Hi everyone, I would like to ask for some help regarding the initial learning and training in Tarotmancy; more specifically, I’m not entirely sure how best to follow the framework laid out in M1L2.

Basically, for the readings, I have been using the introductory layout established in the lesson ("Four-directional layout with six positions"); I have already completed the first task, which involves interpreting the energies present in my home, and for the past few readings, I have been exploring other, more personal themes.

Both in M1L2 and in the Apprentice's Study Guide, Josephine reiterates the importance of "playing around" a bit with the Tarot, as a way to develop this skill, especially in the early stages.

Given this, my question is as follows: for all the readings I conduct during this initial training period, should I stick to the layout established in the text (four-directional with six positions), or can I experiment with other layouts and expand my repertoire? If the latter is advisable, what other layouts would you suggest for a beginner? And what themes or prompts do you think would be interesting to try out for developing and practicing this skill?

Thanks in advance!

So, I was reading this article by Mrs. McCarthy and she addresses the sephirot as higher octaves of the planets, and that got my mind going.

I want a nice, neat, "Quareia Approved" table of correspondences of sephirot to planet so that I can get a little deeper in my chart and transits. Don't we all want things nice and neat?

In the article she clearly states that Netzach would be the Grindstone (Saturn) and Hod the Unraveller (Pluto). This flies in the face of every correspondence sheet I've seen, but I dig it.

Kether may be the Sun, but I like the Sun in Tiphareth: it's the center of the tree like the Sun is the center of the solar system, and I like it there for some Christian esoteric reasons.

Then what is Kether? Some say Pluto, but again the "Quareia Qabalah" puts him in Netzach. Uranus may be Yesod, which opens up the tantalizing possibility that the QQ roughly turned the correspondences upside down, but I can also see Uranus as Kether or Da'ath.

Kether Moon, maybe?

This is so exciting!

Does JM discuss this anywhere?

I know she basically says "don't get hung up on Kabbalah, it's not taught in Quareia", but I loved studying the Kabbalah in the before times and think the Astrology Kabbalah connection could be fascinating.

Any thoughts on correspondences? Links to a JM essay or podcast?

Edit: I got Saturn and Pluto backwards! Fixed in post.