TIPS AND TRICKS

by Warren Feld
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Consulting The Stone Tarot

The pentagram stone tarot involves a particular layout of stones.  You start with a bag of the stones listed below.  Have the person visually inspect all stones, and then select 5 of them.  The stones are laid out to form a rough pentagram (five-sided) figure, with one point upward.  Place the first stone on the upper right point.  This represents the emotions involved in the problem -- yours or those of others.  Place the second stone on the lower right point.  This represents conflict, binding and illusions which you may not be aware of.  It can also represent the obstacles to be faced.  Place the third stone on the lower left-hand point.  It represents the foundation of the problem, the basis for its existence, the forces at work behind it.  Place the fourth stone on the upper left-hand point. This stone symbolizes your thoughts on the subject at the current time.  These thoughts may hinder or help you.  Place the fifth stone on the top point.  This signifies the final outcome.

0. THE FOOL - AGATE:  Scattered energies, extravagance, waste, "head in the clouds", imbalance, pride, ego, hubris, vanity

1. THE SHAMAN - QUARTZ:  magical attainment, control, power, balance, center, unification of spiritual and physical, self-knowledge, depth, confidence

2. THE HIGH PRIESTESS - EMERALD or PEARL:  Spirituality, secrets, power.  Earth religion, the unknown, female mysteries

3. THE GODDESS - PERIDOT or TURQUOISE:  Receptive energy, women, cycles, fertility, creativity, abundance, growth, love, female sexuality, money, mother

4. THE GOD - GARNET:  Projective energy, men, compassion, force, movement, aggression, male sexuality, father

5. THE CHIEF - CITRINE:  Authority, captivity, confinement, abandonment, advice, employer, honor, technology

6. THE OVERS - ROSE QUARTZ:  Love, sexuality, relationships, friendship, duality, polarity, symbiosis, balance, beauty, family

7. THE ELEMENTS - ANY TWINNED CRYSTAL:  Earth power, nature, self-control, triumph, success

8. STRENGTH - TOURMALINE:  Power, courage, will power, activity

9. THE WISE ELDER - SAPPHIRE or IOLITE:  Wisdom, knowledge, mysticism, enlightenment

10. THE SPIRAL - OPAL: Transformation, fortune, luck, exterior energies, unknown factors

11. JUSTICE - CARNELIAN:  Law, legal matters, dominance, submission, outside authority

12. INITIATION - AQUAMARINE:  Introspection, trials, tests, sacrifice

13. CHANGE - AMBER:  Renewal, beginnings, endings, health matters, trials

14. TEMPERANCE - AMETHYST:  moderation, scattering of energies, nonfocused, closed, disciplined, balance

15. FOLLY - BLACK ONYX, ANY SQUARE BLACK STONE:  addiction, delusion, pity, depression, violence, pettiness, lack of vision, control by others, submission

16. FORCE - LAVA or GEODE:  adversity, accident, challenge, oppression

17. THE STAR - METEORITE or ANY STAR-SHAPED STONE:  universal energies, astrology, eclipse, travel, hope

18. THE MOON - MOONSTONE or CHALCEDONY:  psychism, emotions, depression, night, winter, sleep, dreams, tides, magnetism, water

19. THE SUN - TIGER EYE or SUNSTONE:  mental activity, overintellectualism, thought, visualization, contentment, employment, day, summer, the seasons

20. REBIRTH - FOSSIL:  reversal, outcome, evolution, growth, life, childbirth, lessons

21. THE UNIVERSE - AZURITE or LAPIS or MALACHITE:  Interplay, success, movement, harvest, overview, ability, completion, higher forces

For more information, please read Cunningham, Scott.  Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Crystal, Gem & Metal Magic.  St.Paul: Llewellyn Publications, 1994.