Tarot and the Dawn of Light: A pre-planned path to Enlightenment

By J. Robin E. Harger

The Tarot Keys are designed to illustrate a series of transitions between the consciousnesses of the normal personal self (the ordinary state of everyday “ego-consciousness”) and that of super-conscious self-realization. In other words this transition begins with the superficial understanding which may be initially harbored by the ego-self, which imagines the world of physicality to be outside the realm of the mind and consciousness. It then extends onwards to the state of full Self Realization. In this latter state, the viewer comprehends that all “external” imagery rests in a single source, that is, in One Consciousness Alone. Fusion with such identity carries with it the direct knowledge of that from which all derives. As a set of illustrated cards describing the transition-states in self-realization, the Tarot illustrates a process whereby the individual personal self may come to understand its true nature as a temporary aspect of the supreme.
This is accomplished through an essentially "Western" viewpoint although much of the symbolism used has been related to ancient Hebrew and even Egyptian sources. Like all sacred texts, the language used to describe the states of consciousness involved is somewhat specialized so that specific attention must be paid to both the wording and the symbolism involved if the cards are to be accurately interpreted and understood.

Particular attention is focused on the wolf (past lives) of Key 18.The impulses that arise as the wolf howls its anguish are initially uncontrollable from within the standpoint represented by the current life. To deal effectively with these it is necessary to journey beyond the current life and seek confluence with the source of that pain within the life from which it arises. Once cleared of such impulses the realized individual is then available for participation in focus-groups that can then act jointly to clear the barriers that have resulted in the current global crisis. Everybody here and now is here because of the past that must be disassembled if we are to get out of the endless cycles of civilization and destruction. To clear the past, to change it, necessarily means we change the future and for the better. Before we can really help by influencing the present through Tarot-mediated interventions we have to clarify, make peace with, ourselves. Tarot-focus-groups may, if they pick the right target and particularly if they were all themselves involved in the first place, exert sufficient effects to make major changes for the better in current phase-space. Thus, for instance, if you wish to heal the Earth first heal yourself.

Focus-groups should develop a core of "pure spirit" that in so doing could thereby change the future. A focus group consisting of a number of supportive individuals making it their business to support each other in regressing into past lives, fully in control, could then change negative acts into positive acts. There is a saying to the effect that for the higher self, there is no mistake only learning and yearning so it is necessary to carry-out some ground-work in order to define the kinds of interventions that focus-groups might perform.

It cannot be imagined that this is the first time such a form of intervention has been attempted. When things went well, an age of light would have followed. When the intervention was ignored or when it collapsed because of intra-group frictions, an age of darkness would have developed. That we are still locked into the necessity of performing this ritual suggests that it has never been performed to the level of perfection necessary to escape from the cycle of repetitive instances of stone-age to high technology civilizations that clutter the past.

• Language: English
• Publisher: J. Robin E. Harger
• Release date: Oct 5, 2011
• ISBN: 9781466115187

J. Robin E. Harger

Born: New Zealand 1938, spent my early years on a sheep farm in the Waikato. Attended the University of Auckland and The University of California, Santa Barbara where I studied marine biology and population ecology respectively. Went on to teach experimental field ecology at The University of British Columbia from whence I strayed into environmental activism. During the course of my scientific career published widely in technical journals across the fields of ecology, environmental assessment, global warming as well as a number of articles dealing with the theory and practice of environmental activism. I eventually joined UNESCO (The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) spending fourteen years in the Jakarta Office before retiring as a Director of The International Oceanographic Commission (IOC) in 1999. Have an extremely well-founded understanding of the relationship between science and social practice having also spent time with The State of Michigan Toxic Substances Control Commission where he designed and implemented clean-up procedures applied by the state in controlling instances of toxic substance contamination in the environment.My foray into the area of self-analysis and subsequent projection into the profound provoked a complete reversal of my previously solid view of external physicality now finding complete agreement with Sri Ramana in observing “That the world and the mind arise as one but of the two the world depends on the mind alone the only reality being that in which this inseparable pair have their rising and setting – The One Self Alone”.

