Tarot Elements, by Melissa Cynova by Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.

Praise for Tarot Elements “Tarot Elements by Melissa Cynova presents five tarot programs by one of the country’s leading psychics and tarot masters. Learn how to wield the cards as a powerful self-help tool for troubleshooting life’s most complicated challenges. The elemental readings that Cynova teaches get to the root of the matter. Whether you’re a casual tarot reader or a seasoned professional, these expert methods will amplify the precision of your reading experience. Tarot Elements is your life coach, your mentor, and your guide for restoring balance. Destined to be a classic!” —Benebell Wen, author of Holistic Tarot “Melissa Cynova’s powerful tarot method for change and healing is an invitation to get your life right, right now. Her technique offers a unique spread for five life areas, highlighting challenges and opportunities as you work with the elemental energies. An intimate master class with one of the most exciting new voices in tarot, Tarot Elements offers wisdom, advice, wit, and insight for all those on the tarot path.” —Liz Dean, author of The Art of Tarot “Melissa’s book Tarot Elements creates a series of powerful tools to help you understand yourself and your world. The idea of the elements as the basis for all things is often presented in such complex or occult terms that it is not accessible to people—not so in this book. She’ll take you step-by-step with compassion and humor through a rebooting of your life. Melissa’s style bypasses jargon and esotericism to provide clear and easy-access tools to work with this profound model of reality.” —Andrew McGregor, creator of The Orisha Tarot

“Reading Melissa’s book is like hanging out with a trusted foulweather friend who instead of holding an umbrella over your head, pulls out a deck of tarot cards and proceeds to outline a doable spread for navigating your situation. Melissa takes you beyond mere fortune-telling by ‘reading to light the way.’ Her guides are the card’s hidden elementals, the overlooked building blocks of tarot that deliver you from a base understanding of your challenge to one of alchemical gold.” —Carrie Paris, creator of the Magpie Oracle “I had the good fortune to be led through these readings by Melissa at the Omega Institute. I had some issues related to work (the earth element) and went through the reading as suggested in her book. It was not long before I had clear answers that I have since acted upon with a great outcome. I also had the opportunity to receive a tarot reading from Melissa. She was spot on. Melissa knows her stuff.” —George Koury, psychic medium and angel messenger

About the Author When Melissa Cynova was fourteen, a kid in her class gave her a deck of tarot cards for unknown reasons. She’s been reading ever since. In addition to being a prolific tarot reader, she teaches classes at her kitchen table and at tarot conferences. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with her husband, Joe, their two amazing kids, two dogs, four black cats, and a tortoise named Phil. When she’s not slinging cards, she’s reading, watching superhero movies, and hanging out with her people. You can find her online at www.melissacynova.com.

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Tarot Elements: Five Readings to Reset Your Life © 2019 by Melissa Cynova. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever, including internet usage, without written permission from Llewellyn Publications, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. First Edition First Printing, 2019 Book design: Donna Burch-Brown / Ted Riley Cover art: Harry Briggs Cover design: Kevin R. Brown Interior art: Llewellyn’s Classic Tarot, illustrated by Eugene Smith © 2014. Used with permission from Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd., no further reproduction permitted. Tarot for Beginners: A Practical Guide to Reading the Cards by Barbara Moore © 2010 Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd. 2143 Wooddale Drive, Woodbury, MN 55125. All rights reserved, used by permission. Spread on page 154 © 2012 Beth Maiden. Used with permission. Llewellyn Publications is a registered trademark of Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data (Pending) ISBN: 978-0-7387-5840-4 Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd. does not participate in, endorse, or have any authority or responsibility concerning private business transactions between our authors and the public. All mail addressed to the author is forwarded but the publisher cannot, unless specifically instructed by the author, give out an address or phone number. Any internet references contained in this work are current at publication time, but the publisher cannot guarantee that a specific location will continue to be maintained. Please refer to the publisher’s website for links to authors’ websites and other sources. Llewellyn Publications A Division of Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd. 2143 Wooddale Drive Woodbury, MN 55125-2989 www.llewellyn.com Printed in the United States of America

Also by Melissa Cynova Kitchen Table Tarot: Pull Up a Chair, Shuffle the Cards, and Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Talk Tarot

To Sarah Kate Buckles, who turned her home into a writerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s retreat for me, helped me breathe, made whole meals for me with only ingredients in the house (how did you do that?), and helped me birth this book. You are the best book doula in the entire world, and it wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be here without you. I love you more than five, Sk8.

