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The Labyrinth Walker's Tarot

Writer's picture: Peter Duchemin, PhdPeter Duchemin, Phd


The Tarot trumps knit together in 11 pairs around an empty center. There is no need ever to symbolize this "23rd trump" although some do. It is best to keep it tacit.


The eleven pairs can be organized as 11 layers of a triangle - as we see with the magickal formula of abracadabra, or abrahadabra. This sets up a triangular grid of 66 points that can be used amongst other things to pick out the Tetractys, and the Tree of Life.



Another, almost identical organization is upon the circuits of the Chartres style Labyrinth. Thus the Trumps are organized into an onionskin of buffers through which the adept can navigate.


You can build a Chartres talisman by drawing a circle with a compass, picking out the circuits with a compass and pencil and completing the lines with a pen, once you know they are in the right place (study online images for this). Then draw the same design on the back - but as a mirror image. The result will be a disk with the lines the same on back as on the front: like it was drawn on a transparency. Cut a hole in the middle. This is a useful exercise indeed, because it will teach you that the Labyrinth is in fact a Torus, and the path that weaves across its surface has neither beginning nor end.




When we walk a labyrinth, we are stepping through a portal. At the threshold of this portal exists a liminal space which is the very essence of adepthood. Balance holds sway within the myriad forces of becoming. This is why Justice and the Wheel are on the innermost circuit of the labyrinth.

The meta-magick Tarot is a labyrinth-walker's Tarot.



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