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Tarot Contest. Win a Tarot Deck.

Symbolic Living — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:20:13 +0000

It’s easy to win a FREE Tarot Deck.

Contest to win a Tarot Deck starts September 1st and ends on a surprise date before October 31st.

Enter the contest to be placed in the draw to win.

Simply write 1 paragraph no less than 4 sentences on one of the following:

Which tarot card is your favorite and resonates with you most and why?
Explain how you see your astrological sign relates to your own personality.
Explain your favorite tarot spread layout other than the most popular Celtic Cross.

Easy Rules:

Submit more responses and get more chances to win.
With each new response your your name will be placed in the draw to win, the sky is the limit.
Your answer may be featured on the site, and must be unique.
No copy/pasted material or information from other websites or books allowed (entry will be disqualified).
Answers must be no less than 4 sentences (easy right). You can write much more if you wish.
Announcement of the winner and winning deck will occur on the Surprise date before October 31st, 2010. Don’t wait to enter, you may miss out on getting a free tarot deck.

What Tarot Deck is up for grabs?

One of the following tarot decks will be randomly selected by hat draw the same day as the contest winner is randomly selected.

Find out more about these Decks in the Tarot Shop

Announcement of the winner and winning deck will occur on the Surprise date between September 10th and October 31st, 2010.

Delivery of Tarot Deck to the Winner

Free Delivery

U.S. and Canadian Residents – delivery time average up to 2 weeks.

Overseas Residents – delivery time averages 6-8 weeks.

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Symbolic Living Discussion Update

Symbolic Living — Sun, 30 May 2010 15:03:17 +0000

We will now be featuring a listing of recent discussions at the Symbolic Living Forum.

Here is the first installment of what’s recently being talked about at Symbolic Living.

Astrology

Astrology: Can you tell what sign someone is?

Tarot

Get new insights into the meaning of the tarot

What Tarot Deck do you use the most?

Tarot: The Magician

The High Priestess

Minor Arcana – 04 – Four’s

Minor Arcana – 05 – Five’s

Minor Arcana – 07 – Sevens

Minor Arcana – 08 – Eight’s

Minor Arcana – 09 – Nines

Minor Arcana – 10 – Tens

Minor Arcana – 11 – Page’s

Minor Arcana – 12 – Knight’s

Mythology

Watch a few video’s on the development of cultural myths

video: symbols, psychology, personality, stars

video: The History of the Devil

Symbols

See Gypsy Bladesmith’s new project in creating a sword.

Egyption ribon twist.

revelation: the reiki symbol cho ku rei and the yew rune are very similar

Dream Interpretation and Psychology

Other dimensional beings-experience

Dream about a bird

a dream…

Precious Gems

Art & Media: Creative Arts, Films, Books…

Ellen Degeneres Eleven Eleven?

Secret Cinema

Metropolis – Madonna and Beyonce Ritual

Showcase: Artists & Writers

War IS the Answer!

Our Lady of Names

The Sacred Grove – Philosophy & Spirituality

Left Hand Path

See this wild video

Having a lot of Fun at Church!

Quantum Physics, Butterfly Effect

full moom ritual may 27 2010: hekate

Oak King and Holly King

Texts, Passages & Quotes

Power to become a child of God

History and Civilization

Video: explaining geomantic ley lines

Sci-Fi, Psi, Supranatural & Conspiracy Theories

Video: Psychic makes predictions on conspiracy theory, magick, occult, mason, aliens

Nazi and American occult connections and interdimensional technology/ufo’s

Video: The orion conspiracy: false flag alien attack, nazi, bluebeam

Communications and Media

Uh Oh. Facebook in hot water, privacy concerns again.

Smart dust

Social Transformation

History repeats itself

Interesting People

The Evolution: Science and Technology

Energy fields, auras, polarity, torsiforces, chi, cosmos, vacuum, healing, dimensions

Internet Browsing – Firefox, Google Chrome, IE…?

The Venus Project – Living in the Future

Also

Nadiya Shah’s Course in Astrology is being formatted for a home-study e-book and will be available early June, 2010.

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Eros

Symbolic Living — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 01:04:42 +0000

Eros is Love, the most powerful of all the gods born from the oldest gods Khaos (Air), the dark and formless void, and Nyx (Night), the most ancient goddess. Later, writers made him one of the youngest gods, as the son of Aphrodite, the goddess of Love. Eros is the physical, magnetic force of the universe of attraction in matter, where love and sex are experiences of the union of matter and spirit in passion symbolizing this force.

