The Ace of Wands from the Rider/Waite/Smith deck depicts a radiating hand coming out of a cloud. The hand holds a wand with living, green leaves sprouting from its surface. There is a castle in the background. This card is meant to express the powerful creative force of the Wands. Since the Wands are the suit of the fire element, Expanding Dimensions, the creators of Today’s Journey Tarot could find no more appropriate symbol for this energy and power than our own sun. The sun sustains all life on earth. Its energy drives our creative spirit with its passion and strength.

Teresa Sue McAdams, co-creator of “Today’s Journey Tarot”, co-author of “Today’s Journey Tarot, A Traveler’s Guide”, co-author of “Tarot Meditations, A Journal for Self Discovery”, and author of “Lessons, The Wisdom Within Each Moment”

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The World card is the completion of one cycle and the beginning of another. The Rider/Waite/Smith deck shows a nude figure, draped with a purple scarf. She is dancing in air within a green wreath. There are four figureheads at each corner (as in the Wheel of Fortune) representing, among other things, the four fixed signs of the zodiac. The symbolism here represents the idea that a celebration of attainment is at hand. We have passed certain initiations and will now move to future challenges on a higher level of development. Expanding Dimensions, the creators of Today’s Journey Tarot depict in Key 20 Completion, the same girl from card 0 Beginning. She is grown up now and is a Tarot reader and teacher. Whatever she has learned in her journey with the Tarot, the next level for her – and for us – is to share her knowledge with others, thereby insuring her continued development as well.

Teresa Sue McAdams, co-creator of “Today’s Journey Tarot”, co-author of “Today’s Journey Tarot, A Traveler’s Guide”, co-author of “Tarot Meditations, A Journal for Self Discovery”, and author of “Lessons, The Wisdom Within Each Moment”

The Judgement card in the Rider/Waite/Smith deck is often associated with just that, judgment. But it doesn’t represent judging as much as it does awakening and awareness. Perhaps it does refer to the proverbial “Judgment Day” when we are supposed to come face to face with our lives and receive retribution for our “sins”. The card’s central figure is the archangel, Gabriel blowing his horn. There are gray and naked people rising out of coffins with their arms raised to the angel. Today’s Journey Tarot’s updated version of this card is titled Awareness. The idea here is that something will awaken us to a level of understanding that we didn’t possess before. We may judge our former selves, before we were aware – but at this level of awareness I think that would be unlikely. How can we judge ourselves for what we did not know? Awareness shows a neighborhood block party. All of the participants are engaged in watching a performance on stage. Only one woman becomes aware of a shooting star across the sky. She has reached a new level of consciousness with this recognition which takes her out of the mundane world and into the divine.

Teresa Sue McAdams, co-creator of “Today’s Journey Tarot”, co-author of “Today’s Journey Tarot, A Traveler’s Guide”, co-author of “Tarot Meditations, A Journal for Self Discovery”, and author of “Lessons, The Wisdom Within Each Moment”

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