Marcus Katz - 21 Feb

Marcus Katz & Tali Goodwin

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Tarot Inspire Marcus Katz & Tali Goodwin, 2012. All rights reserved. No part of this book shall be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without written permission from the publisher.

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Cover: 2 of Swords, Tyldwick Tarot by Neil Lovell

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This Tarosophy Tarot Kickstart Book is dedicated to Carrie Paris, Barbara Moore and Mike Hernandez, wise Tarot T riangulators .

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The world becomes an apparently infinite,

yet possibly finite, card game.

Image combinations,

permutations,

comprise the world game.

Jim Morrison, The Lords and the New Creatures, Poems (1969)

The Fool cannot demand or orchestrate this unfolding. It naturally fills the void of the Fools empty heart, just as sunset follows night. He has to be fully immersed into the dark night of the soul, being prepared to relinquish all in order to empty the heart.

Russell Sturgess, Metanoia : Renovating the House of Your Spirit (p. 252)

INDEX

Introduction

The Return of the Oracles

How You Work

How Your Universe Works

How to Find Your Spiritual Calling

The Circle of Oracles

Magick and Tarot

Mysticism and Tarot

Restoring a Spiritual Dignity to Tarot

A Map of the Spiritual Mountain

The Tarot Heliakos

The Tarot Shaman

Tarot in the New World

Bibliography

Websites & Resources

TAROT INSPIRE : A TAROSOPHY KICKSTART BOOK

A book to inspire your consideration of the spiritual dimensions of Tarot .

Introduction

In this third Kickstart book of Tarosophy teaching, we take a break from the reference work of Tarot Flip , the seventy-eight innovative Tarot methods in Tarot Twist , and offer a wider contemplation of Tarot as a tool of spiritual inspiration. This is not a book about Tarot card reading in its sense of reading for yourself or others although it may inspire new ways of considering that act. It is a short book of provocations, hints, and odd branches in the Tarot Tree designed in a spirit of open wonder.

It is sometimes difficult for people to reconcile their use of Tarot in contemporary society, which has little place for such superstitious interest, so this book is given as an antidote to that negative outlook. We hope that it inspires you to explore the spiritual path denoted by this pack of cards and make new discoveries at every twist and turn.

This book is also a standalone title in the series, for those who are interested in opening channels to some of the philosophical and esoteric considerations of Tarot beyond the obvious mechanisms we have provided in our first two books. This may not be the book you are expecting, however it is meant to inspire your further discoveries beyond the matters dealt here these are kickstart books of your creativity.

We have had a lot of challenges to bring you this book, which draws on material as old as the oracles and as new as todays latest tweet. We look forwards to continuing to accompany you on your own inspirational journey through Tarot .

M arcus Katz, The Tarosophist &

Tali Goodwin, Tali Tarot

A Brief Note on IS and ARE

We u sually try and avoid absolute statements . We think there is no true secret of Tarot , no one real meaning of the Devil card or any such sentiments . We usually try and write in e-prime , a method of avoiding such absolute statements.

Whilst we may be lazy in this work, and not adhere to e-prime throughout, please take all forms of X is Y to be read as in this particular case, X might be considered as holding some similarity to Y for your consideration. Or perhaps we are just writing for effect and marketing in some places, where the intent is obvious.

This is also why IMHO (In My Humble Opinion) appears online. No one thing can be seen as identical to something else, so when we say The Moon is Red we mean that in our language, to our perception, in a certain context, the object to which we refer looks like a particular color at this specific moment. We will take it as read from this point that we do not need to explain this in every sentence in this book.

Furthermore, in the interpretation of symbols, we can go by no better advice than Joseph Campbell:

Since ones way of experiencing and so, of interpreting phenomenality cannot but be a function of ones own level or state of consciousness, there can be no one true way of evaluating life, symbolic forms or anything else.

Joseph Campbell, The Interpretation of Symbolic Forms .

Tarot is the Book of your Secret

The Tarot is your blank bible and the book of your souls secret. It has arisen - comparably recently in human development - over the last several hundred years and stabilized into a set of 78 images on material which can be arranged in a staggering variation of constructs.

We begin and end and transcend both beginning and end with the unnumbered or sometimes zero Fool card. As with all Tarot , the secret is not where it appears to be - the secret of this card is in the dog which faithfully accompanies the figure. As a symbol of true faith , a faith in reality, the dog constantly attacks the Fool at the same time as guiding him. He is the constant companion of experience your experience of the World. His barking is not a distraction, it is direction.

And he holds an even deeper secret, woven into the very fabric of our experience of reality. The canine carries exactly 78 chromosomes. In life, these are the vectors of hereditary and are embodiments of two essential principles continuity and individuality .

The tradition of Tarot is the secret of the Fools Dog. These cards are a continuation of an evolving communication through your individual experience. Whether you simply read a deck, create a new deck, revert or recant the images, whether you follow one set of correspondences or another, whether you believe in angelic guides or the art of poetry to decipher the images, you are continuing an individual journey through Tarot . And this is its tradition a rose key (soul) to open the cross (experience) on which you are bound.

Tarot also shares this emergent property its most common number of cards (as ever, there are many variations) with the atomic number of Platinum. This heavy metal has the properties of being resistant to corrosion and malleable to fashion into the finest of jewelry. Perhaps those attributes can be seen to correspond to Tarot in this contemporary gematria , or numerology? Perhaps our Tarot is the platinum level key to a spiritual world.