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Welcome to Gateway To Tarot. As a start to a new year, I am discontinuing my Crystalgate.com domain. My links pages, and the newsletter archives, can be found on my new domain – BonnieCehovet.com. The individual card information will be reworked into e-books, as will some of the articles. I am continuing my review work for decks, books, calendars, journals, and other Tarot media. Thank you for joining me on my journey. Wishing each of you a stellar New Year! This newsletter is sent out to subscribers only. If you have received this newsletter in error, please send a blank e-mail to: Gateway To Tarot with "unsubscribe" in the subject line. If you were forwarded this newsletter, and would like to subscribe, please send a blank e-mail to: Gateway To Tarot with "subscribe" in the subject line. Newsletters from January 2003 on are archived on my site, BonnieCehovet.com. My thanks to each of you for continuing to be part of this process. If you do not wish to receive future quarterly newsletters, please contact me at: crystalgate@aol.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject line. Mitakuye Oyasin - For All Of Our Relations. Bonnie Cehovet, CTGM Editor/chief bottle washer BonnieCehovet.com/TarotBookReviews The Fool Loves Journeying Tarot Lover’s Diary www.BonnieCehovet.com/TarotDeckReviews The Transparent Tarot The Quantum Tarot www.personalempowermentbooks.thecrystalgate.com A full listing of non-Tarot oracle reviews can be found here: www.tarot-deckreviews.thecrystalgate.com The Anubis Oracle It is most definitely a new year! Here in the U.S. we have a new president, a new cabinet, and we are moving forward with what I consider dignity for the first time in more years than I want to count. Now we need to take this into our personal life. It is too easy to be scared in time like these, when our whole world is being turned upside down. I heard on the news this morning that the elementary school that my brother and sister attended is scheduled to be closed. My high school fared better – it was closed for a year for total renovations, and is back with a new focus. These are the questions that I asked myself coming into this year. Each individual needs to come up with their own questions, focused on their own life. 1. What is not working for me, and needs to be released from my life? 2. What steps can I take to release that which no longer works for me? 3. What is working in my life? 4. How can I nurture that which is working in my life? 5. What are my goals for 2009? 6. What steps can I take to reach these goals? 7. What is good physical health for me? 8. What steps can I take to maintain my physical health? 9. What is good mental health for me? 10. What steps can I take to maintain my mental health? 11. What is good emotional health for me? 12. What steps can I take to maintain my emotional health? 13. What is good spiritual health for me? 14. What steps can I take to maintain good spiritual health? 15. How can I maintain a balance between the spiritual and the mundane in my life? 16. What place does Tarot have in my life at this time? 17. How can I nurture my Tarot connections? One way in which we can help to create a stronger Tarot world is to decide within ourselves what place Tarot has in our life. The place that Tarot has in my life is an evolving one, which I think is probably true for most people. There are so many ways to work with the Tarot – reading, writing, teaching, ritual, personal journey work – the list is endless. Decide what you want to do – and then take the steps to do it. Ask questions – lots of questions. Read blogs – write blogs! Know that Tarot is the most wonderful support system in the world! Tarot Connection - This is a premier Tarot Podcast site, maintained by Tarot student/author/deck creator Leisa Refalo. The aim of this Podcast is to educate and entertain at the same time. There is an eclectic mix of people from the Tarot world - those that are well known, and those that are not so well known. Each have something to say, and each expands Tarot possibilities in their own way. A great place to hear people like James Wanless, Lon Milo Duquette, Ginny Hunt, Rachel Pollack, Johanna Gargiulo-Sherman, and Joanna Powell-Colbert, to name a few! Gaian Tarot Blog - Joanna Powell-Colbert's Gaian Tarot blog. James Wells’ blog K. Frank Jensen - deck reviews K Frank Jensen - book reviews K Frank Jensen - main site Mountain Magic Originals Richard Carpenter's artisan's site - incrediblebears made from pine needles, folk art, carved jewlery and more. A nice place to spend a few spare moments relaxing - and a great place to find unique gifts! Black Cat Society This link is to a non- Tarot, playing card divination deck in progress from Lorena B. Moore (Ironwing Tarot). It is a 52 card deck, with the addition of two Jokers and a title card. The suits are Claws, Paws, Fangs and Masks. The cards are done completely in black and white (scans are on the site). You can follow