The Wizard of Oz Tarot guides you through the Shaman's Journey along the Yellow Brick Road. The deck mirrors Dorothy's transformative journey, capturing the essence of self-actualization and consciousness ascension. 

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Melinda Starr created the Wizard of Oz Tarot deck with Holly Spahr. Melinda designed the cards and booklet descriptions and made a short film to pair with each of the 22 major arcana cards in the Wizard of Oz Tarot deck. Holly Spahr painted Melinda's major arcana designs on 46 X 52-inch canvases.

 

You can see all the art, view the films, and purchase the cards, canvases, and posters on the website, www.WizardOfOzTarot.com

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Humanity is on a path to integrating our emotional, intellectual, spiritual, and physical aspects—our Tin Man, Scarecrow, Lion, and Dorothy—to find our way home. We’ve been looking up to the Wizard of Oz for solutions, but the answers have been inside of us all along. Going home means going IN. 

 

Dorothy is trying to go home, the scarecrow is looking for his brain, the Tin Man is searching for a heart, and the Lion wants courage. Flying monkeys and wicked witches prevent them from getting to the Wizard of Oz. These shadow energies don’t want them to find the Wizard because the Wizard of Oz was a fraud! The Wizard creates an illusion of fear and worship so they will surrender their power to him. 

 

In the Tarot, the element of air is represented by the swords. Air represents our thoughts and our beliefs. The swords teach us to cut through the illusion and use our brains. Like the Scarecrow, we didn’t need Oz to tell us how to think. We can use our thoughts to question everything. Our beliefs have power, and our thoughts have energy. Like energies attract like energies, and when we put negative thoughts out there, it attracts negative thoughts. We are not a scarecrow made of straw; we can use our swords (thoughts and brains) to cut through the illusion to the sword of truth. Just like the Scarecrow, we’ve had a brain all along. 

 

The symbolism of cups in the tarot represents the element of water. In the Wizard of Oz tarot, the cups are designed as buckets. Our water element is our emotions. Emotions can be contained in cups or overflow and run in torrential rivers and oceans. The Tin Man was looking for his heart, but emotions caused his body to rust, and he had become rigid in his inability to access them. Many of us have been cut off entirely from emotions; others have lost all boundaries and let emotions overflow like tsunamis. Tempering emotions is critical to accessing our hearts, and our heart is the key to love. Love is the only non-polar place and is how we access magic. And only love (water) could melt the Wicked Witch of the West! 

 

Fire is the symbolism of wands in the tarot. Fire is our life force. It is our courage, drive, and will to live and procreate. Think of the Lion in the Wizard of Oz. Fear has been used to keep humans under control. We have been manipulated to surrender our life force and look up to the Wizard for answers. We’ve been brainwashed with guilt, chaos, distractions, and FEAR to keep us from accessing our wands - our fire, our life force, our courage – for control. Fear without eminent danger is neurosis. As we step into our courage and take command of our life force, we remember that just like the Lion, we’ve had courage all along. 

 

The symbolism of pentacles in the tarot represents the element of earth. In the Wizard of Oz tarot, the pentacles are represented as bricks. Pentacles are the tangible in the 3-D: the home, money, our bodies, and Mother Earth. Humanity has been kept under control through detachment from our bodies and detachment from the earth. The plants want to teach us to integrate back into the beautiful symbiotic system of nature so that we can reattach our connections to our bodies and the earth. We’ve been led to believe that we are victims in our bodies, in our own homes. But we are not victims. Earth is our home, and each one of us has a magical, super-computer, intelligent body that is our home. 

 

Like the story in The Wizard of Oz, we humans have been hoodwinked. The Lion, Tin Man, and Scarecrow had their courage, heart, and brain all along. Dorothy was able to go home when she integrated all of her aspects and realized that she had the power within. Oz was a shyster, a fraud! They didn’t need the Wizard; they just needed to look inside. 

 

So click your heels three times, honor your bodies, and access the knowledge Mother Earth wants to teach you. Heal the trauma recorded in your familial DNA. Lose all that has kept you from using your ruby slippers on the SOULS of your feet. You are a superhero and a magical being; you have been home all along! 

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