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The Mary-El Tarot by Marie White has been floating at the periphery of my consciousness for some time.  Every now and then I would seen an arresting card image or read references as to how this deck was somehow a new system or required a steep learning curve to master.

 

Aesthetic trumps all for me.  I had seen enough images to be drawn in to purchasing my own Mary-El Tarot deck.  When it arrived, I had mixed reactions as I did my unboxing ritual with my husband at the dining room table.

 

First and foremost, this truly is an art deck.  Some of the art to me is deeply disturbing — weird, unpleasant.  Some of it is compelling and masterful.  Then I found the accompanying book to be dense and somewhat repellent.  Much of Christian mysticism is anathema to me.  The deck is a mix of several systems and not readily accessible to those of us who like to cozy up with RWS clones.

 

I wanted to give the deck a chance.  There were serious doubts as to if this would be a keeper.  During my study time with this deck, I was directed to do several personal readings.  I found these to be just fine.  Now I’m really looking forward to what this new deck interview has to tell me.

 

 

Today’s interview questions:

1.    Welcome to my temple, to my home, and to my mission work.  How do     you describe yourself?

2.    What are your strengths?

3.    What are your challenges or limitations as a deck?

4.    What is your favorite type of reading?

5.    Advice for strengthening and enjoying our relationship together.

6.    What lesson are you here to share with me right now?

 

1.     Welcome to my temple, to my home, and to my mission work.  How do     you describe yourself? XVIII Chachamah ‘Wise Woman’

“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” — Mark Twain

Come fish in my dark waters.  I shine a different light.  A different perspective reveals secrets, solves mysteries, and exposes evil that would hide in the shadows.  My place is a dark place.

The heart is a lonely hunter.  Enter through my doorway into Dreamtime.  I am scary.  I am mysterious.  Imagination and intuition are allowed to shape, grow, and form in this soft warm womb space.   Life is not all light and bright as we might like to believe.  We need to know.  Some knowledge emerges up out of the dark places.

 

2.    What are your strengths?  XVI Tower of Babel ‘Initiation’

I unleash my lightning bolts upon your carefully constructed towers — your strivings, your accumulations, your plans, your accomplishments.  Sometimes you are like a train hurtling down a track towards a goal — perhaps a goal that was fixed long ago when you and surrounding conditions were very different.  The momentum of that hurtling and the continual refueling of the energy that drives that engine may have left you with little time for self examination and re-evaluation.  In such cases drastic measures are needed to help you to re-align with your soul purpose.

 

3.    What are your challenges or limitations as a deck?  7 of Cups ‘Visualization’

I am wild and untamed.  I don’t easily adapt to traveling the well worn path.  My vision and my desires are not conventional.  If your queries are about the conventional, I may not want to play with you.  I may break away and lead you into a dark and dense forest populated with unnameable longings and unspeakable desires.  Beware.

 

4.    What is your favorite type of reading?  Three of Pentacles ‘Co-Creation’

I am very interested in the process of supporting a team or group of people to work cooperatively together to create something — particularly on the material plane.  How can people best be productive and work in harmony?  How can each person in a group be able to find their own voice and the best way to contribute?  So I like readings that are about cooperative projects and teamwork.  I like readings that are about creating something of utility and lasting beauty.

 

5.    Advice for strengthening and enjoying our relationship together.  Three of Wands

Here we have another three — the Three of Wands following the Three of Pentacles.  I recognize that I am a strange and alien deck.  It is not going to be easy to have a superficial relationship with me.  Also you have to push past an inherent aversion that you feel for me.  You will be challenged both to meditate and pray each time we work together; and to dig into the written guide that comes with me.  I’m unique.  I’m different.  I’m worth it.  I can bring unique insights and take you to places where you might not go on your own.  Trust me and stay with the process.

 

6.    What lesson are you here to share with me right now?  Five of Cups

I am here to help you to develop your skills as a healer and an empath.  The desire to quickly move past wounding is natural.  Instead, sometimes we need to deal with the painful things that rise up to the surface.  People will come to you who are in pain.  They are trusting that you can meet them and open to them.  This white unicorn is here to teach me how to be open to dealing with heartache and emotional challenges with compassion.