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Introduction Of Osho Zen Tarot

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I. Origin of the Osho Zen

Tarot deck

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Major Arcana Osho Zen Tarot

Deck

2: Inner
0: The Fool
Voice 3: Crea
1: Existence

6: The
4: The Rebel
Lovers 7: Awar
5: No-
Thingness

10:
8: Courage
Change 11
9: Aloneness Breakth

14:
12: New
Integration 15
Vision
13: Conditi
Transformation

18: Past
16:
Lives 19
Thunderbolt
17: Silence Innoce

22: The
20: Beyond
Master
Illusion
21: Completion

Minor Arcana Osho Zen Tarot

Deck
1. Water Suit – Osho Zen Tarot Cards

Ace of 2 of Water 3 of Water 4 of Water

Water

5 of Water 6 of Water 7 of Water 8 of Water

9 of Water 10 of Page of Knight of

Water Water Water

Queen of King of
Water Water

2. Clouds Suit – Osho Zen Tarot Cards

Ace of 2 of 3 of 4 of
Clouds Clouds Clouds Clouds

5 of 6 of 7 of 8 of
Clouds Clouds Clouds Clouds

9 of 10 of Page of Knight of
Clouds Clouds Clouds Clouds

Queen of King of
Clouds Clouds

3. Fire Suit – Osho Zen Tarot Cards

Ace of Fire 2 of Fire 3 of Fire 4 of Fire

5 of Fire 6 of Fire 7 of Fire 8 of Fire

9 of Fire 10 of Fire Page of Knight of

Fire Fire

Queen of King of
Fire Fire

4. Rainbows Suit – Osho Zen Tarot

Cards

Ace of 2 of 3 of 4 of
Rainbows Rainbows Rainbows Rainbows

5 of 6 of 7 of 8 of
Rainbows Rainbows Rainbows Rainbows

9 of 10 of Page of Knight of
Rainbows Rainbows Rainbows Rainbows

Queen of King of
Rainbows Rainbows

The Osho Zen Tarot deck, illustrated by Ma Deva

Padma (1947), is one of the decks considered to be
quite challenging to perceive and interpret. However,
Tarot readers will feel somewhat answered if carefully
studying the accompanying manual. Osho Zen Tarot
deck is based on the teachings of the late Zen master
Osho (December 11, 1931 – January 19, 1990), whose
real name is Chandra Mohan Jain, also known as
Acharya Rajneesh from the 1960s onwards, after
which he called himself Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh in
the 1970s and 1980s, and eventually took the name
Osho in 1989. Throughout his lifetime, he was seen as
a mystic teacher, guru, and spiritual master. Osho left
a huge number of works with hundreds of books and
countless lectures, helping people understand clearly
the truth, clarifying things that no one has ever
touched before.

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Osho argued that meditation is not only a practice but

a state of awareness maintained in each moment – an
overall awareness that awakens individuals from the
sleep of mechanical response controlled by belief and
expectation. He applied Western psychotherapy in the
stages of preparation for meditation to make people
aware of their own mental and emotional patterns.

Therefore, the meaning of the cards gives you the

feeling of being taught, and often the profound
statements about speci!c concepts or actions. But not
everyone agrees with these concepts.

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II. Structure and

meaning of the Osho Zen
Tarot deck
This deck is designed in a liberal style in order to attain
enlightenment through meditation. While traditional
Tarot deck, which is Rider-Waite, aims to satisfy the
desire to search for the past and the future and
answers questions like “What will happen in the
future?”, “What will my health and children look like?”,
or “What if I choose one option over the other?”, etc,
Osho Zen Tarot focuses on the task of helping readers
and querents enhance their perception of the present.
The similarity between the Osho Zen Tarot and the
Rider-Waite Tarot is that it is not intended to make
predictions. It is a system based on the enlightenment
of Zen, which helps us to examine external events to
clarify what is happening inside us. Additionally,
impressive images help you blend in with your
sensitivity, intuition, compassion, creativity,
acceptance, and personality.

The Osho Zen Tarot consists of 79 cards: 78 cards as

usual and the Master card added, each containing a
picture of the card and an accompanying reading. This
section includes a quotation from Osho’s works and a
paraphrase of the author illustrating this deck.

Overall, it represents the ultimate transcendence of

the individual ego in enlightenment and the illustrated
176-page manual. Besides, each Osho Zen Tarot card
has an explanation of the illustration as well as insight
into its meaning. The manual also provides some
spreadsheets and a glossary of symbols.

