TAROT Cards and Details

[Star Dust]

The Magician

General Meaning: Traditionally, the Magus is one who can demonstrate hands-on magic -- as in healing, transformative rituals, alchemical transmutations, charging of talismans and the like. A modern Magus is any person who completes the circuit between heaven and Earth, one who seeks to bring forth the divine \'gold\' within her or himself.

At the birth of Tarot, even a gifted healer who was not an ordained clergyman was considered to be in league with the Devil! For obvious reasons, the line between fooling the eye with sleight of hand, and charging the world with magical will was not clearly differentiated in the early Tarot cards.

Waite\'s image of the Magus as the solitary ritualist communing with the spirits of the elements -- with its formal arrangement of symbols and postures -- is a token of the freedom we have in modern times to declare our spiritual politics without fear of reprisal. The older cards were never so explicit about what the Magus was doing. It\'s best to keep your imagination open with this card. Visualize yourself manifesting something unique, guided by evolutionary forces that emerge spontaneously from within your soul.



Fast Facts

About The Magician
Theme: Be playful and stay open -- the possibilities are endless.
Astro Association: Mercury
Element: Air
Number: 1
Alias: Magic

[Anoo]

wow ! i never understood tarot.
i used to wonder how people can read you from a pack of cards
thanks for the post star dust :starhit:

[Samantha]

great info there star dust :blush:

[Pyar]

this thread/topic explain everything a tarot reader needs to know in begining

[Pyar]

One reads from cards ..and some read from the warmth the card provides.  some get a color or a feeling from the card .. just depends on the reader.

[chensree]

This document is pretty helpful and now got some idea over the tarot cards

[aastha93]

nice .. and informativ ...