Tarot Card Reading
What are tarot cards?
The Tarot is a deck of 78 cards, each with its own imagery, symbolism and story. The 22 Major Arcana cards represent life’s karmic and spiritual lessons, and the 56 Minor Arcana cards reflect the trials and tribulations that we experience on a daily basis.
Within the Minor Arcana cards, there are 16 Tarot Court Cards representing 16 different personality characteristics we may choose to express at any given time. The Minor Arcana also includes 40 numbered cards organised into 4 Suits, with 10 cards each, representing various situations that we encounter day-to-day.
The Tarot cards can well be considered as a tool for effective divination solutions that have been consistently used since times immemorial.
It is believed that the cards are used for gaining the insight of present as well as future situations of the querent or subject. Some people believe that they are guided by a spiritual force like Gaia while few of them believe that the cards help them to tap into their own creative or a collective unconscious, brainstorming subconscious.
Symbolic study or some schools of occult thought like the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn consider tarot as a mnemonic device or textbook for their teachings. This might be the cause for the world arcana, which is used to convey the meaning of two sections of the tarot deck. It is the plural form of the Latin word Arcanum that means secret or closed.
Although, it was formerly believed in the Roman culture that the old grandmother would pass off her legacy of divination secrets to her eldest granddaughter before she dies and was hence a well-guarded secret, nevertheless now times having changed this myth has surely changed and everyone can gain access to the power of Tarot reading for having a clear idea of ones’ most probable future.
How does tarot card reading work?
While many people believe that Tarot will tell you the future, making predictions are not really what Tarot cards are about.
When it comes to Tarot, fortune-telling is out, and intuition is in, especially if you want to create your ideal future and manifest your goals.
The most powerful way to read the Tarot is to use the cards to access your intuition and your inner wisdom. The imagery in the cards give you instant access to your subconscious mind and your intuition. And from this place of inner power and wisdom, you can discover how to make positive changes now so you can manifest your goals and your dreams in the future.
Types of Spreads in Tarot Reading
Celtic Cross Readings Tarot Spread
The most famous and sought-after type of spread in both ancient and modern tarot. The 11 positions of the Celtic Cross offer enough detail to represent the most complicated topics be it on love, career, family which is why it has been the standard form of tarot for hundreds of years now. If you haven’t had a Tarot session before, we suggest that you choose the Celtic cross-readings to have a brief idea of the magnanimity of the spread.
The Tree Of Life Tarot Spread
The tree of life spread is ideal for a seeker who intends to have a clear idea of the occurrences of his past, present and future events, and the reason for each of the incidences and the cause and effect nature of his/her karmic cycle. Effective for the one who seeks inner solitude as well as outer progress through the readings.
The Horoscope Tarot Spread
The Tarot reader shall intuitively pick up 12 different cards each corresponding to the 12 signs of the zodiac and a 13th card which usually is an indicator for the query at hand. This is an effective form of reading which comprises all the zodiac signs and gives their predictions in a nutshell and also answers a specific question if at all is there in the mind of the seeker. This works perfectly if you are looking forward to a bulk reading for a number of people in your group and are pretty generic in your approach.
Well, here is where things might be a little more “out there” and magical. You see, we are all connected to a collective, universal wisdom and our inner wisdom. And when we read the Tarot cards—and connect with our intuition—we can tap into this universal wisdom. It’s a little like connecting in with the collective mind, not just the individual mind.
