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Image via WikipediaThe Magician is the card of creation, and you can use this technique any time you need to. Or simply take the Magician out of the deck and meditate on him whenever you need fresh inspiration.

Occasionally, you may feel that you need to conduct an inner journey to consult the Magician in person. When you do, you can ask him for whatever you need in your life. However, you must also be prepared to make some changes in your life. The Magician will ask you to do something; promise only what you know you can deliver. That is, if the Magician asks you to stop smoking, don’t promise to do it if you know that you’re not ready to give up cigarettes.

An important warning: never make an inner journey to visit one of the archetypes without the assistance of your inner guide. The guide will mediate between you and the immense power of the archetype. You should also ask your guide’s advice before you agree to do anything the archetype asks you to do. Again, don’t make any agreements you’re not prepared to keep. The universe must be kept in balance. If you receive a gift from the archetype, you must give something in return. If you don’t keep your part of the bargain, then the archetype will take something from your life, and it may not be something that you were willing to give.

The Magician is a powerful archetype. When you meditate on the Magician, or when he appears in your readings, your life will change.

Image via WikipediaThe Fool can be a useful card to develop attributes that you don’t already have. If you’re unwilling to take business risks, even when you know you should, meditate on the Fool. Visualize yourself at the top of a cliff, and then imagine yourself stepping off into space. You will realize that you can fly.

Because of the flying aspect of the Fool—he’s about to launch himself into space—this card has a lot of shamanic energy. It’s the medieval trickster and joker of myth. The con man, who plays the old shell game. How many Fools have you known in your life? If I were doing a reading to learn more about a new client or business contact and the Fool came up, I’d be wary.

If the Fool came up in a reading where you wanted everything to go calmly and straightforwardly, take care to dampen down the Fool energy. Match the card with Justice, or the Hermit, and meditate on the cards in tandem. You want the energy and the enthusiasm of the fool, but you want that energy to glow, rather than to spark.

You can use the Fool whenever you want inspiration, or when you want the courage to take risks; whenever you want the feeling that you’re just starting out in life.’    Look at the small dog, he’s important. He represents the Fool’s instincts. He shows that the Fool is not in touch with his intuition. If this card comes up in a reading for you regularly, as yourself how you’re stifling your instincts. What are you refusing to look at, to see?

If the Fool comes up in a reading in combination with the High Priestess and the Moon, it would be obvious that there was a lot that was being hidden from the querent, whether the querent was you, or someone that you were reading for. The combination could indicate industrial espionage. The querent should look at all her security procedures carefully. Perhaps it would be a good idea not to travel alone. Any threats made against the querent should be taken seriously.

However, in general the Fool is a cheerful card, showing a lot of youthful energy.

Image via WikipediaIf the quantum physicists are right, then we all have everything we need within us. How to reach this inner knowledge is the question.

With the Tarot cards, you have 78 supporters and advisors at your service. You have your own cheering squad which will help you to do whatever you want and need to do. Not only that, but they will help you to do it quickly and well. And they work cheap.

For example, on days when I have a full schedule, I look to cards like the Chariot and the World to help me through it. The Chariot because it is inbuilt energy, control and determination. The World, so that I will use all the tools at my disposal, and so that the Universe will help by turning all my traffic lights green.

This really works. You can try it yourself. Take the Chariot and the World from your desk. Take several deep breaths, closing your eyes as you do so. Open your eyes and look at the two cards. Look at the cards as a whole, and also look at the details. Imagine the Chariot life-size, right in front of you. Then imagine the Chariot moving towards you and becoming a part of you. Do the same with the World: with your eyes closed, imagine the World life-size, and then merging with you.

How do you feel? As you were doing the visualization, you may have had definite bodily sensations. If you didn’t, don’t worry about it. Whatever happened is the right thing for you.

Another way to use the cards is to get instruction from them. Let’s say that your sales figures for this month have been less than stellar. It’s the final week in the month, and you want to boost your sales so that they exceed your monthly quota.

Which of the cards could help you with this?

You can choose one of the cards face up: just look through the deck until you find a card which looks as if it may help. Or, choose a card face down. Shuffle the deck, and trust that whichever card comes up is the card that you should be working with now.

When you’ve selected your card, look at it for a few moments. Then close your eyes, and imagine the card life size. Now, in your imagination, walk into the card. Just walk right into the scene on the card. Interact with the figure on the card. Tell the card inhabitants what is happening in your life, and explain what you need. The figure, or figures, will give you advice.

Note: if the figure advises you to do anything which you consider morally wrong, challenge the figure. Ask for the Sun to appear. When this happens, the figure will always transform. If it doesn’t, stop your meditations for the day. The figures which appear in your meditations are personifications of your own psyche, at least initially. When you’ve been working on yourself for many years, you make contact with elements which are beyond your own psyche: they are definitely not parts of it.

In this way, each of the card will act as an advisor to you. That’s not to say that each time you enter the cards that you will meet the same people—you will develop your own group of advisors, who will become your spiritual friends. Our time, this group will change, as you transform into the person that you were meant to be.

Image via WikipediaEvery Tarot aficionado has their own favorite deck of Tarot cards.

My long-time favorite is the Universal Waite Tarot, which has lovely soft colors.

From a review:

 The soothing, pastel coloring, done so beautifully by Mary Hanson-Roberts, brings out all of the delicate intricacies of Lady Pamela’s famous drawings.  Each card now seems ready to step out and guide you along Tarot’s path of wisdom.  The facial features and their expressions are more readily decipherable now, showing the sorrow, pain, joy, happiness, greed, wisdom, resignation and anticipation of each figure.

Each esoteric symbol on every card can be seen and better understood.  Subtle nuances, such as the patient, waiting gaze of the Hermit as he watches for others seeking knowledge; the healthy stalks of grain growing before the Empress and the fresh green and gold in her starry, Earth Mother crown; the despair on the faces of the Tower’s victims; the weary, but still resolute face on the IX of Wands; the pensive wariness of the IV of Cups; all of these and more now leap out at the reader.

It’s a lovely deck, a joy to use.