THE ZODIAC AND ITS INFLUENCE IN THE HUMANITY

THE ZODIAC AND ITS INFLUENCE IN THE HUMANITY
VICTOR MANUEL GUZMAN VILLENA

In spite of the antiquity of the esoteric rites, it is not easy to determine if these come from the Chaldean-Assyrian empire, culture that being based on ancient monuments, its origins are assign back up to forty centuries before Christ.

With regard to the religious principles that were forming the beliefs of the Chaldean-Assyrian culture, it is necessary to point out that the principal foundation of that religion was the astrology. His doctrine was settling, fundamentally, in the movement of five planets to which there were calling interpreters, between whom the principal one was Helios (the sun). They were observing the trajectory of the stars in the firmament, as well as the color of the same ones, and of these remarks they were deducing all kinds of climatological phenomena: atmospheric changes, thunderstorms, temperatures, rains, eclipses of moon and of the sun, appearance of comets, etc.

Those advanced astrologers were placing along with five planets thirty stars, which they called “gods advisers”. Of them, fifteen were inhabiting on the ground and others fifteen under it. For this method they could differentiate clearly, according to them, the celestial from human matters.

They were adding next, twelve lords of the gods, each of them entrusted to preside one month and one sign of the zodiac. They believed the moon was closer to the ground as a consequence of its weight; and also that its revolutions realized in less than those of the sun because the circle that it was describing was much minor.

The Chaldean priests created the Zodiac and did the division of the sky in twelve equal parts, to which they called the “twelve zodiacal houses”.

This first house the life;
the second, the wealth;
the third, the brothers;
the fourth, the relatives;
the fifth, the children;
the sixth, the health;
the seventh, the marriage;
the eighth, the death;
the ninth, that of the religion;
the tenth, the dignities; l
the eleventh, the friendship; and,
the twelfth one the enmities.

The Sun for them was favorable and beneficial, and meant kings, princes, big judges, etc.

The melancholic and humid Moon. It was reigning on the actors, bartenders and all those works develop at night.

Dry and ardent Mars and it was dominating on the warriors, cooks, bakers, smelters, locksmiths and other offices that iron and fire were used.

Sad and cold Saturn. He was reigning on the old men, the ecclesiastics, monks, convents and in general on all those who find isolated of the society, in a contemplative life.

Moderate and benign Jupiter and its empire was spreading on wise, big philosophers, the magistrates, etc.

Mercury was variable and inconstant. It was influencing the astrologers, geometers, poets, historians, physicists, inventors and, in general those who were devoting themselves to the sciences and the arts.

Fecund and beneficial Venus had under its protection the loves, the weddings, musicians ,perfumeries, jewelers, , etc.

The signs were dividing in:

Positives: Aries, Leo, Sagittarius, Gemini, Libra and Aquarius.
Negatives: Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, Scorpion, Capricorn and Pisces.
Cardinal: Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn.
Fixed: Taurus,Leo, Scorpion and Aquarius.
Mutable: Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces.
Fire: Aries, Leo and Sagittarius
Earth: Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn.
Water: Cancer, Scorpion and Pisces.
Air: Gemini, Libra and Aquarius.


Everything previous exposed belongs to the called Astrology Judiciary,it believes it founder was Hermes Trimegistro, who also practised other secret sciences that have received the name of “Hermeticism“, derived from the famous Egyptian.

There exists another type of astrology that is the so called Medical Astrology, is about the influence of the stars in the different parts of the body. Hippocrates supported the theory of which the stars were influencing straight the development and appearance of the illnesses.

Galeno had a special worry for the moon and he said that the keys days belonged to the different phases of the satellite of the earth. Also he admits the intervention of other stars and support the idea if these stars lack of influence, and the sun source of light, heat and life, is the only one that governs four seasons, these should be always identical, without offering any type of change, since the course of the sun does not change; therefore, it is necessary to find another cause that explains this absence of climatic uniformity.

For Paracelso, the stars come up to us corrupting the ambiance of the ether that wraps and protects all the beings. The effects of these influences change to the disposition of the good or bad disposition of the being on the one who acts, depending also on the nature of the star.

Hermes Trimegistro was affecting on the action of the planets on five orifices of the head. Newton and Mead refer to the influence of the moon on the tides, from which it is deduced that in the same way it can influence the body and its systems.

