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Major Arcana Decimal Pairs

The soul’s path has a relationship between each of the ten cards in the worldly path and its corresponding position in the conscious spiritual path. Find below my interpretation of these pair relationships from a spiritual path perspective.

tarot major arcana the magician

THE MAGICIAN
Physical exploration. Will-power exercised to create physical experience.

Tarot Major Arcana: Strength

STRENGTH
Psychological exploration.
Will-power exercised to create psychological understanding.

Tarot Major Arcana - The Popess

THE POPESS
Accumulation of experience and creation of memory of self. Gradual crystallization of the notional entity “me” based on “my” memory.

Tarot Major Arcana: The Hangedman

THE HANGEDMAN
Relinquishing of all memory of self. Realization of Nothingness or Pure Consciousness as Self. Insight into the reality of the non-existence of “me” as a separate entity. Presence independent of memory.

tarot major arcana the empress

THE EMPRESS
Creation and growth of a personality including qualities both harmonized with and discrepant from our essential nature.

Tarot Major Arcana: Death

DEATH
Elimination of all that was accumulated that is discrepant from our essential nature. Cleansing. Removal of the unnecessary.

tarot major arcana the emperor

THE EMPEROR
Male. Intentional exercise of control and mastery.

Tarot Major Arcana: Temperance

TEMPERANCE
Spontaneous, effortless balance of opposites. Neither male nor female.

tarot major arcana the hierophant

THE POPE
Social rules and social order. Absorption of imposed behavioral patterns.

Tarot Major Arcana: The Devil

THE DEVIL
Self-limiting harmful rules and blind/unconscious obedience and subservience come to light and are shed.

tarot major arcana the lover

THE LOVER
Passion. Choice that affects people emotionally. Creation of karma.

Tarot Major Arcana: The Tower

THE TOWER
Inability to choose to be liberated from karma therefore external intervention destroys the rigid and liberates the heart to choose new paths.

tarot major arcana the chariot

THE CHARIOT
Accomplishment of objectives on the physical realm. Sense of self and connection to the world via accomplishment of deeds.

Tarot Major Arcana: The Star

THE STAR
Liberation from the compulsion or need to accomplish on any realm, including self-improvement and spiritual goals. Integration in the world via fearless being and inner freedom.

tarot major arcana justice

JUSTICE
Execution of cause and effect. Karma (unbalanced emotional bond) accounted for.

Tarot Major Arcana: The Moon

THE MOON
Emotional residues of karma come to the surface and are dealt with consciously, rather than brushed under the soul’s rug.

tarot major arcana the hermite

THE HERMIT
Introspection and self-assessment. Shedding light on past action.

Tarot Major Arcana: The Sun

THE SUN
Light is found within, producing liberation from emotional residues of karma and engendering unconditional love.

tarot major arcana the wheel of fortune

THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE
Bonding to the repetition of experience to create or pay karma.

Tarot Major Arcana: Judgement

THE JUDGEMENT
Final liberation from the bondage of karma through Self-Knowledge: through the Understanding that there was never a Self that was bound.