Tarot Verbatim TM by Emily Erickson-Sandstrom

10/07/2025

Now that you see how direct, simple, and to the point reading the pictures as words is, keep in mind that I can read this way for you, for whatever the issue of the moment is, a 208 993 1897, usually right when you call, since I hang by the phone.

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10/07/2025

Do You Know Her?
There are pockets of places (still) where things are in order, are the way they are supposed to be, and where people do whatever they should. Often, these places are ruled by a traditional woman who has domestic managerial skills, who has that matriarchal presence. Her kids behave ... is it out of self-defense? She has the genius to keep her corner of the world clean because she can, because it's hers. She carries this presence of hers to the work world and the social world too. This woman has her own ways that she enforces irrespective of the zany world around her, which she largely disregards. (She still gets scant respect.)

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09/30/2025

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09/30/2025

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09/29/2025

NUTS AND BOLTS OF TAROT: HOW AND WHY TAROT WORKS
You think in language, don't you, most of the time?
Your subconscious relates to images, as in dreams.
Tarot is images that express thoughts in language.
so
Tarot draws on conscious and subconscious thought
together.
Every Tarot system works for the person who uses it:
His subconscious is programmed with those meanings.
however,
Some Tarot systems are more efficient and more accurate.
For example,
Some of them incorporate other systems, other parts -
astrology, numerology, Kabbalah, voodoo, animal totems.
The more choices you make,
the more chances to obfuscate, to be vague, to not get it.
because
Tarot delivers its message with what it has to work with.
THIS
makes reading the pictures directly as language works so well.
NUTS AND BOLTS OF TAROT: HOW AND WHY TAROT WORKS
You think in language, don't you, most of the time?
Your subconscious relates to images, as in dreams.
Tarot is images that express thoughts in language.
so
Tarot draws on conscious and subconscious thought
together.
Every Tarot system works for the person who uses it:
His subconscious is programmed with those meanings.
however,
Some Tarot systems are more efficient and more accurate.
For example,
Some of them incorporate other systems, other parts -
astrology, numerology, Kabbalah, voodoo, animal totems.
The more choices you make,
the more chances to obfuscate, to be vague, to not get it.
because
Tarot delivers its message with what it has to work with.
THIS
makes reading the pictures directly as language works so well.

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09/28/2025

Sun is a tyke who darts unclothed into the backyard to be entirely without restriction on his antics. Before the supervising grownups can catch him, he has got ahold of a banner and mounted a horse as unbroke as he is. Our picture catches the tyke in his moment of infantile glee before the horse is also unrestricted in its antics.

09/26/2025

Three of Swords - Fool
bad atmosphere here and I'm ignoring it

09/24/2025

Watch for it. Zoom sessions that introduce you to the picture and what it means, in batches of ones that mean the same type of thing ... so you relate to it and remember it. No charge in this first phase.

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09/24/2025

WHAT CARD AM I?
I feel it coming on! I am going to get a major realization, an enlightenment or inspiration that comes with one of those adrenaline rushes that makes me feel upside-down, ungrounded, and brain-scrambled. The subconscious has been looking out there, connecting the dots, for a while now, and every once in a while it drops one of these visionary insights onto the floor of my real-world consciousness. It takes a few days to get over one of these realizations, usually. And by then I have gone a step or two in altitude on my path.

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09/23/2025

World card is about being shielded from the bad stuff by being above it, by being disinterested in and ignoring all that glitters. If you don't want something for nothing you don't have that handle, that receptor the predator docks onto. You are below its radar. But the shield is not just World's wall of disinterest; it is also her positive interest in better things: World is in her own world dancing with her wands.

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09/22/2025

Here's a clear example of how the Tarot system I developed - reading pictures directly as words - works:
Death - Magician - Ace of Pentacles
not doing it is right
not - Death
doing it - Magician
is right. - Ace of Pentacles
(You were right not to do it. Not doing it is the right thing to do. Not doing it right. You can see how this spread is so simple and basic, and can apply to various situations.)
Death in Tarot Verbatim has its wings clipped. So many things its illustration could say, but mostly it sticks to being a negative modifier. The king is dead, so he is not.
Magician mostly will translate forms of 'do' and it also indicates a male individual. Here, the magician raises his wand up with one hand and brings the energy it gathers down to earth with the other. He is doing it.
Ace of Pentacles is almost a cartoon about 'right.' The straight-and-narrow path begins in white lilies (purity), ends in a rose arbor (victory) and has a heap of gold coins suspended right over it (reward). So commonly Ace of Pentacles is about something right.
TWO-CARD COMBINATIONS
Death - Magician - Ace of Pentacles
not doing it is right
Death - Magician
not doing it
not - Death
doing it - Magician
Death - Ace of Pentacles
not right
not - Death
right - Ace of Pentacles
Magician - Ace of Pentacles
doing it is right
doing it - Magician
is right. - Ace of Pentacles

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09/21/2025

Question: I have started to learn how to read tarot. Do you have any advice for me?
Answer: Yes. Immerse yourself in each card. That will take weeks. BE each character and BE the overall situation pictured in the card—both/all sides of it. Some cards show a bully and a victim.
Go back and start putting each card together with each other card. What do they have in common? What do they say together?
Now, ask thousands of questions you know the answer to. Write all spreads down next to what you feel they say. Never mind you could be wrong - not important. If you can, use the whole deck for each known-answer question. File everything you write down in a way you can retrieve it when you get those cards again in another spread.
You accumulate your own personal Tarot dictionary this way. You now have a data bank of Tarot. I sell access to mine after forty years of doing this daily.

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