Depicted as a young winged boy, Eros, arouses love and desire by shooting his golden arrows with dove feathers into the hearts of mortals and gods. The Romans names Eros – Cupid which means desire. His other arrows were made of blunt lead and cause those inflicted to fear love.

Eros is the Greek god of love and desire whereas Agape, is the god of unconditional, spiritual love.

Eros powers of arousing love could also wound hearts. For love can cause also cause pain. He would often shoot is arrows into unsuspecting victims in turn creating a frenzy of passion and all the blessings and trials that love imbues.

When Aphrodite became jealous of the attention and admiration Psyche (a mere daughter of a King) was receiving, she asked Eros to shoot his arrow into the heart her so she would fall in love with a most hideous creature. In the process Eros fell in love with Psyche, some versions of the legend state he pricked himself with his own arrow throwing him under the spell of his own flames of raging love. To conceal his identity Eros asked Psyche to not light her chamber. One night her curiosity beckoned her to light a lamp while Eros slept. A drop of hot oil fell onto Eros, awakening him. He fled and Psyche desperately traveled the earth trying to find her lover. Eventually they were reunited with Zeus consenting them to marry.

The myths of the Roman Cupid (Greek Eros) and Psyche intertwine their myths in writings over the ages. The younger Cupid, in his relationship with Psyche represents the maturing of Love. Psyche means “butterfly” and “soul.”

The Lovers Tarot

Key phrase. Union born from division. Magnetic Force.

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Egyptian Gods Haute Couture

Symbolic Living — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:04:08 +0000

Christian Dior’s Haute Couture show, designs by John Galliano. Egyptian Gods and Goddesses adorn the walkway with spectacular fashion. The visual artistry of Ancient Myth and History brought to the modern era with exquisite designs. Isis, Anubis, Tut, Hathor, and many more in headgear, masks, scarab earings, and broaches, animal prints, mummies… The collection looks like it stepped out of a mystical, egyptian, thoth tarot deck. A Golden show. Fine Art.

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Tarot of Marseilles the Holy Mountain

Symbolic Living — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:58:24 +0000

This clip is by Alejandro Jodorowsky on the Tarot. From the psychedelic, and comfort pushing film The Holy Mountain. The Holy Mountain has explicit scenes and is therefore not posted here. However, this scene shows an interesting arrangement of artwork dedicated to Tarot symbolism during an explanation of the Tarot by Alejandro Jodorowosky.

From the film:

The Tarot will teach you how to create a soul.

I have always been drawn to things I found interesting, but I couldn’t understand. The tarot fascinated me because it was very strange.

I started studying the tarot, card by card. I saw it’s structure – 22 major arcana, and 56 minor arcana. I saw the suits – swords, wands, cups, pentacles. I identified them and so on. But I didn’t understand the tarot. Then I started mixing the cards. I saw I could put them together, and I realized that the 78 cards could be joined in a mandala, in just one image. You see all the tarot at once, you realize it is a unit. And then you study the different parts. Onc e you analyze this you learn to see the tarot. You must not talk about the future. The future is a con. The tarot is a language, it talks about the present. If you use it to see the future you become a conman. You are just a charlatan, For me, the tarot was something more serious. It was a deeply psychological search. When you work with the tarot, you see that cahnce exists, synchronicity exists, everything is linked. But nothing is a matter of probability. If you set your spirit to something that phenomenon will happen. When you are determined, when you deeply enter that dimension that I call the dance of reality, the world dances around you and gives you what you seek.

One day a dumb man came to see me. I don’t know how old he was. He said, “I am a descendant of the Camoin family, who have been printing the tarot for two centuries. I need you to help me restore the Marseille tarot.”

He had the wooden sheets of the old tarot, he had tarot collections… He gave me all the material I needed and we restored the tarot. We left if exactly as it was in 1400. We couldn’t go any further because there is no data. But it’s as ancient as you can get. We restored the 11 colors, the symbols, everything.

Everything symbolizes something the tarot. It’s an encyclopedia of symbols, its’ a great optic language. All the card games you know come from the tarot, even the poker cards. It’s a card game. It doesn’t have 78 cards, it has 26 cards less. In the Kabbalah, 26 is the number of God. Poker is a card game without God.

Everywhere I went I found a different tarot. I got to have about 1,500 different tarots. I had a collection. But I knew there was a tarot that all the others came from. Breton said. “I don’t understand it, but I respect it.”

