The Four Suits

“What you reveal, you heal.” — Jay Z

Tarot breathes language into our hopes, dreams, struggles, and fears that we keep under wraps consciously, or unconsciously.

The biggest illusion seems to be that they don’t matter or exist if we don’t talk about them, when in reality vulnerability & compassion are what heal us.

It doesn’t matter if you are running a Fortune 500 company or are a barley farmer. We all want and fear the same things.

Here are the four major sources of pain, mapped to the the four suits of the Minor Arcana cards.

Am I safe?

The Gut is our animal (earthly) selves that need to eat, to shit, to move, to fuck. It stores primitive emotions and helps us navigate the physical realm using our five senses.

Symptom Checklist:

Is it a ‘good’ or ‘bad’ thing?

The Mind is our analytical selves. It’s the judge that categorizes everything. It sits between the Gut and the Heart, and marries signals from both to interpret the world around us.

Symptom Checklist:

Do I matter to you?

The Heart speaks to us about whether or not we want to be alive. It gives us a language to God. It houses the Soul, which seeks meaning, purpose, and love.

Symptom Checklist:

I know what to do / don’t know what to do

When the Gut/Mind/Heart congregate at a round table, they make a Choice. (When all three are updated to the latest version, together they produce intuition). Some choices are easy; for an average person, if the gut expresses hunger, they all decide to eat. But through our experiences we learn to underweight or overweight one, two, or all of them.

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