FREE Tarot Readings Enchanted World Amy Zerner and Monte Farber

June 11th marks our 29th year as a legally married husband and wife. Our wedding day back in 1978 was a truly memorable experience and I've written about it here and there in previous blogs. Amy did a tarot reading for our wedding day with the intention to see what that energies of that day held in store for us, more to see if the tarot would speak to us that way then to find out what happened, since we pretty much know what's happened so far! ;-) I interpreted the reading. This anniversary reading is an adaptation of the BIT Tarot Method created by our friend Janet Boyer featured in her upcoming book.

Doing this reading made me realize that although most of you come to our website to get our free or Members tarot readings, I don't usually write about tarot here in my blog space. If you'd like me to write more about how to interpret a tarot or astrology reading, and not just questions about answers you've received here using our online divination systems, just email me at info@theenchantedworld.comand I'll do my best.

Here's Amy's tarot reading for our wedding day, June 11, 1978"

POSITION 1: You

CARD: Temperance

We had lived together since May of 1975 in the same house Amy had lived in since 1967, the same house we continue to live and be well in, and we felt that the time was, indeed right for us to get marriage. We felt like we were married already and so why not have the party and get the presents? Our wedding day was also the first day we had ever picked astrologically for a major event because we had two hundred people coming and we didn't have the money to hire a tent. It turned out to be one of the most beautiful days ever. It was also the only day of the year in the Jewish calendar when a person is not supposed to get married and so my father's brother, who had just found religion, refused to come, but my father persuaded him, and so he and his wife brought their four children, blah, blah, blah. As I always say, the hardest part of being married is getting married and the Temperance card is the perfect reminder of how much mixing and blending is required to balance the conflicting personalities of every wedding.

POSITION 2: What Surrounds You

CARD: The Chariot

We produced our wedding ourselves. Although we didn't have any money, we took the reins and it was a spectacular event. A casual acquaintance going through a messy divorce let us use their soon-to-be-sold-off East Hampton mansion, complete with in-ground trampoline and pool. We persuaded the cook at the local Head Start daycare center to do the cooking. We borrowed the chairs from our local community center. A friend who owned the bar I played music in ordered the champagne at cost. Five or six musical groups plus individual musicians offered to play for free. As you can tell, it was a blast! We even had a couple of dozen wedding crashers, no lie! We even persuaded a psychiatrist friend of ours who was a minister to marry us. He was shaking during the whole event. We thought it was nerves at conducting the ceremony, but it turned out that he had given up drinking the day before and had a bit of the DT's! But Amy and I continued to set the tone that we have always set in our life and in our life's work: take the reins, do what you can to make things as best as you can make them so we can all have a good time, and have a good time doing it. It even helps to keep you healthy to have that attitude, another meaning of The Chariot, and though we've had and have our health issues, we consider ourselves quite fortunate to be as vital as we are.

POSITION 3: What blocks you

CARD: Five of Pentacles - worry

No surprise here! Worry short-circuits one’s nervous system and that was as true the day of our wedding as it is true for us today. Both Amy and I have in our natal astrology charts the planet Saturn in the sign of Virgo. The astrological house position indicates which area of life you don’t think rationally about and the sign qualifies how you don’t think rationally. In our case and the case of all those with Saturn in Virgo, worry – not just “mind” – is The Destroyer. There were a few anxious moments, as there are every day, but on one’s wedding day there are usually more of them. However, the one thing we were not and have never worried about is our love for each other and that’s the foundation of a lifelong partnership. As the contractor said in the movie, “The Money Pit,” which I worked on, “As long as the foundation is good, you can always fix the rest of it.”

POSITION 4: Your Foundation

CARD: The Prince of Pentacles

We sometimes read the Prince of Pentacles as the opening of a business enterprise and ten years after our marriage we started on the road to creating our mom ‘n pop conglomerate, “The Enchanted World of Amy Zerner and Monte Farber.” Since 1986 Amy and I have created our Enchanted World of best-selling books and games – there are now close to 2,000,000 copies of our work in print in ten languages – and Amy’s U.S. National Endowment for the Arts award-winning fabric collage tapestry paintings and her “Spiritual Couture” tapestry-embellished jackets and coats, which sell at Bergdorf Goodman in NYC and select Neiman Marcus stores, as well as through our incredible website www.TheEnchantedWorld.com, where you can also see her tarot, astrology, and goddess tapestries reproduced as silver jewelry. The loving opening of new business enterprises could certainly be considered the foundation of our life together, though, my little tarot cards (they really are mine, since we use either our Zerner/Farber Tarot Deck or The Enchanted Tarot Deck, both reproductions of Amy’s 78 fabric collage tapestries!), I have to gently correct you and say that we consider our love and respect for each other (and for Amy’s late mother, Jessie Spicer Zerner, and our shaman cat, Zane) to be the foundation of our life together. But I suppose you tarot cards are simply acknowledging that without us you and our other oracle children wouldn’t exist! Thanks, kids!