According to the general principles of the astrology:

The Sun governs the heart and the head. It dominates on the happiness, the hope and the profit.
The Moon governs the brain and right arm. It has domain over the sleep, the wounds and the thefts.
Jupiter governs the liver and the belly. It dominates on the honor, the wealths and the desires.
Venus protects the kidneys and the left arm. He reigns in the friends and the loves.
Saturn governs on the spleen and the left foot.
Mars governs the genital parts and the bile.
Mercury the lung and the right foot.

The orifices of Hermes to which earlier we allude, are ruled by means of the following influences:

Jupiter and Saturn, the ears
Mars and Venus the holes of the nose.
The Sun and the Moon, the eyes.
Mercury, the mouth

With regard to the zodiacal divisions, his influences on the parts of the body are:

Aries the head.
Taurus the neck.
Gemini arms back.
Cancer on the breast and the heart.
Leo the stomach.
Virgo the belly.
Libra kidneys and the buttocks.
Scorpion genital organs
Sagittarius on the thighs.
Capricorn in the knees.
Aquarius on the legs.
Pisces on the feet.

This art of reading the stars, went on straight from Egypt to Greece, where it acquired extraordinary heyday and where it named ASTROLOGY, which means: "science of the stars".

Homere speaks often about this science. Fell of Mileto, Pythagoras and Democritus spread it for the whole Greece. From Alejandro Magno, who in several occasions came to the horoscopes which predictions were fulfilled, the different branches of the Astrology melted together.

Also in Rome the astrology had very favorable acceptance; confirms the fact that all the patrician that were possessing fortune were financing the services of a particular astrologer, whom they were calling “the mathematician”.

During all the times, the astrology had big heyday and in the XVIth century following once again the ways planned by the ancient Egyptians and Caldeos, they did not exclude cabbala, magic, alchemy was continued and the knowledge of the astrology increased and the fact was that one of his followers Pecho Pomponazzi, Aristotle's supporter, who wrote his Treaty on the Immortality of the soul, where it supports that the reason itself is incapacitated to solve this question, which can only be revealed by means of revelation. The above mentioned it was burned by order of the inquisitors of Venice, going to increase the number of the works prohibited by order of the Council of Trent.

Following the course of the history we have another famous astrologer Miguel de Nostradamus. He was a master of the gift of the prediction; and each of the centuries into which the book was divided, it was considered to be an authentic oracle whose secret sense they were trying to find out.

The Nostradamus predictions were a matter of numerous publications and they were re-printed often. In Spanish diverse translations exist under the title of "The Lucky charm of the dreams" and "Night Visions".

It is said that Nostradamus that was not acting like most of the astrologers, but for his knowledge and his studies of the Egyptians and Persians he achieved big knowledge and was capable of formulating, not already by means of horoscopes or evocations of spirits, but simply for seeing a person.

And we come until our days and have the big astronomer Hawking with his History of the Time who points out that if the science manages to find a finished theory of the universe, “it would be the definitive victory of the human reason, because then we would know the God's thought”. and he keeps on saying in his theory that meanwhile the universe had a beginning, we might suppose that it had a creator.

But if the universe is really a suppressed in itself, if it does not have any border or rim would have not even beginning not end simply would be.

What place stays for a creator then?

TO LIVE OF LOVE

TO LIVE OF LOVE


VICTOR MANUEL GUZMAN VILLENA

We are an invention of love and therefore we have been created to love. We are conductive wires of the high tension current of love, that's why the pride must not exist in us, because the pride is an insulator of love; that's why we must love our neighbor as ourselves, because to love ourselves more than others humans is to interfere the love and to be selfish. The human being is the only creature that can love with sense in the whole universe. Every human-being is not a meaningless passion, but it is a passion which sense is other human.

With this brief introduction we can affirm that love is an events with a duality. It is temporary, because love goes away; happens for more or less passionate stages, the meetings, the breakups … But love supposes also a challenge to the eternity, because it wants to be lived to the margin of time, hoping that it should be absolute, definitive, for ever.

This way, whenever we love, we slink of the time to penetrate into a possible eternity. Love and passion ignore the time. The person in love lives bringing together a rabid present and an unconscious eternity. If we speak about the passion, all these characteristics sharpen. The lost love creates an eternity that tends to the past. That moment provokes, an escape of temporal flowing, where the events that happen to rest in the past, cut themselves off of the actuality and tend to the disintegration, to forget. The human memory fights to avoid this opaqueness of the lived that is not there anymore.

