Books on Tarot

[Jade]

The whole point of the system of tarot that Ra offers is about creating a dialogue and facilitating communication with the self.

Outside sources will help you get a foothold, but 99.9% of this journey is internal and personal, and ultimately, subjective.

The mechanism is about creating a map upon our own subconscious. Using someone else's map will ultimately prove to be a struggle in the long term. Trust yourself and look at the cards as they are. Begin to make connections. Thus you begin the bridge between the conscious and subconscious minds that will allow you a greater communication with that which is veiled from us by default. The power being that the symbols take on meanings that words fail to adequately express.

The specific advice Ra gives is to focus on one deck of cards (one set of symbols) and not try to mix tarot with the other archetypical systems (astrology, tree of life) until a significant study and focus has been placed upon one over the others.

Good luck!

76.9 Questioner: Is there, in Ra’s opinion, any present-day value for the reuse of the tarot as an aid in the evolutionary process?

Ra: I am Ra. We shall repeat information. It is appropriate to study one form of constructed and organized distortion of the archetypical mind in depth in order to arrive at the position of being able to become and to experience archetypes at will. You have three basic choices. You may choose astrology, the twelve signs, as you call these portions of your planet’s energy web, and what has been called the ten planets. You may choose the tarot with its twenty-two so-called Major Arcana. You may choose the study of the so-called Tree of Life with its ten Sephiroth and the twenty-two relationships between the stations.

It is well to investigate each discipline, not as a dilettante, but as one who seeks the touchstone, one who wishes to feel the pull of the magnet. One of these studies will be more attractive to the seeker. Let the seeker then investigate the archetypical mind using, basically, one of these three disciplines. After a period of study, the discipline mastered sufficiently, the seeker may then complete the more important step: that is, the moving beyond the written in order to express in an unique fashion its understanding, if you may again pardon the noun, of the archetypical mind.