Somewhat helpful to the Tarot readers, the

accompanying manual describes in great detail the
cards as well as their meaning in common sense.
These descriptions lead Tarot readers to immerse in
the card and interpret the images in the card with
feeling and re"ection. This approach can be found to
be a big help when reading cards and discovering what
card images are trying to convey. Usually, in the
manual, you will !nd a story about Buddha, more
perfectly describing the meaning of the card, and
leaving some information about the Zen culture of
Osho and the life of Buddha.

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The Major Arcana of Osho

Zen Tarot
Osho Zen Tarot deck itself is a brilliant piece of art,
paired with 79 cards. It is also one of the few Tarot
decks purchased mainly because of its high artistry.
Still, the art used in the deck is quite odd, from the use
of watercolors to featured geometric designs.

The cards in the Major Arcana are still in the traditional

order and meaning with Zen-themed visual
representation. However, the card name was changed
as follows:

Fool: Fool;
Magician: Existence;
High Priestess: Inner Voice;
Empress: Creativity;
Emperor: Rebel;
High Priest: No-Thingness;
Lovers: Lovers;
Chariot: Awareness;
Strength: Courage;
Hermit: Aloneness;
Wheel: Change;
Justice: Breakthrough;
Hanged Man: New Vision;
Death: Transformation;
Devil: Conditioning;
Tower: Thunderbolt;
Star: Silence;
Moon: Past Lives;
Sun: Innocence;
Judgment: Beyond Illusion;
World: Completion.

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The additional card in the Major Arcana of Osho Zen

Tarot – the Master – shows what people can become
when they escape the eternal cycle of birth and death
(the journey from Fool to Completion) and !nd the
Enlightenment. It is not surprising that the Master card
is depicted with a portrait of Zen master Osho.
Besides, this Master card, based on the meaning
shared by the author, is not the master above others
but the image of a master of himself, who mastered
his own mind and is una#ected or enslaved by the
outside world. The master does not teach us anything
but only a re"ection for us to look into it and realize
ourselves. Only when understanding, one can fully
comprehend Osho Zen Tarot. If intentionally
eliminated this card, this deck would immediately lose
part of its meaning.

The new name of the Major card will be quite unusual

if you do not look through the image. It is the images
in this card that convey the meaning and complement
the name of cards in a great way. Images used are very
sacred and anecdotally express their meanings. For
example, the card Innocence (Sun) depicts a silver-
haired man smiling wittily with a deep gaze on the
green mantis perched on his index !nger. This image
is like touching the soul, and people often !nd
themselves through such cards.

The Minor Arcana of Osho

Zen Tarot
The Minor Arcana cards of Osho Zen Tarot are
signi!cantly changed. The card name, for example, the
Five of Swords, is not shown on the card, but instead is
a keyword that conveys meaning on it.

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The four suits: Fire, Water, Clouds, and Rainbow, are

equivalent to Wands, Cups, Swords, and Pentacles. On
the Minor cards, you can see the card number
according to the color of the suit in a small diamond
shape: Gray – Clouds, Red – Fire, Blue – Water, and
Seven Colors – Rainbows. Just like the Majors cards,
the images on the Minor cards are conveyed
excellently, both anecdotally and symbolically. But you
will only contemplate very little if not associated with
the keyword on the card.

For example, the Eight of Waters, with the keyword

“Letting go – Give” – describing droplets of water
remaining on the foliage are falling down on the lake.
Court cards also have no name. Instead, inside the
colored diamond shape representing the suit, is an
arrow pointing to one of the four main directions:
North (◄) is King, East ( ) is Knight, South (►) is Queen,
and West ( ) is Page. It will be a little di$cult to get
used to at !rst, but Court cards are greatly
supplemented with keywords on it. Unexpectedly, in
the Osho Zen Tarot deck, Court cards are depicted
without actual human !gures as they are more about
conveying concepts than talking about people. For
more information, the back of the cards is stunning in
a very mundane and oriental way. With the back
design, Tarot readers can easily know whether the
card is in reverse or upright.

From left to right and from top to bottom, respectively: Page

of Fire, Knight of Water, Queen of Clouds, King of Rainbows.

