THE SUN TAROT

by

Kelim Aten

A new approach to the ancient Tarot pack

A few thoughts about the subject.

• Before we could read or write we could talk draw make symbols.

• Before news travelled by wires and satellite or even news papers or TV. We sent each other notes and pictures to explain and carry the news.

• Before we had Freud the Id and the ego. Jung and the collective unconscious. All the learned men and women of psychology and psychiatry. We had spirit and the spirit moved us to create in physical form and become the sacred Artists of the world

• There is no dim distant time of the mythical past in the real sense of those words it is one continuous stream of manifestation on the physical plane.

• The creator spirit gave us the ability to perceive and understand the creation and by so doing the free will to manifest creation our selves.

• The nature of good and evil is manifest by the existence of humans for without humans there is no good or evil there just is. One person alone in the eternity can not be evil.

• Evil is a product of many people living together and having a need to have more than others and wanting to let their greed run riot.

• The general nature of human children is not one of innocences as we all like to believe at all it is there nature to be naughty, disobedient and testing boundary to see what they can get away with. Unless they are taught good manners from the start. They will become the devils and evil people of society.

• The Tarot and other scared documents are there to guide our processes of developing in the world asking a child to study and mediate on the tarot from the fool, who is for all purposes the child starting out in life to the nature of the world the final card in the major Acarna. Is a a good practical study and system of spiritual development for any child of any age understanding the meaning and values behind each card and practising them and avoiding the negative aspects is a clear path to a better society.

• The most important aspect of the Tarot is that it has a basic simple form that is accessible to all as it is a visual format rather than the need for theological interpretation. At the same time as referencing to the theological doctrines and raising them as subjects to explore.

The Tarot can be read at many levels, the cards of the tarot are the original cards of the playing card pack, from which the games of whist, gin rummy, snap, poker, cribbage and any other card game you can think of.

It is an interesting thought that a set of pictorial images for the spiritual and philosophical enlightenment of man kind has over years of persecution and suppression remained and can still be found as a series of games that can make fortunes and change peoples lives for better or worse.

Many of the games we play and the items used for the play are related to the fetish objects of religions from the ancient past. That is however another book.

Just as often comedy is the only safe way to make political comment in times of great oppression.

Sacred objects and ideas are often hidden in full view of the oppressors in objects of daily use and daily habit.

There can hardly be any one in the world who has not seen or used a pack of playing cards. If you can hold all the information that you learn about the tarot you can in effect read from any pack of cards any where in the world at any time. The secret is learning and storing the information.

• The Tarot

The tarot as with many other documents codes and sacred instruments was laid down as a system for humans to guide their life by It has been adapted over the years of our race to provide a system of prediction and advice. In the same way as the Koran and the Bible and the many of the sacred texts the difference is that this is a pictorial sacred book of knowledge. That has communicated its self through the artists of the world It has its roots in the same beginnings as the oral traditions and dates from before the time of the written word as do the many games of chance

The Cards them selves do not have any magical or mystical knowledge to confer upon the reader. It is the readers ability to interpret what the questioners spread raises as potential subjects for meditation that is the key to their use.

It is important to remember that the male female attributes of the card are not the absolute meaning of male or female the cards have always spoken to people who read them in archetypal terms a man may be indicated. It may however for the Questioner to indicate not a male or female but some one who has the female archetype in their nature it could be their father or their mother or a male or female friend we all have the male and female within us.

It is important for the reader to clear their mind of the confines of lateral thinking and to move their thought process to a state of the logic of po all things are possible it is also essentials that the reader is able to remove them selves from the confines of their ego.

It is useful to meditate on the nature of the void and the quantum nature of the universe we inhabit before beginning to read a spread try as much as you can to step out side of reality as you know it and try to exist in a space that is just you the cards and the individual consciousness that has asked for you to read It is helpful if you can both be relaxed and able to look each other in the eye in natural light

Reading the Cards

The following is the definition of the individual cards . To assist you in your use of them. It is my suggestion that you should read with the major cards only, until you feel that you know them well and have learned all you need to know from your study of them and their meanings. The designed I have put together are not traditional but they are a reference from my own inner workings that allows me to call to mind the issues that each card raises. Triggering my mind to access the meditative state required to do a reading. Each card is like a personally created Tibetan tanker painting to stimulate the meditation on the subject. It is I hope a stimulus for you also.

