Integrative Tarot for Self-Healing and Spiritual Development

I was first introduced to the Tarot when a friend in college excitedly told me he could do a "reading" for my future with this original source of intuitive cards for spiritual development. Once I viewed the compelling images of the 74 cards of the Alistair Crowley Tarot deck he presented, I was "hooked" for what is now 34 years of studying and presenting related workshops on the power of the Tarot to integrate and support self-healing and heightened awareness.

I expect to continue this wonderful exploration throughout the rest of my life. In a time when we reach, sometimes desperately, for transcendent meaning and timeless solutions to sustain and renew us, the Tarot offers many creative pathways to enlarge our perception and experience.

Mythic Origins in Atlantis

Precursors to modern-day playing cards, the Tarot, according to some reports, originated in ancient Egypt, even from legendary Atlantis, as an encoded source containing the secrets of the universe. Twenty-two cards called the Greater Arcana, deleted from present-day playing cards, are said to be the source of these universal secrets of spiritual power.

I frequently use the Greater Arcana as to enhance insight, awareness, creative expression, and mind-body healing with clients I see in my Centering™ practice. Each of the twenty-two cards speaks to us through commonly understood myth as an easily-translated spiritual metaphor that can have tremendous relevance to better coping with common life challenges. These metaphors provide transformational guidance which support integrative self-healing and development.

Greater Arcana as Archetypes

It has been said that the order of each of the twenty-two cards of the Greater Arcana describes the progressive journey of developing consciousness that we are meant to take as incarnating souls seeking enlightenment through our spiritually-directed experience on the earth plane. The titles of each of these cards are archetypes in and of themselves.