A Crash Course in Tarot for Newbies #1

Written by Sam Stevens


The Tarot is not just a divinatory tool, but it can also be utilized inrepparttar appropriately trained hands as a tool for providing counsel and advice with which we can navigate life. It is an antique form of divination that predates popular psychology, but has been shown to have archetypal energies that work well from a Jungian perspective. Tarot becomes a book of wisdom offering you a living parable or myth that reflects your life journey inrepparttar 105989 hands ofrepparttar 105990 right Diviner. It describes a journey that mirrors your path in life. Usuallyrepparttar 105991 story is a direct description of what is going to happen in a particular window of time although talented readers can tell you much more than that from looking atrepparttar 105992 symbols inrepparttar 105993 cards! One ofrepparttar 105994 main purposes ofrepparttar 105995 use ofrepparttar 105996 cards is to construct a future narrative so that you can make decisions to change your fate. The reader shuffles cards and lays them out in a specific pattern usually called a "spread." This can be compared to a snapshot or map of your life. Each card position inrepparttar 105997 layout ofrepparttar 105998 spread represents a characteristic ofrepparttar 105999 situation in question --what forces are beyond your control, what your particular strengths are inrepparttar 106000 current or future situation, and whatrepparttar 106001 likely outcome is if you continue as you have been doing. Asrepparttar 106002 cards fall into their positions, meaning is created byrepparttar 106003 unique placement ofrepparttar 106004 symbolic meanings of each card. Together they weave a synchronistic tapestry that may seem random at first, but in reality is a very careful map which you may follow or not as you wish to bring about or avertrepparttar 106005 outcome of your reading. Synchronicity is a principle that is not only referred to constantly in psychology, but also in quantum physics. The entire system of Tarot cards can be described as a pictorial or numerological expression ofrepparttar 106006 human condition. The Tarot cards can be compared to a wise friend who we can turn to when we wish to make a wise decision regarding a relationship or a career. The wisdom found insiderepparttar 106007 Tarot, is actuallyrepparttar 106008 same wisdom that is found inside each and every one of us. The whole purpose of a reading is to tell you what you don't know so that you can use your free will to take appropriate actions that are good for your soul. Now, this does not necessarily mean telling you what you want to hear – but instead what you NEED to hear. It's hard to believe, but Tarot cards were not originally designed to tellrepparttar 106009 future! They were first used inrepparttar 106010 16th century Paris to play a card game similar to Bridge. As there were no soap operas in those days,repparttar 106011 cards were also put to another entertaining use. The face cards, such asrepparttar 106012 Queen of Cups, King of Swords and so forth were modeled onrepparttar 106013 personas of popular celebrities ofrepparttar 106014 day. These cards were shuffled and then arranged into scandalous story lines. This parlor game was a source of great amusement for both royalty and peasants alike. In addition, 16th century poets usedrepparttar 106015 cards to compose poems called tarocchi apporporati. The poems would be constructed aboutrepparttar 106016 characters inrepparttar 106017 trump cards inrepparttar 106018 deck, such asrepparttar 106019 Queens, Kings, Knights and Pages to tell a tragic or romantic story. Tarot cards were not associated with divination untilrepparttar 106020 1800s, when a secret order of magicians in Venice, Italy found significance in their numbers and symbols. Before that these decorative cards were not used for fortune telling. As these magicians wererepparttar 106021 Illuminati of their day, their reading methods were kept very secret. The first known records ofrepparttar 106022 divinatory meanings assigned to Tarot cards did not appear untilrepparttar 106023 1700s in Bologna. Ordinary playing cards have been connected with divination as early as 1487. The gypsies were adept at reading plain playing cards for centuries beforerepparttar 106024 Venetian magicians got their hands on a French Tarot Deck. It is safe to assume thatrepparttar 106025 Tarot card meanings and spreads that are used today are based on a hybrid of techniques derived fromrepparttar 106026 Tzigani system of reading playing cards, French parlor games and Venetian interpretations of occult symbols! To understandrepparttar 106027 Tarot you need to familiarize yourself withrepparttar 106028 meanings ofrepparttar 106029 four suits andrepparttar 106030 meanings of their symbols. The cups, coins, disks and wands ofrepparttar 106031 Tarot deck derive their meaning from cartomancy. Cartomancy isrepparttar 106032 art of reading playing cards. There are 78 cards in a traditional Tarot Deck. These 78 cards are divided intorepparttar 106033 Major and Minor Arcanas. The Minor Arcana relates torepparttar 106034 ordinary playing deck. Most ofrepparttar 106035 cards inrepparttar 106036 Minor Arcana represent events or qualities. The additional 22 Major Arcana cards included inrepparttar 106037 traditional Tarot deck representrepparttar 106038 stages of a person's individual passage through life, from non-existence, birth, love, marriage, death spiritual ascension and back to non-existence again. The Fool Card, numbered 0, is indicative of this eternal cycle. The 22 Major Arcana cards are an addition to what otherwise could be described as an ordinary playing deck that consists of four suits. The meanings ofrepparttar 106039 22 Major Arcana cards are based on an old French parlor game that was used to predictrepparttar 106040 lives ofrepparttar 106041 celebrities ofrepparttar 106042 day. Since then, they have mutated to symbolize major life events and personal attributes. When you are first learning to readrepparttar 106043 Tarot cards, sometimes it is valuable to have a list ofrepparttar 106044 card's abbreviated meanings to refer to while you are throwingrepparttar 106045 cards. Though not all diviner's userepparttar 106046 same correspondent meanings. Here is a list ofrepparttar 106047 classic meanings of each ofrepparttar 106048 22 cards ofrepparttar 106049 Major Arcana. 0 The Fool - choices offered, folly, going in circles 1 The Magician - creative energy, psychic power 2 The High Priestess - mystery, hidden influences, female supremacy 3 The Empress - abundance, fertility, motherhood 4 The Emperor - leadership, control, fatherhood 5 The Hierophant - convention, society, restrictions 6 The Lovers - love, relationships, intimacy 7 The Chariot - mind over matter, conflicts, war 8 Strength - courage, power, stamina 9 The Hermit - wisdom, spirituality, connection with Higher Self 10 Wheel of Fortune - unpredictability, changes of luck for good or bad,

