A Popular Key to “The Soul’s Choice” Tarot Spread

Below is a very brief, popularly oriented key to the 13 cards that make up The Soul’s Choice tarot spread, proper. A more detailed treatment of this spread can be found in The Soul’s Choice transformational booklet. A very general understanding of each row of cards in the Body of Christ spread can be derived from the quotations surrounding the illustrations on the facing pages at the center of this booklet. Instructions for Lovers Solitaire can be found on pages 4 and 5 immediately following the two-page illustration.

VI.  The Lover (center card) suggests the position of a soul in psychic equilibrium between the World of the Word and the World of the Serpent.

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X.  The Wheel (center-left) suggests the World of the Serpent…

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X.  The World (center-right) suggests the World of the Word…

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XVI.  The Devil (far left) suggests the personification of all that tempts us away from the World of the Word and the House of our Father…

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XIV.  Temperance (far right) suggests our guardian angel or, alternatively, the call of conscience (which should not to be confused with the Freudian super-ego).

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The Ace of Swords (top-left) indicates analytic, calculating, instrumental reasoning, together with the self-absorbed, ego-centric perspective which (in this case) it serves.

  

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The Ace of Batons (top right) indicates our Divine essence – the Mind of Christ or Image of God in us, however oblivious we may be to it…

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The Ace of Coins (bottom-left) is a place-holder for the materialistic pursuit of power, pleasure, and prestige that dominates the World of the Serpent.

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The Ace of Chalices (bottom-right) suggests an open heart, the affections of which are set on things above (the World of the Word; the call of conscience).

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XVIII. The Moon (to the left of The Lover) suggests the “arbitrary will” and “cerebral intellectuality” of the “emancipated personality” (the “light of conscience” eclipsed by material pursuits).

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XIX. The Sun (next to the farthest right) suggests the transcendental light of awareness and the higher, spontaneous wisdom originating in Christ and revealed to us by way of the heart…

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XVI. The Tower (next to the farthest left) indicates the destiny of the egoic mind, along with its best laid plans…

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XII. The Hanged Man (to the right of The Lover) reflects the different center of gravity of those who are spiritual—those who, in a manner of speaking, die before they die…

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