hello there and welcome to our exploration into the Torah I know
there's a few series in the works right now and we're gonna come back to those
real soon however this has been one of our biggest projects for a long time
coming and we're really excited to share with you as you may be aware we've been
developing a very special spirit science tarot deck called patch to row and at
long last it's complete truth is I originally wanted to start this Tarot
series over a year ago but realized that I needed to create the cards first so
that we could actually make some videos about it it took some time but now that
the cards are launched the Tarot series may at last commence
a lot can be said about what Tarot is and may change depending on your
perspective and relationship with it our understanding is that Tarot is a
pictographic card based diagram of everything in creation the visible and
the invisible the known and the unknown we consider it to be an ancient science
rooted in Hermeticism Kabbalah and other ancient symbology however and one of the
reasons why Tarot is so controversial is that there is virtually no historical
evidence linking tarot cards to these ancient Sciences and philosophies yet
they all match up so perfectly that it's more than a little mind-blowing
you see Tarot actually originated in the world sometime in the 14th century
Europe and here in it was a simple card game fashioned in a make your own
adventure style of game it was not thought of or used as any form of
science or a thought sequence other than a way for aristocrats to enjoy
themselves in their spare time and yet some time after its initial adoption in
Europe a few clever esoteric scholars recognized certain patterns within the
Tarot that allowed it to be developed in relationship to the established esoteric
understandings at that time and therefore within modern Tarot you will
find a harmonious fusion of geometry astrology numerology thought emotion and
the whole framework of Kabbalah all striving together to form an image
describing the essential patterns and vibrations that make up heaven and earth
and the pathways that we all progress on on our journeys towards what could be
described as enlightenment ascension or simply higher understanding in a more
geometric sense these cards are said to depict a flowing toroidal field showing
how the four elements flow and move together through a torus from
singularity to singularity the fifth element is then seen as the shape of the
torus itself which the four elements all intrinsically follow to explain this in
a more practical sense the four elements consist of the mental physical emotional
and spiritually creative aspects of yourself
and the Fifth Element is your soul the driver of the other four elements as
though they were a vehicle with which the soul may interact and create reality
through today most people who practice Tarot use the cards for divination in
which the observer develops an essential familiarity with the symbols and then
use these cards and images to reflect upon the past present and future
circumstances their imagery acts as ideas which illuminate for us our most
complex dilemmas and desires and in this we intuitively reflect higher
understanding through our conscious attention thus the real power of these
cards come not from their divin Ettore nature but their ability to describe
these naturally occurring archetypes which exist within ourselves and in the
world all around us those who practice with Tarot often describe that by
learning and understanding them they expand their consciousness become more
aware of events and circumstances in their lives and even develop psychic or
intuitive abilities the point here is not to replace the guidance of the heart
but to support the conscious mind in making more connections with the heart
in a bit of a modern quantum like sense we sometimes like to think of it as a
blueprint for Ascension which through pattern recognition is downloaded into
one's body of consciousness now the deck itself is put together with several key
components and traditionally composed of the sections called major and minor
Arcana the Major Arcana is the fifth element and the Minor Arcana are the
other four there's also a section of the Minor Arcana often called the court
cards which in patch 0 we have identified outside of the Minor Arcana
as their own section titled Royal Arcana in patch Tarot we have also applied four
cards to the hidden locations of the Tree of Life which describe the states
of creation mankind cannot comprehend through anything but direct experience
these four cards are the final section of patch Tarot which we have called the
Holy Arcana or simply the god cards their purpose is to act as a reminder
that the Tarot itself is not the answer but simply points the direction and maps
our way towards it which is the light found within each of our own hearts
the simplest way to understand the various Arcana are through the suits
there are five elements and it's likely that you are already very familiar with
the first four modern playing cards and Tarot have the exact same origin and
directly correlate with each other in most ways - the fifth element and the
removal of one court card in the Minor Arcana we have the four elements or
suits wands cups swords and disks which are also sometimes called Pentacles
they represent fire water air and earth respectively to break this down further
they are your spiritual or creative will your emotions your mind and thoughts and
your physical body their playing card counterparts are clubs hearts spades and
diamonds each of these four elements can be
further understood by looking at the ten number cards which sit upon the ten
Sephirot on the Tree of Life and follow the
essential numerological pattern from one through ten each of these four elements
begin with one called ace the potential for the manifestation of a thing
following through to the completion of the original potential and birth of a
new cycle now within the Royal Arcana you will see the familiar court cards of
a playing card deck but with the addition of a younger female energy
which had been removed from playing cards Jack Queen and King in Tarot are
called the princess Prince Queen and King although they have many other names
across a variety of decks most commonly page Knight Queen and King despite this
the pattern is always consistent to youthful male and female and matured
male and female the significance of the Royal Arcana is that they each represent