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Tarot and the Dawn of Light:

A pre-planned path to Enlightenment

by J Robin E Harger

Copyright: J Robin E Harger, August 2009

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Basic Meaning

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Index

Frontpiece

1 Introduction

2 Objective: Self-Enlightenment

3 Tarot Keys: Major Arcana - General

4 Specific Meanings for Individual Keys

Key 0: THE FOOL

Key 1: THE MAGICIAN (JUGGLER)

Key 2: THE HIGH PRIESTESS

Key 3: THE EMPRESS

Key 4: THE EMPEROR

Key 5: THE HIEROPHANT

Key 6: THE LOVERS (TEMPTATION)

Key 7: THE CHARIOT

Key 8: STRENGTH

Key 9: THE HERMIT

Key 10: THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE (LIFE)

Key 11: JUSTICE

Key 12; THE HANGED MAN

Key 13: DEATH

Key 14: TEMPERANCE (TIME)

Key 15: THE DEVIL

Key 16: THE TOWER

Key 17: THE STAR

Key 18: THE MOON

Key 19: THE SUN

Key 20: JUDGEMENT (RESURECTION)

Key 21: THE WORLD (THE UNIVERSE)

5 Minor Arcana

6 Personal Use

Tarot and self-analysis

Tarot keys and meditation

Clarifying the wolf’s role: tarot and alternate dimensions

Tarot and space-time consciousness

Phase-shifts

Tarot and the focus-group

A potential solution

Tarot and predetermination

7 End notes

The Author

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1 Introduction

Many people will be familiar with the Tarot as a set of seventy-eight cards used in fortune telling or in the divination of future events. The origins of the Tarot are unknown but it appears that cards of this nature have been in general use for hundreds of years. The Tarot system differs only slightly from the normal deck of playing cards where the standard set of four suites is each represented by illustrated cards. However, instead of Diamonds, Spades, Clubs and Hearts the suites of the Tarot deck represent the four elements of ancient times and are designated as Pentacles or Coins (Earth), Swords (Air), Wands or Scepters (Fire) and Cups (Water) respectively. Each suite consists of fourteen cards starting with an Ace (one) and continuing with numbered cards from two through ten. These are followed by a further four cards designated as Page, Knight, Queen and King. This is also unlike a normal pack, which of course does not have a Page. In addition to these minor cards (which are referred to as the Minor Arcana) the Tarot deck also contains a significant addition of a further series of twenty-two major cards (termed the Major Arcana or Tarot Keys). The Major Arcana are numbered from zero through twenty-one and consist of a series of illustrations which are rich in symbolic content. They provide a guide to the attainment of enlightenment as pointers toward methods for changing the way in which events will unfold.

Over the years a great many Tarot decks have appeared and indeed within recent times a great explosion of designs has appeared in the market.

2 Objective: Self-Enlightenment

This publication is not so much concerned with the use of the Tarot as an immediate vehicle to foster divination as it is to encourage a deeper understanding of the symbolic meaning of the Major Arcana or the Keys as they are sometimes called. Naturally, it is anticipated that such deepening of insight will also assist those primarily concerned with divination however; the promotion of self-enlightenment is the primary objective of this account. That said, a succinct outline of the meanings that may be associated with the appearance of each of the major Acana within a divinatory spread is provided. It is anticipated that practitioners will use this only as a rough guide to illustrate the general form that interpretive meanings can assume. It is to be hoped that definitive assessments will flow from a fundamental grasp of the states of consciousness illustrated by each card in relation to those adjacent and in particular that this will be related to the spiritual impression generated by the querent. In this regard it must also be cautioned that a very thin line exists between the casual prediction of events already scheduled and the imposition of a determining influence imposed through deployment of the cards or, rather of the base in consciousness which is represented by the cards. Suggestions for personal use in this regard are given in Section 6.

Those particularly interested in the form of Tarot spreads of the type that can be used to answer questions concerning personal matters and to predict the future may well be interested in consulting specific references on this subject [i]. However, it remains a truism to state that the cards, their meanings