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Let us look at some of the more interesting and fascinating peculiarities of the Tarot!
Our common 52 card deck shares a history with the Tarot cards. Originally the playing card deck also consisted of Knights as well as Jacks, which in the Tarot are known as Pages. The Jack alone remains as representative of the lower court in the 52 card deck; however, in the Tarot, both Knight and Page carry out the command of the royal couple, as proclamator and respresentative, respectively. Sometimes the Page is referred to in the feminine form as Maid or Princess.
It is interesting that this feminine card disappeared from the common deck, given the cultural displacement of women in general. Did we somehow lose half of ourselves and thus half of our potential? The Tarot retains the Divine Feminine presence not only in the royal court as Queen, but also via this influential archetype of the Princess. The Tarot is full of many feminine archetypes in the Higher Arcana: High Priestess, Empress, Lovers, the cardinal virtues of Justice, Temperance and Strength, which are most often illustrated in this feminine expression. The symbolism of these feminine archetypes is especially relevant in this age when woman is being acknowledged in her authentic and sacred station in society and culture.
The Major Arcana distinguishes itself entirely from the 52 card playing deck. This second group of cards refers to things of a higher and other-worldy nature, whereas the Minor Arcana has more to do with things of the mundane day-in-day-out living experiences. These Higher Mysteries or Higher Secrets of the Major Arcana pertain to a transformative cycle of symbols from a spiritual aspect. There are twenty-two cards in this cycle of mastery.
Although nearly every Tarot deck will have these archetypes numbered and in a pre-determined order from Fool 0 through The World 21 (equaling the twenty-two cards), the actual order or sequence was never revealed. It has been presupposed that the Fool is entering matter, i.e. the earth plane, to go on his journey through life and that these twenty-one personages and/or situational encounters are the ones he will meet on his journey. And as we all know, our encounters with life, opportunity, challenge and personalities (or archetypes) appear constantly and in a myriad of ways and alwys in seemingly random order and sequence. The same is true of the journey of the Fool!
The Major Arcana symbolizes universal ideas "behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine." Arthur Edward Waite also explains that these two groups--the Trumps and the four Suits--may not even have been joined as one overall group of Tarot cards. The playing card deck was popular in France and when the Tarot appeared, these two groups or decks of cards may have been joined together into the Tarot as we now know it.
He tells us that the Prince of Pisa may have been the initiator of this combined grouping as it first appeared publicly as the Tarot of Bologna. This new deck quickly became the source of not only games of chance, but also now 'fortune-telling.' He had sensationalized this adaptation of cards as a form of public amusement.
The oracular divination which comes through the proper and educated use of the Tarot has nothing to do with this game or chance or fortune-telling. The true mystical use of the Tarot, like many of our sacred traditions, was debased and altered by mankind. What was originally meant for the sacred understanding, had been altered in its course to serve the baser nature instead. The Tarot is again taking its proper place among the great divinatory methods available to us.
There are many courses available on line for the interested mystic. There are also many Tarot decks available for purchase. Learning to divine with the Tarot, as with any divinatory method, takes time and familiarity. It is not a system to be simply memorized anymore than would be other sacred resources, such as the Bible. Yet, by availing oneself of all roads to familiarity with these wondrous cards will assist in adding the requisite base of knowledge. In the final summation, as with all divinatory methods, the wisdom and insight will come from the developed psyche of the mystic who is able to discern energetic meanings.
0 The Fool
1 The Magician
2 The High Priestess
3 The Empress
4 The Emperor
5 The Hierophant or Priest
6 The Lovers
7 The Chariot
8 Fortitude or Stength
9 The Hermit
10 The Wheel of Fortune
11 Justice
12 The Hanged Man
13 Death
14 Temperance
15 The Devil
16 The Tower
17 The Star
18 The Moon
19 The Sun
20 The Last Judgment
21 The World or Universe
Our common 52 card deck shares a history with the Tarot cards. Originally the playing card deck also consisted of Knights as well as Jacks, which in the Tarot are known as Pages. The Jack alone remains as representative of the lower court in the 52 card deck; however, in the Tarot, both Knight and Page carry out the command of the royal couple, as proclamator and respresentative, respectively. Sometimes the Page is referred to in the feminine form as Maid or Princess.
