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| Tuesday, November 30, 2004 | |
In the Rock Art Tarot deck by Jerry Roelen, the High Priestess card is known as The Psychic.
The figure in this tarot card is surrounded by an energy depicting past life experience and the potency and power of present perceptions.The feathered headdress of the psychic represents the capacity to undertake shamanic journeys through the different layers of human consciousness.
It's a powerful card.
There's both containment of energy here- the sense of special enclosure; and expansion - energy is contained here ready to seek expression in other forms.
How do we enter upon that power?
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| Monday, November 29, 2004 | |
The tarot card, the High Priestess, beckons us to listen, to listen differently to what we may hear - in others, in ourselves.
The High Priestess both challenges and invites us: be bold, listen where you have never listened before (in terms of the Fool's journey through the tarot).
In the Sacred Circle tarot, the High Priestess appears holding a crystal ball. Its' light highlights and heightens the light shining forth from the moon.
It is as though the moon is also carried within the crystal ball.
It's a timely reminder for us, especially in our age of neon lights, quick answers, and busy lives: dwell awhile, make peace with the gentle light of the moon, listen to the rhythms of the inner world, the inner streams of renewal.
How may the High Priestess be a pathway to that inner world?
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| Thursday, November 25, 2004 | |
Symbols in Tarot cards act as doorways of understanding; they are succinct, and yet elusive. They are complete, and yet express so much more. They ARE the language of the tarot.
Let's look at that a little more.
Erich Fromm distinguished three types of symbols : the conventional, the accidental, and the universal.
The conventional symbol is like a name, for instance, Fromm uses the example of the word 'table' .The accidental is, again to use Fromm's examples, like the name of a town becoming associated with a particular experience.
In everyday language, most people equate Paris the city with romance.
The universal symbol is in which there is an 'intrinsic relationship' between the symbol and what it represents. For instance, the cross.
In all of these, it is the relationship between object and person that counts or that carries the weight of the symbol.
I can recognize the cross as a symbol mostly of Christianity; the emotional content of that symbol may or may not be charged for me.
So what does all of this mean for understanding the tarot cards?
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| Thursday, November 25, 2004 | |
In the Celtic Wisdom Tarot deck, the High Priestess appears as the Guardian.
This tarot card is linked to the Birch tree, and suggests cleansing, the refreshment of renewal, new insights.
These qualities are not simply bestowed.
In this beautifully illustrated, luscious deck of tarot cards, the Guardian (High Priestess) stands amidst the greenery; she is a seer-priestess figure, her powers are linked to the green, to the force of nature; and that power is both symbolized by and brought forth by the sphere she holds in her left hand.
There are spirals within spirals, and the numinous triskele glows forth. This is a place, a garden, of growth, of depth, of unspeakable beauty, of potent power.
Knowledge gained here is not knowledge read.
It is experienced.
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| Wednesday, November 24, 2004 | |
The High Priestess beckons.
She stands at the entrance to her temple. At times, she may even be or at least, represent the temple (or think of herself that way).
So we are confronted with a choice.
To step forward, into the temple, we must pass through - in the case of the Rider Waite tarot deck - the two pillars, one black, the other white. We must step into and negotiate our way through polarity, the play of opposites, the challenges to our intellect and they way we have, up to now, understood the world.
We must leave or put aside some of the thinking that has worked for us, some of the certainties that surfaced for us in the Magician card in the tarot deck.
At its simplest, life is either a yes or no. Or is it?
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| Thursday, November 11, 2004 | |
The number two card in the Major Arcana of a set of Tarot cards is the High Priestess.
The High Priestess embodies mystery and calls forth choice within us. Hers is an initiatory energy, and many decks of tarot cards have the High Priestess flanked by pillars, one symbolizing light, the other, darkness.
Much of life is an unknown; even seeking answers through tarot cards is a step into a direction and place which may well be unfamiliar.
Let's face it; intuition is confronting because it seems to come from nowhere. Out of the blue, as they say in some parts of the world.
What events do you remember when you knew something without first knowing it, in other words, by arriving at in an instant, in that flash of intuition, in that moment of inspiration?
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| Monday, November 01, 2004 | |
The Magician card in the Vision Quest tarot is called the Medicine Man. In this beautifully illustrated deck of tarot cards, the Medicine man is vibrant and evocative, and steps forward towards us bearing the pipe of straight talk.
It is a rich offering.
Here, he seems to say, this is for you. Spirit is everywhere, all around.
Inhale the great Mystery.
What has you be at peace with yourself? What calls you to see beyond?...
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