The Tarot, a visual archetypical language that makes
up all of life is a complete system of guidance and exploration of the
evolutionary journey…
By Karen La Puma
AWAKEN TO TAROT
Self-Help/Nonfiction/Spiritual
Soul Source Publishing, 420 pp.
The Tarot is visual system that reveals both our True Nature and our obstacles. Introducing a new Tarot deck, made with digital collage. Through pictures, symbols, meanings, questions, processes, Kabbalah, key words, and affirmations, you can learn to:
- Find ways to reflect your inner guidance.
- Explore the magical journey of evolution
- Blend Astrology, Numerology, and the Tree of Life with the Tarot
- Discover the power and implications of the symbols of Tarot
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Throughout history we have wanted to understand the circumstances of our lives and our relationships with others. We have had a profound desire to know ourselves on the deepest levels, to make sound decisions, and to receive guidance from the Divine.
The Tarot is a set of universal principles that provide a visual system
which reveals both your True Nature and the obstacles to living from this
Unified State of Consciousness. Tradition ally and cross-culturally these
archetypes communicate all the aspects of existence. Through these rich
symbolic mirrors you can receive messages about where you are at present,
an external issue, a relationship, your career, and an inner
psychological state—in fact all aspects of your evolutionary
journey. In the following pages, you will touch on how to tap into inner
guidance and awaken internal allies. This book was writ ten for you to draw
assistance from the symbols of your soul’s journey as each card is like a
magic talisman.
As you explore the visual symbols of each Tarot card, you are given
different components that add to your understanding of its meaning. After
the visuals there are: a short meaning; descriptions; key words to summarize
them; reflective suggestions to go into your process; questions to ponder; and
an affirmation. In the descriptions there are correlations with
Astrology, Numerology, the Tree of Life, the Hero’s Journey, and the
general process of evolution. I have included the Hebrew letter for each
of the Major Arcana, and the I Ching’s association to the Royalty
cards.
Toward the end of the book, you will learn to find your life’s path,
your yearly path, some inner teachers, and sample readings for you to try.
Please take what is useful for you and ignore the rest. For those of you
who want to dive in deeper, there are several dense teaching chapters that
I include in Part VII, “Integrating the Tarot.” Altogether these systems
can assist your assimilation of each card, as their cosmic voices
can exert a powerful support for you. When you use the cards, you not
only have a self-reflective tool, a device to awaken intuition, but also a
suggestive magnifier of the qualities you want to infuse into your
life.
This book is a part of a series called, A Toolkit for Awakening,
which is based on the eminent mythologist, Joseph Camp bell’s great blueprint,
“The Hero’s Journey.” It is from his classic book, A Hero with a
Thousand Faces (1948). This formula for spiritual evolution,
presented in Chapter 83 and the conclusion, gives the structure and foundation
of this series.
The stage of the Hero’s Journey that this book deals with is called
“Supernatural Aids.” You are encouraged to seek helpers, animate and inanimate,
seen and unseen, ancient and mod ern. You don’t have to rely solely upon your
own innate powers. Magical helpers appear once you are on the spiritual
path as you see abundantly in myths and fairy tales. This book suggests that
the Tarot is “a supernatural aid,” for these cards are external mirrors
from which you can hear your inner guidance.
Having support is one of life’s most valuable assets. I am thankful for
all the support I have received. Yet because I have chosen “a road less
traveled,” my deepest gratitude has been to those invisible forces—the
archetypes (also called universal symbols). Exploring interrelated metaphysical
systems, like Tarot, Astrology, and Numerology have given me the keys to
the human journey. “Meta” means beyond, for these maps of consciousness go
outside the physical to bridge existence with causality. As you play with the
archetypes themselves, they become intuitive and active spiritual
allies.
There is a vast array of metaphysical oracles to help you
gain self–knowledge. You can delve into the many different
cosmic looking glasses to muse and reflect. You can pick cards,
gaze at charts and maps, throw coins, select stones, add some numbers,
dream, visualize, meditate, or open a book randomly for a message, and
they will become your guideposts and supportive tools that help you to see
another way and wake up to the highest aspects of yourself.
My hope is that the Tarot images, the concepts presented in this book,
and the series, A Toolkit for Awakening, will be a source
of support for you. The empowering myth of the Goddess Warrior on the Hero’s
Journey is the underlying basis of this series. Love and allowing are the ways
of the Goddess. Being accountable for your time, attention and intention is
how you embody the Warrior. These archetypes become your helpers and
infuse higher vibrations to facilitate new states of consciousness.
My inner and outer helpers guide me and inspire me along my
sacred path of expressing Divine Light.
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Karen La Puma is the Author of a series of books called A Toolkit for Awakening, which are based on the Goddess Warrior on the Hero’s Journey. She is a motivational, intuitive, and spiritual counselor in private practice in the Bay Area since 1979. She is a teacher, astrologer, hypnotherapist, reiki master, inspirational speaker, and creative storyteller with a potent and timely message to empower your life.
Her latest book is Awaken to Tarot: Be Your Own Guide with Astrology, Numbers and the Tree of Life.
Visit her website at www.soul-source.org or connect with her on Twitter and Facebook.
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