Lesson Five – Final Exam

Test yourself with this exam and enter your answers in your workbook!

1. What personal ethics do you adhere to in your interpersonal relationships that set the foundation in the development of your ethics as a Tarot Reader?
2. Why is it important for you to know the classic meanings of your cards?
3. How would you describe the her/his story of the Tarot to a new student of the Tarot?
4. When Major Arcana cards turn up in a reading, what does that mean?
5. What cards in the Major Arcana represent The Fool‘s earthly parents on The Fool’s Journey to Wholeness?
6. What do Tarotist’s mean by the divinatory meaning of a card?
7. What is the meaning of The Empress? The Hierophant? The Lovers cards?
8. What has the Fool achieved by the Chariot?
9. What lessons does the Fool learn during the Hermit stage?
10. How does the Hanged Man prepare the Fool for the Death card?
11. What does The Emperor card mean? Why might it mean very different things to different people? What does he mean to you? Provide examples.
12. List 2 or 3 word catch phrases for The Devil, Temperance and The Star.
13. What are the divinatory meanings for the The Moon, The Sun and Judgment cards?
14. Why do you think The World card may indicate a “change of place”?
15. What is it about the Tarot that sets it uniquely apart from other sacred texts?
16. Name 2 mystical traditions that may have used the Tarot to convey their esoteric teachings.
17. What her/historical change did Waite/Smith make to the Tarot deck in the design of the Rider-Waite Tarot?
18. What is the Major Arcana correspondent card to the Swords suit?
19. If you were making a decision based upon Disks attributes, what would you be basing your decision upon?
20. What is the shadow side of the Wands and Disks suits?
21. How would you describe a Wands family home?
22. What is the Major Arcana correspondent to Cups?
23. What does the Fool’s Journey to Wholeness teach us as adherents on The Journey to Magical Readership?
24. Why do you think the Swords suit is typically regarded with apprehension?
25. What is the risk of telling someone a predetermined future?
26. How does the light side of Wands help someone stuck in the dark side of Disks?
27. Why is The Tower card frightening to most people?
28. Relate yourself to a particular Court (No one is really a Court card!) In exploring the potentials and limitations of this Court card, explain why you picked this card. What Court card would represent your opposite?
29. Why do you think Wands people make good entrepreneurs? What might slip them up?
30. How does using the Tarot as a personal growth tool support you as a developing reader?

Lesson Five

• Workbook Exercises
• Final Exam