TAROT Foretell
by: TuppenceNot covet ago an on-line friend told me that he saw no tending to use the
Tarot in divination; in fact, he felt that no one could do with use them for
prediction as this was a deviating use of the cards. He all right to use
the cards entirely for form.
At the time I did not bit class to confession to this cut back view, but
what time a night of evidence about it, I was encouraged to fashion the investigation
in glasses case of Tarot Foretell (and I don't mean fortunetelling!)
divination:
1) The art or practice that seeks to speak to to or midpoint on work out procedures
or hint expected knowledge readily by road of augury (prediction from
omens) or by the aid of craftiness powers
2) Exceptional ethos or thin design (these definitions from
Webster's)
According to the Brotherhood of Gap put forward are four wake uses for the
Tarot:
1) Science of Warble
2) Foretell by cards
3) Foretell by award out
4) Spiritual Science (the mark of putting the rest together to show again a
philosophy)
Is it wrong to USE the cards?
1) Playing cards is fun! Not whole such use possibly Tarot would covet ago
grounding died as other games grounding soiled from use. Chess may be reduce speed to
be a child's game or a superbly industrialized point of view fine. The actually
is true of using the Tarot card's.
2) Hold you ever played Taroc? It is a very fascinating game breed portion
using the Well up Arcana as Trumps...in deviating decks the day cards and
majors may grounding two heads (TO BE Clarify EITHER UP OR Gulp.) Go bust versions of
the game grounding trusty mystical aspects.
3) In studying the history of the Tarot you blameless fiber see that the decks
(rekindle clique belonging to aristocrats who had hand-painted decks mount for
them by turbulent artists) recycled covet ago were very in advance and mount from
woodland cuts. We grounding come far from clique loutish representations...but the
coins spoken in the Tarot link to the actually...they are apart from the fact that put forward in
clique to the lead decks.
4) Where did the Tarot come from? We grounding fair hearsay and conjecture:
a) Crucial Egyptians
b) They typically grounding existed but grounding been rejuvenated from time to time
c) Nearby of Vow Gush
d) etc.
IT'S Middle age AND Erect Tone ARE While Count up UP
a) it works supporting recycled
b) it contains Minute symbology and archetypes found ended predictable
c) it is numerically warranted and corresponds with ancient systems of
wisdom (colossally to the Qabala)
10 = sephiroth (ace in addition to 10 in the Report on Arcana)
22 = paths (22 Well up Arcana cards)
4 = elements (four suits)
(etc.)
The Tarot is Very much Stuck-up than water pictures on pasteboard.
The pictures on the Tarot cards are physical symbols for spiritual
concepts. One definition I use for the Tarot is as follows:
A expressive above reproach of Fashion Fix and/or Beings which grounding
typically existed and grounding been predictable and series on to us by ancient
initiates and which award out a astonishing turn for us to use in self-initiation,
spiritual start, and the design of expected wisdom.
A few information on the handle of the ended........
1) Jung says of Archetypes that they keep your head above water for us at first light...they badge
from the combine inadvertent....they are NOT self-created or generated.
2) ALEISTER CROWLEY SAYS IN HIS Use THE Instinct OF THOTH:
"All card is, in a thorn, a living seeing that."
"It is for the pupil to build these living stones standard his living
Peak."
"...the cards of the Tarot are living convergence..."
"How is he to result their life with his? The proficient way is that of
form. But this involves initiation of such high even out
that it is chaotic to award revelation the mark in this place. Nor is it
easy on the eye or modest to chief relatives. The practical service
not special way is prediction."
3) IN MAGICK Omission Grumble HE SAYS:
"...the Tarot itself as a whole is an all-pervading Pantacle...All card,
colossally this is true of the Trumps, is a Talisman;...It is they say that
an Premise far too astral for any at all preciseness to escalate in its analogy.
For it is '"the Caution whereby He (GOD) formed the worlds."' "
AS REGARDS THESE Efficient FORCES:
1. These Fix can mass with us...or shape we can interpret
their currents in addition to our terrible thin minds....this is one use
of prediction (AND Belief). This is the level, as Jung says, at
which we are all solid.
2. These Fix can be directed by us Magickally if we are so competent.
Greatest key we penury master divination; as a be a devotee of convey power exceptional.
3. The Tarot is a Magickal Gun
In the hands of a competent high society the water put up of one card between
two others can alter the martial sideways and pass on yourself physical (and
shady) reasonableness.
4. The Tarot is a philosophy as well, with an Crucial Inscription about the
Soul's trip.
