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Postby mark lewis » Aug 28th, '07, 18:35



I have done thousands upon thousands of readings and I am extremely reluctant to agree with the rather horrible Lord Freddie but I do admit that on this one occasion he is correct. It doesn't matter a toss if you use the actual standard meanings of the cards or not. In fact in my own psychic course I advise that the first thing you do is to throw the little instruction book that comes with the decks away.

In the book Tarotmania by Jan Woudhuysen he advises you to meditate on each card and decide on what it means to YOU. That is far more effective than going by standard meanings.

The punters will assume you are an expert and you will never be corrected. I refuse for example to use reversed card meanings which you are supposed to do. It is never questioned. The possibility of anyone questioning my meanings is so rare as to make it not worth considering. However if it does happen (perhaps once in a thousand readings) I will simply say that everyone has their own way of interpreting the cards.

Use of intuition, compassion and life experience will be far more useful to the budding psychic than worrying about the specific meanings of the cards. In fact if I feel like it I will often change the meanings when I am in the mood to mean something else entirely.

With regard to centre tears during a reading I did it a lot when I first started. I advise strongly against doing it nowadays. Billet switching too. A good psychic doesn't need trickery of any sort. I am also vehemently against the daft practice of checking people out on the internet.

You are NOT there to amaze people when doing a reading. That is where magicians who take this thing up go wrong on a regular basis. You are NOT doing a magic show and anything like centre tears, billets or clip boards will smack of trickery and all your credibility will be lost. That is why it is unwise to be too specific in revealing information. Once you start to name specific names and places you are going on a very tricky slope. This sort of thing is the province of the spiritualist medium and they walk a very thin line where ethics are concerned.

There is a world of difference between giving a tarot reading and communicating with departed souls.

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Postby IAIN » Aug 28th, '07, 19:06

if you fancy a course in brutal honesty when learning the tarot, reverend lewis's tarot dvd is very good indeed...

a mix of his, the book by Jan Woudhuysen and lots of practise and common sense will see you well on the way...it did me...

i even use my own spread now, and have done so with great success for nearly a year now...

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Postby themagicwand » Aug 28th, '07, 22:47

mark lewis wrote:
You are NOT there to amaze people when doing a reading. .

Agreed. My readings are just that...readings. However I do often inadvertently amaze people - but that's just me giving very good readings. I can't help myself. :wink:

mark lewis wrote:
With regard to centre tears during a reading I did it a lot when I first started. I advise strongly against doing it nowadays. Billet switching too. A good psychic doesn't need trickery of any sort. I am also vehemently against the daft practice of checking people out on the internet.

Yes, the centre tear was not part of a reading but was part of a "mindreading" show that took a deeper twist that I intended. I would never use a centre tear (or any other billet shenanigans) when doing a reading. Although I am quite surprised by the number of folk who have been asking me lately if I am a medium while I do their reading. Perhaps I'm moving on to a higher plain and my clients are picking up on my increased sensitivity. Maybe.

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Postby Markdini » Sep 2nd, '07, 14:53

I got this a few days ago. Started with the runes and went on to the cards. If you can do one of Keiths systems e.g Runes then you can do the tarot.

Its very simple to remember the meanings of each card (and rune) And I picked it up in about 2 hours or so. The only thing that the book dosent teach the novice is reversed cards. But Knowing a slither of tarot before hand I was able to do add this.

Also there was nothing on the most "common" spread the Celtic cross but I dont think this lacks.

So ask me 3 questions and we will counsualt the tarot.

That will be £20 please

And one little story before I go. I used the 5 card spread on my steap dad as a practice. And he Said thats what it said in the newspaper earlier.

Not bad

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Postby black hart » Sep 2nd, '07, 23:19

Along with Black Hart Productions 'readers' I have earned a LOT of money using this system and I'm pleased that we can now offer it to our customers.

I believe that this system gives a no nonsense approach to reading tarot cards. It cuts out all the garbage, leaving the prospective tarot reader with the information required to go out and do succesful readings and earn money.

All YOU the tarot reader has to do is make your readings entertaining and the repeat bookings will flow in.

'Entertainment' and 'Fortune Telling' are both compatible phrases. As I said before this system has been used in all types of situation from psychic fairs to corporate diners.

In the end it is YOU not the cards who are doing the reading, never forget that.

Thanks for your kind comments chaps.

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Postby scott priest » Oct 18th, '07, 03:10

Hello, and fire at will. While most clients may want a reading based on your own intuitive abilities and break down into a few basic categories- money, romance, etc. There are a few who want a more psychological (spiritual if you will) answer. For this, I generaly use the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. You dont need a complete understanding of essoterics to do this, usually. The Sephira can be presented as states of mind effectively. Is there a beginner manual on this aspect in the works as a supplement?

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Postby DrTodd » Oct 18th, '07, 07:47

black hart wrote:Along with Black Hart Productions 'readers' I have earned a LOT of money using this system and I'm pleased that we can now offer it to our customers.

I believe that this system gives a no nonsense approach to reading tarot cards. It cuts out all the garbage, leaving the prospective tarot reader with the information required to go out and do succesful readings and earn money.

All YOU the tarot reader has to do is make your readings entertaining and the repeat bookings will flow in.

'Entertainment' and 'Fortune Telling' are both compatible phrases. As I said before this system has been used in all types of situation from psychic fairs to corporate diners.

In the end it is YOU not the cards who are doing the reading, never forget that.

Thanks for your kind comments chaps.

Keith Hart


Thanks for this Keith, the system does sound great. I like Scott's reference to the tree of life as a basis for a reading, and I have been enjoying Ron Martin and Enrique Enriquez's work on readings, which in my view by definition must be compatible with your system, since any reading can evolve as much as the reader wants it to. Once again, yui are sorely tempting me!

