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| Addiction Tarot Card Layout |
| The World (21) |
| Judgement (20) |
| Strength (8) |
| Temperance (14) |
| This is the layout designed to help in overcoming addictions or habits that are particularly harmful. This layout takes the form of an "x" or St. Andrew's Cross, symbolizing harmony and the balance of elements that is needed to restore an individual to self-control and wholeness. |
| In this layout, STRENGTH stands for the ability to overcome problems with the use of willpower. TEMPERANCE also stands for willpower in avoiding things and living life in a harmonious balance. JUDGEMENT stands for breaking free of the habit and making a major self-improvement/transformation. THE WORLD stands for wholeness, satisfaction, health, perfection, and happiness. If you wish to use accessories for this spell, use white candles, flowers, crystals, gemstones and cloth if you want to emphasize "purification" and "purity" to be attained. If you want to emphasize the healing aspects of this spell use green. |
| The ritual for this spell can be performed at any time. If performing this spell for yourself , it will be especially effective if repeated first thing in the morning and again before going to bed at night. If yours is a particularly strong addiction, be prepared to repeat this spell over and over again until you are satisfied that you have finally conquered the problem. Mental and emotional factors are important in setting up this ritual. Before performing the rite, meditate on purification while taking a bath |
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| over your resolve to break your habit. |
| To perform this spell, you may use the |
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| improvise a ritual of your own, or just proceed by laying out the cards and doing the following meditation, visualization, and affirmation. |
| Layout the cards when you come to the appropriate point in the spell. As you lay down the TEMPERANCE card, picture a good guardian spirit standing beside you, ready to give you comfort. The angel's great wings spread in a protective manor. Look at the illustration on the TEMPERANCE card and consider how it also represents harmony and balance. -The balance in life that you need to restore to a life that has been out of kilter. Picture yourself enjoying a life with all forces of body and mind in perfect balance. Imagine the sensation you will feel as refeshing and rejuvinating power surges through the body restoring wholeness. As you lay down the STRENGTH card, picture again the ideal you - strong and with the power to withstand all temptation. Lay down the JUDGEMENT card, concentraiting on renewal and awakening to a new life. Visualize yourself waking up from a long slumber to find a rejuvenated mind and body, ready to meet all challenges. Lay down the WORLD. Visualize yourself filled with the joy of life, dancing, singing, greeting each new day with enthusiasm. Realize that all the powers that you need for success and happiness are to be found within you. |
| After you have finished meditating on the cards, with as much feeling as you can, recite the following: |
| "With these cards, And with this spell Power is drawn, And power surges through me! By the power within me I break the chains that bind me! I break the bonds Which tie my soul and spirit! I restore my life to balance! I am resilient! I can withstand all that comes my way! For strength is mine, And I grow stronger, and yet even stronger than before By all the powers that be, I overcome!" |
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