A Wisdom Archive on Tarot

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Tarot Cards -
1. Set of 78 cards which have pictures and symbols which is used to connect the diviner, with the collective unconscious. (TRASB)
2. used to determine the past, present and future of an event or person and can become powerful tools in magickal working and rituals. (NAD)
3. deck of 78 cards with archetypal symbols 15th C. (From Italian tarocchi)
0. The Fool-choice; folly/wisdom 1. Magician-creative power
2. High Priestess-hidden influence 3. Empress-material wealth
4. Emperor-leadership 5. Hierophant-organized rule
6. Lovers-choice between opposites 7. Chariot - conquest
8. Strength - courage 9. Hermit-opening of the path
10. Wheel of Fortune-destiny 11. Justice-harmony
12. Hanged Man-reversal, wisdom 13. Death-transformation
14. Temperance-growth 15. Devil-bondage to material
16 Tower-end of selfishness 17. Stars-hope
18. Moon-deception 19. Sun-success
20. Judgment-spirtual renewal 21. World-freedom, success

Tarot - The best explanation of the sacred objects on The Magician''s table can be found in Paul Christian''s Histoire de la Magie (Kirkup and Shaw translation, page 95): "The goblet signifies the mixture of passions contributing to happiness or misfortune, according to whether we are their masters or their slaves. The sword symbolizes labor, the striving that overcomes obstacles and the tests that pain makes us undergo. The shekel is the image of aspirations fulfilled, works accomplished, the apex of power attained by perseverance and will-power."

Tarot - TAROT: (Ta-row)a special deck of cards used for divination; a system of divination claimed to have originated in Egypt in ancient times. These cards are the ancestors of modern playing cards. Traditionally numbering 78 cards, of which 21 make up the Major Arcana & the rest are divided into 4 suits (cups, wands, pentacles, & swords) of Minor Arcana. The Major Arcana or GREATER SECRETS were lost through the efforts of the Christian clergy.

Enochian Tarot - A Tarot deck in which each card in the Major Arcana corresponds to one of the 30 regions of the Magickal Universe known as the Aethyrs. Each card of the Minor Arcana represents a deity or group of deities that inhabit regions known as the Four Great Watchtowers.

Wheel Of Fortune - Tarot #10a destiny

High Priestess - Tarot #2; the female inquirer, the anima. (NAD)

Yod - The tenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, Y. Represents the number 10. The sixth of the twelve "single letters." A Hebrew word meaning "hand." Corresponds to Virgo, the 20th Path (between Chesed and Tiphareth), and Tarot trump IX The Hermit.

Also See

Significator - A card that represents the querent in a tarot reading.

Tarologist - TAROLOGIST (tar-al-oh-gist) A tarot reader, Artist, diviner

Divination - Works on the principle that meaningful coincidence, or synchronicity, is not the exception, but the rule of reality. All things and events reflect all other things and events in past, present and future. The trick is merely learning how to read the meaning in the connection. Thus astrology is the correlation of simultaneously parallel events in heaven and earth, the patterns in tea leaves indicate comparable patterns in life, and so on. (See TAROT , GEOMANCY, SCRYING.)

Shin - The twenty-first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, Sh or S. Represents the number 300. The third and last of the three "mother letters." A Hebrew word meaning "tooth." Corresponds to the element of Fire, the 31st Path (between Hod and Malkuth), and Tarot trump XX Judgment.

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Nun - The fourteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, N. Represents the number 50 (or, as a final letter, 700). The eighth of the twelve "single letters." A Hebrew word meaning "fish." Corresponds to Scorpio, the 24th Path (between Tiphareth and Netzach), and Tarot trump XIII Death.

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