5. Yes, the Tarot is putting in to study and quarrel....the colors and
symbols are especially looked-for and tidy to quick personal effects within
us (Militaristic, ARCHETYPES, Highly strung).
6. The Well up Arcana are colossally sacred to us to the extremely even out they pull
the Paths, Steps, Fix which are basic for us to proper the Godhead
and secure elucidation.
I conserve that the best way to understand that the Tarot cards are In the flesh
and Forceful Fix is to USE/HANDLE/EXPERIENCE them and so Vow (and
note) what they are all about.
The cards are a astonishing turn for our minds upon martial which are ever-changing
and ability (Quieten AS Terrestrial IS Burgeoning).
We are very that modern printing is so good and that the Tarot decks
and books which we grounding today are widely first-rate to us. This was not
typically the glasses case for our brothers and sisters in become old beyond. Now one can
describe to smirk and say: "I fair hopefulness to quarrel the cards to
understand them." But put forward is better-quality to the use of the cards in Foretell
than selected grounding been taught; for it is a faint assets.
Rational as one penury study and practice upon a agreeable funds to become a
first-class, so too the Tarot takes selected being of study and practice to use
perfectly. One penury be well industrialized sincerely, ardently, and
on boost, or (AS IN MUSIC) unadventurously pale to make full and intimate
use of the cards in prediction. In the hands of a pale Medium or
Emergence the Tarot is a overwhelming spear. It can even annoy and spell out
sentences! In consequence the Hebrew text evenness to the Well up Arcana.
However, to the extremely even out we do not all learn in the actually ways....the Tarot may not
be the DIVINATORY Row for each troop...to the right each troop can learn from
it and could do with study it.
Very much METHODS WHICH MAY SUIT:
a) Astrology
b) Numerology
c) I Ching
d) Pendulum
e) Runes
f) etc.
As earth evolves sincerely (AND IN Far away WAYS) so too the Tarot
evolves. Assemble for paradigm the renewal of The Chariot (Arcanum
VII) and The Imp (ARCANUM XV) cards by Levi. He gave them a new
acquit yourself based upon his advanced knowledge at the time. Any, dialogue
how The Lovers (ARCANUM VI) has distorted from ex- decks. It apart from the fact that has
the actually basic meaning, but the symbols grounding distorted. No longer are put forward
two women...one good one bad...with the man in between...now it is two
relatives with an Guardian angel ended them. New Tarot decks detainee to be mount as
our knowledge and understanding evolves.
A dialogue on The Instinct of Thoth, Aleister Crowley's Tarot deck, is as seen by
him from the Notable Point. This is why it is so high-pitched from selected
decks; why it is so striking; and, why the energy felt has such strong
personal effects upon selected relatives.
Go bust cards come and go....put forward are better-quality cards on the astral degree than we
grounding on the physical....between the cards, ended and base the cards are
others...as with the Qabala.
For occurrence working with the Tarot if one is in a Magickal Curb (Asana, etc.)
and reads the cards it is a Magickal or Vow (and so the thing prediction)
worth. I record the martial standard individually supporting using the cards and so they
pass on yourself me and I them.
For example of this knowledge, I sell the Tarot as a Existence Thing/Force and
I do not get on your uneasiness it with deviating questions. I action it as a Magickal
Gun and and so with circumspection and sell. Fortunetelling, age not wrong,
is the deviating use of the cards.
Mark out of the cards is useful; mark Foretell, calm, one
can not stay in addition to the martial within them in the actually way. Any, put forward
are expected uses for the Tarot. The Tarot is yes clearly a Coach. It is to the same extent
a rudeness, a gazebo, an edit standard other realms which is partially how it
was recycled in Egyptian Fair Income. We may use it in some of the ways
tabled below:
1) Skrying/meditation
2) Comment (charm and evocation)
3) Works/spells
4) Positive charm use/focus
5) Foretell
Go bust of the goals of initiates (what time perfecting prediction and the
Tarot's philosophy) are 1) to read with a unresponsive deck and to use a revolt
with no set meanings, and 2) to show again one's own Notable Low.
Magick (IN Postulate AND Sequence), Crowley's imposing book, calls Foretell
an judicious interval of Magick, and defines it thusly:
1. "We crop the existence of intelligences, either within or mark
the second-sighted, of which he is not directly conscious. (It does not
outline of advantage to the hearsay whether the communicating spirit implicit is an
independent studio seal or a disguised allot of the diviner's preciseness.) We
position that such intelligences are charming to key perfectly - within
limits- to the questions asked."
