Maori Tattoo Tarot: An Illustrated Companion

117 Pages·2016·3.96 MB·English

Maori Tattoo Tarot:

An Illustrated Companion

By Victor Paul, PhD

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ISBN 978-0-9946085-5-0

Copyright © 2016 by the Rising Sun Publishing House.

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Contents:

Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………………………..…5
Chapter 1 Divination as Art and Science ................................................................................................... 7
Chapter 2 Destiny and Free Will .............................................................................................................. 9
Chapter 3 Symbolism in Maori Tattoo Tarot ......................................................................................... 11
Chapter 4 Major Arcana ......................................................................................................................... 13
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Chapter 5 Minor Arcana .......................................................................................................................... 37
Gourds (Cups)...................................................................................................................................... 38
Disks .................................................................................................................................................... 52
Wands ................................................................................................................................................. 67
Swords ................................................................................................................................................. 82
Chapter 6 Reading with Maori Tattoo Tarot .......................................................................................... 97
Chapter 7 The Love Story ..................................................................................................................... 100
Chapter 8 The Business Affair .............................................................................................................. 102
Chapter 9 The Family Problem ............................................................................................................. 104
Chapter 10 Self-development ............................................................................................................... 106
Chapter 11 Parenting ............................................................................................................................ 108
Chapter 12 The Health Problem .......................................................................................................... 110
Chapter 13 The Career problem .......................................................................................................... 112
Bibliography .......................................................................................................................................... 114

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Introduction

It is an entirely practical guide for modern divination with the contemporary Maori Tattoo Tarot
deck. You have not to believe in cards interpretations at a superficial level and accept reading results as
a sentence of higher authority, but consider Tarot as a roadmap of the life path with signs indicating
potential pitfalls and problems. You can do Tarot reading with a working deck, applying an operational
technique to choose your life path wisely. Maori Tarot deck works, and the reading technique’s
description in this guide is concise but telling.
Nowadays, Tarot attracts millions of followers from around the world. People who are
interested in self-development, energy healing and spiritual enlightenment use Tarot for life coaching
and divinatory purposes. More and more people are interested in Tarot. The Tarot world is quickly
expanding, funnelling new themes, ideas, spiritual systems, and doctrines. There are about 2,500 Tarot
decks created by contemporary artists who produce new cards under the influence of many cultural
traditions, including Celtic, Mayan, Egyptian, Native American, Gipsy, and so on. Until recently, the
spiritually abundant Maori culture was unjustly forgotten, so Maori Tattoo Tarot was created.
It was discovered in XX century that irrationality take place not only in religion, symbolism not
only in arts, and the principle of casualty is a simplification of reality. Einstein’s theory of relativity
provides humanity with the concept of non-linear time. The synchronicity principle introduced by Swiss
psychologist Carl Jung was the most ‘scientific’ foundation of the divination systems including Tarot. [2]
The NLP theory explains how rituals could create a new dimension of a human behavioural model. The
principle of the holographic universe proposed by Michael Talbot gave us an idea how all knowledge of
the world is packed within the quantum wave, in the same way as a laser hologram carry three-
dimension images of reality. [9]
In XXI century the best Tarotists use scientific approaches to develop a modern divination
system and separate themselves from vulgar fortune-telling, phoney psychic reading, and the old occult.
Looking for answers to the eternal question, “How Tarot Works?” they found answers. Paul O’Brien’s
(Divination.com) techniques and practices of the Visionary Decision Making system changed our
understanding of the divination process dramatically. [6] A real Tarot reader, according to the brilliant
Mary K. Greer’s metaphor, is a ‘midwife of the soul’, and the process of reading, combining logical and
intuitive approaches, guides a querent to make decisions for the greater good. [3] Developing new
methods of divination, we have not forgotten about ancient wisdom that was coded in authentic Tarot
cards. Thomas Saunders works hard to decode this knowledge and use Tarot as a key for spiritual
development. [7]
Ask yourself the following questions:
- Do you find yourself in a fog, choosing a ‘right’ new deck?
- Do you perceive cards not only as interesting pictures but also as a real divination tool?
- Do you believe that Tarot contains a symbolically coded ancient secret knowledge?
- Do you want to expand your understanding of ancient wisdom?
If so, this eBook is written primarily for you to explain how to choose a new deck is associated
with civilisation, having high esoteric culture and spiritual past. Where art itself works esoterically as a
channel between the spiritual and material worlds, and where authentic Tarot symbolism naturally put
on an appropriate cultural background. You can find here how a modern way of divination allows
predicting the future events, but without full predetermination, as it was suggested by old-fashioned
fortune-telling. Realising that the future depends on the decisions that are to be adopted increases your
awareness to make wiser decisions and thus to avoid some undesirable outcomes.
The eBook is intended for you:
- Followers of New Age, Theosophy, modern paganism, and other contemporary esoteric
movements to discover a stairway to ancient Maori occult knowledge and spirituality.
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- Professional and amateur Tarot readers who can find here 78 vivid full-size images of cards
with Maori symbolism, meanings of all cards including reversals and the Hanged Man spread
with examples of real Tarot reading sessions.
- Life coaches, counsellors, and psychotherapists, opening this thought-provoking eBook, open a
full spectrum of teaching/healing possibilities.
- Tarot researchers, developers, and artists can empower their creativity.
Even tattoo connoisseurs can find an abyss of blueprints in the Maori Tattoo cards.

