A Tarot Reading

Jamie Sams

When Jamie Sams created her “American Indian Sacred Path” Tarot Cards – the Discovery of Self through Native Teachings – she said, “I knew in my heart of hearts that the right time had come to share with the world the Medicine that has brought me through the Void of Great Smoking Mirror (which is basically the sacred teaching that we are all one!).

I was concerned about the reaction I might encounter from those who believe that the Sacred Teachings are not to be shared. So I went to the Native American Grandmothers and asked, then I went to the Elders who had been my teachers and asked. They all said, Yes it is time.”

So Jamie, with a light heart, would share the mysteries of the Red People’s Native Magic with the rest of the world. She knew that humanity would prosper as a result of learning the awesome wisdoms of magical tribes such as the Navaho with all the Two-Legged Nations. Without a doubt, the native way of life speaks the “language of love”, in that it reaches out to the Rainbow Warriors of Peace amongst us, those who want to heal and support each other and the environment.

American Indian Sacred Cards

A tarot reading in the style of the American Indian Sacred Cards is quite an experience, maybe because such a tarot reading touches the sacrosanct in our lives, digging deep into the motivations that drive us forwards. Such a tarot reading can also be of life changing significance. One could even go so far as to say that a tarot reading that guides us down our Spiritual path and advises us to perceive “beyond time” is the greatest gift a psychic reader can give their client!

Jamie Sams’ “Sacred Path Tarot Deck” is accompanied by a book with in-depth descriptions of the cards as well as diagrams of diverse spreads. There is the Sacred Mountain Spread, the Corn Stalk Spread, the Grandfather Sun/Grandmother Moon Spread and the Four Directions spread, which is “a broad overview of how we are balancing our Shields.” The Shield is what we “show” to the world and in a way we use it to protect ourselves. Yet the Shield symbolizes our highest dimensions as well as our faults and complexities.

The Card Names

The cards have significant names, for example Fire Medicine, the East Shield Thunder Beings and the Whirling Rainbow. As Jamie wrote, “To the Navaho and the Hopi, the Swirling or Whirling Rainbow Woman is the bringer of friendly rains that nurture the Three Sisters “Corn, Squash and Beans” during the summer so that the People will be fed. Many times an image of the Whirling Rainbow is created in Sand Paintings, an ancient Sacred Healing Art performed by the Medicine Clans of those Nations.

When the Whirling Rainbow has appeared in your spread, you are being asked to remove any type of discord from your life in order to grow. Look at any lessons being presented at this time, learn from them, then focus your attention on creating new beauty and abundance in your life.

So what is the most significant teaching of these amazing cards?

As Jamie states in her book’s dedication, “The fire that is our essence comes from the stars and to the stars our essences will return. The Earth is our Mother who gave us our bodies. After our Earth Walk, our bodies will return to the Earth. Our spirits are forming the wind as is our breath. Our words are our breath and therefore are sacred.”

Jamie dedicated her book to the Medicine people, the Children of the Earth, which are all races creeds and nations, “in the hope that we may come together and heal the wounds we have inflicted on each other.”

Jamie states she has “smoked the peace pipe of the Tribe of Two Worlds and it is good!”

We all need to learn to smoke that peace pipe as we indeed live in two worlds, the physical world and the world of Spirit and mixing and matching magical realities with our own, we can only learn “to bring peace to this earth!”