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The Devil Tarot Card: Dealing with Pain

The Devil Tarot Card: Experience your pain, then let it go

The Devil Tarot Card

Sometimes we deal with pain but do not heal it. We leave it where it is and move on. That pain does not simply evaporate. It remains right where you left it as a shadow, as something that always eats away at you, never quite letting you feel completely comfortable. As you move one, you tend to forget that the pain is there, but that pain remembers you. It remembers the circumstances that brought it into being. We cover this pain with layer upon layer of appeasement until it is no longer visible to us. But these layers of appeasement only placates the pain. It does not dissolve it. The pain will still seep through the layers and be absorbed by our psyches. This will add much weight to our spirits, we must remember that the idea is to shed extra weight, to become light that we may ascend into enlightenment. This weight from this pain is counter productive to this devils-playendeavor. When dealing with pain, we must address it as it happens  so that this does not happen. The pain though, that has not been dealt with, the pain that has seeped though to saturate the spirit, here is where we must follow our shadows back to the light. We must project ourselves back to the origin of the pain. We must observe the creation of this pain without judgment, but with compassion and love for ourselves. We must tell ourselves that it is okay to experience this pain. It does not mean holding onto it. Feel this pain, experience this pain, let this pain pass  through you so you can be done with it. When you draw the devil card from your tarot deck, consider this. Consider the pain you are holding onto. Realize that you must let go of it. Experience it, then let it go.

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The Chariot Tarot Card- Crash the Gates

The Chariot Tarot Card: Don’t let others impose their restrictions on you

The Fool's Path Chariot Card
The Fool’s Path Chariot Card

The power of the chariot is in the freedom and independence that it brings. Not bound by the quirks and rules and idiosyncrasies of others, you can fly by the gatekeepers of your dreams and ambitions to achieve what you yourself want to achieve and what you yourself find important. You are unrestricted. The limits others live by and try to place on you are seen for what they are- arbitrary and pointless. Do the limits others place on you contribute to your overall well-being, or do they keep the status-quo of the person who is imposing them? Crash through the gates. Always. Don’t let the gatekeepers hold you back. Fire up the Chariot and go!

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The Tarot Magician Innovates

The Magician Tarot Card: Seeing all the possibilities

Voyager Tarot Magician
Voyager Tarot Magician

A Magician in tarot is an innovator. This is somebody who has the unique ability to transcend what is simple and earthly to see the possibilities of what is available and to put elements together in a new way to create a new paradigm altogether.

A magician is acutely tuned into the environment and knows the value of all that is present and can thus identify what is missing.

They can look into the divine realms to create on earth. A magician is always open to inspiration. They look for it in places that others may not. Magicians are the inventors and the artists of the earth. They listen to the voices and feel the impulses, and they respond. They are the doors on the earth through which divinity is received.

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The High Priestess of Tarot: That Voice in your Head

The High Priestess Tarot Card: Can you hear her voice?

The Voyager Tarot Priestess card
The Voyager Tarot Priestess card

Consider the High Priestess as that voice in your head. Consider her a being whispering in your ear. To listen or to not listen is completely up to you. To listen is to be granted wisdom that will serve you well. To not listen is to deprive yourself of something that will benefit you greatly.

The High Priestess has the unique end enviable ability to be far-seeing and wide-seeing. She can see beyond what is mundane of a situation that an average and person will fixate on. She will see the situation and the concern holistically, seeing both the pettiness and the importance of whatever is going on.

Fool's Path Tarot Priestess
Fool’s Path Tarot Priestess

Where others stop seeing, the High Priestess is only just starting to see. She has no concern for the ego and operates completely outside of the paradigm that the ego creates. The ego builds too many walls, and the High Priestess has no use for such things.

The ego sets limits, but the High Priestess is limitless. The High Priestess may tell you things that you do not want to hear, but that does not mean you don’t need to hear it. Listen to the voice of the High Priestess. She will always tell you what you need to hear. Quiet your ego so she does not have to scream to be heard. She will speak no matter what.

Can you hear her? Will you listen to what she says? She does not care one way or the other what you want to hear. Her job is to tell you what is pertinent and what is necessary.

Listen to the High Priestess.

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Who is the High Priestess of Tarot?

Who is The High Priestess of Tarot?