the deck's progress on Lorena's blog - ironwing.wordpress.com. The Tarot School Blog Mary Greer's Blog Eva Yaa Asanetwaa's Blog Kris Waldherr's blog Kris Waldherr.com Kris Waldherr's new site. Making Dreams Work Karen Mahony's (Magic Realist Press) new small business blog. Garnet’s Tarot Journal Lorena B. Moore’s blog TarotProfessionals.com This is a newly formed Tarot organization based in the UK. The offerings include a full spectrum of courses, accreditation, chat, and free readings. Click on the moving cards at the bottom of the page! Tarot Arkletters This is Christing Payne-Towler's monthly column - this month she is addressing the candidates astrological charts. Quite interesting! Runemaker.com This is the order page for Runemaker Bob Oswald. He has a new book out entitled "Discovering The Runes" that covers not only basic Rune useage, but includes chapters on the runic pendulum, bindrunes, Gandr magic, runic transcription, rune graphics, a key word index, and a thorough selected bibliography. I subscribed to Bob Oswald's newsletter for some time, and was quite pleased with his sharing of his wonderful Rune knowledge. GaianTarot.com There is a great music video here done by Craig Olson - well worth listening to! Gaian Tarot Three Card Reading Video Tarot reading by Joanna Powell Colbert. BuildYourMetaphysialBusiness.com Elizabeth Genco's site on building a metaphysical business. IshaLener.com There is a wonderful section of articles here, including articles on flower essences, oracular consciousness, and the Emerald Tablets. “Be The Change That You Wish To See” – article by Isha Lerner BigFinishGames.com This is the official site for the game "Three Cards To Midnight" (created by Chris Jones and Aaron Conners), due out in November of 2008. Featuring over six hours of game play, thee difficulty levels (easy, entertainment, and expert), over 20 unique locations and over 80 cinematic scenes, this looks to be quite an interesting mystery game that uses the Tarot in a representational, rather than a divinatory manner. The deck used in this game was created by Brian Johnson. Note: Windows XP or Vista are minimum requirements. Midnight Ink Books - A new mystery imprint from Llewellyn Worldwide WriterGuard.com Copyright protection site for writers, musicians, artists Association.TarotStudies.org - A ten CD packet from the Association For Tarot Studies from their stellar 2005 symposium. Trionfi.com - The premier Tarot history site on the Internet! Here you will find images and articles of the very finest quality - well researched, and well presented. FranMadeBags.com This is an absolutely wonderful site to explore for Tarot bags and spread cloths. The site owner (and seamstress extraordinaire!) is Kat Black's (Touchstone Tarot, Golden Tarot) mother. I can personally attest that these are well made bags that act as lovely homes for any deck or oracle. TarotPedia - An on-line Tarot encyclopedia founded by the Association For Tarot Studies. The Power Of Now - A Guide To Spiritual Enlightenment Author: Eckhart Tolle Namaste Publishing 1997 ISBN #978-57731-152-2 I read Tolle's books in reverse order - thanks to Oprah! - soI came to The Power Of Now after I read (and studied) A New Earth. That Tolle is a truly great person is evident from the very first page. And he would be the first to tell you that this is NOT how you should think of him. In this book Tolle gifts us with the ability to understand why we need to do one simple thing - to stay in the present, in the now, in our lives - and that this will liberate us from both our past and our future. Tolle spends a great deal of time discussing what he terms our "pain body" - how we can recognize it, and ho we can release it, so that it does not run our life. If you want to be the best person that you can be - this book is the book for you. A New Earth - Awakening to Your Life's Purpose Author: Eckhart Tolle Dutton 2005 ISBN #0-525-94802-3 Eckhart Tolle is an absolutely amazing person! His work came to me thanks to my good friend Bev Concepcion, who gave me the heads up that Oprah was doing a skype cast on his his book "A New Earth". This very humble man is making a tremendous difference in many people's lives. "A New Earth" is a template for living - and for developing an entirely new way of looking at ourselves. We move away from ego consciousness, and into living in the present. This man is very good at getting us to stop and take a good look at ourselves, to see how we have helped to create our current way of being, and what we can do to create a more peaceful, joyful consciousness. He talks about what he terms our pain bodies, and how they can take over our lives. He teaches us to recognize them, and how to move beyond them. This is a must have book for anyone who is doing work on themselves. Doomed Queens - Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends From Cleopatra to Princess Di Author: Kris Waldherr Broadway Books 2008 ISBN #978-0-7679-2809-1 We all know Kris Waldherr as an artist/author