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Teachings from the Western Mystery Traditions:
The Esoteric "Paths of Return"
The Minor Arcana in Tarot
Sacred Guidance for Your Practical Daily Life
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by Jacquelyn Small
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The Minor Arcana are the four suits in a regular card deck, representing the four levels of reality we live upon in our daily lives. The Minor Arcana are organs of creation that manifest daily as the main principles in our lives – good and evil, active and passive, depending either upon our will, or lying beyond it as one’s unavoidable destiny or karma. Like a square within the sacred triangle of Divine Creativity, the four suits outpicture the four planes (or sides) of reality upon which we live out these principles in our lives – the physical (Pentacles/Clubs), emotional (Cups/Hearts), mental (Swords/Diamonds), and spiritual (Wands/Spades).
These suits should be seen as the raw materials from which we can weave the perfect clothing a mature spiritual person wears. We weave the garments ourselves into productive and healthy bodies, balanced emotions, clear and radiant minds, and spiritual lives dedicated wholeheartedly to serve the Divine Plan. Through their study, we create a tapestry of associations that eventually lead us to wisdom on all four planes.
Briefly, I will give you the numerology you can apply in all four suits, since each card is numbered. Then, when you combine this knowledge with the meaning of each plane, you have a synthesis that will guide you to each card’s message. Further along, I will also describe each plane for you.
Ones or Aces always mean some kind of victory. Aces mean a brand new starting point or new realization upon a higher level of consciousness, or that one is taking an Initiation upon whichever plane (physically, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually) is represented in a reading. They say something about leadership, standing alone, bringing spirit into matter through the use of your own co-creative power, or your gifts and talents. This number represents the Masculine Principle of taking action overtly and with confidence. Its shadow side would be selfishness or egoism.
Twos will always mean something about the inner life, involving relationship, or needing another to help complete something. It represents the Feminine Principle of being receptive, giving, inclusive, and with a quiet, non-intrusive attitude. Some polarity may be staring you in the face when twos show up. You’re being called to turn inward to find wisdom. Some balance of opposites is taking place. Negatively, twos can mean being too codependent.
Threes are the number for creativity and will always indicate that something is trying to birth through you, something created, or seen anew, and given the nourishment necessary for growth. Some work is finished and the stage is set for one’s next right step. It can even mean pregnancy, or at least being pregnant with the Life Principle itself. It usually connotes the happiness of bringing the natural wisdom of experience into one’s heart. Something in your life is yielding a potential that promises fulfillment. Threes rarely have a negative side except to say you may be blocking some creative expression.
The number four is the Law of Manifestation in operation, a grounding principle that forms solid foundations. No matter what plane of consciousness this number manifests on, it’s always about manifestation. Fours are like the archetypes who design and build our dreams into concrete reality. This number will always represent some form of order and discipline, but can also mean you are too caught up in structure, holding on too tight, or being too miserly about something.
Fives are the quintessence of something that moves us beyond the four. The number five will often indicate a struggle to get to a higher, more extraordinary way of being or of seeing something. Can you ground what’s trying to be decided in its higher spiritual truth? Fives connote a requirement to live from the Law of Sacrifice, meaning to make holy anything that is lost by giving it an essential meaning for your life – then, let go and move on. Fives often represent a serious struggle between the sacred and the profane. But the obstacles are often superficial and short-lived, mostly difficulties in communication. Fives can represent the doubt that holds a seeker away from the focus required to reach a spiritual goal. With fives, the mind is learning right proportion.
Sixes represent the Law of Love, often also indicating struggle with family or another person. This number requires that we heal and balance all dualities in our lives. Everything must come into conscious awareness, with all polar opposites moving up to that “third and higher” way of integrating both sides of something. We can never be trapped in the bothness of love versus hate; all must be accepted in a high form of divine Love. This is a number about finding harmony and right relationship in an attitude of discrimination.
Sevens are a magical, lucky number of completion of something in one’s ordinary world and offers a strong sense of success, or of finalizing something where everything is integrated. Seven show us we are not to be driven by circumstances but guided by an integrated ego that aligns with spirit. One must allow spirit to win over form and carry forward what is of value, leaving behind all nonessentials. You have the valor and foresight to see and meet what is coming at you. The number seven symbolizes destiny or fate, as well as transformation.
