Resonant Tarot Constellations
| Resonant Tarot Constellations By Laurence Galian “When truth can be seen, healing can happen.” ~ Bert Hellinger Tarot is an ancient way to use the morphogenetic resonance field for health and spiritual realization. Tarot is a tool to enhance life, especially when we use it for spiritual growth. Tarot helps us to understand ourselves better, to make positive changes, and to make the most of who we are and what we have to offer to the world. For years people have wondered, “How does Tarot work?” Unfortunately, many people, who never take the time to truly study Tarot, believe that there is something evil or negative about it. Those who utilize it for healing and know that it works have been at a loss to explain how each card can relate in such a direct way with each individual’s life situation. Some people just throw the Tarot deck onto the trash-heap of superstitious beliefs, soothsaying, fortune-telling, predicting the future, and so on. Finally, new scientific and spiritual discoveries are revealing the beauty of the process of the Tarot reading and why it works. These new discoveries put Tarot Healing into a whole new light! For example, Dr. Rupert Sheldrake talks of the morphogenetic field. It is a field of conscious energy that binds all members of a family, race, nation or tribe together. It is also known as the “Knowing Field”. Bert Hellinger, a German psychotherapist, developed what he calls “Constellation Therapy”, which utilizes the morphogenetic field in order to heal family systems. Constellation Therapy allows the revealing of invisible family bonds created through generations. The family energy field or "family soul" as referred to by Bert Hellinger, serves as the basis for exploring and understanding relationships as well as eventually constructing solutions to issues that trouble our being. Someone requesting a Constellation is asked to describe what they’d like to achieve in one concise sentence – if this can’t be done, then they aren’t quite ready to clear the issue. Once the sentence is put out to the group, the person then starts to pick surrogates (volunteers who have agreed to participate in the client’s constellation). Surrogates represent the person and others (people or things – illness, disease, money, blocks, divine guides, etc.) that are involved in the issue. The person then intuitively places the surrogates, one by one, in the room (forming a constellation). The surrogates take a moment to tune into their roles. The facilitator has set the energy and the issue is worked out to a state of resolution. A fact not commonly known by most people beginning to explore Constellation Therapy is that Family Constellation Therapists also can utilize paper cut-out “footprints” or figurines, in case human volunteers are not available in the moment to do a full Constellation. Now let us look back at Tarot: in Tarot we are also utilizing paper cut-outs. We tap directly into the knowing field through simple intention. Each card is shuffled and placed into various configurations (called "spreads") on the table. This is not unlike how surrogates are chosen in Family Constellations and then placed in certain relation to the other surrogates. As souls on an earthly mission, we are all energetically connected to each other through the collective consciousness and remain so even after death. The collective consciousness is a morphogenetic field of vibrant energy where every thought, verbal expression and deed of every incarnated soul is stored in the form of an energy imprint. A Tarot Card layout allows us to see a certain energy field in that particular moment, like a picture of the soul. These can then be brought into a new order and taken into our soul as a healing picture. This can help to balance your current life according to your inner order. Morphogenetic fields are basically non-physical blueprints that give birth to forms. According to its founder, the biologist Rupert Sheldrake, a morphogenetic field, is an equivalent to an electromagnetic field that carries information only, not energy, and are available throughout time and space without any loss of intensity after they have been created. Morphogenetic fields are created by the patterns of physical forms. They help guide the formation of later similar systems where a newly forming system "tunes into" a previous system by having within it a "seed" that resonates with a similar seed in the earlier form. Quantum physics and morphogenetic field can show us a part of the explication. After shuffling, the state becomes consciously unknown and unpredictable. Jane Piirto writes in SYNCHRONICITY: An article for the Encyclopedia of Creativity (Academic Press, 1999), “If we look at the Chinese way of holistically seeing the world, rather than the western way of seeing the world by analyzing small parts and generalizing to the whole, we can see that the concept of synchronicity is more explainable. Jung reviewed historical antecedents to the idea of synchronicity, cautioning that the rationalistic view of people in the West is not the only possible explanation for events, and in fact, the rationalistic view shows short-sightedness, prejudice, and bias. “Jung cited the western practices of astrology, alchemy, and mantic practices such as tarot and I Ching as being open to synchronicity. The ancient Chinese practice I Ching, based on the concept of the Tao, where one throws stalks of yarrow (or, in the west, three coins) in order to grasp the meaning of an event or to predict the future, is based on intuitive principles. (Jung did much work with the I Ching and first used the word synchronicity at the funeral of his friend Richard Wilhelm, who had translated the I Ching. “When an intuitive person who understands the 64 mutations of Yin and Yang interprets the tosses, the interpretation taps into the inner knowledge of the person which is the same as the person's psychological state at that time. This state is synchronous with the chance falling of the coins or sticks. Thus the results are meaningful but there is no cause or explanation for the meaning. Jung referred to Schopenhauer's idea of the unity of primal cause, Leibniz's idea of pre- established harmony, and Kepler's idea of a geometrical principle that underlies the physical world. Jung said there must be some girding idea or principle which can explain these seemingly coincidental happenings.” Both primitive and medieval people did not doubt the existence of synchronicity as explanation for seemingly acausal events. “Limited Religion” has also held this short-sighted bias against the Tarot. The Catholic church in their ignorance condemned Tarot-reading, just as they condemned Galileo and his telescope. Even today many “New Age” people seem to feel that Tarot reading is inferior to a “psychic” reading. The Tarot spread (the layout of the cards that is randomly created by the “reader” and the “client”) is configured, not by the devil (as sensationalized by the media and the Catholic Church), but by the morphogenetic field. This configuration is a message from the client’s spirit or being, and together, both the reader and client are given the sacred trust to decode this message. Tarot is mysterious, and anything mysterious is often used by Hollywood as a plot device. The Tarot Cards have been demonized from church pulpits forever; but many people are getting serious about using the Tarot Cards as spiritual tools of transformation. The Church used to burn at the stake indigenous people for practicing their ancient beliefs, however, Carl Jung and today people like Bert Hellinger are resurrecting the practices of indigenous cultures and helping us to see that they work, why they work, that it is no “trick of the devil,” and that there is growing scientific evidence to explain why these healing practices work. Paul Quinn reveals, “We are not fortune-tellers. We do not tell the future. We never look to the future as something set in stone. The Tarot is about paying attention. What is my life telling me? What are my opportunities for growth? What are my choice points?” The Tarot is very effective with decision making. We look for which choice has the “higher charge”, which choices really serve the spiritual evolution of the client. We make a morphogentic connection with the deeper- self of the client which includes all the Circles of Life which flow from this core: the circle of his or her family relations, the circle of ancestors, the circle of friendships, the circle of work, and so forth, in essence, the circle of the client’s entire “world”. Tarot can make you clearer, effective, and joyous in your lives, through helping you move through conflict effectively. © 2009 Laurence Galian. All rights reserved. Professor Laurence Galian is a Tarot Practitioner. For more than twenty-five years, he has helped people through the Tarot Cards in many cities and countries around the world. He taught Tarot as a Professor at the Hofstra College of Continuing Education, and has also taught small private groups the profound spiritual practice of reading the Tarot. Contact him at: DRMLJG@earthlink.net to schedule an appointment. |
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