Tarot Temple Book 1: Create a Tarot Dream Temple by Tali Goodwin & Marcus Katz

Author:Tali Goodwin & Marcus Katz [Goodwin, Tali]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Forge Press
Published: 2014-05-21T04:00:00+00:00

The Major Arcana of Myth

Saturn! look up and for what, poor lost King?

I have no comfort for thee; no not one;

I cannot cry, Wherefore thus sleepest thou?

For Heaven is parted from thee, and the Earth

Knows thee not, so afflicted, for a God;

And Ocean too, with all its solemn noise,

Has from thy sceptre pass'd, and all the air

Is emptied of thine hoary majesty…

John Keats, The Fall of Hyperion – A Vision.

The main exercise in this first week of creating a Tarot Temple is to not only build the temple of the imagination each night for a week, but also re-connect our imaginal world with our daily life. The romantic poets saw a disconnection between our inner lives and the increasing industrialization of society, and we are again seeing this in the media-drenched and accelerated information age. The Tarot Temple experience allows us to take a pause and protect a precinct of ourselves – our own identity and inner life, and our unique personal connection to the universe.

Our first task as we build the inner Temple using the Inner Guide Meditation technique is to also become aware of the divine aspects of our everyday life. We will hence petition the very gods and goddesses themselves in order to become an advocate (defender) of one particular deity. You will conduct this exercise over a week, but you can extend it further, say, between two New Moons if you wish. If no clear deity is divined as a result of this practice, then simply put aside the cards for a while and repeat the exercise at some future time. The gods will not be rushed at your behest.

Looking for a God/ess

In the morning, take the 22 Major Arcana of your deck and shuffle them, considering yourself applying for the role of a priest or priestess in the living temples of the gods themselves. Select out one card and take a note of it. During the day you will act as if you are attempting to live up to the nature of the particular deity which corresponds to the card. You will also look for signs and symbols that the deity is speaking to you through everyday events.

We have given some suggestions against each card for how this may transpire (“magical event”) although you are also encouraged to research each deity to appreciate their nature further.

Over the week you will also follow the nightly instructions to create your temple and connect to another deity each night. At the end of the week, you will choose a particular deity or have found yourself chosen. It may be that their card repeated more than any other card, or a particularly significant event transpired on their day or night, or that you choose based on your feelings over the week. In many ways do we come to the path of the Gods.

In the following list we present the Major cards from the Olympus Tarot, although any deck can be used, and referred to this list to discover the appropriate deity for that card.

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