The Tower

In times of distress we often try to find the language that can be used to translate the events that are part of our experience into a viable understanding. What is there that we can use to embrace the change? Did our concepts of providence fail us in the face of dividing reasons?
The card of The Tower is quite often a misread phenomenon or something merely inclined to direct us to thinking of a meaning towards the end of things. It is a compulsive thinking of a figurative: a tower that crumbles and what stems from it.
Our physical world stands on the foundations of the idea. Our needs, prayers, will, our wishes and desires are bent on this idea. Idea of self-fulfilling phenomenon - be it career, love, education, more trivial pursuits of momentary satisfaction, caprice and of course, last yet not least - the pursuit of happiness.
Happiness glows like a shy flame in the hindsight of whatever we think or deem.
How to attain it when worlds collide, opinions hurt, events tear everything into pieces, hopes are destroyed by the unpredictable?
The way to understand the elusive symbolism of the tower is to look beyond what only seemingly is referred to as a crumble, a catastrophe, a disaster. It's a blessing in disguise. An emergence of something that was imprisoned and now wants to sail full steam ahead.
It is an invitation towards opening yourself. Understanding that most of the time we see only one side of the coin while the other one doesn't necessarily bring any harmful effects to our life.
It is the providence and help to create a new construct - one that will be helpful as long as it provides help and understanding - brings all that needs to be revealed into the limelight of our consciousness.

Arcane without a name

Fear has always been one of the major issues reasoning with our sense of independence, resilience, harmonious equilibrium with what is generated by our love and need for it.
It is embedded in our nervous system as a sort of atavistic protection against issues that might harm us. In modern day world fear is also a very important part of neurotic entanglement with human avoidance of casual problems and dealing with them on the mature terms.
XIIIth of Major Arcana is often wrongly depicted as a Grim Reaper who takes everything we ever believed in from us by the means of the Inevitable.
But apart from the common way of interpreting it - this card denotes radical purification and cleansing of all the matrixes and behavioural syndromes we have accumulated over the time given to us. Time, however, is a matter of both alignment and limitation and as such can be difficult to cope with on worldly, human level of existence.
A major transformation can be a major transfiguration as it is a matter of our concern to re-create pictorial of our SELF.
Pompous and trivial how it may feel liberating explosion of it goes through heart and emptied mind which clearly this card depicts if you look closer at the main figure.
The harvest is yet to begin depending on our readiness - the vision as it is illustrated in the card can be an eye of symbolical dragon Ouroboros who is eating its own tail - a symbolical reality of something that is not necessarily far from repeating itself.
" Do not offer me your hand, for I shall immediately cause it to rot. Offer me your consciousness. Disappear within me, in order to finally become The Totality"
Happy Yule dear readers, customers, friends!!!

2 of Swords

While listening to some relaxing ambient music the other day I was thinking of how we digest things that happen to us on our path to discover things and revelations of the life we live now and here.

We do need the outer world, the experiences - diverse qualities of that - whether they are hurting us or in a matter of fact - touch some soft places in our psyche and soul that cause different sorts of pain. We absorb the energy and the message that is others and different objects, people, places and events. We either incorporate the patterns of nourishing ourselves with awareness and being open to learn and develop or the methods of self-abusive behaviour that can have a face of love or something that superficially may take our fancy. But where does it lead us?

We can get out of touch with ourselves in the pace of mistakenly perceived systems: either behavioural ones or philosphical. The reason for that is often quite easy to spot - as the consciousness is separated from its source code and environment, we are not able to see beyond our own choices and follow the flow of life that finally drown in.

True conviction of what we do comes usually from putting  the perceptions on the level of our feelings. The ocean of what we are not aware of - the unconscious is portrayed in the card 2 of Swords as ocean with the moon. The limitations we put on ourselves - crossed swords are intellect and hinder admittance.

It's difficult to be clear how we perceive things especially when we are in some dire situation when different opinions and judgements surround us, the minute voice of our intuition is overwhelmed by so much interference. We might get petrified and paralyzed not being able to make any step forward - one that is closer to the "right" choice.

Being at peace with ourselves is always a step towards understanding our human particle as a derivative of a bigger wholeness. Partial perception has a very important feature which is the limiting to only one way of understanding things - be it rational mind or the flows and ebbs of romantic part of our self. It will ultimately lead to the limitation of the space we might use as an outlet of choice and its options. The space, the void which as buddhist teachings acertain is not empty - we can be at peace and see instantly the rising moon of possibilities. In tranquility...