POSITION 5: What is behind You

CARD: The Princess of Pentacles

Amy and I are workers, pure and simple, just like the Princess of Pentacles. There never was a time when we weren’t working flat out on some project or another and I hope that will never change. This card represents someone who likes to get their hands in the earth and I love gardening and Amy loves the results of my gardening. We have continually built on our past work and continue to do so. Our marriage took place because we had done the dirty work of getting to know each other and purifying ourselves for our life together.

POSITION 6: What crowns you

CARD: Nine of Pentacles – Abundance

We like to think of this position as the flag you march behind and we have always lived to the best of our ability a life of abundance. As I wrote previously, we didn’t have much money but we were in no way poor. We have always appreciated what we had and creatively used it to live a life together of quality and meaning. We’re also quite fortunate to have had Amy’s mother, who worked with us and who sold us her home. We think of the Nine of Pentacles as “an independent woman” and we both feel Jessie hovering over us every day, protecting, strengthening, and guiding us – she was the impetus for my career as a psychic counselor to businesses and individuals.

POSITION 7: What is before you (in the short term)

CARD: Four of Wands – completion

We also interpret this card to mean “a happy marriage that survives the test of time,” so once again, no surprise there! We wake up every day thankful that we’re alive and together because it is all to easy to see that it could suddenly become otherwise. We don’t think we’re immune from sorrows, just lucky so far. The Four of Wands is particularly apt in describing what was “before” Amy and I for we have had a happy marriage that has survived the test of time and we are hopeful that through our work our marriage will survive beyond our time on earth, too.

POSITION 8: How to present yourself

CARD: The Empress

We think of The Empress as the ultimate creativity card, the Major Arcana version of . She gives birth to the natural work and everything beautiful and that is how we present ourselves through our work. Getting back to the reading, our wedding day was beautiful and held in gorgeous surroundings that were mainly outside on the grounds, trampoline (there was never less than three shoe-less dressed up people bouncing on it!), and in the pool of the huge East Hampton “cottage” that we had been loaned for the day, whose walls were hung with Amy’s tapestries. We tried to make it a beautiful day for everyone who came to share it with us.

POSITION 9: How others see you

CARD: Ace of Wands - initiation

Our wedding was not your usual wedding and was, indeed, more like an initiation into our Enchanted World. It was short on ceremony and long on fun, food, and drink, though we didn’t have any of our wedding cake because though we had splurged and ordered about many trays of our favorite cake from the legendary “Silvers” restaurant in Southampton, it tasted so good that everyone ate it before we got to it! A note to those who worry about various superstitions associated with wedding ceremonies: don’t be superstitious! We’re not, we’re psychic tarot reading astrologers who didn’t have any wedding cake but we’ve had a great marriage! Another unusual thing about our wedding was forty people holding hands on the front lawn in a circle invoking “The God Force” – I think that’s what got us a bunch of our wedding crashers! – and whooping and hollering as the energy rose and rose. The Ace of Wands also means “piercing the veil of illusion,” and there was certainly a pureness to our wedding. Everyone knew we were in love with each other so that worry was taken out of the equation and the unstructured-ness of it all allowed each person to create their own experience of our ritual, a short of “shaman for the day” experience that was unusual for most of them, especially in 1978. It was a tribal gathering, the kind of festival that is all too rare. Too many weddings have these silly rituals that everyone thinks are silly but they are done anyway – what’s up with that? An Ace indicates a new beginning and Amy and I have always initiated as many new traditions as we have followed.

POSITION 10: Your hopes and fears

CARD: The World

The World is the last card of the Major Arcana, the triumphant procession of The Fool, the unborn spirit, on its journey through life until The World is attained and the journey starts again. I have always wondered about this position’s meaning until I realized that whatever we hope for but fear are the things that we don’t understand, for if we understood them we would attain them. In this case I believe The World in this position for this Back In Time Method reading is showing me that Amy and I were aware that we didn’t know as much about the world as we wanted to know and were afraid of expecting too much from the art world and music world (I was “only” a musician then), two worlds that seem to get stranger and more remote from reality – and not just our reality – with every passing day. And I think that the cards are once again playing a little joke on their “parents” because, after all, we did end up creating our own “Enchanted World” of products, including the cards, themselves, despite our fears.

POSITION 11: The Outcome

CARD: Judgment

Judgment is the next to the last card of the Major Arcana and so this could be telling us that on our wedding day it was ordained that we would come to create art that would help improve our own judgment and that of those who availed themselves of our work. I once asked Amy what she thought was the common denominator of all human-caused suffering and, without a second’s hesitation, she replied, “Poor decision making.” She was 100% correct, IMHO. No matter what the scrape we find ourselves in, looking back at the path of how we got there will usually reveal one or more crucial junctures when we “zigged” when we should have “zagged,” usually because we didn’t listen to our intuition. Our life together has been similar to the angel that adorns Amy’s Judgment card and her trumpet calling every soul to arise and reinvigorate his and her self with the truth. To me, as a psychic who has had the existence of life after death proved to me without a shadow of doubt remaining, I also read this card as an indication that on our wedding day the angels of the other side – who we had already contacted using a Ouija board – blessed our union because, among other things, they knew our future work, especially with our “Psychic Circle,” “Pathfinder,” and the forthcoming “Enchanted Spellboard,” would enable hundreds of thousands of people to communicate with those who they previously considered dead and gone.