Ancestral Path Tarot Cards by Julie Cuccia-Watts

Ancestral Path Tarot Cards by Julie Cuccia-Watts

Ancestral Path Tarot Cards is a unique, multicultural deck that highlights human experiences by examining the traditions and spiritual beliefs of four different ancient cultures.

This Tarot threads together the diverse beliefs of various cultures in order to find commonalities of experience between them.

It examines the traditions of our ancestors through mythology to reclaim a personal spirituality that enables us to perceive the divine in ourselves and others.

The Ancestral Path Tarot emphasises the living tradition of all human cultures for us to factor into our world view. The deck portrays paths created by ancestors of different times and cultures for our consideration.

Its imagery speaks of human experience, emphasising potential tapped in the past and preserved through verbal and written histories, traditions and myths. This visual feast fulfills the raison d`etre of the Tarot-patterns creating meaningful stories of the human condition.

We are all embryonic ancestors, similar to the fetus in the Hanged One image. Through the placental cord of cultural transmission, we imbibe the world view of those who shaped and adapted it. We are nourished on the legacy of their belief systems.

We are so immersed in the amniotic fluid of our own particular cultural system that we rarely realise that all this nurturing was meant to prepare us for the birth of our own impact on that culture.

The process of birth into awareness and responsibility as a mature adult is painful. The world outside our cultural womb is complex and diverse. Some womb-nurtured beliefs are inappropriate for survival and success in this world.

We follow the path of others; we widen or close off pathways on our journey, and we carve new paths through unexplored territory. More critically, perhaps, we also shape paths for others-contemporaries as well as descendants-who (will) view us as ancestors. Evaluating whether we are clearing a path or muddling it for others is an enlightening experience.