Deeper into the Wild

Journeying beyond Tarot

Eva Yaa Asantewaa (photo: Scott Shaw)

I’ve often said that Tarot is a portal and, by that, I don’t only mean each individual card, each major and minor secret. I mean the whole shebang, the entire system and practice of Tarot. It’s a gate that gets you somewhere—for each Tarot devotee, perhaps, a unique destination.

Tarot is also a magic(k)al tool. One of many.

Beautifully crafted and, if you care for it well, beautifully and mindfully implemented to serve the good.

Tarot’s revelatory/transformative powers reveal and transform the practitioner, too, not just the querent.

Tarot is a sacred rite of passage.

When you take your first step onto this path of learning and practice, you can always step out for a time or turn back, if you choose. But if you keep up a steady walk, you will be changed in all the good ways.

Let me slightly paraphrase that most beloved line from Starhawk’s “Kore Chant”*:

It changes everything it touches, and everything it touches changes.

Tarot is a signal.

It signals a big YES to Spirit within you and a big YES to Spirit within all that is. Because, if you do keep walking, you will realize that when you consult cards for yourself or others, you’re not just assembling puzzle pieces based on historical or even contemporary meanings. You are attending, with more refined alertness and sensitivity, to Spirit within you and the field of Spirit of which you are a part. You’ve entered an expanded state from which you, as practitioner, serve the world in new ways.

I say this now to come all the way out of the closet—no, not that closet; that one’s a done deal, and Happy Pride Month to you, too!