Archetypal workings for the newbie (Tarot)

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No worries. It's a huge subject and your questions were interesting. I was just trying to understand where you were coming from.

To answer your questions:

1) I think protection like the Banishing Ritual is always helpful, though probably not necessary unless you were going to attempt a magical working.

2) Ra gave this suggestion for card one, The Magician or Matrix of the Mind:

91.35 Questioner: How is a knowledge of the facets of the archetypical mind used by the individual to accelerate his evolution?

Ra: I am Ra. We shall offer an example based upon this first explored archetype or concept complex. The conscious mind of the adept may be full to bursting of the most abstruse and unmanageable of ideas, so that further ideation becomes impossible and work in blue ray or indigo is blocked through over-activation. It is then that the adept would call upon the new mind, untouched and virgin, and dwell within the archetype of the new and unblemished mind without bias, without polarity, full of the magic of the Logos.

3) Whichever of the Major Arcana you feel drawn to at the moment.