TAROT CARD MEANING
Although the original Tarot Card Meaning was to keep secret records of history they have evolved over time to other uses as well.
These days they are most popular with divination.
The Tarot Card has also recently been used for playing games and gambling.
They are also potent in casting spells.
The more experienced will use the Tarot Card for casting spells, while others use the Tarot Card in paintings, gifts and even for decoration.
There have spawned many different styles of the Tarot Card over the years with the most popular still being the Rider Waite Tarot card deck........
The fool is numbered 0.
The major arcana which represent the original tarot deck are numbered 1 to XX1.
The minor arcana are made up of 4 kings, 4 queens, 4 knights, four aces, and the cards numbered 2 to 10.
STRUCTURE OF TAROT CARD DECK:
There are 78 cards to a tarot deck.
This is made up of 22 major arcana and 56 minor arcana and the fool.
Arcana is the plural form of the Latin word arcanum, meaning "closed" or "secret".
Tarot Cards have originated from various countries.
In the traditional Italian card, there are Swords, Batons, Coins and Cups.
In more modern tarot card, the Batons are called called Wands, Rods or Staves.
The Coins are called Pentacles.
Because these days the Tarot Card serve many purposes there are a large variety of Tarot decks.
The exact origins and beginnings of the tarot card are unsure.
There is no factual evidence that shows these beginnings.
Most of this evidence was long since destroyed during the times of the inquisition and religeous persecutions of the times.
What we do know, is what was the original purpose and meaning of the tarot card.
The tarot card were originally a way of recording the true history of the Celtic church and bloodlines of Jesus.
It must be realized that during these times to say or do anything that was against the beliefs of the church would see you tortured and killed.
Just being in possession of tarot cards would mean death.
The church knew the people were using tarot cards as a form of recording history and as such
During the inquisition were people were tortured, burned and killed.
As the church rewote the history of Jesus and the Celtic church to suit their purpose the people kept the true history alive through such things as tarot cards.
Famous painters such as Botticelli and Leonardo de Vinci painted hidden messages in their paintings recording the truth of the bloodlines of Jesus.
The earliest date attributed to the tarot card is seen in European museums is 1390.
But the actual origins of the cards is thought to go back far earlier.
King Edward the 4th in the 15th century banned the importation of tarot cards.
However, many people did keep the Tarot cards, especially the nobility.
With the eventual collapse of the inquisition times, freedom swept Europe, and as it did, tarot cards became the fashion.
The fact that gypsies subsequently used the tarot card for divination was quite incidental to there original purpose.
The meaning of the Tarot Card in divination is vastly different to the meaning of the tarot Card in History.
The major arcana represent the original deck of tarot cards.
The minor arcana were added much later to the Tarot CARDS.
The major arcana are made up of 22 cards in the Taort pack which are numbered 1 to XX1.
The major arcana are the most important cards in a Tarot Card Meaning spread and the minor arcana are built around them.
Each tarpt card has a name, number and symbol which can be traced back over hundreds of years.
The minor arcana consists of 56 cards in the Tarot deck.
It consists of four suits - wands, pentacles, clubs, swords.
The court cards consist of king, queen, knight, page and ace.
The court cards usually represent people.
The aces are the beginning of the sequence of the ten cards of a Tarot suit of the minor arcana.
Their meaning may also represent the different seasons.
The other cards of the minor arcana are the situation cards which are numbered 11 to X in the Tarot deck.
Rider-Waite Tarot Card Deck:
The Rider-Waite tarot card deck is the most popular Tarot Card deck in use today.
Over the years it has also been known as the Rider-Waite-Smith, Waite-Smith, Waite-Colman Smith or simply the Rider deck.
The images were drawn by artist Pamela Colman Smith, to the instructions of academic and mystic A. E. Waite, and published by the Rider Company.
While the tarot card images are deceptively simple, the details and backgrounds hold a wealth of symbolism.
The tarot card subjects remain close to the earliest decks, but usually have added details.
Significantly, Waite had the Christian imagery of older tarot decks' cards toned down the "Pope" card became the "Hierophant," the "Popess" became the "High Priestess."
The minor arcana tarot card are also, like the earlier Sola Busca Tarot, fully illustrated with designs created by Pamela Colman Smith.
The chief aesthetic objection to this deck is the crude printing of colours in the original: several decks, such as the Universal Waite deck, simply copy the Smith line drawings, but with more sophisticated coloring.
The tarot cards were originally published in December 1909, and the symbols used were influenced by the 19th century magician and occultist Eliphas Levi.
In 1910, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by A.E. Waite was published, providing an overview of the traditions and history behind the tarot cards, criticism of various interpretations, and extensive descriptions and meaning of their symbols, along with 78 black and white plates of each card in the deck.
The Rider-Waite tarot deck and meaning has been extremely influential in the development of later divinatory tarot decks to the extent that many are called 'Rider-Waite clones' to indicate that they are easily read by those familiar with Rider-Waite.
You can purchase your own Rider-Waite Tarot Card Deck here The Original Rider Waite Tarot Pack
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot Card:
Is A. E. Waite's influential guide to Tarot card symbolism and meaning, published in England in 1910 in conjunction with the Rider-Waite-Smith deck.