It is interesting that this feminine card disappeared from the common deck, given the cultural displacement of women in general. Did we somehow lose half of ourselves and thus half of our potential? The Tarot retains the Divine Feminine presence not only in the royal court as Queen, but also via this influential archetype of the Princess. The Tarot is full of many feminine archetypes in the Higher Arcana: High Priestess, Empress, Lovers, the cardinal virtues of Justice, Temperance and Strength, which are most often illustrated in this feminine expression. The symbolism of these feminine archetypes is especially relevant in this age when woman is being acknowledged in her authentic and sacred station in society and culture.
The Major Arcana distinguishes itself entirely from the 52 card playing deck. This second group of cards refers to things of a higher and other-worldy nature, whereas the Minor Arcana has more to do with things of the mundane day-in-day-out living experiences. These Higher Mysteries or Higher Secrets of the Major Arcana pertain to a transformative cycle of symbols from a spiritual aspect. There are twenty-two cards in this cycle of mastery.
Although nearly every Tarot deck will have these archetypes numbered and in a pre-determined order from Fool 0 through The World 21 (equaling the twenty-two cards), the actual order or sequence was never revealed. It has been presupposed that the Fool is entering matter, i.e. the earth plane, to go on his journey through life and that these twenty-one personages and/or situational encounters are the ones he will meet on his journey. And as we all know, our encounters with life, opportunity, challenge and personalities (or archetypes) appear constantly and in a myriad of ways and alwys in seemingly random order and sequence. The same is true of the journey of the Fool!
The Major Arcana symbolizes universal ideas "behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine." Arthur Edward Waite also explains that these two groups--the Trumps and the four Suits--may not even have been joined as one overall group of Tarot cards. The playing card deck was popular in France and when the Tarot appeared, these two groups or decks of cards may have been joined together into the Tarot as we now know it.
He tells us that the Prince of Pisa may have been the initiator of this combined grouping as it first appeared publicly as the Tarot of Bologna. This new deck quickly became the source of not only games of chance, but also now 'fortune-telling.' He had sensationalized this adaptation of cards as a form of public amusement.
The oracular divination which comes through the proper and educated use of the Tarot has nothing to do with this game or chance or fortune-telling. The true mystical use of the Tarot, like many of our sacred traditions, was debased and altered by mankind. What was originally meant for the sacred understanding, had been altered in its course to serve the baser nature instead. The Tarot is again taking its proper place among the great divinatory methods available to us.
There are many courses available on line for the interested mystic. There are also many Tarot decks available for purchase. Learning to divine with the Tarot, as with any divinatory method, takes time and familiarity. It is not a system to be simply memorized anymore than would be other sacred resources, such as the Bible. Yet, by availing oneself of all roads to familiarity with these wondrous cards will assist in adding the requisite base of knowledge. In the final summation, as with all divinatory methods, the wisdom and insight will come from the developed psyche of the mystic who is able to discern energetic meanings.
0 The Fool
1 The Magician
2 The High Priestess
3 The Empress
4 The Emperor
5 The Hierophant or Priest
6 The Lovers
7 The Chariot
8 Fortitude or Stength
9 The Hermit
10 The Wheel of Fortune
11 Justice
12 The Hanged Man
13 Death
14 Temperance
15 The Devil
16 The Tower
17 The Star
18 The Moon
19 The Sun
20 The Last Judgment
21 The World or Universe
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Mystic Mind Works, tarot, spirituality, divination, i-ching, sabian symbols, birth chart, astrology, horoscope
