january-class-in-ma-tools-for-lifelong-tarot-learning/.

Juniper Talbot continues here weekly Wednesday evening Tarot Talks at Inspirit Common open to all levels of experience.

Winifred Tannetta is also doing a January class over 4 Tuesday evenings (clearly Tuesdays are for Tarot!) at Awen Tree in Eathampton, titled Journey of the Tarot: Check the site or call 413-527-3331 for more details.

Did I get all the January happenings?  If you know of more, please put them in the comments.

 

Mass Tarot Society Meeting – 12/17/11 – The Wheel of the Year

December 17 – “The Wheel of the Year” by Carolyn Cushing of Art of Change Tarot

Attendees: Rianna, Jonna, Linda, Paris, Connie, Erin, Marcianna, Brenda, Linda, Ada, Ray, Joellen, Cindy,George, Laura, Devin, Kat, & Carolyn.

Announcements: Sunday is Epona Day, Saturday begins Saturnalia, the winter solstice is next week; our next meeting, in January, will be at the Lilly Library and will be presented by Marcianna. Joellen will present a workshop on scrap-booking in February; Carolyn will return from Montana to do a presentation on either self-discovery/self-exploration, tarot ethics, or reading styles in March; George will present on divination in April. Each meeting in 2012 will have a 15 minute session at the end of the feature presentation that will focus on card study; we’ll use Ruth and Wald Amberstone’s schedule for the 2012 year (retyped by Joellen). The “The Time Capsule” activity, originally scheduled for this meeting, is postponed to January.

Suggestions: “Bright Idea” deck by Mark McElroy (Devin). Works by Carl Japikse (Marcianna).

Carolyn Cushing led participants through the creation of a Wheel of the Year Tarot Spread for Finding Focus, Guiding Reflection in 2012 (or any year!)

The drawing for a FREE custom Tarot painting by Tarot artist Linda Jones was won by George, by George!

Meet Carolyn
Carolyn Cushing is a passionate change maker and Tarot enthusiast who loves to work with people to make positive life transitions, grow spiritually, and develop creatively. E-mail her at carolyn [at] artofchangetarot [dot] com for more information.

Where we meet!

Our great thanks to Krislyn and the Lilly for our new home. The meeting dates (3rd Saturday of the month) and times (1-3 pm) will stay the same. Come at noon if you’d like to help with planning, calendar and other administrivia.


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