To rescue the past to give its intensity to the present has been a constant effort of the human beings. If this idea limits itself to a personal ambience, let's admit that the mere actuality can be lived in a disinterested way. The future, undecipherable one, does not penetrate us. The past, on the other hand, is a well-known but still fecund region and, for the proper investigatory nature of the human being, never left.

In order that it is possible to live of love, is necessary to provoke an escape of the time . Isolated of his context crystallized by the powerful flow of the event that is already not part only part of the past. This one is constituted like a germ of what happens contemporary and give complete sense to the life. This way, the past is already not "the past", because it loses its ghostly appearance and claims its actuality. Extracted from this forgotten panorama.

The route of the memory turns into the instrument to create the erotic of time, a recovery of past sensations, which does not claim only recreation, but it tries to do that pleasure and memory are equal. An example of it is the invocation of a past sensation, which must wake up the memory of the body, the lips, the skin … those that we can remember. The body seems to have cognitive capacity, at least in the indelible sensual sphere. The body feels, but also thinks, remembers … the body knows. We find equivalences where the memory monopolizes the most splendid erotica of our being, and this way we are giving a new draft in the lucubration for the time and the memory or for the Life, memory and pleasure unite in a whole. The pleasure is the memory and the memory the authentic life of all.

Sometimes, the memory does not need a catalog of finished experiences. The ephemeral, creates the whole universe of sensations. It is enough a minimal moment, perhaps furtive and fast to remain patented in our lives. The attraction does not need any other stimulus. The look only needs the confrontation with the beautiful, despite the temporary moderation of the meeting.for one hour. I ask for the eternity that lasts what the passion. This eternity is created by the stimuli of the memory and the quantity of sensations that never exhausts its renewal.

Let's point out that before the dashing and uneases of time we have left only the memory. The pain and the old age disappear, even if it is only for a moment, but the exhaustion that is the life can only be supported if we approach what it overcomes us. I invite you to exceed the limits of the knowledge, establishing new orders between words and things, using the multiple variety of tools that provides the human experience, as they are to live on small moments, glances, solitary digressions. This way we will obtain that past and present, confused in our bodies exceeding the time.

Why suffer if everything is relative?

"To be happy means to be able to perceive ourselves without fear.”

(Paul Klee, German Painter)

VICTOR MANUEL GUZMAN VILLENA

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Everything changes. Nothing remains immovable, everything is in constant vibration that is express by the hermetic philosophy, which has arrived to us from old Egypt. If everything is in movement and nothing remains the same, why to become distressed?. Of what has been said: if we lose a beloved one, that day will be very painful and an abyss by the death of the relative is open before us. The days go by and our soul suffer the absence. The months go by and the person begin to tranquilize. A year goes by, and the memory of the dear one began to disappear. After about three years, everything is vanished, the absence, suffers, memories, everything faded. What means that everything is relative.

Another example, you are an outstanding person. The impression that exists is you are irreplaceable in the family, in the pubic area. And when arrived the hour in which you have to leave this world. People repeat the usual phrase: is an irreparable loss. In the few weeks, all the emptiness that you left are covered. Everything continues working as if nothing had happened. When the newspaper at dawns arrives, you open the newspaper and you are overwhelmed by the news of the events of your city, country and of the world. On the following day, you feel again shaken by the series of the fatalistic news. The news of the previous day no longer impress you. To the third day, the press gives account of new horrors that impact you deeply. The news of both previous days already disappeared. Nobody remembers them. And thus day after day. Everything flows, like waters of a river; that they flow and does not return.



We verified time and time again that everything is so relative. Therefore What is the sense of suffer today by something that tomorrow it will not be? People suffer because of her myopia, or better said, because they are slept. Applies this reflection to your familiar life, and we will see that one tremendous familiar crisis of the past month already belongs to history; and the scare that today dominates you, a month after will only be a memory. Seated in front of the television we depressed ourselves by the political events, the championships, competitions, the red chronicle and the misinformation. While we are watching the news our mood raises or falls as if at every moment our eternal destiny was in play. But there is no such: everything is ephemeral like the dew in the morning. Nothing remains, all happens, then, Why to become distressed? Everything is unconscious, momentary. Therefore the secret is to reduce everything to its objective dimension.