The Priestess card- Fool's Path Tarot
The Priestess card- Fool’s Path Tarot

The High Priestess has the unique and enviable ability to be far-seeing and wide-seeing. She can see beyond the mundacity of a situation that an average mundane person will fixate on and see the situation and the concern holistically, seeing both the pettiness and the importance of whatever is going on. Where others stop seeing, the High Priestess is only just adjusting her vision. She has no concern for the ego and operates completely outside of the paradigm that it creates. The ego builds too many walls, and the High Priestess has no use for such things. The ego sets limits, but the High Priestess is limitless. The High Priestess may tell you things that you do not want to hear, but that does not mean you don’t need to hear it. Listen to the voice of the high Priestess. She will always tell you what you need to hear. Quiet your ego so she does not have to scream to be heard. She will speak no matter what. Can you hear her? Will you listen to what she says? She does not care one way or the other what you want to hear. Her job is to tell you what is pertinent and what is necessary.

The Voyager Tarot Priestess Card
The Voyager Tarot Priestess Card

Consider the High Priestess as a voice in your head. Consider her a being whispering in your ear. To listen or not to listen is completely up to you. To listen is to be granted wisdom that will serve you well. To not listen is to deprive yourself of something that will benefit you greatly.

The High Priestess speaks the perfect, unfiltered truth. Her words may not always seem logical, but that does not mean they are irrelevant, for they are in fact, the most important words for you to hear.  Her words are the voice of the divine, and the divine knows. Listen to the High Priestess when she speaks. She has messages for you.

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The Magician of Tarot- Strength, Weakness, and Needs

The Magician of Tarot- Strength, Weakness, and Needs

The Fool's Path Tarot: Magician
The Fool’s Path Tarot: Magician

Consider each card of tarot to represent a piece of who you are. When you do this, you gain a deep understanding of yourself and others. Ask also, how does each card represent a strength of mine? A weakness? A need? What are my Magician Archetype strengths, weaknesses, and needs?

Strength- The strength of the Magician is in finding what is good and positive, and using your thoughts and your attitudes to draw more of that to you and the situation. The strength of the Magician is in maintaining a positive attitude and absorbing positive energy into your being so that it will ripple outward and be felt and appreciated by others. The strength of the Magician is in being able to see holistically and being aware of what is missing, for by knowing what is missing, the magician knows what is needed, and can then manifest it.

Voyager Tarot Magician
Voyager Tarot Magician

Weakness– The weakness of the magician is in creating excuses and weaknesses rather than positive situations and affirmative thoughts and attitudes. Like attracts like, and that which you create will draw more of the same to your life. When you are positive, you create positive and positive things come to you. When you are negative, you create negative, and negative things come to you. So to be stuck in a negative mindset is to constantly draw negative to yourself. What you draw to yourself becomes part of your general makeup. This radiates from you and ripples outward to others. Do you really want to be a source of negativity?

Needs- The needs of the Magician is the need to sort through all the energy you have stored within you, and eliminating what does not serve you while keeping what does. Doing this too with a situation. Take a look at the situation and ascertain what is working, eliminate or change what is not. Do not continue in a destructive manner simply because that is how it has always been done. See where changes are necessary and possible, and be fearless in making changes.

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The Fool of Tarot- Strength, Weakness, and Needs

The Fool of Tarot- Strength, Weakness, and Needs

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Consider each card of tarot to represent a piece of who you are. When you do this, you gain a deep understanding of yourself and others. Ask also, how does each card represent a strength of mine? A weakness? A need? What are my Fool Archetype strengths, weaknesses, and needs?

Strength–  The strength of the Fool is in the ability to throw caution to the wind and proceed without worry. The strength of the fool is in knowing that no matter what, things are going to turn out just fine. Maybe things will turn out as they expect it to, or maybe it will turn out some other way. What’s the difference? Either way, it will turn out as it is meant to, so how bad could it be? The strength of the Fool is in just being; just being happy, just being content, just being satisfied. All is well with the Fool. The Strength of the fool is the ability to not focus on what is negative, but rather the ability to turn anything around to be positive and strong. The strength of the Fool is in the ability to have faith in one’s self even when times seem tough. The strength of the Fool is the ability to get through it, whatever “it” is. The strength of the Fool is to not give up, ever, to keep on keeping on without the worry of how things will end up right and good, only that they will.

foolWeakness- The weakness of the Fool is in being too impulsive and not sticking with something. The weakness of the Fool is in being too quick to give up.  The weakness of the Fool is in jumping into something even though you know it is not the best thing for you and not thinking through the potential consequences of a situation or of your actions. The weakness of the Fool is in being unwilling to try something new or getting stuck in beliefs that do not serve you. The weakness of the Fool is in being unwilling to break away from a mindset  or being stubborn.

Needs- The need to break away from stagnation. The need for movement. The need for something new and a new adventure. The need to fill your soul with something new. The need to break free of restrictions and have the chance to sink or swim on your own. The need to break away from what is familiar to you and learn about yourself. The need for self-exploration and understanding.

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The Devil Tarot Card: How to face your fears

Devil Tarot Card

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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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.

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