Look at the word TAROT.
The consonants conform the ‘body’ of the word: TRT
The first letter is a T, the last letter is a T: TT, like a house. A house with an R inside. A temple for that “RRRRRRR” sound. There we have our inner cathedral, holding the sound of Spirit!
A letter T represents an individual ‘reaching for heaven’, or expanding only on a vertical plane, but that expansion has been blocked, or stopped. In a way, the letter T suggest an individual who wants to live in the intellectual plane (If we look at the letter E we will see that letters would show the individual expanding in three different levels: lower/terrenal, middle/emotional, High/intellectual). By living in the intellectual plane the individual discovers that sky is not the limit, but thoughts are. That’s why the individual needs to move forward, as indicated by the letter R, but the individual moves only to find itself being trapped, again on a higher plane, in the final letter T.
If we were to operate like that we won’t be very practical!
The vowels conform the ‘soul’ of the word: AO
The letter A will be the individual becoming receptive to the ground, and the letter O would be the individual becoming whole. So, the message in the vowels would be “keep an eye on reality to get the full picture”.
The catalyst for the whole operation would be the letter R, which as I said before is a very driven shape, like the shape of a locomotive’s face, which moves the individual from being receptive to the ground (Letter A) to be whole, as represented in the letter O. But if we stop for a little bit to analyze the letter R we see that it comes from the letter P, and the letter P is created by the combination of the letter I and the letter O. A letter P is a letter I that became ‘pregnant’ at an intellectual level. That is why the letter R’s diagonal ‘leg’ is so important: it helps the letter P move forward while anchoring that pregnancy to the ground.
When we combine consonants and vowels, the message in the word TAROT would be: “Reach for heaven to work on earth. Keep your insights practical!”. No matter how elevated our insights, they are worthless if they can’t be applied to our day to day experience, for the tarot is a machine that creates inspiration for real life.
Se, there you have it. It is just a game. But if we play we may ‘get’ something we won’t get when we aren’t playing.
The main point I want to make with this exercise is this: in any process (word, card’s sequence, sea shells cast on a mat) we witness we need to detect the ongoing narrative. I have found out that the key question to uncover such narrative is this one: "how does this came to be?" ¿How that letter A came to be? ¿How that letter R came to be? ¿How that V de Epees came to be? How that Royne de Couppes came to be? The questions pre-suposes that whatever we are looking at isn't a static event, but an individual snapshot, a moment, a single manifestation of a continuous flow. This way, we can make letters, the cards, and the whole reality talk to us.
Best,
EE