Tarot: Nurture Your Soul’s Potential

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Tarot Wisdom: Simple Steps to Nurture Your Soul’s Potential

by Karen Hollis

The gardens are now yielding the fruits of the gardener’s toil. Along walkways and hedgerows, blossoms burst forth from fragile buds, dazzling us with their showy beauty. If the gardener has done her job well, with care and attention, then from tiny bulbs and seeds has emerged a mighty harvest of sunflowers, corn, assorted greens and cruciferous vegetables. And so it is also for us, human beings: If we want to blossom into our soul’s potential, then we must tend to our own inner garden.

Tarot has much to offer us in an examination of what it means to tend to the soul with the intention of expressing its full potential. With the intention of global consciousness raising in mind, I inquired of the tarot: “How does one come to know and express their soul’s potential here on Earth? Is it truly possible?”

The answer came swiftly as the first of my three-card draw, XII The Hanged Man fell from the deck onto my table. What a curious card to have turned first in answer to such a complex question. I had always viewed the major arcana card of The Hanged Man as a very passive card, but it does make sense that to remain still would be the first step in tending the inner garden. For gardeners and farmers know that they must let a field lie fallow for a season before re-planting, so that the soil can regain its nutrients from the Mother Earth. In this case, the tarot was expressing similar wisdom: “Be still and listen.”

The Hanged Man hangs by his foot and not his neck. His legs are in a figure four which in numerology means stability. Around his head, we see light emanating or perhaps it is enlightenment. More importantly, we see greenery hanging down indicating that even when we are still there is growth around and perhaps within us that can affect the soul and the expression of potential. The Hanged Man asks all of us to examine our conscience and to reflect on how we are or are not sowing fertile ground for the soul’s growth and expression:

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