The Fool's Journey

Also from Joan Bunning's wonderful Tarot for Beginners, I will be including the Fool's Journey on my blog as it relates to each of the Major Arcana.

I find that leaving little notes-to-self under the label of 'structure' as I am doing in this post helps me to quickly organise the information under each card when I am able to spend a reasonable amount of time updating my blog/journal.

The NOT effect

A surprisingly powerful exercise that I was introduced to this morning on Tarot Town is to describe what a card is NOT. At first this might sound strange, but when I tried it, I was amazed at the new level of depth that was revealed to me on each card!

Then again, it seems to ring true that in order to know what we do want, we need to know what we don't want. How else will we recognise what we want? The NOT effect works on that principal too methinks.

So, this is yet another thing that I will be adding here to each of the cards as I work through them.

Keywords

One of the best available works on Tarot for Beginners was written by Joan Bunning. I have been aware of her monumental contribution for almost as long as what it has been available; which I - like many others - first discovered via her website:  www.learntarot.com . This is in fact the very resource that I have referred many tarot newbies to over the years.

I have decided to kick-start my exploration of the cards on this blog with her keywords. She makes available handy and useful keyword charts on her site too, which is terrific.

There is no rush for me, I am taking this one-step-at-a-time. From elementary to advanced and everything in between.

Thank you Joan Bunning for your valuable contribution to the world of tarot. I in fact finally ordered your book - based on the above - this morning. Admittedly years late!

Ace of Cups

Two of Cups

Three of Cups

Four of Cups

Five of Cups

Six of Cups

Seven of Cups

Eight of Cups

Nine of Cups

Ten of Cups

Page of Cups

Knight of Cups

Queen of Cups

King of Cups

Ace of Wands

Two of Wands

Three of Wands

Four of Wands

Five of Wands

Six of Wands

Seven of Wands

Eight of Wands

Nine of Wands

Ten of Wands

Page of Wands

Knight of Wands

Queen of Wands

King of Wands

Ace of Swords

Two of Swords

Three of Swords

Four of Swords

Five of Swords

Six of Swords

Seven of Swords

Eight of Swords

Nine of Swords

Ten of Swords

Page of Swords

Knight of Swords

Queen of Swords

King of Swords

Ace of Pentacles

Two of Pentacles

Three of Pentacles

Four of Pentacles

Five of Pentacles

Six of Pentacles

Seven of Pentacles