Tarot Book
Major Arcana 11-21
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22 Major Arcana
Represent Major Themes - Spiritual / Life Lessons - Archetypes.
The energies are reflecting life-cycles that need to be worked through.
Karmic Lessons and Spiritual Challenges, appearing in a reading, it is good to take note and as they can be seen as higher purpose calling. What you do now matters.
These Tarot meanings/ suggestions - the Tarot have core collective meanings where we can meet, although it is a blend of intuition and the action of reading the card, is where the alchemy happens.
XI Justice | XII The Hanged Man | XIII Death | XIV Temperance |
XV The Devil | XVI The Tower | XVII The Star | XVIII The Moon
| XIX The Sun | XX Judgement | XXI The World
XI Justice
Justice suggests accountabilty for the actions taken, a reckoning is happening, I suggest this is not about dividing into right or wrong, or good and bad, rather to discover balance and harmony as the scales are measuring the ability to be responsible, accept the consequences and live from truth and compassion for the ignorance seen.
The choices made have consequence, thoughts, words and deeds all have karmic implication and Justice card indicates its time to reap the Cause and Effect, what you put out, affects you first. With the Shadow Working and self-discovering, it might be time to dig deep and just accept things have not been played fairly perhaps see the decisions you have made are not born from harmony, what can be done to level the scales? Act accordingly.
Spiritual Lore: turning to spiritual practice that involves generating compassionate energy aiding balance in life. Justice being the scales and World Law, this could mean courts and legal dealings.
Justice suggests one is seeking Truth and that might mean seeing the lies too.
Reversed
Inner Work and Accountability Is Needed
You maybe hard on yourself, Unfair Decision Making, A Questioning of Morality
Time to Own Up to Dishonesty
Transformational Tips: Things are perhaps not black and white, as there is Truth within a lie and, a Lie Within a Truth.
Sign: Libra
Element: Air
XII The Hanged Man
The Hanged Man is the signal to pause and surrender the need r
to be scribble speed. Instead of doing, fixing, mending,
this time suggests allowing new perspectives to be realized
and you will know when that is happening, as there is
synchronicity and the way forward opens out effortlessly.
This time of waiting, is needed an ordering before the next step
can be taken. A time of discovering, what might be blocking,
what is it you are thinking? The Hanged Man gives self space
to align with intuition, enlightenment from within, instead of
forcing and racing ahead without Pause and acting unconsciously.
Surrender the need to be the Martyr, (the poor me), here you are your own worst enemy, sabotaging unconciously. The Hanged Man suggests
looking within and seeing if you doing this. Trying to force the
way through will only make matters more difficult, no amount of
push, pull is going to topple the upside down man hanging from the tree.
Reversed
Resisting the need to Pause
Thinking you are Blocked and on Hold.
Transformational Tips: Surrender the Need to Control
Planet: Neptune Pisces
XIII Death
The Past and Present drop away and Now is all there is, this can be a cold hard truth making you face yourself, with no escaping. Death means the end, finality, a new stage of life, one door closes and another opens, revealing opportunity and possibility. Death maybe physical or psychological, either way there is no going back and what was - the past way of life is gone. When Death happens, there maybe for many a lamenting, a holding, either when somebody has died, or traps locked in the mind. When not embracing Death the pain and suffering will just repeat. Death is asking for us to let go of resistance, to embrace acceptance and the unknown, it means humbling and surrendering to what is.
Psychological death: an ending of thought, thinking that is not serving, feelings overwhelming, patterns repeating, the old comfortable ways. Embracing Death, dropping the energy brings a clear cut reality, the white horse the messenger rides, speaks of truth, purity, a time of cleansing and transforming and is essential to the cycle of life. Life Death and Birth.
Death
Transformation
Opportunity
Reversed
Resisting Endings
Limbo
Self-transforming
Embrace Yourself
Transformational Tips: When the Past and Present drop away, it is seen that Now is all there is.
Sign: Scorpio
Element: Water
XIV Temperance
After the Death comes the balancing, healing. This is not black or white rather a blending of energies, patience and stabilising is happening. An integration of grace with life unfolding, enlightened mind guiding. Clearing of the old has left space to see that moderation, calm approach, and flow is needed to realise the serenity of fulfilling higher purpose that is beckoning. It might be time to connect with community, like minds that resonate with your energy.
Balance - Alchemy, blending of energies, flowing intuitively. Spiritual Purpose unfolding.
Patience, rushing is violent.
Moderation is Key
Reversed
Imbalance
Find your own flow
Transformational Tips:
Sign: Sagittarius
Element: Fire
XV The Devil
This is the card of shadow working, where the hidden negative patterns are revealed. When the Devil shows, it's asking to be faced, to confront the darker part of yourself, things you are dependant on, behaviours, the thinking that is negative and repeating, this can be a hard task master and well, we all have the shadow within that needs the light shining on it. If you look at the male and female with the chains around their neck, you can see they can be taken off easily, so don't be tricked there is nothing you can do, when facing the shadow self within you. This is the signal the time to be breaking free of those repeats that are constraining self, moving away from a quick fix, instant gratification, and going in, seeing the trickery, and taking responsibility, making choices that lead you into the light and realising the short term pleasuring is not serving. Time to dig deep and allow the Love to be guiding.
