History Of The Tarot Flashcards
Originated
Northern Italy, the beginning of the 15th century via China, India and the Islamic world until it reached Italy.
French version 1760 Nicolas Conver 1760
Major Arcana
22 cards
Arcana from the Latin ‘arcanum’ - ‘mystery’
Tarot or Taroccho
The Fool’s Cards due to The Fool (0) being the first card considered to have a unique or special status
Open Reading
This is based on looking at the card illustrations rather than learning the fixed interpretations by heart.
Channeling
The transmission of a message via the cards from another level or reality to our world through the unconscious mind of the querent. Note. Possible links to synchronicity?
Everything is a sign
The quereant’s:-
Everything that takes place in and around the session may be a sign?
Behaviour?
How they are dressed
Their words, tone of voice, openness (or otherwise)
How they shuffle the cards, self confident? Hesitant?
Unforeseen card drops, and their meaning, a Revelation?
Unconscious and subconscious
Unconscious - the unconscious mind consists of ideas and drives that have been subject to the mechanism of repression: anxiety-producing impulses in childhood are barred from consciousness, but do not cease to exist, and exert a constant pressure in the direction of consciousness. However, the content of the unconscious is only knowable to consciousness through its representation in a disguised or distorted form, by way of dreams and neurotic symptoms, as well as in slips of the tongue and jokes. The psychoanalyst seeks to interpret these conscious manifestations in order to understand the nature of the repressed.
Subconscious - the part of your mind that notices and remembers information when you are not actively trying to do so, and influences your behaviour even though you do not realize it:
The memory was buried deep within my subconscious.
Synchronicity
Jung - Designates the meaningful coincidence of equivalence: a) of a psychic (supernatural) and a physical state or event which have no causal relationship to one another. Such synchronistic phenomena occur, for instance, when an inwardly perceived event (dream, vision, premonition, etc.) is seen to have a correspondence in external reality: the inner image of premonition has “come true “. (b) of similar or identical thoughts, dreams etc. occurring at the same time at different places.
