The Good Karma Tarot: A beginner's guide to reading the cards

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The first Tarot card position, “Karmic Energy”, hones in on the most significant factors shaping your life right now. Farber and his wife Amy Zerner went on to create books, book/card sets, and unique kits that also made other esoteric systems accessible, such as the tarot, alchemy, The Goddess, talking boards, meditation, shamanism, psychic development, and relationships.

It was taken over by the youth movement in 1970 and turned into a rustic “free city” where bartering and cooperation were the standard - sort of an urban commune for artists. It’s a quick way of getting inspiration and ideas from the cosmos about where your efforts will most be needed, and rewarded.

Farber is now the world's foremost creator of interactive personal guidance systems, having sold over two million copies of his 40 books. For example, the Queen of Coins, illustrating Capricorn, shows ‘a melancholy Queen resting after a successful performance…(she) is a melding of two female artists, a painter and an actress, both musicians born under the sign of Capricorn. Erfurt lived in Christiana from 1976-1978, where most of the Major Arcana were sketched by firelight (five cards - Justice, The Hanged Man, Death, Temperance, and The Devil were painted while on a gypsy caravan trip through the Danish countryside). While the upright Karma tells you to learn from old experiences, the reversed card means that you are not spending enough time absorbing those old experiences.

The one thing I asked of the Universe was that if there was karma to be had, that it be delivered in this life and that they knew where it came from.

This free-spirited, creative environment strongly influenced Erfurt’s art – in fact, many of her friends make appearances in the deck (for example, in the Fool card, which was modelled on a friend who she describes in the LWB as having a ‘child-like and enquiring nature’). The Universe takes the positive energy we emit, and transforms it into cosmic gifts to be given back to us, as surprises, down the line. You can help create a new beginning for someone/something that has lost something they didn’t think they could do without (water signs and water-y places may be a clue). The answer to every question lies in these amazing cards, created by astrologer Monte Farber and already embraced by hundreds of thousands of seekers.