Chineses perspectives vs latin tarot

Tarot of the Holy Light by Christine Payne-Towler

A Comparative Analysis of Fortune Telling and Divination, Chinese Perspectives, and Tarot

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Fortune Telling

算命Divination

卜筮


Important: No Community is Homogenous• One Tarot Reader

Can’t Represent All

• One Asian Can’t Represent All

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suan ming

Fortune Telling

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Seal Script200 B.C.

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Script Source: Center of Bamboo and Silk Manuscripts, bsm.org.cn, www.bsm-whu.org/zxcl/

P

Fortune Telling Theory

Seeker

Practitioner(Tarot

Reader)

S


bu shi

Divination


ShamanWitch

SorcererMedium

“Spirit Communicator”


zhan gua

(Divination)




gui

Image Source: Cornell University LibraryCompare:

P

Divination Theory

Seeker

Practitioner(Tarot

Reader)

S

DIVINE


P

Fortune Telling TheoryS

P

Divination Theory

S

DIVINE

“For five centuries or more Tarot cards have been used in Europe, ostensibly for games and fortune-telling… …but really [the cards are] to preserve the essentials of a secret doctrine…

…Tarot divination is not fortune-telling. The practice of fortune-telling is based on the false notion that human life is governed by luck, chance, or fate—by obscure powers that work outside the personality…

Western Perspectives

on Fortune Telling

vs. Divination

Tarot of the Holy Light by Christine Payne-Towler (Noreah Press

“For five centuries or more Tarot cards have been used in Europe, ostensibly for games and fortune-telling… …but really [the cards are] to preserve the essentials of a secret doctrine…

…Tarot divination is not fortune-telling. The practice of fortune-telling is based on the false notion that human life is governed by luck, chance, or fate—by obscure powers that work outside the personality…

…True divination rests upon the occult truth that the causes of all events in human life are really internal, proceeding from the Cause of Causes—the Universal Intelligent Energy or Life-power.”

Paul Foster CaseOracle of the Tarot (1933)

New Earth Tarot by Kate Silver & Charlene Delong (newearthtarot.com)

Fortune TellingFuture is the result of chance and

fate.It is beyond the Seeker’s control.

DivinationDynamic Relationship between

Personal Qi (Microcosm) and Cosmic Qi (Macrocosm)

“I shall therefore confine myself . . . to giving . . . instructions which will enable my readers to utilise [Tarot] for fortune-telling. . . . I shall now give several modes of laying out the cards for divination.”

S. L. MacGregor MathersThe Tarot (1888)

“These interpretations are comparable in every respect to the divinatory and fortune-telling meanings with which I shall have to deal in their turn.”

A. E. WaiteThe Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910)

The Orbifold Tarot by Michael Dickson-Bridges


(No apparent

distinctions made

between fortune

telling and divination.)

966 A.D. Tablet Carvingsof the

Huang Di Ying Fu Jing [circa 618 A.D.](The Yellow Emperor’s Classics of the Hidden Talisman)

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“All manifestations in the universe can be generated by the practitioner’s physical body, through the hand. “The function is determined by the will of the practitioner. “The mechanics is determined by the practitioner’s mind.”

Yellow Emperor’s Classics of the Hidden Talisman600-900 A.D.

Tarot of the Holy Light by Christine Payne Towler

“All manifestations in the universe can be generated by the practitioner

. . . through the hand.”

Determined ByWILL

Function

“The function is determined by the will of the practitioner.”

Fortune Telling Divination



Determined ByWILL

Practitioner acquires Sight Practitioner acquires Connection

Practitioner is insertedinto the Seeker’s Path

Practitioner is a passive bystander

on the Seeker’s PathSource of Knowledge:

Ego, SentienceSource of Knowledge:

Divine

Perception Revelation

Transcending to Unionwith the God Principle

Receiving and Submitting to the God Principle


“The mechanics is determined by the practitioner’s mind.”

Determined ByMIND

Mechanics



Determined ByMIND

Intuition Knowledge Intuition Knowledge

Core, “Gut” Accounting Crown Signs & Omens

Projecting Outward

Projecting InwardDirection Mediation

Bottom Heavy Top HeavyGiver Recipient

Induction & Deduction Invoking Spirit


Determined ByMIND



Bottom Heavy Top HeavyDirection Mediation

Empathic PsychicGiver Recipient

Induction & Deduction Invoking SpiritImage Source: Free-Pictograms.com


Determined ByMIND



Bottom Heavy Top HeavyDirection Mediation

Empathic PsychicGiver Recipient

Induction & Deduction Invoking Spirit

Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot (Public Domain) via sacred-texts.com

“Kneeling before the

Hierophant”- Richard Palmer


“The function is determined by the will of the practitioner.”

“The mechanics is determined by the practitioner’s mind.”

Knowledge

Study the Self

To know the Universe.

Study the Universe

To know the Self

New Earth Tarot by Kate Silver & Charlene Delong

(newearthtarot.com)

What is the rationale for

making a distinction?TAROT READINGWORDSTAROT READINGWORDS

Fortune TellingThe words you

speak areINFLUENTIAL

DivinationThe words you

speak areA SACRED MESSAGE

INTENTbegets

THE WORDS

Crafted by Function and Mechanics

“Before every event, there are opportunities that Heaven avails to the practitioner to exercise metaphysical force to transform the path of nature [or fate].”

Yellow Emperor’s Classics of the Hidden Talisman600-900 A.D.

FateP

SFree Will

P

S

S

P

Free Will

FatePS PS

Meeting

of the Minds

Window of Opportunity


The Tarot reader’s role is to

identify

that window of

opportunity.

I possess the ability to See.I know the future. I know you.I amDivine.

I possess the ability to Connect.I read signs and omens.The Divine speaks to me.

I possess the ability to See.I know the future. I know you.I amDivine.

I possess the ability to Connect.I read signs and omens.The Divine speaks to me.

“Before every event, there are opportunities that Heaven avails to the

practitioner to exercise metaphysical force to transform the path of

nature [or fate].”Huang Di Yin Fu Jing“The causes of all events in

human life are really internal, proceeding from the Cause of Causes—the

Universal Intelligent Energy.”

– Paul Foster Case

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Words are the metaphysical force. Fortune telling or divination, words are the practitioner’s craft.

Fortune Telling or Divination?

“Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.”

Sigmund FreudIntroductory Lectures on

Psychoanalysis (1916)

Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot (Public Domain) via sacred-texts.com


Fortune TellingThe words you

speak areINFLUENTIAL

DivinationThe words you

speak areA SACRED MESSAGE

Jiao BeiDivination Moon Blocks

Most commonly found in temples for communing directly with deities.

Jiao BeiDivination Moon Blocks

Theoretical Mechanics: • Place yourself in a

position of passivity.• Invoke a deity or

Spirit (“Divine”).• Connect to that

greater Divine. • Listen to the answer

from Spirit.

Feel the “connection” at your crown, near the

“third eye.”

Key Word: Connection

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