Dance
of Life Cards: An Intimate Tarot
by Audrey Savage,
Ph.D. and Paula Scott Frantz
The ultimate purpose
of working with Tarot is growth: new beginnings, new understandings, new
directions, or ways to open new spaces both inside and outside yourself.
Beyond this you may seek knowledge of the "bigger picture", of the energies
of the new millennium or transformation, deepening the understanding of
your own story and perhaps how it fits into a larger story.
Well, this wonderful,
very connected tarot, the Dance of Life Tarot can truly help guide you
through this growing process. Each Tarot card portrays, in symbolic
form, some aspect of your life: an essence, an innermost nature, the law
of its being a central core. Within you are all of the energies shown on
these cards. Some of these energies are more developed than others, but
they are all there, both those that are acceptable to you and those that
are not. When a number of the cards are spread with the idea of telling
a part of your story, you will get the essence or central core of that
story. Growth. Transformation.
The illustration
for each suit card (except the Ace) incorporates the suit's icon, or a
variant of the icon, as a minor element and identifier. The Ace is
an enlarged, complex representation of the icon itself. A number of cards,
mostly in the Major Dance, use all four suit icons to convey significant
meanings such as The Free Child (the Fool) juggles them, Death tosses them
into fire, the Goddess Harmonia (Temperance) pours them from one vessel
to another, and Shadow (the Devil) stands on them.
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The
four suits have also been renamed as Self, Relationships, Health and Money
and your Material World, relating to the four major aspects of your dance
with life. They are set in "circular frames" with the suit icons as follows:
SELF
Self
Care
Life
Force
Creativity
Body,
Heart, Mind
Negative
Emotions
Self-Critical
Seven
Deadly Sins
Rebellious
Playfulness
Fulfillment
Contemplator
of Self
Dancer
of Self
Hero
vs. Demon
Self-Knower
*a
human eye
(In
an exception to the use of the icon as a minor design element, Two of Self
or "Creativity" shows
"ribbons
of [the] energy of creativity emerg[ing] from the center of the discerning
eye of the Self.") |
RELATIONSHIPS
Shared
Vision
Polarities
Closeness
- Separation
Attachment
Outsider
The
Mirror of Myself
Control
- Power
Abuse
Sensual
Nurturing
Four
Characters
Four
Characters Dancing
Four
Characters Loving
Union
*a
heart resembling the profiles of two people facing each other (In another
"minor design element" exception, Two of Relationships or "Polarities"
splits and rearranges the heart so the people face away from each other.) |
HEALTH*
Vibrant
Health
Body
Systems
Sexuality
Emotional
Burdens
Stress
Addictions
Allergies
Pain
Basic
Care
Meditation
Teacher
of Health
Juggler
of Health
Balanced
Health
Healer
*a
winged angel wrapped with a flowing ribbon (so the figure has the visual
flavor of a caduceus) |
MONEY
AND THE MATERIAL WORLD*
Balance
Winning
- Losing
Dreaming
vs. Reality
Greed
Trickster
- Honesty
Failure
- Success
Debt
Politics
Exploitation
Wisdom
Dragons
of Failure and Success
Work
Spirit
Success
*a
mandala with upward- and downward-pointing triangles
(symbolizing
your highest potential and the practicalities of your life) |
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