For the past 10 years, I have been working on and off making a set of “Green Wisdom Cards.” If ever there was a time for a deck to inspire people to be able to “green” themselves – to renew, rebound, restore, rebuild, recover, reinvent, regenerate, rejoice – this is it. Rather than seek out mainstream publishers, I’d prefer to do it ourselves, just like with Voyager 24 years ago.

GO TO WWW.GREENWISDOMCARDS.COM for a preview.

I am looking for a financial partner so that we can get these cards printed in a green way and get them on their way.

If you have any interest and questions, please email me jameswanless@comcast.net or call 1-800-676-1256.

For this Reading, before you pick a Card facedown, think about your answers and then let the unconscious mystery reveal itself. This is a great way to check your ego and beliefs by the Cards you select.

What in your life do you need to guard against? Think and then pick a card.

Where are you most susceptible to unbalanced, delusional thinking? Think and then pick a Card.

Where are you a realist, seeing things clearly with equanimity, equilibrium, and reflective purity? Think and pick a Card

As the gatekeeper Guardian, what do you need to open up to and accept in you and your life? Think and Pick.

Like diamonds that take eons of time and pressure, where do you need to be patient and persevering?
Think and Pick.

The Fool Child in the Voyager Tarot is the ‘0′ card, the first breath of the Infinite in the world of myriad forms. In Jewish Kabbalistic mythology, the Fool corresponds to Kether the Crown, the highest manifest energy of the nameless Ain Sof.

The paradox is that the Fool Child, ‘trailing clouds of glory’ is thrown into the swirling chaos of the earth plane, into the darkness interspersed with glimmerings of light that is the sephira Malkuth. The Fool Child is innocent, adventurous, ready to step off the edge, in her innocence a lost wanderer in the intrigue and treachery of everyday life. Often, s/he hardens into the neurotic Child-whining, codependent, narcissistic. Or the impractical dreamer, the visionary idealist ‘beating his luminous wings in the void’ ineffectually.

How do we grow beyond the Fool Child archetype? How do we embark on that magnificent mythic Tarot journey from the Fool to the Universe, returning in a transformative cycle to a higher octave level of the Fool? How do we progress from ‘0′ to ‘1′, to the level of the worldly wise Magician? There seems to be no easy passage, no smooth transition from the innocent but dependent Fool Child to the ‘map maker, dream weaver, reality creator’, as Lazaris would describe the Magician. It’s as though each card remains a static archetype without the dynamism necessary to explain the transition from card to card. We often assume in a dull sort of way that the transitions ‘just happens’, or that we ‘just jump, trust me’, Goddess knows how.

I suggest that the journey need not involve these unexplained jumps. There is an imaginative pattern of mythic progression, whereby the Fool Child can transition (in gentle stages) to the Magician.

Since “the Child cards in the Voyager..deck are the physical manifestations of the Fool Child” (James Wanless: Voyager Tarot-Way of the Great Oracle, p.281), let us map the Fool’s journey through the Children cards as one way of describing the progression to the Magician.

The journey begins with the Fool Child as the Mind Learner in the marvelous Crystal Cave, letting go of old fetal security blankets and opening up to the wonder and the unfolding of the mind. Thereafter, the Fool Child needs to open up to the full gamut of feelings as the Child of Cups. Initiated into Crystal learning and the feeling ranges of the Cups suit, the Fool Child enters the most critical transformational card: Player (the Child of Worlds). This is the level of mythic initiation into mastery of the body and of worldliness, with its dominion, responsibilities and magical power, tinged with the redemptive frisbee play of the Player.

Isn’t that enough? Doesn’t this level of playful world-initiation ease the Fool into the Magician’s flowing robes, mercurial mastery, many masks, wands and powers? Not quite. The Fool Child needs to complete the process as the Seeker, the Child of Wands, to reclaim that spirit that has been lost in the process of maturing, to relearn that s/he is Spirit incarnate in clumsy flesh. This rounds out and completes the cycle of initiation, whereby the Fool Child can morph into the Magician with effortless ease.

If we enter the domain of the Magician through this portal, we can forever retain the godlike innocence of the Fool even as we mature from Magician to the Universe.