10/25/2022
Did you know that earthwalk has a tarot card reader?!
Here's what Julie has to say...
The Tarot deck has four suits: coins, swords, cups and wands, like the diamonds, spades, hearts and clubs of a regular deck of cards. Kings, queens, pages and knights are included. Tarot cards traveled to Italy over the Silk Road from China and the Middle East in the mid-1400s. The game of Tarocchi, was invented and it is still played today. It is a game like Bridge, with two teams playing against each other and taking tricks with trump cards. There are ten cards in each suit, and court cards. Each card has a numeric value and the person with the highest score wins. The 22 trump cards, originally called “triumph” cards, beat the lesser suit cards. They are also known as the Major Arcana of Tarot.
Tarot cards spread quickly to the rest of Europe in the 15th – 17th centuries. After they arrived in France, an astrologer named Jean Baptiste Alliette wrote a book called “How to Entertain Oneself with a Pack of Cards” in 1783. It was a bestseller – it was the first time the Tarot was interpreted differently than being a card game. He connected tarot to ideas of astrology, numerology and ancient myths of Egypt and Greece. The Tarot evolved even more as the cards were studied and written about in Victorian England and up to the modern day as Theosophy, Numerology, the Kabbalah and Astrology were connected to the cards. The Tarot took on a completely different nature: it became a rich mystical tool with spiritual messages and guidance provided for the querent.
Rachel Pollack writes in Seventy Eight Paths of Wisdom, “Today we see the tarot as a kind of path, a way to personal growth by understanding ourselves and life”. She explains how Tarot cards relate to the ancient Hebrew mystical study of the Kabbalah. There are strong interconnections between it and the Tarot: there are 22 paths in the Kabbalah’s Tree of Life, and 22 Major Arcana Tarot cards. There are ten Sephiroth (spiritual lights or jewels; revealed aspects of God) “which link what is above them – the infinite and ungraspable nature of the Creator – with what is below them, the finite physical creation”., from The Walking Kabbalah. There are 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet, and 22 numbers associated with them. The Fool is both 0 and 22 – he/she represents the start and end, the full circle of experience in life. There are many in-depth studies on Tarot that are available to help us understand it and its value as a tool for growth and spiritual knowledge. I like to think of it as the Creator’s reaching out to us with a way to guide us in a manner that we can see, touch and understand. Over a period of thirty years, I have studied the Tarot in depth and have done many tarot readings to assist people in finding answers to their queries. Tarot cards are not a religion, and they do not have any dark purpose. Tarot is a gift given to humans from our Creator, and the way for us to gain insights into our life’s path and purpose on earth.
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