Everything what happens in the world and around us is marked with the sign of the transitory. In history, everything seems, shines and disappears, is born and dies, comes and it goes away. The illusions of self and external senses give us as real, which in fact is fictitious. It is necessary to leave the error and the sadness: the error of thinking that the appearance is the reality, and of the sadness that the human experiments when feeling and to verify that what believed was not but one empty shade. It is necessary to take back consciousness of relativity and thus to save energies to take flight and to rise over the frightening emergencies, and to settle ourselves in the immutable presence of being, the self control and serenity; and, from this position, to balance the painful weight of the existence, the ties of the time and the space, the threat of the death, the impacts that come to human being from far or from close. We must be free of tension and bathed of serenity. So whenever you are dominated by the anguishes, put to work this means: to relativize.


WHAT IS TO RELATIVIZE?

It is an ambiguous word. Many have this idea, when we are relativizing, we were concealing or disguising something. They think that it is like to wear blue spectacles to seeing in blue. Exactly is to do quite the opposite: to take off the spectacles and the masks to see the things as they are, to reduce them to its exact dimensions and to accept them as they are; to sum relativize is as valuable as to be objective; and is one of the most effective ways to alleviate the suffering. And this suffering is because the human mind has the tendency to mark with absolute value what happens to us at the moment, due to the nature of the human mind, and by the way to undergo the reality. The way to undergo the things is the following one: To feel an emotion, when “living” a fact is the identification that occurs between that experience and the person, that identification absorbs the person in such a way that the person has the impression that at this moment there was not more reality than that experience.

And as the person lacks distance or perspective to appreciate objectively the dimension where is living, because the experience is too immediate and it surrounds him/her completely, and for that reason is absolute, the sensation of what is happening at that moment, has the excessive entity, and of the lack of comparison terms, of which the world will be reduced to this and that it seem will always be this way. That is why the person is flooded whith anguish and felt entirely dominated by that feeling.

Therefore it is necessary to relativize, since nothing is absolute and permanent, always in change

Harmony of the natural forces

VICTOR MANUEL GUZMAN VILLENA

Literally, the science of wind and water, Feng Shui, is the Chinese geomantic practice of locating or creating suitable places to live, work or even die. As Eitel wrote, a nineteenth century Christian missionary, "the Chinese contemplate the nature not as an inanimate tissue, nor dead, but as a living organism that breathes."

For them, the concept of terrestial force was very important. They believed that it circulated through channels in the soil, known as Mei Lug "dragon paths" and divided them into two categories, "Yang and Ying, male and female, symbolized by a blue dragon and a white tiger.

Temples, houses, tombs and government offices were built in accordance with guidelines and principles unchanged since it was vital to build sacred imperial buildings in places that have an appropriate balance between two principles, manifested in the Ch'i , "cosmic breath" which is also in Chinese acupuncture.

Its origins date back to 3000 years of our Era, when it began to set up maps or graphs that explained the relationship of the earth, the cosmos and its cycles. For the 200th Year of our Era, were common practitioners of Feng Shui in China, who gave great importance to the orientation of graves. In the IX and XVI are the greatest teachers, who wrote treatises on the foundations of this science. Concepts such as the Lo Shu, the trigrams, Ba Gua, the manage of this power are add to the interpretations of the holy book I Ching, to form one theory and practice that comes to be Chinese geomancy. The Chinese calendar, the sequence of the five elements and the use of magnetic compass complete the tools of this discipline.

The beauty and order of traditional Chinese landscapes are not the result of chance. Its old city were surrounded by walls to defender of the invaders and of evil influences. Stone lions and dragons of clay placed on lintels and eaves allow a balanced flow of positive and negative forces.

High pagodas were built in geomantic places acupuncture needles to pierce the most sensitive points of the landscape and thus neutralizing the sha ch'i, "the breath of misfortune." According to these principles was planned imperial Forbidden City in Beijing and the Hollow Hill, the focal point of China's sacred geometry. Experts like John Michell suggests that all the lands south of the Great Wall formed a single drawing, resulting in thousands of years of geomantic practices whose origins are attributed to the legendary Emperor Yu.

If the favor of the Ch'i was the purpose of Feng Shui to achieve harmony of all elements of the landscape was the work of Geomant. This brought together characteristics of philosopher, physician, geologist, architect and deep knowledge of the laws of the Tao. His mission was to harmonize the natural forces that come from heaven and earth to ensure the prosperity of the whole community.

