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Tarot
and iChing
 I have found no single,
credible source that really identifies the origins of Tarot. Many
books on the subject, all speak of may roots for the practice.
Some people think the Tarot deck originated in China during the 10th century AD.
Not long after that, the Hindus added 10 suits, representing the
Ten Incarnations of Vishnu. From there, Tarot cards spread over Europe as the Crusaders returned home. Many believe the
Crusaders brought the cards to Italy and Spain and they
evolved their present form from this region. Still others
believe the Gypsies introduced Tarot to Europe.
The Tarot is a set of
78 pictured cards, used for divination and meditation. The 4
suits of a Tarot deck are Cups, Swords, Rods, and Pentacles (or Coins). It is a
little known fact that these suits correspond to a modern playing
card deck as
Hearts, Spades, Clubs and Diamonds, respectively. The suit cards are called the
Minor Arcana.
There is another set in the Tarot called the Major Arcana (the
Greater Secrets), consisting of 22 cards of archetypal images which speak
to the subconscious and unconscious. The modern playing deck of cards has
only one, the Joker, also known as the Fool.
Though I view nothing is left to chance, it
turns out that the color of each card in a Tarot deck represents similar colors
to our wholistic being overall, including our chakras and aura. Usually a Tarot
deck also correlates to one of the Aura-Soma Equilibrium Bottles. For me, as a
reader, that means the basic classical symbolism of the traditional Tarot can
also be combined with extended visual interpretations from the bottles that
provide me with new insights for the reading.
The iChing, The Book of Change, was first
attributed to Fu Hsi,
the legendary ruler of China during the 3rd millennium BC. He is
said to have discovered the arrangements of the 8 trigrams that
form the 64 hexagrams on the shell of a tortoise. Chinese
philosophers have also been influenced by The Book of Change and
have influenced the book through their own works, including
Confucius (551-479 B.C.).
The Book of Change is used to isolate the present moment
and predict the future. Using it for divination by
 dropping 3
coins on a flat surface 6 times or by randomly dividing 50 small
sticks of wood, you can create a "freeze-frame" in time to capture
a moment and examine in detail its meaning for you. This means of
"stopping of time" can be a tremendous tool to help you align your
"self" with your "circumstance", and within all that is the
ongoing and present in the Universe.
As a
personal "tool", you can use the Book of
 Change to
provide perspective into your own destiny, to guide you. You can
discover the clarity, that your higher self always had, in the
Earth Plane for what you thought was hidden or innuendo.
How you use these
tools or incorporate them into your daily life, is your choice.
The key is to utilize all that embraces and empowers your living.
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