Your Persona Cards The Persona Cards are three cards based on correspondences between the Court Cards and your natal horoscope chart. You need to know your sun, moon, and rising signs to determine these cards (except for the Personal Potential Card, for which you only need your sun sign). If you do not have a natal chart, consult an astrologer, or one of the free chart calculation sites on the Internet. The astrological signs are given with their corresponding Court Cards. Active Imagination In reading Tarot you can look up the meanings of the cards in Appendix A in this book or in other books, or you can look at the images and symbols on the cards themselves and imagine your own meanings for these pictures. Much the same method of actively imagining is used in interpreting dreams and in psychoanalytic processes such as gestalt or psychosynthesis. Other names for active imagination are directed reverie, creative visualization, symbolic manipulation, and imaginative play; even self-hypnosis uses these principles. To activate your ability to use your imagination productively, it is important to be relaxed yet alert, with your mind clear of mundane concerns. Interpreting the Suits WANDS (Rods, Staffs, Batons, Scepters, Clubs) Wands are associated with Fire and are usually represented either as fiery brands or as cut branches with new green leaves sprouting from them. Wands represent growth, virility, creativity, self-development, inspiration, enterprise, energy, clear perception, enlightenment, passion, and desire. Wands are future-oriented, entrepreneurial, and inventive; they initiate action. They light up dark spaces and get things moving. When you get a Wand in a reading, ask yourself, “What do I desire? How can I creatively express myself and my ideas? What options for self-growth are present?" VIRTUES: Creativity, enterprise, drive VICES: Pride, restlessness, willfulness ELEMENT: Fire STYLE: Exploding, activating, inspiring JUNGIAN FUNCTION: Intuition DIRECTION: South SEASON: Spring IMAGES: Candles, flames, matches, volcanoes, sunflowers, phallic objects, salamanders, lions and all cats, rams, all forms of new growing life: babies, spring plants, etc. CUPS (Vessels, Cauldrons, Hearts) Cups are associated with Water and are usually seen as full or empty goblets, and sometimes as flowers, especially lotuses. Cups represent emotions, relationships, the subconscious, dream and astral worlds, psychic and intuitive arts, fantasy, illusion, fertility, grace, and serenity. Cups are pleasure loving, with an aesthetic orientation, and sociable. When you get a Cup in a reading, ask yourself, “What or whom do I love? What am I dreaming or fantasizing about? What am I feeling? How am I responding?” VIRTUES: Serenity, love, creative visualization, imagination, nurturance VICES: Moodiness, excesses and addiction, psychic drains ELEMENT: Water STYLE: Flowing, expanding, diffusing, loving JUNGIAN FUNCTION: Feeling DIRECTION: West SEASON: Summer IMAGES: Cups, goblets, containers, bodies of water, wombs, flowers (especially lotuses), the phoenix, undines, dolphins and all water creatures. SWORDS (Blades, Spades) Swords are associated with Air. Swords represent your mental, rational, logical functions, as well as communication and thoughts. Swords are also indicative of a struggle or conflict and point to a need for decisions about or separation from past attachments. When you get Swords in a reading, ask yourself, “Where are my thoughts focused? What decision am I facing? What tension or conflict do I need to deal with?" VIRTUES: Penetration, courage, strength, truth and justice, organization VICES: Thoughtlessness, judgmentalism, sharp-tonguedness, fear, or confusion. ELEMENT: Air STYLE: Storming, freezing, striving, conceptualizing JUNGIAN FUNCTION: Thinking DIRECTION: East SEASON: Fall IMAGES: Clouds; wind; sky; all sharp objects PENTACLES (Deniers, Disks, Coins, Stars) Pentacles are associated with Earth and are often represented as money, and/or crafts made by hand or fruit. Pentacles indicate a concern with money, the result of labor, the accumulation of knowledge, and development of skills. Pentacles represent what grounds and stabilizes you, as well as traditions, foundations, and inheritances. Since they question your sense of self-worth and what you value, Pentacles can represent money, work, or your home. When you get Pentacles in a reading, ask yourself, “What do I value? Where do I find my greatest sense of security? What do I feel insecure about? What goals are being materialized?” VIRTUES: Knowledge and ability, endurance, stability VICES: Stress and anxiety, stubbornness ELEMENT: Earth STYLE: Drying, cracking, materializing, solidifying JUNGIAN FUNCTION: Sensation DIRECTION: North SEASON: Winter IMAGES: Money, platters, stones, fruits of the earth, crafts, machinery, Mother Earth, gnomes, bulls Rituals Rituals are very important in establishing rapport with your cards, but need not be formalized. Through time and practice, you’ll naturally find yourself developing personal rituals through such actions as how you shuffle, where and how you keep the cards, and at which times you use them. Such repetitions of action will help prepare you for a reading by relaxing you and taking you out of the ordinary stream of things. Do not hesitate to experiment; create your own rituals. But remember that to empower the ritual and the symbolic objects you choose to use, you must have faith in them; you must also feel confident that the act will have significant results spiritually, psychologically, and/or physically. It is through observing the results over a period of time that you validate your rituals.
✔ Author(s): Mary K. Greer,Benebell Wen
✔ Title: Tarot for Your Self: A Workbook for the Inward Journey (35th Anniversary Edition)
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✔ ISBN-10: 1578636795
✔ ISBN-13: 9781578636792
✔ Language: English
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