Astral Maps, And other Metaphysical Maps Options

Recently I have been thinking about the lay out of the astral and how one might "map" it. I have heard that the Tree of Life is one such map, and the tarot can function as another; mandalas and maps of the consciousness like the "cube of life" are related but sepreate in my mind. I have read a lot about them but have no idea on how that might work for astral traval. I have always had a hard time knowing where I am in the astral so maybe a map could help out. If anyone knows how to use the tree of life or tarot for this, or another such map I would like to know how to use them and how they work. I know "they map out whats there". Both a topographic map and a road map will "map out whats there" but in very different ways and focus on different things.

From personal experience, I'm not sure that the astral can be mapped out. I'm not knowledgeable about the tree of life so I can't help there, but I do know the tarot can be used as "keys" to help someone get to parts of the astral, but thats because of mental associations and sometimes the depiction of the card as an actual place (I'm not sure if that made sense, sometimes I don't) but for instance, there is a place in the middle world that I've gone to and heard of as called "The Fools Bluffs" and it has a series of cliffs similar to those seen on the fool tarot card, during a kind of McGuivered spirit quest a friend and I had, he started off there. Since there are so many different decks, there are tons of mental doors that a card meditation could open up. The planes are reallllly big and can hold lots of pockets and "trap doors" that kind of drop into other sectors, or maybe I slip from planes a lot, both are equally likely. Does that help at all?

This post has been edited by Laguz: Apr 25 2011, 06:46 PM