Practical Tarot guide: Major-Arcana card meanings and relationships – Introduction

This tutorial is a very personal work that comes out of my long experience with the Tarot cards, specifically the Major Arcana. I will concentrate on the practical side: all I see, feel and experience when I do my card readings.

This being a personal point of view, I suggest you don’t necessarily learn by heart all that is written in this guide, or in any book. I myself never did that. Instead try to understand the principles and the images. Let your mind-intuition guide you, listen to yourself and your hunches. One card can have so many meanings, most of all when related to so many other cards, questions, lives, etc. Read and “feel” the meanings; ask yourself:

• What are these cards trying to tell me?
• What is the relationship between them?
• What is their relationship to reality or that which I am asking?

It is important that you understand the symbology, archetype or principle-essence of the card more than formulas written on a book. Understanding means “interpreting”. But more than concentrating on the meaning of one card, it is very important to understand the relationship between the cards, the “whole picture”. If you add to this mix your intuition, than I guess there’s no stopping you!

Is my answer or interpretation right?
Please don’t expect to get the right answers. There are no right answers in the first place. Remember that a card reading session is time-bound. We are human beings with Free-Will. In this moment you might be headed in one direction, but if you change your mind, you will head in another direction. You ultimately decide how your life will be. Isn’t that good news?

How to keep track of my learning process?

I suggest you take card reading as an experiment, at least at the beginning. That’s why I strongly recommend you to have a diary with all your questions followed by the answers obtained in your card reading sessions. You can check afterwards if your interpretations went in the same direction of the events you asked.

Does the death card mean I’m going to die?
Negative cards are not really negative cards. We live in a dual world.  Like every process in life, there is growth and decadence, light and darkness, open and hidden, etc. We are all born to grow up, mature, grow old physically, die on earth as a material being and then be born again in other more spiritual realities. And this cycle repeats itself until achievement of eternity and complete realisation of God, our Father’s Reality.

The death card means that something is completely finished in order to start a new epoch in life. Death intrinsically implies “re-birth”. Evolution is universe’s motivation!

The death card is many times a desirable card. It can mean the end of a sad period in life and the beginning of something new and beautiful.

How do I ask the cards?
The information that you receive from the cards comes from a huge mass comparable with the mass of all the oceans together. One has to give specific coordinates in order to get an accurate answer. For me it’s like diving into the sea: molecules of water connected with zillions of other water molecules, carry my petitions and connect me to the answers. To some it may sound rude, but I feel it a bit like surfing in the internet. You can google everything!

It does help to first know what it is you want to know. Complete names and horoscope signs, birthdates or even pictures are altogether good in order to make better “hits”.

Before we start I would like you to know that I am here to help you with your cards, so feel free to make all the questions you want; feel free to contact me at: atika@mindspiritmotion.com

Continue reading the Practical Tarot guide:
Major-Arcana card meanings and relationships – Part 1
Major-Arcana card meanings and relationships – Part 2
Major-Arcana card meanings and relationships – Part 3

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Fear free among spiritual beings

Every now and then I meet people, who speak about their fears when feeling an unpleasant “something” or “someone” around them.

I lived myself also two very short periods of my youth and young adulthood without being able to sleep well or at all. Being such a “visual” and “skin” person (I feel or sense everything); I was perceiving spiritual beings who would rejoice at my fear and ignorance. They got a kick at me being able to see them.

These spiritual beings, called in some religions “fallen angels”, have total lack of strength or power whatsoever since the times of Jesus of Nazareth’s resurrection, specifically since the time of the Pouring of the Spirit of Truth at Pentecost.

There are 2 very important things you must know by heart:

• There is absolutely no way possible for a spiritual being to do anything bad or good to you if you don’t want to. Nothing, absolutely nothing can interfere with your supreme universal right: FREE WILL.

• Your Guardian Angel has full power – given to them by God, our eternal Father, and the Universal laws – to guard your life and see that you are in complete use of your right of Free Will.

We choose. We are free will creatures. And this is a strong privilege in the Universe; it makes us big in our own smallness.