their element within each other the princess is earth the prince is air
the queen is water and the King is fire there is a royal court for each of the
elements and thus you have the four elements within each element giving you
sixteen total cards then there is the fifth element which is entirely
different from the four elements we just looked at these are called the Major
Arcana made up of 22 cards and which are numbered from 0 to 21
they tell a story which you may find all too familiar to Joseph Campbell's hero
of a Thousand Faces and both an ancient and quantum version of it
the 22 card story reflects the path of the individual most often he is called
the fool who exists in a state of possibility for anything to happen the
story reflects that the fool is the beginning and ending of the story pure
potentiality for all life experiences to happen and otherwise naive to the life
lessons which they are about to experience the fool sets out on the path
which reveals truth and discovery through deep and meaningful life
experiences both internally and externally along the way different
archetypes play their part in shaping the experience which leads the fool to
know and understand higher truth this story and character represents all of us
for we are all the fools of our lives we don't even know all that we don't know
upon finding completion of the story or cycle there is a new level of
understanding about life based on the totality of the experiences that we had
and ultimately in this new higher awareness we actually find ourselves
right back where we started in a point of infinite possibility as to where we
could go next once again 9 youth to the next lesson we
are about to learn yet adventure calls again this is the point of singularity
the journey from the beginning to the end around this toroidal flow through
the depths of symbolism within these cards we begin to see the way in which
these elements engage with each other the way that they support each other and
even hinder each other however Tarot explains that when our emotions our
bodies our minds and our spiritual drive all work together in unison with each
other and sing the same song they allow for a spiritual transformation within
this new state is the complete embodiment of the fifth element which is
a state otherwise known as Christ consciousness what's especially
interesting about these elements and how they fit together is that just as the
foreign harmony gives rise to the fifth the fifth is actually what created the
four to begin with this can be observed on the Tree of Life as reality is
created from the top down and upon heating the physical reality the lowest
level it then changes direction and strives back up and reaches for its
divine origins now before we wrap things up here we'd
like to very briefly discuss this whole evil controversy thing there's a lot of
people who believe that Tarot is evil because it involves divination which the
Bible says is taboo in a recent spirit side chat this question came up and the
responses and discussion that took place was quite interesting have a look okay
so we're in questions yeah for me whenever you bring a definition and
Tarot and that kind of stuff I feel like for a lot of people it's gonna be
unknown and there's a lots of negative connotations with that kind of stuff
right if there's something I just want to try some analogy is all it is because
everybody's gonna speak of Tarot or any level of divination with exactly what
you just said there's always that as a sort of takeaway well what if it's the
devil or something right what if you ask like this so these cards if if anyone's
familiar with what an archetype is it's a sort of universal force or flow that
ending it that at any given point can be flowing through you and has a natural
tendency through you now what divination is is we take the subtle understanding
but let's just say even just faith or or loose understanding of what's going on
here and just expressing it and saying if there's a way for me to communicate
with the world use this set of archetypes to tell me what I need to
know right now it's a simple question that simple assessment it's a simple
sort of this is going to be something that is taken by the hand of universe or
God or whatever it is that you want to call your sacred thing and it's using
that as a medium through which to divine information to you that's what
definition you could use stones and just assign meanings to them so that
hopefully can dispel a little bit of that kind of misdirection of context
it's just really simple it's just know that you're speaking to whatever your
highest heart is feeling you're speaking to love directly just like anything
don't blindly obey something in the perfect it and observe it right right
yeah let the card be your authority let
yourself be your own authority and I think the main problem most people have
with these types of systems is that you know any fundamentalist Christian would
say that you know my own my only Authority is God the Father God the Son
God the Holy Spirit and I know that the Holy Spirit is guiding this session you
know it gets very right as a Christian I have a Christian
background as a Christian the general belief is that you are a piece of God
that God is in everything that literally he breathed life into everything and so
if you're divining the cards doesn't that mean God is reading them that's a
profound insight that's one that not everybody shares so it's good that we
can think that way in in the end there are nearly countless methods by which we
may strive for higher connection and there are nearly infinite tools with
which we may use to understand the languages of the cosmos Turo is but one
of these mechanisms and it's fair to say that it's one of our favorites
especially when combined with meditation in our life we've had a lot of very
meaningful experiences with these cards and we're really excited to share this
formula with you today and now that about wraps it up for today's episode
but if you'd like to learn more about Tarot in the meantime we've just
launched a ton of Tarot stuff up on our new website along with the card
directory and informational sections you can also visit spirit science central
com / - row to jump in on our patch Tarot launch which comes with a free
download of our 600 page book of patch we are most certain you're going to love
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