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The images on the cards of the Osho Zen Tarot are contemporary modern paintings that even the inexperienced user will be able to relate to. The conditions and states of mind shown on the cards are essentially transitional – and if we can just take a look and see things as they are, the act of seeing can transform them.

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"If you have looked meditatvely at the Tarot card… And they are cards to be meditated upon; they are old secret methods of meditation. The Fool is standing on the cliff, one foot dangling, hanging over the cliff – and he is not aware, and he is looking at the stars and he is very happy. His head must be full of dreams. And he is carrying four sacred symbols on his back, and he is not aware what they are. he is not even aware that he is carrying four secret symbols on his back. These are the four secret symbols: the jungle, the forest, the garden, the home. ..." --Osho, The Path of Love Talk #3

Glossary of symbols

Bird: Spirit of air, imagination, possibilities, happiness, "the soul", entering into a higher state of consciousness
Buddha: Perfection, pure consciousness, self-realization, ultimate wisdom, compassion, stillness, transcendence of duality
Butterfly: Transformation, flightiness, lightness, temporariness, fragility
Camel: self-satisfied, unawareness, temperamental, foolishness
Chain: Conditions, limitations, boundaries
Child: Potential, simplicity, innocence, joy, perfection, transmutation
Circle: Pure space, spirit, totality, wholeness, femaleness, no beginning no end, self-contained, heaven
Clouds: The changing nature of the mind, hiding or covering, hidden blessings, oppression, heaviness, or if unformed lightness and non-seriousness.
Colors:
- Violet = red (hot) + blue (cool) : Intelligence, balance, equality
- Red: Strength, energy, fire, the sun, passion, sexuality, masculine, active principle
- Pink: Love, perfection (red + white = pink; strength + passion and purity = love)
- Gold: Truth, enlightenment, splendor
- White: Purity, perfection, innocence, illumination, sacredness, simplicity, yang
- Black: Void, death, time, night, cold, yin
- Blue: Water, coolness, depth, space, heaven
- Grey: Clouds, change, neutral (able to move into any direction), between dark and light
- Green: Nature, abundance, spring (yellow + blue = green; i.e., warmth of emotions + coolness of wisdom = renewal, creativity
Crystal: Insight, clarity
Cup: Open, receptive, feminine, the heart
Dolphin: Playfulness, intelligence, sensitivity, gentleness, joy
Eagle: Inspiration, strength, authority, spiritual principal, a bridge between heaven and earth, masculine, solar, expansive
Eyes Open: Awareness
Eyes Closed: Inward looking, or being asleep
Fire: Transformation, power, energy, strength, passion, purification, inspiration, masculine, solar
Flowers: Full development of potentialities, expansion, open and sharing
Fruit: Juiciness, fertility, essence
Hair (long, flowing): Energy, freedom of thought (inspiration), life-force, virility
Hair (shaved): Renouncing the physical
Hair (disheveled): Confusion, unhappiness
Halo: Light of truth, radiance, vital energy
Hand (empty): Open, receptive, feminine
Hara: The center of vital energy in the body, just below the navel, life-force center
Headless: No-mind – beyond thinking
Jigsaw Puzzle: The game of life, the whole picture comprised of many small pieces
Knife/Sword: Division, power, aggression, mental, cutting through (i.e., clarity)
Leaf: Perfection, spiritual unfoldment
Leaves (green): Fertility, regeneration
Leaves (autumn): Letting-go, maturity
Lightning: Thunderbolt, revelation, shock, divine power, enlightenment
Lion: Fearlessness, power, individuality
Lizard: Wisdom, secrecy, silence
Lotus Flower: The product of the union of opposites – light (sun) and dark (water), symbol of spirit and transformation
Mantis: Playfulness, non-serious inquiry
Monkey: Transformation, trickster, curiosity
Moon: Mystery, perpetual renewal (phases of), inner knowledge.
Moon (full): Enlightenment, feminine magnetism
Moon + Sun: Heaven and earth, the sacred marriage, gold and silver
Night / Darkness: Unknown, emptiness
Nudity: Innocence, natural, unashamed
Octagon: Number of regeneration, rebirth
Pointing (upward): Life, heat, male, King in court cards, spiritual
Pointing (downward): Lunar, feminine, receptive, Queen in court cards, cool
Pointing (left): Movement from the passive toward the active, Page in court cards
Pointing (right): Movement: the active toward the inner, Knight in court cards
Rainbow: Bridge of heaven and earth, spiritual + manifest, full spectrum of possibilities
Rocks: Challenges, barriers, inflexible
Rose: Heart.
Rose + Thorns: Perfection/passion
Sheep: Conditioning, status quo, "the crowd"
Snake: Rejuvenation, sexuality, cunning, totality, self-sufficiency, the end is the beginning
Spiral: Fertility, the source of regeneration, a vortex, the creative force
Square: The manifest, known, stable form
Sun: Power, divinity, splendor, wisdom, illumination, masculine, source of life
Tiger: Authority, wealth and accomplishment
Torch: Life, truth, immortality, intelligence
Tortoise: Self-contained, at home in water (emotions), on land (physical)
Tree: Nourishing, rootedness, abundance, sheltering, stillness, strength, endurance
Triangle: Threefold nature of the universe
Veil: Illusion, maya, darkness, ignorance
Venus: Love, passion, creativity, femininity, imagination, sexuality
Wand / Staff: Support, authority, journeying
Water: Emotions, depth, intuition, flowing, the unmanifest, potential, purification, the womb and birth, life–giving
Wheel: Time, fate, karma, change
Wings: Freedom, flight into the unknown, the power to transcend the mundane
Wreath of Leaves, flowers, worn on head: Success, achievement over the material
Yin/Yang: The complement of opposites.
- The black side: depth, darkness, unmanifest, soul, intuition, flexible, night, female
- The white side: active, day, male, manifest, expansive, rational.
- Together: a perfect balance of the two primary universal forces
Zodiac: Cycle of transformation, inter-connectedness of existence (heaven and earth), the world of phenomena

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Glossary of symbols