Attachment
Restriction
Shadow Self
Sexuality - Bondage
Negative Patterns
Trickery of Thinking
Reversed
Going through a dark place
Hiding Fears
Confronting Negative Beliefs
Releasing Negative Beliefs
Transformational Tips:
Sign: Capricorn
Element: Earth
XVI The Tower
When the catalyst hits, in this case the lightening striking the Tower, life is uprooted and it's not ever going to be the same. Often it's a shock, out of the blue, and what was thought to carved in stone, safe and comfortable is ripped asunder and there is destruction, upheaval that reaches the core of being. As the rubble of a past life shattered lies at ones feet, there is no putting back together, this is a place where the physical, spiritual, mental, are all effected and there is no escaping.
The Tower is not about re-building, re-doing take the 're' off. Re is repeat. The Tower clears, allows space for beginnings, (unless you want to sit there and lament in misery) there is clarity, insights, transformational energy, a reaching depth of being, where the falsehoods, illusions, lies, assumptions are shown in the light. It is not an easy card to deal with although it blasts through the foundations of life that are not solid, true, or serving the highest good.
Catalyst
Unexpected
Awakening
Change
Chaos
The truth remains
Reversed
Personal Transformation
Spiritual Awakening
Belief Systems Crumbling
You can not stop gravity
Transformational Tips:
Planet: Mars
XVII The Star
Often the word 'hope' is connected with the Star, hope suggests a grasping and wishing. I care to elevate the Stars representation to Trust and Trusting. After the experience of the Tower falling, the destruction paved way for the illusions and lies beneath life to be seen, this is of course ongoing. The Star is the trust,the trust of self that is opening to Divine connection to Source Intelligence, where love, calm and compassion are happening. The yellow eight pointed Star suggests Higher Self integration, the nakedness being open and vulnerable to see the deceptions, so as to live authentically.
Higher Purpose Is Guiding, with a trust in self and Universal Intelligence, ending of the insular way of thinking. Inspiration, soul purpose, Self-Transforming are all part of Star's energy. Ascending into the limitless potential of what it is to be a human being., or other wise known keeping aspiring to ones highest potential. Reach for the Stars!
Reversed
Lack of Trust
Despairing
Disconnection
Transformational Tips:
Planet: Aquarius
Element: Air
XVIII The Moon
The Moon Mysteries are now being revealed, Self is opening to the psychic, sensitive, the intuitive, listening with the inner voiceand the need for meditation, maybe the inner nudging
La Luna showing too the incorrect projections, the illusions, doubts, fears, indecisions, anxiousness held in the the Subconscious, an overflowing of feelings that are intense, feelingful.
The Moon energy may trigger past-life, childhood, memories that have been buried deep, being revealed in a dreamlike state. Navigating life with the intuition guiding often suggests one has a calling to healing, shamanic working, meditation, spiritual arts that connect self to the dream-time, inner guidance. Where the waters go from murky to clarity with the practice of diciplines. The black crayfish suggests the feelings coming to the surface and deal with them consciously, don't let go back to the deep and remain hidden from view.
Illusion
Negative
Anxiety
Lunar Cycles
Wild and Tame Psyche
Allowing Intuition To Lead
Reversed
Release/facing of fear
Burying of Feelings
Inner Confusion
Transformational Tips:
Sign: Pisces
Element: Water
XIX The Sun
After the deep introspection and secret world of the Moon, the Sun is the antipode, energetic, bright, shining, the Light and clarity of what is happening. The naked child on the white horse suggests openness, purity instead of the linear old ways guiding. There is a childlike innocence steering, an attainment of consciousness from within, your inner spirit that acts on impulse free from judgement of what others think, one that is vital, and actions are positive and life giving. A creative time, doors opening, with bright sunny outlook and energy. Tune In to your inner self, the love that is there now exisiting.
Shine Your Light In All Directions
Reversed
Inner Child
Setbacks
Not feeling sunny!
Transformational Tips:
Planet: Sun
XX Judgement
There is a Judgement happening of some kind - discernment when viewing the past is needed. This is a time of setting self free and aligning with the cosmic energetic light within. An awakening, a calling, the urge to rise up and out of the confines of the box, the old ways, the patterns and repeats. There might be a decision that is beckoning, presenting the opportunity to let go or the old self, into a version of reality that has not yet been. This is about absolution, debts are cleared, let go of the fear, guilt and sadness, a time of integrating and releasing the old dead past that is not serving.
Spiritual Awakening, Heeding Your Inner Calling, Judgement is inescapable, so are the obstacles in life, allow compassion be the tune that is sounding.
Reversed
Not listening with inner calling
Soul voice
Self-doubt
Negative Judgment
Transformational Tips:
Planet: Pluto
XXI The World
Life is a flow, where endings and beginnings are like a seamless stitching in the fabric of reality. Accomplishment that something is completed, and an integration is happening a space for self to step forward in the creation. If there are loose ends that need tying now is the time for completion. The World is your oyster suggests the scope of living, travelling, movement and success are beckoning
A Cycle is Complete
A New Cycle Begins
Seemlessly Flowing
Reversed
Short-cuts
Hold Ups
Personal completing of things, tying up loose ends
Transformational Tips:
Planet: Saturn