Suggestions for Exercises – Tarot Lesson 12

Exercise 12.1 – Arcana Cards in the Celtic Cross

Layout One: All cards are minor except the outcome (Position 10). This situation is a temporary personal drama, but its impact will be powerful and significant in some way. (See Jill’s first reading.)

Layout Two: The only major arcana card is in the Past (Position 4). The circumstances of the moment are the result of some major event from the past, or what was once of major significance is now fading.

Suggestions for Exercises – Tarot Lesson 16

Exercise 16.1 – Traditional Position Pairs in the Celtic Cross

Bold phrases refer to card meanings. Italic phrases refer to position meanings.

1. Position 1— Position 2
   (A) Page of Cups — Knight of Pentacles
   My son is a sweet, sensitive guy who takes everything to heart. His teacher is too inflexible and grim. She’s driving my son too hard by insisting on an unreasonable level of perfection.

Suggestions for Exercises – Tarot Lesson 14

Exercise 14.2 – Kings

1. King of Cups: I would sit down with my spouse to discuss his/her concerns. — (caring)
2. King of Pentacles: I would give him five dollars. He probably needs it more than I do. — (supporting)
3. King of Swords: I would ask my daughter for her story before making any judgments. — (just)
4. King of Wands: I would booby trap my car so an alarm goes off if my roommate starts it. — (creative)
5. King of Pentacles: I would tell my friend “Sorry, they need me at work.” — (reliable)
6. King of Swords: I would accept the invitation because I’m an excellent public speaker. — (articulate)
7. King of Cups: I would smile and patiently give my order a third time. — (patient)
8. King of Wands: I would call a huddle and get everyone fired up again. — (inspiring)

Suggestions for Exercises – Lesson 3 Tarot

Exercise 3.1 – What are the Suit Qualities?

1. Cups – negative
2. Pentacles – negative
3. Swords – positive
4. Swords – negative
5. Wands – positive
6. Pentacles – positive
7. Cups – positive
8. Swords – positive
9. Wands – negative
10. Pentacles – positive
11. Swords – negative
12. Wands – positive
13. Cups – negative
14. Cups – positive
15. Wands – negative
16. Cups – negative
17. Pentacles – negative
18. Swords – positive
19. Pentacles – positive
20. Swords – negative
21. Cups – positive
22. Wands – negative
23. Wands – positive
24. Pentacles – negative

40 Meditation Exercises as listed in the Path of Purification

By Bhikkhu Khantipalo

 

If one has no meditation teacher from whom one may request a meditation subject, then one has to rely upon one’s knowledge of one’s character in order to prescribe for oneself a suitable meditation. There are forty meditation exercises (kammatthana) noted by the great teacher Buddhaghosa as being suited to certain types of character. For the purposes of meditation, he considers six characters: faithful, intelligent, and speculative (in which the skillful roots of non-greed, non-hatred and non-delusion are variously dominant); and greedy, hating, and deluded (in which greed, hatred and delusion, the unskillful roots, are dominant). The trouble here is twofold: firstly, very few “pure” types can be found, most people being mixtures of two or more of them — and moreover ever-changing mixtures; and secondly, it is rather difficult to judge which class one’s character belongs to since one’s own delusion and pride are apt to blur one’s judgments.

EXERCISING THE POWER OF YOUR MINDS EYE

Taking your time, translate each of the following descriptions into a  mental image. Go back and do it again in a few weeks and then a few weeks later, and notice the difference. Notice the difference, also, in the way you see things…inner as well as outer..after you’ve done these exercises.