Tarot, Reading and Scrying.
Due to popular request (alright it was one request) I am going to write about tarot. Cards like wands and crystal balls are a tool. Yet they have a LOT of psychic and emotional energy run through them. Each deck develops it's own quirks and so on. Especially the longer you read with them.
The origins of tarot cards are murky. They were probably brought from Turkey to France around the 14 century but where they were invented is still unknown, what is known is they were playing cards used for games, as they are today.
They gained popularity in Italy and artist were commissioned to paint more elaborate cards, and more cards like Queens and the trump cards were added. Over time the symbols and symbolic meaning added to the cards began to grow.
By the 18th century exotic myths had sprung up about their origins cementing the mystic around them.
Interestingly to me, they do seem to fall into the alchemists model of the world and it is easy to see how such educated and secretive people might adopt this beautiful things to work with.
Divination is much older. Yet too we find the "game" aspect comes up because dice of all shapes and sizes have been found in ancient sacred sites in sacred caves near Delphi.
Divination is to touch something "beyond" and to speak it into this world. If you just shuffle cards and lay them on a table you may get some narrative or a card that you bring meaning to. Yet it is the connection of the client to the reader/diviner and to something else that makes the difference.
Not all readers are clairvoyants. Yet this energy that comes through can be very moving and healing.
The other thing is you can have the most dire cards one after the other and not have them mean an apocalypse. You can have all the sunny cards and it suddenly feel like as cold as a wet weekend in Blackpool.
A King card can mean a person, an idea, a place or event, as can a 9 or a 4. Yet the face cards tend to be people and numbers tend to be events and situations. It is the energy and the persons "threads" of choices you are seeing. Three readers could draw exactly the same cards, and give three different readings and all be right on the money.
A 2 of swords could mean an internal conflict, an important decisions, a folk in the road ahead, or forces working against you or someone else.
It is the patterns. Like watching the clouds and seeing shapes and creatures form and fall away that are important.
It is the soft breathe and gaze too. Knowing how to connect to a person, and connect with something else, a light perhaps; that is the skill. The more light and non earth energy I touch in a day the harder it is for me to form words from the telepathic words, images, cinematic films and photographic fragments that fall through my mind. Some things stick (like permanently) while other fade to nothingness really quickly.
This is why I have not seen a course about tarot I would attend, and why when I teach it is not over simplified.
I feel like I am being called to spread this light again. I do not know what it will mean yet. Our choices light our path more brightly than almost anything else.
Bright Blessings xx
For R
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