1. Tarot of the Holy Light by Christine Payne-Towler A Comparative Analysis of Fortune Telling and Divination, Chinese Perspectives, and Tarot benebell wen The Orbifold Tarot by Michael Bridge-Dickson

2. Fortune Telling 算命 Fortune Telling 算命 Divination 卜筮 Divination 卜筮 Tarot of the Holy Light by Christine Payne-Towler

3. Important : No Community is Homogenous One Tarot Reader Can’t Represent All One Asian Can’t Represent All Discussion & Opinion Sharing Oswald Wirth Tarot deck used with permission of U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Stamford, CT 06902. All rights reserved.

4. suanming Fortune Telling Seal Script 1000 B.C. Seal Script 200 B.C. 1000 B.C. 800 B.C. 200 B.C. Seal Script 1000 B.C. 200 B.C. Script Source: Center of Bamboo and Silk Manuscripts, bsm.org.cn, www.bsm-whu.org/zxcl/

5. PP Fortune Telling Theory Seeker Practitioner (Tarot Reader) SS Tarot of the Holy Light by Christine Payne-Towler

6. bu shi Divination Seal Script 1000 B.C. Shaman Witch Sorcerer Medium “Spirit Communicator” Script Source: Center of Bamboo and Silk Manuscripts, bsm.org.cn, www.bsm-whu.org/zxcl/

7. zhangua (Divination) Seal Script 1000 B.C. Seal Script 1000 B.C. Script Source: Center of Bamboo and Silk Manuscripts, bsm.org.cn, www.bsm-whu.org/zxcl/

8. gui Image Source : Cornell University Library Compare:

9. PP Divination Theory Seeker Practitioner (Tarot Reader) SS DIVINEDIVINE Tarot of the Holy Light by Christine Payne-Towler

10. PP Fortune Telling Theory SS PP Divination Theory SS DIVINEDIVINE

11. “For five centuries or more Tarot cards have been used in Europe, ostensibly for games and fortune-telling … …but really [the cards are] to preserve the essentials of a secret doctrine… …Tarot divination is not fortune-telling. The practice of fortune-telling is based on the false notion that human life is governed by luck, chance, or fate—by obscure powers that work outside the personality… Western Perspectives on Fortune Telling vs. Divination Tarot of the Holy Light by Christine Payne-Towler (Noreah Press “For five centuries or more Tarot cards have been used in Europe, ostensibly for games and fortune-telling … …but really [the cards are] to preserve the essentials of a secret doctrine… …Tarot divination is not fortune-telling. The practice of fortune-telling is based on the false notion that human life is governed by luck, chance, or fate—by obscure powers that work outside the personality… …True divination rests upon the occult truth that the causes of all events in human life are really internal, proceeding from the Cause of Causes—the Universal Intelligent Energy or Life- power.” Paul Foster Case Oracle of the Tarot (1933) New Earth Tarot by Kate Silver & Charlene Delong (newearthtarot.com) Fortune Telling Future is the result of chance and fate. It is beyond the Seeker’s control. Fortune Telling Future is the result of chance and fate. It is beyond the Seeker’s control. Divination Dynamic Relationship between Personal Qi (Microcosm) and Cosmic Qi (Macrocosm) Divination Dynamic Relationship between Personal Qi (Microcosm) and Cosmic Qi (Macrocosm)

12. “I shall therefore confine myself... to giving... instructions which will enable my readers to utilise [Tarot] for fortune-telling.... I shall now give several modes of laying out the cards for divination.” S. L. MacGregor Mathers The Tarot (1888) “These interpretations are comparable in every respect to the divinatory and fortune- telling meanings with which I shall have to deal in their turn.” A. E. Waite The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910) The Orbifold Tarot by Michael Dickson-Bridges Tarot of the Holy Light by Christine Payne-Towler (No apparent distinctions made between fortune telling and divination.)

13. 966 A.D. Tablet Carvings of the Huang Di Ying Fu Jing [circa 618 A.D.] (The Yellow Emperor’s Classics of the Hidden Talisman) 966 A.D. Tablet Carvings of the Huang Di Ying Fu Jing [circa 618 A.D.] (The Yellow Emperor’s Classics of the Hidden Talisman) Image Source Courtesy of Special Collections Fine Arts Library, Harvard University Image Source Courtesy of Special Collections Fine Arts Library, Harvard University “All manifestations in the universe can be generated by the practitioner’s physical body, through the hand. “The function is determined by the will of the practitioner. “The mechanics is determined by the practitioner’s mind.” Yellow Emperor’s Classics of the Hidden Talisman 600-900 A.D.

