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The most intuitive, profound, and serious way of using the tarot is meditating with the cards. We can approach the mystery of the oracle by withdrawing to a quiet place for the activation of our spiritual perception. Sitting in a relaxed position, we close our eyes. With a little patience, a particular card will appear spontaneously at some point before our inner eyes. It will gradually vibrate onto the wavelength of a specific feeling or sensation, to which our spiritual aura then responds. For a moment, we have the experience of being part of the vibration of the card. We allow ourselves to be touched by what it says and perceive the longings or fears that this triggers within us. These vibrations, which our consciousness filters out of all the instinctive, mental, and bodily associations, are the focus upon which our psyche is now directed. Our subconscious mind tries to vibrate at the frequency of this specific card in order to unite with its spirit and receive its message.

In this type of meditation, we see particularly clearly that the individual preconditions in the personality structure always exist even before any form of interaction with the environment. In fact, it is our own spiritual disposition that initially and intuitively leads us to the card corresponding to our present inner state or in accord with the current development concepts in our psyche. The card surfacing before your inner eye is therefore not the perspective with which you look at the world, but rather a mirror in which your inner development is reflected.

Meditation sometimes occurs as a result of questioning the cards. We spread out the cards and one of them suddenly appears to have a very special meaning. Whether we like the card or not is beside the point: The determining factor is what compels us to like it or reject it. But it can awaken within us whatever has been slumbering unrecognized in our subconscious mind. Whether or not we believe in the reincarnation of the soul, in the soul’s sense of guilt caused by its own actions in earlier incarnations, is not important. The card we like embodies our conscious aims, and the card we do not like represents the shadow currently accompanying us. So we focus on the way in which we experience the card: Which experiences do we associate with this card and what we can gain if we recognize and integrate the things that the card triggers?

This form of meditation demands a certain willingness and ability to become involved with the inner images. If our own perceptions are orientated less towards the images and more towards rational understanding, there are other possibilities. For example, we can read the descriptions of the cards and focus on the interpretations of the specific cards that provoke a spontaneous, deep reaction within. This can also help us become clear about light and shadow regions in our own soul wanting to be acted out, meaning those areas whose description shocks us in one way or another. “The path to the light leads through hell, which can only be overcome by self-knowledge (in the mirror of one’s self)!”