The Mirror & the Mystery: Tarot, Torah, and the God Who Uses All Things

You know… it’s funny how people think tarot and immediately picture witchcraft.
Darkness.
Deception.
But few ever ask-
Where did the word even come from?
Tarot comes from Torah.
Instruction.
Divine law.
The word that means teaching.
Before there were cards,
there was covenant.
Before there were readers,
there were scribes.
Before there was fear of darkness,
there was the One who said-
“I form the light, and create darkness.”
(Isaiah 45:7)
Meaning-
Even the shadow has a Teacher.
Even mystery has a Maker.
(beat)
The cards themselves aren’t gods.
They’re paper mirrors.
They hold symbols and stories-
like modern-day parables-
that speak the language of the subconscious.
Psychology calls it projection.
Spirit calls it revelation.
It’s the art of seeing your inner world reflected outward
so you can bring it home.
That’s why I say the tarot doesn’t tell you your future.
It shows you your now.
The state of your heart, your mind, your pattern, your posture.
It’s mirror work-
the kind James wrote about when he said,
“Whoever looks in a mirror and forgets what they saw deceives themselves.”
(James 1:23-24)

So no, I’m not calling on outside spirits.
I’m calling the Spirit within.
The same Spirit that hovered over the waters in Genesis-
and still hovers over the waters of your soul.

Scripture says,
“Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them.
I am the Lord your God.”
- Leviticus 19:31
and again,
“Beloved, do not believe every spirit,
but test the spirits to see whether they are from God.”
- 1 John 4:1
People read those verses and picture séances and sorcery-
but the real danger runs deeper.
The deceiving spirit is not the card.
It’s the flesh.
The mind that wants control,
the will that wants to know apart from God.
That’s the real divination-
the divided nation within the self.
The part of us that seeks revelation
without relationship,
knowledge without kneeling,
power without Presence.

But here’s the paradox no one wants to touch:
When someone says,
“By reading for others, aren’t you letting them look outside themselves?”
Yes.
I am.
Because only by walking into the illusion
can they discover the truth.
Only by seeing the shadow
can they learn to recognize the light.
Romans 8:28 says,
“God works all things together for good
for those who love Him,
who are called according to His purpose.”
That means He can use even this-
the cards, the questions, the curiosity-
as a doorway to bring someone home.
I’ve seen it.
A reading becomes repentance.
A spread becomes surrender.
A symbol becomes Scripture
before their very eyes.
And when they realize the power isn’t in the cards-
but in the Spirit breathing through them-
they awaken.
They remember.
For truly,
“No one can fathom what God has done
from beginning to end.”
(Ecclesiastes 3:11)
I am the villain in someone’s story.
I am the hero in another.
I am.
That I am.
(Exodus 3:14)
The same God who said His name is Being itself.
The One who holds both shadow and substance.
So I no longer fear the dark places-
because I know who made them.
I no longer hide from the mirror-
because I know who’s looking back.
Light and darkness,
Torah and tarot,
teacher and student--
it’s all one unfolding.
“Christ in me, the hope of glory.”
(Colossians 1:27)
(soft closing)
So whether you call it prophecy, psychology, or prayer,
I call it listening.
Because in the end,
the same Spirit speaks all languages.
And all truth,
belongs to God.

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Most people hear tarot and think taboo.
But the root of the word is ancient: TAROT → TORAH → TĀRĀH - “instruction, teaching, divine law.”
Before it was paper and pictures, it was principle.
It was the way of being taught by Spirit.
In Hebrew, Torah doesn’t only mean law-it means guidance, flow, the trajectory of divine instruction.
The verb yarah (from which Torah comes) literally means “to flow like water” or “to shoot an arrow toward a target.”
To follow Torah, then, is to align with the current of divine truth within you.
When God gave the Torah, He wasn’t handing down superstition;
He was revealing the pattern of consciousness itself-
the law written on the heart. (Jeremiah 31:33)
Tarot, in its redeemed form, is a mirror of that same pattern.
Seventy-eight archetypes that map the human psyche:
journey, fall, death, resurrection, renewal.
Psychology would call it the hero’s journey (Campbell)
or the process of individuation (Jung).
Scripture calls it sanctification-
the slow transfiguration of the soul into Christ-likeness.
Every “card” corresponds to a stage of transformation-
what Paul described as “being transformed by the renewing of your mind.” (Romans 12:2)
Carl Jung wrote that symbols are the language of the soul.
They give the unconscious a voice.
That’s why imagery speaks faster than intellect;
it bypasses the prefrontal filters and lands in the limbic,
where emotion, memory, and revelation meet.
Modern neuroscience affirms this:
the limbic system assigns meaning before the cortex interprets it.
So symbolic reflection literally rewires perception-
a truth the mystics already knew.
So when I draw cards, I’m not asking spirits for secrets.
I’m asking the Spirit within (John 14:26)
to reveal what I’ve hidden from myself-
to bring shadow into light.
And yes, there’s a little “magic” in that.
But the miracle isn’t manipulation;
it’s co-creation-thought, feeling, and faith aligning.
Jesus called it “According to your faith, be it unto you.” (Matthew 9:29)
Neuroscience calls it neuroplasticity:
what you repeatedly see and feel becomes the structure of your brain.
Faith literally rewires form.
When critics quote the warnings about mediums (Leviticus 19:31; Deuteronomy 18:10-12),
they’re right to protect purity of guidance.
The issue isn’t the symbol-it’s source.
If you seek outside the Spirit of God, you enter distortion.
If you seek through that Spirit, even a shadow can teach.
For God said, “I form the light and create darkness.” (Isaiah 45:7)
He uses all things for good. (Romans 8:28)
So the cards are not my compass; the Spirit is.
The cards are just glass-
and as Paul wrote, “Now we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face.” (1 Cor 13:12)
Every reading is an act of remembrance:
to turn the gaze inward,
to meet Christ in me-the hope of glory. (Col 1:27)
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Psychology calls it integration.
Scripture calls it redemption.
I call it the mirror of mercy.

🕯 Closing ReflectionAbba,
teach us to discern with clean hands and a pure heart.
Let every mirror-every image, every word, every question-
lead us back to You.
May the shadows we once feared
become sanctuaries of revelation.
And may we remember that even the darkness
is light to You.
(Psalm 139:12)
Amen.