THE PHILOSPHY OF ALL IS DIVINE TAROT
Tarot & The Hero's Journey
You can think of your life in primarily practical terms as is popular today and was set forth by Materialism (Greek philospher Democritus, 460 BC) or you can mix it up a little and enlarge your life by also (not instead) seeing it in the context of the grand and epic Hero's Journey as revealed in myths and legends, and even old fairy tales.
World renowned American philosopher, Joseph Campbell, who developed the concept of the Hero's Journey after decades of studying myths, symbols and stories from around the world, concluded that our myths and stories represent the interface between the material world and immanence--the Divine Presence in all things.
Taken a step further, symbol, myth, story, and imagery are also how we tell the story of our own divinity. The Hero's journey is the divine journey of manifesting the life we meant to live, in other words, of discovering and living our purpose. When you are lonely, confused, lost, frustrated, that is your higher self calling you to this purpose.
The Tarot, filled with complex modern and ancient symbols and archetypes, telling the myths of humanity, is the perfect tool to connect with your divine story and discover how to live it. The Tarot guides you by awakening your inner wisdom and knowledge of your own greatness.
Every time you ask, What am I meant to do with my life? What is my purpose? Every time, you're a little lost or feel you are at an important cross-roads and you want to search out an answer, you have the opportunity to understand your life not as small or unimportant, but as the powerful Hero's Journey.
If you want to get a sense of what this journey is, think of the first Star Wars movie (and every subsequent super hero film). Its director, George Lucas, learned from Joseph Campbell about the Hero's Journey. It's been taught in film school ever since the first Star Wars, A New Hope became a blockbuster for the ages.
So, in the same way that we are captivated by super hero stories, you can become captivated by your own life as so much more than the things you do between Monday and Sunday.
Tarot Symbols & Myth
From Carl Gustav Jung's work, we know that human beings have a deep connection with symbols and archetypes [ahr-ki-tahyp]. From Joseph Campbell's body of work, we know that so much of human experience is hard to explain in rationalistic terms and that mythology allows us to account for some of what we know is real but we can't quite explain.
The Tarot by combining story, archetypes, myth, symbols, and compelling imagery, helps you give voice to those intriguingly mysterious things and helps clarify them for you. In so doing, you expand your awareness and understanding. In a Tarot session, you are able to "put a finger" on things you often have a hard time articulating, even to yourself. So be ready to be surprised at how much more you know than you realized.
Tarot cards, especially the deck I primarily use, The Gaian Tarot by Joanna Powell Colbert who made 78 intensely vivid and relatable paintings (one for each card in the deck) activates your imagination, instincts, and intuition similarly as dreams do. Good and helpful things that you are, nevertheless, afraid to know, or were told (or told yourself) to forget are called into your consciousness. Once that happens, you are back on your journey. "Back" because in early life, we know who we are and what we are about.
The Tarot by combining story, archetypes, myth, symbols, and compelling imagery, helps you give voice to those intriguingly mysterious things and helps clarify them for you. In so doing, you expand your awareness and understanding. In a Tarot session, you are able to "put a finger" on things you often have a hard time articulating, even to yourself. So be ready to be surprised at how much more you know than you realized.
Tarot cards, especially the deck I primarily use, The Gaian Tarot by Joanna Powell Colbert who made 78 intensely vivid and relatable paintings (one for each card in the deck) activates your imagination, instincts, and intuition similarly as dreams do. Good and helpful things that you are, nevertheless, afraid to know, or were told (or told yourself) to forget are called into your consciousness. Once that happens, you are back on your journey. "Back" because in early life, we know who we are and what we are about.
The "All is Divine" in All is Divine Tarot
Some things, you just know. For example, you know that your head is at the top of your body, your feet at the bottom. You know your name. You can close your eyes and one fingertip can, more or less, know where the other one is.
Some of us have that kind of knowing about Divine reality. All mystics have spoken of it: Teresa of Avila, Rumi, Hafiz, Juliana of Norwich, Hildegard von Bingen, Meister Ekhart, Khalil Gibran.
Anyone can experience it and many people do, not necessarily calling it that. This greater reality is a state of wholeness, universal, all-encompassing love, oneness with all existence, and a sense of extraordinary presence, wellbeing, awe, and happiness. You may experience some or all of it on a beautiful hike, watching a sunrise, gazing into a beloved's eyes, holding a baby in your arms, or looking up at the stars at night. Even eating a delicious strawberry, plucked from the plant, and popped straight into your mouth can connect you.
While you are connected, a veil is lifted and where things were confusing or murky, there is clarity and easefulness. Where you felt uncertain, frustrated, afraid, or small, there is a fresh breath of possibility.
I have been experiencing this Divine reality since childhood and have stayed connected throughout my life. For me, the tarot is an instrument of mediation that easily creates a divine connection between you and me. This connection leads to beautiful, uplifting, empowering, and also practical and useful insights so that you can believe in, and embark on your Hero's Journey. So that you can live the life you yearn for because it was meant for you. So that your life can tell the story of your divinity.
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