Tarot and yoga seamlessly intertwined becomes a powerful force of transformation and evolution.
1. Intuition & Answers: Tarot and Yoga practices quiet the mind. The tarotist centers herself to focus on messages coming through the cards while the yogi uses her breath to bring awareness to the body. Both activities engage deeper listening. We become the active observer. Intuition blossoms and we become adept at finding answers to life’s questions.
2. Sublime Structure: Tarot contains a gorgeous internal structure like the human skeleton. From blood to brain, ankle to elbow, we are all made of the same body parts. Yet who we are, the signature of our soul, how we inhabit our body is unique. No two people move in exactly the same way; not even identical twins.
Tarot’s structure is so well organized that anything can be placed within in. Multitude of spiritual systems, infinite themes are placed within the context of a tarot deck and make perfect sense. Just as Yoga’s structure evolves through archetypal shapes so does Tarot contain archetypal energy.
3. Archetype and Asana: Yoga asanas imitate the archetype of animals (ex. Down Dog) and objects (ex. Boat Pose). You can meditating on a pose just as you contemplate a tarot card. Pairing a yoga pose with Tarot cards offers the tarot reader an opportunity to experience and embody the archetype in a fresh, new way. Readers are who are used to entering the cards via guided meditation or role playing in a classroom or workshop situation will find a new way of embodying the cards through yoga postures.
4. Sacred Space: Tarot and Yoga allow the practitioner to create sacred space amidst the daily noise and distraction of day-to-day life. A tarotist clears and quiets the mind as she draws cards. A yogi settles down and focuses on the breath to quiet the mind at the beginning her practice.
5. Flow: Both tarot and yoga reflect life as a constant state of flow. In yoga we move from one asana or pose to the next while in tarot, the cards move in numerical sequence, the minors from ace thru ten and back around. The majors run from zero (Fool) to twenty-two (the World) and back again.
6. Personal Evolution: Tarot and yoga are both “practices” or paths that aid your soul in its unfolding itself. Tarot is a visual practice, operating symbolically and inspiring the reader’s creative imagination and intuition, while yoga is a physical practice where the student moves the body through postures called asanas. Each push us forward in unexpected ways and unleash possibilities we can scarcely imagine.
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Each of Tarot's major arcana cards are paired with a yoga pose in Llewellyn’s Complete Book of the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot by Sasha Graham
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