It's In the Cards! The Tarot - a closer look
From time to time I meet people who are very uncomfortable with the very idea of Tarot cards. It seems that to many the Tarot has been represented as unclean, dangerous, a tool of the Dark Arts or as something to be feared and avoided. However more and more people are willing to test that theory and ask me about Tarot card readings. I am very glad for this. Once properly understood, the Tarot ceases to be frightening and instead becomes a very useful tool to help achieve the future that one really does hope for. I began an intensive study of Tarot in 1995. This study began as a relentless pursuit to discover the origins of the interpretations. When I found the Hermetic Tarot by Godfrey Dowson the little book in the back sent me on a tour of Hermetics, the Tree of Life model of the universe as well as a visit to publications about the Golden Dawn. I came to realize that the Tarot fit perfectly on the Kabbalahistic Tree of Life .The Major Arcana are in...