symbols and allegories

"Anyone who has examined a Tarot deck for the first time feels an indescribable attraction to the card images, the symbols and allegories which seem at once both foreign and arcane and also strangely familiar. The cards seem to speak directly to the soul, awakening a timeless wisdom once known and now forgotten, hidden somewhere within the deep recesses of consciousness, perhaps even deeper still within the collective unconscious of all humanity ..."__Rosemary Ellen Guilley