The Major and Minor Arcana

[michael eastwood]

The Major Arcana represents an evolution from the very first steps one
takes in a spiritual odyssey, a voyage or journey, and on through the
final completion when one is absorbed back into the original Godhead
Source. Each step, each cycle in the Major Arcana is as a completed
phase of moving beyond everything previously experienced. The Major
Arcana cards represent a great amount of power structures bonded and
locked together, and these are the power cards. Any layout consisting
of 4 or more Major Arcana cards has a considerable amount of power.
Layouts having 6 to 8 Major Arcana cards have special significance and
power. Major Arcana cards rule over the Minor Arcana. Each card serves
as a resonator, a tuning device, that connects energy patterns of the
mind and psyche with other Creative Force Energy vibrations in the
layout and throughout the Cosmos.
Minor Arcana cards consist of 4 suits of cards numbered 1 through 10,
plus 4 court cards per suit. Each of these do represent an evolution.
Cards 1 through 5 deal with evolution in terms of concise realities,
and deal with the first part of the evolution. The later part of the
evolution, numbers 6 through 10, represents lots of distortion,
difficulty and confusion.
The Minor Arcana does have its difficulties and problems. It was
reconstructed in a fashion that did not represent the original form of
Egyptian structure. As a result, certain meanings of the Minor Arcana
are not as valid as others from a mundane standpoint of reference, but
the Creative Forces Vibrations resonate with the Thoth Tarot card
Matrixes to offset this non-representation of the original Egyptian
structure.
Although there are only 1 or 2 cards in the Major Arcana that can
frighten people, there is much in the Minor Arcana of a frightening
nature. Nothing in the Court Cards can frighten people. Frightening
aspects of the Minor Arcana have caused it to be misused as a fear
motivating, manipulative and mind control tool, and did, to a certain
degree, influence the structuring for these cards. If you wish to do
readings with these cards, realize you are fully responsible for what
you tell your clients. Exercise great care, concern and understanding
when you read the minor Arcana. These are the most misread cards in
the deck, are very important, and need as much of your time as other
cards in the deck. Each card is very significant, and when you find
this significance, communicate the nature of the energies and forces
involved in the most appropriate, constructive creative manner. This
is not always possible, and sometimes difficult, but most important
that it be done.
The tarot reading should be a helpful and beneficial experience.
Accentuating the positive and minimizing the negative aspects of the
reading, in order to provide information to help your client better
fulfill their life purposes makes for a good, healthy reading.