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Tarot in The Subconscious Mind Part 5

By admin on November 26, 2021

  Last Updated:  August 4, 2021 Introduction The final five cards of the Tarot Language represent the culmination of the Journey.  It is where the individual merged with the consciousness of the Soul and either wins or fails in his journey. Thus, much like a good plot in a story we have the hero's journey.  The plot always starts with the Protagonists who sets out to change his status quo for some reason.  And then S(h)e towards the end, either goes through character integration, or character disintegration.  The journey is always marked by some sort of net change in persona. So, too, is the communication between the Soul and the Personality.  The Soul seeks to evolve the Personality, much like a new born child who is unable to effectively communicate with its mother, until it learns to talk. It is the parents tireless efforts that ensures that every healthy baby talks. The Soul, then must teach the individual through a series of images and symbols, and feeling, what the person needs to learn to enable proper growth and personal success.   The Beginning is The Star Let us now start where we left off, with the bright and radiant Star, card 17, for after the Tower, there should be light reflecting off the Personality, even if it is hurried through its experience. The astral body, if sufficiently developed should have light from the good deeds and positive emotions that had been experienced before death.  (Astral means relating to or resembling stars)  Therefore the 17th card, The Star, represents the experience of light, It is the movement of the journeyman through time and space creating high emotional energy, elation, middle emotional energy; anger or frustration, and lower emotional energy despair.  The stability Between the levels is the creation of light.  Thus, whatever you have gained is seen as your light, your special signature, and your marker of attainment.  If your light is bright and steady, it is perceived as a calming and trustworthy force for you and all those who are around you,  It was said that Siddhartha Buddha had an…