June 15, 2015

The Devil Tarot Card: How to face your fears

Get through your fears to the other side

The Devil tarot card tells you, you are never fully actualized until you face your fears and see what they are made of. This is one of the things that the devil tarot card reminds of. What exactly is fear? Fear is the imagined actualization of the worst possible outcome of any given situation. To overcome a fear, we must get to the other side of it. But to do this, we first must face it.

Sure, it is easier to stay on this side of the fear, for on this side, we know where we stand. On this side, we can keep a safe distance. But how is this an advantage to us? Where is the growth? How do we become strong this way? To gain power in our life, we must face these fears head on and get to the other side of them.

Facing your fears can be like a train of falling dominoes. Face one, and the others fall in succession. Facing your fears can also become an addiction. When you take note of the power you gain, you may want more so you go on to the next fear to face. And the next. And so on.

Like many other things, facing your fears is simply a matter of following a shadow to the light. What is casting this shadow of fear? Imagine facing a fear as opening a door and entering a room. At the other end of this room is another door. This is your objective- to get to that other door. Standing in the middle of this room is a giant demon. This demon is your fear. You can’t get to the other door without getting by this demon. So what do you do?

Do you rush by it, hoping it’s too slow to get you? Do you stand up to it and slay it? Do you reason with it? Do you walk slowly by hoping it won’t notice you? Whatever choice you make here, just know that even if you have not completely killed the demon, you have diminished it. It will never be as powerful a force as it was. To face it again will not be as much of a challenge.

When faced with a fear, keep these things. Meditate on the devil card of tarot, and imagine the devil as your greatest fear. Kill the devil, and you kill the fear. Get past the devil, and you get past your fear. Defeating your fears has the advantage of proving to yourself that you have power. Now that you know you have this power, what can’t you do? Use this power to shape the world into what you want it to be. No devil, no demon, no fear can ever stop you unless you let it.

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Pieces of You Tarot

What’s Tarot Got To Do With It?

Double Oh Fool Guide to Tarot Mastery

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June 15, 2015

The Hanged Man Tarot Card: Synergy and Perspective

There are many perspectives to explore

The hanged man tarot card reminds us of perspectives. We all have a perspective of the world, and this perspective is contingent upon our experiences, expectations, desires, hopes, fears, and preoccupations. It is though conversations, art, writing, music, and all other such talents and modes of expression that we share our perspective with others. In sharing our perspectives, we give others the opportunity to experience the benefit of them, whether they agree or not. It is all together possible that your perspective is radically different from others, and that they do not agree with what you believe.

In not agreeing with another person’s perspective, the opportunity is created to truly define your own perspective by analyzing and giving thought to what it is you do not agree with. Just how different is this other person’s idea from yours? Is there any common ground between them? What can you learn from analyzing this other idea? On the flip side of that, by agreeing, your own perspective is strengthened by validation. This is true of everybody who analyzes and compares their ideas to those of others. Doing this generates a synergy of power as a multitude of people feel validated by their viewpoint without having to struggle to be understood.

This though, does create the risk of complacency and homogeny as so many people sharing the same viewpoint stop looking for differentiations and when a differentiation does come, it is viewed as a threat to a way that has long been established. Now, change to this viewpoint is difficult to achieve without a tremendous amount of people sharing an opposing viewpoint who are willing to speak up and express their opposition.

In time, this opposing viewpoint will gain a foothold in the minds and psyches of the given population and become integrated into the given society just as the original viewpoint it originally opposed, which by now has been altered and changed in reaction to this opposition.

Let the hanged man tarot card remind you of this. It is through listening to what others have to say that change, revolution, and evolution, happen. Don’t let an opposing perspective scare you. Take a close look at it and see where you can change you own ideas to accept them. Look closely too at what differences exist between your ideas and those you don’t agree with. How can this gap be bridged? How can bridging this gap create something new for yourself and for the world?

Let the hanged man tarot card also remind you to never be shy about expressing yourself. Let the world know what you are thinking and how you feel. In whatever mode you do this, do it. Write, sing, paint, talk, whatever. By letting people know your thoughts, they too can compare their ideas to yours and create a bridge to their own understanding.

Enjoy these tarot card books by Jim Larsen

Pieces of You Tarot

What’s Tarot Got To Do With It?

Double Oh Fool Guide to Tarot Mastery