Q: I have an Osho Zen Tarot card deck that I’m still getting to know and understand. I was trying to match up the Major Arcana cards with the traditional tarot deck (Rider-Waite) and I’m not sure which is which.
~ Carla

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A: Even though the Osho Zen Tarot is based on the Rider-Waite Tarot deck, most of the Major Arcana card names differ. Because the Osho Zen Tarot is a creative reinterpretation of the Rider-Waite Tarot, it isn’t always clear which Osho card corresponds to which Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot card. The Osho Zen Tarot usually comes with a book that makes it all quite clear, but if you don’t have the book, its easy to get lost!

Below I have matched up the Osho Zen Tarot cards to their Traditional Rider-Waite Major Arcana counterparts (Osho cards are in bold):

0 Fool – The Fool
1 The Magician – Existence
2 The High Priestess – Inner Voice
3 The Empress – Creativity
4 The Emperor – The Rebel
5 The Heirophant – No-Thingness
6 The Lovers – The Lovers
7 The Chariot – Awareness
8 Strength – Courage
9 The Hermit – Aloneness
10 The Wheel of Fortune – Change
11 Justice – Breakthrough
12 The Hanged Man – New Vision
13 Death – Transformation
14 Temperance – Integration
15 The Devil – Conditioning
16 The Tower – Thunderbolt
17 The Star – Silence
18 The Moon – Past Lives
19 The Sun – Innocence
20 Judgement – Beyond Illusion
21 The World – Completion
The Master (This is just an extra Osho Zen Tarot card that is unique to this deck – there is no Rider-Waite equivalent) Drivers owandy - cypress usb devices.

Osho Zen Tarot doesn't follow traditional tarot much, but maybe that's what you'd expect. Traditional tarot lays out more specific and grounded answers like looking back at the past, competition being an issue, poverty or boredom occurring as examples of what it does. Osho's tarot on the other hand takes on a more spiritual and less definite. The Osho Transformation Tarot is a collection of timeless parables and teaching stories from the world’s great wisdom traditions, as told by the contemporary mystic Osho. These stories - from Zen or Sufism, from the lives of Jesus, Buddha, or Lao Tzu - are packaged as a set of cards with accompanying booklet. The Osho Zen Tarot focuses instead on gaining an understanding of the here and now. It is a system based on the wisdom of Zen, which shows that the outer world simply reflects our own thoughts and feelings, even as we might be unclear about what those thoughts and feelings are.

Charles Misodi Njapa (born March 5, 1976), better known by his stage name 88-Keys, is an American record producer and rapper from New York City. Osho zen tarot cards are different than the normal deck. They not only help you find answers to your day to day questions but show you the everything in the light of zen. Solve the problems of life with awareness. Every event of your life is inside cards. It’s mystical to learn to reveal those mysteries.

Minor Arcana
Each Minor Arcana suit in the Osho Zen Tarot is represented by a different element
Pentacles – Rainbows
Swords – Air (grey)
Cups – Water (blue)
Wands – Fire (red)

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Court Cards
The different court cards in the Osho Zen Tarot are identified by a triangle on the bottom of the card.
King – Upright triangle
Queen – Inverted triangle
Knight – Left pointing triangle
Page – Right pointing triangle

You may want to print this out and use it as a quick reference while working with your Osho Zen deck. Hope it helps!

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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.

'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

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• 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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