How To Use Tarot Spreads
How To Use Tarot Spreads
This easy-to-use tarot guide features over three dozen spreads for answering questions about romance, career, finance, and more. Sample readings from the author’s practice illustrate how to put the cards together to see the overall theme of a tarot reading. Perfect for beginners, this book also includes a list of upright and reversed card meanings and keywords for all seventy-eight cards.
About the Author:
Sylvia Abraham was owner of The Cosmic Lantern Bookstore in Long Beach, California, where she had been in business selling metaphysical books and supplies for more than 15 years. She devoted over 20 years to reading the Tarot and teaching others how to interpret the Tarot. Sylvia passed away in January of 2017.
Amethyst
Transformation
Affirmation: I create my reality. I can change my reality. It’s easy for me to transform and transmute challenging situations. I use my intuition and follow my hunches. I am aligned with higher wisdom. I pay attention to my dreams and easily interpret them.
Color: purple
Chakra(s): third eye and crown
Astrological sign(s): Aquarius
Planet(s): Uranus
Number(s): 11, 22, and 33
Element(s): air
Mohs scale: 7
Spiritual uses: Amethyst stimulates the third eye and all six “clairs” (or sensory gifts): clairvoyance, clairaudience, claircognizance, clairsentience, clairolfaction, and clairgustation. These are terms for the ability to spiritually see, hear, know, sense, smell, and taste the truth. Use this purple-toned quartz to ward off nightmares and encourage sweet dreams and restful sleep. It is also good to help you remember your dreams. Amethyst helps protect you from psychic attacks and clear out the negative thoughts of the day. This stone is perfect to invite the angelic vibes of Archangels Gabriel, Metatron, Raziel, Tzaphkiel, and Zadkiel.
Mental uses: The purple vibration in amethyst has powerful transformative qualities. To use this vibration in changing unwanted situations, imagine yourself surrounded by a vibrating, glowing bubble of violet light emanating from the stone. As you imagine this, know that all that you are upset about or challenged by is currently being transformed and transmuted into something powerful. Imagine the situation changing to what you do want versus how it currently is. The vibration of your imagination of how you want your life to be combined with the violet light will effectuate change.
Emotional uses: When you realize your emotions need to be transformed or significantly shifted, amethyst’s purple energy gives you the strength and wherewithal to make the change. Imagine yourself surround by the purple energy of this gemstone as you focus on how you would like to feel.
