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Divination Systems: Be Your Oracle
Tarot More than Ever – Our Inner Coach
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With the world changing and changing faster and faster, it's imperative to be in the present. Unfortunately, brain science tells us that we project our past into the present. We often live in memory, which was great when things didn't change so much so fast. Experience from the past is a great navigator, but if the past is now different, how valuable is experience when it may be irrelevant and even misleading when relied upon in today's topsy turvy world.
When we evaluate situations, people, challenges and assess how things are, we simply cannot rely upon past knowledge. How to stay current? Pick a card from deck of cards face down. Doing that breaks us free from projecting.
And because we see what we want to see, it's a great practice after picking a card to look at both sides of the card, the positive enlightened side and the "watch out red flag" unevolved aspect of the card. That keeps us honest and balanced – prerequisites for intuitive acuity.
And when we are emotionally unbalanced – stressed, angry, fatigued – are intuition is skewed. Another reason for picking a card help us get us free of our uncentered state.
To be present and equanimous are absolutes for thinking and living intuitively. Doing the cards and looking at them in a fair and just way is an ideal tool for keeping our intuition sharp and true.
And in this day of changing times, how do we navigate our lives?
Since we really don't know what to do or how to, it makes sense to simply follow your impulse, the intuitive emotion that gives you energy. Follow the energy, so at the very least, we are in our power and authenticity. I believe all good things, even the unexpected, come out of being true to ourselves in an energized way.
The beauty of tarot is that it creates a dynamic growth structure for our intuitive impulse to hang its hat on. It helps to have a roadmap of where we can go in life and how to get there. We have very few human roadmaps for governing this 21st century life. The 78 cards of the tarot give us the destinations to go to in consciousness and in action to lead the "whole life" of being happy, healthy, holy and wealthy.
The four suits of the tarot tell us to inquire about how we feel (cups), how we think (crystals in Voyager tarot), how we see (wands) and how we act (worlds in Voyager tarot). When we put heart, mind, body and spirit together we have synergy and are in our optimum state of being.
In addition, the archetypes of tarot give us our major inner resources. By tapping the Magician archetype, we have a map for manifestation of goals and visions. The Priestess gives us the map for discerning the truth, the Lovers as a map for relationships, the Hermit for health, the Emperor for business, the Hierophant for growth, the Chariot for energy, and so on with all of the 22 tarot archetypes.
Tarot cards, in fact, are only pieces of cardboard, but they do hold the keys to the very real inner journey where we find our bearings. These pieces of paper, full of symbols and imagery, free us from the past and catalyze us forward as they take us fully and wholly present in the empowered now when we search for their meaning within ourselves.
I practice the tarot as my own inner coach. It keeps me present, in my power, evoking the truth, and feeding my energy. And it's a spiritual growth practice. By picking a "card a day," and by either being mindful of its meaning for you during the day or by taking action and embodying the card, you get to know and be yourself, helping you answer the ultimate questions of life – who am I? and how to be me, all of me?
Onwards Voyagers.
ASK THE ORACLE
Below are questions asked of me while doing consultations in the Netherlands this past month. I use the Voyager Tarot as a roadmap for life and for activating my intuition.
Q. I don't have much passion and I want to live passionately, what should I do?
A. After picking a few cards that did not seem to make much sense, she (the client) picked the Chariot (Major Arcana #7) Wow, the impulse implied in that card was to tell her to move. And so I asked if she had thought of going south to the sun, like Spain. Bingo! That was a complete turn on for her as she had kept that vision in her heart. Her dream was liberated. Bon voyage.
The "power of place" has a lot of truth to it. Are you living where you want? Maybe, just go there, get happy, and then make your livelihood.
Q. I am a "green" town planner with a local government, but now with the new management, I feel held back with not much of a good looking future. What to do?
A. The Emperor (Major Arcana #5) came up as the first card. It told me that with his skills and with the "green" movement becoming a tsunami like wave in the world, ride it. Think big. Go international. Find out about job possibilities in America, why not in China (they sure as heck need some ecological planning). Holland is a small country and yet very advanced in their environmental way of municipal management. Sometimes we just need to think and get outside the box.
Q. I have had a terrible childhood, full of abuses. I just needed to survive and so I was able to get outside of my body. Why have I experienced this and how to heal it?
A. I have always experienced that challenges are growth lessons and that by getting through these, we may actually have new strengths. As the "wounded healer," a wound becomes a source of wisdom and can be used to heal others of similar experience. The card selected was the wise teacher seer Hierophant (Major Arcana #5), which suggests that she use her "out of body" connection to the angelic world as a channel for her to share with others. To minister another is to minister yourself. My advice was for her to begin doing some healing "angel readings." "Yes, yes, yes," she replied. Time to fly!
Q. I am beginning a new relationship and I want to know what step to take next with him?
A. The card she chose was the Fool-Child (Major Arcana #0) Wow, the most unpredictable sign and symbol in the tarot. This archetype represents the unknown and the taking of uncertain steps and even risk-taking leaps of faith and trust. What to do next? Don't plan, surrender to the unknown, follow the spontaneous, enjoy the process, learn, don't be attached to expectations... who knows? "Hmmmm," she responded. We shall see what's to happen. Be okay with ambiguity, which is not so easy, but it's the truth.
Q. I have some great property with a couple of teepee's on it and I love Native-American values and ways which I incorporate into my sound healing work. Should I go to America and meet some real American Indians and shamans.
A. Good idea, and the card she selected was Integrity (Nine of Wands). Somehow, this told me that there was probably no real need to go to America. She has truly embodied the Indian way and has a purity about the path that I don't feel needs any substantiation by another. As integrity suggests, inside of herself she an authenticity that has not be conditioned or even contaminated. Believe in yourself, you are the real deal!
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James Wanless, Ph.D
Author & Creator of the Voyager Tarot Deck
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James Wanless is the creator of the best-selling and revolutionary Voyager Tarot Deck, a "modern classic" that has sold 250,000 editions since 1985.
A former political science professor with a Ph.D. from Columbia University, he has authored Intuition At Work, Way of the Great Oracle, Strategic Intuition for the 21st Century, and his most recent multimedia online study course and personal growth process entitled Way of the Seeker.
James Wanless has performed 7,000 Readings over a 28 year span while being a keynote speaker, corporate trainer, and teacher of creative intuition and symbology throughout the world.
www.voyagertarot.
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