There are many, many ways to read Tarot cards, but it helps to have a consistent method that you use each time. In this way, you can think less about how you are going to read and focus completely on your subject, the cards and their meaning.

A basic reading can be boiled down to seven steps: Rituals, Shuffling, Selecting, Turning, Reading, Discussion and Refining.

1) Rituals: Rituals are an important part of reading the Tarot, but whatever those rituals may be...

The Shiva Lingham and Yoni come from the India and the Ancient, 5000 years old Hindu religion. It is a meditation, inscribed in Stone which is at the heart of every Hindu temple. It is a meditation inscribed in stone whose meaning has been lost in history but which is now taught in Energy Enhancement.

The Shiva Lingham and Yoni is a 5000 year old sculpture, a diagram, a key which describes the natural flow of energy between man and the energies of the universe. How energy comes...

The book of Esther is a story in the Bible about a powerful woman who plays power politics in the court of King Xerxes, one of the greatest and most ruthless historical figures of the ancient world. Esther risks her life in a game of high-stakes politics and manages to save the Jewish people. That alone would make the book of Esther one of the most unusual books in all of Scripture. But add one more thing to make it stand out. It's the only book in all of the Bible (Old and New...

Lack of material does not enable to give a detailed account of the Ismaili influence after the death of Shah Tahir Hussain Dakkani on 956/1549 in Ahmadnagar, India. We do not have explicit details, whether his descendants continued the Ismaili mission in the cloak of Shi'ism or not. There are however certain strong indications that a lady ruler, named Chand Bibi was secretly an Ismaili, but her faith is shrouded in her political activities. She was born in 957/1550 and died in...

The Vedas are a form of Hindu scripture, created by the great Rishis, they are the most ancient scriptures of the Hindus. All the mantras are started with the Om symbol which is now the most powerful word-symbol used in meditation. The Om symbol is known as the symbolic representation of Ultimate Reality. With the spread of Buddhism reaching out across the world the Om symbol is being given new life by many new cultures.

Om may seem simple enough at fist glance but it is known by...

The key verbal roots occur more than two dozen times each in the Koran.

Etiquette of Eating:
The host should offer water to wash the hands of his guests from the right to the left, washing his own last. When a man has guests with him, he should eat joyfully with them; he should be the last to begin to eat, and he should be the last to lave his hands before, and last to do so after, a meal (Kitab Majmu'at al-Hawashi, p. 59). When the host's relation are present at a meal,...

An ancient blessing on black Americans will take full effect in 2009. Thousands of years ago God had placed a blessing on black Israelites through Jeremiah. It was not to come about until a certain number of years expired. Those years will have expired in 2009. There might be a spectacular manifestation of God’s blessing as two black men, Barack Obama and Colin Powell, ascend to the very top of national and world power.

God’s 2500-year span for Israel and Judah

Edgar Cayce is well known as the biggest psychic of the twentieth century. He has even recently been featured on TV programs with the likes of Nostradamus and such. His prophecies are more exacting and are still coming true. And amazingly they were all done while Edgar Cayce was asleep! Yes, many prophecies from Nostradamus to Sylvia Brown tell of forthcoming doom. From earthquakes to fire from the skies and the second coming of Jesus. The possibility of the book of Revelations coming...

The human aura is a three-dimensional energy field that surrounds the bodies of all living-beings and things. It extends in all directions, normally in an elliptical shape around the body. The healthier you are, the further the aura will extend out from the body.

There was an era when many people were able to see auras. In paintings of Spiritual leaders like Christ and the Buddha, we often see golden haloes around their heads. These haloes are nothing but their auras. The artists...

When it comes to Pentecost, what exactly do we celebrate? We are told that the celebration is all about commemorating the descent of the holy spirit upon the Apostles. That event was recorded with a number of details in the book of Acts. But is Pentecost of even greater importance and significance than the birth of Christ?

There are a number of popular celebrations on the Church calendar. The biggest and most popular is Christmas. People understand they are celebrating the birth...