This was using a complicated set of rules that determine how these factors influence, and an instrument almost magical: the geomantic compass, Luo p'an, a magnetic needle suspended at the center of a disc divided into more than 30 rings locked all the elements of Chinese cosmology: the cardinal points, the five elements, the solar and lunar calendars, the zodiac, planets, numerological systems, and even the I Ching hexagrams. Everything was important since, once chosen a site, the fate of their occupants was bound to it forever.

The Feng Shui was officially banished from China, but continued to practice in Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Korea, Singapore, Unites Stated and with the opening of knowledge and the advent of the Aquarian Age, Eastern philosophies have been imposed in the West , helping the man to "survive" in the daily chaos, and it's the turn of to the architecture to connect of ancient strategies as a discipline of seeing the world, having the perfect and eternal order of the universe.

It is a philosophy that leads us from the particular to the general of all things. We can verify it in our body, our home and workplace, even in our town, country. And in developed countries almost no companies and individuals who contract the services of Geomantes to ensure good fortune and external and internal harmony.

There are several trends in the practice of Feng Shui: Call School Forms is based on environment of the site, shape of the house and decorative objects. Buddhist School takes the driveway as a guide and aid the interpretation of Ba Gua chart for analysis. The School of the eight predictions using the compass and may or may not use the five elements. The School of the 24 stars using the compass, the environment, the construction date and the five elements, being probably the most sophisticated school.

With the help of Feng Shui is possible to design a habitat or a workplace balanced and harmonious taking into account different variables that lacks the conventional architecture. An architect or designer can use Feng Shui in conjunction with traditional design capacity, is like looking through different eyes their creation. One technique support to the other, enriches and complements. On what has been designed using "remedies" such as the placement of mirrors, mobile audio, plants, pets and management of the four elements of nature: water, fire, air and earth. Produce beneficial changes for people who occupy these spaces.

If you continue doing what it always has been in the past, the future will still get the same results. Something must change in the present, and with this tool is able to interact with the outside world as if it were a reflection of your mind.

Interpretation of the Cosmos

Whether the product of Eastern culture or the West, the circular mandala or sacred diagram is a familiar and pervasive throughout the history of art.

India, Tibet, Islam and medieval Europe have produced it all in abundance, and much of the tribal cultures also used it, either in the form of paintings, buildings or dances.

Such diagrams are usually based on the division of the circle into four quarters, and all parts implaid elements are interrelated in a unified design. Most of the time are somewhat cosmological, that is to say, a symbol representing what is considered to be the essential structure of the universe: for example, the four spatial directions, the four elements, four seasons, twelve signs of the zodiac,different deities,and often the man himself.

One of the most striking applications of the mandala appears in the architecture of the domes, both Islamic and Christian. The square represents the earth, covered in a fourfold embrace the circular dome of heaven, and therefore subject to the wheel of time in constant motion.

When the incessant movement of the universe, represented by the circle, gives way to comprehensible order the square appears. The square presupposes the circle and is therefore a result of it. The relationship between form and movement, space and time, is evoked in the mandala. But the most notable and constant in this form of diagram is that it expresses the notion of the cosmos, the reality conceived as an organized and unified.
The Gothic cathedrals with their rosettes created one of the most developed expression of the mandala, on having combined and turned into unit the light, color and form. This, however, ended the cycle of evolution of the mandala on the continent. We see that the arts are disappearing first, and then of conscience. Gradually saving holistic thinking, is being displaced by the interpretation of analytical-rational world and intellectual. From Occident the decadence of the mandala radiates throughout the world, we can see precisely how this mentality has led us to the brink of destruction of the mandala-earth.

In itself these cycles are not wrong, however, nothing that we should fight, but simply expressions of the rotation of the mandala. The same we find clearly symbolized in the mandala of the tenth Tarot card, the "Wheel of Fortune", which often also seen in the doorways and the windows of some churches. This coincidence between a source from the deck, which comes from a deep root esoteric and other of the Roman Catholic Church, perhaps initially surprising, but there are many coincidences.

What does the wheel of fortune? Do not say ...? That what goes up must come down again, and what is down will go up. This is an ancient esoteric law, or at best timeless, applicable to both cultures as historical eras, art forms, nations, individuals, economic trends, current fashion trends and taste . So the mandala shows us the movement of history and that of their own destiny through time.

After meeting its climax with the great cathedrals and large rosettes, began the destruction of the mandala, and with it the holistic cultures, characterized by "the sacrum. The Spanish began when they destroyed the cultures of Mesoamerica and typically did so because they sought gold, but only in external appearance and materials.

