(The Fool card on a split ammonite fossil. Both are symbols of the spiritual journey.)
Join us each week as we attune to a different Tarot card, exploring both its traditional meanings and insights from your own guidance. The cards will be grouped by their number, helping us understand the 19th century models of Tarot interpretation that lay just beneath our modern versions.
The cycle will begin Sunday, July 13th. But you can join anytime, following the program at your own pace. Information about the cards will be posted here on our blog. You can discuss your experiences with others in our Facebook group, the Metaphysical Corner, the comments section in our Meetup group, WNC Crystal Toting Tree Huggers, or the comments section here on our blog.
Information about the traditional and contemporary meanings will be posted monthly in batches of numerically related cards. The schedule of cards is posted here on our blog. We will spend a week with each card, looking for insight in both our inner and outer lives.
There are many tools available to do this:
1: Attunement: Ask the Divine, or your spiritual helpers, to attune you to the energies of the individual tarot card during meditation, prayer, or ceremony by holding it to your third eye or heart chakra and asking. An appropriate intention statement might be:
“I ask to attune to the wisdom of the Fool card in a way that supports my Highest Good, now please.”
2: Intention Sets: Write out a series of intentions for the process and offer it up to the Divine, to correct for imperfections.
3: Research Its Symbolism: Read more about the history of an individual card or its modern variations.
Ask for a deeper understanding by scaning the card with your eyes or energetically with your hands until a single element pops out. For example, the dog, sun, or pack of the Fool card. Researching this symbol may give you further insight about the card itself.
4: Meditation, Visualization, and Shamanic Journeying: Many meditation techniques can be adapted to use the tarot.
Use the image of the card as your meditative focus, bringing your awareness back to it. You can use this to attune energetically to the card or bring awareness to the thoughts, emotions, and feelings in the physical and subtle bodies it activates.
Use the card as the inspiration for a visualization or shamanic journey. Enter the card, explore the landscape, and interact with the elements inside. Alternatively you can imagine yourself as the main figure or figures.
5: Dream Messages: Connect to the card before bed and ask for understanding to come in your dreams.
6: Have Awareness of Synchronisitc Events: Most spiritual processes are thought to create synchronistic events in the inner and outer life.
Inner Life: Meaningful, repeated, or seemingly related thoughts, feelings, and memories.
Outer Life: Meaningful, repeated, or seemingly related situations, symbols, or objects.
Awareness of these can give insight both about the tarot card and yourself. For example, the Fool has historical associations with feathers, as a symbol of folly, and air but it does not have much association with birds today. However when I am working with it I am surrounded by birds, see my friends who own them, and randomly encounter them in books, television, and the objects around me, including finding actual feathers. This has greatly influenced my personal understanding of the Fool card.
I highly suggest journaling during this process to record your research, personal insights, and other experiences. Using a dedicated deck is also recommended because the work is believed to deeply charge your cards.
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