Operative images, the arcana of the ancient Tarot of Marseilles appear from an ancient wisdomGo to la science atlante that was transmitted across the millennia, probably through the Templars.Go to L'Or du Temple

"The twenty-two major arcana of the Tarot describe in a coded manner the path of life of any human being, from incarnation to liberation." Each playing card is also "a geographical map that describes the inner route within of a being through the various phases of life." With such a card in hand, we find all opportunities in the game of life. Their intimate understanding is a major issue for the seeker of truth. Today, many researchers, as Flornoy and Jodorowsky, to name a few, have decoded this instruction.

Beyond the countless nonsense circulating on the Tarot, it is the truth of images. "By examining them one after another in ascending order, everyone can feel the special energy generated by these images." That is the teaching fellow builders and carvers of the Middle Ages were the ancients. That message emerged from the depths of time to quicken a new tradition, the one of the builders of the cathedrals,Go to Les nefs du ciel under the aegis of the Knights Templar, the masters of secret.

"That's the message they wished to entrust to a game of cards before disappearing forever. So it's a money game with its rule that has settled into a wildfire in pubs all over Europe ". The Templars and the Companions image makers have been smart enough not to limit this wisdom to the elites: "It was a message in a bottle,Go to le testament des dieux an acquaintance sent, blind to future generations, for all practical purposes ..."

Because the game was modest, because the game saves money, because it made talking pictures instead of words and for other reasons likely, the message was forwarded to us . (source)All quotations are from the previous site letarot.com The main reason being that the message is correct, otherwise the time would have terminated it long ago. Prefering images to convey their message is a stroke of genius. Doing a game of money is another. In short, everything seems to have gone according to the plan of the Templars.

Whereby we have a treasure map that can not disappoint. It describes, step by step, the different energies we represent during a lifetime. These energies are the shaman's ladder, they are Jacob's ladder and they are spirit DNA's ladderGo to Spirale vitale of human species. To read the message, one just needs eyes, a head and a heart. Here are some glimpses of teaching that can be read. Each of us may extract inside sap. Each of us may come in the mystery by passing through the 22 gates of the major arcana.

Here, everything is meaningful: gestures, costumes, scenery, "errors", colors, nothing is placed at random. Beware of illusion!! Don't mix images and symbols.  To locate the original version you'll find excellent tips here. The classic version, the best selling is the Tarot of Marseilles by Paul Marteau. We much prefer the version of Nicolas Conver, Marseille, 1760, which has been beautifully restored by JC Flornoy who offers an inner vision of Tarot returning, after much research, the original colors and the exact line of the very first version.

You can get it here.Go to JC Flornoy Tarot site

The order begins naturally by the arcana I - the Magician, and continues through the arcana XXI - the World. At any time of the inner journey, the arcana without number, the Fool, can occur without warning. The Fool became the excuse of the Tarot game ; it is the ultimate goal of inner adventure, the Grail that everyone carries within himself and has to realize in this world. Have a look to this initiation through comics. Remember you are the hero of the adventure. On every arcana, the central character is you.

Arcana I - the Magician is the individual who embodies with the innocence of a public entertainer. He symbolizes the very young kig facing his coming life. Everything is possible for him at this point, because he forgot his past lives.Go to On n'oublie rien His life in kit is before him, as these items on the table. Like the Magician, like the young one entering life, you will see unfold stages of your life. Remind the tarot is only the skeleton. It is your responsibility to attach on this skeleton various muscles, flesh and skin, using your own memories.

At some point, if ever reading becomes boring, this means probably that you have not reached this arcana yet. Get back to the last arcana you liked. Here you are!

Arcana II - the High Priestess ; III - the Empress ; IIII - The Emperor and V - the Hierophant, represent the four main teachers encountered in childhood: the grandmother, mother, father and grandfather. Entering these images we find the steps of our first introduction, that of the physical body. First, the grandmother gives the toddler a seamless tenderness and stress free. This is the ground on which to flourish. Then the mother lavishes her care and love. In the Middle Ages, the origins of the Tarot, the mother did not care for very young children entrusted to the care of a grandmother as a nanny.

Around the age of 7, the father takes over. When the boy is 14, comes the turn of the grandfather, which transmits secrets of the soul. The child may face his first dream, his first challenge and his first sorrow: the opening of the heart that comes with the arcana VI - The Lovers. In Arcana VII - the Chariot, we see the young king, wearing the crown, trying to move forward in a strange truck: horses have only two legs, they are pulling each in a different direction, wheels are incomplete and blocking!

