A window to your subconscious
When people think about Tarot, they usually think of fortune tellers and tall, dark strangers. In reality, it's a fantastic tool for personal knowledge and transformation. Tarot's origins are shrouded in mystery. Some believe that it was invented a thousand years ago by an international congress of metaphysicians who sought a universal pictorial language of human consciousness. Others believe that it started as an ordinary deck of playing cards and slowly morphed into a tool for personal divination. However Tarot came into being, it's now an enormously popular way to understand ourselves and our relationship to our reality.
Unfortunately, we're not always perfectly clear about what we think and feel We've all sabotaged relationships, jobs, opportunities because of mixed feelings that we never quite got sorted out. Tarot is a great tool for discovering what beliefs and attitudes lie in our subconscious waiting to lurch up and interfere with our plans. Tarot's popularity stems from the fact that it's easy to use and it's completely personal.
Your life in pictures
Tarot is easy to use because it's picture based. A fully pictorial deck, like the popular Rider-Waite Tarot, has an illustration on every card. In most cases, you don't have to research the meanings or be an expert. The pictures speak for themselves. Although the vignettes on the cards are in an idyllic, medieval setting, they seem to evoke the breadth and depth of human experience. There seems to be a whole world of triumphs and tragedies, moods and meanings, in a single deck of cards.
When you do a reading for yourself, your response to the images can tell you what concerns lie just below your everyday level of consciousness. By understanding where your own psychological energy is heading, you can work with it before it erupts into your reality, emphasizing the positive and mitigating the negative. There are no good cards or bad cards. Every card is an opportunity. It shows you what issue is involved so that you can make a conscious decision how you want to deal with it.
Tarot for your life
Tarot is also a tool for meditation. In fact, some people believe that's its real purpose. By meditating on a card that represents a certain kind of feeling or energy, you can bring that into your life. Meditating on The High Priestess, Tarot's great symbol of receptivity, may help you to open up to receive good things in your own life. The Queen of Wands may lend you her sunny disposition or the great energy that she brings to life.
I offer Tarot services to coaching clients who feel that it is right for them. If you feel drawn to Tarot, I can help and encourage you to explore its benefits. I also sometimes teach Tarot classes.