They stole the gold from the Aztecs, Mayas and the Incas who knew how to value the inner side of gold, the noblest metal of all, who symbolized for them the Sun God is therefore not surprising that the Spanish did not find never "El Dorado", the legendary gold-rich country, because it has no physical existence. Only one who finds his inner Dorado get it externally. Similar and equally doomed to failure in the criteria by which modern chemistry work and the desire of the alchemists in their quest for the "fabrication of gold."

In the concept of conquest agreed all Westerners. Several European nations have been taking turns in the destruction of entire cultures outstanding living mandala. Or in other words, the left cerebral hemisphere declared war on the right and defeat the latter has apparently been completed. But only in appearance! This is declared by the timeless symbol of T'ai chi.

Indian cultures of North America, with its sand mandalas succumbed to the Europeans commanded by the English. By then the Europeans also were enemies to each other but were in agreement as to the direction of thrust against holistic cultures of the two Americas. In another continent, "sacred" cultures nor had the opportunity to address the new way of thinking and acting. Mandala also perished in India, where it had determined the entireG life. And the symbol of liberation in our century has been precisely the wheel again, the spinning wheel that Manhatma Gandhi turned to remind fellow compatriots their roots. That the Indians returned to spin the thread that bound them to the roots of their traditions.
In the destruction of the cultures of the Mandala, there was a sort of climax when Tibet was taken over by the Chinese government and Tibetan culture shaped by Taoism and ancient symbol of T'ai chi, in turn was displaced by a new mentality. Mandalas in Tibet played a major role controlling its entire existence.

In the whole world the cathedrals degenerated into mere tourist attractions which charge for entry. However mandalas never died at all. They survived in the shadows, in the ruins, imagination, the art,but Mandalas are not perish while surviving a single individual of the human species. And while one half (of the brain or the symbol of tai chi) prevails, at its heart always survives the opposite pole (the black dot on white field).

This unilateral evolution is neither good nor bad: it is. It is implicit in the Mandala itself, and also the Mandalas's cultures foresaw it (there serve of example the predictions of the American Indian clairvoyant Black Deer, who predicted the via crucis from the Indian nations up to the decline, and also the visions of the Hopi).

Today we have reached a point of inflection, the point that marks the rediscovery of our roots, of ours interns Mandalas. Little by little, and not by chance, we are attending a renaissance of Mandalas in the external life: in the arts and in the meditative traditions now reborn. This process we could read it in any Mandala ; it is a natural law and it is fulfilled. Let's recover now our shade, and it turns into our mission: the search that had precipitated us completely towards the external thing, ending in obsession and desperation clogged in the polarity, turns again towards the center, towards the meditation.

The Mandala circle has closed again, and we know that it will be open again, it will close, it will be open...

The Tarot

SYMBOLISM OF THE UNIVERSAL IDEAS

VICTOR MANUEL GUZMAN VILLENA

MYSTERIES

Many theories exist on the origin of the Tarot. During different periods of the history, the secret one (the word means "conceal") or studies at the free disposal of all or deeply secretly, according to the authorities of the culture of the attitude towards the secret knowledge. A theory is that in the big library of Alexandria in Egypt, exist parchments that contain the whole knowledge of the ancient world.

The origin of these playing cards comes from the ancient Egypt and from a derivation of the famous "book of Thoth" or sacred book which origin believes was realized in golden sheets and it dictated by Thoth "Egyptian God" who was in charge of foreseeing the future and the measurement of the time.

Also he is ascribed with the invention of the numbers and of the writing in engravings. Apparently he had the whole respect of the rulers and the adoration of the people, which were considering him to be the God who was handling the life and the destination of all of them. It seems in the Ptolemies epoch, Hermes was consider the incarnation of the God Thoth, also he was a great king in Egypt.

The major arcana was believed it was his work, captured in the Emerald Table, which was a precious stone in which there was recorded the magic table, and it was later found in the Hermes grave. This table can be compared with tables that were established in the Moses' law.

Many of the symbols that appear in the "book of Thoth" is believed come from teaching of ancient civilizations that populated the Earth almost eighty centuries ago, and that left this trace with these engravings, many of them much updated nowadays.