Fool

“There is something in the nature of all play that is not serious, but at the same time can be sincere.” –Alan Watts

Welcome to the second  entry of Djed Taroth Blog. I hope all of you had a great start into 2015.As we step into a new year - the questions which were supressed and not answered before start to emerge out of nothingness.Our own way towards answering those questions can be varied depending on our personal conditions - psychological, material, family-related or any other stance that we take on. Quite often the pattern of thinking we use is somewhat a derivatitve of our "must's" and "should's" - a norm we acknowledged for granted not necessarily asking ourselves - "Is this the way I would do this?"Faith, it seems, can be quite myopic if it is without a shadow of doubt and leads to naïvete.Fool in tarot is the card of seemingly dubious expression. Only seemingly so as we look closer at the persona. Walking carelessly and often depicted with a dog biting up his ankle Fool bears the characteristics of sacred trickster - the one that makes a quite foreseeable unreasonable jump into something that most would take as rather an act of suicide yet there is more to it on symbolical level that can teach us a great deal to drink from.  Using your own sense to deal with matters where there is diversity of importance we might start trusting our own intuition and ideas which often stem from the cocky sense of humour and the will to go against the grain, try out different ways. On a lighter note we might be in a situation where quite extreme measures can be used to deal with a situation and yet our inner compass and humane feature of endeavouring things not as predictable as we usually approach leads to new doors.The scale of means we use to solve our problems can be measured with approximate answers, possible beliefs and different degrees of how certain are we but does it really makes us sure of how we should conduct anything? Embracing the uncertainity and treating it with a proper dose of self-inflicted joy and cheerfulness has never been a better trait to help yourself. We are after all fallible creatures and prone to making mistakes - bigger, smaller- it's all humane thing. We can all be Drunken Kung Fu Masters and reveal the Wider Scale plan of creation out of something Unknown, Uncertain, Shapeless and only seemingly Hopeless.Fool and its archetype has been always one of the major figures  in tarot but also a common figure in complexed and hierarchical  world of feudal society back in Middle Ages and many other social forms in Europe and worldwide. A peripheral nature of this persona is another trait that can be interpreted to benefit from. There is a certain point of balance that we may use to help ourselves.  Laughing of ourselves and how seriously we took what is given to us as a role to play or our own mistakes and the utter nonsense of them when we look from different perspective is a feature that can be introduction to actually stimulate others - coaxing them to be open minded and grasp a completely opposite viewpoints and benefit from them. The reason it is in service to imagination - it's the very power of enlarging and elongating the horizons to breed some new forms and shapes and functions they follow. It's the music of our psychological individuation to breed new forms of tonality out of something atonal.Fool has a very dense layer of social symbolic aspects. The voice we need to intiate to be heard is the rebellious one - the one against the rigidness of the system we profess to understand and obey. But how far it can last? It's the mask we take off the face and the mask of a jester that helps us, only for a time to express something important. But hey! Wasn't that the answer we needed?Thank you

Wheel of Fortune

Welcome all,  to the first entry of Djed Taroth page. I would like to introduce all the readers and followers to my thoughts on taroth practice and help you to befriend with what I do.

Today I would like to get into the realm of Wheel of Fortune Card. As I writing now I am looking at the ticking clock and it's face waiting for the next Yuletide in my life thinking of what is change really.

Many of my querents as I call my customers make me think of the origins of the term querent - quærēns meaning the one who seeks and typical questions that come with the readings - "What am I really looking for?" or maybe as a person with certain deal of passive restraint towards her/his own will would say: "What am I looking forward to?"
Taroth describes our life's path as a line of starting and stopping points but there is a card divides our life stages in two -  The Wheel of Fortune. It is not necessarily the symmetrical halves we talking here  but rather a period set between one clause and another summing up  what has been already accomplished. Time of accumulating knowledge and shaping the character. Setting standards and setting example.
There are many standards to set in this realm of ever-expanding race towards unknown. We are shaped by opinions, the gem of information. We set up new courses by learning ourselves through acceptance or opposition. By following traits or rejecting them.
Re-shaping the world outside has somewhat godly touch to it. God gave names to things and shaped the structure of them in the universal make up. As we put ourselves in the position of our own authority - we give ourselves allowance to shape things accordingly - following our own beliefs - especially one: I am making my own world.
Fortune, it seems, is not only about shaping what's seen with a naked eye. Taroth gives an outlet of acknowledging the negative aspect of our own creativity - the force of ego. It works with expanding unconscious message. We are proving self-worth which quite often turns out to be a threat to ourselves. As we affirm our own value by reassuring - we tend to mould life to our own benefit. How we see ourselves and others seems to lack the element of being objective. This ultimately leads to errors of self-assesment.
The challenge of being true to yourself  lies not only in knowing where and how stages of our existence pass but also in balancing the inner world with recognising our own vision. The one that is shaped on this very thin line crossing our daily experience, self-observance.
Strangely enough our body is wise enough to feel the passing stages. So does the mind. Maybe the art of it lies in  not letting the emotions take the reign of the natural flow. Just letting them go - as ever in free form art of watching the clouds going by...