by Post Eschaton Punk Mon May 11, 2020 9:24 pm
Not to me.
i don't use them to reflect the future, not possible, just guesses.
I use them for self reflection and meditation.
Tarot is an amazing intuitive tool with incredible results.
I'm prob an intermediate level practitioner.
If you are interested, highly recommend this guide, https://www.amazon.com/Meditations-Tarot-Journey-Christian-Hermeticism/dp/1585421618
Gypsy tarot is a scam that uses your own insecurities against you, but as a personal tool, this is a powerful mirror of the unconscious.
You get out of these rituals and tools what you put into them.
Ritual in some way I discovered personally helps us navigate the flow.
Provides a framework to work with the inside of us.
The tarot encodes the fools journey, as it was for royalty back in the day.
We are all royal.
The I Ching is a similar tool.
Like all material objects, they are mirrors.
The more you work with the Tarot or any similar tool, and I have everyday for 3 years, the closer and more accurate to your circumstances the cards seem to reflect.
Discovering the esoteric meaning of the Tarot for yourself is a stop along the way to personal awareness for many.
I have theories about them I can't prove form personal experience.
Carl Jung made his own tarot deck, I have also begun work on my own deck, that is the most potent deck.
The thing with Magick is you go with what works.
Tarot is an incredible mirror for me.
They open doors to the unconscious, and that may connect all of us.
You can do a lot of self therapy with focus on a deck too, one version of our psychology is encoded in the cards.
Card games today come from the Tarot.
There are several Tarot Systems, The Golden Dawn version is most used, I use the Thoth system a lot that Alister Crowley created.
I really like the Tarot de Marseille as well.
Check this out about Jung.
We have likely used divination tools since our earliest dawn of awareness.
Thrown sticks, read guts, or stones.
If you are sensitive enough, you can know almost exactly the best move in almost any human situation.
We are using different muscles using this tool.
This would have been needed even more or less when the Oracles went silent.
It was created by the unconscious itself maybe as a way to communicate with it using images and symbols, that is the language of the unconscious.
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In a 1933 lecture Jung went on at length about his views on the Tarot, noting the late Medieval cards are "really the origin of our pack of cards, in which the red and the black symbolize the opposites, and the division of the four—clubs, spades, diamonds, and hearts—also belongs to the individual symbolism.
They are psychological images, symbols with which one plays, as the unconscious seems to play with its contents.” The cards, said Jung, “combine in certain ways, and the different combinations correspond to the playful development of mankind.” This, too, is how Tarot works—with the added dimension of “symbols, or pictures of symbolical situations.” The images—the hanged man, the tower, the sun—“are sort of archetypal ideas, of a differentiated nature.”
He suggested indeed, “we can predict the future, when we know how the present moment evolved from the past.” He called for “an intuitive method that has the purpose of understanding the flow of life, possibly even predicting future events, at all events lending itself to the reading of the conditions of the present moment.” He compared this process to the Chinese I Ching, and other such practices. As analyst Marie-Louise von Franz recounts in her book Psyche and Matter:
Jung suggested… having people engage in a divinatory procedure: throwing the I Ching, laying the Tarot cards, consulting the Mexican divination calendar, having a transit horoscope or a geometric reading done.
Content seemed to matter much less than form. Invoking the Swedenborgian doctrine of correspondences, Jung notes in his lecture, “man always felt the need of finding an access through the unconscious to the meaning of an actual condition, because there is a sort of correspondence or a likeness between the prevailing condition and the condition of the collective unconscious.
What he aimed at through the use of divination was to accelerate the process of “individuation,” the move toward wholeness and integrity, by means of playful combinations of archetypes. As another mystical psychologist, Alejandro Jodorowsky, puts it, "the Tarot will teach you how to create a soul." Jung perceived the Tarot, notes the blog Faena Aleph, “as an alchemical game,” which in his words, attempts “the union of opposites.” Like the I Ching, it “presents a rhythm of negative and positive, loss and gain, dark and light.”
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