It seems that the "book of Thoth" was written before the pyramids were construct and even from the beginning of the Egyptian civilization. In this book there was condensed the whole Universe, the animals, the civilization, the material and spiritual world, the intellectual world, the sky, the divine thing, the human and the cosmos.

Many prints of this book have to do with astrology and hence there is some similarity in part on their interpretation. It is believed that the creation of this book was a cause of great cultural information about the era and a desire to explore and discover the progress, science, and evolution of life.

There is great similarity between the prints of "Book of Thoth" with engravings on the pyramids and sphinx. Of these prints has led the creation of the prints of the major arcana in fusion with the 40 cards of batons, swords and cups that identify us in everyday life.

This set of cards are called "Tarot" or "Egyptian Tarot" and is what is used through the centuries and cultures as a method of divination.

It is said that the gypsies brought the letters to Europe and the "gypsy" is considered a form of "Egyptian" corruption. The Catholic Church called it "the devil's picture book" and the cards were quickly condemned as heresy by the Inquisition.

There seems no doubt that the cards are a means for the preservation of ancestral knowledge that the Catholic Church considers dangerous or heretical, at a time that is literally a danger to his life to believe anything other than the established Church dogma.

Although we can only speculate about its origins, the Tarot images are inextricably linked to ancient beliefs, mythologies, and religious systems, as the Hebrew Kabbalah. Others, notably Pythagoras, believed that the letters and numbers themselves are divine beings possessing extraordinary powers, the Greek neo-Pythagorean school taught these ideas.

The French nobleman, a scholar of initiation sciences known as the Count of Gebelin, discovers that the name Tarot comes from two ancient Egyptian words: Tar meaning way and Ro meaning real. So that means Real Way to Knowledge.

What we know for sure is that the Tarot has represented universal symbols known to the ancient Rosicrucians, who used the phrase whose symbols Rota Mundi and the famous writer and mystic Sir Francis Bacon used in his cryptographic entries, such as numbers 22 , 56 and 78. Notice that the tarot is composed of 78 cards.

Symbol of Ideas

The Tarot is really symbolic and graphic body of universal ideas, which are connected with the mind of the human being in subconscious level, is in this aspect that represents all its mystical cidified content. These principles have always existed, that is why the Tarot is absolutely symbolic expression of the Kabbalah.

Because of the ease and flexibility of their management by human hands, Tarot gets connects and becomes one with the consciousness of one who handles it with the most strict respect and knowledge the same that is it in the content on the main universal mysteries.

Anima Mundi

In the opinion of the alchemists and mystics, the universal significance of symbols like Tarot, presents and preserves, was thought from the first Anima Mundi or Soul of the World, which was considered a great repository of knowledge, as a Universal library, which was filled with memories and wisdom of the whole humanity - past, present and future.

Sometimes called the "Akashic records", this source of knowledge can be accessed by anyone willing to make the effort of deep contemplation.

Within this group are all the base groups of basic figures found in religions, myths, legends and fairy tales. All together, these figures conceal a magical storehouse of profound esoteric knowledge. For example, The Empress symbolizes the essence of femininity as represented in the Great Goddess Mother of the ancient in the world, religion. She can be seen as representative of what Goethe called "the eternal feminine," as myth and psychology.

So does each figure of the Tarot convening of the fourth unconscious person in a deep resonance. The contact with these images in a conscious process, deliberate allows the revival of secret from the deepest layer of the human collectivity to the surface and in its integration into the life of a person.

Tarot cards are useful for meditation and for divination, or respond to questions. An act to stimulate intuition, which is the key to the door of the unconscious. They act to illuminate the hidden factors in the life of a person having to do with the situation in question. Often the person whom he/she may not be aware of these internal issues that secretly make the course of their life. The Tarot, by contacting what is inside the person, reveals.

The tarot deck consists of 78 cards: 22 major arcana and 56 minor arcana.

The 22 major arcana represent a journey through one's life, which begins with the letter of the Magician and ends with a letter calling the Fool. Although many of the mystics have called this the road through life, some clergy have said that the cards are the way to hell and devil. The Devil is a card in the major arcana, but it represents: Passions, sexuality, desires, materialistic tie, selfish, evil tendencies.

Another letter is widely misunderstood, it is the famous letter of death, that death does not mean the physical body, but simply the change and transformation of some kind. Other researchers claim that these 22 letters represent the older mysteries, the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet and yet are in correspondence with the 22 paths of the Tree of Life.

