Divination vs. Non Divination when working with your decks

So many of us come to tarot to ask the hard questions we want answers for. The questions that we sometimes even know the answer to - but don’t want to admit it.

There is a power in admitting that you know the answer - but are scared to admit it.

But within the process with Tarot, when we don’t know the answer or even if we need a little encouragement from the Soul - we ask questions. This process is called divination. The ability to discern any meaning lies within your own narrative interpretation of what you pull.

Historically the first cards were used for their pictures and not divination. But everytime they are in divinatory use the Tarot acts as a channel between the spiritual and the mundane. Cartomancy, or fortune-telling through the use of playing cards, actually wasn't developed until 1785, when French occultist Jean-Baptiste Alliette proposed there were links between the illustrated cards.

Over the next century, mystics and philosophers continued to expand the role of tarot to include much more than just its use in playing cards. In the Law of One Ra says that the system of Tarot as a divination practice was used in Egypt by priests. You may notice there is a lot of unknown history within the Tarot and there are people that believe various things about it’s use, history and origins.

Divination means communicating with the divine, which can mean different things to different people. In Tarot divination, the deeper meaning behind mundane events is usually highlighted.

Within the Law of One Tarot - it was never intended to be studied for divination purposes - which was made clear by Ra in the channeled text, The Law of One. Ra believes that the study of the Major Arcana, the image shown within the 22 cards in the deck serve enough of the self by the self for our own awareness.

88.23 Questioner: You mentioned earlier that the tarot was a method of divination. Would you explain that?

Ra: I am Ra. We must first divorce the tarot as a method of divination from this Major Arcana as representative of twenty-two archetypes of the archetypical mind.

The value of that which you call astrology is significant when used by those initiated entities which understand, if you will pardon the misnomer, the sometimes intricate considerations of the Law of Confusion. As each planetary influence enters the energy web of your sphere those upon the sphere are moved much as the moon which moves about your sphere moves the waters upon your deeps. Your own nature is water in that you as mind/body/spirit complexes are easily impressed and moved. Indeed, this is the very fiber and nature of your journey and vigil in this density: to not only be moved but to instruct yourself as to the preferred manner of your movement in mind, body, and spirit.

Therefore, as each entity enters the planetary energy web each entity experiences two major planetary influxes, that of the conception, which has to do with the physical, yellow-ray manifestation of the incarnation, and that of the moment you call birth when the breath is first drawn into the body complex of chemical yellow ray. Thus those who know the stars and their configurations and influences are able to see a rather broadly drawn map of the country through which an entity has traveled, is traveling, or may be expected to travel, be it upon the physical, the mental, or the spiritual level. Such an entity will have developed abilities of the initiate which are normally known among your peoples as psychic or paranormal.

When the archetypes are shuffled into the mix of astrologically oriented cards which form the so-called Court Arcana and Minor Arcana these archetypes become magnetized to the psychic impressions of the one working with the cards, and thusly become instruments of a linkage between the practitioner of the astrological determinations and divinations and the one requesting information. Oftentimes such archetypal representations will appear in such a manner as to have seemingly interesting results, meaningful in configuration to the questioner. In and of themselves, the Major Arcana have no rightful place in divination but, rather, are tools for the further knowledge of the self for the purpose of entering a more profoundly, acutely realized present moment.