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Tarot is a Technology
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Tarot is a Technology

Like all technologies, tarot is a marriage of tools and techniques. Like all technologies, humans use tarot to improve and enhance their lives. Like all technologies, tarot helps us solve a problem we were unable to resolve using only our bodies.

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The Right to Free Thought: Rereading Tarot's Swords
The Right to Free Thought: Rereading Tarot's Swords

Through free thought, by which I mean attention to detail, inquiry, and understanding, we can see that the work of tarot’s Swords isn’t good or bad.

Through free thought, we can see the role systems play in our limited ability to see the truth and accept reality. Our unwillingness or inability to think and scheme freely limits our capacity for action.

It all but ensures that we will act without thinking, and reap the consequences about which the Swords warn.

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Living in Our Feelings: Rereading Tarot's Cups
Living in Our Feelings: Rereading Tarot's Cups

“Tarot's Cups ask who we want to be. They ask us "how do you want to feel?"

This is a question that requires both creativity and intuition, one of the other virtues of tarot's suit of Cups.

The Queen of Cups, the King of Cups, the Page of Cups and even the Four and Seven of Cups show the connection between creativity and intuition.”

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More than Money: Rereading Tarot's Pentacles
More than Money: Rereading Tarot's Pentacles

How did this suit about discipline, patience, labor, and stability get reduced to money?

Well, it's sort of a reflex. In a climate of scarcity, especially during a time of inflation and recession, we must find money.

It's true that Pentacles are often where money resides in a quotidian way. Yet the Pentacles speak to more than money, and certainly more than wealth.

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Understanding Tarot’s Acolyte Cards
Tarot, Tarot Theory
Understanding Tarot’s Acolyte Cards
Tarot, Tarot Theory

The acolyte cards are strong medicine. They all concern fate in some way, if only as an idea, and limit our personal power to dispense their wisdom.

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Understanding Tarot’s Acolyte Cards
Tarot, Tarot Theory
Understanding Tarot’s Acolyte Cards
Tarot, Tarot Theory

The acolytes are special because they clearly illustrate the role of power and control. This early sequence of acolyte cards deals with naturalized power and control.

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"What Tarot Card Represents Me?" is Only the First Question
Tarot
"What Tarot Card Represents Me?" is Only the First Question
Tarot

If we don't have an end goal in mind as to why we are learning tarot, it becomes yet another spiritual commodity.

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How to Move as Tarot’s Emperor
Tarot
How to Move as Tarot’s Emperor
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The Emperor shows us how to learn through imperfect action. There will be time to revise and renovate later.

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Intuitive Strategies for Feeling Free
Courses & Programs, Tarot, Earthlove, Dreamwork, Dream Interpretation, Intuition
Intuitive Strategies for Feeling Free
Courses & Programs, Tarot, Earthlove, Dreamwork, Dream Interpretation, Intuition

We can combine these strategies to feel free more often, and longer. Not because they're magic, though they are, but because these strategies are widely available and deeply practical.

When we learn to do them, and apply them well, we can hone our skills and move through burnout with grace and ease at the same time.

I hope you'll join me in this round of 🌿Grounded Intuition when the doors open on March 26th!

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Embodying Tarot's Queen of Cups (Without Becoming a Total Doormat)
Tarot
Embodying Tarot's Queen of Cups (Without Becoming a Total Doormat)
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People moving in the Queen of Cups archetype are helpers. They hate to see anyone in pain, or without what they need to be comfortable.

This can be the kind of person that donates to cat shelters. This is the person who babies and dogs love.

Over time, living beings can come to rely on the Queen of Cups' giving nature. This doesn't always mean they value it, or reciprocate.

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The Devil: The Expansionist
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The Devil: The Expansionist
Tarot

Tarot's Devil card is an expansionist. To tarot's Devil, too much is never enough. It's a flame that's never completely fed. It always wants more.

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Justice: “White Man’s Paperwork”
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Justice: “White Man’s Paperwork”
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No one actually believes tarot's Justice card means real justice.

A better term for Justice is "paperwork." It talks about everything official, everything documented, every document that can eventually be used to trap you or free you.

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Working for Liberation, Reading Tarot
Tarot
Working for Liberation, Reading Tarot
Tarot

You can't read tarot for the purpose of liberation without addressing tarot's relationship to power. You can't read tarot for the purpose of liberation while choosing to ignore tarot's fucked up origins.

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Two Eves: The Lovers & The Devil
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Two Eves: The Lovers & The Devil
Tarot

The Lovers and The Devil are two examples of blatantly Christian messages in tarot. They subvert each other's purpose. They are each other's mirrors.

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The Ace of Hearts :: The Light
The Ace of Hearts :: The Light

The Ace of Hearts Unites

It does not promise we will stay together. It does not ensure we will be kind to one another.

But for one single, brilliant moment, we are only one thing.

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The Joker and The Dogs
The Joker and The Dogs

The Joker in a deck of playing cards is a trickster, neither good nor evil. The Joker is the chaotic beauty and terror of living on earth. Of living on earth in a body.

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Understanding Cartomancy’s Clubs & Spades
Understanding Cartomancy’s Clubs & Spades

These experiences are part of life; none of us are exempt. Understanding the purpose of Spades experiences make a more well rounded person, who is better able to accept life on its own terms.

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