How to bend people to your will using the Tarot

11. Having had some business with the Major Arcana we can now turn our attention to the lesser or Minor Arcana. You will be using the Minor Arcana, of course, in your work to bend the universe to your ends.

The three card phrase. The Kabbalah hints at the concept of pairing and grouping together of letters (Major Arcana) to form more complex concepts. The same can be done with the lesser. I assume you are familiar with some of the basic concepts. For example, there is a progression from Ace to Ten, a natural flow. Let us utilize the triad of Ace, Nine, Ten...

There are some sixty four combinations of Ace - Nine - Ten. I suggest you avoid the selections that use the suit of Swords (er, spades) for now. For material wealth, those with the Ace of Pentacles are effective; likewise Cups for romance and fertility; and Wands for wisdom. Keep track of what you are doing in your journal to fine tune the results.

How to bend people to your will using the Tarot

Having done some serious work bringing Saturn into equilibrium one may now move forward to pick from the fruit of the trees in the Garden of Eden. Which fruit to pick? Is the fruit ripe? How do you prepare the fruit: peeled? squeezed? or in a dish of creme? Indeed. You are presented with the riddle of the Sphinx: which would you have: Power? Wealth? Beauty? Wisdom? You are no slouch, you know this story. The correct answer is always Wisdom. And for wisdom, you must bring Mercury and Jupiter into equilibrium. This is the Magician and the Wheel of Fortune.

This operation works best if, somehow, The Hierophant can be worked into the tableau. Are either of your natal planets, Mercury or Jupiter, resident in Taurus or Scorpio? This is not the case for everyone. So, let Fenris Badwulf tell you how to do this ... take out the tarot trumps for the signs where your Mercury and Jupiter reside, as well as the Magician and the Wheel of Fortune. Construct the two by two matrix, like before. Something like Mercury/Capricorn in the top row, and Cancer/Jupiter on the bottom. Now, to work in the Hierophant you must place the card beside the tableau to the left, then above, then below, then to the right. You can vary the above below right left. This time you must study the tableau four times. Record your observations in your journal.

Mercury is the messenger between the Conscious and Subconscious mind. The Subconscious mind has communication with the collective; and the collective has layers of its own (and messengers, of course, between the layers). If you want access to wisdom, which is in the gift of Jupiter, then you want to have conscious access to it. The Hierophant gives you sharper hearing when you listen for wisdom.

How to bend people to your will using the Tarot

9. Bringing Saturn into Equilibrium is a time consuming process, but worth the effort. You can look back on your struggles and laugh. You can shake your fist at the World, for you have overcome the lesser challenges of nature and situation. Re-read your notes in your journal. There you will find fresh insight, and you will find your journal entries to be a continuing source of enlightenment from now on.

It takes a full lunar month for your insights to become firmly installed in your life. In this time, you can contemplate the methods of actively writing the future, rather than being a passive reader.

So, we have all used the lesser arcana of the Tarot deck to predict the future. Some variant of arrangement of cards is used: a Celtic Cross, Gypsy Circle, or something. Here are some elementary rules to changing the future, your future, with the Tarot:

Exchange of cards.

1. Court cards. You can exchange from the spread to the deck. Keep to the same suit. For example, the liar, the Page of Cups, can be exchanged with the more noble Knight of Cups. If the Page of Cups is an outcome card, you can upgrade the outcome by exchanging the 'small potatoes' Page with the high powered King of Cups. The court cards of a suit can be exchanged with another court card, but stick to the same suit.

2. Number cards. The difficult experiences of the nine and ten of swords can be swapped out for the four.

Do some experiments. Keep notes in your journal.

How to bend people to your will using the Tarot

So, what actually causes the greater evils in the world? This is the world you live in, the world you find yourself in when you wake up in the morning, the one you travel through to work, to school, to buy goods and services. In the present time, we rarely talk about the causes of social ills. The thief that takes your property, the vandal that litters on your lawn, the pet poop on the sidewalk, all can be called sharp action. You may theorize about what causes sharp action in other people, both as victims and agents. The correct inquiry is what causes it around you. Placing Saturn and Mars into equilibrium will reveal to you the invisible lightning rods that attract sharp actions against you, and why you are tempting into such things yourself.

Method: take out the tarot trumps that represent Saturn and Mars (the World and the Lightning Struck Tower). Take out the trumps that represent the signs these planets reside in your natal horoscope. Arrange into a matrix, like before. Study and note observations.

Moment of Meditation

It is unpleasant, the future. Knowing the future causes depression. Only to the extent that we can obtain control over our external environment, relationships, and sleep cycles, that we can summon the psychic resources to develop meaningful solutions to the challenges of life.

How to bend the will of the people to your will, using the Tarot.

7. When you reach level Seven, you do not spend your time as you do now.

What do you enjoy for your minor vil·lain·ies?

7)1. Baseness of mind or character.

7)2. Viciousness of conduct or action.

7)3. A treacherous or vicious act.

How to bend people to your will with Tarot Cards

6. The Private Horror Film of the Soul. You should have, would have seen something special, un ordinary. Bringing Saturn into equilibrium with the two lights, Sun and Moon, does make manifest those things which are of the class described as 'family curses'. You have an excellent, hands on based, knowledge set and personal experiences with the concept now. It was as if the Platonic form of The Family Curse was made flesh for your contemplation as a coroner employed with an occupying garrison of Campbells in a valley of MacDonalds.

Now for a break, how about heart break? Denial and rejection is brought into equilibrium when you study Saturn with Venus. Use the method of two center cards representing Saturn and Venus (the World, the Empress). Above and beside are the two cards representing the signs these planets are in. If you wish to dally here, vary the signs with houses.