78 Magickal Tools: Bringing the Magick of Tarot to your Pagan Path

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One of the most powerful aspects of ritual work is invocation. To invoke an element, a spirit or a deity is to bring their energy to your circle, and to bring their healing magickal power to yourself.

Many Pagans use statues, images and altar tools to help with the process of invocation. To have the image of a deity on your altar not only honors the deity, it assists in invoking the energy of that deity.

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There are many tarot decks that actually depict particular deities. There are a few Goddess tarot decks, including Kris Waldherr’s classic favorite. Lisa Hunt’s Animals Divine Tarot has a Major Arcana full of deities. The newly reprinted Ancestral Path Tarot has deity images for the Minor Arcana court characters. The Spiral Tarot has deities for its Major Arcana characters.

Even your standard Waite Rider Smith deck can offer you basic images that will help you invoke many deities. The associations you can make between deities of many cultures and the Major Arcana archetypes are unlimited.

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