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The Tarot is a good tool to delve into the unseen and unknown.
As a young fellow, I was very fascinated with Tarot cards. It was always a dream to own ‘my’ own set but back then they were very hard to get hold of. So we substituted them with playing cards. Mine was a pack of worn out Aladdins which had seen better days discarded by a group of carpenters. You can imagine the attachment I had for them!
Naturally, playing cards can never match the real thing. The major arcana, those 22 mysterious cards that bring forth vivid imageries were absent. And a Tarot is just not a tarot without them! But like they say, if you can’t have fish, prawns will do.
Without the major arcana, you may think that they are incomplete. Well, I once had the benefit of a reading from a Mrs Bak, who to this day I recall as a true seer. Her reading was accurate and she told me things which only I knew. The future she told from her deck of playing cards was proven correct. All she accepted as payment were some apples. Strictly no money. Many politicians and royalty flock to her for advice albeit secretly.
As things turn out, from that obsession of owning one deck, I now have too many! It gives great pleasure to just feel them but somehow, the favorite has always been the Rider deck. Next follows the Mythic Tarot. But having said that, I am also fascinated by the simplicity of ‘Tarot of the Witches’ and the ‘Ukiyoe’.
Most modern decks try but somehow most do not meet the mark. Somehting or other is always missing. I guess each and everyone will have different affinities so it is very much up to the individual.
There are many ways of summoning the secrets from the tarot. The accepted way is through spreads. By far the most common seem to be the Celtic Cross. Ah..that alone is mystic sounding enough. The Celts are filled with so much mythology and the Cross harps back to medieval times. They summon images of gypsies and omen-bearing woman in cloaks and frocks. Add a broomstick and the picture is complete!
I started doing Tarot just like everyone else. Memorising and learning their meanings. Then in Australia, deep in the jungles of Dandenong, a master showed his unique way of summoning the secrets. This master whom I shall for now not name allows the free forces to show us the way. No spreads are involved. He allows the deck to fall and uses his inner intuition to read the cards as they appear.
How unconventional. When he first taught it, I said to myself, he is just trying to be different. He was an ultra, if I may say, but over the years, I am beginning to see the logic and the relevance of what he did.
The Tarot, conventional Tarot that is, comprises 72 cards. 22 from the major arcana and 50 suit cards. I like to look at the major arcana as pointers to our spiritual journey. The minor arcana (those 50 other cards) are the physical side of our lives, the goings and comings of everyday affairs and activities.
If you have the need to use a Tarot, try to get one. Own one. Keep it as your own personal friend and in time, you may agree with me that they slowly become a part of you. Learning the various spreads and meanings of course helps but I believe in keeping that initial learning process to a limit. Learn them, yes, but up to a point and then stop. Being too technical arrests that special quality, that special intuition and psychic talent from manifesting.
One way taught to me by Mama is to take out 3 cards from the deck at random. Prepare the deck in any which way one chooses, clear your mind of all thoughts and then remove 3 cards. Look at them and allow whatever feelings and thoughts to surface.
The key is to allow our mind and inner senses to flow with the cards. I find that the same card may come up on different readings but their portents are always different. Just like dreams, they tell me of my inner self and they are a wonderful tool into my inner being. They point the way.
It may appear overwhelming in the beginning but eventually the tarot will become a friend. There are no rules and there is no right or wrong way of calling up the Tarot.
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