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Integral Tarot Meditation CD Set by Suzanne Wagner, November 7, 2005
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I find this CD set to be a powerful way to learn the cards in a tarot deck and what each represents. Suzanne designed her meditiations for the Aleister Crowley Tarot, but I find them equally applicable to any deck you prefer or use. Images and content clarify and strengthen an understanding of each card, and the depth presented card by card is simply amazing.
I've always been fascinated by the tarot, but never felt adept enough to use it without reference materials about to help me. These two CDs offer my best hope of marked improvement in recall and facility. For me, even more powerful than the application to tarot is my experience of inner remembrance and healing as Suzanne gently guides me inside. This thrills me doubly, because it was such an unexpected bonus. I'd recommend the CDs for that purpose alone, regardless of your intentions for learning and using the tarot.
Suzanne's voice is calming and pleasant as she guides the process. Derek Keith's music playing in the background is lovely and uniformly appealing throughout.
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Decoding The Essence, February 8, 2006
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In "Integral Tarot Meditation", Suzanne Wagner has gifted the Tarot world with a priceless tool of empowerment. Intended to work with the "Integral Tarot" book, this two CD set takes the Seeker on an incredible journey within themselves, introducing the archetypes of the Tarot as they exist within, and helping the Seeker to integrate their personal archetypes into their whole being.
The essence of each card within the Tarot comes to life in these meditations. The focus is on the Seeker, and how the energy of the Tarot appears in their life, rather than on a card that exists outside of themselves. This promotes two very important things: a healing for the Seeker, as they integrate their internal energy, and a deeper understanding of the cards themselves. Once the Seeker internalizes this energy of the cards, any work done with them will flow freely.
The Seeker is taken through each of the cards of the Tarot: Trumps, Court Cards, and Pips. Through a meditative journey, they meet the archetypes, come to a realization of what their personal relationship is to each of the archetypes, and integrate this energy into themselves in a safe, supportive environment. After the journey with the individual Trumps, Wagner takes the Seeker on a journey that shows how the energy build from card to card. This would be the journey of the Fool, and it is an awesome journey.
These meditations are based on the Thoth Tarot deck. There are some major differences between the Thoth deck and the widely used Rider-Waite deck (i.e. the inclusion of three Magus (Magicians), and a somewhat different titling of the cards), but I feel that the quality of this work stands on its own, and could be used by all Seekers, no matter what their deck of choice.
I have to mention the music - it is so superbly done that it becomes a part of the "safe environment" that Wagner creates for this journey, rather than standing out as "music" on its own. Kudos to Derek Keith, the gentleman responsible for this part of the journey.
This gracious tool of meditation is not a "one time use" tool. Life as we live it is a series of cycles, and part of each cycle is integration of the energies that we are working with. I can see these CD's being used by individuals, by groups, in a client setting, as well as in a formal counseling setting. Wagner has created a knowledgeable foundation for integrating the archetypes of the Tarot, and their wisdom, in a completely safe environment. This CD set is an investment in your own mental health - one that you will not regret.
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Suzanne puts the Integral in Tarot, November 7, 2005
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"Integral" means lines of development and integrating all aspects of our being, among other things. Tarot is often viewed as a prerational form of divination, but Suzanne brings out the architypes of the Tarot that can all help us integrate. Her meditations take us through five different paths of development to help us on our journeys of moving from one stage to the next.
Integral also means heavean and earth are not two. Suzanne helps us navigate our spiritual and material development, placing equal importance on both.
Integral is also about multiple perspectives. Suzanne has included so much wisdom from so many points of view that I found to truly use these CDs as meditations, I needed a remote to hit the pause button after each sentence!
Integral also implies that any experience will be interpreted by the our current level of development. Suzanne clearly understands that to develop transrational, metaphysical gifts and insights, we must learn all we can about our own patterns so we can recognize them when reading others and not project our own experience.
With Suzanne's insight, I now understand the tarot much as the "I Ching": not just a tool for divination, but a map to help orient us on our journey.
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