Major Arcana:

The Major Arcana (greater secrets), or trump cards, consists of twenty two cards without suits; The Magician, The High Priestess, The Empress, The Emperor, The Hierophant, The Lovers, The Chariot, Strength, The Hermit, Wheel of Fortune, Justice, The Hanged Man, Death, Temperance, The Devil, The Tower, The Star, The Moon, The Sun, Judgement, and The World, The Fool.


I. The Magician: Skill, spontaneity, eloquence, start of new targets.

II.The High Priestess: Ability to let things happen.

III. The Empress: intelligence, femininity, fertility, progress, achievements.

IV. The Emperor: mental maturity, firmness, stable force, power, performance.

V. The Pope: protection, person to turn to in difficult times, evolution, spirituality and finding inner truth, teaching and helping others.

VI. The Lovers: Love, choice, love, marriage, marriage.

VII.The Chariot: movement, progress, success, travel.

VIII. The Strength: Justice, balance, clarity, objectivity and impartiality.

IX. The Hermit: reflection, inner searching caution.

X. The Wheel of Fortune: Destiny. Beginning and end. Impending change.

XI. The Strength: Confidence, control, control.

XII. The Hanged Man, Sacrifice, delivery, testing, transition, regeneration.

XIII. The Death: Transformation, cleaning, necessary losses.

XIV. The Temperance: Balance, compromise, understanding, patience and trust.

XV. The Devil: Passions, sexuality, desires, link materialistic, selfish, evil tendencies.

XVI. The Tower: Change sudden, unexpected events, disaster, loss, accidents.

XVII.The Star: Hope, possibilities, creativity, good omens, fertility, labor and dreams conclusion.

XVIII. The Moon: Illusions, delusions, deceptions, bad relationships, and companies in distress.

XIX. The Sun: Happiness, love, relationships, friendly cooperation, creativity, artistic, success.

XX. The Judgement: Balance, reflection, atonement, forgiveness, rebirth, reward.

XXI. The World: Outcome, success, happiness.

XXII. The Fool: Freedom, independence, wildness, travel, excitement, inspiration.

While minor arcana consists of the same 56 letters included in the Spanish deck, although its graphics are not the same diagrams represent the minor mysteries of the manifest world. Each tarot card represents a universal law or principle, both for the spiritual worlds as the material world. Tarot cards work synergistically by the Law of Correspondence, being synchronized between themselves with the surrounding events, as they are raised and connected by the unconscious man.

Relationship with the Kabbalah

For the outstanding teacher Santiago Aranegui: "The Tarot is a direct representation of the Tree of Life, of the 22 paths, and planetary correspondences of the four worlds of Kabbalah. By the Tarot our subconscious can communicate with us and show us the conditions as are outlined in the archives of Akasha (the astral light), as the existing karmic delineation.

We must always remember that the tarot reading you do not indicate the final conditions to happen, but how are these cosmic aspects at the time of the present moment.

Once you can see these conditions as they occur, they must be analyzed as to its causes, effects and implications Karmat using cabalistic knowledge to make corrections that are relevant, in order to jump a new future parallel but higher .

In itself, this is the objective of knowledge as a whole, which is none other than carry out the correction of past actions to prevent further negative effects and not have to face again in this life or in the future with those getting out the facts that will step up to solve it once and for all.

Karma law can not be deleted, but if transcended if necessary corrections are made. Also using the cabalistic ritual can neutralize and transmute negative forces working behind the conditions presented. "



Card Types

There have been several Tarots from very ancient times, but there is a very great similarity, not to mention the word equivalence between them, but I believe four are the closest to that esoteric truth: that of Marseille, Egyptian, of Arthur Edward Waite and Aleister Crowley. Although Marseille is fit very well by its geometric forms and it is simple, based on the studies find that the Tarot Crowley, who was a deep student of all the esoteric philosophy and an initiate of the occult arts, are the most appropriate and graphically representing the cabalistic law, but recommended only for experts and those with high skills in magic, esotericism and symbology.

Crowley, criticized and admired as any other magician, was branded to be the most evil man in the world, although such accusations are very questionable because it was first time a libertarian in a little tolerance, which naturally attracted criticism and megalomaniac character made him challenging them to rise above his critics with statements like "I am the Antichrist, the beast 666" and other antics of the sort, causing even more critical. Nobody can deny the overwhelming culture and its subsequent influence on western esotericism which incorporates East: Sufi, Tantra, Yoga, etc..