Módulo 30: Written in the stars
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| accuracy backpack bowed deck deter earthquakes entrails |
faint fault fists shook fits flocked foretell | foretold impulsive behaviour involves issued jester's clothes |
lack likely |
palmistry |
seeking somehow soothsayer spiritual growth surfaces swirling that propels |
The origin of the tarot is a mystery. What we do know for sure is that the cards were used in Italy in the fifteenth century as a popular card game. Wealthy people commissioned beautiful decks of cards, some of which have survived. The Visconti-Sforza deck, made in Florence around 1450, is one of the earliest known examples. Later in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the cards were rediscovered by a number of influential scholars of the occult. These men were fascinated by the tarot and recognized that the images on the cards were more powerful than a simple game would suggest. They revealed, or should I say created, the "true" history of the tarot by connecting the cards to Egyptian mysteries, alchemy, and other mystical systems.
Although the roots of the tarot are in the occult tradition, the tarot is most commonly viewed today as a tool for divination. A traditional tarot reading involves a seeker - someone who is looking for answers to personal questions - and a reader - someone who knows how to interpret the cards. After the seeker has shuffled and cut the deck, the reader places the chosen cards on the table in a pattern called a spread. Each position in the spread has a meaning, and each card has a meaning as well. The reader combines these two meanings to respond to the seeker's question.
Now let us consider the tarot simply for what it is - a deck of picture cards. What can we do with them? The answer lies with the unconscious. Although we ignore the action of the unconscious most of the time, it profoundly affects everything we do. In their writings, Sigmund Freud and his contemporary Carl Jung stressed the irrational, primitive aspects of the unconscious. We may never know the full range and power of the unconscious, but there are ways to explore it. Many techniques have been developed for this purpose - psychotherapy, dream interpretation, visualization and meditation. The tarot is another tool. Others may believe that the tarot is unscientific. But I ask you to explore the cards with an open mind. After all, that is the true spirit of scientific endeavour!
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Along the time, a little group of influential scholars, priests, kings and leaders have wanted to have power on the rest of people. They have used knowledge of nature laws, to direct and to opress people. The laws are real, they are physics, mathematics and chemistries laws, but the purpose of them wasn't good.
So instead of using its knowledge for good, they use it for evil, they are black magicians, selfish and greedy men. This behaviours do not mean that these laws are false, the laws have real existence only we have to know them.
I believe in the nature laws, when laws are not known, we speak about magic. Many years ago, the television, radio, internet could be considered to be magic things, enchantment, witchcraft. Today we know that they aren't.
I'd like to think in another occult world, where there are little fairys and elfs that take care of nature with his work, only that it's an invisible world for some persons. May be.
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I disagree with you. I think that once before, men were not so simple or ignorant as you say. Today, thanks to scientific advances, humanity still consider themselves the navel of the world, we are very important because we have cars and planes ... but I think that in the old time they also knew the laws that move the world, only that they were written differently and used for a different purpose.
I don't know who is right or what civilization was happier, but I know that our glorious civilization will back end to make fire by rubbing stones, because we seem unable to learn what is truly important. I don't believe in God, I belive in the nature laws. I am pagan, like the ancient Greek philosophers ... and other people who left us the foundations of our civilization.
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I am very happy that you have answered me. Mainly I wanted to create controversy and have the possibility to practice my english. I understand what you want to say and your words are well-argued. When I said that I am pagan I want to say I believe in the nature laws, I'd like to live with cycles of nature as other civilizations, for example the Greek civilization that have many gods very fun but, somehow, they represented the whole nature. Today is very difficult to live accordingly with nature and many times it seems that we live against nature. I like scientific thought but I love to think that there are elves who paint the cactus green.
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You are a great soothsayer! You're a crack divination!. Yes I think there are a billion factors that shape our present and somehow are shaping our future. Some people with a special sensitive and some intuitive can know about our future, this is just a way to join ideas and draw conclusions, but not a form of divination.
Oh, great lord of the predictions! Can you tell me what I will eat today, my fridge is sadly empty?
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