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 WikipediaLife is a process of cycles. Using a symbol tool like Tarot is a way of finding out which cycle is in operation in our life, and where we are in each cycle.

The Tarot cards cover all forms of experience, and existence as we know it. When we draw a card, the cardboard and the symbols on it become a clear mirror in which we see ourselves and our situation.

Buy a set of Tarot cards.

Also, buy a blank, unlined notebook to use as your journal. You want the pages to be unlined, because you want to be able to create pictures in it. A few pens of  various colors are also useful, as are coloring pencils or paints. Even if you decide that you will write your journal on a computer, do get the blank unlined notebook for your drawings.

You can’t draw? Nonsense. If you can draw a line, a triangle and a circle, you can draw. We’re not selling your drawings as works of art here. They’re not meant to look good. They’re meant to exteriorize your feelings. Let me give you an example.

I’m going to suggest that every morning, when you come into your office, before you start working, you sit down and draw a Tarot card so you can get in touch with your subconscious mind and use its help throughout the day.

The card you draw is your Daily Card. As you calmly and quietly contemplate the card, a number of feelings may come up. You take your journal, turn to a blank page, and start doodling.  Just draw a doodle, using as many colors as you wish, or just use a pencil or a pen.

Doodling is fun. In fact, keep pads and pencils around your house, so you can doodle as the feeling strikes you.

L.J. Read of The Enchanted Mind, wrote:

“It is well established that much of our creative expression is birthed in the unconscious mind. To use creative expression and solutions in your everyday life, it is necessary to dip into the unconscious at will. Doodling is one way of doing this. Doodling allows the unconscious to render in symbolic expression. Symbols have universal as well as personal meaning. When you are stuck for an answer to a problem or looking for creative innovation, the technique of doodling will unleash the hidden symbolic powers of the unconscious mind.”

By no stretch of the imagination would you ever call your doodles works of art. They’re not meant to be. They can be as ugly and as meaningless as you wish. The thing is, they won’t be meaningless. They are you, communicating with you.