Tarot Purpose

[Stian Froestad]

So what is tarot all about? Well, most obviously, the tarot is a deck of 78 picture cards, originating in the western world. The cards are divided in various ways. There are twenty two “major arcana” and twenty two “minor arcana.” In the traditional western system, the major arcana have names like “the fool” and “judgment. The minor arcana have vaguely sexual names like “balls” and “cups” and “swords.” In the traditional tarot system, there are also court cards (what I’d call hierarchy cards). Kings, queens, pages, emperors and empresses figure prominently in the traditional western system.

If you ask people what this tarot system is about, most of them would tell you the tarot is some kind a picture card system that you can use to tell fortunes. Of course, these people will be more or less sympathetic about the idea. Some people will stand behind it as a useful tool for “divination,” and others will tell you it’s used by gypsies and old ladies, fruitloops and real kooks, for the purpose of fantasy and/or thievery. If you ask me, if you need that sort of thing, tarot is about as good a divination system as any other. People have used everything from pig entrails to tea leaves as part of their “show” and they are all equally valid methods (though not equally tasteful) that veiled individuals may use to communicate with the Spirit world.

Not everybody of course believes the tarot is a simple divination system. A few others commentators over the years have recognized the western tarot as some kind of spiritual education system. These people, and there’s a lot of them, are more or less vague about the full nature of the education you get with the tarot. Generally however, the message you get from them is that the tarot is some kind of “secret” book of symbols, with some “secret” meanings that you can, if you study real hard, get access to (if you’re worthy). Of course, there’s lots of different versions and lots of different strange and twisted ideas about the nature of the “education system” contained in the tarot, and the types of things you are supposed to learn from it. The details don’t matter though. All old world understanding of tarot are cut from the same unholy cloth anyway.

As for me, I agree to a certain extent. The tarot is an “education” system. It is something you can use to “learn something,” but it’s also much more than that; and much more important than that. For me (and a handful of others on this planet, none of whom right about the tarot), the tarot is an archetypal system, one possible implementation of The Book, i.e., the collection of planetary archetypes (a.k.a. creation templates) used to control manifestation of the political, social, and psychological systems of this earth. It’s pretty straight forward how it happens. People read the tarot, learn the archetypes, and then use these archetypes to think about, manifest, create, and recreate the world. Think of Grim’s stories, many Hollywood movies, and many of this world’s most holy texts as partial (or complete) implementations of this planet’s creation template. According to my principle “as above in consciousness, so below in matter,” once the archetypes are implemented in consciousness, reality unfolds. This occurs at both the individual and collective level.

If you’ve studied my Lightning Path Core books you will understand me when I say, the tarot archetypes as they currently exist are not geared towards manifesting a world of freedom, prosperity, and light. Quite the opposite in fact. Current implementations of The Book, including current tarot systems (what I would call “old world” tarot systems based on the “old book), all contain of archetypes designed to create a world of energetic slavery and creative impotence in the masses, while privileging a few with obscene levels of power and wealth. As explain in more detail in The Book of the Triumph of Spirit, they do this by “painting a picture” in consciousness of the nature of reality that includes justifications for suffering, hierarchy, privilege, and power. You can see this quite clearly when you analyze the archetypes of the old world tarot system.

Tarot decks based on the old book are easy to identify. They all have have that “fool” card, and they all make a big deal of trial and effort, judgment, “death” and redemption. If you’re looking at a deck and it includes those concepts. that’s an old world tarot based on an old set of archetypes used, by the Anu, to create the system.

You’ll find, however, that the Halo/Sharp deck is different. The purpose of my deck is somewhat the same as the old deck. The purpose is to provide a set of core archetypes which, when implemented in consciousness, will then manifest the 3D world (and remember, your body and mind are a part of the 3D world). However, the difference is my deck is, I dare say, is the first (the original) “new world” tarot deck. As such, the Halo/Sharp deck is a complete archetypal rewrite that provides a new set of planetary archetypes that support total awakening and empowerment of the planet. In this sense, it is more than a mere implementation of The Book. In fact, the Halo/Sharp tarot is an attempt to rewrite The Book.

Using the deck is easy. Just learn the new archetypes and allow them to replace the old archetypes in your consciousness. Seed the archetypes in consciousness! Live with those new archetypes for a while, talk about them, present them as your truth, believe them, and have faith in them.. As your intent clears, and as you remove archetypal obstacles to your own power and glory, and as the seeds begin to grow and eventually blossom, your world (and this world)) will begin to transform. It will be easier to. Not totally without effort or struggle, but a lot less difficult than you have probably been led to believe.