The Beautiful Truth

I once read at a charity event for a large oil company here in Calgary to raise funds for a worthy cause. The woman who had approached me to donate my time commented after the event that a lot of people had left my Tarot reading room with smiles on their faces. At the time we were in an elevator with one of the company’s higher ups, I was to learn. He overheard this woman, and remarked that I must be 'telling people what they want to hear'.

Tarot - Religion and Spiritual Philosophy

While there is conflicting speculation as to the origins of tarot, the most satisfying, academically thorough, and spiritually resonant  treatment I have encountered is that of Margaret Starbird’s in 'The Woman with the Alabaster Jar'.  Starbird was raised, and to my understanding still is, a practicing Catholic. She began an academic research project early in her career to disprove the theory of the Holy Grail as representative of the Davidic bloodline, descending from Jesus through his marriage to Mary Magdalene.

Instead Margaret felt she proved the opposite; that indeed Mary Magdalene was Jesus’s wife, and that the bloodline, and in a bigger sense, the teachings of the original Church of Christ or Church of Love were suppressed by the church which had eradicated the divine feminine from its lineage and its foundation. She is now a spokesperson for the return of the divine feminine to spirituality, and to the Catholic Church; for a religion that honours sexuality as a sacred communion of the masculine and feminine.

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