The Tarot Teaclub

The Tarot Guide To Popular Culture And Everyday Life

The Emperor Reversed: I Don’t Want To!

Posted on March 9, 2013 by tanlee3

There are times when being an adult seems vastly overrated. Whilst my daughters swan around with their friends and lie prostrate in bed playing video games for hours on end I’m the bunny who has to make sure all the washing, shopping, cooking, gardening etc gets done. Meanwhile they think that if they hang one load of washing a day they’ve been some kind of hero and roll their eyes at further requests for assistance. You know what. I don’t wanna do all that boring stuff either. But someone has to.

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The Holy Book – Volume 1

Posted on September 3, 2012 by tanlee3

The Major Arcana cards read like a book that follows the journey of a human soul through life.

The first volume covers childhood:

The Fool – The soul waiting to be born

The Magician – The newborn who seems perfect in every way and has so much potential.

The High Priestess – The baby living off instinct during the first months and years.

The Empress – The child at play

The Emperor – The child being disciplined

The Hierophant – The school child forming ideas about the world

The Lovers – The teenager beginning to make choices about what they want and who they want to be with.

The Chariot – The young adult striving for success.

That’s one way of looking at it anyway. There are many more. That’s the beautiful confusing thing about Tarot. It’s like a diamond. Every time you turn it in your hand you see another side.

What about you? What’s your take on the first 8 cards of the Holy Book of Tarot?