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Looking forward to TABI in Birmingham

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Only a few days to go before the weekend. As ever, I am not exactly sure what I am going to say in my Workshop on Sunday, but I am sure the muse will strike.

A big highlight will be seeing Catherine Chapman again – we only me once after we wrote the book  – she drove down to Brighton on the longest day of the year, and it was windy and wet. I am sure the weather will be better this time.

We will both have copies of our book Beyond the Celtic Cross, which means that for the first time ever some lucky person will be the first to have one signed by the both of us.

I am taking the camcorder and I hope to put the results on youtube…

See you there.

Meeting Catherine Chapman

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Catherine and I wrote “Beyond the Celtic Cross” via email. It was nearly six months after she contacted me about her tarot reading that we finally met on a wet, wintry, windy day on Brighton seafront – it was the longest day of the year – but the few hours in her company flew by.

Since then she has gone on to bigger and better things, in particular her tarot blog which I thoroughly recommend. When the book finally came out in December 2009, Catherine was having all kinds of problems with her computer and internet connection, and other circumstances, while there were all kinds of delays to the book launch. These things are sent to try us. Writing a book on tarot means that suddenly people are interested in booking me for speaking engagements, and I was very pleased to accept an invitation from TABI to do a workshop on Beyond the Celtic Cross at their conference in July this year in Birmingham. I suggested a Facebook page for the conference would be a good idea, which now exists as you can see. Catherine has been in TABI for many years, and I am very pleased to see she is an administrator for the conference. This will only be our second face to face meeting in two years. We will have a lot to talk about.

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Reviews of “Beyond the Celtic Cross”

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Book cover of Beyond the Celtic Cross

There is a new review on Amazon.

Amazon 5 star

This review also appears on Lori Green’s blog. I think the interesting point Lori makes is that she did a reading using the Celtic Cross, and then read the cards using the techniques Catherine and I describe, and she found that:

“The Celtic Cross spread that I laid out was OK but a bit ambiguous in places and I didn’t gain much insight from the interpretation. I then re-did the reading using the card counting technique and the reading came to life and made absolute sense – I was amazed and so pleased that it actually “worked” for me.”

Clearly the proof is in the pudding.

If you have come across a review, or you have written one yourself, please let me know.

Beyond the Celtic Cross

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Tarot Celtic Cross
Image by judykaywallace via Flickr

Word is reaching me that my second book co-written with Catherine Chapman is at the publishers and fingers crossed, it will be available at the end of next week. Beyond the Celtic Cross explores powerful techniques for analysing a tarot reading at very deep levels. It all began when Catherine emailed me about problems she was having with a reading about herself.

When I looked at the cards it was easy to see why she was struggling. Rather than stay with the Celtic Cross format, I decided to apply the techniques I have been using and show Catherine how she can do it herself, rather than me simply giving a reading. And so a half hour tarot reading became a six month project that eventually took even longer when my publisher took an interest.

Since Catherine knew the techniques (she had been reading supertarot for sometime), I realised that it was not about teaching, but mentoring, bringing out the skills that were already there. Already one very tangible outcome of the book is Catherine’s blog, quite simply the best tarot blog so far.

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Tarot Mentoring

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Tarot mentoring is something I have been doing for many years, and to be honest it has been a closely guarded secret. Mentoring involves giving support and encouragement through the ups and downs, sometimes simply by being there. I can also help avoid pitfalls, or confirm that a particular situation or experience is a valid part of learning the Tarot. Continue reading →