extraordinaire (The Goddess Tarot, The Book of Goddesses, The Lover's Path), and this project carries all of the qualities that we have come to expect from her. The artwork on the cover is magickal, the material well researched, and presented in a manner that is appealing and bitingly funny. The story that represents each queen reflects the political, religious, an patriarchal nature of their times. It also shows us women with a surprising amount of backbone (and sometimes lack of sense!). At the end of each presentation Waldherr gifts us with a "Cautionary Moral". For instance, for Princess Diana, someone who is very much of our time, the cautionary moral is "Avoid men with cameras and Camillas." A bit of a bite there, but also true! The front and back covers both have a ear out section that contains the forms of three "paper doll" queens that can be cut out and placed against background that is available for download from the "Doomed Queens" Internet site. This may well be, as the promotion on the book flap indicates, a macabre tribute to the dark side of female empowerment, but it is also funny, an certainly food for thought. Courageous Dreaming - How Shamans Dream The World Into Being Author: Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D. Hay House 2008 ISBN #978-1-4019-1756-2 This is not just a book about dreaming and dreamtime, but a book that is based on the thought that waking time is the dream, and that dreamtime is where we create our life. We can choose to live our lives from a place of empowerment, or we can live them from a place of limitation. Villoldo (a psychologist, medical anthropologist, founder of the Biological Self-Regulation Laboratory at San Francisco State University, and a director of the Four Winds Society) speaks in terms that everyone can understand. He illustrates his work with his personal stories, and those of his friends and clients. These stories act as examples of how given archetypes work in real life. The aim of this book is that the reader walk the path of dreaming their own world - in a manner that is filled with power and grace. Villoldo tells the story of the shaman that told him that he could either have what he wanted, or the reasons why he can't. How many of us hold onto thoughts such as "I was unloved as a child, and that is why I am unable to love." You can have what you want, or you can have the reason why you cannot have what you want. Villoldo asks the reader to release the symbols in their life, and choose to act instead. The reader needs to release his/her mental stories and dream a more empowering story into being. The reader needs to practice truth in their life, to clean up or river (life), so that we do not continue to attract the same toxic people and situations, and learn to live each day as if it is our last. To be totally present, and act totally responsible. I found this book to be honest, humorous, and a gateway to a better way of being. A unique tool to add to our arsenal of empowerment. www.artandwords.com/goddestarot/oracle.html Kris Waldherr's Goddess Tarot The Anubis Oracle Nicki Scully and Linda Star Wolf's Egyptian themed oracle. Note: Illustrations done by Kris Waldherr. www.artandwords.com/museo/loverspath/oracle.html Kris Waldherr's Lover's Path Tarot www.gainantarot.com/oracle Joanna Powell Colbert's Gaian Tarot www.tarotaffirmations.com/oracle.html Dr. Sally Hill's Tarot Affirmations deck. www.thefool.com The Victoria Regina Tarot www.enchantedworld.com Interactive site for Amy Zerner & Monty Farber (Enchanted Tarot) www.voyagertarot.com The Voyager Tarot (James Wanless) www.glowinthedarkpictures.com/iitarot/reading.html Robin Ator's International Icon Tarot Receive e-mail updates to Aeclectic Tarot (www.Aeclectic.net/Tarot) from Solandia at: www.aeclectic.net/tarot/join.html Geraldine Amaral edits a Tarot print magazine, Celebrating The Tarot , that comes out on a yearly basis. For more information, see: Tarot Journal (www.tarotcelebrations.com/ order%20Tarot%20Journal.htm Robert M. Place, artist and visionary, gifts us with a newsletter entitled The Restored Temple of Hermes. The newsletter will be coming out every other month, and will include articles and a question and answer section. To subscribe, please e-mail Robert Place at: rmp@juno.com, with The Restored Temple of Hermes in the subject line. Ruth Ann and Wald Amberstone of The Tarot School (www.tarotschool.com) edit the long running newsletter Tarot Tips (www.yahoogroups.com/group/tarottips). This newsletter is a wealth of information based on their personal work and the work done with their classes. If you want to know about Tarot - it is here! Gigi Miner edits an absolutely wonderful e-newsletter entitled Veritas. To sign up for the newsletter, e-mail Gigi at: LadyFogg@twcny.rr.com with "newsletter" in the subject line. Thank all of you who have joined me on this wonderful journey. May the future be well lit, and well traveled, for each of you.
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