The Way of Tarot: The Spiritual Teacher in the Cards

By Alejandro Jodorowsky

Filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s insights into the Tarot as a religious direction

• Works with the unique Marseille Tarot to bare the roots of Western knowledge

• presents the major to the symbolic language of the Tarot’s “nomadic cathedral”

• Transforms an easy divination device right into a car for self-realization and therapeutic

Alejandro Jodorowsky’s profound examine of the Tarot, which started within the early Nineteen Fifties, unearths it to be way over an easy divination machine. The Tarot is at first a robust tool of self-knowledge and a illustration of the constitution of the soul.

The method of Tarot indicates that the whole deck is established like a temple, or a mandala, that's either a picture of the realm and a illustration of the divine. The authors use the sacred paintings of the unique Marseille Tarot--created in the course of a time of spiritual tolerance within the eleventh century--to reconnect with the roots of the Tarot’s Western esoteric knowledge. They clarify that the Tarot is a “nomadic cathedral” whose parts--the seventy eight playing cards or “arcana”--should continuously be considered with an wisdom of the full constitution. This realizing is key to totally take hold of the Tarot’s airtight symbolism.

The authors discover the key institutions at the back of the hierarchy of the playing cards and the correspondences among the matches and energies inside of people. each one description of the main Arcana comprises key observe summaries, symbolic meanings, conventional interpretations, and a bit the place the cardboard speaks for itself. Jodorowsky and Costa then take the artwork of analyzing the Tarot to a intensity by no means earlier than attainable. utilizing their paintings with Tarology, a brand new mental method that makes use of the symbolism and optical language of the Tarot to create a replicate photo of the character, they provide a robust device for self-realization, creativity, and therapeutic.

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While prepared like this, it really is attainable to work out that the most important Arcana are geared up into sequence (see the next pages). examine the Arcana prepared during this model and be aware any information that spontaneously come to you. Pay specific consciousness to the course during which they're having a look: occasionally grew to become towards the ideal, occasionally towards the left, and occasionally instantly forward, with convinced people who seem to be taking a look without delay at us (like Justice, Arcanum VIII; the face of The solar, Arcanum XVIIII; or the angel the 1st sequence of the most important Arcana (I to X) depicts human figures or animals in identifiable events. the head of those playing cards, usually, coincides with the top or heads of the protagonist(s), other than in relation to Arcanum VI (The Lover), within which the sky is sheltering a sunlight and a child-angel. shall we label this sequence as “light,” because it depicts photographs with ancient or social connotations. Composition and ideas of Orientation 33 within the Judgment, Arcanum XX). a few photos may perhaps encourage sympathy or revulsion, pleasure or worry. those reactions come up from our schooling and private heritage: the Tarot is a robust projectile instrument within which our gaze will determine already recognized versions, so one can firstly reason us to react according to routine habit styles. for instance, many people are nervous via Arcanum XIII, which depicts a skeleton. In our civilization, this snapshot is pointed out with demise. yet on taking a more in-depth examine it, we understand that the determine is blue, pink, and flesh coloured: it's a dwelling, lively skeleton that may be a strength of transformation in movement. to just accept this interpretation of Arcanum XIII, we needs to commence through spotting the 1st circulate the sight of this card conjures up in us. an analogous holds actual for the entire significant Arcana: this determine will look seductive, whereas one other will appear repulsive or antipathetic. One will remind united states of america benevolent grandfather, one other within the moment sequence of the most important Arcana (XI to XX), the figures and events tackle a extra allegorical and not more practical personality. shall we label this sequence “dark,” because it turns out to unfurl inside of a psychological and non secular universe just like a dream. legendary personages look, angels and satan; beginning with Arcanum XVI, the sky is filled with vigorous manifestations of heavenly our bodies and divine emissaries. 34 constitution and Numerolog y of the Tarot an overbearing boss, a seductive mistress, or a strict aunt. Don’t worry to collect your impressions. be aware the way you consider in this preliminary touch with the main Arcana. you are going to absolutely understand a myriad of information, a few specific, a few universal to 2 or extra playing cards. belief your eyes; they're the simplest software you could have for steering you thru your discovery of the Tarot. subsequent, start to mark down the typical issues among the playing cards which are both under or above one another, those who proportion a similar measure at the decimal scale. for instance, among the I and the XI, the form of the hat is sort of a similar. the same scenario unites II and XII: one is sitting on an egg, the opposite is suspended like a fetus or a bird ready to be born.

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