Note the red molding of the carriage which bisects our former lover: the energies of the bottoms do not irrigate upper chakras.Go to les sept chakras The first heartache makes you  less hard and teaches you life, but the tear of love is only a first test, and quickly pass the easy victory of the Chariot, pretending to be the King of the World. Remember the movie Titanic, when the young Di Caprio is dimmed by his first love. Like the lover in the Chariot, Leonardo rejoices at the bow of the gigantic ship. The rest of the story showed that this triumph was premature because the Lover, as it should, got  a broken heart.

In the next step, you become the arcana VIII - Justice. With the sword, you cut through, i.e. you decide. With the scale, you weigh the advantages and inconveniences. Same weight: undecision. If you do not know what you want, you know what you do not want. Denial of guardianship of parents, teachers, elder ones. You kick over the traces with the virtuous feeling for being always right. Pain received and given. The crown, again, encircled your head, symbolizing your ego, the crown is heavier than ever. This crown will be crowning us up to the arcana XVI - The Tower.Go to cette page There is still a long way before.

The way passes through the arcana VIIII - the Hermit. First refusal of what you are, first questioning about fundamental questions of existence, you begin to wonder if this whole story does not hide a few secrets. Immersing yourself into the I Ching, the Tarot, astrology or Kabbalah. You don't understand much, but you go on, isolating yourself, you kind of meditate. But the ego is still around. As long as your crown is on your head, enlightenment doesn't show off. The dark lantern you are holding does not illuminate much.

A renewal is required: the arcana X will allow your first molt. Wheel of fortune : that name must not deceive you, this is not a lottery, but a sort of torture device. No relation to the wheel of fortune that makes you rich. Here the word is used in the same sense that a gentleman of fortune, or pot luck. This is good or bad luck. This is random. The opposite of good old "every time you win." Here, every time you toast. The little king as naked as a blue monkey, is the ego that flickers, it will soon let go to pick up new energy.

Here comes the arcana XI - Strength.Or Fortitude You got a winning feeling that reminds of the Chariot, in a more assertive way. You move forward in material life, you make a living, perhaps you pick up the jackpot and get rich. This is the time of easy money and good cheer. In parallel with this material success, you get married, you get a place in the sun, you take care of your family. Happy people have no story, as we say in France: this arcana may last for years, and many people do not go beyond.

Suddenly, without warning, we are head over heels. Everything look different. The things you enjoyed yesterday are looking sad and empty. Over is your love, fled your companion, broken your achievements. The hardest trial you lived is now. The name is arcana XII - The Hanged Man. On your inner field, this is the first initiation. The being has achieved so far on the physical, material and emotional.

Here you leave what is human, too humanAs Nietzsche said to come into himself. Tired of Earthly knighthood, you discover with amazement a world you had previously ignored, Heavenly knighthood. The hangman is upside down, which means that everything has changed. What was up is down, the values are reversed, a new adventure begins: the quest for total freedom.Go to La voie du chamane

Then comes the unnamed mystery. It bears the number XIII. Does it mean happiness or sorrow? You are but a skeleton, you mow everything that impedes progress. In your haste, you cut your own foot. The severed heads of a daughter and a kinglet are engrams that you are wiping off. Plunging into the depths of unconscious, be summarized your life path. Reviewing the people you loved, those you betrayed, and those you lost.

It's time for the arcana XIIII - Temperance. The warrior becomes a fairy angel. Temperance regenerates and becomes your first magical powers, the flagship of the warrior on the path to enlightenment. You get wings to rise again. In your hands, two pitchers are joined by a trickle of water. It is the evocation of magical powers that first flush ; it is also a sign of the beautiful inner fluidity that characterizes this mystery. Finally, on your fontanel, a red flower announces first rise of energy that will be confirmed with the following arcane.

Enlightenment is approaching now. The arcana XV - the Devil presides over the opening of the first six chakras which are indicated on the subject's body by anthropomorphic  graphics: faces, eyes, etc. It is then invaded by the rising energy figured in red. Unconscious is figured in dark blue, contrasting with the spots of red energy and some places in pink color, representing flesh, human body, material life. The naked devil makes a warm and sensual atmosphere. Note that both sexes are chained and controlled however. You are surrounded by powerful happiness to exist. Full powers are coming next. This arcana, too, may take some time to cross over.

One day finally comes enlightenment.

You are admitted into the arcana XVI - the Tower.Go to cette page