Disclaimer You weren’t born with or handed the tools to deal with life. Sometimes it’s a good idea to see a counselor or therapist who has the training and the tools, and they can help you out. No shame and no blame—just chasing joy. The information in this book is not a substitute for mental, medical, or financial care from a licensed professional. The publisher and the author assume no liability for any consequences to the reader that may result from the reader’s use of content contained in this publication and recommend common sense when contemplating the practices described in the work.

Contents

Introduction: Can You Fix My Life? 1 Chapter One: How Element Readings Work 9 Chapter Two: How to Read Tarot Cards 23 Chapter Three: Earth: A Reading to Shelter You 29 Chapter Four: Air: A Reading to Help You Breathe 59 Chapter Five: Fire: A Reading to Light the Way 83 Chapter Six: Water: A Reading to Help You Float 105 Chapter Seven: Spirit: A Reading to Bring You Connection 127 Chapter Eight: Additional Spreads for Clarity 149 Chapter Nine: Self-Care 169 Conclusion 175 Appendix: Tarot Card Meanings 179 Recommended Reading 259 Acknowledegments 261

Introduction

Can You Fix My Life? A long-time tarot client asked me for a reading. She’d been going through a really difficult period of time. She’d gotten into a car accident after losing her job. She’d become disabled, and while going through this experience, her marriage ended. She had to find a new place to live that was wheelchair accessible, and then her son went into rehab after overdosing. Oh—and both of her parents died. All of this happened in six months. Think about that. When she called me, she was in her new home (that she hated), her divorce was pretty much final, and her parents had both been put to rest and their estate finalized. Her son was in rehab, doing well, but damn. She was exhausted—mentally, spiritually, physically, and emotionally. She said she was doing “Okay? I guess.” You know the way you say that you’re “Okay?” and your voice goes up at the end? It becomes a question that’s trying to answer itself. It’s the polite thing that you say when you feel like your 1

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heart has been run over. You don’t want to overburden your friend with the absolute train wreck your life has become, but you also don’t want to lie. You go to this half-honest, shadowy place and you test out this answer. “Okay?” really means “I can’t breathe. Please help. Unless, you know, you’re too busy, because I know you’ve got a lot going on.” This “Okay?” is generally followed with a solid “I guess” because saying that things are okay is such a complete and utter untruth that your whole self wants to fight it in the parking lot after school. “I guess” turns the presumption that “Okay?” is even in your wheelhouse into a laughable fantasy. So we talked for a little bit. Turns out she was not, in fact, okay. She wasn’t even “Okay? I guess.” She didn’t have a job to distract herself with. She didn’t have a partner to talk to, and her son was unable to help. She had no siblings, and all her friends had briefly vanished. She laughed about this, saying, “Every time I called them, something even more terrible happened. They need a break from me.” I asked her what she wanted to ask about, and she said, “I don’t know. Everything? Nothing? Can you just fix me? Can you fix my life and hit a reset button or something with the universe? Because I just need one thing to be okay. And right now? Nothing is okay.” I said that I couldn’t fix her life, but that maybe I could give her some tools that she could use to do the heavy work herself. The reading was pretty gentle, and the best/worst card that she got was the Ten of Swords: “Hey, sis. Listen. You’re at rock bottom. You’re here. It will literally only go uphill from here. I promise. I promise.”

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We finished the reading and were saying goodbye when she said it again. “It would be great if I could just get, like, a cosmic do-over, you know? New outlook on love, on my stupid house, on my job situation …” I remember being disappointed in myself and my cards for not knowing how to answer that. It would be nice. Hell, I’d love to do that for myself sometimes, but that’s not how my readings work. I kept thinking about her, though. A few weeks later, I might have hallucinated a tiny bit. No drugs or anything, Dad, I promise! I have a friend named Aidan Wachter who is a talismanic jeweler. He posted a picture of a pentacle that he’d made and said, “It’s too small.” I couldn’t stop looking at this tiny pentacle. I was tossing the image around in my head and I saw it split apart into pieces, then come back together as a whole. I saw the integration of earth, air, fire, water, and spirit. They all come together to make the pentacle. To make us. Earth is our home. Air is our mind. Fire is our body. Water is our heart. Spirit is our soul. They make us. They’re the bones of who we are.