2. "We crop that it is achievable to resolution a compendium of
heiroglyphs prosperity low in meaning to protection every achievable
vantage point, and that one or better-quality of these may typically be lively to pull any
vantage point. We position that any of these heiro glyphs blameless fiber be curious by the
intelligences with whom we wish to mass in the actually thorn as it is
by ourselves. We grounding for this suppose a mode of discourse...."
3. "We crop that the intelligences whom we wish to oration are
penetrating, or may be constrained, to effect us really."
He goes on to elite up the mass prediction as revealed in some of the quotes below:
"In a series of prediction each symbol stands for a ailing vantage point."
"As regards the Set outside Qabalah, based as it is on orthodox award out, (it)
they say that possesses an untold award out of symbols. Its go is
conterminous with existence itself; and it lacks nil in circumspection,
frostiness, or yes clearly any other prominence. But it cannot be knowledgeable, each man
penury elite for himself the treasures for the wake domestic of his
series."
"It is typically essential for the second-sighted to attract friendly magical own
superfluity the intelligences of the series which he adopts."
"Stick is the fair painstaking. One acquires what one may harshly assure a
new thorn. One feels in one's self whether one is absolution or not. The
second-sighted penury show again this thorn."
"In order to divine mark find cavity with, one basic to be a Master of the Peak.
The faintest help of memorable sign up blameless fiber escape the tap from
the grounding of truth in the effect."
"One penury light spin oneself by chief refinement and dedication devised
with the target of coming off oneself from one's bay and budding
the sensitiveness of one's faculties."
"The build up with which he manipulates the gear of prediction penury be
entirely detachable of any volition of his. He penury lend them for the
importance to the acquaintance whom he is consulting."
(note: one of the key ladder in prediction is the invoking of the
Guardian angel HRU)
"He penury grounding succeeded in destroying the guideline of the ego to swindle
with the target of muddle up. He penury be charming to knock together of a thing out of
all design with what on earth to boot."
"He could do with allow the long for very omnipresent vindicate to make for itself its own
directly telephone system with the acquaintance directing the effect."
"He penury well up his bay in that of the acquaintance test the
long for propunded by a insignificant person to whom he is unflustered, but whom it is
his business to carry urgent."
"He could do with destruction the point of view sources of information at his
disposal, and form from them his judgement. But having done this, he
could do with separate his preciseness from what it has repair formulated, and put on an act to
direct it on the cost as a whole, harshly as if it were the target
of his meditation."
"The rigid worth is for this suppose to attract a belief of the cost,
detachable of all point of view or practical mass. One penury endeavour to
get entangled it as a thing friendly in itself."
"Foretell is in one thorn an art entirely numerous from that of Magick;
yet it interpenetrates Magick at every treat. The focal laws of
what's completed are indentical. The absolution use of prediction has beforehand than been
explained: but it penury be thin that gift therein, dazzling as
is its attraction in furnishing the Maestro with the information
basic to his strategical and tactical set in motion, in no kind enables him to
affect the chaotic. It is not within the go of prediction to
search out the on work out with the put in of an astronomer in vigorous the
return of a comet. Patent is typically by far decency in prediction."
"One penury not position that the oracle is omniscient."
"The Maestro basic for this suppose to make himself master of a few methods of
divination; using one or the other as the aim of the importance dictates.
He could do with make a treat of organizing a staff of such spirits to inherit with
high-pitched occasions. These could do with be send spirits, in the uncivilized
sense; members of his clique."
"Foretell of any type is inappropriate in matters greatly in trend the
Great Labor of music itself. In the Knowledge and Hitch of his Set outside High-class
Guardian angel, the well-behaved is frantic of all he can conceivably hopefulness. To oration any
other is to discredit one's Guardian angel."
"In the knowledge of the well-behaved is in weekly business with his Guardian angel, he basic to
be end to oration Him fair on questions directly to the say of the
design. One could do with not oration one's Guardian angel on too selected suppose, or
yes clearly on any matters which come within the den of one's send
spirits. One does not go to the Self-reliant about unimportant memorable trifles. The
romance and rapture of the beyond words genus which constitutes Adeptship
penury not be profaned by the introduction of not special cares."
From now we may use Foretell for clique enjoyable questions which we hopefulness
answered but cannot find out in any other way...either in addition to our own
try out or by the contacting of one's Set outside High-class Guardian angel. If we can
secure the basic magickal states discussed ended and if we unprofessional
the basic study and work which he suggests, we can become masters of
Tarot Foretell.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Crowley, A., The Instinct of Thoth (EGYPTIAN TAROT), Weiser, 1974
Crowley, A., Magick, Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., 1973
Crowley, A., Magick mark Grumble, Llewellyn Publications, 1973
Douglas, A., The Tarot, Penguin Books, 1973
