Ancestral Path - Seven of Staves
By Julie Cuccia-Watts; book by Tracey Hoover
Publisher: US Games Systems, Inc.

A grand chamber is lined with six huge statues of Egyptian gods, each holding staves topped with their symbols. Nuit arches across the ceiling, and a light enters between her outstretched hands. Beneath the light is a priestess holding an orb-topped staff, which receives the light and reflects it into the chamber in a rainbow of color. Before the priestess, a figure kneels with arms out to the sides, palms up, in a supplicating and/or receptive gesture.

I dreamed this card years before I ever saw the deck. It was the Hall of Records, and the Tarot Trumps were inscribed on the walls between the statues. But it wasn't in Egypt -- it was in the Seventh Mesa.

This is the card of the True Believer. He faces the light, and all shadow of doubt is behind him. With sacrifice of worldly pleasures and approbation of his peers, he is admitted to the holy place. He now faces initiation -- into the "mysteries of life, death and resurrection." He is prepared for the challenge.

One Love All Love
Moonchild