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But they’re buried, right? Our bones are stuck deep, deep beneath self-esteem issues and tragedy and heartbreak and frustration and boredom. You can’t see them. You can’t feel them. So you react to things in a way that is Not-You. You carry around all the detritus and bullshit that people lay on you. You add to it with self-doubt and fear. You carry it and carry it and then you look into the mirror and you’re not sure who you are anymore in your core. My client was suffering from a serious case of “Who am I, and how in the hell did I get here?” It is true that our broken parts are what catch the light to make us shine, but it is also true that if there are too many broken parts, we can shatter into bits. I think that we spend a lot of time going around the hurt instead of healing. We shove it to the side and pretend that we’re fine. It’s easy and difficult at the same time. If we compartmentalize our pain, we can tiptoe around it and pretend it never happened. Then, when we least expect it, it frickin’ explodes all over our lives. When we put our broken bits back together, it creates a beautiful mosaic that is us. However, if we put our broken bits together with lies, it’s not going to stay. The cracks will grow and the pain will find us again. When I ask you during a reading whose sadness you are carrying around and you say you don’t know, there is healing to be done. When you tell me that you know you should get healthy, but you can’t make it worth your time, there is a reason. That reason is not that you’re stupid, incompetent, or lazy. That might have been what you were told, but it’s just not true. We do this thing where we’ll invest countless hours in the problems of a friend and completely ignore our own. Why do we do that? Are we not as valuable as our people?

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With all of this swimming around in my head, I called my client. She was surprised and a little weirded out to hear from me, because you don’t often have your tarot reader call you, but she was interested in my idea. What if we broke down her life into these elements? What if we did five readings, one for each part of her life? What if we used these readings to look specifically into what her frustrations were? Where are the supports in her life? What resources were out there for her? We talked about it for a bit, and she agreed to be my guinea pig. Brave woman. What I taught my client who lost so much is what I’m going to teach you. I designed a reading for each element based on its alchemical symbol. I created a kit to use in an exercise designed to help her start the process of making change. I compiled community and online resources for continuing the change. I wanted to get to the heart of the problems. Not “Why can’t I find a partner?” but “What can I fix in me emotionally that will lead me to being happy without a partner?” Not “Why can’t I lose weight when I want to?” but “How can I see myself as worthy of good health?” When I was ready, we started with earth, talking about her home and how unhappy she was. After we figured that issue out, we moved on to air and took a good look at her mind and how tired she was of being at home. Fire addressed her physical self, and water her emotions. We finished with the spirit reading and helped her find a spiritual practice that resonated. I did not fix her. This is so important. I cannot fix people that I didn’t break. She fixed herself. I gave her the tools she needed— that’s my job as a tarot reader. I’m the guide, but all the hard work starts with the client.

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This program is a reset button for your life. For your heart, mind, body, soul, spirit, and home. This is not a replacement for counseling or meds if you need them. Tarot readings are excellent for helping you figure out what’s next, and sometimes the next step is therapy. This is not a bandage for a gaping wound; this is essentially a New Age self-help book. We’re going to talk about each part of your life and figure out what is helping you, what is hurting you, and which tools you have available to help you move forward to your most authentic self. That’s what it’s all about, right? Living an honest, uncluttered life in which you can breathe freely, stand tall, and roll with the punches. Part of living, though, is picking up damaging habits, other people’s opinions, and misinformation. Tarot Elements will help you sort through the detritus of living and pull away those things that don’t serve you. We’ll get to the root of the problem. These readings and this journey can be intimidating. It can be full of tears and longing and wondering if your reset button is stuck or lost or broken. That’s where I come in. We’re going to do this together. We’re going to walk through the scary stuff to the other side, and take a deep breath, and wipe our eyes, and realize that the way forward might still be hard, but it will be good. And we’ll be carrying less baggage, so our steps will be lighter. Each element reading process will follow this formula: • Description of the element • Story to illustrate what happens when that element goes bajiggedy, using examples from my awesome yet intense life • Tarot reading to help you make sense of the element in your life

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• Two sample readings to use as examples • Your homework • Resources and additional tarot spreads to help you bring it on home Let’s do it.

