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Topic: The Tarot

I'm in no state to write. This is because I found a 2 for 1 offer in the paper for bottles of wine smile But seeing as Noble Realms chat is dead, I've come here to spread the word of the Tarot cards. I can't remember what was the cause of me wanting to research this idea, but it started on, from what i can remember, the 7th of this month, when I clicked the 'tarot' link on sacred-texts.com and from there I was ingnited with a passion for reading all about the Tarot and have since dug up such internet gold as www.taroscopes.com and www.aeclectic.net/tarot

I bought my first deck on Saturday when I saw the pictures of Aleister Crowleys Thoth Tarot deck on Aeclectic.net. The moment I saw it i felt some kind of energy and instantly went to amazon to get me some of that. I can't really explain why it was so impressive to me as I'm semi-drunk, lest you forge this important fact, but it was something I haven't felt in suck a way as far as I know. I HAD to have those cards I thought. Well before they arrived I got on my bike and cycled to Waterstones to get me the Rider-Waite deck because I couldn't wait till Tuesday to get my Thoth Deck smile I was an addict already. Searching through the 'Occult and Satanic' section of Waterstones i could not find me the Rider-Waite deck. I checked twice, found me the Renaissance deck, but was in black and white and didn't look impressive. Then behind some sort of 'summoning angels' book, whatever that was, i found me a 'Manga Tarot' deck smile Amazing as it was one of the most highly rated decks on aeclectic.net.

I did get a Rider-Waite deck before when I was 16 or 17, 17 I think. I was infatuated with this particular girl at school and wanted some help with the situation. She was way outta my league, I thought, and I'd take any help I could get to be her so I made some use of divination. I was so embarrased with dealing with the occult, beng so self-conscious at that age, that instead of buyin g my deck from waterstone, I stole it.  like a theif in the night i was in and out of there with a Rider-Waite Tarot deck. I thought people would see me as crazy if i was interested in the Tarot and I still feel that way now. I want no-one I know to know what i'm doing for some reason I can't fully explain. Im like an undercover agent keeping secrets from everyone around me. I can' remember much about the reading I did regarding the girl, nothing notable like 'the lovers' sad and that was it. i think i threw the deck away because I was embarassed that i owned it. I feel a little stupid saying that, but it's the case that I am concerned still about what others think of me and I don't need that.

Where was I?

Right, since Saturday I've been reading Taroscopes and Aeclectic and Sacred-texts (which includes Ouspensky's comments on the Tarot and others) plus supertarot.co.uk like I've struck spiritual gold and am about to get rich. I've done a few readings for myself, as if in a frenzy trying to find out answers to every question I have, realised my over-zealousness and have since calmed down a little and kept the cards in the drawer. I think that it's important that when trying to get an accurate reading, that you concentrate all your efforts on the question you have to get an accurate response. I don't know if it helps to have your intuition 'switched on' (but i guess it's related to right-brain holistic thinking) to reap the rewards.

I did do a search on Noble Realms for 'Tarot' and found only one thread. sad what's going on? we're the fringe of the fringe. not the fringe of the fringe of the fringe as that's reserved for shapeshitftingroyalyists of Ickism smile

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Re: The Tarot

I used the Barbara Walker tarot cards for some time.  And I was just thinking the other day that I should maybe dig those out and take 'em for a spin.  I haven't used them in over a year, at least.  Sometimes I forget I have them, but no matter how many times I move, I manage to remember them.  smile  I've tried a variety of cards, and these ones resonated the best with me. 

I just think that, at least for me, I got sort of sucked into them for a while.  I'm better at reading for other people, and not for myself, since it's so tempting to rationalize/freely interpret whatever the cards are blatantly saying. 

I think that tarot cards are a helper, but not the end all be all.  Like maybe they are better for people in need of a "nudge", and don't do much for people who are already "on the right track" or aren't really caring one way or another. 

Hmmmm...maybe I SHOULD take them for a spin.

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye."
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

3 Reply by Nyarlathotep (edited by Nyarlathotep 2007-07-31 16:03:02)

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Re: The Tarot

If you want to learn tarot really well you gotta take it hand in glove with the tree of life, especially if you are using the Thoth deck or the Waite deck, anything Golden Dawn oriented. There is so much knowledge out there that even I feel like a duffus talking about it somtimes and I've been traversing the tree of life and tarot for about ten years.  There are even different versions of he tree of life. I bought a book once and when I looked into it I found that Aries was displaced, Aleph was displaced, everything was out of wack formthe planets to the letters to the zodiacs! I thought " this is a fraud!" But come to find out it is just another form of the tree that has been around for a long time. I was just so used to the mystical Golden Dawn system that my ego went BLAH.What I did first when I was 15 is I started to memrize the tree. Everyday I shuffle and draw one the major arcana and take in al lthe symbolism, then I would find out where it is placed on the tree of life and how it is connected to the minor arcana, the elements and so on.  After this got all memorized work with the minor arcana became much more meaningful. Readings I would give myself and other people made more sense because you can translate what you are seeing into regular ol english quite easily.  If you have the Thoth deck get the Book of Thoth, but itll be rough going if you are a beginner. The book that helped me big time early on was the Golden Dawn Ritual Tarot book with my Golden Dawn deck to go with it. This is a GREAT book for learning the tree of life and how the tarot fits into it, among other things. Keep at it. It is trully an amazing thing.  Now I just use the Thoth Deck with the Book of Thoth, those cards are jam packed with information (;