Tarot and the flat earth society 2
4th Jun 2009
Hello lovely people
In the dead of night, you manage to sneak into the church. Your mission is to find out more about the conversations you overheard. You know that there are some books in the church, and you have learnt to read. You are hoping to find some of these books. But no such luck. You discover that there is a meeting of church officials.
They are discussing the latest developments in town. And they are packing the church books into crates. “We cannot let the truth get to ordinary people”, the leader says emotionally. “We must hide these books! We must make an example of those people! What will the world come to if everyone starts to use their common sense and think for themselves?”
Why am I telling you this story? Because in the past few days I have re-lived some twenty-first century versions of this scenario. Replace the flat earth with 2012 and the “end of the world”, or with tarot and the knowledge of life.
How do you answer an intelligent person who says to you “I have heard about 2012 but I am too afraid to find out what it is about and please don’t tell me”?
What do you say to a person who says “Tarot is sinful, and it is all about death and the devil”? How do you explain to the person that tarot is an encyclopaedia of life, and one of the richest sources of information about our existence on this earth?
When I encounter an attitude like that about tarot, I have even more respect and admiration for the people that managed to retain the knowledge that was captured in tarot. If that same knowledge had been captured in books only, all those books would have been burnt by those that were in a position of power. They would have done everything to ensure that the ancient knowledge remains available to only a select few people that would have abused the sacred knowledge for their own purposes.
By capturing the knowledge of tarot in richly illustrated cards filled with symbols and nuances, the geniuses who decided to do that ensured that the knowledge remained available in plain sight.
Of course there are still many members of the flat earth society who would happily play with the cards – or with the variation that is used for gambling – and they would have no idea of the sacred knowledge that they have access to. Of course there are also those members that deliberately choose to play the roulette of life by staying as far away from the tarot cards as possible. They are unable to give reasons for not wanting to know anything about tarot, because they simply block their minds and find equally ignorant people who agree with their prejudices to justify their choices.
Either way, by closing our minds to the things that we were taught to fear for no reason, we become spiritually poorer. The only way to open our minds is to challenge any obstacles and boundaries and find our own truth. The same people that describe tarot as “from the devil” are told in the Bible in 1 Thessalonians 5:21 “Test everything. Hold on to the good.” For me this means use your God-given mind to explore, and decide what resonates with you. Do not hand the power of that decision over to another person who becomes stronger because you chose ignorance. And this means explore everything, not just the things that you are told to explore.
Please leave a comment if you feel inspired.
Love and Light
Elsabe
One Comment to “Tarot and the flat earth society 2”
tarotgameplayer
I’ve seen this article from afterellen and as a tarot game player, I think your tone is very reactionary. It is we tarot game players who are doing the most to get the general public to accept these cards into our culture. Tarot publishers who present tarot as only for divination are in the way of these progressive goals. If we are to get past the notion that tarot cards are sinful, then we must recognize that the symbolism is rooted in Catholicism and that people also play real card games with tarot. The presention of tarot cards as something only to be used for divination stereotypes the culture of people and is damaging to progress.