XO, Melissa

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How Element Readings Work I tried to keep the structure of each reading very basic. These spreads are based on the alchemical signs for each element. I found that this simplicity worked beautifully with the particular elements. For water, for example, there are three things/cards that can “get in your way.” In my readings, I find that it’s seldom just one thing in our history that keeps us from being emotionally healthy. In the air reading, you have one thing to hold on to. One focus. What is your truest, most honest desire. Can you rely on your skills, your degree, your mental acuity? What is that thing that will open the door to the rest of your satisfaction with work and with exercising your mind?

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What Are We Asking? Each reading, except for spirit, has the same three questions in different card configurations. When you aren’t sure where to go or what to do, you want to start with the basics: • What can you hold on to? • What can pull you forward? • What gets in your way? These three questions will help you find your reset button.

What Can You Hold On To? What are the things in your life—in relation to heart, body, mind, home, and soul—that are currently supporting you or are things that you can begin to lean on. These are people, organizations, or spiritual beliefs that are already in your life that you can rely on. Sometimes it’s as simple as faith. Sometimes it’s reaching out to people you really don’t want to reach out to. For example, in the fire reading, you get the Three of Pentacles and the Queen of Wands in this position. You can hold on to your crew—the Three of Pentacles talks about teamwork. You can reach out to your support system, or if you haven’t got a great one in regard to health, to a gym or a physician. Reach for someone or something that is very near to you that will be easy to hold. The Queen of Wands tells us that you have confidence and motivation. She’s the kick-start that you’ve already got in your life. She shows up to remind you that you can do hard things and tells you to get out of your own way. What Can Pull You Forward? Think about the tools that can unstick you from a place of stasis. What are the resources that you have access to that will move

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you out of this spot? These don’t have to cost a lot of money or take a lot of time to find. You can ask friends, colleagues, and family members for assistance. The thing that can unstick you might already in your possession. That thing might also be a change of mind or heart. In the air reading, cards 4, 5, and 6 ask this question. What are the things that can move you away from that boring job? What do you need to finish that degree? If you pull the Fool, the King of Swords, and the Three of Cups, you would see that you need to take a chance (Fool), that you need to talk to someone who is “in charge” (King of Swords), such as a headhunter or someone one step up from your current boss, and that you can find answers in your group of friends (Three of Cups). You would ask among your friends if they know of any positions or if they know anyone who could have a conversation with you. I’ve had this happen in my own life. After posting on Facebook that I was being laid off, a friend immediately reached out and said, “I know a guy who’s looking for an HR person.” Within two weeks I had a new job.

What Gets in Your Way? These cards represent the internal and external obstacles that you come across. They can be old challenges or new, internal or external. These can be people or situations, emotional or mental states. Sometimes your obstacles will be memories. Honestly, memories are sometimes the hardest things to work through. The past will swoop in out of nowhere like a specter and tell you don’t deserve or need good things and blam—you’re back to square one. In the water reading, there are three cards that ask what gets in your way. Let’s say you pulled the Devil, the Six of Cups

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reversed, and the Five of Wands. The Devil tells a story of temptation and vice that you haven’t been able to shake. The Six of Cups reversed say that you have been feeling a little petty and pouting a bit. And there is a component in the Five of Wands of getting involved in drama that doesn’t belong to you. All these things together can distract you from your goal and keep you looking behind or beside you instead of straight ahead. The Use of Elemental Dignities Since these are elemental readings, you can find another layer of interpretation to the spreads. This is optional, but can help you decide which part of the reading to focus on first. The best explanation of elemental dignities I’ve ever seen is by my beloved Barbara Moore in her 2012 Llewellyn Unbound post titled “Elemental Dignitaries,” so I totally lifted it (with permission, of course): Applying elemental dignities to a reading is simple. When interpreting a card, consider the cards that are next to it. Using the elemental relationships described below, weave the effect into the meaning of the card. For example, let’s say we are looking at the 3 of Cups (a spontaneous, unexpected joy or pleasure). Next to it is the 5 of Wands. Technically, it doesn’t matter if it is 5 or any other number. What matters is the suit. In this case, it is Wands, or Fire. Wands/Fire is the opposite of Cups/Water, therefore weakening the card. The spontaneous joy or pleasure will not be quite as joyful or pleasurable as it could be; it is weakened or diminished by the presence of Wands/Fire. One way to think about elemental dignities is to think of a card as a word and the card next to it as a modifier. The