Meanings of four suits in

Osho Zen Tarot
Fire represents an intuitive and outward-looking
action. In a sense, intuition is something
completely independent of ourselves. It is not
intelligence or knowledge but it is simultaneously
intelligence or knowledge, just in the deeper
opposite direction, towards oneself.
Water represents emotions and introverted
nature. The sensation is an awareness of the
world through six “consciousness”: eyes (visual),
nose (olfactory), ears (auditory), tongue
(gustatory), body (tactile), and mind.
Cloud represents the mind, which distinguishes
egoism and does not recognize the reality of
everything. In a more understandable way, our
minds can only see and understand the language
of phenomena but cannot comprehend the
language of the being. So this suit is as gray as a
cloud of delusion that envelops our minds.
Therefore, Cloud is also the Air element in 4
suits.
Rainbows represent the appearance of the
phenomenal world, the path connecting the
earth and the sky; the mind and the body. It is
also the Earth element in 4 suits.

Based on the analysis above, it is clear that Water

represents the !rst 6th consciousness exposed to the
phenomenal world, Cloud represents the 7th
Consciousness, Fire represents the 8th Consciousness,
and Rainbow represents the outside phenomenal
world, which is also called Name and Form. Form,
connected with 6 internal senses, led to thirst,
whereby the 7th Consciousness silently ego-grasped.
Eventually, all are gathered into the subconscious
mind, thus generating cause and e#ect, ignorance,
samsara and birth, old age, illness, death.

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III. Which readers will

Osho Zen Tarot be
suitable for?
The Osho Zen Tarot deck focuses on the task of
helping the Tarot readers improve their current
understanding. It suggests that the events that occur
in the outside world merely re"ect our thoughts and
feelings, even though we may not truly comprehend
our own feelings and thoughts. Therefore, what we
need to do is not to pay attention to what happens
outside, but instead, seek to clarify our insights and
thoughts from the bottom of our hearts.

The conditions and mental states depicted in non-

traditional modern visual cards are also the clearest
descriptions of transformation and transition. These
images are also the life experiences that people
approach in life, from the beautiful to the ridiculous
and the mundane.

Brie"y, the Osho Zen Tarot is not a Tarot deck for

beginners or those who only feel a little philosophical
value of Osho or Zen Buddhism. However, this is a
very attractive deck of cards and is for enthusiasts who
collect Tarot decks at a high level. Reading these cards
can be challenging at !rst, especially for purifying,
healing, and strengthening the spirit with your
standard Tarot spreads.

And !nally, if you are a person who has struggled and

confused with standard Tarot decks, and felt they are
too scary or negative, are more concerned with the
present than the future, love meditation-related
topics, want to have an enlightened Zen teacher to
guide wise things, choose Osho Zen Tarot.

IV. The typical Tarot

spread of Osho Zen
Tarot
The most common and simple spread of Osho Zen
Tarot is the Diamond spread, which seems to also
re"ect the intent of this deck. This spread requires the
querent to draw 5 cards and place them in a diamond
shape (at !rst glance, it is easily related to a cross).

The !rst card reveals the basic problem – the

cause (the seed) that leads to the e#ect of
everything that happens.;
The second and the third card, in turn, show the
inward predestination that one is not aware of
and the external condition that one avoids
acknowledging, thereby leading to the cause
becoming e#ect;
Finally, the fourth and the !fth card help us to
identify what conditions the e#ect requires and
specify what the cause itself will be like.

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If digging a little deeper, applying Buddhist knowledge

to interpret, it can be said that the !rst to the fourth
card are the four types of conditions according to the
Collection of Long Discourses: causal condition (the
condition of causes and also includes all causes of
mutual dependence), immediately preceding condition
(talking about impermanent consciousness that
follows one another), objective condition (the
conditions of treaties, the conditions outside of us),
fundamental condition (is a condition to help the
previous conditions develop), while the !fth card is the
possible result of those conditions, require to use the
mind from which to re"ect and then realize what
needed to do.

There are many reasons to say that Osho Zen Tarot is

not a traditional Tarot deck, it is more like a non-
standard one, or rather, as an Oracle deck, except that
in spreading cards, cards in the Major Arcana still hold
an important role than the cards in the Minor Arcana.
Interestingly, there are quite a few people who are
engaged in approaching this Tarot deck according to
this aspect. Most people who have owned this deck
want to interpret their cards more intuitively. The
reason for this is probably because the cards in the
Osho Zen Tarot deck are highly intuitive, and
straighten things as they are, and so it is more positive,
considers everything with wisdom and compassion,
doesn’t accept the boundary, and doesn’t admit the
!ction. That is precisely the spirit of the Middle Way.

Perhaps for all these reasons, Osho Zen Tarot is not

only the most widely known of the decks related to
the Zen master Osho but also one of the quite
famous Tarot decks in general.

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