While Waite was an occultist, he was very concerned with the accuracy of the symbols he used for his deck, and he did much research into the traditions, interpretations, meaning and history behind the cards.
The book (which Waite himself called "a monograph") consists of three parts.:
Part I, "The Veil and Its Symbols", is a short overview of the traditional symbols associated with each card, followed by a history of the Tarot.
Waite dismissed as baseless the belief that the Tarot card was Egyptian in origin, and noted that no evidence of the tarot cards exists prior to the 15th century.
Part II, "The Doctrine of the Veil", contains 78 black and white plates of the Rider-Waite-Smith deck, and a discussion of the unique symbols chosen for each card.
Waite drew upon the earlier Tarot of French occultist Eliphas Levi, at times retaining his changes to the traditional deck (as with the Chariot card, which both Waite and Levi picture being drawn by two sphinx, instead of horses), at other times criticizing him (as with the Hermit card, which Waite thought Levi misinterpreted).
Part III, "The Outer Methods of the Oracles", concerns matters of divination with the tarot cards, including a description of the famous Celtic Cross Tarot card layout, which the book helped popularize.
In 1918, an American author, L. W. de Laurence, published an exact facsimile copy of the book under the title The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination, Illustrating the Greater and Lesser Arcana, without giving any credit to Waite.
Reverse Card
Fool Tarot Card
Magician
High Priestess
Empress
Emperor
Hierophant
Lovers Tarot Card
Chariot
Strength
Hermit
Wheel Of Fortune Card
Justice
Hanged Man
Death
Temperance
Devil
Tower
Star Tarot Card
Moon
Sun
Judgement
World Tarot Vard
Wand Tarot Card Meaning:
Action, work, occupation.
The Wands indicate, energy, growth, enterprise and animation.
The Wand Tarot Card suggests a constant renewal of life and growth.
The Salamander is associated with Wands.
The direction given to Wands is south.
Wands are synonymous with Lions.
Ace Wands
Two Wands
Three Wands
Four Wands
Five Wands
Six Wands
Seven Wands
Eight Wands
Nine Wands
Ten Wands
Page of Wands
Knight of Wands
Queen of Wands
King of Wands
Cup Tarot Card Meaning:
Sense, feelings, affection.
Cups are about love and happiness.
Cups refer to water, a symbol of the unconscious mind.
The female water spirit the "Undine", is the creature associated with the Cup Tarot Cards.
The direction of Cups is west.
ace Cups
two Cups
three Cups
four Cups
five Cups
six Cups
seven Cups
eight Cups
nine Cups
ten Cups
page Cups
knight Cups
queen Cups
king Cups
Sword Tarot Card Meaning:
Crisis, difficulty, hardship.
Sword Tarot Cards express aggression, strife, boldness and courage.
Sometimes they can mean hatred and enemies.
Swords are the suit of disaster.
The direction of Swords is north.
It`s creature is the Sylph, an elemental being in the air.
ace swords
two swords
three swords
four swords
five swords
six swords
seven swords
eight swords
nine swords
ten swords
page swords
knight swords
queen swords
king swords
Pentacle Tarot Card Meaning:
Wealth, finance, income.
In ancient times Pentacles were metal disks inscribed with magic formulas.
The Pentacles are inscribed with the five pointed star called the Pentagram.
The direction of the Pentacles is east.
The creature is the Gnome, a being of the Earth.
The Pentacle Tarot Card is the suit of the merchant.
ace pentacles
two pentacles
three pentacles
four pentacles
five pentacles
six pentacles
seven pentacles
eight pentacles
nine pentacles
yen pentacles
page pentacles
knight pentacles
queen pentacles
king pentacles
Basic Divination Meaning of Arcarna
TAROT CARD MEANING:
It should be noted that there are two basic meaining to the tarot card.
The first is the Symbolic meaning of the tarot card.
Both what the symbols on the tarot card mean individually and also as a collective symbol.
The second is the divinational meaning of the tarot card.
That is the divinational meaning of the individual card in a reading or as part of a tarot card layout.
The Complete Book of Tarot Reversals
Amazon.com:
How do you read reversed tarot cards, the ones that appear upside down in a spread? In The Complete Book of Tarot Reversals, author Mary K. Greer addresses this commonly ignored or misunderstood situation. The most common wisdom about reversed cards is that they indicate resistance or problem areas.
In fact, some readers simply abort a reading if too many cards show up as reversals, assuming that the person is too unreceptive, depressed, or dishonest to work with the reading. "Receiving too many reversals can make you feel like you have been dealt a 'losing hand,'" writes Greer, "but hopefully, this book will help turn that around."
In fact, Greer claims that reversals offer a portal to the more mystical and esoteric influences in our lives. They "provide an opportunity to reach below logic and lead us into the realm of potentials and underlying causes where everything is connected and Magic happens." Greer (Tarot for Your Self), a seasoned reader and tarot teacher, suggests 12 possible reasons for a reversal.
For instance, it could indicate a blocked or resistant situation or it could be due to the questioner getting ready to break through the condition pictured. Greer then offers interpretations of all 78 tarot cards (both reversed and upright), while giving more lengthy coverage to the fascinating twist of reversals. --Gail Hudson....Amazon.com review.
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