Playing Card Divination and Fortune Telling: The Magi Method

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The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Tarot historian Michael Dummett similarly critiqued occultist uses throughout his various works, remarking that "the history of the esoteric use of Tarot cards is an oscillation between the two poles of vulgar fortune telling and high magic; though the fence between them may have collapsed in places, the story cannot be understood if we fail to discern the difference between the regions it demarcates. In addition, occultist Israel Regardie involved himself in two separate recreations of the original Golden Dawn deck, the Golden Dawn Tarot of 1978 with art by Robert Wang, and the New Golden Dawn Ritual Tarot [j] by Chic and Sandra Cicero, released, after Regardie's death, in 1991. He also related four tarot cards to the four Christian Cardinal virtues: Temperance, Justice, Strength and Prudence. If your ego is not aligned with your divine purpose, you can easily mistake a mentor or protector with a competitor – or even an enemy.

In particular, Waite interprets the Magician through a Gnostic lens, linking the card's connection with the number eight (which the infinity symbol is visually related to) and the Gnostic concept of the Ogdoad, spiritual rebirth into a hidden eighth celestial realm. Some of the technologies we use are necessary for critical functions like security and site integrity, account authentication, security and privacy preferences, internal site usage and maintenance data, and to make the site work correctly for browsing and transactions.

In fact, historians have described western views of the Tarot pack as "the subject of the most successful propaganda campaign ever launched. If you don’t understand the keywords then your integration will be garbled thus resulting in a reading that makes no sense.

Lévi was the first to suggest that the Magus (Bagatto) was to be depicted in conjunction with the symbols of the four suits. Wirth also released a book about his revised cards which contained his own theories of the occult tarot under the same title the year following. According to Lévi, "An imprisoned person with no other book than the Tarot, if he knew how to use it, could in a few years acquire universal knowledge, and would be able to speak on all subjects with unequaled learning and inexhaustible eloquence. The belief in the divinatory meaning of the cards is closely associated with a belief in their occult properties, a commonly held belief in early modern Europe propagated by prominent Protestant Christian clerics and Freemasons. Pitois wrote two books under the name Paul Christian that referenced the tarot, L'Homme rouge des Tuileries (1863), and later Histoire de la magie, du monde surnaturel et de la fatalité à travers les temps et les peuples (1870).Waite's magician features the infinity symbol over his head, and an ouroboros belt, both symbolizing eternity. While the upright Magician represents potential and tapping into one's talents, the reversed Magician's potential and talents are unfocused and unmanifested. Such symbols signify the classical elements of fire, earth, air, and water, "which lie like counters before the adept, and he adapts them as he wills". Some of you may have read about the Magi Method (Playing Card Divination and Fortune Telling) by Joseph Magi in February’s issue of the Parapath newsletter.

Jung wrote, "It also seems as if the set of pictures in the Tarot cards were distantly descended from the archetypes of transformation, a view that has been confirmed for me in a very enlightening lecture by Professor Bernoulli. The Magi Method is an original system of fortune-telling for use with an ordinary deck of 52 playing cards plus 2 jokers. Alejandro Jodorowsky's reading of the Magician as Le Bateleur draws attention to individual details of the Marseilles card, such as the fingers, table, and depiction of the plants, in addition to the elements shared between the Rider–Waite and Marseilles decks. The devil in a reading may be someone who is selfish, childish, malicious, envious or representing other negative emotions and traits.For use as a divinatory device, the tarot deck is dealt out in various patterns and interpreted by a gifted "reader.