The Tarot Path to Self Development (RARE) by Micheline Stuart

The mysterious deck of cards known as the Tarot tells the story of life's journey through a series of symbolic images. This book discusses the twenty-two cards of the major arcana, which illustrate important stages of the path of inner development. Each image is a link in the chain of being that must be fully experienced and understood. In meditative passages, the author shows how to recognize these symbolic experiences in daily life and offers valuable insights into the process of self-development.

A reviewer: This book offers sound principles of work-on-self, without the pseudo-mysticism and self-centered "feel-good" approaches of so much of contemporary self-help psychology and divinatory toys. One is challenged to tell a deeper level of truth about one's own motivations and to see one's present level of maturity. The path is laid out clearly, and the steps from naive ignorance to conscious participation and service are reflective of the way offered by the great spiritual traditions. This book is not for those who want to play with Tarot, but for those who want to genuinely use this brilliant tool.

Another reviewer: Stuart's 22 short meditations on the major arcana cards can be used as potent guides or springboards for personal meditation on self or on the cards; they can be used to strengthen one's own intuitions around the cards, and the writing can also serve as a sort of map for the personal journey that "each individual must undertake to attain to his full potentiality and, ultimately, his own royalty," as Stuart writes in the intro. And what is the ultimate goal? Stuart answers: "After that he can transcend the human condition, but not before harmonizing and balancing, completely, the feminine and masculine whole. Adam and Eve have to be reunited while on Earth before they can re-enter Paradise."

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⏳TIME STAMPS⌛
0:00 Intro
7:41 The Fool
9:59 The World
14:15 The Judgement
18:50 The Sun
21:59 The Moon
25:43 The Star
29:08 The Tower
31:49 The Black Magician [The Devil]
35:11 Temperance
37:40 Death [The Reaper]
40:28 The Hanged Man
43:10 The Enchantress [Strength-Force]
46:32 The Wheel of Fortune
49:22 The Hermit
51:31 Justice
54:18 The Chariot
56:48 The Lovers
1:00:52 The Hierophant
1:03:00 The Emperor
1:05:35 The Empress
1:07:50 The High Priestess
1:10:24 The Magician
1:13:17 Credits