aces and the tarot
01.28.05 (6:07 pm) [edit]I would like to start off by writing about the aces in the Tarot deck. The tarot is made up of 4 suits, swords, wands, cups and pentacles. Each suit has 10 cards and they represent a different part of our human make up. Swords equal thinking, wands deal with intuition, cups with emotion and pentacles with everyday life and how we use the other three elements in dealing with it.
Each suit deals with a cycle, and each turn around the wheel leads us little by little to hopefully learn from our past experiences and to lead us to break out of negative destructive cycles . If a positive cycle it helps us to deepen our insight and to lead a better more productive life. The tarot are only cardboard pieces of paper and have no power at all; it is our intuition that leads us to make proper use of the tarot. Of course if one wants to project some sort of power onto the cards problems could result since one would allow the sub-conscious and irrational to run and possibly ruin ones life. The point is to keep the rational part of the mind and the irrational in balance.
Also the four suits (the minor arcana) or connected not only to each other but also to the major arcana and this connection can lead to a greater understanding of the depth of the minor arcana in learning to deal with ones inner life.
The aces or like a seed that marks the beginning of a journey and like I said above one that has been taken many times before, and until the lessons that need learning are learned the journeys will continue.
In the aces are the potential blessings and pitfalls of the journey and the more we understand the better we are able to become more objective in how we handle life, love and the more practical things of life. Of course for many the tarot is nonsense and so for them the tarot is useless; for others the tarot has power and for them the tarot can become a snare. For those who look upon the tarot as a tool it can lead one to inner wisdom and insight.
In my next post I will start with the Ace of swords and each post after that will deal with the whole suit one card at a time with references to the major arcana. I am doing this mostly for myself but if anyone is helped by it then that will be a bonus.
Peace
mitch