2014 Tarot Project

Jim Eshelman

"That is correct. A pause after each pair of cards. So for example from 12/31-1/2 We're working on the Fool. From 1/3-1/5 The magician. 1/6 is a rest day and we pick it back up on 1/7 with the Priestess and so on..."

I suggest you skip a second day to start out - so that you move the skip day to Saturday. That will serve most people best, I think.

@Mephis said

"It says in the participation instructions that we are limited to discussion of our own meditations and cannot quote from other books, etc. Does this apply to Thelemic literature as well (I am supplementing my meditation with readings from Crowley's "Book of Thoth." Are we allowed to raise questions about particulars in Crowley's text or, for instance, bring up quotations or passages from Thelemic books that come to mind during or after meditation?"

It's about getting your results from meditation, not about your "studying up." Sure, ask questions - but maybe wait for day three (unless there's some reason it's more pressing). That's my suggestion because, once you get people started on intellectual exchange, it's hard to keep the tone on actual meditative realization or experience.

Besides, its better to get your answers from the cards themselves in meditation than to get them from someone else

Mephisto

@Jim Eshelman said

"It's about getting your results from meditation, not about your "studying up." Sure, ask questions - but maybe wait for day three (unless there's some reason it's more pressing). That's my suggestion because, once you get people started on intellectual exchange, it's hard to keep the tone on actual meditative realization or experience."

Gotcha; that makes perfect sense. I'll keep the focus on my personal experiences and use references sparingly if at all.

"Besides, its better to get your answers from the cards themselves in meditation than to get them from someone else "

Also makes perfect sense.

Stop making so much fucking sense, Jim!

Thanks for all the clarifications. I am now fully armed and ready for the project. Looking forward to the collective experience. Happy New Year!

Al-Shariyf

@Jim Eshelman said

"I suggest you skip a second day to start out - so that you move the skip day to Saturday. That will serve most people best, I think."

Ok this is how we will do it then.

Thanks for your guidance on this Jim.

jcrow

I will be a day behind as I thought we were beginning this today, January 1st. On one of the off days I will catch up

Deus Ex Machina

I'm on this one as well! Just what the doctor ordered.

Mephisto

@jcrow said

"I will be a day behind as I thought we were beginning this today, January 1st. On one of the off days I will catch up"

Likewise. (Crazy night: there is a major conjunction in Sagittarius on my afflicted Saturn/Neptune/Uranus in the third house.) I will do both meditations today.

Hermitas

@Al-Shariyf said

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@Jim Eshelman said
"I suggest you skip a second day to start out - so that you move the skip day to Saturday. That will serve most people best, I think."

Ok this is how we will do it then.

Thanks for your guidance on this Jim."

So.. Break til Sunday?

Corvinae

I have enjoyed seeing the different "sharing styles " This mediation has brought out. I deliberately did not read through others responses until I had posted my own. it was empowering for me to read how others had articulated some of the same ideas that had arisen during my own work, but I had not formed fully into ideas to share here.

I do believe we are breaking till Sunday, two cards a week Then out.
( except this week. Which is sort of like a non week anyway, with storms, vacations, getting the work groove back on....putting away holiday ect ect...very appropriate for the Fool )

It's nice to see so many active participants sharing in this Book. I hope that there are readers of the forum who are also participating but not inclined or able to share yet and maybe eventually will find a voice. ( I know who you are )

I have always struggled with the Tarot, I've very good at intuiting the cards but it is hard, sort of like I'm unconfidently groping around in an attic. This time, this effort, I'm trying something completely new... (if what your doing doesn't work, try something new.). I'm feeling very confident about this new method, as I already have a different relationship to the Fool card then I ever have had.

Al-Shariyf

Yes break til Sunday.

Sorry for the confusion. I'll edit the post I did for the Magician. I thought I understood Jim's suggestion but apparently I got confused haha

ForceFire

NoOoOoO

I can't believe I missed the boat on this one. Whats the next one I can hop on to?

Al-Shariyf

It's ok Force, you didn't miss the boat. You can get started any time.