We, as evolution beings of animal origin, are at the very beginning of the spiritual ladder of universal hierarchy. Our Eternal Father has created the mechanisms by which his love reaches every single one of us, universal beings, throughout the whole creation; and this fact is exactly that which protects us and makes us mighty:

• The Cell of God in our minds, located in a place in our brains between the eyes. It is “the” major goal in life to turn into more spiritual beings in order to widen our contact with this cell of the Eternal Father in ourselves.
• The Spirit of Truth, the presence of the eternal Son, which was poured about all of human kind here on Earth at Pentecost
• And the loving watch care of our Guardian Angel whose source of origin is the Holy Spirit.

Consciousness of the importance of our place in the universe makes you strong.

I remember two techniques I used to get rid of my fears:

* I would visualize the whole amount of ideas, images, feelings, words, etc that go through our minds the whole day as small squares of a movie film; like if each thought or image were a small trailer of a whole movie.
The point here is that as soon as you stop on an image or a “movie trailer” automatically the whole film regarding this image would load. So I just had to take care of which film I would “download” and which I would just ignore.
There are sometimes bad images that scare you, and the more you stop on them, the more your fear grows. Instead, just look at the trailer and let it go, that’s not a movie you want to see.
Concentrate on good films; promote constructive energies and harmonious feelings, etc.

* Technique number two is one I started to use as soon as I gained consciousness of our human powers. And it doesn’t matter if your fears have foundation or not, all you have to do is simply “command” in an authoritarian tone of voice(don’t ask kindly here, please) :

You will leave this place (my house, etc) immediately! Now!

You have complete power to do it. And that’s all there is to it. A self-reliant and confident attitude works wonders to expel all fears.

Note: Please observe that I emphasize “getting rid of fear”.
I’m not saying here that spiritual entities don’t exist; there are countless light beings and very very few dark ones. But I do have to say that many times our fears are a product of our imagination, religious tradition or just simple superstition.

Here, I concentrate on you and your mighty powers. Whether “lower energies” are present or not is wholly irrelevant and of no importance whatsoever to our lives.

The important point in this whole situation is you and your ever growing universal consciousness.

If you want to read more about the presence of God in Mankind, Guardian Angels, a description of what happened at Pentecost related by “light Angels” I recommend a book that changed my life: The Urantia Book.

You can also read The Urantia Book for free in the internet: www.urantia.org

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Motivate your life with Self-Programming

The same things, the same job and the same routines contribute to a feeling of safety and comfort, but there come times where one feels there has to be more to life. Being tired of living the same life day after day or being bored at work because of lack of challenge happens very often. A bit of passion or deeper commitment in life would be great.

It can be anything.
But sometimes you don’t even know what to wish for although you know something’s missing.

• Renewing the love you have or
• Finding that “someone” special to love and be loved by
• Cultivating warm and deep family relationships
• Developing a great hobby
• Being really good at something you love
• Doing a job that you can be passionate about

I encourage you to make contact with the eternal source of wisdom that is the Universal Mind. Remember that even though you might not know the questions, let alone the answers, the fact that you are conscious that there has to be more or that you can give more of you is actually inspired by those energies in charge of your development as a human being with infinite potential. The Universal source that makes you conscious of that need for change knows all the answers, connect with it and let yourself be inspired.

Here is a short exercise to make contact with the Universal Source of Wisdom that guides us all.

What, when and where:
Prayers and auto-suggestions work at best right before you doze to sleep and when they’re the very first thought when waking up. They also work better in those moments of peace and silence, where there’s no chance to be disturbed.
Everyday, twice a day or more, when the conditions allow it, repeat the following text or make your own prayer according to your personal needs, and in a tone you personally use to communicate with the universe.
Be patient and consequent. Repeat this everyday, at least twice a day. Trust the power of the divinity in you and the universe.

The Powers of my Mind-Spirit, in connection with the eternal Wisdom of the Universal Mind, guide me to the place where I belong in this life. Supreme intelligence inspires me to discover the area where I can grow and make my life and that of others around me even better. Deep joy and motivation are motors of my life.

I am capable of recognizing and appreciating the goodness of life
I am capable of truly living life
I am capable of making life beautiful

For that I’m thankful

There’s a book that inspires me very much and it’s called The Power of Your Subconscious Mind. It speaks about how your mind works and gives many examples of affirmative prayer or self-programming. I not only mention my own power or the powers of my own mind in my prayers or self-programming sessions; I am very conscious that our power is directly connected with the powers of the universe and that they are of cosmic nature.

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