In reply to Msg # 185 in Conf # 6 'Magicknet' / / To : Darren Hanson From: THE IMAGE Subj: Tarotic Hygene -------------------------------------------------------------------------- In message #185, Darren Hanson writes: Greetings Darren, > Okay, now I think I understand why. How about giving a > poor, uninformed solitary Wiccan a few hints on the HOW of > it now. Whenever someone self-describes as something like "poor, uninformed", alarms start pealing ! But no prob. A bit more background, it'll make this a bit more sensible when I. explain how I. did it. When I. started this, I. was heavily into Qabbalistic Magick, Crowleyish to the core. My methods at the time, and which I. continue to use for this purpose simply because it's one of many that happen to work fine, were based upon that in basic form. I. just want to make sure you understand that any system will do ya just fine, adapt till it tastes just about right! First I. went out to purchase a box, and found that no such animal was readily available that would handle the Thoth, the thing was just too outsized. But I. did run across a leather dice bag in a gaming store which was perfect, down to the loop on the back so that I. could hang it from my belt. Nice bag, I. took it home, and made it into a talisman. Talisman making comes in a zillion different forms, again, just use whichever is native your Perspective, or appeals the most. I. used Israel Regardie's talismanic system, supplimented by the GD's work in that huge blue book. The details of the talisman I.'ll leave to you, but here's what it did. I. used the Emanation from 000->Kether for clearing a Tarot Deck ordinarily, just as I. would for clearing a psychically dirty room or implement. It is 'pure' enough that it doesn't bias anything, boundless in quantity and availability, and powerful enough to do a thorough job of it. Just as you would do a Middle Pillar exercise, but have the Talisman do this constantly and draw it inwards. I. was heavy into symbology as well and anchored support from a number of different systems in conjunction with Qabbalism. You can work with whatever you like, it really doesn't matter, as long as you get the result. The power that the Talisman drew to cleanse the deck was the same power source to keep it running. Sort of the way dams were supposed to provide self-sustaining power once upon a time, but in Magick it actually works. If you hold my Thoth pouch in your hands and 'scan' it, it feels like it's vibrating just a faint bit, the way a pipe does when water is flowing thru it rapidly. Neat. > My deck worries me some days as I stumble blindly > along with it. I think it would be rather nice to get any > of the extranious influences out and away from the deck.... The only real danger a Tarot deck can pose is that it helps to set the potentials in the Pattern, not only predicting the future, but also aiding strongly in bringing it about.... I. rarely use mine anymore, I.'ve incorporated most of the Tarot's basic function, intrinsically. But on occassion, when I. want to really skew the potentials hard, I.'ll haul 'em out and lay 'em out.... Not often tho.... Always, -Images of the Imagination