Osho Zen Tarot Card Book

by Alyce Howell

  You have a chance to participate with other people now to contribute in the creation of something superior and more magnificent than all of you could achieve alone. Your participation will not just nurture you, but will contribute something priceless to the whole as well.

  5 of Fire: Totality

  These ladies are up in the air, lively and free, yet attentive and codependent. In a trapeze performance, no one can afford to be a slight bit "absent-minded" even for a millisecond. And it is this feature of total concentration to the instant at hand which is exemplified here. We might feel there are so many things to do at a time, yet get bogged down in attempting to do a little here, a little there, instead of doing one chore at once and getting on with it. Or maybe we feel our chore is "tedious" because we've overlooked that it's not important what you are doing but how you do it that counts.

  Increasing the ability of being total in replying to whatsoever arises, as it arises, is one of the best favors you can do to yourself. Taking single step at a time, giving every step your complete devotion and energy, can bring an amazing new liveliness and creativeness to all that you do.

  6 of Fire: Success

  This personal is clearly "on the top of the domain" presently, and the entire world is rejoicing his success with a ticker-tape carnival! Because of your enthusiasm to accept the new tests of life, you are now—or you shortly will be—relishing a magnificent canter on the tiger of success. Greet it, love it, and share your happiness with others—and remember that all cheerful carnivals have a start and a finale.

  If you retain this in mind, and squash each drop of nectar out of the joy you are feeling now, you will be prepared to take the forthcoming as it comes with no regrets. But don't be lured to try to hang on to this lavish moment, or cover it in plastic so that it persists forever. The ultimate sagacity to keep in mind with all the wonders in the carnival of your life, whether they be vales or mountains, is that "this too shall pass". Rejoice, yes, and keep on cantering the tiger.

  7 of Fire: Stress

  How many individuals do you know who, only when they are fully overloaded, with a lot of projects, a lot "balloons in the air", have all of a sudden come down with the flu, or fell and ended up on sticks? That's just the kind of "poor timing" the tiny monkey with the pointed pin in his hand is about to intrude on the "one man band" drawn here! The feature of stress exemplified by this card stop by all of us occasionally, but sticklers are mainly susceptible to it. We make it by ourselves, with the impression that without us nothing will happen—particularly in the manner we wish it to!

  Well, what makes you believe that you are so extraordinary? Do you think the sun will only rise in the daybreak if you individually set an alarm? Go for a run, buy a bunch of flowers, and cook yourself spaghetti for dinner—whatever ‘insignificant’ will do. Simply keep yourself away from that monkey's range!

  8 of Fire: Traveling

  The small character walking on the pathway through this picturesque landscape is not worried about the aim. He or she recognizes that the journey is the aim, the trip itself is the holy place. Every step on the pathway is vital in itself. This card indicates a phase of effort and alteration. It might be a physical effort from one place to another, or an internal movement from one pathway to another. But whatsoever the thing is, this card assures that the journey will be relaxed and will bring a wisdom of escapade and development; there is no necessity to fight or plot too much.

  This Traveling card also indicates us to take and hold the new, just like when we travel to other country with a diverse culture and background than the one we are familiar to. This outlook of openness and reception attracts new people and experiences in our lives.

  9 of Fire: Exhaustion

  This is the picture of a person whose entire life energy has been worn-out in his struggles to keep operating the huge and absurd machine of arrogance and output. He has been so occupied "retaining it all organized" and "making certain everything runs efficiently", that he has overlooked to actually relax. Undoubtedly he can't let himself to be lively. To leave his responsibility for a tour to the beach could mean the entire structure can come stumbling down.

  This card indicates that it is not only about being an overachiever, though. It is about all the manners in which we set-up secure but strange schedules for ourselves and, by doing that we keep the disordered and natural away from our doors. Life is not a trade to be ran, it's a enigmatic to be lived. It's moment to tore off the time card, go out of the factory, and travel into the unexplored. A business can be ran more efficiently from a calm state of mind.

  10 of Fire: Suppression

  The character in this card is pretty literally "all tangled up with ropes". His light still sparkles inside, but he has suppressed his own energy trying to meet various demands and hopes. He gave up all his own control and dream in return for being acknowledged by the same powers which have trapped him. The risk of suppressing one's usual energy in this manner is obvious in the splits of a volcanic eruption about to occur around the corners of the picture.

  The real meaning of the card is to discover a healing passage for this possible eruption. It is necessary to discover a means to release whatsoever pressures and anxieties might be constructing inside you presently. Punch a pillow, hop up and down, go to the wasteland and yell at the blank sky—anything to tremble your energy and let it to flow freely. Don't hold your fire for a disaster to occur.

  Page of Fire: Playfulness

  Life is hardly as severe as we consider it to be, and when we know this fact, it answers back by providing us more and more chances to play. The lady in this card is rejoicing the delight of being alive, just like a butterfly which has arisen from its cocoon into the assurance of the light. She reminds us of the phase when we were kids, finding seashells on the seashore or making sand castles with no concerns that the waves can come and sweep them away soon. She is aware that life is a play, and she's performing the role of a clown presently with no feeling of shame or pretense.

  When the Fire’s Page appears, it is an indication that you are prepared for the new and the innovative. Something great is just on the prospect, and you have the exact feature of playful purity and simplicity to greet it with an open heart.

  Knight of Fire: Intensity

  The character in this card has turned into a shape of an arrow, running with the sharp-pointed focus of one who is aware where he is moving. He is running so swiftly that he has turn nearly into wholesome energy. But his intensity must not be misunderstood for the mad energy which makes individuals drive their cars at highest speed to go to one place to another. This sort of intensity belongs to the straight world of place and time.

