Any reasonable concern is addressed
with loving care. I use the
classic cards designed by Morgan-Greer, and do many kinds of spreads depending on the question.
When using the Tarot I work as a channel, opening the mind to Source in order to receive
higher guidance. Sometimes the astral Akashic Record is accessed, other times spirits and angels
give sign in vision or feeling. In the dimensions past physical being here on earth,
distance is not an obstacle in terms of being able to sense another's situation.
However we are co-creators in life; if you are very scattered about your intensions or don't really
want to take responsibility for the situation or people around you, the reading will reflect this
state accordingly.
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More Comments on the Tarot*
Where did the classic tarot deck come from and how can the cards be so effective in unlocking answers
to our past, present or future? The tarot originated in northern Italy between about 1420-1440; there is
no evidence for it originating in any other time and place such as Egypt, Indian or Morocco. Playing cards
came to Europe from Islam, probably via Muslim Spain, about 50 years before the development of tarot.
The name itself was coined around 1530, when the word tarocchi began to be used to distinguish them from a new game
of trumps being played with ordinary playing cards. The symbolism of the tarot trumps comes from
the culture of Medieval and Rennaissance Europe and correlate with symbolism distinctive to European
art and religion.
The gypsies did not bring the tarot to Europe, nor did they spread its use; back
in the day they used palmistry and ordinary playing cards to tell fortunes. Tarot cards have never been
banned by the Catholic or Protestant churches, even during the Inquisition. There are Hermetic, astrological,
neoplatonic and pythagorean elements in classic Tarot card designs. Eliphas Levi was the first to ascribe
Hebrew letters to the tarot, around 1850; in the years following, kabbalistic elements were assigned by
leading European occultists of the day. The tarot has been a work in progress for over 600 years; the meanings embodied in
the cards continue to be modified and added to, unto the present day. The cards are a creation unique to the
western man; I believe they are our own unique tool for seeking the Tao, and for helping achieve synthesis of
nature-mind-body-soul-spirit, balance of right and left brain activities.
Learning the tarot takes some time, as the possible meanings associated with each
card must be assimilated. However the correspondences must also be a matter of individual choice,
also of insight gained through continued work with the cards along with
adherence to a school of thought, rather than right or wrong. The cards do trigger right-brain activity
through the archetypal information coded into the symbols and images presented in each card. The cards
also serve as a distraction, engaging the conscious mind so the subconscious can be freed to make contact
with realms and entities beyond the immediate physical world. Time and space as we
experience it on earth can be rendered malleable, as if one were walking from room to room in a house. The
past lives parallel with the present; the future is viewed as many potentials moving towards a state
vector collapse. A skilled reader can witness the probability most likely to be manifest, given any interaction
within self, or with self and for another person. Even more intriguing, once the question is asked and
both reader and querient are in observation of each other and the question, the likely probability of what
will happen is subject to change. Per relativity and quantum theory the universe exists because it is observed.
Consistent work with a set of tarot cards, along with doing dream journaling, symbolic art or collage,
can go a long way to healing difficult mental, emotional or creative blocks, also for re-programming
dysfunctional behavioral habits and self-defeating patterns. Insight and breakthrough must be
brought down to the "gut" level as a distinct, powerful inner "knowledge through feeling" for
efforts to have a lasting effect. As long as insight stays on the purely verbal, intellectual level
there is no deep understanding or incorporation of new, healthier patterns of perception and action.
Please note that sucking up TV or movie images is very, very different from generating
one's own material and commiting it to a medium of expression. These genres can hypnotize,
programming in stuff not healthy for the individual at a very deep level; it also deadens the
individual's own capasity for authentic creativity like a drug. Note that there are artists,
musicians and writers who have enjoyed mainstream success by offering works
synthesized from prior archetypal collections of media, sound and image; musician Rob Zombie is a good example.
The feeling level of synthesis is again, intimately
linked with right brain activity and data presented as intuitions or instinct, commonly encoded
as images or sensed as feelings. Feelings become emotions when linear-logical thought is attached
to them, commonly as some form of judgment, which may or may not be accurate.
