TeenyTinyTarot Marseille Style Tarot Trumps

Based on the classic Nicolas Conver design from 1760 All 22 Major Arcana Included!

All 22 Major Arcana or Trumps are includedwhat a wonderful gift! Not only do they stimulate the creative
imagination, they also communicate profound lessons in Christian life and spirituality. For example, the series of
cards above suggest that, Christ-like, we can die before we diethat we can take up our cross, our old man being
crucified with him; that we can become like little children and enter the kingdom NOW; and that being raised up
together with him, NOW, we can abide in him and walk with him in newness of lifehow cool is that!?

Playing the Fool

One way to familiarize yourself with these TeenyTinyTarot Trumps is by means of a very simple game
called, Playing the Fool (or, if you prefer, The Pilgrimage of the Fool). Heres how to play: Gently
randomize the order of the cards taking care not to bend them in the process and lay them out, face
down, in three rows of seven, as follows:
T T T T T T T
T T T T T T T
T T T T T T T
Turn the remaining card face up and play it in its proper position, numerically
speaking. Turn the face-down card that was in that position face up and play it in
its proper numerical position, and so-on, until all the cards have been played and
only The Fool remains. When the game is over, all the numbered cards
should be face up in their proper numerical positions as follows:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21

If the unnumbered Fool turns up before the last play of the game (as is usually the case), play it face down
in the position of another face-down card of your choosing and continue the game as before, until the last
card is played in place of The Fool (wherever it has finally ended up).
When the last numbered card is played and only the unnumbered Fool remains, the game may begin
again:
What we call the beginning is often the end
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from ~ T. S. Eliot
NOTE: It is considered by some to be very auspicious when The Fool doesnt turn up until the very last
play of the game. This doesnt happen often, but if you keep playing, chances are it will happen for you.
Best wishes as you continue on your pilgrimage have fun but try not to play the fool too often!

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The Symbolism of the Tarot

Quoting D.P. Ouspensky: "If we imagine [the] twenty-one

[numbered Tarot Trumps] disposed in the shape of a triangle, seven
cards on each side, a point in the centre of the triangle represented
by the zero card [the Fool], and a square round the triangle (the
square consisting of fifty-six cards, fourteen on each side), we shall
have a representation of the relation between God, Man and the Universe, or the
relation between the world of ideas, the consciousness of man and the physical world.
The triangle is God (the Trinity) or the world of ideas, or the noumenal world. The
point is man's soul. The square is the visible, physical or phenomenal
world. Potentially, the point is equal to the square, which means that all the visible
world is contained in man's consciousness, is created in man's soul. And the soul itself
is a point having no dimension in the world of the spirit, symbolized by the triangle. It
is clear that such an idea could not have originated with ignorant people and clear also that the Tarot is
something more than a pack of playing or fortune-telling cards (The Symbolism of the Tarot).

Quoting Paul Foster Case: "All the great initiates say, with Jesus, 'Of myself I can do nothing.' For the
same reason Jacob Boehme wrote:
"If thou canst, my son, for a while but cease from all thy thinking and willing, then shalt thou hear
the unspeakable words of God. . .When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before
nature and creature; thou art that which God then was; thou art that of which he made thy nature
and creature: Then thou hearest and seest even with that wherewith God himself saw and heard
in thee, before ever thine own willing or thine own seeing began."
"The more perfectly we understand that the office of human personality is to serve as a vehicle for cosmic
forces, the more freely does the Primal Will behind all manifestation find expression through us
(The Tarot: A Key to the Wisdom of the Ages).
Quoting Our Anonymous Author: "It is virgin Nature participating actively in the miracles of divine magic
which is the subject of the eleventh Arcanum of the Tarot, Force, representing a woman victorious over a
lion, holding its jaws open with her hands. The woman does so with the same apparent ease without
effort with which the Magician of the first Arcanum handles his objects. Moreover, she wears a hat
similar to that of the Magician in the form of a lemniscate. One could say that the two stand equally
under the sign of rhythm the respiration of eternity the sign ; and that the two manifest two aspects
of a single principle, namely that effort signifies the presence of an obstacle, whilst natural integrity on
the one hand, and undivided attention on the other hand, exclude inner conflict and therefore every
obstacle, and therefore all effort. Just as perfect concentration takes place
effortlessly, so does true force act without effort. Now, the Magician is the
Arcanum of the wholeness of consciousness, or concentration without
effort. Force is the Arcanum of the natural integrity of being, or power
without effort. Because Force subdues the lion not by force similar to that
of the lion, but rather by force of a higher order and on a higher plane. This
is the Arcanum of Force" (Meditations on the Tarot, Letter XI, Force 275; the
images of La Force and The Magician are from the CBD Tarot of Marseille by
Yoav Ben-Dov, CBDTarot.Com).

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