  The intensity characterized by the Fire’s Knight belongs to the upside world of the present day—an acknowledgement that right now is the only time there is, and here is the only place.

  When you run with the intensity of the Fire’s Knight, it is possible to cause waves in the waters nearby you. Several will experience elevation and relaxation with your presence, others might experience threat or anger. But the thoughts of doesn’t matter; nothing can stop you now.

  Queen of Fire: Sharing

  The Fire’s Queen is very affluent, she is so rich that she can offer to give. It doesn't even happen to her to take accounts or to place something separately for future. She distributes her assets without restrictions, greeting all and sundry to share the richness, fruitfulness and light which surrounds her.

  This card indicates that you are in at a position where you have a chance to share your affection, your happiness and your enjoyment. And in sharing, you discover that you are experiencing even more fullness. There is no requirement to go anyplace or to do any extra work. You will discover that you can relish sensuality without possessiveness or affection, can give birth to a baby or to a fresh venture with an equal wisdom of imagination fulfilled.

  All the things around you appears to be "coming as one" now. Appreciate it, establish yourself in it,
and allow the wealth in you and around you to burst.

  King of Fire: The Creator

  The Fire’s King in this card is connected to the fire energy and is capable of using it for construction rather than devastation. He requests us to identify and contribute with him in the accepting that belongs to those who have learnt the fires of passion, without suppressing them or letting them to get damaging and imbalanced. He is so unified that there is no longer any dissimilarity between who he is internally and who he is in the outside world. He presents this gift of accepting and incorporation to all those who approach to him, the gift of innovative light that drives from the epicenter of his existence.

  The King of Fire indicates us that whatever we start now, with the understanding that originates from ripeness, will bring improvement to our own lives and to the lives of other people. Utilizing whatsoever abilities you have, whatsoever you have acquired from your own life experiences, it is moment to express yourself.

  Layouts of Osho Zen Tarot Card

  The Diamond

  This arrangement is beneficial for more precision on a particular subject.

  The Subject

  Internal impact that you are inept to understand

  External impact which you know

  What is required for solution

  Solution: the insight

  The Mirror

  This arrangement is helps in gaining understanding when linking with other (lover, friend, family member, etc.). It displays every person in his/her present life course as well as the combined energies or corporation.

  Body: You right now

  Heart: You right now

  Mind: You right now

  Body: Your partner right now

  The Heart: Your partner right now

  The Mind: Your partner right now

  Melt down and Integration (Relationship): External appearance of the relationship

  The transformation of attachment (change): External appearance of the relationship

  The benefits (welfares and rewards): External appearance of the relationship

  Melt down and Integration (Relationship): Internal spiritual objective

  The transformation of attachment (change): Internal spiritual objective

  The benefits (welfares and rewards): Internal spiritual objective

  The Celtic Cross

  This old-style arrangement is used for precision on a particular matter as well as for overall readings. In the Osho Zen Tarot, the places of the cards have the given below meanings:

  The Subject

  Fading/increasing or illuminating/complicating the issue

  The unaware impacts

  The aware impacts

  Old forms, the old manner

  New forms, changing into the new

  Self: your outlooks and approaches about the matter

  What you are drawing from the external

  Your desires/denials

  Result/Solution

  The ′Super Quickie′

  A solo card — for vision into any condition, or as your meditation card of the day.

  Linking - ′A Quickie′

  This layout proposes a quick glimpse at your linking with another, whether ′the other person′ is your manager, beloved, pal, sibling, close relative, etc.

  Relating

  You and what you are providing to the relation right now

  The other person and his/her contribution to the relation

  The combined energies

  The Understanding

  The Paradox

  Scuffle the cards for a minute. Divide the cards into three sections and select one of them. The topmost card of the deck you have selected signifies the here and now. The bottommost card signifies the earlier life influences. Spread the rest of the chosen deck and pick one more card. This card signifies the vision into the paradox.

  The Flying Bird

  This arrangement is created in the shape of a flying bird. The cards selected and positioned in the left section represent and point out something about our female, receptive dynamisms in the moment, while the right section represents our manly, active dynamisms. The first card chosen is the creator of the flight, hence branches from the masculine section. Each following card replies to the preceding one and raises the ′bird′ upwards, letting the questioner to go into better clarity and internal spaciousness.

  Here and now card: The "Life Off"

  The Opposition card: "Fright of Flying"

  Reaction to the fright

  Internal support: Instinct of responsibility

  External Support: Smart action responding to the instinct

  Easing and acceptance

  Entrance at a new phase of awareness

  The Key

  The Key arrangement can ′unlock the door′ to awareness regarding secret, unconscious parts of a particular matter. Also, it may be utilized as a all-purpose reading for a present understanding into your interiority.

  The Key Layout

  What is suppressed

  The Yin card, your feminine (inactive) feature

  The Yang card, your masculine (active) feature

  The meditation

  Vision into the body

  Vision into the heart

  Vision into the being

  Awareness (understanding)

  Conclusion

  Many experts of Tarot use it as a source to assist individual development, emphasizing that the control to act and to alter circumstances stays with the quadrant and is not defined or restricted by 'what is in the cards'. It is rare in my experience to come across Tarot readers who claim it as a tool for predicting the future or telling you what to do, yet some of the booklets which come with card decks can be disempowering - particularly the older decks. Not the case with this one.

  This deck is ideally suited to the 'personal development' model of using Tarot cards. The cards do largely correspond to those in a more traditional deck, yet the card explanations and artwork feel new and are ideally suited for challenging your view of a situation and your role within it. The one word card headings (e.g. Transformation, Compromise, and Guilt) provide an excellent basis from which to learn the system, as does the comprehensive book which comes with the deck.

  Plus it is a beautiful deck, worth owning for the art alone.