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Karmic Tarot
Correlation of the Seven Stages with the Minor Arcana Suits
Stage One: Influenced by Pentacles
Stage Two: Influenced by Cups
Stage Three: Influenced by Swords
Stage Four: Influenced by Wands
Stage Five: Influenced by Swords
Stage Six: Influenced by Cups
Stage Seven: Influenced by Pentacles
In this evolving sequence from Pentacles to Wands and back to Pentacles again, you
can see the energy at work in the Tarot—a polarity, a pulse, a rhythm; the concept of
involution/evolution; the spiral (everything returns to its beginnings, but at a different,
higher level). You begin at the Physical and it is to the Physical that you return. But you are
not the same, you are transformed. This pulse can be seen in the pattern of the 22 Major
Arcana cards stepping up and down through the four horizontal Planes of life experiences
(see Chart 1).
Correlation of the Major Arcana with the Seven Stages
The twenty-two Major Arcana move through the four Planes in seven Stages. Each of
the seven Stages has a four-step cycle. The fourth step in each cycle serves a dual function
as the end of one Stage and the beginning of the next. (In numerology this is acknowledged
as a natural function of the number four). 3
In Stage One: The positions are 1, 2, 3, and 4, with 4 being the resolution of the series
1 to 3. However, besides doing duty as the end of Stage One, position 4 is also the beginning
of Stage Two.
In Stage Two: The positions are 4, 5, 6, and 7, with 7 as the resolution of the series of 4
to 6; and also the beginning of Stage Three.
This phenomenon is true through all seven Stages: Position 10 ends Stage Three and
begins Stage Four. Position 13 ends Stage Four and begins Stage Five. Position 16 ends
Stage Five and begins Stage Six. Position 19 ends Stage Six and begins Stage Seven.
Position 22 is both the end and a beginning. It is 22 as the end of Stage Seven and as
such it represents the end of the present lifetime. 4 However, as 0 it represents the beginning
of the next lifetime. The Fool becomes the Magician in that next lifetime. 5
Progression of the Positions in Each of the Seven Stages
Stage One: Magician(l) - High Priestess (2) - Empress (3) - Emperor (4)
Stage Two: Emperor (4) - Hierophant (5) - Lovers (6) - Chariot (7)
Stage Three: Chariot (7) - Strength (8) - Hermit (9) - Wheel (l0)
Stage Four: Wheel (10) - Justice (11) - Hanged Man (12) - Death (13)
Stage Five: Death (13) - Temperance (14) - Devil (15) - Tower (16)
Stage Six: Tower (16) - Star (17) - Moon (18) - Sun (19)
Stage Seven: Sun (19) - Judgement (20) - World (21) - Fool (0/22)