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modifier can indicate an intensification of meaning like underlining or adding an exclamation point does in writing. A modifier can also diminish the impact by adding “kind of ” or “meh” to the sentence. • Cards of the same element strengthen each other greatly. • Wands (fire) and Swords (air) are both considered active and support each other. • Cups (water) and Pentacles (earth) are both considered passive and support each other. • Wands (fire) and Cups (water) are opposites and weaken each other. • Swords (air) and Pentacles (earth) are opposites and weaken each other. • Wands (fire) and Pentacles (earth) have little effect on each other. • Swords (air) and Cups (water) have little effect on each other. When an element is strengthened, it does not always mean that it is a positive situation. It means that the experience is stronger or intensified, whether positive or negative. Fire and Air are considered active. This means the energy is active, it moves, it creates, it acts; it also indicates swift movement. That is, if this energy is present, it is moving around making things happen and happen quickly. Water and Earth are considered passive. That is, the energy is passive, it is still, it is reactive, it is shaped; it also suggests slower movement. Passive energy waits for something to happen, hence the idea of slowness, and then reacts.

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When either Water and Fire or Air and Earth are present, the result is a weakening of both. They are opposites, fighting against each other, causing conflicting energy that will be evidenced in the situation. The combinations of Fire and Earth or Air and Water are considered neutral. They have little or no effect on each other. So, if you had a lot of wands (fire) in a water reading, you would want to take your time and be very deliberate with your choices, as these elements oppose each other. This could mean that you will eventually need to cut ties with a friend or partner, but not just yet. It might not be safe or in your best interest to do so right away. You may have more work to do to untangle the situation before you can walk cleanly away. If you had lots of swords (air) in your fire reading, it’s time to move. These two elements encourage each other to make things happen. This could indicate the need for a medical checkup or that the time is exactly right to start walking while listening to Zombies, Run! This is a walking app that puts you in the story of a zombie apocalypse and helps you stay motivated while you exercise. Using the elemental dignities is not required for these readings, but it can add some depth to the work that you’re doing. If you’re not sure which step to take first, or if you want to do all five readings and then are completely overwhelmed and confused about which to address first, this can help. Where do I start? If you’re like my client from the introduction and your whole life has blown wide open (or has gotten locked into a rut), it can be tricky to figure out which reading to start with. If you are looking

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for a whole-life reset, there are a few ways you can decide which reading to do first. I do encourage you to truly complete one element before you a start another. This isn’t a race, and there isn’t a prize for whoever tears through them first. The idea is to take a deliberate, rational view of your life, and then write a map for aligning it with your most authentic self. This ain’t nothin’, folks. You can’t wing it and expect lasting results. Sometimes it’s blatantly obvious which element to start with. Your emotional self is just beaten down—water—or you’re desperately seeking a spiritual home—spirit. You feel like your house is so full of stuff that you just can’t breathe? Earth. Sometimes, though, you just don’t know. Maybe you’re in the same house, job, and relationship that you’ve had for twenty years. You go to the same church or temple. Your friends are the same, you’re about the same physically, and so on. You’re looking for something to shake things up a little, right? So where to begin? Process of Elimination I’ve designed the following tarot spread to help you decide which element reading to do first. It’s kind of like that basketball thing where the teams play against each other to see who wins (googles frantically): the BRACKET. Thinger. I don’t know sports, you guys. Just go with me on this. First, you need to pick your “teams.” I’ve picked the cards that I think have the most to do with the individual elements. You can pick other cards if you’d like. Remember, this is your process, so you do what feels right. Earth: Ace of Pentacles Air: Ace of Swords

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Fire: Ace of Wands Water: Ace of Cups Spirit: The Fool We are going to use a five-team single-elimination bracket. (By the way, before I wrote this book, I had no idea that you could string all of those words together to make a cohesive sentence. Learn something new every day.) Spirit Earth

Air Fire

Water

This is a series of short readings to see which you should start with. Also, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really fun to play with the cards like this.

