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Understanding Tarot Cards
Understanding tarot cards is something that most people wish that they could do. Tarot cards are shrouded in mysticism and many people decide to learn about them, but not everyone follows through with really understanding tarot cards and what they mean. Here is a brief guide to understanding tarot cards.
The first thing that you need to do to understand tarot cards is to understand the anatomy of the tarot deck. The first twenty two cards of a tarot deck are the Major Arcana. The rest of the deck is made up of the Minor Arcana. The Minor Arcana is made up of sixteen face cards (or court cards) and the rest are suit cards that follow the same numerology as a regular deck of cards. The cards of the Minor Arcana serve as a sort of “supporting cast” to the Major Arcana's “power” cards. The four suits of Minor Arcana cards are the wands (or rods), cups (or chalices), pentacles (or discs) and swords.
The Major Arcana cards are the cards that speak to the human condition. Each card represents a different aspect of happiness or sadness that each person experiences in their lifetime. Unfortunately the meanings of tarot cards are not always blatant during a reading. The cards are a reflection of what is happening in your life (or the life of the person whose cards you're reading) but the spread of tarot cards does not always unequivocally answer the exact question that is being asked. You can buy books and find plenty of websites that will tell you exactly how to understand each of the Major Arcana cards.
The suits of the Minor Arcana cards each correspond with one of the four elements, a suit of regular playing cards, a class ranking and a major area of life.
The Wands (or staves, rods or batons) suit represents the element of Fire. It also corresponds to the clubs suit in a regular deck of playing cards, represents the peasantry class and speaks to the creativity and energy of the human condition.
The Pentacles (or discs or coins) suit represents the element of Earth. It corresponds to the suit of diamonds in a regular playing card deck and represents the Merchants class. This suit speaks to the material body or to possessions.
The Cups (or chalices) suit represents the Water element. It corresponds with the hearts suit in a deck of regular playing cards, represents the clergy class and speaks to the emotions and love of the human condition.
The Swords suit represents Air. It matches the suit of spades in a regular card deck and represents the noble and military class of society. It also speaks to the reason and will of the human condition.
Understanding tarot cards takes time and study as there are many cards in the deck and each card has its own meaning, and that meaning can change depending on the position of the card and the location in the tarot card spread.
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Meaning of Each Tarot Card Tip #1
Tarot is an intuitive art, but it is not fortune telling. Tarot will not tell you anything that you do not already know, and it cannot predict the future. Instead tarot sheds insight on issues that you might have been avoiding and helps point you in the direction of answers that you have been looking for.
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Meaning of Each Tarot Card Tip #2
Choosing a tarot deck is not an easy process. If you simply choose the cheapest deck or the first deck of tarot cards that crosses your path, the cards probably will not work for you. Use your intuition to decide which tarot cards are right for you. You will feel a connection that you cannot explain when you first set hands on the deck of tarot cards that you are meant to have.
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Meaning of Each Tarot Card Tip #3
The history of tarot cards is long and varied and full of myths that have mostly been debunked. The modern version of tarot cards are based upon various forms of playing cards that date back for a few hundred years. There is no first definitive tarot deck because the idea was taken from different decks of cards. |
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