Tarot Basics

Divination and Intuition

A Tarot card deck typically consists of 78 colorful cards
imprinted with what many deem fascinating and curious images.
The cards, each filled with a particular meaning and portent,
most often come somewhat larger than ordinary playing cards and
make an impressive display when ritually laid out. This deck of
special cards can be used by a trained reader for glimpsing
into his or her own future or that of another person for whom
the cards are read. The Tarot deck, divided into Major Arcana
and Minor Arcana, contains 22 symbolic cards and 56 suit cards
wands, swords, cups, and pentacles interestingly also called
pip cards.


Many types and styles of Tarot cards exist, and a breakdown of
even the more common Tarot card deck reads like a mysterious
journey into the occult and perhaps it is!

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Understanding the Tarot Card Deck, Part 2

Divination and Intuition

Tarot card reading delves into an individuals psyche and thus
depends largely upon the energy that person generates, whether
consciously or subconsciously. And because human beings are
complex creatures with all kinds of major and minor issues not
only negative, but positive as well the Tarot must duly
address them all. So, although the Major Arcana bring to light
the larger issues in life, there also exists the Minor Arcana
which serve the purpose of illuminating the secret and closed
events, feelings, needs, and everyday details of our existence.

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Understanding a Tarot Card Reading

Divination and Intuition

Getting the most from a Tarot card reading relies on the
readers ability to perceive not only the symbolic meaning from
the spread, but also the mystical significance. Although every
card of both the Major and the Minor Arcana possesses its own
individual symbolism within the representative images on the
cards, it is the deeper, spiritual enlightenment of the cards
that leads to a greater understanding. Attaining this type of
perception is the key to making Tarot a truly valid part of life.

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The Book of Tea

Esoteric Classics

I. The Cup of Humanity

 

Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the

eighth century, it entered the realm of poetry as one of the polite

amusements. The fifteenth century saw Japan ennoble it into a

religion of aestheticism–Teaism. Teaism is a cult founded on the

adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday

existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual

charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a

worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish

something possible in this impossible thing we know as life.

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