STEVE HOUNSOME

In this, the third and last of his Tarot Therapy series, Steve Hounsome examines and explores the Minor Arcana of the Tarot. As with the previous two volumes in this work, the cards are seen in a therapeutic context, existing as the underlying energies and forces from which our selves and lives are shaped and take form.The elemental and numerical energies are here combined in each of the Minor Arcana cards to produce their unique energy. This book gives an insight into what can happen when we receive and assimilate those energies as we go about our lives.This book completes a radical new view of the Tarot, taking it away from the fortune-telling booth and into the therapists consulting room. Having read this book, your view of the Tarot may never be the same again and both you and your clients will be all the better for it!

This is a book of meditation exercises with the emphasis on the practical. There are many books on the mystical nature of meditation, but few which assist us to learn to use meditation in our daily lives, to help reduce tension and stress, and promote better responses in mind and body, as well as spirit.Practical Meditation separates meditation techniques into easily defined areas, such as breathing exercises, relaxation techniques and healing meditations. There is a full section on learning to ground oneself so that you can keep your feet firmly on the ground and functioning to your best in the everyday world.This book aims to take the mystery out of meditation, making this ancient practice available to an ever-widening group of people. The meditations are explained in terms which are easy to understand and are written for people from all walks of life who are showing an increased interest in the subject.This books outlines the who, what, why, where, when and how of meditation for everyday use and life.

Taming the Wolf examines and explores the popular and growing practice of Full Moon Meditation.An increasing world-wide system of meditation, this book shows exactly how meditating at specific times of the phase of the Moon can be beneficial, not just for those participating, but also for the healing of the Earth on a local and global scale. This book not only shows how this happens, but also how and why it can play a vital part in the transition into the Aquarian Age and what this means. The concept of Full Moon Meditation is examined in depth, in an easy and light-hearted style, making it a down to earth procedure, open to all.Instruction for beginners to meditation are included, together with suggested meditations for each of the individual Full Moons through the year. These meditations can be used as suggested, or adapted to suit the individual methods of groups or individuals.To discover how you can find and tame your own wild wolf within, read this book!

Having spent 12 years as a Reader Manager with the UKs biggest telephone psychic company and given many hundreds of telephone psychic readings, Steve Hounsome has put that accumulated knowledge and experience together in this book.Functioning as a practical how to guide, this book is aimed at both potential and existing psychics who wish to or do make money from giving psychic readings by telephone. This book shows you how to use your psychic ability to work effectively and successfully as a telephone psychic. This book tells you what is required to be a telephone psychic getting a job how to give the best quality readings how to deal with all kinds of callers and their issues how to develop yourself and your careerand much more.Written in a light-hearted style, Steve Hounsome lifts the lid on the sometimes weird and wacky world of the telephone psychic industry. How To Be A Telephone Psychic is a revelation of how the business really works, and shows how you can learn to be part of it, providing an ethical, positive and effective service to your clients.

Visionary Artist Patrick Gamble has collaborated with Tarot Author and Tutor Steve Hounsome to realise this inspirational Tarot deck and book.It became clear that the archetypes within the Tarot had asserted themselves through Patricks work and it was realised that this is the Tarot deck that created itself!The cards present a strong elemental influence together with a beautiful expression of the wonder of nature, beings seen and unseen, and a sense of the oneness of all life. The Gamble-Hounsome Tarot allows the user to respond to the images in their own way, whilst embracing the profound truths and teaching at the heart of traditional Tarot. It is this that leads us to learn our own Gnosis (knowing) from each card.The book includes a unique method of working with the deck, known as the Gnosis Reading. This enables the user to access their own inner knowing and wisdom, then follow guidelines to apply this to everyday life.Entering the Gamble-Hounsome Tarot is to journey into a world of wonder, beauty, inspiration and positive possibility, drawn from both its unique imagery and therapeutic teachings.