Van Morrison, spiritual rock star

Written by Alma De La Cruz


Here I am gazing onrepparttar Web for extraordinary witnesses of enlightenment yet very popular inrepparttar 105988 entertainment realm, so that at least everybody that read newagenotebook.com could say “hey, I've seen or heard that person!” As my research focuses randomly on any performer from our time, some pages choose to citerepparttar 105989 art of singer Van Morrison. His work is thoughtful, often spiritual in nature, and combines elements of jazz , R&B , Celtic traditions, and stream-of-consciousness lyrics. Van Morrison was born in Belfast , Northern Ireland , in 1935 and was named George Ivan Morrison. Better known asrepparttar 105990 Celtic sorcerer, Morrison began playing different instruments and composing songs in an Irish band during his teen years. His musical heritage was inevitable since h e was exposed to music from an early age with his father collecting American jazz albums and his mother being a singer. Journalists have described Morrison as one ofrepparttar 105991 most serious singers with high moral values, something that lacks inrepparttar 105992 music business. His lyrics and music are influenced onrepparttar 105993 works of poet and New Age prophet William Blake, Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac, J.D. Salinger, occult and spiritualist poet W.B. Yeats, Alice Bailey, and of many other religious visionaries. Those authors add mythic powers to Morrison's singular musical vision and his articulation of emotional truths. Astral Weeks was his first album after he moved to America . It gained good reviews from critics. Rolling Stone magazine once reported that a man claimed to see God while listening to this album underrepparttar 105994 influence of nitrous oxide . If you listen torepparttar 105995 record you'll notice thatrepparttar 105996 artist uses a form of symbolism instead of current narrative. Very much like using spiritual images because they are stronger than words. And this work was released inrepparttar 105997 late 1960s, when a New Age consciousness was spreading inrepparttar 105998 U.S. His idiosyncratic and spiritual musical path has lead him to create more than 30 albums, among them are Moondance, Tupelo Honey, A Period of Transition, Beautiful Vision, No Guru- No Method- No teacher, Irish Heartbeat, Avalon Sunset, Enlightenment, Days Like This, and The Healing Games.

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