Be true to yourself!
vision777 said:
i want to know what religion does all this stuff belong to ? i would like to have a better understanding about what iam studying can someone who does know give me some insight about this ? thanyou
Tarot is an amalgamation of religions. First, it relates back to ancient religions: Egyptian, Greek, and old nature/goddess religions.
Second it relates to early Christianity.
Third it relates to a mix of modern and ancient occult/mysticism. Alchemy, for example.
There is no one religion that tarot belongs to because it was created by many different people along the way, like a story being told, one person to another, each adding their own views on whatever religion they followed. There's some interesting critical remarks on Christianity in the cards...likewise, there's some cards that venerate Christiantiy.
For example, there are archangels like Michael and Gabriel in some cards. There's the Judement day card, very Christian. Other cards, like the High Priestess, has an interesting history of being perhaps critical of Christianity and being morphed along the way into relating back to Greek/Egyptian mythology on Moon goddesses.
There are Christian tarot readers, but a lot of Tarot readers are pagan or Wiccan--check out this forum:
http://www.witchvox.com/ though be warned that if you follow this path, your friends really will think you're going to hell
That's what the tarot teaches best, I think; that all these different relgions have points at which they meet, similarities that resonate. And so tarot often opens people up to the idea that this higher power need not wear one single face or have one single voice, that there need not be one single way to venerate it.
That, in short, all ways of venerating it are viable. Whether you put out an offering of milk on the doorstep or bow to the east at a certain time of day, or light a candle in a church or dance naked under the moonlight.
That, at least, is what Tarot has taught me.
Don't let anyone tell you you're going to Hell for tarot. That's being narrow and small minded. In the end, these people just want you to think like they do; they want to force you to be part of their club...and that means they're not being very good friends. Friends let friends be who they are. And people who are true to their religion convert by example, not by instilling fear or proselytizing.
Next time they say things like that to you, you tell them: "Prove to me I should be a Christian/Muslim by SHOWING me how good a person a Christian/Muslim is. Right now, you are pressure me, and not accepting me for who I am. Right now, I don't want to be what you are, because I don't want to treat people like you are treating me. Show me. Don't tell me, and maybe I'll believe you."
In the end, however, you need to follow your heart and spirit. What's right for you, is right for you. Anything else will make you miserable. And I don't think that higher power, the one which created all those billions of galaxies, which created love and bliss, wants anyone to be miserable and insincere in their worship. Do you?
