How does Tarot work?
What is going on?
I’ve always focussed the magic of tarot being about how???? (out of 78 cards spread out face down) we choose cards that directly speak to us. That reflect what is going on in our lives and gives us a glimpse of the potential ahead and at the same time insight about how to make the most of it!
How does that happen? My view is that it is in our intention and an innate trust in the divination power of Tarot cards that enables us to connect to ‘a field’ of cards our desire for insight about ourselves (that we cannot reach directly) knowing. One name for this field is the Akashic records, which the view is all our lives and memories of the generations is held, AI Google described it a compendium of all human events, thoughts, words, emotions, and intent ever to have occurred in the past, present, or future’.
This is how Rumi the great Sufi mystic and poet described the field in this poem
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
doesn’t make any sense.~
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don’t go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don’t go back to sleep.
The guest house is a favourite poem that describes another aspect of what happens during a tarot reading
Tarot is a doorway, threshold, to this. Again I don’t understand how or why and perhaps that’s the point, its mystery and unknowability, mirrors the extraordinariness of this world and how it works. It is magic to me. Magic that works. Magic that somehow connects me to answers, insights, knowledge in response to my questions. And that somehow the magic flowers as a result of pure intention and curiousity, as we learn to trust our response to the cards, and more importantly trust our own intuition. What it gives us is a deepending understanding a broader and more expansive perspective of ourselves and our situation.
Do come and have a tarot reading with me online via WhatsApp (or Zoom) or come to Battersea for an unperson reading and we can explore the mysterious field described within the seventy eight cards of a tarot deck.