7.
Beliefs – Divination
Coming
back from a little bit of a break (hey, I had company and wasn’t
motivated) to talk about divination. I read Tarot, which is a lot
less...mysterious and spooky than it sounds. I’m pretty shit at
reading for other people, it should be known, and I basically just
use the cards as a tool for self-reflection and guidance on how to
sort out the tangled jumble of stuff that is my brain.
The
important question, I guess, is how do I think this stuff works,
anyway? First it should be known that I hold no illusions about some
arcane ancient egyptian/atlantean store of knowledge coded in the
symbols on tarot cards. I’m more of an intuitive reader than
a...whatever the other kind is. All the Golden Dawn/OTO/BOTA Thothy
stuff doesn’t grab me as much as being able to look at an image on
a card and feeling drawn into it, taking on the role of the figures
and discovering how that relates to my daily life. But how that
connection is formed? I have no idea.
It
could be the Jungian notion of archetypes and the collective
unconscious as we just understand certain images because the human
mind has a mental...culture and language, as it were, that can be
understood intuitively.
OR,
from an animist point of view, my spirit is coming into contact with
the spirit inherent in the deck of cards (because everything has
spirit in animist thought, remember) and communicating on an
unconscious level and gaining insight from that.
Aesthetic ramblings and some pictures under the cut!
