This is the first of many of your meetings.
I would like to thank you all for being a group of ambitious souls looking for the truth that we carry deep inside ourselves...
This is a humble attempt to pull together the nectar from our gatherings..
I am very pleased to see Jesse and hope to have more younger readers join us.
Just to recap..
We discussed our lives and intent with Tarot.
We shared a little about ourselves.
Donna read a beautiful poem which we hope she will post on our site?
Many of us shared some of our favorite decks.
We spoke to the history of the heroes journey.
We were given the assignment to draw a card and take it home and see how it apply to us as well as become familiar with the card and bring it to our next meeting this Wednesday as an invited guest.
Regrettably, I did not get everyones card written down.
We also spoke some on the Astrological aspects and Adam brought a great resource of tarot and astrology to share with all of us. I will scan and post all materials we wish to share.
In respect to ritual and tarot... I would like to speak to this subject briefly and hold a time limit to this discussion .. the material world can be very clever in the means it comes to distract us from our purpose.
Ritual and Tarot do go hand in hand however it is not the intent of our work to become a coven or perform long rites and ceremony with the tarot at these meetings. I am open to a separate group that may stem from these meetings in reference to working with the tarot and spell casting..ect...
I do have a suggestion.
We take on each meeting the service of creating a tarot alter.
If we do decide as a group to take this on ... It MUST BE MAINTAINED it also must be treated with the highest of respect and taken down each meeting as well.
This would be done before the meeting at 6 pm.. That gives us a 1/2 hour to create sacred space.
The concept of casting a circle is not really nec for this meeting however taking time to ground may be a good idea.
If we created an alter with Tarot and each person came in and added to this alter and then at the end took something from it like fruit or what ever... This could be very simple in recognizing the sacred aspects of the astral causal and extended universes...
There are so many ways to call out and cast a circle.. I would rather just keep the concept very simple with no circle casting.. For many reasons.
I am very very very open to those of us who want more ritual in their lives and meeting on the other Wednesday as we meet every other wednesday to do such things as developing tarot and ritual together in a more structured manner.
For now lets keep this a a learning and artisit format...
I will build the alter for the meeting tomarrow and we can take 10 -13 mins to do the working..
IT means to bring something that represents the card that you are bringing to the meeting and
We can then move on..
I will also have some coloring projects for those of us who like to doodle.
Snacks are nice to bring and share if you like.
Remember your donations to our group go directly to the scholarship project for Willits Young Actors.. Please consider your tax deductible donations... Even if it is a few dollars... They add up.
However do not take this as a prerequisite for attending.
These are free donation based gatherings ..
The Muse, Willits Young Actors and Willits Center for Artful Living all want you as a community to come together...
If you know anyone intrested.. please ask them to come along!
Many Blessings
The Living Tarot
Scribe///
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