Tap into Maori Tattoo Tarot to explore new horizons.
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Chapter 1 Divination as Art and Science

Divination was a sacred art and an essential part of spiritual life for the ancient Egyptians, Greeks
and Romans, but it was degraded later to a vulgar fortune-telling. The ancients believed that divine
energy saturates all elements of the material world including humans, and all interconnected, so gods’
will can be read with many tools, including throwing a dice, watching the flight of birds, casting wax, and
so on. Nowadays, Tarot is widely in use for a modern style of divination, which can be called ‘personal
decision-making’, applying the same principles as the ancient Greeks.
The eternal question is how Tarot divination works. The answer is simple enough: by revealing
underlying energetic patterns of the world and indicating the path of every human life through self-
knowledge, understanding that our past is a manager of our present, and our present is a manager of
our future. This manager works on the patterns, and there is no need to believe in cards interpretations
at a superficial level, accepting the reading results as a sentence of higher authorities. A good reading is
some kind of a roadmap of the life path with signs indicating potential pitfalls and problems. We are free
to move towards our future taking into account this information or ignoring it, choosing the life path
wisely or driving into pitfalls.
The synchronicity principle introduced by Swiss psychologist Carl Jung is the most ‘scientific’
explanation how Tarot works. [2] His idea of messages from the collective unconscious corresponds to
the theosophic Akashic Records concept, embracing all knowledge of the Universe. Akasha is a Sanskrit
word with the meaning of Ether. According to the ancient Hindus belief, Akasha works as an everlasting
template for temporary physical forms. Akasha is also the fifth element, the primordial source for four
natural elements: Fire, Air, Water, and Earth that exist temporarily in the material world, and then
return ultimately to Akasha. The Akashic Records forms the past, present and future lifetimes. [1]
In the early nineties, the idea reappeared in the theory of the holographic universe. It is the
same idea how all knowledge of the world is packed within the quantum wave like a laser hologram
carries three-dimension images of reality. [9] From that moment psychologists started explaining of
vivid dreams with the use of the holographic model as a journey to a parallel reality. Meanwhile, the
Synchronicity principle obtains new explanation via the theory the holographic universe. It became
apparent that all coincidences indeed are events in the parallel worlds, physical and spiritual. All events
of the physical world are encoded in a non-physical plane, Ether or Akasha, or any term we can use.
Nowadays we at last discovered that irrationality take place not only in religion, symbolism not only
in arts, and the principle of casualty is a simplification of reality. With some difficulties, the best brains of
the natural scientific community ‘approved’ the existence of parallel physical and biological worlds.
Psychologists developed the NLP concept in which rituals could create a new dimension of a behavioural
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model. Modern Tarot artist felt that ancient symbolism within authentic cards had many senses and
some of them are out of our comprehension and straightforward interpretations.
About 2,500 Tarot decks have already created by contemporary artists who produce new cards
under the influence of many cultural traditions, including Celtic, Mayan, Egyptian, Native American,
Gipsy, and so on. The Tarot world is quickly expanding, funnelling themes, ideas, spiritual systems, and
doctrines from around the world. For the deeper understanding of Tarot, not in occult terms but
scientifically, the most advanced Tarotists bridge rational and irrational points of view on divination.
Paul O’Brien (Divination.com) has approached the old problem of divination in a new way, developing
the Visionary Decision Making system based on contemporary theories of left and right brains, intuition,
as well as on the principle of Synchronicity. As a practical implementation of this concept, an efficient
web-assisted interactive divination system was created. [6]
The author of this book himself was a researcher and a university professor with a specialisation in
economic forecasting and decision-making under risk and uncertainty for 20 years to be disappointed in
the prediction of the future in rational or cause-and-effect terms only. It was not possible to accurately
forecasting in that way, and making decisions on bad prediction results of failures. It is much better to
uphold holistic view in which old magic and modern science are seen as complementary parts of
divinatory practice.
What is the source of information for divination? Tarot talks to the subconscious part of the mind
and the preferred language for the subconscious is the language of images. Visualisation is the most
efficient way to deliver subliminal messages, and imagination is a tool to create appropriate images. The
subconscious cannot see the difference between actual scenes and artificially created images. The more
impressive picture we watch, the more bright and beautiful its colours, the more clear and precise its
images, the stronger the effect on our subconscious.
The Tarot cards are not only old fascinating pictures that contain a richness of symbolism, but also a
divination tool that opens a channel into the quintessence of the ancient wisdom. Millions of
contemporary Tarot adherents believe that Tarot contains a symbolically coded ancient secret
knowledge. It is a conventional way of explaining its predictive power, its ability to serve as a divinatory
tool. The decks that called ‘authentic’ have an essential and notable similarity: they accumulate ancient
wisdom, the esoteric knowledge of the Universe structure that depicted symbolically within standard
patterns and designs of Tarot cards. Popular opinion supposes four Tarot decks as ‘authentic’: the oldest
Sola Busca Tarocchi, Le Tarot de Marseille, Rider-Waite Tarot (although with increasing criticism), and
Aleister Crowley’s the Thoth Tarot.
Thus some points were taken into consideration during creation of Maori Tattoo Tarot:
- the theme of cards is associated with a civilisation that had a strong esoteric culture and spiritual
past;
- understanding of deep hidden meanings of authentic cards allows putting classical Tarot
symbolism on the new cultural background;
- the traditional structure of the new deck is chosen to be a divination tool (22 Major Arcana cards,
56 Minor Arcana cards, four suits, and four court cards).
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Chapter 2 Destiny and Free Will

The everlasting topic in the Tarot literature is ‘fate versus free will’. Sometimes it sounds as ‘fortune-
telling versus divination’ as if the contemporary divinatory technique appeared instead of old fortune-
telling. These arguments are based on a false idea that the ancients, from Sumerians to Greeks, were
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