Three Lessons from the Child: Three Lessons Tarot Process, #1

By Rider Duran

The Three Lessons Process is the only in-depth Tarot book suitable for both beginner and advanced readers. It takes you into a doable, daily process of getting truly intimate with every card of the Tarot, giving you accurate readings and firing up your Intuition.

 

The First Lesson involves embedding the image of the Tarot into your Subconscious. The Second Lesson brings you through a safe way to journey into and out of the card. The Third Lesson, journaling, gives you a practical handle of the Tarot's presence in everyday life.

 

Through guided prayer and meditation, games, and imaginative exercises, the Three Lessons Process provides you an encounter with the Tarot like never before. This volume concentrates fully on the Fool card, the beginning of the Child's — and your — journey.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rider Duran
• Release date: Feb 27, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393618751

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Preface

Thank you for purchasing this book. Whether this is yet another Tarot book you’re adding to your growing tower of resources, or your first Tarot-related book purchase ever, I hope it will serve you well.

This book is not intended to replace those volumes written on the interpretations of the Tarot cards for one’s self or for clients. This is not even a companion volume to those esteemed and popular titles. It is, rather, a preliminary to them. Once you grasp the essence of the Three Lessons and make it your own, those large books of card meanings, spreads, and interpretations will look infinitely more useful to you. In spite of its humble title, I assure you, you will get more than just three lessons as you read through each chapter. Each card of the Tarot will yield for you a lifetime of lessons, and this book is the first in the Three Lessons series, focusing wholly on the Fool card.

Your lessons will be dynamic, for as you evolve and grow towards higher consciousness and awareness, so will they. What I intend to give you is a gift that will keep on giving: a reliable process of mining wisdom from and getting intimate with your Tarot deck (whether it’s an old favorite or a new acquisition, a popular deck or an obscure offshoot from Kickstarter). I call this process the Three Lessons Process. I want to tell you a bit about where these lessons came from.

Like many of you, the Pixie Smith deck commissioned by Arthur Waite was my first physical deck. Mine was actually a little fancier: the Radiant Raider-Waite. I loved its clear lines and vibrant colors. I say physical deck because prior to buying my first ever Tarot deck, I’ve downloaded the Galaxy Tarot app. That was where my first lessons in divination began really, so my heartfelt thanks go to the generous souls at Galaxy Tone for creating that amazing app. I stared unblinking for what felt like hours at Pamela Colman Smith’s cryptic drawings on my phone screen trying to uncover the mystery behind these colorful people, sometimes elaborately dressed, sometimes stark naked. I wanted the cards to talk to me, the way sacred texts like the Holy Bible and the Bhagavad Gita were said to speak to saints and scholars. I read my Card of the Day and keenly observed how that oracle would play out as I went about my merry way. I fancied myself to be a divination detective, a sortilege sleuth. It was a casual friendship with the cards at the start. I was merely researching them for a novel I was writing at the time. I certainly didn’t believe in them the way I believed in science or my religion.

Because the Galaxy Tarot app’s explanations for each card were clear, they somehow stuck to my brain, so that when I tried to read for others, I was able to recall the assigned meanings and echo those to them. This card traditionally represents fathers. Does that mean anything to you? How is your relationship with your father now? Which would be met by a client’s sharp gasp, We’re not in speaking terms now!

Or I would draw the Justice card and say, This card usually represents legal proceedings and a sense of right and wrong. And the client would say, Yes! I’m actually engaged in a legal battle with my spouse. We’re separating, and it’s stressing me out!

The Galaxy Tarot app also prepared a sort of Symbols index, building for Tarot readers a reliable common vocabulary of Pixie Smith’s imagery, so that the stars I see in the sky in the Star card, on the crowns of the Empress and the Chariot’s rider, and even the reversed star on the Devil’s forehead, evoked in me an impetus for meaning. The app also has spreads you can try out. Often it shows how this or that symbol has appeared in several cards within a spread, so it must have some significance to your question. Pay attention!

When I purchased my first actual deck (I had to learn to shuffle!), I simply transported that knowledge I built up from the Galaxy app onto my actual readings. My first readings, though, were just silly party games to me. I didn’t take them seriously, and I read only for my friends.

Hey, I’m studying the Tarot. Just for fun, pick a card. Any card. I’d affect a slick accent.

Sure!

Oh, this is the Knight of Cups. Did you have a good bang with an emo guy last week, one who always wears black?

Oh my god, how did you know? Did you set up a CCTV at my home?!

Of course my friend was just playing along, and I laughed it off, but her face was serious. Was I spying on her?