For everyone else, Keith's cusomer service is amazing, you will not be disappointed.

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Postby black hart » Oct 22nd, '07, 16:52

Hello DrTodd

Buy it and if you don't thinks it's worth the money simply send it back and have a full refund on the purchase price.

I can't say fairer than that can I?

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Postby Markdini » Oct 22nd, '07, 16:55

It is rather good. No esotric stuff stright to the point. My only real gripe is there are only a couple of spreads shown.

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Postby DrTodd » Oct 22nd, '07, 18:28

black hart wrote:Hello DrTodd

Buy it and if you don't thinks it's worth the money simply send it back and have a full refund on the purchase price.

I can't say fairer than that can I?

Keith Hart


Arrrgghhhh.....you evil merchant of temptation :evil: Still nned to recover from the Ipswich convention and the evil purveyor of magic books by post!

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Postby black hart » Oct 27th, '07, 13:46

Hello Markdini
My only real gripe is there are only a couple of spreads shown


The book concentrates on readings for corporate type events where you need to be brief, so I've given an example of the spreads that I use in these real life situations.

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Postby russellmagic » Oct 27th, '07, 23:04

now this does seem very good and there are alot of items i would like to buy from black hart... when is it pay day!!!!!!!

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Postby magikmax » Nov 21st, '07, 10:26

I'd like to add my review to the mix, having received Black Hart's Tarot Made Easy yesterday:

Review: I'm coming to this completely cold, I have no experience of Tarot, or any sort of 'fortune telling'. I've never had a reading, or watched any of those programmes on Living TV, the only experience I have, is listening to the odd (and by that, I usually mean 'Odd') radio 'psychic' phone in on my local radio station.

The Tarot is something I've always been curious about, I'm open to things like Tarot readings, Rune Casting and the likes, but being completely honest, this was sparked by seeing a film a long time ago called Doctor Terror's House of Horrors. The film itself is a bit of harmless Hammer Horror cheese, and jolly good fun at that. Perhaps a bizzar introduction into all of this, but there you go. After reading all your comments on this, I'd thought I'd take the plunge, and see what all the fuss was about.

At this point in time, I have returned to magic, but working full time, I'm slightly limited in which days I can take bookings (really just weekends), and I thought that perhaps Tarot readings would be an interesting way that I could make a few extra bob on a normal evening. I've no illusions of doing this after a few weeks or anything, but it gives me something to work towards.

Anyway, on to Mr Hart's Tarot Made Easy. You receive a small, but very well produced booklet, spiral bound, with some colour pictures of the cards. You also get a lovely set of Mareilles Tarot cards, which are very nicely illustrated, and printed on high quality card stock. Being a complete beginner, I'm unsure of the difference between the different types of Tarot cards, the Mareilles and the Rider-Waite, if it's just a case that this one is easier to learn, or more traditional, the book doesn't explain the difference, so it would be interesting to know what the board's feeelings are on this.

The guide is laid out in a very straight forward way, there's not a large (or esoteric) amount of information, the basic meaning of the cards are laid out, and it is left to you to elaborate on this, based on your feelings on the cards, the reading, and the other cards in the reading.

In all, the guide tells you what you need to know to get going, and doesn't fill your head with esoteric rubbish that may cloud your interpretation of the cards, I like this approach, however, there's a couple of things that I feel are missing:

1. There's only a few spreads shown
2. Other people have mentioned something about different meanings if the cards are reversed? This isn't covered.
3. As a complete beginner in this fascinating allied art, I have NO experience of any sort of reading, other than so called psychic radio readings. Mr Hart gives you a few tips on setting the atmosphere, ie, a darkened room with candles, but doesn't really give you a suggested 'script' as it were, as to what to say, although he does tell you what to avoid saying, so you don't make any Tarot 'etiquette' gaffs.

Now, based on the above, I'm not entirely sure if I would be comfortable giving a reading unless I knew about the reversed cards thing, and also, how on earth I would stretch a reading of 4 or 5 cards out to 20 minutes to half an hour? Would a reader typically have the sitter deal more cards? Also, if this is the case, do the original cards get shuffled back into the Tarot, or left aside, and what if the next set of cards give a completely different answer?

Maybe these things will become clear in time, and with further study, but if anyone can help me, or point out that I've maybe missed something in Keith's booklet, please let me know, also, suggested further reading would be helpful. As Keith himself says, there are hundreds of books on the market, and a lot of them completely different!

Anyway, as a beginner's guide, this is excellent, I'm not sure how much someone who already knows a lot about the Tarot would gain from it, but as a beginner, it's an excellent place to start, I would highly recommend it. 9/10 (misses out on the 10 purely because it's raised a few questions, which is a good thing, but maybe something Keith might like to cover in future additions).

Finally, Black Artifact's service was excellent, and I'll definitely be using them again, and recommend them to anyone.

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Postby Mandrake » Nov 21st, '07, 10:37

I'm no expert on Tarot but there are lots of places online which will offer more information and further reading on meanings and spreads. One site is http://www.learntarot.com/cards.htm which gives a full explanations of each card and, in general, they refer to Cards Reversed:

The meaning of a reversed card depends on what the card would mean if upright. A reversed card shows that a card's energy is present, but at a lower level. For some reason, the energy cannot express freely, normally or completely. It may be:
still in its early stages
losing force and power
blocked or restricted
incomplete
inappropriate
being denied
only present in appearance


One other site quite boldly states that the meaning of each card will be whatever meaning the reader puts on them. Not exactly 'make it up as you go along', but more like 'go with your feelings at the time'.

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Postby magikmax » Nov 21st, '07, 11:19

thanks for your help Mandrake, anyone else have an opinion, or suggested further reading? I'll check out the website you've listed when I get home tonight.

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