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by Karen La Puma (Author)
The Tarot Cards are magical helpers that can serve you on the spiritual journey as they reveal both our True Nature and the obstacles to living from this Unified State. These tools for the inner journey offer a step-by-step process to awakening. Here is a new Tarot deck, made with digital collage. Through pictures, symbols, meanings, questions, processes, key words, and affirmations, you can learn to:
- Explore the magical journey of evolution;
- Find ways to reflect your inner guidance an become your own inner psychic.
- Discover the power and implications of the Tarot symbols.
- Learn tips on finding your Soul purpose, what inner teachers you have each year, sample readings.
Visualizing or working with the images brings the qualities more into manifestation. These archetypes or universal principles can become inner allies that serve your journey and inform you moment by moment. The Tarot symbols are amazingly insightful pictorial mythologies that have come down through history as unbound books with seventy-eight cards. With then our inner and outer human experiences operate symbolically, visually, and non linearly to reach us in the same states as our dreams and meditations.The mystery of how this works is explained by synchronicity, which is a concept that was verbalized by Carl G. Jung in1960. It is a meaningful coincidence or a psychic orderliness that transcends time and space and activates the archetypes, but that is not determined or caused. The unconscious mind becomes stronger than the conscious mind and reveals the underlying message.Cosmic symbols are powerful with multiple meanings. The general structure of the Tarot collectively links our being with destiny and time.
The universal language is made of twenty-two Trump cards called Major Arcana, which represent the universal principles of life. They fit perfectly with Astrology and the ten planets and twelve zodiac signs. The Minor Arcana consist of fifty-six cards. There are four suits with ten cards that signify our opportunities, gifts, and challenges, plus four Royalty Cards, which denote teachers or masters.
- The Swords cover the element Air and are the mental realm and lessons. In regular playing cards, they are the spades.
- The Cups deal with the element Water, which are our emotional trials and gifts; they are the hearts.
- The Wands name the Fire element and cover the perceptional and spiritual journey, and alternately are called the clubs, batons, and slaves.
- The Disks signify the Earth element and discuss the physical and practical concerns. They are the diamonds, and later called coins, rings, and pentacles.
All these potencies, adepts, and steps can help you discover your own inner knowing, so you can find your own answers.When you allow the Tarot cards to guide your growth, it is like having your own personal psychic on hand. It is important to have a quiet respectful objective when you consult this magical oracle. The process of shuffling the cards is a ritual in which you are invoking a communication with your own inner guidance.
