The tarot card counting technique for reading tarot cards in the Opening of the Key spread might seem a bit of a misnomer, for counting up to twelve is hardly arduous. The thing is, there are many subtleties to interpreting counting tarot cards that I have studied for many years, and I think it is time to discuss them in public.
Didn’t I write about tarot card counting in The Tarot and the Magus and Beyond the Celtic Cross? Of course! But in the course of writing the first book I discovered the concept of ‘uncounted’ cards, while in the second, it was by way of an introduction for tarot readers who are more familiar with the Celtic Cross.
What I am going to do is to go back to the original tarot reading for The Tarot and the Magus, and explore all four strings of cards. When I wrote the book, I did an analysis for all four strings, but the publisher sensibly omitted three, leaving only the Earth string. In the process I am going to go back to basics – stripping out any dogma surrounding the tarot. I spend a lot of time deconstructing the tarot, and to do this, simplicity is the foundation upon which greater complexity is built, not the other way, which can only lead to confusion.
Tucked away in a corner of supertarot are the tables laying out the four strings, and my analysis will be on the sister site, newtarot.com, because what I will be presenting is new and original. I hope you will follow and make comments. In the process, I hope your understanding of the two books will deepen as a result, and your tarot readings will be more insightful.
