TAROT IS THE TOOL OF PROCESS.
The Tarot is a wonderful pictorial guide of the journey of life. Its images evoke emotion and awareness that externalises the mixture of conscious and unconscious motivations held within us. It is a wonderful tool to sit down with. The deck helps to articulate what you are grappling with and then reflects back to you, via its images, the state of the inner terrain.
Our inner terrain is not a world of black and white answers. This is a complex world where it is difficult to find clarity especially when everything is revolving inside our thoughts. The Tarot is a tool of these processes. At any moment we can view the point we are up to in the NOW. The Tarot images extract the internal and place it externally so we can see. From there we can make decisions to create what is coming. This is an evolution on from being the fortune telling tool.
We have moved on from the fortune tellers. We have become people seeking awareness and knowledge of our inner selves. We are prepared to be responsible for our life and view it as our creation. We no longer need someone outside of us to make our decisions; we prefer to work with another to gain clarity of where things have gone out of balance and how to regain balance.

How many issues in our lives do we have to revisit to make decisions on? There are many times when we are confronted with situations which need more than one decision over a long period of time. We often know we could change and move on but something either practical or unexplainable stops us. We become frustrated with feeling trapped in a never ending saga.

Walking with the Tarot in the above situations leads us through very difficult journeys. It is helpful to check in on the Tarot to see where the situation sits NOW. Where can I step now? Sometimes the way out of the labyrinth takes weaves and turns. It may require a decision that actually leads to the next stage of decision making rather than a black/white answer.

Much of our inner life is about seeking answers. If we were just left with our thoughts we would spend most of our time seeking answers. The beauty of the Tarot is we don’t have to explain all the details, the images just begin in the now. We are immediately placed in the here and now. We can choose to view past if we want, but the journey forward is often where the relevance lies. It is the journey forward that motivates most people to seek out a reader.

This journey forward is about viewing NOW and evaluating how it is functioning and from there planning forward. The Tarot’s images are powerful images to project forward. They depict a pathway. The pathway interacts with your decision making, so it is flexible. The more awareness that you have of the forward pathway, the more precisely you can create it. Decisions can be made at any stage of this journey. We have outgrown the need to believe that situations are unchangeable. Negative situations mean we can relook and renavigate the path.

The Tarot is a companion to the processes that carry us through life. Some of these processes are personal to us and others are equivalent to age and set life situations. Using the Tarot in this way alters our perception of the Tarot and also the reader. Life has a tiny element of destiny and a huge component of choice. The two together are our creators of a journey.

Tarot offers us a glimpse of the now and a projected path forward. It profoundly taps into the images of the unseen within us and gives us a vision externally to ponder. It tells us when to stop and rethink and when to fly on by, all is going well. Viewing the Tarot from this perspective makes it a profound tool to move forward with us into our futures as our ways of being and perceiving are transformed.

©LYNDALL MCQUINN
30 /6/2011

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