Learning and sharing Tarot. The journey of the fool. The heroes journey.
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The Fool is variously considered the first card or the last card of the Major Arcana, thus is either numbered 0 or 22. The Fool is both really, that one before and after the Journey, who finds it comes back to the natural beginning at the end,…
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Awesome book.I bought a hard copy as reading PDFs can be tiring, but it is there online for those who wish. Here are some short extracts from the Letter to 'an Unknown Friend' on the Magician Arcanum. ''It goes without saying that nobody…
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Extracts from Meditations on the Tarot (As set forth already) The Magician is the arcanum of intellectual geniality and cordiality, the arcanum of true spontaneity. Concentration without effort and the perception of correspondences in accordance…
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Source Some Extracts from Tomberg's work. The third Arcanum, the Empress, is that of sacred magic. Now, there are three kinds of magic: magic where the magician is the instrument of divine power — this is sacred magic; magic where the magician…
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WHAT IS THE TAROT? No study of occult philosophy is possible without an acquaintance with symbolism, for if the words occultism and symbolism are correctly used, they mean almost one and the same thing. Symbolism cannot be learned as one learns to build bridges or speak a foreign language, and for the interpretation of symbols a special cast of mind is necessary; in addition to knowledge, special faculties, the power of creative thought and a developed imagination are required. One who…
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Article Copied from http://www.nmrjournal.com/zine/archive/issues/30/686.htm The Rosicrucian Tarot By Mark Stavish, M.A. For centuries tarot cards have mystified and instructed students of mysticism. Yet, the actual history of this deck of cards called `tarot', after the Italian playing cards tarocci, is often as puzzling as the pictures on the cards themselves. The most common tale of their origin is that they derived from a series of 22 hieroglyphs engraved or painted on 22 columns in an…
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This site cannot be copy and pasted ...so check out the first 3 pages of article. Interesting. http://www.krishadar.com/A/WebTarologieA/T1_06_kabbaleA.asp?na=n
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This is the playing cards deck not exactly Tarot. But this is the best group for this discussion. http://www.metasymbology.com/index.html What's Your Card? http://www.metasymbology.com/whatsyourcard.html ..... what if there is more to the Cards than just mere games of chance? What if their true purpose was to leave nothing to chance? What if their simple and well-preserved design was a language of symbols passed down through the centuries, preserved and concealed as the worlds greatest past…
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The TAROT A Key to the Wisdom of the Ages B.O.T.A.