Major Arcana Part I

Hello everyone!

Now that we have completed the Tarot 101 class, we will now move on to the Major Arcana. The Major Arcana consists of 22 cards. We will attempt to cover half of them at this meetup.

Each of these cards depicts a scene, mostly featuring a person or several people, with many symbolic elements. Most decks number each card and provide a name. A whole range of human life and experience is represented in the Major Arcana.

These cards symbolize physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual aspects of life. They are also used to illustrate the strengths, hopes and fears, and weakest parts of an individual. Sometimes they are positive and sometimes they can be negative or provide a caution to us if we don't do something to change our course of action.

Many of the Major Arcana cards show an archetypal figure, or in other words, a figure who is representative of the whole essence of a type of person. Archetypes might include: a warm nurturing mother figure, a strong figure of authority, a formal traditional religious leader, or even a magical, mystical, mysterious person. Archetypes can be representative of real people, whether it be in part or as an abstract symbol in one's life.

At this meetup, we will be covering the following cards: Fool, Magician, High Priestess,
Empress, Emperor, Hierophant, Lovers, Chariot, Justice, Hermit and Wheel of Fortune. We could spend weeks on each card......however, this class is meant to provide a general overview of the cards. You will then be able to develop the meanings of the cards further as you work with your own deck.

As we have recently discussed, Tarot classes of this nature are hard to find in the Houston area ~ and would typically cost at least $25 per class. This information is being provided to you ~ the Houston Tarot Meetup Group at no set cost. As always, a love offering will be collected.

If you weren't able to attend last month, don't worry. We will have handouts for you so that you can catch up!

And ~ this month we will have 2 door prizes!! This is since I forgot to give one out last month.

Bring your cards, your ideas, thoughts and be ready to learn!
This is going to be FUN!!

Email me if you have further questions. See you on the 23rd!

Doug Reuschel
Houston Tarot Meetup Group Organizer