14. Tarot of the Holy Light by Christine Payne Towler “All manifestations in the universe can be generated by the practitioner... through the hand.”... through the hand.” Determined By WILL Determined By WILL Function “The function is determined by the will of the practitioner.” Fortune TellingDivination Tarot of the Holy Light by Christine Payne Towler

15. Fortune TellingDivination Determined By WILL Determined By WILL Practitioner acquires SightPractitioner acquires Connection Practitioner is inserted into the Seeker’s Path Practitioner is a passive bystander on the Seeker’s Path Source of Knowledge : Ego, Sentience Source of Knowledge : Divine PerceptionRevelation Transcending to Union with the God Principle Receiving and Submitting to the God Principle Tarot of the Holy Light by Christine Payne Towler

16. “The mechanics is determined by the practitioner’s mind.” Determined By MIND Determined By MIND Mechanics Fortune TellingDivination

17. Fortune TellingDivination Determined By MIND Determined By MIND IntuitionKnowledge IntuitionKnowledge Core, “Gut” Accounting Crown Signs & Omens Projecting Outward Projecting Inward DirectionMediation Bottom Heavy Top Heavy Giver Recipient Induction & DeductionInvoking Spirit

18. Fortune TellingDivination Determined By MIND Determined By MIND IntuitionKnowledge IntuitionKnowledge Core, “Gut” Accounting Crown Signs & Omens Bottom HeavyTop Heavy DirectionMediation Empathic Psychic Giver Recipient Induction & DeductionInvoking Spirit Image Source : Free-Pictograms.com

19. Fortune TellingDivination Determined By MIND Determined By MIND IntuitionKnowledge IntuitionKnowledge Core, “Gut” Accounting Crown Signs & Omens Bottom HeavyTop Heavy DirectionMediation Empathic Psychic Giver Recipient Induction & DeductionInvoking Spirit Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot (Public Domain) via sacred-texts.com “Kneeling before the Hierophant” - Richard Palmer

20. Fortune TellingDivination “The function is determined by the will of the practitioner.” “The mechanics is determined by the practitioner’s mind.” Knowledge Study the Self To know the Universe. Study the Universe To know the Self

21. New Earth Tarot by Kate Silver & Charlene Delong (newearthtarot.com) What is the rationale for making a distinction? TAROT READING WORDSWORDS WORDSWORDS Fortune Telling The words you speak are INFLUENTIAL Fortune Telling The words you speak are INFLUENTIAL Divination The words you speak are A SACRED MESSAGE Divination The words you speak are A SACRED MESSAGE INTENT begets THE WORDS Crafted by Function and Mechanics

22. “Before every event, there are opportunities that Heaven avails to the practitioner to exercise metaphysical force to transform the path of nature [or fate].” Yellow Emperor’s Classics of the Hidden Talisman 600-900 A.D.

23. Fate PP SS Free Will PP SS SS PP

24. Fate PP SS PPSS Meeting of the Minds Window of Opportunity

25. Tarot of the Holy Light by Christine Payne-Towler The Tarot reader’s role is to identify that window of opportunity. I possess the ability to See. I know the future. I know you. I am Divine. I possess the ability to Connect. I read signs and omens. The Divine speaks to me.

26. I possess the ability to See. I know the future. I know you. I am Divine. I possess the ability to Connect. I read signs and omens. The Divine speaks to me. “Before every event, there are opportunities that Heaven avails to the practitioner to exercise metaphysical force to transform the path of nature [or fate].” Huang Di Yin Fu Jing “Before every event, there are opportunities that Heaven avails to the practitioner to exercise metaphysical force to transform the path of nature [or fate].” Huang Di Yin Fu Jing “The causes of all events in human life are really internal, proceeding from the Cause of Causes—the Universal Intelligent Energy.” – Paul Foster Case – Paul Foster Case “The causes of all events in human life are really internal, proceeding from the Cause of Causes—the Universal Intelligent Energy.” – Paul Foster Case – Paul Foster Case

27. Image Source : “N11B In Large Magellanic Cloud” [NASA] via copyrightfreephotos.hq101.com Words are the metaphysical force. Fortune telling or divination, words are the practitioner’s craft.

28. Fortune Telling or Divination? “Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.” Sigmund Freud Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1916) Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot (Public Domain) via sacred-texts.com

29. Tarot of the Holy Light by Christine Payne-Towler Fortune Telling The words you speak are INFLUENTIAL Fortune Telling The words you speak are INFLUENTIAL Divination The words you speak are A SACRED MESSAGE Divination The words you speak are A SACRED MESSAGE

30. Jiao Bei Divination Moon Blocks Most commonly found in temples for communing directly with deities. Jiao Bei Divination Moon Blocks Theoretical Mechanics : Place yourself in a position of passivity. Invoke a deity or Spirit (“Divine”). Connect to that greater Divine. Listen to the answer from Spirit. Feel the “ connection ” at your crown, near the “third eye.” Key Word: Connection

31. Let’s Discuss. The Orbifold Tarot by Michael Bridge-Dickson