Feelings and images are freely moving phenomena, whereas emotions tend to get stored in the body,
where they are triggered into replay mode by certain external stimuli.
Once incorporated, the conscious mind tends to take these "recordings" and their playback of negative
or positive thought and feelings, at face value and without question. In addition, as children we commonly
absorb many of our parents' recordings without question, often making them our own and as an extension, feel
obliged to live out or heal whatever needs weren't being met in our parents' world. Other common
parental-trigger programs can include systematic self-sabotage done so one never moves past the
level of parental achievement; another is to conduct intimate relationships by cyclicly inducing drama
and emotional crisis. These programs and others were created from interaction with the outside world during
a time in our lives when we had no power and little self-definition. They are responsible for how we end
up as adults, interacting with both the exterior and interior world largely on autopilot; stimuli are commonly distorted
through lenses of fear, self-defense, infantile emotionalism, competitive aggression, victimization or anger.
Actually, recordings and memories are passed down from ancestor to ancestor, encoded in the very DNA of the body.
Attempting to heal or make a psychological breakthrough can be physically uncomfortable;
if repressed material is suddenly awakened, waves of deep passion and emotion unleashed
from the cellular level can be overwhelming to experience and even cause sickness.
Great fear can also be triggered, as we are tampering with the very ancestral/tribal stuff by
which the people that came before created a family or tribal identity; which even if negative and
non- life and love affirming, is also taboo to break away from. One will then be excluded from the
tribe and left to die out in the wilderness, of sorts. Once the individual has become deeply aware of this
programming and courageously chosen to build more inner freedom and authentic self-expression into their lives,
old ancestral material can be released out of the cells and is commonly experienced as a toxic reaction in the body.
Key relational elements of the previous life such as family support, friends, job and religion may fall apart also.
The first breakthrough is made the moment an aspirant can stay conscious and witness their own programs
controlling their perceptions of the world and themselves. And this witnessing must be done without immediately
incorporating a judgment, as we have been conditioned to make most of our judgments critical, perfectionist,
punishing or biased, especially if they refer to ourselves or to other beings we have been taught to fear. Our conditioning
has also taught us that if something does not have a "practical" value or is not of "use", e.g. immediately
connected to money, status, power or the acquisition of material goods, then it has no value. Under this type of
thinking nature left alone and undisturbed has no value; emotions and feelings have no value, animals have very
limited value, etc. Somehow, working with selected images from the tarot can trigger deeply felt breakthroughs in insight
or present information that the ego has otherwise blocked from conscious consideration.
Because all creativity stems from right brain activity of imaging and feeling first, healing,
reprogramming and breakthrough can be triggered by simply observing related images from the tarot
on a daily basis. Take three or so cards selected specifically for their relation to an issue at hand
and place them where they can be easily seen often, such as on a nightstand by the bed. One need
not light a candle, slaughter a chicken or chant an elaborate prayer. Simply look at the cards with
the mind stilled for a minute; attempt a state of non-thought, visualizing clear, luminous space.
Then permit a simple visualization of the outcome desired, nothing more, for another minute. Repeat this
exercise for a couple weeks, once in the morning and once at night before bed.
Expect the actual outcome to be different from that which was visualized. Another concept to nail
down is that we can participate in the alchemal process, however we are not in control of and do not dictate
the outcome. That must be left up to Higher Intelligence and Divine Love. Invoking active change
through working with images-and while we are at it, throw in music, scent and objects of correspondence
-will also trigger one's own unresolved kaarma. One may be immediately be confronted with exactly the
sort of challenge they were hoping to avoid. This is the universe's way of testing the individual; it
wants to see if one is serious about evolving or not. In working the tarot one is also learning
how to surrender to the sublime, get out of their own way when invoking the creative process,
whether in a tangible project or a love interest. The archetypal symbols woven into the cards are also
common to the human collective at large, therefore working actively with the images can also enable
one to also better understand and separate out the effect of collective myths and mind on the self.
This process is well worth doing, as otherwise we are prone to living out someone else's heaven or hell.
*Credit for historical information on the tarot must be given to The TarotL Tarot History Information Sheet,
by members of the TarotL discussion group, http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/TarotL, 2000-01.
