The 13 step simple guide 'How to choose the right cards among 2,500 Tarot decks created by contemporary artists'

1. CHOOSING THE RIGHT TAROT DECK
Why Maori Tattoo Tarot is the right
deck for divination?
The 13 step guide

2. 1. WHAT IS TAROT?
 Tarot is not only old
fascinating pictures that
contain a richness of
symbolism, but also a
divination tool
 Millions of contemporary Tarot
adherents believe that the
Tarot contains a symbolically
coded ancient secret doctrine
 It is a commonplace way of
explaining its predictive
power.

3. 2. TAROT TODAY
 The Tarot world is quickly
expanding, funnelling
themes, ideas, spiritual
systems, and doctrines
from around the world
 Nowadays there are about
2,500 Tarot decks created
by contemporary artists
who produce new cards
under the influence of
many cultural traditions.

4. 3. MODERN PERCEPTION OF TAROT
 A few people believe in cards
interpretations at a superficial level
and accept reading results as a
sentence of higher authority
But
 Сonsider Tarot as a road map of the
life path with signs indicating
potential pitfalls and problems
And
 Use divination for decision making
or ignoring it, choosing the path
wisely or driving into pitfalls.

5. 4. HOW TAROT WORKS?
 Tarot talks to the subconscious
the language of images
 Visualisation is the way to deliver
messages
 Imagination is a tool to create
appropriate images.

6. 5. WHAT IS THE SOURCE?
 For the Theosophy followers it
is the Akashic records
 Carl Jung called it ‘the
collective symbolic
unconscious’
 The ancient Maori used the
term kete aronui – the basket
of sacred occult knowledge.

7. 6. IN WHAT WAY IT WORKS?
 The subconscious cannot see the
difference between actual scenes
and artificially created images: The
more impressive picture you watch
 The more bright and beautiful its
colours
 The more clear and precise
images
 The stronger the effect on the
subconscious.

8. 7. FOUR TAROT DECKS ARE SUPPOSED AS ‘CLASSICAL’
 The oldest Sola Busca
Tarocchi
 Le Tarot de Marseille
 Rider-Waite Tarot
 Aleister Crowley’s the Thoth
Tarot.

9. 8. WHAT ARE THE ESSENTIALS OF CLASSICAL DECKS?
 They accumulate ancient
wisdom
 The esoteric knowledge of
the Universe was depicted
symbolically in cards
 They apply patterns and
designs with deep spiritual
meanings.

10. 9. THE MODERN WAY OF DIVINATION
 Predicting the future events, but
without full predetermination as it was
suggested by old-fashioned fortune-
telling
 Realising that the future depends on
the decisions that are to be adopted
 Helping a querent to uncover inner
demons that rule his or her thoughts
and desires and get rid of them
 Increasing awareness to make a wiser
decision and thus to avoid some
undesirable outcomes
 Understanding that the final choice of
action always makes the querent.

11. 10. THE MAIN PREREQUISITES OF A RIGHT DECK
The deck’s theme is associated with a
civilisation having a strong esoteric culture
and spiritual past:
 Classical Tarot symbolism put on the
new cultural background
 The deck’s structure is also classical
(22 trumps and 56 suit cards in four
suits each with 4 court cards)
 Art itself is a sacred channel between
the spiritual and material worlds.

12. 11. WHY MAORI TATTOO TAROT?
 Being incredibly spiritual, the ancient
Maori created their own system of
divination
 All significant decisions were made
after consultations with an Oracle
only
 Maori tattoos have a deep spiritual
meaning and mana (occult powers)
 The Maori Tattoo Tarot deck aligns a
reader with mystical energy of
Aotearoa via artistic visualisation.

13. 12. THE RIGHT DECKS’ CREATOR
Roxana Paul, a New Zealand artist,
created the Maori Tattoo Tarot for the
Rising Sun Publishing House:
 It is a Marseilles and Sola-Busca-
inspired deck of 78 classical
structured cards
 The cards use ingenious Maori
symbolism and mighty imagery
 A guidebook with correct meanings
of all cards to lead a reader
 The Hanged Man spread to make
divination results more coherent.

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