Choice Centered Relating and the Tarot

By Gail Fairfield

Every aspect of our lives, from the most easily recognizablerelationships, material success, health, security, workto much more subtle and often seemingly fixed subjects, such as truth, wisdom, spirit, and natural laws, constantly flows through everchanging patterns and cycles. So, if the universe is flexible and evolving, and if our understanding of it changes with each new theory or model, what is real? How can we guide ourselves through the seeming chaos of living? How do we find a center, or grounding, in the middle of it all? How can we experience this constancy of change from the exciting and positive position of choice instead of the often terrifying helplessness found in the maze of fate? In Choice Centered Relating and the Tarot , Fairfield provides easily identifiable examples of choice centered approaches to life experience. She quickly faces the fact that many events in our lives are beyond our control, or choice, and then leads us to the empowering realization that we can learn the art of conscious action and reaction. Our center of control is not outsidebut withinand with deepening understanding and steady practice, we can learn to access this center and nurture its growth. From this choice centered orientation we learn how to frame relationshiprelated questions and interpret the guidance provided by the symbolism of the tarot. The book is filled with thoughtprovoking questions and guides to interpretation using a wide variety of sample layouts. Any of the excellent tarot decks currently available can be used to awaken this lifechanging approach.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578631432
• ISBN13: 9781578631438
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Weiser Books
• Length: 335 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Bringing choice awarness

This book "found me" while looking for another book also from Gail Fairfield, I consider the biggest contribution from her books is the conciousness about choices in the Tarot practice, Querents come looking for answers and expect the Tarotist and Tarot to decide what they can't, that is wrong from my point of view, so books like this that help us improve our Tarot practice and help Querent made the right choices is a must reading. The book explains the choice-centered Tarot process and then proceeds to works with spread of different sizes explaining the position and other facts needed to get the most out the spread. As most Tarot readings are about relationships, I've found this book quite useful when it comes to improve and heal existing relationships or for people in grief, at the end of the book comes a full explanation of every card when used as a general theme, positive/negative atributes, positive/negative position in a spread and as a question, in all cases in upside and reversed position. I recommend this book for intermediate and up students.

self expresion through the cards.

I found this book extremely helpful not just for the symbolic meanings but how it teachs you to express your own intuation through symbolic meanings of the cards,By useing gail fairfields aproach you cant go far wrong ,great book for the beginner .