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Round 1: Earth vs. Air Pull one card for each of your element indicator cards. This will tell you which element is the most urgent. In this example, the Chariot carries with it more intent and motion than the Three of Cups, so you would choose air.

Ace of Pentacles (Earth)

Ace of Swords (Air)

Three of Cups

The Chariot

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Round 2: Air vs. Spirit In this matchupâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the Devil isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really interested in moving you away from your vices, and the Eight of Wands is about being decisive, so spirit wins.

Air

Spirit

The Devil

Eight of Wands

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Round 3: Fire vs. Water The Knight of Pents is kind of stuck, and the Six of Wands is about celebration. The winner is water!

Fire

Water

Knight of Pentacles Reversed

Six of Wands

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Round 4: Spirit vs. Water The Two of Swords is a card of inaction, and the Queen of Wands is about to jump up, so our winner is water once again.

Spirit

Water

Two of Swords

Queen of Wands

And so, the best reading to do first is the water reading.

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Determine Your Stressors Another way to decide which to do first is to look at your stressors. Make a list of the things that are causing unhappiness and unrest in your life and see which problems align with each element. What Is Stressing You Out? Unhappy at work/school The stress of success Starting a new business Injury or illness Arguments in personal life Can’t sleep Family issues Legal issues Should I move? Trying to become healthier Empty nest Unemployment Relationship issues Financial worries Can’t find a partner

Which Reading Should You Use? Air Earth if it’s financial Water if it’s emotional Earth if it’s financial Air if it’s planning Fire Air if you’re bored Water if you’re emotionally stressed Air for anxiety Fire if it’s physiological Water Air for planning Water if it’s an emotional stressor Earth Fire for body Earth for downsizing Water for emotional upset Pentacles for housing stability Air for job hunting Water, water, water Pentacles Water

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Breaking them down like this could seem simplistic or trite, but we’re looking to simplify your life here. Look at your problems—at the root of them—to see what is causing you the most frustration. That’s where you begin. If you want to do more than one reading This is actually pretty cool. You can start with the most pressing thing and move on to the next element when you’re finished. The important thing about this is to not rush anything. Sometimes you can finish all that you need to in your emotional life in three months; sometimes it will take a year. Remember that the only person you’re competing against is yester-you. I have a client who has been working on her air reading for over a year. She found that she doesn’t feel challenged in her position and is going back to school. She already has a master’s degree in one field, but that field didn’t serve her, so she’s moving to another. She’s said that she’s not going to do another element reading until she finds a new job in her new field. This is great for her. She is single-minded and really focused and wants to close the circle that she started before moving on to another project. That is the correct mindset to have with these readings. It truly is a project and the project is you.

Body, Mind & Spirit / Divination / Tarot “Tarot Elements is your life coach, your mentor, and your guide for restoring balance. Destined to be a classic!” —Benebell Wen, author of Holistic Tarot

Five Astonishing Tarot Readings for Untangling Life’s Messiest Problems Author Melissa Cynova noticed that clients often turn up for readings with extremely complicated problems. She developed the five readings in Tarot Elements as a program for hitting the reset button on life. Whether you’re reading for yourself or for others, this book can help you work with any tarot deck to clarify complex issues, unstick the stuck parts, and move forward to a better place.

Tarot Elements shows you how to use the five elements to focus on one aspect of a problem at a time and resolve the tangled issues that are holding you back. The earth reading is about home. Air is about mind, fire is about body, water is about heart, and the spirit reading is about your soul and your spiritual practice. With hands-on exercises, sample readings, and fascinating insights, this book invites you to pick up your cards and begin the process of transformation. When Melissa Cynova was in middle school, a kid in her class gave her a deck of tarot cards. Thirty years later, she’s still working with tarot. In addition to being a prolific tarot reader, Melissa is the author of Kitchen Table Tarot and she teaches at tarot conferences such as Omega Institute and Northwest Tarot Symposium. Melissa lives in St. Louis, Missouri. Visit her online at www.MelissaCynova.com. Facebook.com/LlewellynBooks

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