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The Tarot reminds us that everything is interconnected, that there's a synchronicity in events that is more than mere coincidence. With this in mind, we can use the symbols of the Tarot to begin to find some personal answers to those Big Questions. Lisa calls her personal answer Ol' Man River, who just keeps rollin' along, and Arlene likes to call it the ebbs and flows of life. Life, Arlene believes, has its up and downs. The wheel of life is constantly turning to bring us luck or a challenge. In other words, it's all about serendipity, yet, at the same time, everything happens for a reason and everything is interwoven. |
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The neat thing about Tarot is that you can figure out the reason something has gone on. Whatever your spiritual system, though, Tarot can help you stay in touch with yourself. |
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From One Artist (Gauguin) to Another (You!) |
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Gauguin's painting, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? is from his island phase, and his use of color imagery reached its peak during that time. Unfortunately, we can't show you this painting in color, but we can show you its vivid imagery, and we'd like to use it to illustrate how you can make a conscious connection between art, pictorial explorations of inner truths, feelings and emotions, and the Tarot. |
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Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? by Paul Gauguin, 1897.
(Tompkins Collection. Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) |
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We think Gauguin's painting is a perfect forum to open this discussion, as the questions in the title are the ones we all ask ourselves when we come to the Tarot. You could think of this painting as an allegory, exploring possible answers to these difficult questions by telling a story. |
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