So I studied the Marseille tarot. The Madman – total freedom, no limits, no definition. The Magician is the beginning the choice, the right choice. The Papess – gathered experience. The Empress – an explosion of creativity with no sense of direction. The Emperor – material stability, total stability. Stable. The Pope – one step beyond stability, the beginning of spirituality. The Lover – to finally do what you enjoy, to establish a relationship with the world. The cart – action in the world. Complete action in the world. Justic – to get what you deserve. The Hermit – deep connection with yourself to go through a crisis to rise the lamp, that is, to find your inner light. The Wheel of Fortune – the end of a cycle. We need something to help us pass on to another dimension. Force – to deeply feel your libido, your animal forces and to materialize them. Twelve, the hangman – to deeply get in touch with your spiritual side, to stop choosing, to momentarily get away form the world, to stop the world and get in touch with yourself. Thirteen – the Arcana with no name. It’s not Death. It’s the Arcana without a name. It’s the big, big revolution and transformation into something new. Fourteen – healing. To heal yourself. To get in touch with your creativity without fear of seeing yourself. To be aware of your drives and make them materialize. The House of God – what used to be closed is now open. To push the boundaries to go beyond your mental limits. To go beyond your emotional limits, beyond every limit. To open up. Seventeen – the Star. The star means finding a place, and once you find it, to act in the world. To receive from the cosmos and give to the Earth, to purify life. Eighteen, the Moon – the great archetype of receptivity, the Mother Goddess. Poetry, madness, receptivity. The Sun – the beginning of a new life, total love. Twenty, the Judgment – the whole work, at last, when you have discovered the animus and the anima, your feminine side and your masculine side. The creation of an androgynous though that leads to a superior mind. And the World – total awareness. Your feminine side, your masculine side, your intellectual side, your sexual side, your emotional side and your earthly side.

We go from the Madman, who symbolizes total freedom… We go through all the Arcana until we get to the World, to complete union. Union, yoga, religion… All of that means union. A cellular organism is alive when it’s linked to its environment. The same is true of the human spirit. If you don’t have links, if you don’t relate, you die. The Madman goes to the World to get linked to it. When you are linked to everyone, there are no enemies.

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Halloween and Death

Symbolic Living — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:54:32 +0000

Death Tarot Card 13

Samhain (summer’s end) is now here and the celtic new year is beginning.

This is the time of year when the veils between the material world and spiritual world are at their thinnest. Many are now thinking of their ancestors and loved ones who have passed away to the other side.

Today this reverence for the dead is a popular, fun festivity of celebrating death’s mysterious and haunting nature with ghosts, goblins, zombies, vampires, witches, werewolves, devils, cauldrons, fire and brimstone.

The end of life on earth is fated for everyone. The cycle of life takes us all for a ride on the wheel of our fates. In the tarot the death card represents a powerful transformation not surprisingly trumping the hanged man card. The Grim Reaper is shown riding a horse, reference to one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse of Revelations. Death is so powerful no-one is immune at any age, class or other variation of status. Uniting everyone’s reality, death guides us to look at the choices of our lives while we can. In life we may have determination, goals for success on earth, but the death card trumps strength, suffering and ego. Death is symbolically associated with the number 13 in the tarot deck. However, the tarot does not end with death, there is hope, the transcendence of death and the hero’s journey continues on, seeking immortality through spirituality.

In Halloween fashion celebrating death we thought we’d share a few classic movie scenes, but there are so many, here’s just a few favorites.

In honor of the late Michael Jackson, we felt this video deserved the top spot for this Halloween.
Thriller is an Unbeatable Classic.

Carrie by Stephen King. Who can deny this as a classic climactic scene of memorable horror films.

Rosemary’s Baby (Spoiler if you haven’t seen this movie yet, don’t watch this scene!)

The Evil Dead. This movie went on to have a similar sequel with a comedic horror feel, Evil Dead 2. Both are suggested for Halloween Horror fun.

The Shining. You know we couldn’t go without having one of the best scenes from The Shining on our list with Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall.

Friday the 13th. This scene is one of the best of the film, but don’t stop there. The next two scenes are even better.

Halloween. Who can forget the catchy tune. If you haven’t seen Rob Zombie’s remake, it’s worth seeing.

Resident Evil Lazer Scene:

There are many more. Add to this list by suggesting a few of your favorites.

Happy Samhain Everyone.