Deities and Tarot

[Deviant-Moon]

What tarot spreads do you use when trying to ask/contact your deity/ies?

[Rooftop]

The Celtic cross works best for me.

[RoseRed]

I don't use tarot to talk to deities.

How does that even work?

[varmoth]

I don't do much in the way of divination, and have never tried to use tarot for anything other than general predictions. I have never heard of using it to work with a deity, though it could still be very common for all I know. Anyway, my best results came from an adaptation of the Celtic cross into an X shaped pattern, but it has been so long I don't really remember the specifics.

[deathbycicada]

I use a rather unconventional spread that it a lot of fun and seems to work quite well in its own way; I call it the chaotic spread. The process is based on a Discordian opening ritual.

Some preliminary thoughts on divination and chaos:

Eris, as the Goddess of Chaos represent undifferentiated possibilities. This parallels the Dao De Jing and Quantum physics. In the DDJ, Lao Tzu explains how the determinate arises from the indeterminate (chaos). Quantum mechanics tells us that before a determinate event arises it is exists in an undefined or quantum state (google Schrodinger's cat for a useful thought experiment).

Thus, the universe is undefined or chaotic. In a ridiculous way, it may be possible to peek into chaos or even shape chaos through communion with Eris. If anything, it's fun and can add some meaning to the otherwise random string of events we call "life."

The following is my Discordian Ritual for communion with chaos:

1. Lose your self to erratic movement and nonsense. (Clap your hands, sing gibberish, and dance with pure spontaneity.)

2. Sign the Erisian Cross: “Light in my head, fire in my genitals, strength at my right side, laughter at my left side, love in my Heart.”

3. Call the quarters
- Face East: “Blessed Apostle Hung Mung, great Sage of Cathay, Balance the Hodge and Podge and grant us equilibrium.”
- Face South: “Blessed Apostle Van Van Mojo, Doctor of Hoodoo and Vexes, Give us the Voodoo Power and confuse our enemies.”
- Face West: “Blessed Apostle Sri Syadasti, patron of psychedelia, Teach us the relative truth and blow our minds.”
- Face North: “Blessed Apostle Zarathud, hard-nosed hermit, Grant us the Erisian doubt, and the constancy of Chaos.”
- Look up: “Blessed Apostle Malaclypse, Elder Saint of Discordia, Grant us illumination and protect us from stupidity.”

4. Say: “Great Goddess Discordia, Holy Mother Eris, Joy of the Universe, Laughter of Space, Grant us Life, Light, Love and Liberty and make the bloody
magick work!” and through your tarot deck into the air allow the cards to scatter across the room.

5. Interpret the chaotic spread of cards however you see fit.

6. Say: "Hail Eris! All hail Discordia!"

[Eremita]

Ahahaha, that is actually one of the best posts I have ever seen! My favourite part is the Calling the Quarters. XD