Spirtual Vibration & The Tarot

I ran across a very interesting blog/podcast by Robert Zink where he suggests using the 22 major arcana from the Tarot as a way to raise your spiritual vibration. You pull a card the night before to figure out what the focus is for the next day; he lists a description for each card. I've been working with this for about a week now and I've really enjoyed the process. It helps center me for the next day, and I feel like I'm more aligned with spirit in my focus.

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Creative Spiral

Process

While brainstorming for this piece I talked to my girlfriend and reviewed the major points in my life and I suddenly exclaimed, "Is your life defined my the bad things that happen?" "Wow", she responded. After a bit of discussion we agreed that it's not about whether an event is good or bad, rather, your life is defined by shifts in consciousness. It just happens to work out that these shifts happen to correspond to dramatic events. Though this assignment was to pick out points of creative transition, I feel that most moments connect with the major points in my life. For the transitions that are both, I used art as creative expression leading to healing.

Grateful Epiphany
After completion I gazed down at the piece and was enamoured by the organic process of my life. I had a wave of gratitude for each event that was initially perceived as "bad". Upon retrospect each event is a critical point on my life path leading me to who I am today. And while I already knew that in a abstract cerebral way, doing this process helped me internalize the observation.

Point of Inspiration
And finally, I thought that it would be really interesting to use this same concept as a "Soul Spiral" by dong several past life regressions and then do a spiral based on the symbols that come across during the regression.

Culture of Desire

After a week of looking at my collage on desire I am struck by the placement and connection of images. While I was making the collage I was consciously aware that I was putting the Buddha image with love over the face in the middle, already believing the philosophy that it's all about the love, and spirituality grounds and centers us, both illustrated here.

Unconsciously I put the following into an order corresponding to energy levels. In lower energy (bottom area) I pasted material wealth, beauty and a superficial career. As we rise it feeds into other items we seek outside ourselves: a vacation, a day out, a movie, serene scenery. As you go to the top of the collage, the items that vibrate at a higher energy are eating fresh and local ingredients, a serene home and loving partnerships.

The connection of items is also rather telling: material wealth melts into the myth of consumerism (take this vacation, buy this yoga video, watch this movie), with the hope that these purchases will make you feel whole. This connects into the authentic points in our life: its the food we use to sustain ourselves, the environment we create and the relationships we foster. All these ingredients are what we really bring joy into our life.