If you are truly wanting to read well then it is I believe essential that you have ago at creating your own cards from the study of the Tarot as a philosophy and guide to the workings of history and the reality around you. A glimpse into the possible futures that may be there for you, or just as a means of understanding what lays ahead.

As only a study of the many religions and philosophy that the cards and their incarnations record can bring them truly to life for you. That is the only way to give you a real concept of the dimensions they hold, they are the origins of all playing cards and the games of chances, the gamble on life that we all take every day. They hold within them the key essence of all religions, contained in a card pack played with in the market place. Fortunes told for a coin by the wise beggar, a book of meditation for the hermit, The warrior carried them in his breast plate as he follows on to war. The learning cards of the poor herbalist burnt at the stake as a witch. The common peoples link to the infinite, in an age when learning and reading was the prerogative of the rich.

So read on and enjoy.

The Major Acarna

0.The fool

The fool is a card who attributes are ruled by the element of air

This card is also known as the spirit of the aether.

This the card of the child in all of us The new human starting out on life's journey

The fool is a card of new beginnings in the traditional tarot pack he is a young man or young/ woman in medieval clothes setting out with a stick and bundle on his shoulder a butterfly flies ahead of him at which he gazes at his heal a dog barks as he walks out into the morning sun.

This is the beginning of the tarot and the end when the soul raises its self to face for the first time to the symbol of its creator Ra the Sun and lord of light to which all life owes its existence on this planet. it is also the end of the journey the finding of the promised land the land of plenty and of great wealth of knowledge and skills.

The notion of god on the mountain has always been their in the human psyche and the building of high buildings pyramids, earth works ziggurats are attempts by humans to create a place close to our notion of the home of the creator It also provides us with a clear view of the stars and the galaxy in which we live and to whose laws we are subject. The pictorial image on the card relates back to the story of Horus and Ra and the revolution that took the throne of Egypt from Set after the death of Osiris/Orion and his magical resurrection to father Horus as the true air to his throne. The first dynastic recording of the descent of the Egyptian royal house hold. the founders of the magic religion based on their knowledge of traditional ancient shamanistic practices. It is also the first record of the potential for virgin birth and the earliest record of the need for the line to be a female line of descent to maintain the blood line of the rulers. The first test tube baby maybe.

TRUTH UPRIGHT POSITION

In this pictorial version he is a young man who is raising himself out of a marsh area looking across the space in front of him where a pyramid hides the rising face of the sun and it is called homage to Ra. He could not look directly into the face of the creator as he would be blind in its light. He is a modern young man dressed in Lycra cycling outfit the butter fly and the dog motive have gone they have been replaced by more relative ideas of the human races history. This is represented in the nature of the pyramid and its place in the physic of humans as the stair way to the stars as the most common monolithic building in all continents and cultures it has and dose have a resonance with all human cultures and represents the human drive to rise and achieve it is also a place of high homage and reflection. The card represents all humans potential to achieve and is the symbol of new beginnings and new life , a new cycle ,new energy, new optimism it is the card of happiness . It is also the card of force in its growth and creative sense the new shoot growing in the damp earth.

This is the card of the eternal optimist it is the beginning of a new venture It is the return of happiness It signifies great change and important decisions choices to be made. The presence of the card defines the change of pitch from a lower order of being to a higher order of being In planetary terms that would be the major earth quake or a new volcanic island. It is a reminder that we are not arbiters of our own fate we are at the mercy of nature.

IN THE REVERSE POSITION

Its opposite interpretation is one of the overturning of existing states it remind the individual of the constant changing harmonious state of the natural world and how the human race will inevitable have to pay for what they do in the world As for example if you build you city on a volcano be sure one day it will be destroyed by an eruption over which you will have no control because the planet and the creator is bigger than you or your nation. You are only one of many humans running like ants over the surface and just as we can squash our inconvenient ants with our thumb so can the planet crush us with its metaphorical thumb.