Tarot Magic Mini-Course: Lesson 6: The Aces and the Classical Elements
Welcome to Tarot Magic — a revolutionary new way to use the archetypes of the tarot for powerful personal transformation, practical enchantment, and spiritual growth.
In this mini-course, I’m providing free access to selected material in the full Tarot Magic course. If you enjoy this material, please consider signing up for the complete course here.
- Tarot Magic Mini-Course Main Page
- Goals of the course
- Creating sacred space
- Definitions of magic
- How Tarot Magic is different
- The aces and the classical elements (you are here)
- The Fourfold Rite meditation
- Breathing the Elements meditation
- Four weeks with the aces and elements
- Tarot altars
- Tarot Magic at the Crossroads
The Aces and the Classical Elements
Please view the video (excerpted from my Tarot Foundations course) about the associations of the aces and the classical elements (and ignore references to the court cards). This will give you a solid overview of the association between the aces and their corresponding elements. before you begin the work.
Michael M. Hughes is a writer, speaker, game designer, and magical thinker. He is the author of Magic for the Resistance: Rituals and Spells for Change(coming soon in a revised and updated edition), the Blackwater Lights Trilogy,as well as numerous other works of fiction and nonfiction, and he speaks and teaches classes on magic, tarot, pop culture, psychedelics, and more.
His comprehensive tarot course, The Art and Magic of the Tarot: Foundations, is available here, as well as his most recent course on Tarot Magic.
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