EmotionalStateMappingUsingTarotCards

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How to use TarotCards to perform EmotionalStateMapping.

This involves a pack of TarotCards, a facilitator/dealer and a subject: person with some confusing emotions. It is possible for the facilitator and the subject to be the same person.

The most important thing to realize is that what is taking place inside the subjects head, is the most important part of the process. Everything else just supports this.

The process consists of one or more readings. One to three readings are recommended.

The deck is shuffled in the usual way with the additional step of occassionally rotating cards before inserting them back into the deck. This is because the orientation of cards, when dealt, affect how they are read.

In this scheme the tarot symbolism acts as a language of emotional state. Each card depicts an archetype of emotion. Some cards represent the same emotion but to varying degrees of intensity.

The faciltator draws a card from the deck and lays it down face up. Each tarot card relates to an emotion. The appearance of the card is interpreted by the facilitator as indicating that the subject is experiencing an emotion similar to that shown on the card. The facilitator can also read the subject's body language to guage how relevant the subject feels the interpretation is. This is repeated for 10 cards in each reading.