We seldom see the Tarot referred to as, “a Spirit Guide.” Which is weird.
There are many, many online courses about contacting your angels and spirit guides. Thousands of videos online telling you how to do it and/or how to maximize your contact with your spiritual helpers. Dozens and dozens of books on the subject.
So . . . it’s pretty widely accepted that (a) there are benevolent, loving beings out there who want to help us; and (b) we can learn how to be in touch with them. But, curiously, the Tarot isn’t usually included in those discussions.
A part of that, of course, may stem from the fundamentalist christians horror of all things occult. We’ve seen the ghost hunter shows on television where a couple of little girls are playing with a Ouija board and two minutes later thousands of creepy demons and ghosts are whizzing out of the kitchen cabinets. Tarot decks have been painted with the same brush for decades despite the fact that the images in them are chock full of angels. (See my previous post, “The Angels of the Tarot.”)
Another element is that most people who read the Tarot don’t really THINK of it as a means of getting in touch with our angels or spirit guides. We just think of it as, “Asking the Tarot for advice.” Of course, that begs the question of who or what is giving the advice. Is an inanimate deck of cards somehow capable of cogitating about our problems and giving us the best insight and solutions?
In one of the better online courses about contacting your spirit guides and angels, Roslyn Light suggests journaling as a means for receiving messages from them. There are some people among us who are able to be in direct contact with higher beings and see them and hear them. Others may receive guidance through synchronicities and so-called coincidences that occur in their lives. A book falling out of a shelf and opening to a certain page with a pertinent message, for instance. For others answers and solutions may appear in the writing they do in their journals.
And, for some of us, the very best way to get in touch with our guides may be the Tarot. Which makes a lot of sense when you actually think about it. It’s said that beings from the higher planes communicate with us in symbols and images rather than verbally. There is probably no other source on earth that is richer in images and symbols than a deck of Tarot cards. In other words, it speaks their language.
Indeed, it seems entirely possible that this is exactly what the Tarot was designed to do. It may well be a tool conceived by minds far greater than ours to allow us to have direct communication with the higher spiritual realms and the beings who dwell there.
And all we have to do is ask.
Just the Tarot 