The number eight is the infinity sign in numerology. Spirit and matter are forming the figure 8, making it possible for your spiritual intentions to be grounded in this reality, right now! Eights tell you that you’re about to be jet propelled into movement, so much may need to be accomplished in a very short period of time. Anything that is out of alignment with Spirit, or conversely, is not being handled with practicality in one’s everyday physical life is troubling. Often, the number eight will cause one to yearn to serve humanity by bringing spirit into the material world of money and power. Eights stand for a talent that can be turned into a profession or a money-maker. Some phase of an actual transmutation is at hand through hard work and faith. On the negative side, the number eight carries the energy of being too materialistic.
Nines are a spiritual number standing for a higher completion than the seven. It’s more about one’s spiritual life than one’s personality. It connotes becoming a way shower for others, shining the light of consciousness upon any issue or person. When nines show up in a reading, you may be receiving a transmission from a Master on the inner planes. This is a number of accomplishment and abundance on all planes. Clarity of purpose is evident in your life. Nines remind us that we have all the wisdom of the universe available to us constantly; we only have to open our eyes and ask for the guidance that we seek. The shadow side of the nine is becoming aloof and too “above” others to get involved.
Tens are a very positive successful number, meaning something has completed in full consciousness and is now operating upon a higher octave. You are surrounded by positive and loving circumstances. It connotes a complete death and rebirth of something or someone. Upon this higher octave, the task is to promote the transmutation of society’s established mores and not get stuck in dead belief systems. It’s hard to find a shadow side of a ten, except to warn that one can always fall.
Pages, Knights, Queens, and Kings are the “court cards” in a Tarot deck. They pertain to levels of maturity. Often, they represent real people in a reading. Or, they can mean a certain quality within you that is currently manifesting or needed.
Pages are innocent but helpful and desiring spiritual awakening and to be of service. Pages are messengers from the gods bringing you spiritual gifts that will usually appear somehow through the arts. But this creative talent or expression they bring is fragile and must be guarded with much spiritual discrimination and trust in the process. Pages are bearers of good tidings who brings you optimism.
Knights or Jacks are like knights on fire to serve, often romantically inclined or filled with a cavalier courage to please another. They stand for movement. Knights in a reading often tell of a new lover or friend coming into your life, one who brings a strong sense of adventure. They always connote a journey of some kind.
Queens are the highest consciousness that can be achieved by a woman. Honor and nobility, strength, inspiration, and courage are the qualities this card represents. And leadership based wholeheartedly upon spiritual principle. She is supportive of those close to her, and willing to use her influence for the good of the whole.
Kings are mature males who serve both spiritually and in the ordinary world as leaders, usually very successful in life and looked up to as high beings. Kings will always stand for inner strength, self-assuredness, and moral conviction. He is the upholder par excellance of virtue and justice. Kings use their energies wisely and with a deep sense of mission and purpose. You can trust a King’s advice. He has all the qualities that make up an advanced divine human. This is the highest form of the Masculine Principle we can know while in human form.
A Note About Reversals: When a card comes in upside-down, it often has a different meaning. Reversals can be quite confusing, as they can mean various things even sometimes to the same authority. From my long experience working with the cards, I’ve found them to serve as warnings that I am not doing what the card symbolizes right-side up, or that my timing is somehow off. With reversals it is crucial to trust your intuition and to be dead honest with yourself. It helps also to look at the cards surrounding the reversed card to help guide you to its proper meaning.
The Four Suits or Planes of Reality, in summary:
Pentacles/Clubs pertain to physical reality and the physical body or sensations, everything that provides a solid base from which to grow. Pentacles give us the pattern for being human as God intended us to be. Every card in this suit represents some way of finding physical well-being. Pentacles are symbolic of the earth element in our psyches.
Cups/Hearts represent the impulse of Higher Love that comes from below to above. Each card is a certain type of supreme Attraction. Our emotional/feeling nature is revealed by this suit and resides in consciousness in the astral plane, one plane above, or wider than, the physical. Astral energy can be “high” or “low,” meaning we have glamor that is both positive and negative that can cloud our view of true reality. We want to call all this energy “heart,” but we must remember that all strong attractions feel like heart, when often they are revealing a debilitating emotional attachment. Every card in this suit represents a type of struggle toward emotional maturity. Cups are symbolic of the water element in our psyches.
