
Practical Magick – Get Started With Tarot
🔮 Ready to explore the depths of your consciousness and connect with the great mystery? In today’s class, I’m introducing you to the basics of Tarot and its profound connection to the map of human consciousness.
In this brief yet powerful lesson, I’ll walk you through the essentials of starting your Tarot journey. If you have any questions, drop them in the comments, and I’ll be happy to guide you further!
Discover:
🌳 The deep link between Tarot and the Tree of Life, a map of human consciousness.
📕 How to choose the perfect Tarot deck and book to begin your practice.
🔮 A simple daily Tarot ritual to help you connect with your unconscious and navigate your spiritual path.
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- Transcript -
If you are an adventurer in magic, sorcery, and the psyche, you will want in your toolkit a means of daily communication with the great mystery. Stay tuned. Hello, I’m Anna Ballisma. I am an extremely powerful magician, as of course, are you, and I’m going to be giving you the briefest possible why, what, when, and how of getting started with Tarot and the map of the human consciousness. In a moment, I’ll give you my recommendations for one deck and one book, but first a little bit of why.
Even though they were, as far as we know, developed in completely different places and thousands of years apart, Tarot is the picture book version of a map of human consciousness called the Tree of Life. The map shows us all of the various states of consciousness and all of the paths between them, from the divine light of creation, or God at the top, all the way down to this 3D world of tax returns and buttons. And of course, the exciting thing about a map is the implication that you can use it for a quest. You can find, you can orient yourself on it, and you can use it to navigate. All those spheres of consciousness and all of those paths on the Tree of Life correspond to individual cards and suits and numbers in the Tarot deck.
So, working with Tarot gives you two really important gifts. It starts to build an understanding of human consciousness and that there might be a map, and it is an extremely effective means of communicating with your unconscious, with the unseen, with the great mystery of it all on a regular basis whenever you want to. Now, there are many beautiful decks available, and I would strongly recommend that your first deck be a version of the Rider-Waite. So, 78 cards split into the traditional Major and Minor Arcana. And my specific recommendation is for the Foth deck by troublesome Uncle Alice de Crowley with art by Lady Frieda Harris.
Now, it’s really important for you to know that you don’t have to learn the Tarot. You don’t have to memorize or understand every single card. Get a deck, get a book, draw a card every day, and I’ll tell you exactly how to do that in a moment. And the book I recommend using alongside this deck is this one, *Tarot, Mirror of the Soul*. I suggest you incorporate this into your morning routine immediately after noting down your dreams in as much detail as you possibly can.
So how specifically and exactly how to do your Tarot draw in the morning. I always knock my deck three times and then you just want to do a good shuffle, adopting a calm, still mind, focusing on breathing, and then asking the question, “What would you have me know?” When you feel like you are good and shuffled, you can either cut the deck, or you can simply take the card off the top. My favorite daily draw also involves the bottom card on the deck. I refer to this as my “as above, so below” draw. So we have the card from the top, what is seen, what is happening in my life, and then the card below, cruelty, what is unseen.
Then, note your cards in your journal beneath where you’ve written your dreams, and look them up in your guidebook. When you look them up, just make a note in your journal of any particular phrases or questions or words that catch your eye as you read. During the day, consider the questions or the phrases that the cards pose to you. And in the evening or tomorrow morning, reflect on what they meant, or the meaning that you took from them, or the meaning that you found in your morning cards.
Create a consistent practice of asking and reflecting on the tarot deck like this just a few moments every day, and you’ll quickly start to understand how the cards communicate with you, how they relate to your life, and how they relate to the big picture, where they place you on the map of consciousness, and how you can move around it. Thank you so much for watching. I hope you have enjoyed this introduction. Please have a look at these recent episodes on creating an altar and working with dreams, and I will see you next time.
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