He will earn friends who help prepare him for the greater ordeals yet to come. This will be a combination of obstacles in his path, bad choices or mistakes, and people who try to stop him.
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Now that he has committed to his quest, there will be a series of increasingly difficult challenges to test him. In the journey through the tarot, this is represented by The Chariot card. He is committed and once the journey starts, there is no going back. In most stories, this is a literal change of location. At this point in the story, our hero will leave his or her comfortable and familiar life and Cross the Threshold into a new world. Five: Crossing the Threshold (into the new world) They each have unique wisdom and experience, and depending on the hero’s problem, will have the advice he or she needs. In our tarot journey, the mentor figure will be one of the next five cards – The High Priestess, The Empress, The Emperor, The Hierophant or The Lovers. This guidance usually comes in the form of a mentor who gives the hero strength and courage.
The hero needs someone (or something) to spur him into action and point him in a direction. There are no cards in the Major Arcana that perfectly match the refusal. In a story, the Refusal of the Call is optional. His comfortable couch seems much more appealing than the unknown and perilous road ahead. Most often, the hero will outright refuse to fix the problem, or will have doubts about his ability to do so. The Call to Adventure is represented by The Magician card, the second card in the Major Arcana. It may be big or small, but it disrupts the hero’s comfort and he or she must face the challenge to find a solution. Something happens to shake up the hero’s world. In our tarot journey, the Ordinary World is represented by The Fool card, the first card in the Major Arcana. In a story, this is where we get to know the personality of the hero and we see their flaws and weaknesses play out in their ordinary, every day life. The hero is oblivious of the adventures to come. In the Hero’s Journey, there are 12 steps or phases that the hero must complete, and in most stories they happen in this order: One: The Ordinary World In this video, I’ll be using The Fool card to travel through the rest of the Major Arcana, meeting archetypes and obstacles along the way. In the tarot, there are many ways to interpret the Hero’s Journey. They will have many problems and meet many people who stand in their way, and they must dig deep within themselves to accept and implement the changes needed to succeed. The Hero – or Heroine – has a problem they must solve, but the only way to solve it is to go on a quest of self-discovery. The Hero’s Journey is a classic storytelling structure dating back thousands of years. The Hero’s Journey is a storytelling structure used by writers and artists as a way to understand the common archetypes and problems of life. This becomes the story of The Fool’s Hero’s Journey (as presented by Joseph Campbell in The Hero With A Thousand Faces). Want more tarot videos like this one? Click here.
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