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The Tarot
If
we choose to believe that there are many questions to life, we must
also believe that the answers to these questions reside within us.
Each and every being has the capacity to quiet the mind, enter the
silence, and Know. We believe that the Tarot and Oracle cards allow
us this journey if we but access their mysteries, and our own.
For
those who believe that science can explain all natural occurrences through
cause and effect, the idea of Spiritual Dimension to the Universe may
seem inconceivable, Limited to rigorous mathematical laws and a deterministic
view of reality, science typically views intuitive ability, a Higher
Self, or a spiritual world as superstition and false belief. Nonetheless,
simply because spirituality is outside the scope of science does not
exclude it from playing an important role in human beingØs lives.
The
Tarot and Oracle cards are tools for awakening our intuitive faculties,
for putting us in touch with our Inner World. They are a metaphorical
system that leads us on a path of the mythical hero and heroine, a path
of adventure and self-discovery. By tapping into the archetypal symbols
on the Cards and within their books, as they relate to our everyday
concerns, we can explore our personal mythologies and more clearly see
realities and non-realities for our lives.
In
essence, the Tarot and Oracle cards consists of seventy-eight cards
that are similar to modern playing cards. They contain three types of
cards; the twenty-two Trumps, the forty Pips, and the sixteen Court
cards. there are twenty-two Major Arcana (Greater Secrets) or Trumps
and fifty-six Minor Arcana (Lesser Secrets) made up of forty Pip cards
and sixteen Court or People cards... a little confusing?
The
twenty-two Major Arcana Trumps depict in allegorical images the steps
on the FoolØs Journey toward Enlightenment. The Major Arcana represents
situations and inner states of profound personal, spiritual, and archetypal
significance. The forty Pip cards include four suits-Wands, Pentacles,
Swords, Cups-of ten cards each. In the symbolism of the Tarot, the Pip
cards represent typical situations and emotional states, all the stuff
of daily life; our everyday events and struggles, our attitudes, our
beliefs, and our typical behaviors.
The
sixteen Court or People cards consist of Kings, Queens, Knights, and
Pages of each of the four suits. The Court cards represent our web of
relationships, often representing actual people in our lives. In addition,
they signify aspects of ourselves, our traits, our talents, our faults,
and how we relate to others. Wow!
Oracle Cards
Oracle
Cards are a wholly new concept for Tarot, while drawing upon tradition,
they recast the traditional tarot to embody more fully the lives and
inspirations of us all.
Through ‘Visionary Art’ these Oracles have taken myriad
forms.
In depicting the present, they show possibilities not generally recognized,
aspects of the world we neglect.
In imagining the future, they keep pressing us to say, in some detail,
what we most deeply want (or fear).
And in peering back into the past-in the case of Voyager,
Motherpeace, The Medicine Cards, and the Druid Animal
Oracle,
to mention only a few, they usher us into prehistory and galactic
consciousness.
Visionary Art allows us to reclaim what has been systematically pilfered,
buried, and burned, but which, nonetheless, still has life, vitality
and power in the images that demand to be revealed. We indeed have
access to a Magikal World through art!
There
are literally hundreds of Tarot and Oracle Cards and Decks on the market
today. The ones we have featured in our store and the ones we suggest
below are the ones we have personally used for years and have brought
us hours of inspiration and self-knowledge.
Please Visit:
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Blessings
On Your Journey!
LionHeart
January 2007
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