Swords/Diamonds represent the mental plane of consciousness, one plane above, or wider than, the emotional plane. The swords represent in each card a certain attitude or way of thinking that can move us beyond emotional reactivity. Swords are the reflection of the Logos, all of which generate life according to its authentic archetypal Pattern. We rise up out of the watery emotions into the air of non-reactive Truth or reality. Mentality can also be misused, however, and become stern or rigid intellectualism or illusory thought. Every card in this suit represents some sort of struggle toward more knowledge. Swords are symbolic of the air element in our psyches.
Wands/Spades are symbolic of the spiritual dimension of consciousness where the creative imagination and intuition are spawned that inspire us to be creative and spiritually attuned. This is the highest plane of consciousness we can experience while in human form. The wand cards show us the spiritual significance or lessons encountered upon the path of Initiation. They represent the element of fire in the human psyche.
With this information about numbers, now check out which plane of reality each card is on – physical, emotional (heart), mental, or spiritual – and through this synthesis of number and plane, you will uncover each card’s message. For a full understanding of the Minor Arcana, an extensive study of their symbols and meaning is necessary, together with the use of the intuition, our supramental abilities or “cognition without thinking.” If interested in this sub-division of Hermeticism, you will be willing to undergo the necessary study and you’ll find that the cards teach you as you work with them.
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Jacquelin Small,
Spiritualist, Clairvoyant Psychologist
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JACQUELYN SMALL, LMSW, is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Texas at Austin with degrees in human psychology and clinical social work. She is a licensed non-denominational minister and a licensed psychotherapist who works with both spiritual and psychological concerns.
Jacquelyn is a popular presenter and consultant in academic settings, new-thought churches and new paradigm conferences and mental health settings, known for her easy-going, self-disclosing, humorous style of intimate relating with her audiences.
She has a long history in addiction counselor training, consulting and counseling, and trains all kinds of health professionals in the emerging field of spiritual psychology. She is one of the teachers who has been selected by Unity Church for their national TV ministry. She served as the Director of Training for the Texas Commission on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse for nine years, and served on the adjunct faculty of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Stanford, California for four years.
Jacquelyn has authored eight books about soul-based psychology and the process of personal transformation, some of which have become classics in the counseling and consciousness fields. She is represented by the Tom Grady Agency. She has many audio tapes as well through Eupsychia's publishing company, Eupsychian Press.
Her published books are:
* Becoming Naturally
Therapeutic (Bantam)
* Transformers, the
Artists of Self-Creation
(DeVorss & Co.)
* Awakening in Time
(Eupsychian Press)
* Embodying Spirit (HarperSanFrancisco
/Eupsychian)
* Rising to the Call with
co-author Mary Yovino (DeVorss & Co.)
* Becoming a Practical Mystic (Quest Books)
* Psyche's Seeds-The 12 Sacred Principles of Soul-Based Psychology (Tarcher/Putnam
/Penguin)
Jacquelyn is a regular columnist for Science of Mind Magazine and is featured often in other magazines. Among the many conferences and programs for which Jacquelyn has keynoted or presented programs, include:
* The Association for Humanistic Psychology
* Association for Transpersonal Psychology
* Omega Institute
including their Body &
Soul Conferences
* Tracor and Texaco, Inc.
* Church of Religious Science Annual
Conference
* Great Lakes Addiction Conference
* Whole Life Expo
* The College of William & Mary's Annual Addictions Conference
* Most major universities
in the United States
* U.S. Department of Heath, Education and Welfare
* Omega Institute's
Body & Soul Conferences
* New Age Magazine's Bahama Teaching Cruise
The ConferenceWorks!
She has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show, America's Talking, Wisdom Television and Radio, New Dimensions Radio, NPR's People's Pharmacy and a CNN's series on Alternative Healing and continues to make regular guest appearances for radio and television.
Jacquelyn Small serves on the Advisory Board of the International Psychosynthesis Association, the National Council on Codependence, and The Holistic Alliance of Professional Practitioners, Entrepreneurs and Networkers, Inc.
She is the Founding Director of Eupsychia (pronounced u-si'-ki-a) Institute which means "good psyche" or "well being" in Greek, a not-for-profit professional training and healing program in Soul-Based Psychology and Integrative Breathwork. With her staff of dedicated, experienced spiritual therapists, she conducts workshop intensives throughout North America on a regular basis.
Eupsychia Institute
PO Box 151960
Austin, TX 78715-1960
(800) 546-2795
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