Category: Goals, Plans, Hopes
The title of the book on Tarot by Rachel Pollack.
What does one do with the Tarot? The start is exploring and learning. Decks of Tarot often come with the little white book or LWB. I've been to university, so I can research passably. The LWB can be a 'how to read Tarot' introduction. But I like to get a number of sources, like a diligent student, and choose which ones I want to use.
The better guides are written as seperate books from the decks, not card-sized and resembling the manual for a home appliance. The best LWBs are practical and informative, with a reference to the expanded version of itself, available seperately.
Young Rachel pops up repeatedly in reference lists. I've found her influence without acknowledgment as well.
I get the impression that the Tarot is an extensive garden. Diverse, even contradictory, but unflaggingly fertile. One theme is numbers. In the four suits are 14 cards, 4 'faces' and 10 'pips'. The faces are the page, knight, queen, and king. The pips show from 1 to 10 of the suit.
The 10 pip cards make 3 sets of 3 plus the 10th card. Each set of three can be seen as a cycle, with the larger cycle of 9. The 10th card is outside the cycles, which can mean the start of a new cycle or the ending of the present one.
For example, the 10 of swords has a figure lying face down with 10 swords through the body. In the parlance of my country, the bloke is Cactus. Cactus Fucktus. Can't see a bandaid and cuppa tea putting this right. In the background is a sunset. The sense of finality is relieved by the implication that there will be a sunrise.
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