Tarot Yin & Yang, 4 elements, positive or negative!

I wish you a wonderful Sunday and maybe a text from a book in making can give you some thoughts:

Introduction

Do you reverse cards when you read Tarot, selecting a few cards to turn so that they appear reversed in the deck? When I shuffle my cards, I randomly take a few cards, turn them, and shuffle them back in.

It is not always the case that any—or even a single—card appears reversed in a reading, but it can happen, both one and several. There may be several reasons why you or someone else does not use reversed cards. By not reversing cards, you may believe that you are avoiding seeing the negative, which in turn makes your interpretation untruthful to what actually is. This, in turn, creates an illusion in which you deceive yourself. If you do not want to see and develop through challenges, you also miss the opportunity to grow, to be in harmony with your higher self.

It may also be that you find it inconvenient to reverse cards for each person or situation you read for, since you then feel you need to turn the cards upright again afterward.

It may also be that you do not realize the advantages of seeing the whole picture, or that you feel it becomes too much to learn; instead of 78 basic interpretations, there are now 156. What I mean is that the foundation of each card also has an individual meaning depending on your question. Is it a card for the day? A card in a position in a spread, for example, in the Celtic Cross, where you have 10 different positions, and each card receives an interpretation for each position? There is a difference between whether the card speaks about you or about a period of time. This means that the interpretation of a card is far more than 78 meanings. In the Celtic Cross, there are 780 interpretations, which may become 1,560 different interpretations if you reverse the card.

But do not be discouraged now. Instead, try to become curious—what might you have missed, what do you miss if you do not see all the possibilities? This does not mean that you understand everything that appears; sometimes, we need the experience in order to connect it to the card and then increase our knowledge of each card.

You may not realize, or have not been taught, that everything in the universe has an opposite: white against black, short against tall, night against day, and so on. These energies have their foundation in Yin and Yang, the two ultimate energies from which everything is built. When you only have all cards upright, you may believe you see only the good, the positive—but the negative also exists in cards that you perceive as entirely positive. Take card XIX The Sun, as an example. Sun = warmth, joy, enormous power. Yes—but the sun can also become too much; it can blind, burn, and dry out.

In every card in the Tarot deck there is Yin and Yang, that is, positive and negative, just as the Yin and Yang symbol appears: a white (positive) field with a black (negative) dot, and a black (negative) field with a white (positive) dot, showing that everything positive contains a negative part, both in the small (microcosm) and the large (macrocosm).

Tarot is a book, the Akashic Record, which contains all information about everything that has been, is, and all future possibilities. Nothing is carved in stone; you have the free will to act upon the *playing field that you have chosen in this life, where all alternatives exist. By “closing your eyes” to certain events, it is like taking a shortcut that becomes a long detour, where you may even encounter greater challenges later.

If you were to see each Tarot card as a letter, or an image as a written character that carries information, that information also depends on where on the playing field you are, as well as how you, as an actor, choose to act. We all also perceive images differently. You may see a rose and see the beauty, you may even sense the fragrance, while someone else sees only the thorns and feels the pain. Based on previous experiences (even past lives), we form our understanding. This means that while you may be a sun-worshipper, there are those who are allergic to the sun or who burn easily, who simply do not feel as well in the sun as you do. This means that every Tarot card you interpret is interpreted from your frame of reference, your beliefs created by your experience.

Sometimes I cheat in my daily readings. I simply do not bother to reverse cards, mostly because it means I would then need to turn them back again. Yes, that is important, because if you lay a reading for yourself, shuffle the cards, reverse some, and then later lay a reading for something else that has a completely different time perspective or for another person, the energy pattern remains.

Imagine that you are reading a biography. It is interesting, but in that book, there are also difficult life trials. They affect you. You may find it hard to let go of an event that has affected you, perhaps someone who has lost a loved one. The grief has marked the entire book. Then you pick up the next book, also a biography. It contains a lighter life experience, but there is an event that reminds you of something similar but worse than in the previous book. It affects your experience of the book you are reading, both negatively and positively, since everything has an opposite. You may feel that you understand the event better because you have read something more serious before. You have a new perspective influenced by what you have read earlier. It may also reinforce something, creating a fear that something similar could happen to you, because it affected you.

With this metaphor, I mean that if you do not turn the cards back before a new reading, the cards retain the “memory” of something that may now be incorrectly amplified in the new reading. Example: if you receive Ace of Cups reversed in the first “book,” the story may be about how a woman has lost a child (Ace of Cups reversed is rarely that dramatic, but this is an example). You read the book with tears in your eyes. Then you read the next book, and “Ace of Cups reversed” appears again because you have not turned the cards back. It is not a coincidence, because coincidence does not exist—but it may be a weaker aspect or a positive one (as I mentioned earlier, all cards, regardless of orientation, contain positive and negative in four parts, like the Yin and Yang symbol). In this biograph,y it may instead be about a person experiencing emotional disappointment in order to grow, not about losing someone.

Now imagine that you never turn any cards back after a reading; instead, you perhaps only reverse one or a few cards before each new reading. That means a chapter from previous biographies follows into the new ones.

Personally, if you intend to use Tarot to develop through knowledge from your higher self, then it may be important to see all aspects. If you only want a simple fortune-telling, shuffle on without reversing cards.

0/XXII The Fool

The Fool is the first card in the soul’s development. Within the Fool, all memories from a previous journey through all the Major Arcana cards (archetypes/nodal points) exist subconsciously. The card before it is either the completion of a life cycle in The World, with the openness to take another turn, and to trust intuition from previous experiences that exist only in the higher self. The memory, the thought, exists without conscious knowledge. In this, there is a longing to experience, an openness, a trust.

If the Fool instead is the step after the King of Swords, if life moves through the Major Arcana, Wands, Cups, Pentacles, and Swords, it shows determination after reaching mental competence. But if the Fool instead is the last card, XXII, a cycle in the Major Arcana is complete, and now a new spark awaits through the Ace of Wands, if we see that everything begins with the Ace of Wands through the Minor Arcana. Then there is a rekindling, an inner spark based on the Fool's understanding that “he” must pass through everything in the material world before beginning the journey through the spiritual.

But the Fool may also choose which energy he wishes to manifest more of in his new cycle: Wands for action, Cups for feeling, Pentacles for structure, Swords for thoughts.

The Fool is the essence, the life force, the most important aspect, as it is the card that symbolizes the soul, the soul’s journey in a lifetime. The Fool is your drop in the ocean, the energy that exists in everything, connected to everything, life after life, regardless of where you live them.

The Fool can symbolize a child, but also your inner child, your inner life spark. Probably the most positive card in the Tarot deck, since nothing can happen without this energy. It is Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, or simply everything, which you also find in the infinity symbol.

Upright

Positive: New joyful events. Spontaneity. Life force.

Opposite pole: Excessive optimism, refusal to take responsibility.

Reversed

Negative: Fear, not daring to develop, lost insights.

Opposite pole: Waiting, reflection, awareness that everything has not yet fallen into place for a new cycle.

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