The Tarot Therapy Deck has been created to express the underlying energy of each Tarot card, allowing the individual to relate to them in their own way. This book is the companion to the deck.The cards show this energy in the natural world, which we are part of and intrinsically linked to. It is this energy that we have an instinctive relationship with.By relating to this connection through the cards we can utilise this causal level to absorb, accept and grow. The Tarot Therapy Deck then becomes a therapeutic guide, inspiring us to live a life of empowered passion.The structure of the Tarot deck is the same as that of the human being and the Tarot Therapy deck is a celebration of the sacred energy that exists in all of us and the world in which we live.This book is the essential guide through the deck, offering a full explanation of every card, the background to its creation and how to use it.

In this groundbreaking new work, a proposal is given for the use of the Tarot as a therapy, alongside the many other complementary and natural procedures available. This largely ignored method of working with and viewing the cards aims to begin the work of restoring the Tarot to its rightful place of acceptance as a sacred healing tool. Split into three volumes, the first, Tarot for the New Millennium, explains the theory behind the idea of Tarot Therapy, tracing its origins and history in this light. The concept of both Major and Minor Arcanas are explored, showing the true, therapeutic construction of the pack. The book proposes the need for achieving professional accreditation for Tarot Therapists, including a suggested Code of Conduct, Ethics and Practice, with a call for basic standards to be met amongst practitioners. Volume 1 also outlines methods of working with the Tarot as a therapy in consultations, adding many other ways in which it can be utilised in this manner.Volume 2 contains an exploration of the Major Arcana cards in their therapeutic setting and use and Volume 3 does the same for the Minor Arcana.This major new work on the Tarot represents a turning point in its evolution, which the author shows has always adapted itself to the needs of humanity since its inception. Here is the method of working with the Tarot in the Aquarian Age, above and beyond its current position.

In this, most personal of Tarot books, Tarot author, creator and reader Steve Hounsome presents a method of working with the Tarot to help navigate the process of Grief, following the loss of a loved one.Based on the widely-recognised five stages of Grief - Bargaining, Denial, Anger, Depression and Acceptance - the book shows you how to use the Tarot as a mentor to guide you through your Grief. Each card is explored in the context of Grief with suggested exercises for many.The book arose following the sudden and tragic death of Steves eldest daughter, coupled with a desire to find a way to use the Tarot for those suffering from cancer, following his wifes diagnosis with incurable lung cancer. Steve shares his personal diary of how the Tarot played a central role in his Grief process.This book shows the Tarot in a therapeutic and developmental role, aligning it with Steves other books and work with the Tarot.50% of the proceeds from this book will be donated to MIND, the charity for better mental health.

This book is an exploration and examination of the Major Arcana of the Tarot, as experienced and understood by the author, Steve Hounsome. In the ten years since he published the first in this three volume series, Steve has undertaken his own Seekers Quest and here he presents this unique view of the Major Arcana.In what is at times a highly personal account of his experience with the energy of the cards, Steve demonstrates how the energy or power of each of the cards can be used in a therapeutic way to promote healing and development of the self. For those working as professional Tarot readers this book can be an invaluable aid, but as Steve himself found, this must first be done within you. This book shows you how.Volume 3 of the Tarot Therapy series will explore the energy of the Minor Arcana.

Many people today struggle with attempting to blend a spiritual life with the demands of work, home and family. For many, the rampant commercialism, exploitation and consequent destruction of the modern developed world is in direct conflict with the sacred ideals held so dear by those who see to live the way of the spirit.This book addresses this problem, offering a means whereby the dedicated serious practitioner can learn to live a practical, spiritual life, with what is sacred to them at its heart and as its focus. This is achieved by close association with the natural world, the wheel of nature rounds its annual cycle, and the Elements that constitute its life.There are many practical exercises included to help you find your way. Indeed we may well find that it is by living this way that society is changed, since all effective change must come from within. It may be this that finally brings about the tangible evidence of the much vaunted shift into the Aquarian Age