Wanless Inspires Us

Last night, a group of us gathered in my home to watch 21st Century Tarot, a DVD featuring James Wanless, creator of the Voyager Tarot and author of several books.  The 55-minute video presentation inspired deep, and sometimes heated, discussion afterwards, which I loved.  Not only did tarot come up, so did old/new paradigm thinking, perception, art, literature, and much more.  We wrapped up by offering a couple of phrases each about what each of us takes with us about using tarot.  I wrote down more than I spoke.  Here’s what I wrote:

• A good reminder that the structure of tarot is a model for living holistically or ecologically.  Each section of the deck is a piece of ourselves.  The whole deck reminds us of our wholeness.
• “A card a day keeps the shrink away.”
• The bottom line use of tarot in the 21st century is INSIGHT.
• Choosing a card(s) at random surprises us into insight, takes us out of our habitual thinking patterns, and keeps us fresh in the present/now.
• A tarot session helps a person to realise that hir situation has a deeper, mythic resonance –> M.Y.T.H. = “make yourself the hero.”